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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9
Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.
Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,...
by James E. Benson & Nicole B. Casper
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
On March 10, 1941, at 12:38 a.m., the Brockton Fire Department responded to Fire Alarm Box 1311, which was pulled for a fire at the Strand Theatre. Fire Alarm dispatched the deputy chief, three engine companies, a ladder company and Squad A. Within six minutes, a second alarm was struck. Less than...
by Delma E. Presley, Beverly B. Presley
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In 1906, the founders of what would become Georgia Southern University pledged to build a college that would prepare students to succeed in a changing world. The First District Agricultural and Mechanical School served well the needs of women and men who lived in a farm-based economy. As the 20th century...
by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, E. B. Potter
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Here is one of the most authoritative, thoroughly documented accounts of Allied naval action in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters of World War II.
Normandy, Salerno, Operation Neptune, Morocco—this is the story of naval warfare such as the world had never before seen. TRIUMPH IN THE...
The Style and Rhetoric of Elizabeth Dole
Public Persona and Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double binds that confront women who obtain and exercise political power. The text argues that Dole crafted a conservative, feminine persona in which she depicted...
GCSE Maths Book, Shape, Space, Statistics and Probability
GCSE Maths Revision eBook
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
GCSE Maths Book 3 of 3 Shape, Space, Statistics and Probability (164 pages) provides a detailed study of shapes (their properties and measurement), statistics and probability . The book contains a wealth of worked examples and exercises accompanied by worked answers. The content material is appropriate...
by L D Landau, J. S. Bell, M. J. Kearsley
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Covers the theory of electromagnetic fields in matter, and the theory of the macroscopic electric and magnetic properties of matter. There is a considerable amount of new material particularly on the theory of the magnetic properties of matter and the theory of optical phenomena with new chapters...
GCSE Maths Book, Number, Weights, and Measures Maths Revision
GCSE Maths Revision eBook
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
GCSE Maths Revision Book 1 of 3 Number, Weights and Measures (157 pages) provides an in-depth study of number theory, weights and measures. Its content material is of the level required for GCSE study. It has a wealth of worked examples and exercises accompanied by worked answers.
Maths Revision,...
Diplomatic Games
Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often facilitate diplomacy, revealing common interests across borders and uniting groups of people who are otherwise...
Revival: The Hero of the Filipinos (1924)
The Story of Jose Rizal: Poet, Patriot and Martyr
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book is about José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, widely known as José Rizal (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896). He was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer...
Comparative Environmental Politics
Theory, Practice, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems
How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe?...
by Claire B. Gunnels, Susan E. Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The joint-use college/public library can be an ideal solution to serving patrons while managing overextended resources, and this illuminating book scrutinizes successes and failures of the joint-use model. Three founding faculty librarians of a joint-use college/public library discuss the factors that...
by David B. Audretsch, Max C. Keilbach, Erik E. Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge...
The DelFly
Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands.
How...