Nina M: 60 books
The Oneness Hypothesis
Beyond the Boundary of Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
The Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Since 1948 when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all students have been declared the right to education. The rights of disabled students have not been explicitly addressed, however, and each country has developed their own rules and regulations. Although similarities...
by Erkki Tomppo, Juha Heikkinen, Helena M. Henttonen
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2011
This book demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996–2003): the planning of the sampling design, measurements, estimation methods and results. The inventory knowledge accumulated during almost one hundred years is consolidated in the book. The purpose...
Magic Sex 2
36 x Lustgefühle
Language: German
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Scharf, tabulos einfach magisch! Wer träumt wohl nicht von so einzigartigen Sex-Erlebnissen, die einem den Atem rauben vor lüsterner Begierde? Genau davon erzählen diese 36 Storys: heimlicher Mittagspausen-Sex mit der scharfen Kollegin, ein lustvoller Seitensprung, wilde Lesbenspiele unter der Dusche, Gang Bang, exotische Sex-Techniken und vieles mehr!
The Necessary Revolution
How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally...
by Lightbown, Patsy M., Spada
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Teachers are often told that new teaching methods and materials are 'based on the latest research'. But what does this mean in practice? This book introduces you to some of the language acquisition research that will help you not just to evaluate existing materials, but also to adapt and use them in a way that fits what we currently understand about how languages are learned.
Between Slavery and Freedom
Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In Between Slavery and Freedom, Julie Winch explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the “borderlands” between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the...
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or...
by Neil A. Wynn, Jacqueline M. Moore, Nina Mjagkij
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development...
Enjoy the Same Liberty
Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking a question that blacks have raised since the Revolution: What does the revolutionary promise of freedom and democracy mean for African Americans? Countryman, a Bancroft...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
A. Philip Randolph
A Life in the Vanguard
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim Crow...
The Emperor Redressed
Critiquing Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
There have been signs now, for some time, that poststructuralist hegemony is declining. This book helps us to understand the theoretical flaws that make this decline inevitable.
The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy,...