R Gilbert: 45 books
by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly...
Understanding Leadership Perspectives
Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
hand. Indeed, we do not easily move out of one mind-set into another. What we believe to be true given our particular experience often seems to be the only truth. Often we need some outside force to trigger reevaluation and rethinking. That triggering force to intellectual growth may be a new idea,...
Digital Research Confidential
The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.
The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans,...
Perilous Power
The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. Two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world are Noam Chomsky, the preeminent...
by Edward M Gilbert Jr., Thelma R Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Structure: the foundation for health and functionWhat sets apart the average dog enthusiast from the expert? Often it’s an in-depth knowledge of the anatomyof the dog and a solid understanding of terminology used in the world of dogs. Do you know what a judge istalking about when he mentions “stifle...
by Jérémie Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and survival. Commonly, nomadic peoples are facing pressure from the predominant sedentary world over mobility, land rights, water resources, access to natural...
Non-Disseminated Breast Cancer
Controversial Issues in Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last two decades, there has been a major increase in the actual numbers of women diagnosed with breast cancer (from 65000 new cases 20 years ago in the United States to 183000 in 1993). Concomitant with this has been a shift toward making the diagnosis earlier and toward diagnosing an earlier...
Concepts of Nature
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or...
by Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, M. R. James
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old...
The Ecology and Management of Wetlands
Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference...
Communication and Empire
Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national...
by Michele Kennerly, Damien Smith Pfister, Scott Haden Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communication
What can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we...
Pink Christmas 8
Andere Weihnachtsgeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Pink Christmas erscheint nun schon im 8. Jahr! Und da sich diese Geschichten so gut als Weihnachtsgeschenk eignen, bringen wir sie nun auch in diesem Jahr wieder als Hardcover heraus. Zum 20jährigen Bestehen des Verlages haben wir nun auch Autoren, die bisher noch nicht bei uns vertreten waren, die...
Fantastic Creatures
Fellowship of Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Here be dragons ... and selkies and griffins and maybe even a mermaid or two. Twenty fantasy authors band together to bring you a collection of thrilling tales and magical monsters. Do you like to slay dragons? Or befriend them? Do you prefer to meet cephalopods as gigantic kraken or adorable...