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View book details for Childcare Professionals
A Practical Career Guide
Welcome to the childcare field! If you are interested in a career as a childcare professionals, youve come to the right book. What exactly do these people do on the job every day? What kind of skills and educational background …
View book details for Chase's Calendar of Events 2023
The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months
Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe!The worlds date book since 1957, Chase's is the definitive, authoritative, day-by-day resource of what the world is celebrating. From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical …
This expanded edition includes a new introduction by John Nix as well as a new appendix offering case studies and practical insights from teachers about how Barbara Doscher has impacted their voice instruction.An understanding of how the singing voice functions …
View book details for Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park
Including Indian Peaks Wilderness
Lace up your boots and sample more than 450 miles of trails in Rocky Mountain National Park and the Indian Peaks Wilderness. Veteran hiker Kent Dannen introduces you to memorable trails highlighting the natural splendor of the Rockies. Each hike …
View book details for Critical Theories in International Relations
Identity and Security Dilemma
This edited book focuses primarily on contemporary debates and the critical and postmodern theories to be considered a significant contribution to the field. This book shows that critical international relations theories, which are incomprehensible and challenging, are easy and understandable. …
View book details for Elijah Muhammad and Supreme Literacy
Lessons in Supreme Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding
Elijah Muhammad and the Supreme of Literacy explores how Elijah Muhammad framed the term literacy as contrasted with its generally known definitions and applications. The text frames a construct for understanding why Elijah Muhammad considered the science of literacy essential …
View book details for Identity and Violence in Early Modern Granada
Conversos and Moriscos
In Identity and Violence in Early Modern Granada: Conversos and Moriscos, Tanja Zakrzewski argues that Conversos and Moriscos, despite being distinct sociocultural groups within Spanish society, still employed the same arguments and rhetorical strategies to establish and defend their place …
View book details for Music Education on the Verge
Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world causing physical, emotional, economic, and social upheaval in every part of the globe. It also catalyzed a renewed interrogation, by music education faculty in higher education, of philosophies and practices that …
View book details for The Shepherd of Hermas as Scriptura Non Grata
From Popularity in Early Christianity to Exclusion from the New Testament Canon
Composed within the first Christian century by a Roman named Hermas, the Shepherd remains a mysterious and underestimated book to scholars and laypeople alike. Robert D. Heaton argues that early Christians mainly received the Shepherd positively and accepted it unproblematically …
View book details for Crime and Violence in the Caribbean
Lessons from Jamaica
Lexington Books
This volume provides an overview of the Caribbean countries, its colonial history, causes, costs and consequences of crime and violence in the Caribbean. The contributors pull from primary research and the available data from multiple sources including national and country …
View book details for Happiness in Kants Practical Philosophy
Morality, Indirect Duties, and Welfare Rights
Happiness in Kants Practical Philosophy: Morality, Indirect Duties, and Welfare Rights examines the role and normative implications of Kant's understanding of happiness for his moral, political, and legal philosophy. Kants underlying assumptions about happiness are rarely overtly discussed or given …
View book details for The Incorporeal Corpse
Performing Disability in the Liminal Stage
In this book, Jason B. Dorwart contends that the material presence of visible disability disrupts the framing devices that provide safe distancing for theatres fictive nature. Conceptions of disability that place the disabled body into a permanently liminal space between …
View book details for Thieves' Road
The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer's Path to Little Bighorn
In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This fascinating work of narrative history tells the little-known …
View book details for Take Control of Your Depression
Strategies to Help You Feel Better Now
Practical, day-to-day ways to manage your depression.Some call it the blues or a storm in their head. William Styron referred to it as "darkness visible." Whatever the description, depression is a disorder of the mind and body that affects millions …
View book details for The Last Days of the Afghan Republic
A Doomed Evacuation Twenty Years in the Making
It is difficult to overstate the chaos of August 2021 for many of those in Afghanistan, particularly those who had worked closely with the international community there. In a matter of days, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and an insurgency …
View book details for Security Studies
Classic to Post-Modern Approaches
As an important aspect of human polity, the concept of security has an important place and space in politics. Though regularly mentioned or referred, the concept is rarely given a proper definition, usually left in the shadows of politics and …
View book details for Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Eulogy of the Prophet Muhammad
Historical, Literary, and Linguistic Analyses
This book is about the Hundred-Word Eulogy, a 100-character praise of Islam and Prophet Muhammad written by Zhu Yuanzhang, who reigned as the Hongwu Emperor of China from 1368 to 1398. The analysis of the eulogy is augmented with relevant …
View book details for Bees, Wasps, and Weasels
Zoomorphic Slurs and the Delegitimation of Deborah and Huldah in the Babylonian Talmud
In this book, Blazenka Scheuer explores the zoomorphic content of Zibburta (bee/wasp) and Karkusta (weasel)demeaning names given by R. Nahman of b. Meg 14b to Deborah and Huldah, two distinguished prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Looking closely at relevant texts, …
View book details for Migrants and Refugees in Southern Europe beyond the News Stories
Photographs, Hate, and Journalists' Perceptions
In this book, contributors analyze the knowledge about human mobility, its interaction with news and social media, and the way this impacts the attitudes of local societies and the integration of immigrants. After a general contextualization of migration dynamics in …
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The 2022 Midterm Elections and What They Mean for 2024
Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, will bring together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2022 midterm election, and what its development and outcome will mean for …
View book details for Acting Is Believing
Stanislavski in the 21st Century
Acting Is Believing has trained generations of actors and remains one of the most popular and influential classic Stanislavski-based acting books over the past sixty years. Now in its thirteenth edition, ithas been reimagined for the art of acting in …
View book details for Reality and Waves
A Quantum Physics Cosmology, Philosophy of Religion, and Ethic
Reality and Waves brings Philosophy into dialogue with Quantum Physics, offering a full-blown system Ellingsen calls the Philosophy of Waves. Quantum Physicists contend that reality is wave-like, and so the book helps us to see what the universe looks like …
View book details for Entropic Philosophy
Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation
Now is a time of tremendous anxiety about the present and future state of the world. As the second law of thermodynamics states, entropy never decreases, time marches relentlessly forward, and closed systems inevitably break down. Entropy serves as a …
View book details for Wild and Woolly Knitted Animals
A Naturalist's Notebook
Discover the creatures of the wild outdoors!Through the eyes of our naturalist knitter, you'll discover a world of interesting creatures. Inside, you'll find her sketches of animals in their habitat, scientific notes, and her knitting patterns that capture the unique …
A complete guide to where trout live and feed in a stream, graced with dozens of helpful schematic drawings and more than seventy-five revealing photographs.
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