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View book details for Belly Dance Around the World
New Communities, Performance and Identity
In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice. They explore the differences between the solo improvisational …
View book details for Captaining the Corps d'Afrique
The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin
"I have stood by their side in the grim conflict," wrote Union Captain John Chamberlin of the Corps d'Afrique. "Woe to the nation that long withholds their rights from them." Chamberlin spent nearly five years in the South during and …
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Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, Soldier and West Point Commandant
From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 1842 as Instructor of Tactics, Adjutant to the Superintendent and Commandant of Cadets. During his 42-year …
Many cultures accept that a person may die and then come back to life in another form, but Westerners have traditionally rejected the idea. Recently, however, surveys conducted in Europe indicate a substantial increase in the number of Europeans who …
View book details for Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domains
The Marvel Cinematic Universe--comprised of films, broadcast television and streaming series and digital shorts--has generated considerable fan engagement with its emphasis on socially relevant characters and plots. Beyond considerable box office achievements, the success of Marvel's movie studios has opened …
America is a nation that celebrates diversity and freedom of conscience. Yet, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed, democratic times often demand conformity. Nowadays, conformity might be enforced in the name of diversity itself, and go so far as to infringe …
View book details for Expanding Adaptation Networks
From Illustration to Novelization
This book addresses print-based modes of adaptation that have not conventionally been theorized as adaptationssuch as novelization, illustration, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis. It discusses a broad range of image and word-based adaptations of popular literary works, among them …
View book details for Drinking the Devil's Acre
A Love Letter from San Francisco and her Cocktails
Chronicle Books LLC
During the 1870s and '80s, a single bar-filled block in San Francisco called the Devil's Acre threw what may have been the most enduring party the world has ever seen. Duggan McDonnell is in love with the city of his …
Mean field approximation has been adopted to describe macroscopic phenomena from microscopic overviews. It is still in progress; fluid mechanics, gauge theory, plasma physics, quantum chemistry, mathematical oncology, non-equilibirum thermodynamics. spite of such a wide range of scientific areas that …
View book details for Die Abduktion in der qualitativen Sozialforschung
Uber die Entdeckung des Neuen
Wie kommt es zur Entdeckung des Neuen in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung? Konsens herrscht daruber, dass dies allein mit einer gedanklichen Operation moglich ist, die Charles Sanders Peirce mit dem Namen Abduktion belegt hat. In dem Buch wird nicht nur herausgearbeitet, …
This book aims to give state of the art in several domains of cultural heritage in which Nanosciences allow fundamental breakthrough. The first part of the book concerns nanostructured materials in ancient artifacts. Understanding their nature and formation processes bring …
View book details for The Glaciers of Iceland
A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview
This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajokull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not …
View book details for Navier-Stokes Flow Around a Rotating Obstacle
Mathematical Analysis of its Asymptotic Behavior
The book provides a comprehensive, detailed and self-contained treatment of the fundamental mathematical properties of problems arising from the motion of viscous incompressible fluids around rotating obstacles. It offers a new approach to this type of problems. We derive the …
View book details for Single Variable Differential and Integral Calculus
Mathematical Analysis
The book Single variable Differential and Integral Calculus is an interesting text book for students of mathematics and physics programs, and a reference book for graduate students in any engineering field. This book is unique in the field of mathematical …
View book details for The Beautiful Mysterious
The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston
Contributions by Megan Abbott, Michael Almereyda, Kris Belden-Adams, Maude Schuyler Clay, William Dunlap, W. Ralph Eubanks, William Ferris, Marti A. Funke, Lisa Howorth, Amanda Malloy, Richard McCabe, Emily Ballew Neff, Robert Saarnio, and Anne Wilkes TuckerThe Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary …
This books aims at giving an overview over theoretical and phenomenological aspects of particle astrophysics and particle cosmology. To be of interest for both students and researchers in neighboring fields of physics, it keeps a balance between well established foundations …
View book details for Unlikely Heroes
The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching
UNP - Nebraska
Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less …
View book details for Feminist Accountability
Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
NYU Press
Explores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without reproducing, systems …
View book details for On Absolute War
Terrorism and the Logic of Armed Conflict
Lexington Books
Nearly two decades after the declaration of a War on Terror, the precise relationship between warfare and terrorism remains unclear. The United States and its allies have long sought to inflict a decisive defeat upon groups such as Al Qaeda …
This important book examines the role, behaviours and management practices of middle managers operating within the context of collaboration complex inter-organizational and multi-sector settings that demand cross-boundary governance, policy and practice to tackle challenging contemporary societal problems and issues. Presenting …
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Dark Cinema of the American Southwest
Set in the American Southwest, "desert terror" films combine elements from horror, film noir and road movies to tell stories of isolation and violence. For more than half a century, these diverse and troubling films have eluded critical classification and …
View book details for Beer in Maryland
A History of Breweries Since Colonial Times
This history begins with the earliest brewers in the colony--women--revealing details of the Old Line State's brewing families and their methods. Stories never before told trace the effects of war, competition, the Industrial Revolution, Prohibition and changing political philosophies on …
View book details for Anne Bancroft
The Life and Work
Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) was an American film, television and stage actress, stage producer and film director. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, she won the "Triple Crown"--an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy. Her stage portrayal of Annie Sullivan …
View book details for Reformations of the Body
Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater
This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period.
View book details for Economic and Monetary Union Macroeconomic Policies
Current Practices and Alternatives
This book focuses on the construction of the economic policies of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its institutions. It reviews the faltering economic performance of the EMU countries before and after the onset of the financial crisis.
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