Brian Nelson: 23 books
by Brian Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically...
by Brian Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease ... a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes.
The Chinese government says the rumors aren't true, but no one is allowed...
by Brian Nelson, Émile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.' Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest achievements, comparable to Germinal and L'Assommoir. Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern...
Law and Ethics in Global Business
How to Integrate Law and Ethics into Corporate Governance Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This book provides comprehensive and, above all, business focused guidance on the fundamentals of business law and how they should be integrated into ethical and effective business decisions. It concentrates on legal principles and thereby is able to articulate the impact of global business law and...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
American Fascism and the New Deal
The Associated Farmers of California and the Pro-Industrial Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
American Fascism and the New Deal demonstrate how fascist ideas gained popularity in the Associated Farmers of California during the 1930s and 40s. It shows that the politics of the intervening decades created economic and political policies that planted the seeds for these fascist ideas by forming...
Creating the Health Care Team of the Future
The Toronto Model for Interprofessional Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate with each other across professional boundaries, and to start to think and act like a team that has the patient at its center. The team-based care movement...
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green
Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding,...
Day Men - Tome 01
Lux in tenebris
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Une lumière dans les ténèbres...
Depuis des milliers d’années, le monde est contrôlé par les « 50 familles » : une assemblée secrète de vampires engagée dans une lutte de pouvoir sans merci. Mais lorsque le soleil se lève, ces familles sont obligées de faire appel à de simples...
Day Men - Tome 02
Tempus vestigium
Language: French
Release Date: April 13, 2016
La justice s’obtiendra au prix du sang versé...
Pour sauver Azalea mettre un terme à la guerre entre les clans Virgo et Ramses, David Reid propose la solution de la Justice du Jour : une ancienne tradition qui voit s’affronter en combat singulier les meilleurs Day Men des deux familles...
The Silence and the Scorpion
The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
The definitive account of the 2002 Venezuelan coup, offering a deeply reported look at the roots of the current crisis.
On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of Hugo Chávez. The opposition represented a cross-section of...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Called and Chosen
Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for...
Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk
Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music, edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb,is a collection of writings on music that is considered aggressive throughout the world. From local underground bands in Detroit, Michigan to bands in Puerto Rico or across Europe, this...
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