Jana: 688 books
Love in the Time of Ethnography
Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries...
by Jana Schäfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University College Dublin (English), course: Telling Time on Old English, language: English, abstract: The Wanderer is an Old English elegy which is situated in the transition period between the...
by Jana Denardo
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
As Chief Tactician for the airship DeGrasse, Jacob Scarberry has spent the last six months on a wearying tour of duty. He’s missing home, and his prosthetic leg is conducting the December cold straight to his core. But with the holidays coming up, he's looking forward to a well-earned leave, sharing...
by Jana Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
As we contemplate our lives, it is difficult to imagine that pain will be a piece of this beautiful puzzle called life, a necessary component to becoming who we are meant to become. Pain, simply put, is a part of the human experience. Each of us will experience pain differently; some will travel the...
Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic
A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration...
Honours versus Money
The Economics of Awards
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Honours fulfil one of the most fundamental desires of human beings, namely, to be recognised and held in esteem by others. There are thousands of awards in all areas of society: the state, arts and media, sports, religion, the voluntary sector, academia, and business. Awards are well visible, can...
by Jana Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
The hugely popular Sleepover Club series is back with a gorgeous new look. Meet Frankie, Kenny, Fliss, Rosie and Lyndz – five best friends who just want to have fun! It’s Halloween and the Sleepover Club girls have organised a special spooky sleepover at Kenny’s house. Then her horrible big...
Open Hands
Lessons on Giving and Receiving
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Open Hands: Lessons on Giving and Receiving is an unforgettable collection of true stories that will touch, move and inspire every reader. Inside this treasury of worldwide experiences, more than 45 contributing authors share how their lives have been affected, in big and small ways, by the kindness...
by Jana Trajtelová
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her «humanity»). The chapters of this book rather outline several specific aspects which essentially...
Text, Lies and Cataloging
Ethical Treatment of Deceptive Works in the Library
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
What do James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, Margaret B. Jones’ Love and Consequence and Wanda Koolmatrie’s My Own Sweet Time have in common? None of these popular books are what they appear to be. Frey’s fraudulent drug addiction “memoir” was really a semi-fictional novel, Jones’ chronicle...
The Imperatives of Sustainable Development
Needs, Justice, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying...
Fundamentals of Piezoelectric Sensorics
Mechanical, Dielectric, and Thermodynamical Properties of Piezoelectric Materials
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Presents the fundamental physics of piezoelectric sensors.
Only book with this scope Targeted to those engineers, phycisists and chemists who are involved in materials processing, device design and manufacturing.
Transnational Companies and Security Governance
Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This book investigates governance practiced by non-state actors. It analyses how multinational mining companies protect their sites in fragile contexts and what that tells us about political ordering 'beyond' the state.
Based on extensive primary research in the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
Philosophy in Education
Questioning and Dialogue in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialog in K-12 Classrooms is a textbook in the fields of pre-college philosophy and philosophy of education, intended for philosophers and philosophy students, K-12 classroom teachers, administrators and educators, policymakers, and pre-college practitioners...