R Simpson: 33 books
by J R Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
In antiquity, the splendor of a perfect spring day brings about a revitalization of life and spirits. It was a holiday, and the crowds reveled in the warmth and aroma of the blooming flora and the fauna. Wildlife and livestock scampered about as the soft breeze bathed the new growth all around. It...
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Writing Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space.
by Teresa R. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
A journey through Memphis’ troubled past: the shocking crimes and the brutal killings that led to it being dubbed the “Murder Capital of the World.”
With its alluring hospitality, legendary cuisine and transcendent music, Memphis is truly a quintessential Southern city. But lurking behind...
by Whitney R. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Many of us long to hear God’s voice, yet we often overlook the great wisdom God gave us in our bodies. There is a deep connection between our bodies and spirits.
What might happen if we listened more deeply to the wisdom of our bodies? How might listening with our whole selves change the...
Economists with Guns
Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economists with Guns explores one of the central dynamics of international politics during the Cold War: the emergence and U.S. embrace of authoritarian regimes pledged to programs of military-led development....
Essential Baby Sign Language
The Most Important 75 Signs You Can Teach Your Baby
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Communicate with your baby--today!
With Essential Baby Sign Language, you can feel closer to your baby than you ever thought possible! Featuring seventy-five of the most important signs babies need every day, this book helps you start signing now, without spending hours learning extensive philosophy...
The Everything Baby Sign Language Book
Get an early start communicating with your baby!
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Signing babies are taking over, asking for more milk and later nap times. Sure, they might not get their way, but signing gives them a way to express themselves. Frustrated communication is often the root cause of crying and tantrums in babies and toddlers. Usually it is caused by the lag between...
Another World’S Kronicles Nomadic Warriors
The Age of Giants Book I
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
From beyond the unknowns of the Mighty Brim Mountains of the west they camehordes of nomadic giants called Troguares led by a merciless warlord, Obizar, their king. With the use of dark sorcery and having an insatiable appetite to conquer an entire world, he and his armies slowly swept across the...
Long Green
The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The first comprehensive history of Bright Leaf tobacco culture of any state to appear in fifty years, this book explores tobacco's influence in South Carolina from its beginnings in the colonial period to its heyday at the turn of the century, the impact of the Depression, the New Deal, and World...
Heresy and the Making of European Culture
Medieval and Modern Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology,...
Surprises in Theoretical Casimir Physics
Quantum Forces in Inhomogeneous Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Despite more than half a century of theoretical work, the Casimir effect is still not as fully understood as some suppose. In this treatise, the author uncovers new puzzles and paradoxes concerning this mysterious phenomenon. In particular, he clearly demonstrates that the most sophisticated theories...
Obesity and Breast Cancer
The Role of Dysregulated Estrogen Metabolism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer in older women. A number of adipose-derived and obesity-related factors have been shown to affect tumour cell growth. These include adipokines, insulin, IGF-1 and oestrogens. The majority of obesity-related postmenopausal breast cancers are oestrogen-dependent....
Emotions in Transmigration
Transformation, Movement and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment industry and asylum seekers and refugees who are the victims of domestic violence.
Forces of the Quantum Vacuum
An Introduction to Casimir Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Forces of the Quantum Vacuum presents a number of theoretical approaches to Casimir, van der Waals and Casimir–Polder forces that have been fruitfully employed in mainstream research, and also reviews the experimental evidence for Casimir forces. Beginning with basic ideas in quantum mechanics and...