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Life on Display
Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions...
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1885 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. This selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront...
A Capital
CENAS PORTUGUESAS (começos de uma carreira)
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 19, 2017
A Capital é um romance do escritor português Eça de Queirós publicado postumamente em 1925. A obra "A Capital" relata a história da ambição social, profissional e pessoal da personagem principal, Artur...
by Eça De Queirós
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 3, 2015
«O Crime do Padre Amaro» relata a história de Amaro, um jovem padre que entrara para a vida eclesiástica graças à imposição de uma nobre beata que o tinha sob sua guarda. Sem vocação nenhuma, o jovem padre aceita o seu destino passivamente, abraçando a sua profissão sem entusiasmo. Quando...
by Eça de Queirós
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Este volume da coleção Clássicos Globo traz uma nova versão de A capital!, baseada na edição crítica feita a partir de estudos comparativos de manuscritos e publicações póstumas do romance de Eça de Queirós. Na trama do livro, as ingênuas aspirações do protagonista - um estudante provinciano...
by Adele D. Jones (Editor), Jacqueline A. Padmore (Editor), Priya E. Maharaj (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
HIV-AIDS and Social Work Practice in the Caribbean demonstrates how social workers, working alongside heath care professionals can contribute to the multi-disciplinary intervention in the fight against HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean using the lived experiences of person affected by HIV-AIDS. Using Trinidad...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
Homer Simpson Ponders Politics
Popular Culture as Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
It is often said that the poet Homer "educated" ancient Greece. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale have assembled a team of notable scholars who argue, quite persuasively, that Homer Simpson and his ilk are educating America and offering insights into the social order and the human condition.
Following...
Only One Place of Redress
African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
In Only One Place of Redress David E. Bernstein offers a bold reinterpretation of American legal history: he argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment...
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...
Connecting Teaching and Learning
History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.
Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
by E. T. A. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
I KNOW you are all very uneasy because I have not written for such a long, long time. Mother, to be sure, is angry, and Clara, I dare say, believes I am living here in riot and revelry, and quite forgetting my sweet angel, whose image is so deeply engraved upon my heart and mind. But that is not so;...
by Eça de Queiroz
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 18, 2012
A história de Macário, um jovem guarda-livros que se emprega num armazém do tio em Lisboa. Do outro lado da rua habita Luísa, rapariga loura por quem se apaixona perdidamente. Quer casar com ela de imediato, mas o tio discorda, despede-o e expulsa-o de casa. Segue para Cabo Verde, onde enriquece....