Maria B : 69 books
A Taste of True Blood
The Fangbanger's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
True Blood, Alan Ball’s critically acclaimed television adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ bestselling Southern Vampire mysteries, is HBO’s most-watched show since The Sopranos, averaging over 12 million viewers an episode in its second season. Thanks to its large, dedicated fanbase, it won the People’s...
Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing
Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema, theatre, and the visual arts; new critical...
by Marina Herbrik, Inge Holtbuer, Joachim Frank
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Das schönste Weihnachtsgeschenk: eine vorgelesene Geschichte Kinder spielen draußen im Schnee. Die Häuser sind geschmückt, und in der Luft hängt der Duft von frischen Plätzchen. Die Weihnachtszeit ist da! Nun beginnt das gemütliche Beisammensein. Alle warten gespannt auf das Christkind. Ob...
Handbook of Low Cost Airlines
Strategies, Business Processes and Market Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The number of low cost airlines and connections offered has kept growing constantly over the last two decades. This book combines the knowledge of experienced and renowned experts and explains relevant developments in the low cost segment, strategies employed by low cost airlines, and the low cost...
Smash the Pillars
Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violence imposed by the state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. Contributions offer an unparalleled glimpse into decolonial activism in the Dutch kingdom...
The Study Quran
A New Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
An accessible and accurate translation of the Quran that offers a rigorous analysis of its theological, metaphysical, historical, and geographical teachings and backgrounds, and includes extensive study notes, special introductions by experts in the field, and is edited by a top modern Islamic scholar,...
Financing the Green Transformation
How to Make Green Finance Work in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Explores challenges for developing and emerging economies for enhancing green financing for sustainable, low-carbon investment, looking at Indonesia. Based on surveys in the Indonesian banking and corporate sectors and expert interviews, it devises innovative policy recommendations to develop a framework conducive to fostering green investments.
Reading and Writing in Science
Tools to Develop Disciplinary Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Engage your students in scientific thinking across disciplines!
Did you know that scientists spend more than half of their time reading and writing? Students who are science literate can analyze, present, and defend data – both orally and in writing. The updated edition of this...
Comparative Effectiveness and Efficacy Research and Analysis for Practice (CEERAP)
Applications in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Recent trends in health care across the United States and internationally have emphasized a novel approach that consists in comparing the effectiveness and efficacy of treatment interventions with a patient-centered emphasis (i.e., evidence-based health care), while ensuring cost constraints, maximizing...
Political Women
Language and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This collection examines the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, at the national level. While over the years women have broken through traditional roles, they are still underrepresented in political leadership....
Handbook of Behavioral Medicine
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Behavioral medicine emerged in the 1970s as the interdisciplinary field concerned with the integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge relevant to the understanding of health and illness, and the application of this knowledge to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. ...
Fear, Law and Criminology
Critical Issues in Applying the Philosophy of Fearism
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
With the growing awareness of many critics of risk society, the culture of fear and the dangerous rising levels of unhealthy fear around individual, group, and public insecurities, three keen observers of the human condition have joined experiences, theories, and ideas to create a fresh vision for...
Mörderische Begierden
Kriminelle Kurzgeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Jeder Schuss ein Treffer! Nun, nicht immer. So mancher Schuss geht nach hinten los, und so manche Prise Gift schluckt unverhofft der Falsche. Diese Geschichten haben es in sich, denn hier läuft es oft gänzlich anders als erwartet. Heimtückische Mordpläne, skrupellose Killer, perfide Mordwaffen,...
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Märchen für große und kleine Leser
Language: German
Release Date: December 26, 2015
„Ein Märchen ist ein Märchen ist ein Märchen … Und doch: Manchmal sind Märchen wirklicher als die Wirklichkeit, traumhafter als unsere Träume und bunter als unsere Farben, obwohl einige behaupten, sie seien nichts als erfundene Worte.“ (Christian Mörsch, aus: Die Insel der verlorenen Farben)...