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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
The ‘Great Pedestrian' of North and South America
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Cabeza de Vaca’s mode of transportation, afoot on portions of two continents in the early decades of the sixteenth century, fits one dictionary definition of the word “pedestrian.” By no means, however, should the ancillary meanings of “commonplace” or “prosaic” be applied to the...
by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.
The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Instrument Flying
10 Indispensable Principles to Know and Remember
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Written by an instrument instructor for instrument pilots Instrument Flying offers fresh insight into—and distinct ways to remember—10 specific principles designed to calibrate your thinking and lead to safer, better-managed, and less stressful flights. Validated by a cadre of distinguished instructors...
Enhanced Interrogation
Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qa'ida leaders and terror suspects.
A civilian contractor who had spent years training U.S. military members to resist...
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.
Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation’s religious landscape has been reshaped.
America has experienced...
by Susan E. King, Thomas D. Hamm
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Founded by Quakers from North Carolina more than 200 years ago, Richmond boasts a rich and colorful history. White and black migrants from older parts of the United States joined emigrants from Ireland and Germany to create a diverse, flourishing, and at times contentious community. Railroads, the...
by E.D. (attributed to Edmund Dumoulin), Locus Elm Press (editor), Charles Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
At last, the chemise flew over her head, and Lady Flashington remained almost naked..., in the arms of a lustful valet, who was exploring every corner of her charms without his master thinking of stopping him. He pulled off her shoes, then her pearl-grey silk stockings, and when the noble lady was...
by Constance L. McCart Ed.D., Friends of the Margaret E. Heggan Free Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Washington Township, now the largest community in Gloucester County, was first incorporated in 1836. Its 22 acres of land, however, had been settled by Europeans as early as the 18th century, when farms were established near Lenni-Lenape encampments. By the mid-19th century, the area listed the communities...
犯罪人格剖繪檔案
Inside the Criminal Mind
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 2, 2017
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by Elisabeth Hollister Sandberg, Becky L. Spritz, Malorie L. Dimler
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The number of intervention options available for children with autism can be overwhelming for parents. This book provides brief, user-friendly descriptions of the most commonly publicized treatments for autism, summarizing the available information in an objective and accessible way.
Each short...
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...
What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know (Revised and updated)
Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
With its comprehensive curriculum providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of math, art, history, language arts, science, and technology, the phenomenally successful Core Knowledge series has become an esteemed tool for parents and teachers striving to better educate today's children. And since...