Andrea Thomas: 36 books
Kentucky Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political...
In Search of Humanity
Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...
Honor in the Modern World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism,...
Enlightenment and Secularism
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...
Kafka's Creatures
Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating...
Radical Conflict
Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geopolitical levels. The conflicts analyzed are "radical" because in each some intense and often prolonged violence takes place. The chapters address different kinds of violence(s)—physical...
Turn, Turtle!
Reenacting The Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Performing Urgency #2 – Series Edited by Florian Malzacher. 'Turn Turtle, Turn! Reenacting The Institute' is a creative and intellectual analysis of the new turn in the perception and workings of the institutes in the performing arts. What has become apparent in the last ten years or so is a move...
by Emily Fondahn, Thomas M. De Fer, Michael Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual® of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement covers essential information in every area of this complex field. With a focus on improving systems and processes, preventing errors, and promoting transparency, this practical reference provides...
Responsible Research and Innovation Actions in Science Education, Gender and Ethics
Cases and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book gathers case studies presented at the International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society (RRI-SIS2017). It highlights European initiatives and projects in various domains and contexts, each of which explores how to create guidelines and good...
Movers, Shakers, Mommies, and Makers
Success Stories from Mompreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
“Being a Mom is a full-time job, and starting a business is no easy feat. These Moms are here to tell the story of how they managed to do both!” –Barbara Corcoran
Eleven moms share their stories behind businesses that have grown from side-projects in craft-rooms and garages to nationally...
Gleich, Liebes, gleich ist das Essen fertig
18 erotische Rezepte
Language: German
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Kennst du das? "Liebe geht durch den Magen" sagt man, und du zerbrichst dir schon seit Tagen den Kopf darüber, was du an Leckerem kochen sollst! Du hast ein Ziel: sie/ihn zu verführen, und schon das Essen soll deine erotischen Absichten enthüllen. Bald ist sie/er da. Sorgfältig den Salat...
Heartbeatclub
17 heiße Rhythmen
Language: German
Release Date: June 12, 2015
"My Heart Goes Boom", sangen French Affair in den Neunzigern im damals modernen Disco-Beat. Ja, das Herz schlägt kräftig, weil gleich der/die Geliebte eintrifft, weil seine/ihre Küsse so süß schmecken, weil er/sie der/die eine/r ist, weil seine/ihre Liebe so groß ist. Das Herz schlägt...
Die Sachensucherin
55 kurze Geschichten
Language: German
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Als das Literaturbüro Ruhr, der Klartext Verlag und Zeitungen der Funke Mediengruppe ihren Wettbewerb "Geschichten zum Mitnehmen" ausschrieben, ahnten sie nicht, wie unüberhörbar das Echo darauf sein würde. 1449 Einsendungen trafen im Literaturbüro ein, viele enthielten die maximal möglichen zwei...
by Éric Simard, Frédéric Gobillot, Céline Thomas
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Prenez du Chrome, du cuivre et un zeste de laiton. De la Vapeur et du charbon, en quantité. Ne respirez pas, vous étoufferiez ! Puis, ouvrez les manomètres à fond : pression, surpression, ad libitum. Juste avant l’explosion, liez le mélange en le saupoudrant d’épices victoriennes. Ajoutez...