Ko: 226 books
Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy
How Cancer Is Diagnosed, Treated, and Managed Day to Day
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Revised 5th Edition
Praise for the first edition of Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy: How Cancer Is Diagnosed, Treated, and Managed Day to Day: A landmark book . . . So much of what the cancer patient must know to make informed decisions. --Publishers Weekly
* A completely revised...
by Djene Rhys Bajalan, Oral Çalislar, Fuat Keyman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people...
Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching
Classroom to Community and Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Close the achievement gap by closing the culture gap
Teaching children from diverse backgrounds begins with learning who they are, then using the knowledge and culture students bring to school in a standards-based curriculum to achieve student success. This guide provides tools that show why...
The Making of the Modern Chinese State
Cement, Legal Personality and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumstances...
PCM-Enhanced Building Components
An Application of Phase Change Materials in Building Envelopes and Internal Structures
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Presenting an overview of the use of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) within buildings, this book discusses the performance of PCM-enhanced building envelopes. It reviews the most common PCMs suitable for building applications, and discusses PCM encapsulation and packaging methods. In addition to this,...
by Eduardo Barros-Grela, María Bobadilla Pérez, Tarah Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of...
by Klara Szmańko
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Author Toni Morrison stressed the need to analyze race in American literature by white authors by shifting focus “from the racial object to the racial subject.” Representations of whiteness in certain works by Asian American authors reveal what happens when the visual dynamics of ethnography are...
by Ko Unoki
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
International Relations and the Origins of the Pacific War takes the unique approach of examining the history of the relationship between Japan and the United States by using the framework of international relations theories to search for the origins of the Pacific War, that erupted with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.
Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955
Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
In the wake of the disaster of 1945—as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation—literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue...
Prayer
Poems of Kim Je-hyun
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Kim Jehyun, a sijo poet, was born in 1939 in the city of Jangheung in Korea's Southern Cholla Province. After graduating from Hongik University, he has devoted himself to poetry with an emphasis in the sijo. He first received notice at Chosun Ilbo's 1960 Spring Literary Contest. Kim's first collection...
Far-Off Saint
Poems of Cho O-hyun
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Cho O-hyun, a Buddhist monk and poet, was born in 1932. He became a Buddhist monk in 1958, and started his literacy career in 1966. He has become one of the prominent figures in the literary world and has been awarded several prestigious prizes in Korea.Currently, he is the director of the Paektam Temple in the northeastern part of Korea.
Low-Carbon Land Transport
Policy Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Practical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems.
Based on wide ranging research, it shows how policies can be bundled successfully and worked into urban transport decision-making and planning strategies.
With case studies from developed...
Rabbis of our Time
Authorities of Judaism in the Religious and Political Ferment of Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The term ‘rabbi’ predominantly denotes Jewish men qualified to interpret the Torah and apply halacha, or those entrusted with the religious leadership of a Jewish community. However, the role of the rabbi has been understood differently across the Jewish world. While in Israel they control legally...
by Carla Hall, Genevieve Ko
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Beloved TV chef (ABC’s Emmy Award-winning The Chew and fan favorite on Bravo’s Top Chef), Carla Hall takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackin’ look at America’s favorite comfort cuisine.
In Carla Hall’s Soul Food, the beloved chef and television celebrity...