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The Tapestry of Culture
An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The most exciting thing about anthropology is that it enables the student to become acquainted with people of different cultures. The Tapestry of Culture provides the student with the basic concepts necessary to understand these different cultures while showing that cultural variations occur within...
The Tapestry of Culture
An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology provides students and the interested public with a concise picture of the field of cultural anthropology today. From the first edition of Tapestry of Culture published in the early 1980s until now, anthropology has changed greatly,...
Mitokh HaOhel: Torah Reading
Essays on the Weekly Torah Reading
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The rabbis and professors of Yeshiva University have come together in two volumes of Mitokh Ha-Ohel (Within the Tent) to present scholarly and insightful essays on the weekly Torah and Haftara readings. Edited by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern, Mitokh Ha-Ohel offers the insightful and...
Writing Teresa
The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s...
But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?
Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Q. Is it “happy medium” or “happy median”? My author writes: “We would all be much better served as stewards of finite public funds if we could find that happy median where trust reigns supreme.” Thanks!
A. The idiom is “happy medium,” but I like the image of commuters taking refuge...
Student Assessment in Higher Education
A Handbook for Assessing Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This text provides higher education teachers with an overview of the many approaches to setting, marking and reviewing coursework, assignments, tests and examinations used in programmes for certificates, diplomas, first degrees or higher degrees. It discusses the influence of each on students.
Ethnographic Archaeologies
Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Ethnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative...
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This first issue of 2012 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and education scholars, including an extensive Symposium on understanding education and its issues of policy and law in the United States. Topics include economic structures in education, teaching patriotism,...
by Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The WTO dispute settlement system has become one of the most dynamic, effective and successful international dispute settlement systems in the world over the past twenty years. This second edition of A Handbook on the WTO Dispute Settlement System has been compiled by the dispute settlement lawyers...
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This first issue of 2013 features articles from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars of immigration and emigration, including an extensive Symposium on immigration and its issues of policy, law, administrative process, and institutional design in the United States.
Topics include...
The Second Savor the South® Cookbooks, 10 Volume Omnibus E-book
Includes Shrimp, Gumbo, Catfish, Crabs & Oysters, Beans & Field Peas, Sunday Dinner, Greens, Barbecue, Bacon, and Chicken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Each little cookbook in our SAVOR THE SOUTH® collection is a big celebration of a beloved food or tradition of the American South. From shrimp to gumbo, bacon to chicken, one by one SAVOR THE SOUTH® cookbooks will stock a kitchen shelf with the flavors and culinary wisdom of this popular American...
Mitokh HaOhel: Weekday Prayers
Essays on the Weekday Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The rabbis and professors of Yeshiva University come together the latest volume of Mitokh Ha-Ohel (Within the Tent) to present scholarly and insightful essays on the weekday prayers. Edited by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, Mitokh Ha-Ohel offers the insightful and varied perspectives...
Americans Abroad
A Comparative Study of Emigrants from the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
An American college student traveling around Europe on a bicycle with two friends arrived at a recent July 4th celebration in Moscow and remarked, "We've been traveling around Europe and Russia for almost a month now. I never thought I'd be saying this, but I never wanted to see and hear Americans...
by Monash University - International Student Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Handbook for international students.This publication is designed specifically for international students enrolling at Monash University in Australia.