A K : 1495 books
by A.G.K Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Alan Leonard is a well known and respected local historian and author who has published over a dozen books on Southamptons history. This book is something new in Southampton's history, a whole book about drinking fountains and horse troughs. Surviving blitz and redevelopment, there are 14 of them...
Hemingway and Women
Female Critics and the Female Voice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writers.
Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from...
The Making of Global Health Governance
China and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
A study of governance in the emerging global domain, this book traces the evolution of global public policy making by focusing on four entities: a globalizing sector (health); a global disease (HIV/AIDS); a global organization (the Global Fund); and a major sovereign state (China).
by Solange Kelly, Mustafa Balat, Ayhan Demirbas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However petroleum, once considered inexhaustible, is now being depleted at a rapid rate. As the amount of available petroleum decreases, the need for alternative technologies...
by David A Finlayson, Michael K Cecil
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Pioneers of Armour in the Great War tells the story of the only Australian mechanized units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the 1st Australian Light Car Patrol, and the Special Tank Section were among the trailblazers of mechanization and represented the cutting edge...
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...
by Suraj Bandyopadhyay, Bikas K. Sinha, A. R. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Written by a sociologist, a graph theorist, and a statistician, this title provides social network analysts and students with a solid statistical foundation from which to analyze network data. Clearly demonstrates how graph-theoretic and statistical techniques can be employed to study some important...
by Gani Yoroms, Asonzeh F.-K. Ukah, Paul Osifodunrin
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The ugly phenomenon of terrorism has a long history, it hit the world like a thunderstorm in the 1970s, especially with the 1972 Black Septembist kidnapping of Jewish athletes during the Munich Olympic, and the plane hijacking that led to the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in 1976 to free Jewish...
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
Infantile Autism
The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In 1964, the release of Dr. Bernard Rimland's book, Infantile Autism, revolutionized the autism field by providing the autism community with much-needed guidance on how to understand and treat individuals on the spectrum. He single-handedly realigned the field from a psychodynamic, parent-blaming...
Megaregions
Planning for Global Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The concept of “the city” —as well as “the state” and “the nation state” —is passé, agree contributors to this insightful book. The new scale for considering economic strength and growth opportunities is “the megaregion,” a network of metropolitan centers and their surrounding...
by C. Burri, K.H. Altemeyer, B. Gorgass
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The application of the caval catheter in emergency medicine and intensive care has today become routine. Generally, even in severe shock this route of access to the cardiovascular system is available in order to apply life saving volume substitution. It also permits longterm infusions in modern intensive...
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
**A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, **and fieldwork
A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication,...
La conquista espiritual de México
Ensayo sobre el apostolado y los métodos misioneros de las órdenes mendicantes en la Nueva España de 1523-1524 a 1572
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Ricard analiza un periodo fundamental en la formación de México posterior a la Conquista: en él se lleva a cabo el choque de civilizaciones, se funden, amalgaman o yuxtaponen los elementos americanos y europeos que lo constituirán.