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View book details for Reviewing the Past
The Presence of Ruins
Though constantly in decay, ruins continue to fascinate the observer. Their still-standing survival is a loud affirmation of their presence, in which we can admire the struggle against the power of Nature aesthetically manifested during the decay. This volume takes …
View book details for Singing Down the Barriers
A Guide to Centering African American Song for Concert Performers
Never has there been a more urgent time to foster cultural humility, diversity, and community dialogue while addressing systemically exclusionary teaching practices in vocal music. Singing Down the Barriers offers readers from all ethnic backgrounds a space in which to …
View book details for Theory of Value Structure
From Values to Decisions
The theory of value structure concerns the meaning of better than and good, as well as the way in which values serve as a basis for rational decision making. Drawing methodologically from economics and theories of decision making, the aim …
Materialism, Minds, and Cartesian Dualism offers a history of how philosophers and scientists have thought about mind/body problems, especially as it concerns the question of consciousness after death. This book interrogates the last thirty years of scientific research on reincarnation, …
View book details for Matthew, Disability, and Stress
Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire
In Matthew, Disability, and Stress: Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire, Jillian D. Engelhardt examines four Matthean healing narratives, focusing on the impaired characters in the scenes. Her reading is informed by both empire studies and social stress …
View book details for Congolese Social Networks
Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town
Lexington Books
Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town is a closely researched ethnography that focuses predominantly on the lives of three Congolese transmigrants (self-identified as such). This monograph situates them in a cosmopolitan South African space amongst …
View book details for The Murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless
An Honest Sheriff and the Exoneration of an Innocent Man
In a small Missouri town in 1992, the body of 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless was found in her car, stalled on the side of a road. 18-year-old Josh Kezer was arrested and charged for her murdereven though he was in a …
View book details for The Worlds Educators Create
The Role of Education in the Creation of Place
The connection between place and education has always been complicated and in recent decades has mostly been ignored during the standardization era of education. This book provides a different lens to view this connection between place and education as one …
View book details for A Broken Flute
The Native Experience in Books for Children
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and …
View book details for Superhero Smart
Real-World Facts behind Comic Book Characters
A fascinating exploration of the science, history, literature, and culture behind comic book superheroes powers and origins.How does Supermans strength allow him to squeeze a chunk of coal into a diamond? Whats the connection between Wonder Womans golden Lasso of …
View book details for Inventorying Cultural Heritage Collections
A Guide for Museums and Historical Societies
This two-part text opens with an argument few collections practitioners would contest: Regular inventories are central to meaningful, sustainable, and ethical collections preservation and access. But Vanderwarf and Romanowski argue that in practicesome 25 years working with diverse collections between …
View book details for The Voices of Baseball
The Game's Greatest Broadcasters Reflect on America's Pastime
A fascinating tour of baseballs greatest moments and iconic stadiums, told through the reminiscences of 50 play-by-play broadcasters.With careers spanning two to three times that of an average player, baseballs best broadcasters have no shortage of history to offer. They …
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Franklin Roosevelt and the Fight for Tidal-Electric Power at Passamaquoddy Bay
For 25 years, Franklin Roosevelt tried to build the worlds first tidal-electric power plantby harnessing the Bay of Fundys giant tides. The enormous project would have dammed-up 110 square miles of coastal Maine and Canada. Moondoggle is a dramatic tale …
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Virginia's Political Transformation, 2006-2020
Throughout the early years of the 20th century, Virginia was viewed as a Republican state. Citizens in the Commonwealth had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. In 2000, the GOP had just won the governors race, held …
View book details for Diplomatic Para-citations
Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Co-habitation
Taking seriously the critical conception of diplomacy as the mediation of estrangement, Diplomatic Para-citations turns to the politics and laws that tie modern diplomacy to colonial cultures and the genres of Man that they privilege. In an attempt to read …
View book details for State-Business Relations and Economic Transformation in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Unfinished Transformation
In State-Business Relations and Economic Transformation in South Africa and Zimbabwe: Unfinished Transformation, Sinan Baran examines state-business relations (SBRs) in semi-peripheral South Africa and peripheral Zimbabwe after each countrys transition to majority rule to address why SBRs are likely to …
View book details for Flourishing Classrooms
A Deep Dive into Proactive Wellness for Grades 7-12
This book shows educators why and how to put well-being in its rightful place beside learning at the very heart of schooling. A blend of practical activities and research-based approaches empowers Grade 7-12 teachers to cultivate positive wellness not just …
View book details for The Play's the Thing
Promoting Intellectual and Emotional Development in the Early Childhood Years
Because unsupervised free play is natures way of teaching us the skills we need as adults the skills of cooperation, making and enforcing rules, compromise, negotiating conflicts, accepting defeat, children have been dependent on others to regulate them. More and …
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the first modern philosophers and one of the most important. His contributions were often groundbreaking, and his impact remains in such fields as logic, mathematics, science, international law, and ethics.Historical Dictionary of Leibniz's Philosophy, …
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The Political Peril of Economic Upgrade in Single-Party Authoritarian Regimes
In their quest for national revival, Chinas leaders under Xi Jinping have sought to improve the economys performance. The disappointing economic record of authoritarian regimes provides ample grounds for doubt, yet not all have failed. Why have some succeeded where …
The World Today Series: The Middle East and South Asia. More than a quarter of the worlds population live in the Middle East and South Asia, yet our knowledge and understanding of the region is often limited to news updates …
View book details for Philosophy in the Ancient World
An Introduction
Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction_an intellectual history of the ancient world from the eighth century B.C.E. to the fifth century C.E., from Homer to Boethius_describes and evaluates ancient thought in its cultural setting, showing how it affected and …
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Through a Prism Darkly
Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly unravels the youth gang problem in a multidimensional approach that encompasses the place, status, social control, subcultural, and identity facets of urban street gangs. The power of place and the status of …
View book details for Peirce's Pragmaticism
A Radical Perspective
Praised by Bertrand Russell as one of the most original minds and certainly the greatest American thinker ever, Charles Sanders Peirce invented pragmaticism. Vulgarized by William James and others, Peirces revolutionary semiotic recognizes chance, fortuitous happenings, serendipity, in understanding lawful …
View book details for Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution
The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
In January 1785, a young African American woman named Elizabeth (Liss) was put on board the Lucretia in New York Harbor, bound for Charleston, where she would be sold to her fifth enslaver in just twenty-two years. Leaving behind a …
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