Maria: 6239 books
New Earth Politics
Essays from the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress.
Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social...
Yo Soy Negro
Blackness in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English--in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades--to address what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the country and informed by more than eighty interviews with Peruvians of African descent, this groundbreaking...
I Lived on the Other Side of the Line
The Civil Rights Era Through the Eyes of a Child: the Road to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Chunchula, Alabama, was no different than any other small, rural community in the 1960s. There was a divide between whites and blacks, and the civil rights movement played a role in the lives of all its residents. In I Lived on the Other Side of the Line, author Carlotta Maria Shinn Russell describes...
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and...
Information, Power, and Politics
Technological and Institutional Mediations
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) comes the potential both for new social and economic equalities and new forms of inequalities. Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates that ICTs can act as an impetus for democratizing...
Explorers of the Infinite
The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes-and What They Reveal About Near-D eath Experiences, Psychic Communication, and Touching the Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
Real-life psychic, near-death, and paranormal experiences are combined with cutting-edge science and vivid adventure stories in this energetic look at why extreme athletes and mountaineers take the risks that allow them to push the limits of consciousness, and what they encounter there.
In...
Origini - XXXIX
Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche - Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
THIS ISSUE CONTAINS THE ROLE OF BURINS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH ART THROUGH TRACE ANALYSIS AT THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC SITE OF POLESINI CAVE (LATIUM, ITALY) Flavia Venditti, Cristina Lemorini, Magda Bordigoni, Daniela Zampetti, Mario Amore, Antonio Tagliacozzo THE STATE OF THE LATE NEOLITHIC POTTERY...
by Maria Fiallos
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This guidebook by Maria Fiallos is the best coverage of Honduras available. All the dive sites, all the restaurants, and all the hotels from budget to luxury. The author is a real expert, and the information is fresh and complete. -- Melanie, Amazon reviewer A great new resource --Travel + Leisure ...
by Maria Fiallos
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This guidebook by Maria Fiallos is the best coverage of Honduras available. All the dive sites, all the restaurants, and all the hotels from budget to luxury. The author is a real expert, and the information is fresh and complete. -- Melanie, Amazon reviewer A great new resource --Travel + Leisure ...
The Little Black Book of Boston, 2013 edition
The Essential Guide to the Heart of New England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
2013 edition. Explore ''America's Original City,'' from historical sites to new landmarks; from buzzworthy nightclubs to walkable Downtown. Cambridge, suburbs, and excursions covered, too! Author Maria Olia is a regular contributor to both major Boston newspapers, and to Mobil Travel's Boston City Guide.*...
by Hilary Smith, Maria Oleynik
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Now into its fifth edition, Bradt's Iran continues to provide the most detailed background, history and cultural information available when visiting this 'Jewel of Central Asia'. This new edition has been thoroughly reviewed to provide all the latest information, from updated history and cultural...
by Maria Botchkareva
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
This book tells the extraordinary story of Maria Botchkareva "Yashka", a peasant girl grown up in Siberia, who at the outbreak of First World War asked and obtained to enlist in the Russian army: not to be one of the many Red Cross nurses, but to be a soldier and fight.
Yashka fought and...
Pausanias
Travel Writing in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments...
by Maria José Tirado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 22, 2017
• Segundo libro de la serie “Corazones de acero”, finalista del premio Titania 2016.
• Maria José Tirado sorprende de nuevo con una novela arriesgada y trepidante, relacionada con el espionaje y las patentes farmacéuticas, en torno al mundo de los Navy Seals y la cultura de los indios americanos.
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