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Leviticus
Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression. Torah study is how we mine not just meaning from the text, but our awareness of Gods will, writes Rabbi …
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Weaving (Our) Liberation
Through the stories of women in movement in the Americas, Europe and Australasia, this book explores a decolonising and feminised politics of liberation which is being weaved through the words and worlds of black, colonised and subaltern women. These stories …
Gender, Sexuality, and Space Culture explores how traditional ideologies of gender and sexuality have influenced the culture of space travel. The time since humans first began exploring outer space has been marked by both great technological development and great social …
Connecting Teens with Technology at the Library presents a balanced view of the often complex relationship between teenagers and their technology. This book will help support fellow teen-serving staff nationwide in program creation and collection development on this relevant topic. …
View book details for Can Labour Win?
The Hard Road to Power
After its disastrous defeat in 2015, Labour is at grave risk of throwing away the 2020 general election. The party has to understand why it suffered such a devastating defeat and learn crucial lessons if it is to recover. The …
Though today she is little known, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active in both the civil rights movement and the campaign for women's suffrage, Terrell was …
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Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq
See firsthand how war photography is used to sway public opinion.In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck which may have had a weapon attached to its flatbed. …
View book details for Preparing Effective Lessons
A Unit Planning Guide and Grade Book
Forget waiting for the district, state, or national test to find out how your instruction impacts student outcomes. If you are ready to rethink how you plan lessons and measure student learning outcomes this planning guide is for you. Did …
Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the …
View book details for The Ethics and Politics of Immigration
Core Issues and Emerging Trends
The Ethics and Politics of Immigration provides an overview of the central topics in the ethics of immigration with contributions from scholars who have shaped the terms of debate and who are moving the discussion forward in exciting directions. This …
View book details for Introduction to Conflict Resolution
Discourses and Dynamics
The field of conflict resolution has evolved dramatically during the relatively short duration of the disciplines existence. Each generation of scholars has struggled with the major puzzles of their era, providing theories and solutions that meet the needs of the …
Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons is intended to provide an overview of the animation industry and its historical development. The animation industry has been in existence as long (some would argue longer) than cinema, yet it has had less …
View book details for Fake News in an Era of Social Media
Tracking Viral Contagion
Over the last few years, social media has expanded to become a key platform for news dissemination and circulation, and a key orginator and propogator of 'fake news'.. Nations, governments, organisations and societies are now coming to terms with the …
View book details for How to Keep a Competitive Edge in the Talent Game
Lessons for the EU from China and the US
By 2020, the global map of higher education will be completely redrawn, and by 2030, China is expected to emerge as the world's largest source of brainpower. The European Union should not necessarily view this development as a threat, but …
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A Practical Guide for Librarians
Most professional librarians, even recent graduates, manage something, whether it be a project, service, department, or a whole library. This book explains the different managerial roles at libraries, looking at the levels of managers, what they do, and how they …
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A Handbook on Collection Gifts and Donations for Museums and Donors
To Give and To Receive: A Handbook on Gifts and Donations for Museums and Donors, Second Edition covers the process of substantiating the value of a gift and the obligations of the donor and donee. It is a concise guide …
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A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway
Friendship. Grief. Jazz hands.In 2004, in a small, windowless theater in then-desolate Williamsburg, Brooklyn, an eccentric family of broke art-school survivors staged an experimental, four-hour adaptation of William Faulkners novel As I Lay Dying inside an enormous wooden coffin that …
Agricultural production has increased due to intensive cultivation and with the use of modern technology which has also lead to progressive increase in the amount of waste lands. In India where pressure on agricultural land is enormous any conversion of …
A 'disease' is any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, especially a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress etc., producing characteristic symptoms. As such disease is a condition of the body or a …
In this landmark study, Luke Uka Uche has demonstrated the relationship between the "spirit" of recent Nigerian politics and the orientation of the Nigerian mass media. What he has described so graphically and analysed so fastidiously in fact goes beyond …
Nanotechnology refers to the manipulation of atoms at the nanoscale level that has numerous worthwhile applications in the real world. Unique physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials can be exploited for high performing applications that benefit the society. Nanotechnology has …
Since the objectives and functions of a university library are dependent upon those of the university it serves, the present CICIL publication attempts to examine in detail the aims and objectives of higher education in the context of the changing …
An International Experts Group Meeting on Decentralised Planning was held at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, from 11th to 13th June 1990. The book a revised version of the papers read at the Conference the proceedings …
Chemogenomics is the systematic screening of targeted chemical libraries of small molecules against individual drug target families with the ultimate goal of identification of novel drugs and drug targets. Typically some members of a target library have been well characterized …
The Encyclopaedia of Personnel Management comprise of three volumes and strives to meet the challenges happening in this fast changing world. It is specifically designed for instructors, teachers, university students' and practicing managers. This work requires no pre-requisite and assumes …
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