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View book details for Popular Culture and Foreign Policy
The Case of Turkey and Valley of Wolves: Ambush
This book argues that, as a popular text, Valley of the Wolves: Ambush functions as a site for consent production for foreign policies formed by the AKP within the last decade, through a process of reproduction of state identities, ideologies, …
View book details for The Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards
The Words that Name Them and the Criteria that Define Them
The Thinkers Guide to Intellectual Standardsdetails and analyzes the ways by which reasoning is judged in skilled thought. The fundamental goal of this book is to illuminate the importance of explicitly mastering intellectual standards with a view to improving thinking …
View book details for The Solar Nature of Yahweh
Reconsidering the Identity of the Ancient Israelite Deity
In The Solar Nature of Yahweh: Reconsidering the Identity of the Ancient Israelite Deity, the original nature of the chief god of the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh, is reexamined. Daniel Sarlo challenges the current consensus that Yahweh was initially a storm …
View book details for Ultimate Guide to Trail Running
Everything You Need to Know about Equipment, Finding Trails, Nutrition, Hill Strategy, Racing, Avoiding Injury, Training, Weather, and Safety
Trail running combines all the health and fitness benefits of walking and road running with the outdoor adventure of such sports as hiking and mountain bikingnot to mention the spiritual renewal from a day spent communing with nature. No wonder …
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Stay Smart, Strong, and Active
Explores all aspects of health as men reach middle age and beyond.As they reach middle age, most men begin looking forward to "what's next." They gear up to experience renewed productivity and purpose and are more conscious of their health. …
View book details for The Construction of Marginalities and Narrative Imaginary in Mohamed Zafzafs Texts
The Postcolony in Secrets and Intimacies
This book works on the interface between literature, culture, and discourse. It is entirely devoted to the reading of some of Zafzafs novels that came out in the early 1970s and in the late 1980s, and attempts to chart the …
View book details for Inside the Liberal Arts
Critical Thinking and Citizenship
Inside the Liberal Arts accomplishes two ambitious goals at once, and shows why they are inseparable: It explains the nature and purpose of liberal learning to produce critical thinkers and well-rounded democratic citizens and offers a probing, accessible guided tour …
When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and …
View book details for Cultural Dimensions of Well-Being
Therapy Animals as Healers
Lexington Books
This book presents a cultural history of human-animal relations in Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States, with a focus on the uses of animals for comfort, healing and in developing a sense of well-being. Fujimura and Nommensen discuss the …
View book details for Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age
The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly …
View book details for Ecocriticism and the Island
Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
Islands have long been the subject of cultural fascination, but in recent decades, they have exerted an increasingly powerful centrifugal force, sending writers to the outer edges of the British-Irish archipelago in search of inspiration and insight. Drawing on contemporary …
View book details for Syrian Kurds, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and the Strategic Framing of the Civil War
Selling the New Model of Governance
The book mainly analyzes the lobbying attempts of the PYD to sell its model of governance through the specific arguments with a purpose for engaging with the international powers, the US and the UK, and these countries responsiveness towards the …
Envy is a vicious and shameful response to the good fortune of others, one that ruins friendships and plagues societiesor so the common thinking goes, shaped by millennia of religious and cultural condemnation. Envys bad reputation is not completely unwarranted; …
View book details for Stormy Passage
Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850
In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic …
View book details for Archaeological Thinking
How to Make Sense of the Past
How do archaeologists think? How do archaeologists take the scattered and fragmentary remains collected from past settlements and create meaningful, reasonable interpretations of past human history? In the second edition of Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser, Jr. provides answers to …
Political Problems and Personalities in Contemporary Maryland provides a comprehensive rhetorical analysis of contemporary politics and political communication in Maryland at both the state and local levels. Theodore F. Sheckels and Carl Hyden approach rhetoric in a broader sense, arguing …
View book details for Music Farther Outside
Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic
Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic examines the work of select composers, improvisers, and interpreters from England, Scotland, and Wales during the upheaval of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic and places them in contemporary and historical …
This multidisciplinary book on Islamic finance covers Islamic economic, financial, and legal systems, insurance (takaful), commercial jurisprudence, and the socio-political and political-economy of the Islamic world. It examines the dichotomies and similarities between Islamic and conventional financial systems and suggests …
Lefty Krehs original edition of Fly Fishing in Salt Water pioneered a new territory for fly fishers. With over thirty thousand copies sold and the content fully updated, revised, and expanded, this third edition is the saltwater fly fishers bible, …
View book details for Where War Began
A Military History of the Middle East from the Birth of Civilization to Alexander the Great and the Romans
Bloody fighting between rival tribes and clans has existed since the dawn of Homo sapiens, but war as we knew it began to take the more organized forms we recognize today in the ancient Near East, starting in the vital …
View book details for Pinnacle on the Mound
Cy Young Award Winners Talk Baseball
Cy Young Award winners spanning fifty years of baseball history reflect on their iconic seasons, keys to success, and most memorable moments. In Pinnacle on the Mound: Cy Young Award Winners Talk Baseball, ten pitchers who were recognized as the …
View book details for Crochet Baby Blankets
13 Easy to Intermediate Designs
Welcome baby with a beautiful handmade blanket!A crocheted blanket is the perfect gift for a new baby. Putting the time and effort into making your gift bestows a special meaning to it, and favorite blankets are often cherished into toddlerhood …
View book details for The Philadelphia House
Organic Architecture and Placemaking in Chestnut Hill
At the very beginning of the interwar period, a small collection of formally trained architects created a distinctive residential type which can undoubtedly be recognized as a Philadelphia landmark. They surpassed the conventional pseudo-classic or neo-Gothic eclectic solution by a …
View book details for Landon Mayer's Guide Flies
Easy-to-Tie Patterns for Tough Trout
When you spend as much time on the water as guide Landon Mayer, you need simple, easy-to-tie patterns that get the job done, day in and day out. In this fly-tying book, Mayer shares 20 of his top patterns for …
View book details for Hiking Alabama
A Guide to the State's Greatest Hiking Adventures
The premier guide to 50 of the greatest hikes in Alabama. Inside readers will find detailed maps, accurate route profiles showing the ups and downs of each hike, tips on equipment, trip planning, and hiking with dogs and children, accurate …
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