Christina R : 37 books
Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas
Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging...
Feste feiern
Wie wir christliche Feiertage heute begehen können
Language: German
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Christen sind Meister im Feiern - allein 20 verschiedene Feste im Jahr sind mit ihrer Religion verknüpft. In diesem Buch erzählen nun bekannte und weniger bekannte Christen, wie sie christliche Feste tatsächlich begehen. Es lädt zum Nachfeiern der Feste ein, und um selbst auf Gedanken für eine...
Lernort Tagung
Konzipieren, Realisieren, Evaluieren
Language: German
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Der Leitfaden präsentiert ein didaktisches Konzept, mit dem Tagungen, Symposien und Kongresse zu Lernorten werden. Ziel der Autoren ist es, einen nachhaltigen Erkenntnisgewinn, den die Teilnehmenden aus einer Tagung mitnehmen, in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses zu stellen. Hierzu betten Sie das Veranstaltungsprogramm...
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, John Helfers, Joyce Carol Oates
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.
Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their...
DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition
Novels, Tales and Poems: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wuthering Heights, Sweeney Todd, The Orphan of the Rhine, The Headless Horseman & many more
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Who doesn't love a bit of surprise, danger, eerie atmosphere, and just the right hint of romance! So, here's presenting to you our best ever gothic collection, with all the well known classics, all the hidden gems, and lots of surprises for all the fans of chills, darkness and mystery out there. Also,...
Heroines of Comic Books and Literature
Portrayals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships...
Beyond Collapse
Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience...
The Practice of Cloud System Administration
Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
“There’s an incredible amount of depth and thinking in the practicesdescribed here, and it’s impressive to see it all in one place.”
–Win Treese, coauthor of Designing Systems for Internet Commerce
The Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2, focuses on...
REWAS 2016
Towards Materials Resource Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Proceedings from a 2016 sustainability symposium
Information from REWAS 2016 proceedings were collected and published in REWAS 2016: Towards Materials Resource Sustainability. This collection covers the proceedings of the symposium sponsored by the Recycling and Environmental Technologies Committee;...
The Ethics of Animal Research
Exploring the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified.
An estimated 100 million nonhuman vertebrates worldwide—including primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, birds, rats, and mice—are bred, captured, or otherwise acquired every year...
by David Mack, Keith R. A. DeCandido, J. Steven York
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Whenever there's a need to fix, repair, or salvage, Starfleet calls in the crack S.C.E. team on the U.S.S. da Vinci. Under the command of Captain David Gold and Commander Sonya Gomez, the S.C.E. solves the unsolvable, from finding a Starfleet vessel lost inside a holographic ship to doping out new...
by Alice J. Black, Emily S. Deibel, D. G. Driver
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
From fantasy and steampunk, to mystery and thriller, to contemporary social issue and romance, the authors in this book have all written novels that feature strong girls as protagonists.
These girls solve their problems using their brains, skills, reason, courage, and resiliency. In other words,...
by Mark Karlen, Christina Spangler, James R. Benya
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A visual, real-world guide to professional lighting design
Lighting Design Basics is the essential guide to this basic, but difficult-to-master aspect of interior design. Offering fundamental concepts and prescriptive techniques in a highly visual format, this book provides clear, practical...
The Practice of System and Network Administration
Volume 1: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
With 28 new chapters, the third edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration innovates yet again! Revised with thousands of updates and clarifications based on reader feedback, this new edition also incorporates DevOps strategies even for non-DevOps environments.
Whether...