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Caddo Connections
Cultural Interactions within and beyond the Caddo World
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Drawing on the latest archaeological fieldwork, Caddo Connections looks at the highly dynamic cultural landscape of the Caddo Area and its complex interconnections and exchanges with surrounding regions.
The authors employ a multiscalar approach to examine cultural diversity through time and...
Family Resilience in the Military
Definitions, Models, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Most leaders in the Department of Defense (DoD) agree that family resilience is an important construct, yet DoD does not have a standard definition. The authors of this report review existing definitions of family resilience and offer a candidate definition for DoD use. They also review models of...
by JoAnn Fagot Aviel, Lincoln Bizzozero, Elsa Cardozo da Silva
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual,...
Guidelines for Laboratory Design
Health, Safety, and Environmental Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations
Now in its Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Laboratory Design continues to enable readers to design labs that make it possible to conduct scientific investigations in a safe and healthy environment. The book brings...
by Krishnan K. Sankaran, Rajiv S. Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Metallurgy and Design of Alloys with Hierarchical Microstructures covers the fundamentals of processing-microstructure-property relationships and how multiple properties are balanced and optimized in materials with hierarchical microstructures widely used in critical applications. The discussion is...
by Dr. S. K. Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
The book throws ample light on the use of Homeopathic Medicines for the treatment of various diseases including Blood Dyscrasias.
The main purpose of writing this book is to enable a general reader to treat some of the cases at home, without much expense of time and money, thereby sparing...
The New World (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful monarchies, the English Civil War, and the colonization of the new world. In this, the second...
Libation
An Afrikan Ritual of Heritage in the Circle of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a liquid offering by and behalf of all humanity, those living and those yet-to-be-born, to the Creator, to other...
The New World (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries England underwent a startling series of transformations. The turbulent reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts witnessed the Protestant Reformation, the growth of powerful monarchies,...
The Birth of Britain (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Birth of Britain is the first volume of A History of the English Speaking Peoples, the immensely popular and eminently readable four-volume work by Winston Churchill. A rousing account of the early history of Britain,...
Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640
Eating to Impress
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system.
Examining...
by John Polkinghorne, F.R.S., K.B.E.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Do we live in a world that makes sense, not just now, but totally and forever? If, as scientists now predict, the universe is going to end in collapse or decay, can it really be a divine creation? Is there a credible hope of a destiny beyond death? In this engaging and intellectually scrupulous book,...
Science and the Trinity
The Christian Encounter with Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Most often, the dialogue between religion and science is initiated by the discoveries of modern science-big bang cosmology, evolution, or quantum theory, for example. In this book, scientist-theologian John Polkinghorne changes the discussion. He approaches the dialogue from a little-explored perspective...
by S.K.Ayertey
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
A modern African story of great power and insight.The story of a man and his people embracing both personal and group pressure and growth, in a changing world.