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Kate Hanley
For anyone caring for someone with dementia, this book is a bridge of hope. Kate Hanley takes us on a journey where we witness her caring for her aging parents, while trying to balance the demands of her own busy …

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China, Russia and Iran: The Interference is not Soft. The Italian Case.
Paolo Messa
The aim of this book is to raise awareness of authoritarian countries' influence penetration into democracies through cyber-offense, intellectual property theft, media networks spreading propaganda, bots, and fake-news on social networks, and cultural exchanges that may constitute a peril to …

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Sketches from the Life of an Honorary Rodent
Patti Smith
Green Writers Press
Tucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, a dynasty of beavers has nearly completed the restoration of the meadows and ponds that adorned this stream in the days before the beavers of a continent were turned into top …
Aiven Honest, Caroline Snow
Babelcube Inc.
A young man, who suffers everlasting failures in relations with the opposite sex, obtains a woman remote control. However, even after getting his hands on such a powerful tool, he soon realizes that its much more complicated... Contains foul language. …

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Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem
Paul Martin
Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying.Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this …

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Continuity and Change, 5th edition
Werner and Stoner
Textbook Media Press
By Frank Werner, Ph.D and James A. F. Stoner, Ph.D. Both from Fordham University. Updated for 2018, Modern Financial Managing - Continuity and Change presents traditional finance subjects in an accessible and engaging manner while emphasizing the evolution of finance …
Maggie Andrews, Jenni Waugh
The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind. This book explores the lives of the people of Pershore and the surrounding district in wartime, …

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A History of Transportation to Tasmania
Dianne Snowden, Joan Kavanagh
On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemens Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of …
Maurice Curtis
The History Press
DID YOU KNOW?Irelands first Olympic medallist, Jack B. Yeats, was awarded the silver medal in 1924 for his painting The Liffey Swim.Florence Balcombe, one-time girlfriend of Oscar Wilde and later wife of Bram Stoker, lived at No. 66 Palmerston Road.The …

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Moglichkeiten und Grenzen in Zeiten der Transformation
Hartmut Simon, Michaela Kuhnhenne, Detlev Brunner
Die Rolle der Gewerkschaften im Prozess der deutschen Einheit fand bislang wenig Beachtung. Dabei gehorten sie von Anfang an zu den Kraften, die die gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Transformation Ostdeutschlands mitgestalteten. In den Beitragen des Bandes betrachten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler sowie …

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Nachbarschaft und Wohnalltag in Schweizer Growohnbauten
Eveline Althaus
Die Growohnbauten, die wahrend des Baubooms der 1960er- und 1970er-Jahre die schweizerische Siedlungslandschaft grundlegend veranderten, sind im Laufe der Jahre zunehmend in Verruf geraten. Doch wie gestalten sich - jenseits der weit verbreiteten Klischees - die Lebenswirklichkeiten in diesem Baubestand?Eveline …

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New Perspectives beyond Neoliberalism and Nationalism
European Alternatives, Lukas Stolz, Daphne Büllesbach, Marta Cillero
This book opens the often narrow discourse on the future of Europe and criticises the false dichotomy between nationalism on the one hand and a neoliberal version of Europe on the other. Existing emancipatory projects from across the continent are …

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Genealogien und Einbettungsstrategien feministischer Kritik im postsozialistischen Polen
Nina Seiler
Between tradition, reform and opposition: feminist criticism in Poland.

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Die postglobale Misere und Wege, sie zu bewaltigen
Jürgen Turek
Globalization has shaped the world for several decades now - politically, economically and socially. This has changed a lot of situations considerably - in positive as well as in negative ways. The result is ambivalence and a post-global plight that …
Undine Stabrey
How does time figure in archeology? This volume shows how the past can emerge as history and the reason why a part of human history was temporalized into a Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
Suzi Mirgani
This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's …
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Pat Mora
University of Arizona Press
Inspired by Edgar Lee Masterss Spoon River Anthology and Thornton Wilders Our Town, Pat Mora brings us the poetic monologues of Encantado, an imagined southwestern town. Each poem forms a story that reveals the complex and emotional journeys we take …

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A Life on the German Border
Rita Kuczynski, Anthony J. Steinhoff
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she …
Phil Ryan
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of best-selling books which not only challenged the existence of god, but claimed that religious faith was dangerous and immoral. The New Atheists, as writers such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher …
Janice Gross Stein, Michael R. Marrus, Derek J. Penslar
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Antisemitism is reappearing in disturbing new ways and in unexpected strength. This resurgence is of deep concern to politicians, practitioners of law, the academic community, and to informed citizens everywhere. To address this, a scholarly conference was assembled at the …
Donald G. Frantz
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Although thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language, their numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in danger. Blackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to The Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes Third …
L.M. Montgomery, Benjamin Lefebvre
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (18741942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this …

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Lonergan's Foundations for Ethics
Patrick H. Byrne
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In The Ethics of Discernment, Patrick H. Byrne presents an approach to ethics that builds upon the cognitional theory and the philosophical method of self-appropriation that Bernard Lonergan introduced in his book Insight, as well as upon Lonergans later writing …
Paul T. Phillips
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, …
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