Land: 252 books

Drawing on a rich body of multimethod field research, this book examines the ways in which Indonesian and Philippine religious actors have fostered conflict resolution and under what conditions these efforts have been met with success or limited success. The book addresses two central questions:...

The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future. Slow-onset environmental changes, such as increasing rainfall variability and rising temperature, are presumed to worsen the livelihood conditions and to increase the out-migration from the affected regions. Based...

Highly Linear Integrated Wideband Amplifiers: Design and Analysis Techniques for Frequencies from Audio to RF deals with the complicated issues involved in the design of high-linearity integrated wideband amplifiers for different operating frequencies. The book demonstrates these principles using...

A Hustlers Tale Welcome to the world of shadows where everthing is not what it seems. A world where conmen, pimps, drug dealers and thieves struggle daily to survive and prosper. The rules are different in the world of shadows and the games played are for keeps. In the drug-ridden streets of Cleveland,...

Meet Jordy. He was born with Down syndrome. This is a first person account of a day in his life. I Have Down Syndrome is a children’s book that explores the special circumstances that individuals born with Down syndrome may encounter.  Jordy helps us to see the world through his eyes....

At the old Ross Building, something is going bump in the night. Neighborhood kids are scared to go near it, and no one in their right mind would live there. The townspeople whisper about ghosts, but no one knows what really happened in the Ross Buildingno one but the spirits themselves. Ten-year-old...

Forced to convert to Islam, a group of Cypriot Greeks continued their Christian faith in secrecy after the invasion of the Turks in 1571, and to escape from the stigma of forced conversions, they formed a sect – The Linobambaki. A group of them had realised that the two one-god faiths were similar...

This is a book that asked you if you are a freak because you are extraordinary or extraordinary because you are a freak. It offers the reader the possibility that mental illnesses are also spiritual gifts and it is up for the human being to decide which is which.

There’s a corpse in the mushroom patch.Ruth isn’t bothered; she collects dead things in jars under her bed. Her best friend, Hermana, is very upset, but only because the mushroom patch the corpse is lying in happens to be theirs, and the woods in which it decided to die happen to be their...

Ugh, organics are revolting. Damp, inefficient, prone to leaking—everything Meteor despises. The last thing he and his accomplices Gloss and Spike want to do is set foot on a planet infested with billions of the horrible things. To add insult to injury, to escape detection while on Earth, they’ve...

Le guide Balades à vélo à Montréal présente quinze balades thématiques sur deux roues pour découvrir les différents visages de Montréal. D’une durée allant de deux heures à une journée complète, elles vous mèneront dans de nombreux quartiers de la ville ou dans les environs de Montréal,...

Pflege ist nicht nur die größte wirtschaftliche Ressource zur Bewältigung der Anforderungen und Ansprüche an Pflegebedürftigkeit. Pflege ist auch zu einem zentralen Erfolgsfaktor geworden, um die zunehmenden Erwartungen aus Gesellschaft, Politik und einer alternden Bevölkerung gerecht zu werden....

Nietzsche selbst schrieb einst über seinen Zarathustra, dieser sei "das tiefste Buch, das die Menschheit hat […] Aber mit dem kann man nicht anfangen". Tatsächlich machte es Nietzsche seinen Leserinnen und Lesern nicht einfach: Der durchwegs kryptisch gehaltene Text erschwert das philosophische...

De partout dans le monde fusent des appels au changement. Alors que l’espoir est exprimé dans les grandes chartes des droits de l’homme ou dans les constitutions des pays, l’ultralibéralisme exacerbé éloigne les populations de ce noble projet. Apparaît plutôt un retour aux politiques individualistes,...