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Book cover of Sound as Popular Culture

Sound as Popular Culture

A Research Companion

by Peter Wicke, Diedrich Diederichsen, Thomas Hecken
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016

Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound. The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an...
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Zones of Control

Perspectives on Wargaming

by Jon Peterson, John Curry, Tetsuya Nakamura
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
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Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III

by Peter M. Ward, Edith R. Jiménez Huerta, María Mercedes Di Virgilio
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas...
Book cover of 21 Keys Of A Fruitful Day
by A K Peter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

Having a fruitful day is all that's need to make a meaningful LIFE-TIME, this is one of the greatest secret SUCCESSFUL people never joke with. Remember that, "the different between the rich and the poor is nothing but what and how they have used their life".Level of education (HOWEVER) doesn't...
Book cover of Governance in the Non-Independent Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-first Century
by Peter Clegg (Editor), Emilio Pantojas-García (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

This edited volume brings together the perspectives of scholars and officials from Europe and the Caribbean to provide a much-needed international, comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on the status and performance of the non-independent territories in the Caribbean. The status of the non-independent...
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Energy Sprawl Solutions

Balancing Global Developmand Conservation

by Joseph M. Kiesecker, Sharon Baruch-Mordo, Leandro Baumgarten
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle...
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Ancient Borinquen

Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico

by Peter G. Roe, Peter E. Siegel, Joshua M. Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493. A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...
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Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

by Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Tonio Andrade
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth...
Book cover of Reinvenções de Foucault
by Francisco de Guimaraens, Eduardo Stelmann, Susana Murillo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 2, 2018

Em 1973, Michel Foucault apresenta no Collège de France o Curso “A sociedade punitiva”, parte do conjunto de análises que servirão de base ao livro Vigiar e Punir, de 1975. As gravações do curso foram perdidas e apenas uma transcrição e o resumo foram conservados. Publicado em dezembro...
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Haunted: Houses

Haunted

by Rebecca Patrick-Howard, A.P. Killian, Peter Howard
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016

500 pages of spooky haunted house stories from 12 authors! What happens when the place in which you’re meant to feel the safest turns against you? Where do you go when the world inside your four walls is scarier than the world outside? Get ready to find out! From the authors...
Book cover of San Francisco Noir
by Robert Mailer Anderson, Will Christopher Baer, Kate Braverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005

Brand new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguía, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry. San Francisco Noir lashes...
Book cover of Haunted: Ghost Children: A Collection of Ghost Stories From Beyond
by Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Peter Howard, K.R. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016

Do children, these innocent souls whose lives were cut drastically short, haunt in a different way? Can YOU resist the spirit of a child? Are you ready to take a journey into the afterlife? Everyone loves a good ghost story! But what happens when the ghost is just a child? In the following...
Book cover of A Political Companion to Walker Percy
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith, Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013

In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...
Book cover of 50 Classic Christmas Stories Vol. 3 (Golden Deer Classics)
by H. W. Collingwood, Golden Deer Classics, Hans Christian Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018

CONTENTS H. W. COLLINGWOOD 1. Indian Pete's Christmas Gift HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 2. The Fir-Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 3. The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 4. The Little Match Girl HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 5. Betty's Bright Idea HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 6. Christmas In Poganuc...
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