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The Golden Age of Piracy
The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...
The Lovecraftian Poe
Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...
Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges
Understanding and Perspectives from Forest Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
There are significant pressures from climate change and air pollution that forests currently face. This book aims to increase understanding of the state and potential of forest ecosystems to mitigate and adapt to climate change in a polluted environment. It reconciles process-oriented research, long-term...
Investment, Procurement and Performance in Construction
The First National RICS Research Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
The proceedings of a major conference on the built environment ran by the RICS to examine recent research and development in: investment; building procurement and construction; and building performance analysis.
by Gérard Bonnet, Mary Canning, Kai-ming Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by 'insiders'. This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt to implement reforms...
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Le Paradis des chasseurs
Language: French
Release Date: June 3, 2015
39-45. Une guerre, six destins. Ils sont allemands, anglais, français, australiens et américains. De campagnes militaires en batailles, leurs vies s’entremêlent dans cette série historique passionnante signée Pécau. Le jeune Tim Page va apprendre, en payant le prix du sang, le métier de l’épique...
by J.M. Snyder, Becky Black, T.A. Creech
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
2016 Top Ten Gay Romance brings together the best-selling short stories published by JMS Books that year.
From first love to true love, from submission to sensual, from heat to sweet and everything in between, the couples in these stories are sure to keep you turning the pages as you fall in...
Passionate Conviction: Modern Discourses on Christian Apologetics
Modern Discourses on Christian Apologetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Is your heart on fire for God?
Passionate Conviction brings together the most popular and heart-stirring presentations in defense of Christianity from the annual fall conference on apologetics held in association with the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the C. S. Lewis Institute, and the...
Alabama and the Borderlands
From Prehistory To Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto...
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans
Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1
Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida
Back to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which la**Movida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and...
by P Lanette Pinkard, T'challa N. Pinkard
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
An Unwanted Marriage, A Love Never Experienced and GOD Who gave them both. A true story of two people trying to find a way out but instead are led to an undeniable truth; they had to marry each other out of obedience to the LORD. She ran from him and he was running away leaving everything behind until…Four...