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Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Advanced Aluminum Alloys Containing Scandium
Structure and Properties
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is the first book to generalize and analyze the extensive experimental and theoretical results on the phase composition, structure, and properties of aluminum alloys containing scandium. The effects of scandium on these properties are studied from a physico- chemical viewpoint. The authors present...
Guidelines for Laboratory Design
Health, Safety, and Environmental Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations
Now in its Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Laboratory Design continues to enable readers to design labs that make it possible to conduct scientific investigations in a safe and healthy environment. The book brings...
Spark
A Flash Fiction Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Bringing together 34 flash fiction stories from 14 authors, SPARK offers a host of stories to thrill, move, and challenge fans of short-short fiction. A woman physically at war with her mother's legacy inside her own body, a young girl given a vision of a utopic past at the end of the world, a man...
by S.T. Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English Poet and philosopher, a bright representative of the so-called ‘Lake Poets’. During his college years he was absorbed by revolutionary ideas and eventually got expelled for that. Not so many years passed and he became a representative of romanticism,...
Culturally Proficient Education
An Asset-Based Response to Conditions of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Develop culturally proficient policies and practices that create opportunities for students of poverty!
Countering the perspective that students from poverty come to school with deficits that prevent them from learning, this resource offers educators the knowledge and skills to maximize educational...
In Shambles
A Scarlett Nightmare, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
In Shambles … that was my life. I sat in a cell all day wondering what could have been. Thinking about it only made me feel worse. I was lost until someone left me this book about people just like me. People that made mistakes … people that tried to redeem themselves … people that failed. It...
Rock and Romanticism
Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present....
From an Antique Land
An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Many of the world's first written records have been found in the area of the Ancient Near East, in what is today known as the Middle East. While many people are familiar with the ancient Israelite literature recorded in the Hebrew Bible, most Near Eastern literature remains a mystery. From an Antique...
Mood Disorders
Toward a New Psychobiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book we present a conceptually integrated approach to disorders of mood. These disorders are defined narrowly as the clinical syndromes of mania and melancholia. The latter is our particular focus, for the simple reason that it is more common and thus more is known about it. Our approach owes...
by S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
As early as 1909, African Americans were utilizing the new medium of cinema to catalogue the world around them, using the film camera as a device to capture their lives and their history. The daunting subject of race and ethnicity permeated life in America at the turn of the twentieth century and...
Eigensinn und Bindung
Katholische Intellektuelle im 20. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Ob in Philosophie, Literatur, Bildenden Künsten, Publizistik oder Politik - katholische deutsche Intellektuelle haben die geistige Landschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts wesentlich mitgeprägt. Sie stellten Fragen an die Zeit und ihre Mitmenschen, die anderen nicht einfielen oder die sie nicht zu stellen...
Turn, Turtle!
Reenacting The Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Performing Urgency #2 – Series Edited by Florian Malzacher. 'Turn Turtle, Turn! Reenacting The Institute' is a creative and intellectual analysis of the new turn in the perception and workings of the institutes in the performing arts. What has become apparent in the last ten years or so is a move...
by J. Ridley, J.M. Ferry, B.W.D. Yardley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The fifth volume in this series is focused on the chemical and physical interactions between rocks undergoing metamorphism and the fluids that they generate and that pass through them. The recognition that such pro cesses can profoundly affect the course of metamorphism has resulted in a number...