Il: 165 books
Welcome Home, Bear
A Book of Animal Habitats
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Follow Bear as he visits animal habitats around the world—and comes to appreciate his own home—in this new offering from the creator of A Book of Sleep and A Book of Babies.
Bear is tired of waking up every morning in the same green forest, so he decides to search for a new place to live....
Wearing Embodied Emotions
A Practice Based Design Research on Wearable Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Today, people are in an era of digitally mediated Human-to-Human Interaction, which cannot provide full sensorial contact and therefore, emotions cannot be communicated completely. The intimate cover of the human body, i.e. garment is the interface, where many personal traits are embodied. With the...
by Sung-il Kim, Johnmarshall Reeve, Mimi Bong
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The phenomena of motivation cannot be studied separately as an independent research topic because motivation is highly interrelated to cognition, emotion, learning, and decision-making process. The overarching aim of this volume, therefore, is to provide new insight into a unified grand theory of...
Reading the Islamic City
Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved...
by Su-Il Pyun, Heon-Cheol Shin, Jong-Won Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The understanding of hydrogen/lithium insertion phenomena is of great importance for the development of the next generation of functional electrochemical devices such as rechargeable batteries, electrochromic devices, and fuel cells. This volume introduces a variety of viable electrochemical methods...
by Sumio Ishikawa, Sibel Mrs. Yelten, Damien Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Cambodia's reconstruction and reform efforts have spanned almost 25 years following the Khmer Rouge period, which ended in 1979. Economic reforms began in earnest in the early 1990s, but reform efforts were beset by ongoing internal tensions and civil unrest. Although external factors, including sizable...
by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
‘Four girls sit on rocks in the middle of the stream: a dark plump girl; a girl whose hair burgeons from her head in a mane of light; another with long white legs and short black shorts, clipped jet hair; a willowy branch of a girl, blonde. The sun shines though green leaves, glancing off chestnut...
Hard Living in America's Heartland
Rural Poverty in the 21st Century Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Despite living hard, endlessly challenging lives, the rural poor remain tirelessly optimistic, believing things will get better next year. As one struggling farmer explained, “Sometimes I feel like a jackass in a hailstorm—I just have to stand here and take it...but what the hell—it’ll stop...
The Joke Is on Us
Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet...
Mamluks in the Modern Egyptian Mind
Changing the Memory of the Mamluks, 1919-1952
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes. It specifically examines the representations of the Mamluks from two historical periods: the Mamluk Sultanate era (1250–1517) and...
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a (Songbook)
Schirmer Performance Editions Series
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
(Schirmer Performance Editions). Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. These editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and syltistic commentary. Prepared by experienced artists...
The Seasons, OP. 37bis
edited and recorded by Alexandre Dossin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
(Schirmer Performance Editions). The Seasons is a set of twelve pieces, one for each month. Dossin's edition is based on the composer's manuscript, with several surprising changes when compared to previously available standard editions. Late Intermediate to Early Advanced Level.
by Stojče Dimov Ilčev
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book presents the principal structure of space systems, functionality, media and applications for modern remote sensing, transmission systems, meteorological antennas, propagation meteorological observation and transferring weather data from satellite to the ground infrastructures and users....
Heritage Management in Korea and Japan
The Politics of Antiquity and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors, and conservators�and millions of tourists. As iconic markers of racial and cultural identity at home and abroad, they are embraced as tangible sources of immense national pride...