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The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents
THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
By Washington Irving
THE GOLD-BUG
By Edgar Allan Poe
CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings")
By J. Fenimore Cooper
UNCLE JIM...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
Opening the Field of Practical Theology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Opening the Field of Practical Theology introduces students to practical theology through an examination of fifteen different approaches—ranging from feminist to liberationist, Roman Catholic to evangelical, Asian American to Latino/a.
After an introduction to the field of practical theology...
The Handbook of Financing Growth
Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
The Second Edition of The Handbook of Financing Growth has been designed to help leaders and advisors gain a solid understanding of the financing strategies, sources, and transactions that will allow them to excel in such an unpredictable environment.
Written by an experienced group of practitioners...
by Charles E. Ziegler, Reuel Hanks, Andrey A. Kazantsev
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in global politics. The region currently serves as the main route for transporting American and NATO supplies and personnel into Afghanistan. Its Turkic Muslim...
Genetics
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Farming across Borders
A Transnational History of the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution,...
by E. L. Houghton, P. W. Carpenter, Steven Collicott
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
Already one of the leading course texts on aerodynamics in the UK, the sixth edition welcomes a new US-based author team to keep the text current. The sixth edition has been revised to include the latest developments in compressible flow, computational fluid dynamics, and contemporary applications....
The Ethics of Animal Research
Exploring the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified.
An estimated 100 million nonhuman vertebrates worldwide—including primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, birds, rats, and mice—are bred, captured, or otherwise acquired every year...
Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education
Vygotskian Praxis and the Research/Practice Divide
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Explicating clearly and concisely the full implication of a praxis-oriented language pedagogy, this book argues for an approach to language teaching grounded in a significant scientific theory of human learning—a stance that rejects the consumer approach to theory and the dichotomy between theory...
by Martín E.P. Seligman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Aprende a detectar la aparición de actitudes pesimistas y, sobre todo, cómo combatirlas.
Esta obra define las raíces del optimismo en el niño, enseña a detectar la aparición de actitudes pesimistas y, sobre todo, muestra cómo combatirlas con un programa que fomenta la autoestima a través...
What You Can Change . . . and What You Can't*
The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
In the climate of self-improvement that pervades our culture, there is an overwhelming amount of information about treatments for everything from alcohol abuse to sexual dysfunction. Much of this information is exaggerated if not wholly inaccurate. As a result, people who try to change their own troubling...