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Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Damn Dutch
Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
This is the first work to highlight the contributions of regiments of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the post-1820 immigrant Germans at the Battle of Gettysburg. On the first day, the 1st Corps, in which many of the Pennsylvania Dutch groups served, and the half-German 11th Corps, which had five regiments...
Geological Hazards
Earthquakes - Tsunamis - Volcanoes - Avalanches - Landslides - Floods
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Growth of population, communication and interdependence among countries has sharpened the impact of natural disasters. Not only have calamities and miseries been given wider publicity, but the realization has grown that through rational study and foresight much can be done to mitigate these hazards...
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
Establishing a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
During the second half of the 19th century several forces in the United States, Latin America, and Europe converged to set the stage for the establishment of a more permanent relationship between the United States and Latin America. The key factors--security, economics, and modernization--created...
by Pinar Enneli, Canan Aslan Akman, Elçin Aktoprak
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Globalisation and neo-liberalism have been impacting the nation-state and leading the full citizenship concept into crisis, not only in Turkey but also in the world. While one reason for this crisis is the decline of the welfare state, another reason stems from the fluidity of borders that distorts...
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze...
by Shadia B. Drury, Jon Fennell, Tim McDonough
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss' work is the first devoted to Strauss' thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views on the importance of revelation, his critique of...
by B. Buchan, L. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and conceptual analysis of corruption which demonstrates a persistent oscillation between restrictive 'public office' and expansive 'degenerative' connotations of corruption from classical Antiquity to 1800.
by B. G. Jefferis And J. L. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Viewpoints on Media Effects
Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family
How to Eat, How to Raise Good Eaters, How to Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family takes a leadership role in the grassroots movement back to the family table. More a cooking primer than a cookbook, this book encourages singles, couples, and families with children to go to the trouble of feeding themselves well. Satter uses simple,...
by Rebecca Pierce, JK Allen, A.L. Mabry
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
**"What if?"
It's something people love to ponder. Now, OWS Ink has asked the question, "What if Cinderella was a little bit different?"
A different type woman? A different shoe size? A different type of hero? Or maybe a villain? What if she was never even a human?
And our authors...
Svatantrika-Prasangika Distinction
What Difference Does a Difference Make?
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Madhyamaka, or "Middle Way," philosophy came to Tibet from India and became the basis of all of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetans, however, differentiated two streams of Madhyamaka philosophy--Svatantrika and Prasangika. In this collection, leading scholars in the field address the distinction on various...
Integral, Measure and Derivative
A Unified Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This graduate-level textbook and monograph defines the functions of a real variable through consistent use of the Daniell scheme, offering a rare and useful alternative to customary approaches. The treatment can be understood by any reader with a solid background in advanced calculus, and it features...