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Texas Women
Their Histories, Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories...
In Her Words
Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
During her lifetime, Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry,...
by Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, Cary C Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples....
Leading in Times of Crisis
Navigating Through Complexity, Diversity and Uncertainty to Save Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Praise for Leading in Times of Crisis
"Building on the solid base of their book Head, Heart, and Guts, Dotlich, Cairo, and Rhinesmith lay out the ways to become the kind of leader needed to navigate through today's complexities and uncertainties. Leading in Times of Crisis is a necessary...
Psychology for Musicians : Understanding and Acquiring the Skills
Understanding and Acquiring the Skills
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2007
What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners advanced music makers and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that...
by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
We shall be able to follow the story of Daniel Boone with a better understanding if, before entering upon it, we take a brief survey of the country in which his entire life was passed and the people among whom he lived—the American backwoods and the American backwoodsmen.
At the outbreak...
Oliver Cromwell
And the Rule of the Puritans in England
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Sir Charles Firth’s biography of Oliver Cromwell portrays a man who was ‘both soldier and statesman in one’, a man of ‘a large-hearted, expansive vigorous nature’, one who always invokes the might of God to explain his very human acts of revenge and justice.
Frith describes the years...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IV
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric's invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before Alaric heard the voice that drew him steadily towards Rome. The frontier war along the limes was...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VII
The Prophet Mohammed and the Islamic Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
OUR knowledge of Mahomet, his life and his teaching, is derived entirely from documents which have been handed down by Muslims; no contemporary non-Muslim account is extant, and the testimony of later non-Muslim writers has as little claim to consideration as the statements in the Talmud concerning...
by Lowell H. Harrison, James C. Klotter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, from Pikeville to the Purchase, from Covington to Corbin, this account reveals Kentucky's many faces...
by John C.H. Wu, Lao Tse
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 12, 2018
El Tao Te Ching, de más de 2.000 años de antigüedad, es uno de los ejes referenciales del pensamiento oriental. Atribuido a Lao Tse, del cual se dice que estuvo meditando durante 80 años en el vientre de su madre virgen antes de decidirse a nacer, consta de 81 apartados compuestos de máximas...
by Willis John Abbot, H. W. McVicar, W. C. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
With the capture of the Chesapeake in June, 1813, we abandoned our story of the naval events along the coast of the United States, to follow Capt. Porter and his daring seamen on their long cruise into far-off seas. But while the men of the Essex were capturing whalers in the Pacific, chastising insolent...
Disentangling Consciencism
Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Kwame Nkrumah is globally recognized as a foremost pan-Africanist strategist and statesman. He is less widely acknowledged as a philosopher, in spite of his considerable philosophical training, seminal contribution to African political theory, and incisive critique of the ethics of international relations....