Howe: 470 books
The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement
Through an Anthropological Lens
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?
Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to spectacle, and the profile of athletes with disabilities has been increased as a result. This book reviews the current...
Empowering Children
Children's Rights Education as a Pathway to Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2007
Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Children...
Owning Model S
The Definitive Guide for Buying and Owning the Tesla Model S
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Owning Model S (2nd Edition) by Nick Howe has become the “go-to” book those who are considering the purchase of a Tesla Model S and as a reference book for Model S owners themselves. Now in its second edition, Owning Model S (2nd Edition) presents an in-depth look at Model S technology, a description...
Debriefing Elsipogtog
The Anatomy of a Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New Brunswickers signed petitions, wrote letters, demonstrated and sought legal...
Intimate Activism
The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene...
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The terms Savage and Civilized, as applied to races of men, are relative and not absolute terms. At best these words mark only broad shifting stages in human progress; the one near the point of departure, the other farther on toward the unattainable end. This progress is one and universal, though of...
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
In pursuance of a general plan involving the production of a series of works on the western half of North America, I present this delineation of its aboriginal inhabitants as the first. To the immense territory bordering on the western ocean from Alaska to Darien, and including the whole of Mexico and...
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Preface
During the year 1875 I published under title of The Native Races of the Pacific States what purports to be an exhaustive research into the character and customs of the aboriginal inhabitants of the western portion of North America at the time they were first seen by their subduers....
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Hitherto we have beheld Man only in his material organism; as a wild though intellectual animal. We have watched the intercourse of uncultured mind with its environment. We have seen how, to clothe himself, the savage robs the beast; how, like animals, primitive man constructs his habitation, provides...
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The present volume of the Native Races of the Pacific States treats of monumental archæology, and is intended to present a detailed description of all material relics of the past discovered within the territory under consideration. Two chapters, however, are devoted to a more general view of remains...
Preparing, Adjusting, and Loving the Empty Nest
A Companion to Empty Nest, What's Next?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
After Empty Nest, What’s Next? Parenting Adult Children without Losing Your Mind, readers asked author Michele Howe for more—covering topics not discussed in the first book, along with questions at the end of each chapter for personal or group discussions. With Preparing, Adjusting, and Loving...
Behind the Curve
Science and the Politics of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however,...
Conceptual Structure in Childhood and Adolescence
The Case of Everyday Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
‘Heat breaks up charcoal and puts sulphur dioxide in’; ‘The air pulls faster on heavy masses.’ These and other similar statements by school-aged children untutored in physics carry two messages. First, children’s pre-instructional conceptions of the physical world are a far cry from the...
Helen met de Akasha kronieken
Het energetisch archief van jouw leven als bron van kracht en heelheid
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Helen met de Akasha kronieken van Linda Howe is een boek dat jouw hele verhaal van A tot Z vertelt. Juist in de pijnlijke episodes schuilt vaak het antwoord op belangrijke levensvragen. Linda Howe laat zien hoe je toegang kunt krijgen tot het energetisch archief van jouw leven, van waaruit je oude...