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One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...

How many heavens are there—and how many hells?The original biblical languages use several words for heaven and hell that mean different things. And to make matters still more interesting, other religions and philosophies have contributed their own ideas to the mix until it’s hard to separate reality...

This edited collection explores a wide range of communication elements and themes, representing a variety of topics and methodologies. It focuses broadly on the role and function of communication within the context of the 2016 United States presidential election, with chapters devoted to topics including...

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor...

Though many analyses of the 2012 presidential election have emerged, none can match this collection's depth, diversity, or ability to critically and soundly argue where American politics will go from this point forward. This volume includes some of the most recognized scholars in the field and innovative...

Advances in Pediatrics reviews the most current practices in pediatrics. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Carol Berkowitz, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites expert pediatricians to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews...

How to use herbs on a daily basis to prevent disease, enhance health and well-being, increase one's ability to cope with stress, and slow down the aging process.

This book gives a coherent account of the theory of Banach spaces and Banach lattices, using the spaces C_0(K)  of continuous functions on a locally compact  space K as the main example.  The study of C_0(K) has been an important area of functional analysis for many years.  It gives several new...

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...

A presente obra é resultado de um já longo processo de cooperação científica entre a Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra e o Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Criminais da PUCRS, e, mais recentemente, entre o Instituto Eduardo Correia e o Instituto de Direito Penal Económico...