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by María Belén Ahumada, Ted Galen Carpenter, Khatchik DerGhougassian
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether...
Bastogne - The Story Of The First Eight Days
In Which The 101st Airborne Division Was Closed Within The Ring Of German Forces [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
[This edition benefits from numerous maps of the battlefields that the actions were fought over]
“NUTS!” - Among the many military legends that abound from the fighting of the Second World War, the one word reply to a German summons to surrender must rank highly in terms of its resonance, importance...
by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as
the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have
scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of
historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings...
Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major
Research, Cases, and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Introductory and capstone experiences in the undergraduate psychology program are crucial ways to engage students in their major and psychology department, impart realistic expectations, and prepare them for life beyond college. Providing the right orientation and capstone courses in psychology education...
The Banditti of the Plains
Or The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
In 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen’s invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain today.
Although historians have since questioned some of Mercer’s conclusions about the...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
Elementary Social Studies
Constructing a Powerful Approach to Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Organized around four commonplaces of education—learners and learning, subject matter, teachers and teaching, and classroom environment—Elementary Social Studies provides a rich and ambitious framework to help social studies teachers achieve powerful teaching and learning results. By blending...
by Jennifer L. Borda, Christine Harold, Brian L. Ott
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, Moore...
by David A. Frederick, Erica Berg, Susan Carnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
You’ve read the books. You’ve seen the films. Now get inside the heads of your favorite Twilight characters (just like Edward can!) in The Psychology of Twilight.Explore the minds and motives of Bella, Edward, Jacob, and more with a deeper look at the series that’s captured the hearts—and psyches—of...
A cidade e as serras - Com questões comentadas de vestibular
Com questões comentadas de vestibular
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Jacinto é um homem rico que vive cercado das comodidades da cidade e do luxo da alta sociedade parisiense. Apesar disso, Jacinto parece insatisfeito, o que é notado por seu melhor amigo, Zé Fernandes. Mas uma viagem a uma antiga propriedade da família no interior de Portugal parece despertar sentimentos...
by James A. S. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The idea of Evolution is an old one. It is older than the Darwinian hypothesis; it is older than Lamarck, who published his particular theory in 1809, the year that Darwin was born; it is older than Buffon or Kant. In a fairly definite form it is as old as Aristotle. The Evolution idea has thus itself...
by A S R Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This book is a short revision of the vast volumes of The Bhagavad Gita for the usage and application of the current generation. The eighteen Puranas and great epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata are practical examples of the application of concepts of the Bhagavad Gita. It is also a condensed version...
Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
A Human Dumping Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in...
Africa in the New World Order
Peace and Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book examines the role of the emerging African nations in the new international order of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, little significance has been placed on the African continent in the security and political considerations of the Western world. However, post-9/11...