Cairns: 132 books
The Democratic Imagination
Envisioning Popular Power in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily...
Death Rules
How Death Shapes Life on Earth, and What it Means For Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Death Rules explores life from the perspective of death. We are all going to die; our lifespan is limited. That is the way it is. And yet we do our best to avoid death, and at almost any cost. While we accept the fact of death, we seldom talk about it. Now, in the 21st century, science is offering us...
The Golden Retriever
All That Glitters
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Everything you need to know about Golden Retrievers is here, from buying one to grooming, training, understanding the breed standard, breeding and health concerns.
The Consequences of Mobility
Reflexivity, Social Inequality and the Reproduction of Precariousness in Highly Qualified Migration
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing...
Cold-Water Corals
The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
There are more coral species in deep, cold-waters than in tropical coral reefs. This broad-ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water coral, covering their ecology, biology, palaeontology and geology. Beginning with a history of research in the field,...
by June H. Schmieder, Donald Cairns
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 1996
In sixteen case histories based on principals' real experiences, you will be confronted with a series of harsh, but realistic challenges to your administrative skills, professional and personal values, and courage. These case histories and related texts will help you identify, understand and internalize major skills that are essential in your work.
Journey Within
Transforming an Imperfect Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Journey Within is a testimony to the joy of self-discovery. The author shares with us personal insights into her own, often turbulent road to finding truth. From immigrating to Canada as a young child to struggling with a lack of connection to family and herself, she left Canada in hopes of burying...
Hellenistic Epigram
Contexts of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram, a field closely related to other Hellenistic poetry and highly influential upon Roman poetry. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic,...
Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry
Richest to the Richest
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.
Concentrating...
Rainbows in the Storm
Journey Through My Daughter’S Heart Transplant
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Rainbows in the Storm is an intimate and raw look into a mothers heart as she encounters the shocking diagnoses of two of her children with a terminal heart condition. You will journey with her while she desperately tries to find hope and courage among her pain as she faces some very unexpected circumstances....
The Life Puzzle
On Crystals and Organisms and on the Possibility of a Crystal as an Ancestor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
What is the origin of life? Molecular biology shows us one kind, but in thinking about it we must consider those generalised aspects of living organisation that are common to all conceivable forms of life. The author believes that only a combination of general biological theory and particular chemical...
Hannibal's Last Battle
Zama & the Fall of Carthage
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
A “crisply written, well researched . . . superb piece of scholarship about one of the most dramatic and decisive battles in the ancient world” (Journal of Military History).
At Zama (in what is now Tunisia) in 202 BC, the armies of two great empires clashed: the Romans under Scipio Africanus...
by Barbara Pini, Berit Brandth, Jo Little
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or...
Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
As Contrasted with Its Earlier and Later History
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
This broad-ranging work by an eminent nineteenth-century theologian contrasts the skepticism of the Age of Reason with that of earlier centuries, as well as his own. Based on a series of lectures, topics include polytheism, deism, Pascal, Voltaire, Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and many others—proving, among other points, that unbelief has passed from a defensive to an aggressive conviction.