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This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

Game to the Last reveals the story of the men of what would become one of the finest battalions which served in the war: Western Australias 11th Infantry Battalion, AIF, during the gruelling Gallipoli campaign of 1915. The narrative follows the battalion members as they leave their homes and lives in...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities.

The definitive guide to developing and managing a successful career in the information profession: Information Professionals and Knowledge Managers deal with significant challenges in building successful careers for a number of reasons associated with common misperceptions of their expertise and roles....

Young people are surrounded by media militantly attacking biblical virtue and values. The goal of Christian education is still to present every man perfect in Christ, but postmodernism declares that there is no one right way to live. In the midst of this conflict, many Christian school leaders are surrendering,...

The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct manifestations...

An unusual tale set in India and the Orient.  A man tells the king he is off to find the mystical Ball of Fire...and there, the trouble begins.  It's a novella of about 40 pages, well worth the intrigue and suspense.

SECTION ONE In the first chapters, stories of the community through the experiences of great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents clamor for attention as they set the stage laden with colorful depictions of history and descriptions of the area. SECTION TWO In the next series of chapters, the authors...

More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged...

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support? This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation...

The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to prominence,...

This eBook is best viewed on a color device. Full-color illustrations of 278 of the most common fresh- and salt-water fishes accompany clear and concise descriptions that tell: -Where different fishes live and what they eat -Their sizes, shapes, and other identifying features -Their...

Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Pocket Surgery, follows the style of Pocket Medicine, one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents.  This pocket-sized loose-leaf resource can be used on the wards and by candidates...