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Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
by : James Heitzman, Gerhard Jaritz, Heinz Grotzfeld
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000 by Dr. F. J. Brüggemeier and Dr. Wolfgang Schenkluhn. The World in the Year 1000 is organized in four thematic sections covering five world regions: Europe,...
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific
Regional Modernities in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.
by Helen Doe, John C. Appleby, John Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the...
Fields Watered with Blood
Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People...
by Gerald B. Halt, Jr., John C. Donch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive, easy to understand guide for startup entities and developing companies, providing insight on the various sources of funding that are available, how these funding sources are useful at each stage of a company’s development, and offers a comprehensive intellectual...
Teaching Harry Potter
The Power of Imagination in Multicultural Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Given the current educational climate of high stakes testing, standardized curriculum, and 'approved' reading lists, incorporating unauthorized, popular literature into the classroom becomes a political choice. The authors examine why teachers choose to read Harry Potter , how they use the books, and the resulting teacher-student interactions.
Nanomagnetism
Ultrathin Films, Multilayers and Nanostructures
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Nanoscience is of central importance in the physical and biological sciences and is now pervasive in technology. However nanomagnetism has a special role to play as magnetic properties depend uniquely on both dimensionality and lengthscales. Nanomagnetism is already central to data storage, sensor...
Material Constitution
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1997
The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
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Thriller - Ein Fall für Targa Hendricks (2)
Language: German
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Sie findet dich. Sie tötet dich. Alles was bleibt, ist ein Bild aus deinem Blut.
In einem stillgelegten Schlachthaus findet die Berliner Polizei die Leichen von drei jungen Menschen, allesamt blond und blauäugig. Ihre Körper sind bizarr in Szene gesetzt und enthalten fast keinen Tropfen...
Ferrets And Ferreting - Containing Instructions For The Breeding, Management, And Working Of Ferrets
Ferrets And Ferreting - Containing Instructions For The Breeding, Management, And Working Of Ferrets
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen
From Pagoda Boy to Prime Minister of Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen is the biography of the Cambodian leader whose private life has been a closely guarded secret. Fully updated and revised from the authors’ first edition (Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia, published 1999), this volume is based on recently declassified archival...