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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 Anglo-American Defense Projects in the Postwar Middle East
Cold War or Imperialism?
This book aims to explore Anglo-American defence policies in the Middle East between 1945and 1955 and the attempts of these two Western powers to contain the Soviet expansiontowards the region. It does not attempt to offer a comprehensive history of …
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 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 Theology Compromised
Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, and the Possibility of a Sociological Theology
Theological work, whatever else it may be, is always a reflection on social transformations. Not only pastors but also theologians work with the sources of the Christian traditions in one hand and a newspaper in the other. But how are …
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Journeys through Homelessness
Can one city's solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and policy. How can policymakers and public health professionals address …
View book details for Act Naturally
The Beatles on Film
The Beatles produced five films during their time together: A Hard Days Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, and Let It Be. Some were cinematic successes, and some were not, butalong with subsequent reissues, bonus material, and Peter Jacksons …
View book details for Hezbollah and Hamas
A Comparative Study
A concise yet comprehensive overview of Hamas and Hezbollah.Hezbollah and Hamas are major players in Middle Eastern politics and have a growing involvement in global events. Despite their strikingly different beginnings, they share a common denominatoran adversary in Israel. Hezbollah …
Experts all agree that human beings can mitigate climate change by changing how we use energy for heat, light, movement, and production. Stewards of heritage sites and collections can engage the public at the grassroots level to raise awareness about …
View book details for The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares
The Haunted City
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Original and terrifying fiction presented by Jason Blum, the award-winning producer behind the groundbreaking Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious, and Sinister franchises. Jason Blum invited sixteen cutting-edge collaborators, filmmakers, and writers to envision a city of their choosing, and let …
View book details for Digital Dharma
How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-Being
New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra delivers a visionary and unprecedented exploration of how artificial intelligence can revolutionize well-being and open new horizons for personal development.AI has the potential to help us create a more peaceful, just, sustainable, healthy, …
View book details for Chasing a Blond Moon
A Woods Cop Mystery
Lyons Press
Strange things are happening to the black bears of the Upper Peninsula. Grady Service is stumped until a Korean-born professor is murdered by cyanide-laced figs that contain two freeze-dried bear gall bladders. Sexy and suspenseful, Chasing a Blond Moon also …
View book details for Lighthouses of the Southern States
From Chesapeake Bay to Cape Florida
Lighthouses of the Southern States is the classic guide to the most significant lighthouses in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Through stirring historic accounts and stunning color and archival photographs, the stories of more than thirty-five lighthouses come alive in …
View book details for War Is Hell
Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence
War is Hell is a study of the philosophy of war and peace, ranging critically from ancient peace thinking to today. The author uses a Socratic method, focused on political philosophy rather than on cultural or psychological aspects of war …
Young Royals meets Red, White, and Royal Blue in this heart-pumping romance by award-winning author Julian Winters!When roguish Prince Jadon of Iles de la Reverie is left in America to clean up his image after a horribly public break-up gone …
View book details for Black Millennials
Identity, Ambition, and Activism
Black Millennials is an edited collection of writings that speak to the unique experience of the Black millennial in regard to identity, career, and social engagement in modern society and business. This book is unique in that it is written …
View book details for Crochet Ragdoll Friends
36 New Dolls to Make
Crochet a new best friend!Sascha is back with this exciting collection of 36 new ragdolls, including adult and baby pairs of animals and fantasy creatures such as dragons and dinosaurs. She's also introducing friends from around the world, such as …
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A Culinary Journey Through a Food Lover's Paradise
Winner, 2019 IACP Award, Best Book of the Year, InternationalNamed one of the Best Cookbooks of the Year / Best Cookbooks to Gift by the New York Times, Food & Wine, Saveur, Rachael Ray Every Day, National Geographic, The Guardian …
View book details for Women in American Prisons
Sex, Social Life, and Families
A fascinating look at the social life of women in prison. Intended to shine the light on prison social life in the face of allegations of all sorts of misconduct and deviant behaviors.
View book details for Panzer Aces I
Battle Stories of German Tank Commanders in WWII
With speed, violence, and deadly power, heavily armored tanks spearheaded the German blitzkrieg that stormed across Europe in 1939. Tracks rattling and engines roaring, these lethal machines engaged in some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, from the …
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The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
An award-winning scholars account of an ancient citys descent into unprecedented communal violencean event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept …
Looting has become an increasingly popular concept in South Africa as an unsophisticated interpretation of ownership by force of property during periods of mayhem. However, looting is a complex concept whose origin spans a long history that cuts across time …
Lexington Books
It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the metal community. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including …
View book details for Finding China's Lost Generation
The Beijing Fifty-five
In December 1968 Mao Zedong proclaimed that Chinas educated urban youth should move to the countryside to be reeducated by the poor and lower middle peasants. Some seventeen million who responded to his call spent the better part of a …
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