C K: 1211 books
by Marvin K.L. Ching, Michael C. Haley, Ronald F. Lunsford
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems. In their introductory chapter, the editors of this collection of essays, by linguists on either side...
What Is Crime?
Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
A Forgotten Front
Florida during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.
In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace Greeley once referred to Florida in the Civil War as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of...
The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom
Conceptualizing, Writing, and Defending the Dissertation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
by General Sir Frank Kitson K.C.B. C.B.E. M.C.
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Bunch of Five is General Sir Frank Kitson's military autobiography. In it this expert in counter insurgency describes his experiences in Kenya 1953-55, Malaya 1957, Muscat and Oman 1958, as well as his peacekeeping activities during two stints in Cyprus, 1963-64 and 1967-68. He wanted to write about...
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Être juif en France
Language: French
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Dossier : Être juif en France, des origines à nos jours
→ Entretien avec Marceline Loridan-Ivens et Dominique Schnapper : « Simone Veil et le judaïsme »
À travers leurs expériences intimes ou professionnelles, l’écrivain-cinéaste Marceline Loridan-Ivens et la sociologue Dominique Schnapper...
Lung Cancer
Diagnostic Procedures and Therapeutic Management With Special Reference to Radiotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At first glance it appears that little has happened in our understanding of bronchogenic carcinoma, since five year survival rates have not changed appreciably over the past ten years. This is partially true, however the depth of our understanding has increased and will continue to do so at a rapid...
by K.C. Wells
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Jamie Stevens est criblé de dettes, mais en se rendant à la bibliothèque ce jour-là, il ne s’attendait absolument pas à tomber sur un bon samaritain lui proposant comme par magie de régler tous ses problèmes d’argent.
Au début, bien sûr, Jamie est méfiant, qui ne le serait pas...
Manual of Sports Surgery
Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This manual presents the operations most often performed by surgeons at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic (Inglewood, California, 90301) in treating sports injuries. These operations constitute a complete series of basic surgical procedures for the orthopaedist. In its step-by-step drawings, the...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture Volume 2
Monitoring and management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...
Mass Effect Andromeda
Der Aufbruch der Nexus
Language: German
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Fans der Science-Fiction- Game-Serie MASS EFFECT können endlich aufatmen. Mit Andromeda steht nun der nächste Teil der überaus erfolgreichen Space-Saga in den Regalen. Der offizielle Roman zum Game wurde in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Spieleentwicklern verfasst und stellt das Prequel zum heißersehnten vierten Teil MASS EFFECT Andromeda dar.
by K T Bryski, P C Haring, Pip Ballantine
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come. This volume includes
To Hide in Plain Sight by K T Bryski
Elizabeth...