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by James E Meade
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
First published in 1961, this reissue examines the contemporary economic problems of Mauritius alongside those social problems which have a bearing on economic development. As a small and isolated economy, marked by a very rapid rate of contemporary population growth, by an extreme concentration on...
by August Nemo, James Joyce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to...
Carolina Bird
Geechie Boy
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Carolina Bird talks about the excitement that a young author as myself has gone from average society to on my way to a whole different world. Especially living as a young black male in Charleston South Carolina. Yet still not forgetting to pay attention to everyday life lessons as well as trying to...
Airborne Combat
The Glider War/Fighting Gliders of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Comprehensive look into the dangerous world of glider warfare.
Teaching Students With Mental Retardation
A Practical Guide for Every Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2006
Learn what effective teachers do to support students with mental retardation in and out of the inclusive classroom!
Providing special and general educators with highly effective strategies for enhancing the academic and social skills of students with mental retardation, and offering a pretest,...
A Glass Half Full?
Rebalance, Reassurance, and Resolve in the U.S.-China Strategic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
How to stabilize the security relationship between Washington and Beijing.
The U.S.-China relationship has not always been smooth, but since Richard Nixon’s opening in the early 1970s, the two countries have evolved a relationship that has been generally beneficial to both parties. Economic...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
by James E. Perone
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Unlike other books on the blues, which tend to focus on musician biographies, Listen to the Blues! devotes time to the compositions, recordings, and musical legacies of blues musicians from the early 20th century to the present. Although the author references musical structure, harmony, form, and...
by James E. Perone
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Listen to Pop! discusses the evolution of pop music in America from the 1950s to the present, diving into its impact on American culture, particularly through its association with television, and its enduring legacy.
• Analyzes a diversity, stylistically and otherwise, of must-hear examples
•...
The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914–18
Living with the enemy in First World War France
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War. This book considers the ways in which occupied locals responded to and understood their situation, focusing on key behaviours adopted...
Real Sister
Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women,...
Dangerous Games
Faces, Incidents, and Casualties of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Reminding readers that the Cold War was actually a time of hot wars, spying, murders, defections, shoot downs of reconnaissance aircraft, and a space race, the authors uncover some unknown or long-forgotten incidents of the period. Among them, the murder of a U.S. naval attache on the Orient Express,...
by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Michael P. Foley
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather...
The Obama Presidency in the Constitutional Order
A First Look
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In this book, a diverse group of presidential scholars step back from the partisan debate to consider the first two years of the Obama presidency through the lens of the U.S. constitution's theory,...