Abel: 348 books

What does it take to consider a planet potentially habitable? If a planet is suitable for life, could life be present? Is life on other planets inevitable? Searching for Habitable Worlds answers these questions and provides both the general public and astronomy enthusiasts with a richly illustrated...

Le nom de Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte est un des premiers noms qui se soient gravés dans ma mémoire. Il se trouve mêlé aux souvenirs de ma plus tendre enfance. Mon père commandait la place de Lunéville, à l’époque du congrès, où fut signée la paix entre la France républicaine et...

Blow Away Standardized Reading Comprehension Exams Practice selections and activities modeled on the CAT6, TAKS, WASL, ITBS, FCAT, and More. With so many standardized tests focusing on improving reading comprehension, including the SAT, ACT, and nearly every state's standardized test, students need...

Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth...

At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer “menus” by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors,...

Scholarly volumes have been written about the causes of the war, presenting plausible reasons for the bloodbath of the 1860s. The arguments are endless and fascinating. Every generation finds new insight into the times. What has largely been ignored is the role of songs in America’s Civil War. This...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS I THE BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE, OR ELKHORN AND ITS MORE IMMEDIATE EFFECTS II LANE'S BRIGADE AND THE INCEPTION OF THE INDIAN III THE INDIAN REFUGEES IN SOUTHERN KANSAS IV THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST INDIAN...

L’Académie française est aujourd’hui une des plus anciennes institutions de notre pays. Tout a changé en France et plusieurs fois changé depuis moins d’un siècle. Le principe du pouvoir souverain, la forme et la limite du pouvoir législatif, le droit...

Justice and Administration is an ambitious effort to grapple with justice as a theoretical component of the practice of public administration, yet with sufficient theoretical power to be meaningful in philosophy, political studies, and sociology.   The time is ripe for such an effort,...

The name of Eucken has become a familiar one in philosophical and religious circles. Until recent years the reading of his books was confined to those possessing a knowledge of German, but of late several have been translated into the English language, and now the students of philosophy and religion...

This volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives reflecting the international appeal and multi-disciplinary interest that Oakeshott now attracts. The essays offer a variety of approaches to Oakeshott's thought - testament to the abiding depth, originality, suggestiveness and complexity of...

As we have seen it, Ethiopia and USA have a long standing relation. This good relation should be developed to ultimate unity level for absolute union and that would be advantageous for both countries. When the union is realized, United States of Ethiopia will be established. According to this new...

As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken...

This is the second major work by this author (The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control) and it addresses the most fundamental questions remaining for life origin research: How did molecular evolution generate metabolic recipe and instructions using a representational...