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View book details for Putting God on the Map
Theology and Conceptual Mapping
Fortress Academic
Since the middle of the last century, the emergence and development of fields as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolutionary science, cognitive linguistics, and neuroscience have led to a greater understanding of the ways in which humans think. One of the …
This book focuses on multicultural curriculum transformation in social students and civic education subject areas. The discussion of each area outlines critical considerations for multicultural curriculum transformation for the area by grade level and then by eight organizing tools, including …
View book details for Insiders' Guide to North Carolina's Mountains
Including Asheville, Biltmore Estate, Cherokee, and the Blue Ridge Parkway
Insiders' Guide to North Carolina's Mountains is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to the region that includes Asheville, Biltmore Estate, Cherokee, Blue Ridge Parkway, and other nearby environs. Written by a local (and true insider), this …
Paraguay is an under-examined, but remarkably fascinating country, where war, dictatorship, and elite capture have produced cycles of popular mobilization and repression. Yet, its social movements are less known to international audiences. This book analyzes Paraguays principal social movements since …
View book details for Dying to Live
Stories from Refugees on the Road to Freedom
This book opens a window into the world of people who are forced to flee their homeland to survive: refugees. To understand this world, you'll read the words, stories, hopes, expectations, and often despairs of the refugees themselves. Danielle Vella …
McBooks Press
A brutal sea captain, an inhuman chief mate, and an indignant crew set out to sea togetheran obvious equation for disaster. This is the gripping tale of the voyage of the Grosvenor of the British Mercantile Marine, and of Mr. …
Experiencing Music Composition in Grades K2 is designed to help teachers and students create original music through materials and activities that are enticing and accessible. The text offers an innovative approach to composition teaching and learning to promote the development …
View book details for Bach's St. John Passion for the Twenty-First Century
Musical and Theological Perspectives
Since its composition and first performance in 1724, Bachs St. John Passion has captured the spiritual and musical attention of musicians, audiences, and congregations. This bookexamines this monumental work from a twenty-first century perspective, providing a new and comprehensive examination …
View book details for In Distant Waters
A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel
From the tide-torn waters of the Thames, where Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is compelled to handle a deserter, to the seas off Cape Horn, storm-scoured gateway to the Pacific, the great cruiser Patrician is tense with the threat of mutiny. Despite …
View book details for Parameterextraktion bei Halbleiterbauelementen
Simulation mit PSPICE
Erganzend zu Vorlesung, zu Rechenubungen und insbesondere zum Laborpraktikum im Lehrfach Elektronik werden Analyseverfahren zur Extraktion von SPICE-Modellparametern ausgewahlter Halbleiterbauelemente vorgestellt. Fur Bauelemente aus der DEMO-Version des Programms ORCAD-PSPICE wird aufgezeigt, wie man deren statische und dynamische elektrische Modellparameter mit …
In the 1930s, iconic American author Ernest Hemingway spent five summers at a ranch on the edge of Yellowstone National Park. Here he did some of his best writing, and his experiences in the mountains are connected to twelve of …
View book details for Critical Dimensions of African Studies
Re-Membering Africa
This book brings together top researchers, thinkers, and activists from across disciplines to reflect on the study of Africa. Critical Dimensions of African Studies: Re-Membering Africa emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to …
View book details for Foraging Florida
Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible and Medicinal Wild Foods in Florida
Paleo-Indians lived more than 14,000 years ago in the land we now call Florida, and later came tribes of indigenous people known as the Ais, Calusa, Mayaimi, Tequesta, Timucua, and others. Still later came the Seminole and Miccosukee. These people …
View book details for Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States
Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism
Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism presents an integrative sociopolitical and psychological analysis model to examine contemporary sociopolitical rising ideologies in Europe and the United States; specifically, nationalism, nativism, and populism. Further, this …
View book details for The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy
The Case of the Yom Kippur War
How do military organizations learn? This book covers an important instance of military learning in which the United States military systematically examined the lessons of Israel's decisive victory in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and applied those lessons towards major …
View book details for Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas
Social, Political, and Economic Realities
In Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities, Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing racial equality and social change. Nogueira Joyce challenges assumptions that place the inclusion …
Tradition and Autonomy in Platos Euthyphro shows, through detailed commentary, that the purported opposition between tradition and autonomy is not a contradiction, but rather a necessary tension in human and political life. Norman J. Fischer II identifies the root of …
View book details for German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon
Dark Eyes of London
German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon: Dark Eyes of London examines the Kriminalfilmeor Krimisbased on the novels of English author Edgar Wallace, released by Rialto Film between 1959 and 1972 as part of the post-World War II era …
View book details for America's Growing Inequality
The Impact of Poverty and Race
Lexington Books
The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to the present. Authors are some of the leading figures in a …
View book details for Not Playing Around
Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the Power of Sport
A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleThis book provides an accessible space for interdisciplinary scholarship and narrative through an analysis of the power of media and sports, focusing on the intersectionality of identity, politics, social justice, and social movements within …
View book details for The Elephant in the Room
Donald Trump and the Future of the Republican Party
Did Donald Trump create a new blueprint for Republicans, ruin the Grand Old Party, or something in between? And what, if anything, should his role be in the future of the party? In this collection of timely essays, a variety …
View book details for The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture
Dating Apps, Hookup Scripts, and Sexual Outcomes
The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture provides a holistic picture of the current hookup culture in American college campuses. Based on the findings from a nationally representative survey, Aditi Paul demonstrates that hookups initiated through dating apps are fundamentally different from …
View book details for Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown
The American Register and Other Writings, 1807-1810
Charles Brockden Brown (17711810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Browns …
View book details for The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders
Political Resistance from the Margins
In The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders, Anny Morissette examines Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg actors political resistance to the Canadian government amidst threats to the tribes traditional political structures. Morissette traces the Anishinabeg political identity through the preservation of …
View book details for Womens Artistic Dissent
Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia
To survive Totalitarianism and retain their humanity, Czech women writers went underground to write, paint, sculpt, and create supportive communities. This book explores fiction, poetry, and life-sustaining activities of Eva Svankmajerova, Mother of Czech Surrealism, and Eda Kriseova, journalist, fiction …
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