Adam Smith: 154 books
by Byerly, Kenny; Bunn, Cullen; Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Spinning straight out of the hit Nickelodeon show, Volume 2 collects four more fantastic tales. The Turtles battle Fishface, the Shellraiser goes haywire, Dogpound ruins a movie night for everyone, and Monkey Brains squares off against Rat King! Collects issues #5–8!
Goon
Memoir of a Minor League Hockey Enforcer, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Directionless yet driven by a fervent desire to make something of himself, Doug "The Thug" Smith took his only marketable job skill—amateur boxing—and followed an unlikely career path to become a hockey enforcer, a.k.a. “goon.” Entrusted with aggressively protecting his teammates...
Forging Southeastern Identities
Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent...
Planet Cosplay
Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This book examines cosplay from a set of ground-breaking disciplinary approaches, highlighting the latest and emerging discourses around this popular cultural practice. Planet Cosplay comprises chapters from scholars who are widely published in this field, examining the subject of cosplay from sources...
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
Global Movements
Dance, Place, and Hybridity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Global Movements: Dance, Place, and Hybridity provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between the global mobility of ideas and people, and its impact on dance and space. Using seven case studies, the contributors illustrate the mixture of dance styles that result from...
by Andrew F. Herrmann, Art Herbig, Tony E. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business...
Flickering Empire
How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction...
Athens, Arden, Jerusalem
Essays in Honor of Mera Flaumenhaft
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul...
Modelling Exciting Writing
A guide for primary teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be able to model writing effectively to children. The Primary National Curriculum sets challenging expectations for the teaching of writing. Children must master the process of composition, redrafting, editing and writing final pieces. Increased...
Light on the Path
The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history.
The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory...
America Imagined
Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be...
Introducing Forensic and Criminal Investigation
SAGE Publications
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This book is a lucid and practical guide to understanding the core skills and issues involved in the criminal investigation process.
Drawing on multiple disciplines and perspectives, the book promotes a critical awareness and practical comprehension of the intersections between criminology,...
International Judicial Institutions
The architecture of international justice at home and abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This fully-updated and much expanded second edition provides a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in international humanitarian law. Written by a former UN Chief Prosecutor and a leading international law expert, this book analyses the legal and political underpinnings...