Alex G: 28 books
Tales of Ever After
Fellowship of Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Rescue a princess, meet a mermaid, win your reward.
The authors of the Fellowship of Fantasy tackle fairy tales from once upon a time to happily ever after. Explore twists on old tales and brand new magical stories. Meet feisty mermaids, friendly lampposts, and heroes who just might be monsters...
#Accelerate
The Accelerationist Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.
Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest,...
The Rise of China and India in Africa
Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive...
Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood
Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Youth Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in...
Undead Tales
15 Thrilling Zombie Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
They're coming for you.
In 1968, a young and ambitious film maker created an iconic cinematic masterpiece and changed the industry forever. 50 years later, a group of hardy writers converged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Romero's classic, Night of the...
by Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...
by Sara Freeman, Jennifer Douglas, Karen Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre “from the rubble of Berlin” and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of “Rethinking the Maternal”...
by Paul Adams, Natasha Affolder, Andrea C. Akelaitis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood
Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Girls Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age 10-19, the ages when criminal behavior...
Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age
Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age is a timely volume by leading researchers in Life Course Criminology, which reports new findings from The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey of 411 South London males first studied at age 8 in 1961. The main aim...
by Ursula Schmid-Speer, Simone Jöst, Anne Grießer
Language: German
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Grüne Soße, Rieslingsuppe, Spitzbuwe, Frankfurter Kranz, Versoffene Jungfer und viele andere Gerichte aus dem schönen Hessen, lecker verarbeitet in kriminellen Geschichten und beigefügten Rezepten. Da wird gebrutzelt, gebraten und gebacken, dabei gemordet und gemeuchelt, mal weniger und mal mehr...
Acute Brain Impairment
Scientific Discoveries and Translational Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
A rise in the number of young and old patients suffering from a stroke or traumatic brain injury has led to the need for better drug development and treatment, as well as diagnosis and prevention of ischemic stroke and traumatic brain injury. This book provides a comprehensive overview of scientific...
by Gustavo Ligarreto, Gerhard Fischer, Javier Orduz Rodríguez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2012
La fruticultura es, sin duda alguna, una de las actividades más emocionantes del ámbito agrícola. En todas las épocas, las frutas han jugado un papel muy importante en la nutrición del hombre. El hombre logró aprovechar las distintas especies silvestres y crear a través del fitomejoramiento...
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