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Death on an Autumn River
Akitada Mysteries, #9
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
On a journey to Naniwa to unmask officials who are selling information to pirates, Akitada witnesses the recovery of a body from the river. The image of the drowned child prostitute follows him as his own problems and disasters multiply. Someone is sabotaging his investigation. His young clerk disappears,...
The Hell Screen
Akitada Mysteries, #5
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
After a posting to the northern provinces, Akitada hurries to the deathbed of his mother in the capital. On the road, he spends the night in a monastery where he sees a painted hell screen. The realistic depictions of tortured men, women, and children haunt his dreams until he wakes to a scream. ...
The Nuns of Nara
Akitada mysteries, #19
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
The nuns of one of the Nara temples have misplaced an imperial concubine. Concerned about her well-being, the emperor dispatches Akitada to find her. Akitada decides to take along his new wife, hoping to combine a trivial matter with a belated honeymoon. Alas, murder intervenes. An old man dies in...
Advertising Worldwide
Advertising Conditions in Selected Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
This book addresses the following questions: What are the social, cultural or religious particularities of advertising and advertising practices? Are there any taboos? What about legal restrictions? How is the advertising infrastructure? Are there any institutions, federations or boards of advertising?...
![Book cover of The Mediterranean and Middle East: Volume I The Early Successes Against Italy (To May 1941) [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2014/august/300x300/9781782895589-Gmiw_300x.jpg)
by Major-General I.S.O. Playfair C.B. D.S.O. M.C., Commander G.M.S. Stitt R.N., Brigadier C. J. C. Molony
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 30 maps and 40 photos.
“Britain defeats Italy on land and sea in Africa and the Mediterranean in 1940.
“The first of eight volumes in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War covering the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres. After setting the political...
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Reviews latest research on zoonoses affecting poultry meat such as Salmonella and Campylobacter as well as methods for their control on the poultry farm and in the slaughterhouse
Summarises advances in understanding and optimising poultry quality traits such as flavour, colour, tenderness, shelf life...
by I.J. Singer
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Decisamente, il piccolo Yehoshua non è portato per la santità: le preghiere infinite del padre, i libri di morale della madre, l'onnipresenza della Torah che pesa «come un macigno» sulla sua famiglia, quel mondo in cui è attribuita più verità alle fiamme dell'inferno che alla natura circostante...
by I.J. Singer
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Sono tutte in lacrime, le cameriere ebree del Praga, alla vigilia delle nozze del padrone: certo, hanno sempre saputo che lui andava a letto con tutte, «eppure ognuna era convinta in cuor suo che con lei si sarebbe comportato in modo diverso ... l'avrebbe portata via dalla cucina per sistemarla dietro...
The American Civil War on Film and TV
Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes...
Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized
Preventive Diplomacy in the PostDCold War World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
The basic logic of preventive diplomacy is unassailable. Act early to prevent disputes from escalating; reduce tensions that could lead to war; deal with today's conflicts before they become tomorrow's crises. Yet as we look at the record of these first years of the post-Cold War era, it is quite...
The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom
Conceptualizing, Writing, and Defending the Dissertation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
Party Government in 48 Democracies (1945–1998)
Composition — Duration — Personnel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Since the 1980s, political scientists have developed a renewed interest in the study of political institutions, based on the assumption that "institutions matter" -that is, that formal governmental institutions and constitutional-legal rules (as well as informal institutions like parties...
Handbook of Democratic Government
Party Government in 20 Democracies (1945–1990)
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Handbook of Democratic Government is the first compact and comprehensive data collection for 20 countries which simultaneously provides comparative and complete information on the composition of governments. Parties, ministries, portfolios, ministers and parliamentary support are listed, as well...
by Keith Kahn-Harris, Deena Weinstein, Esther Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical...