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View book details for The Changing Languages of Guangxi, Southern China
A Contact-Induced Grammaticalization Approach
Based on a case study of the evolution of finish morphemes in Yue and Zhuang Tai-Kadai, this book examines how an internal factor (grammaticalization) and an external factor (language contact) interacted to produce the polyfunctionality of the specific finish morphemes …
Scarecrow Press
Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973, at the cost of a long and bitter struggle against seemingly implacable odds. This was a time to be …
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Sunken Galleons In The New World
Hunt for Gold: Sunken Galleons in the New World is the engaging tale of the legendary oceanic explorers Bob Frogfoot Weller and his wife Margaret. The Wellers' lives are a tale of secret treasure hunts, adventurous dives, and underwater explorations, …
View book details for School Desegregation and U.S. Presidents
How the Role of the Bully Pulpit Affected Their Decisions
The Supreme Court's Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas decision of 1954 yielded unwavering and contentious mass resistance to dismantling the legally sanctioned dual system of public schooling in the United States. Extensive literature exists that focuses on …
View book details for Small Isn't Beautiful
The Case against Localism
Eat local has become a popular marketing slogan in recent years, based on the idea that food grown or raised nearby is better for you and friendlier to the environment than similar products shipped in from many miles away. That …
View book details for Czernowitz at 100
The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective
Lexington Books
Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi …
View book details for The Practical Geologist
How to Apply Primitive Skills for Everyday Use
Geology is destinyunderstand it and life gets easier. Our ancestors grasped enough about their environment to fashion tools, start fires, erect shelters, and find water. The principles they discovered long ago still apply, and the science behind stronger concrete, usable …
View book details for The Art of Communication
Improving Your Fundamental Communication Skills
This dynamic, skills-based introduction to personal communication provides students with the keys to improving their personal, academic, and professional lives through the power of human interaction and expression. The fourth edition includes new content on virtual communication scenarios, inclusive language, …
View book details for King David and Boss Daley
The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the Edge
In Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one young, one old and both leaders of …
View book details for Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 15561729
Missionizing through the Arts
This collection examines how the Society of Jesus used art and architecture in its missionary efforts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The Jesuits used a variety of visual media to re-invigorate …
View book details for Europe Today
A Twenty-First Century Introduction
Now in its sixth edition, Europe Today presents unrivaled coverage of developments in major European countries and across the region. Thoroughly revised and updatedincluding new chapters on Turkey and the wider European neighborhood to address their growing influencethis is the …
View book details for Cracking the Coaching Code
Using Personality Archetypes to Maximize Performance
Many adults cite coaches as the adult they remember most from their schooling experience - and that is not always a result of positive interactions. In education, we know the influence and impact coaches have, but there is little, if …
EnlightenmentAufklarung in German, Lumieres in Frenchis more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a …
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An Imperial History
In this superb (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of Americas covert global empire As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on …
View book details for Making Dinosaurs Dance
A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums
Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums takes the reader behind the scenes to learn how the American Museum of Natural History innovates visitor digital engagement, highlighting design techniques used both there and at museums around the …
Ella Enchanted meets The Parent Trap in this spellbinding wintery tale where two young enchanters team up to break a centuries-old family curse and accidentally put their entire town at risk along the way. Every winter solstice, when people lock …
View book details for Tales of a Bear Hunter
Forty-One Years of Recollections from a Professional Bear Hunter
As a professional bear hunter for 41 years, Carr has written a real page-turner.
View book details for The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball
The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy
Ivan R. Dee
In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of Americas wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the new organization posed a real challenge to baseballs …
H.G. Callaways critical edition of William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism evaluates this classic work of American philosophy and the pragmatist tradition partly on the basis of the functional psychology of James's magnum opus, The Principles of Psychology. The edition …
View book details for Single-Handed Spey Casting
Solutions to Casts, Obstructions, Tight Spots, and Other Casting Challenges of Real-Life Fishing
Expert Spey caster Simon Gawesworth shares casts adapted from two-handed Spey casting that enable you to fish the challenging spots most anglers skip. Whether you're a small-stream angler casting for tough trout or a saltwater fly fisher, Simon has refined …
View book details for Hiking South Carolina
A Guide To The States Greatest Hikes
Hiking South Carolina covers the best hiking throughout the entire state. This book has the reader traversing from the mountains to the sea in one of the most beautiful and diverse states in the US. No matter where you are …
View book details for Am I Lying to Myself?
How To Overcome Denial and See the Truth
Denial is everywhere, keeping us from seeing reality and causing unhappiness and frustration. It can make things disappear in the blink of an eye. It can also convince you that you are seeing what you want to see even when …
View book details for Resurrection, Time, and Justification
Referencing Karl Barth, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Robert Jenson
Resurrection, Time, and Justification: Referencing Karl Barth, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Robert Jenson delves into the enigmatic concept of time and its relation to Christian theology, with a particular focus on the future's impact on time. Rather than attempting to solve …
View book details for American Imaginaries
Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas
American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book …
View book details for A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections
Selected Civil War Correspondence
A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence offers a Northern counterpart to the great collection of Southern family letters published in The Children of Pride. Featuring recently discovered historical material, the book offers a selection …
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