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View book details for Philosophical Perspectives on Existential Gratitude
Analytic, Continental, and Religious
Existential gratitude-gratitude for one's very existence or life as a whole-is pervasive across the most influential human, cultural and religious traditions. Weaving together analytic and continental, as well as non-western and historical philosophical perspectives, this volume explores the nexus of …
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The Story behind the World's Borders
This book provides a concise and comprehensive description of all of the borders of every country in the contemporary world, including physical boundaries, their historical evolution, and border-related conflicts with other countries.Nation Shapes: The Story behind the World's Borders examines …
Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, …
Its time to make every moment count. Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theoor as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19have decided to have sex. Theres just one catch... they both have life-threatening genetic disorders …
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide, …
View book details for The Criminalization of Immigration
Truth, Lies, Tragedy, and Consequences
This book presents the history of immigration to the United States, debates over criminalization under the Trump administration, and the effects on immigrants, U.S. residents, the U.S. economy, and its relationships with other nations.Robert Hartmann McNamara offers a comprehensive understanding …
View book details for Faces around the World
A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives.Our faces identify who we arenot only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify …
View book details for Archaeology and State Theory
Subjects and Objects of Power
After neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in …
View book details for Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe
Veterans, Masculinity and War
In this highly original book, Obert Bernard Mlambo offers a comparative and critical examination of the relationship between military veterans and land expropriation in the client-army of the first-century BC Roman Republic and veterans of the Zimbabwean liberation war. The …
By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten woman: Yasodhara, the Buddha's wife. Although often marginalized, …
View book details for Turn it and Turn it Again
Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts
The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camps, universities and yeshivot. But serious inquiry into the practices and purposes of such study is far rarer. In this book, a diverse …
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View book details for Close Encounters
Essays on Russian Literature
Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a broad range of Russian writers and critics, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bakhtin, Gorky, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature explores themes of chance and fate, freedom …
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View book details for First Words (ENG)
On Dostoevsky's Introductions
Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and A Gentle Creature. Despite his clever attempts to call his readers attention to these introductions, …
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View book details for Judaism as Philosophy
Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of Provence
The studies comprising this volume, most of them appearing for the first time in English, deal with some of the main topics in Maimonides philosophy and that of his followers in Provence. At the heart of these topics lies the …
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The book presents a broad-scope analysis of piezoelectric electromechanical transducers and the related aspects of practical transducer design for underwater applications. It uses an energy method for analyzing transducer problems that provides the physical insight important for the understanding of …
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Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides …
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Jewish educational projects and programs are thriving, attracting philanthropic support for exciting and creative approaches in every sector and setting. But underneath that energy, we are not as clear as we ought to be about desired outcomes, the kinds of …
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View book details for Wonder Dogs
True Stories of Canine Courage
Daisy, the tiny Dachshund who put her life on the line to save her humans from a bear. Charco, the veteran sniffer dog who has saved countless human lives, and yet still keeps his tail wagging. Delta, the dog who …
View book details for Keep Calm You're Only 70
Wise Words for a Big Birthday
Timely advice for a milestone birthdaySo what if youre turning 70? After all, with age comes wisdom and more excuses to take life at an even more leisurely pace. Hey, at least youre not 80! Packed with celebratory quotations, this …
A compelling new beach read from the authors of Mindful Writers Retreat.Wedding Season blends the intoxicating condition of love with the excitement of Rehoboth Beach and all manner of nuptial ceremonies. Short and sweet tales feature meet-cutes with dogs on …
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EVOLVE is a six-level English course that gets students speaking with confidence. Drawing on insights from language teaching experts and real students, this Level 2 (CEFR A2) Student's Book with Practice Extra covers all skills and focuses on the most …
Cambridge University Press
Academic Encounters Listening and Speaking Level 2 Student's eBook uses interviews and academic lectures on stimulating topics. You'll develop crucial listening and note-taking skills, discuss content, conduct interviews, and make presentations. Audio is integrated into the ePub file, including audio …
The Camberwell Assessment of Need for adults with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (CANDID) is a widely used tool for the assessment of health and social needs of people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems. It uses the assessment approach …
View book details for Generators of Markov Chains
From a Walk in the Interior to a Dance on the Boundary
Elementary treatments of Markov chains, especially those devoted to discrete-time and finite state-space theory, leave the impression that everything is smooth and easy to understand. This exposition of the works of Kolmogorov, Feller, Chung, Kato, and other mathematical luminaries, which …
View book details for Club Drugs and Novel Psychoactive Substances
The Clinician's Handbook
Over the last decade many hundreds of new psychoactive drugs have emerged onto illicit markets. This flood of new drugs has led to clinicians being unsure of the rapidly emerging changing evidence base and uncertain of the best approaches to …
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