Please enter a valid search term.
Currently Displaying Results
1190376-1190400 of 1546030
O. W. Pappy Kitchens (19011986) was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and began painting at age sixty-seven. His self-taught, narrative, visual art springs directly from the oral tradition of parable and storytelling with which he grew up. A self-declared folk …
View book details for Bumpy Road
The Making, Flop, and Revival of Two-Lane Blacktop
University Press of Mississippi
Bumpy Road: The Making, Flop, and Revival of Two-Lane Blacktop chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle, resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of director Monte Hellmans 1971 existentialist car-racing movie. Hellmans unconventional choices for the film included casting three nonactorsmusicians James …
View book details for Notaufnahme
Von A wie Adrenalin bis Z wie Zusammenbruch
Medizinische Fachliteratur gibt es zur Genuge, aber wie bereitet sich der junge Arzt auf den wirklichen Ernst des Lebens vor? Wieviel Kaffee kann man im Nachtdienst trinken? Warum gibt es keine Einarbeitung und wie schafft man es, nachts von den …
View book details for Lois Weber
Interviews
University Press of Mississippi
Lois Weber (18791939) was one of early Hollywoods most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street corners, Weber began working in the American film industry as an actress around 1908 but quickly ascended to the positions …
View book details for Elektrische Energietechnik
Grundlagen, Energieversorgung, Antriebe und Leistungselektronik
Die elektrische Energietechnik ist eines der groen Teilgebiete der Elektrotechnik. Sie ist eine eigene Studienrichtung an den Hochschulen und wird von drei bis funf Lehrstuhlen vertreten. Das Buch behandelt das gesamte Lehrgebiet aus einem Guss und eignet sich so als …
In kompakter Form stellt dieses Handbuch das notwendige Wissen fur das betriebliche, nachhaltige Umweltmanagement zur Verfugung. Es ist als Nachschlagewerk zur Einfuhrung und Fortschreibung eines Umweltmanagementsystems konzipiert. Daruber hinaus kann es als Lehrbuch bzgl. der Grundaspekte des betrieblichen Umweltmanagements verwendet …
DK Publishing
Rest Easy with Test Easy!You're excited about your decision to join the U.S. Armed Forces, and you know that your ASVAB scores will determine the course of your military career, so you want to do your absolute best. Well, rest …
Chronicle Books LLC
With playful prose and vivid art, Things to Do brings to life the small moments and secret joys of a child's day. There are wonders everywhere. In the sky and on the groundblooming in a flower bed, dangling from a …
Chronicle Books LLC
When Jim wakes up one Tuesday morning, he doesn't feel like eating his pancakes. In fact, Jim doesn't feel like Jim. He feels rather, well, beastly. But he is hungry. Very hungry....This clever and relatable tale of moods from Laurel …
This is the third book in a series on Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering. The purpose of this volume is to bring together the scientific communities of Computational Mechanics and Structural Dynamics, offering a wide coverage of timely issues on …
Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque …
A heartfelt picture book about differences, acceptance, and loving yourself for who you are.Wherever he goes, Rain Boy brings wetwhich means he's not very popular. Sun Kidd brings sunshine everywhere she goes, so everyone loves her. Only Sun Kidd sees …
View book details for Tragikomodien
Kombinationsformen von Tragik und Komik im europaischen Drama des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Die Tragikomodie, verstanden als Kombination von Tragik und Komik im Drama, ist eine von der zeitgenossischen Literaturwissenschaft relativ wenig beachtete Gattung. Dabei bietet sie ein heuristisches Modell, das oft ubersehene Zusammenhange in der europaischen Dramenproduktion von der Spataufklarung bis zur …
View book details for Basiswissen Bilanzplanung
Schneller Einstieg in die individuelle Unternehmensplanung
Dieses Buch richtet sich an Praktiker, die Schritt fur Schritt an die Bilanzplanung herangehen wollen. Systematisch wird gezeigt, wie auf Grundlage der unternehmensspezifischen Ziele die Planung aufgebaut werden kann. Die Planung des Zahlenwerks ist mit geringen buchhalterischen Kenntnissen, mit wenigen …
View book details for Marvelous Cornelius
Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
Chronicle Books LLC
In New Orleans, there lived a man who saw the streets as his calling, and he swept them clean. He danced up one avenue and down another and everyone danced along. The old ladies whistled and whirled. The old men …
View book details for Bodies Built for Game
The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing
Sport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owenss four gold-medal victories in the 1936 Nazi Olympics, Kareem Abdul-Jabbars protest at the 1968 …
Chronicle Books LLC
In this moving companion to the Caldecott Honorwinning They All Saw a Cat, Brendan Wenzel tells the story of a seemingly ordinary stone. But it isn't just a stoneto the animals that use it, it's a resting place, a kitchen, …
Chronicle Books LLC
Ruby is always racing after her big brothers. But no matter how hard she tries, she can never catch up. Then one day, she discovers some sticks in the grass. Not just any sticksswords! And suddenly the world is her …
Chronicle Books LLC
This colorful and reassuring picture book follows Babysaurus on an adventure as he enlists his prehistoric friends to seek his Mamasaurus. Is his Mamasaurus the fastest in the jungle? No. Is she the loudest? No. Is she the best flyer? …
View book details for Interactive Multimedia Learning
Using Social Media for Peer Education in Single-Player Educational Games
This book introduces new concepts and mechanisms regarding the usage of both social media interactions and artifacts for peer education in digital educational games. Digital games in general, and digital educational games in particular, represent an area with a high …
Management of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Trauma Patient summarizes the most current concepts and clinical practices for the management of the patient with musculoskeletal traumatic injuries. The text covers optimal time frames for stabilization of orthopedic injuries and strategies to …
View book details for Realizing a New Global Cyberspace Framework
Normative Foundations and Guiding Principles
In many respects cyberspace has created a new world. The online phenomena encompass social, cultural, economic, and legal facets. Exceeding the present Internet Governance concept the book analyses the normative foundations and guiding principles of a global cyberspace regime that …
View book details for Realist Thought and the Nation-State
Power Politics in the Age of Nationalism
This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state. Presented in a sequence of snapshots and illustrated by examples drawn from the foreign policy of great powers, this history is represented by four key realist thinkers. …
View book details for Quality Teaching in Primary Science Education
Cross-cultural Perspectives
This edited volume explores how primary school teachers create rich opportunities for science learning, higher order thinking and reasoning, and how the teaching of science in Australia, Germany and Taiwan is culturally framed. It draws from the international and cross-cultural …
View book details for Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy
New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975
This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a …
Currently Displaying Results
1190376-1190400 of 1546030