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The edited collection, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disaster—in its myriad forms and narratives—reveals the fragility of our...

Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia....

The wave of uprisings that has engulfed the Arab world since 2011 has impacted the Gulf significantly, however much the region appears to have remained unscathed. In Bahrain, the regime cracked down on protestors with the help of Saudi forces, and increasing Gulf tensions with Iran, political chaos...

The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations. As international online access grows, technical communicators will encounter a range...

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We, the people of the United States, have cowed down to the wrong ideas set forth by the wrong people for the last decade. Foolishness does not bring peace, and low morals do not bring happiness. Freedom of expression without restraint brings chaos, not personal abundance. America is an experiment...

This book is your ultimate Melissa Rauch resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Melissa Rauch's whole picture right away. Get countless...

• Written by an active bishop, who is also a medievalist and a natural story-teller • Brings the medieval and the modern together Spending time with the St Augustine’s Gospels, believed to be the oldest non-archeological object in Great Britain, Smith uses this great volume as a starting point...

This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three occupational sectors in particular teachers, bank workers and...

Get inspired with thought-provoking and heartwarming quotes:A leaf said to me as it fell, Im not falling; Im fl ying! Dare to soar joyfully in this new day, because each day an angel comes to us, arms wide open, bearing Gods infi nite grace. Sometimes we cant see grace because were standing right...

Follow the true story of the author as she tells of her adventures both on land and at Sea. Her love of the ocean and her experiences on board the Queen Mary. She tells of many strange and humorous events in her travels, as she meets many new people that enter her life. She gives a description...

A bolting bride! Sylvie Thorne doesn't believe in happily-ever-after. Tormented by a tumultuous childhood, the struggling baker's certain she did the right thing running from her perfect-as-a-prince Boston blueblood fiancé, leaving not a glass slipper but a brief text behind. She just never...

The only grandson of a Scots Banker and Milanese Mafia boss, brought up in Edinburg by the house keeper, has absorbed her values. She’s devout, from a Tuscany hilltop village where most folk are communists. He spends the long vacation 1973 in Italy, where his mind set and belief system are jeopardized by powerful personal encounters that are not entirely sexual.

This book is for moderate to advanced PostgreSQL database professionals who wish to extend PostgreSQL, utilizing the most updated features of PostgreSQL 9.4. For a better understanding of this book, familiarity with writing SQL, a basic idea of query tuning, and some coding experience in your preferred language is expected.