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For years the public has become increasingly disillusioned and cynical about its governmental institutions. In the face of alarming problems-most notably the $400 billion budget deficit-the government seems deadlocked, reduced to partisan posturing and bickering, with the president and Congress …
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A Resource Book for the Blacksmith
The tenet of this book is provide a tool for artists/blacksmiths and metalworkers. It tells how to work metal: heating it, cutting it, upsetting it, drawing it out, twisting it, forge welding it and shaping and assembling it. It tells …
Thomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson's task force on an urgent reconnaissance mission. Intelligence suggests the French Revolution is about to set the …
Slowing economic growth and debt fatigue continue to hamper fiscal policy in the United States. The question is whether there is an alternative path to the one projected in CBO long term forecasts, and if so, how citizens can choose …
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The International Experience with Transport Privatization
In the last decade many countries turned to private sources to provide services formerly offered by public agencies. Europeans, particularly the British and the French, were leaders in this movement. Developing countries also experimented extensively with privatization in the 1980s, …
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A Public Theology from Oceania
This book breaks new ground in the field of public theology by constructing a public theology which is built on interwoven cultural and Christian values. Writing from the Oceanian context (Samoa), Ah Siu-Maliko unpacks the complementary Samoan and Christian core …
View book details for Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency
God, Ekklesia, and Christian Doctrine
Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency: God, Ekklesia, and Christian Doctrine is an exposition of Christian doctrine taking into account the current global emergency. Gorringe grounds our knowledge of God first in the revelation to the prophets and specifically in …
View book details for Santa Barbara's Royal Presidio
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Spain's Last Adobe Fortress
Unique in California historyand beloved by visitors and residents alikethe city of Santa Barbara boasts three great historical properties: the Mission, the Courthouse, and the Presidio. Least known is the Presidio. This book fills this vacuum, beginning with the story …
View book details for Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash
How Ten Mavericks Created the Twentieth-Century Lone Star State
The history of New Texas, the Texas we know todayoil-rich, insufferably loud, and unbearably proud of itselfbegins in the late 1920s, when a horned frog wakes from its thirty-one-year nap in a courthouse cornerstone and flabbergasts the nation. In slightly …
View book details for The Forsaken People
Case Studies of the Internally Displaced
The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has become a pervasive feature of the post Cold War era. The plight of the displaced poses …
View book details for Student-Centered Classrooms
Research-Driven and Inclusive Strategies for Classroom Management
Are classroom teachers managers or facilitators of classroom learning? For more experienced teachers who have developed a broader perspective on classroom management and attend more to whole class dynamics rather than individual incidents of behavior, this book offers fresh, innovative …
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Seven Miles of Sandy Beach
In Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach, A. Lynne Bolles examines Jamaican women tourist workers and their workplaces in Negril, Jamaica. A major component of Negrils tourism success is the labor of women tourist workers, …
View book details for Everyday Food Practices
Commercialisation and Consumption in the Periphery of the Global North
In Everyday Food Practices, Tarunna Sebastian explores the teaching and learning dimensions of peoples food choices and practices as they are played out in their everyday lives and local community. Using multi-sited critical ethnographic methodology, Sebastian followed people on their …
View book details for Digital Transformations in Turkey
Current Perspectives in Communication Studies
Lexington Books
Digital Transformations in Turkey analyzes the genesis, dynamics, and operations of different communication contexts in relation to digital transformations in Turkey. The contributors tackle such topics as the impact of social networking channels like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and the …
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Including Lake Superior's North Shore, Itasca State Park, and Minneapolis Lakes
Scenic Driving Minnesota highlights the natural and cultural history of the land. With stories and facts about the people, natural environment, and region to enhance travels, youre in for quite the ride. Included are detailed, color maps to accompany each …
View book details for Cold War Children's Television
Philadelphia as a Case Study
Cold War Children's Television: Philadelphia as a Case Study examines a culturally significant phenomenon of the Cold Warthe locally produced hosted children's show. The Cold War era and the coming of age of commercial television were entwined not only chronologically …
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Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies explores the experiences, strategies, and triumphs of women who have attained leadership roles within the academy as well as the shortfalls, disappointments, and battle scars many women leaders have experienced …
View book details for The End of Rationality and Selfishness
A Story on the Asymmetry, Uncertainty and the Evolution of Cooperation
This book reviews the antinomy of rationality and selfishness raised from egoism, though rationality and selfishness are understood as basic evolutionary dynamics of humans and other organisms in both classical economics and evolutionary biology. Based on the research and a …
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Informed Methods for Engaging Students as Writers
Write to Be Read is meant to inspire educators to be designers of engaging curriculum, specifically targeting ways to improve the teaching of writing in schools today. Students tend to write in response to literature; whereas, the focus of this …
This book analyzes major national security issues in the Middle East, focusing on those regarding Israel, which could have negative implications on the United States. Currently, Israel is concerned with Irans nuclear program, its regional ambitions, and Hezbollahs arsenal. Other …
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Impressions of Women Travelers in Imperial Russia
In Artists, Writers, and Diplomats' Wives: Impressions of Women Travelers in Imperial Russia, the experiences and impressions of sixteen European and North American women who both lived and traveled in Russia during times of peace and war come alive. All …
View book details for Historically Black Colleges and Universities in a Globalizing World
The Past, Present, and Future
Historically Black Colleges and Universities were established to provide the opportunity for higher education to people of African descent in the era of segregation. The visions, values, and heritages these schools embodied enabled them to chart new frontiers of learning, …
View book details for Complete Guide to Small Game Taxidermy
How To Work With Squirrels, Varmints, And Predators
There are plenty of books on taxidermy, but none covers small game with the learning and depth of THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SMALL GAME TAXIDERMY. Drawing on generations of experience, the author covers all aspects of the art. From proper …
View book details for What Schools Can Be
A Guide for Educators
In What School Can Be Ackerly shows the elements of school culture necessary for delivering good education. For more than a century, blue ribbon task forces have been formed to improve Americas public schools. Most of these efforts have failed …
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