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View book details for Running is Life
Transcending the Crisis of Modernity
UPA
Running feels good. It also centers the runner in the world, solves the problems implied by the Cartesian split between body and soul, and establishes an active relationship between the self and others. Running takes the motion we are all …
View book details for In Darkest London
The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature
Scarecrow Press
During the 19th century, London was a complex, vibrant, and multi-faceted city, the first true metropolis. As such, it contained within it a widely disparate array of worlds and cultures. Representations of London in literature varied just as widely. In …
View book details for The Last Balladeer
The Johnny Hartman Story
Scarecrow Press
Just after recording with John Coltrane in 1963, baritone singer Johnny Hartman (19231983) told a family member that something special occurred in the studio that day. He was right the album, containing definitive readings of Lush Life and My One …
Government Institutes
Every branch of science, every profession, and every engineering process has its own language for communication. Environmental health and environmental science are no different. To work within these major environmental fields, you must acquire a fundamental but wide-ranging vocabulary and …
View book details for Principles of Psychology in Religious Context
Psychological and Spiritual Origins of Human Behavior
Hamilton Books
This book asserts that the better one understands the causes of behavior, the better one can apply that knowledge to produce a better world. It describes the mechanisms that cause human behavior, such as freedom of will, in a manner …
View book details for Improving the Odds
Raising the Class
R&L Education
Improving the Odds: Raising the Class is a book aimed at legislators, school administrators, home school advocates,
View book details for Operas in English
A Dictionary
Scarecrow Press
Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original …
Bucknell University Press
Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of …
View book details for Antioch on the Orontes
A History and a Guide
Hamilton Books
Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire. Today, it is a small Turkish town of 200,000 inhabitants whose visitors may find it difficult to imagine this place at …
View book details for Montessori Comes to America
The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch
UPA
What role did women's leadership play in the introduction and revival of the Montessori Method in America? Phyllis Povell explores this question through the contributions of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch, who brought the Montessori Method to the American …
View book details for Hmong-Related Works, 1996-2006
An Annotated Bibliography
Scarecrow Press
The Hmong (pronounced "mong" in English) are a mountain-dwelling subgroup of the Miao of southwest China. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Hmong began migrating southeast to Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Then in the second half of the 20th …
View book details for Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia
Translation, Interpretation, Performance: Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer
Bucknell University Press
Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and England. Divided into three parts, the book focuses first on translating for the stage, examining diverse approaches to …
View book details for Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film
Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance
Bucknell University Press
Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists participation in and questioning of the revolutionary governments revision of national …
View book details for Preventing Disruptive Behavior in Colleges
A Campus and Classroom Management Handbook for Higher Education
R&L Education
Over 50 percent of KD12 teachers leave the profession in four years due to classroom discipline problems. Unfortunately, with pressure to pass these students on, with colleges' dire needs for admissions and financial pressures, and with the often rough culture …
Severn House Publishers
Can revenge reach out from the grave? - Orphan Jay doesnt want to hurt anyone he tries so hard not to. Yet he has a terrible secret . . . Nurse Laura Parris is determined to protect him, but when …
Severn House Publishers
A DCI Henry Christie novelFourteen-year-old Mark Carter is plunged into a world of crime following his sister's drug overdose. He agrees to become an informer for DCI Christie in order to avenge Beth's death and redeem himself. But if it …
Severn House Publishers
When Jessica's parents are tragically killed in a car crash, she goes to live with her grandparents in their big old house in Connecticut. Bullied at her new school because of the injury she suffered in the crash, Jessica finds …
Severn House Publishers
The haunted-house theme is one of the most venerable in the genre, and Rayne has given it new life in this series, drawing again and again on the secrets contained within structures built originally to keep us safe Booklist Starred …
Severn House Publishers
The new Lambert and Hook mystery - When the committee members of the Oldford Literary Festival all receive anonymous letters telling them to resign or die, it marks the start of an unusual case for Chief Superintendent Lambert and DS …
Severn House Publishers
Sissy Sawyer, an unredeemed hippy, has an uncanny ability to read the future and the lives of those she holds dear may soon depend on it . . . One afternoon, shadows started to flicker along the corridors of The …
Severn House Publishers
A Lina Townend mystery - Antiques dealer Lina Townend bright, sharp, and pretty is making a name for herself as a restorer, with a national reputation for honesty. So when she spots a dead body in a field, she calls …
UPA
It is a well known fact that Japan spends only a small percentage of her gross national product on defense. What is not well known, however, is the fact that Japan's defense budget ranks among the top in the world …
Severn House Publishers
A village with a dark code for Woodend to crack To be Witch Makers in the moorland village of Hallerton is both a great honour and a heavy burden. It is he who, after years of painstaking apprenticeship, constructs the …
Scarecrow Press
The most important bilateral relationship in Asia since the end of World War II is assuredly between the United States and Japan. Despite the geographical and cultural differences between these two nations, as well as the bitterness leftover from the …
Severn House Publishers
When a middle-aged woman enters Lina Townend's antiques shop wanting to sell a white Beswick china horse which she claims is a cherished heirloom, Lina's instincts tell her to avoid the sale. Suddenly, wherever she goes, Lina sees the supposedly …
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