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A Panoramic Portrait of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
See America with 50 of Our Finest, Funniest, and Foremost Writers Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey
Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1
Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota
Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by...
How Barack Obama Won
A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
This detailed overview and analysis of the results of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential wingives us the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, and allows us to see where the country stood four years ago.
Although much has changed in the nearly four years since,...
Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
Confederate Governor and United States Senator
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 1931, when the Nashville Banner conducted a survey to determine the "Greatest Tennesseans" to date, the state's Confederate "War Governor," Isham G. Harris (1818--1897), ranked tenth on the list, behind such famous Tennesseans as Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson,...
by Rino Micheloni, Alessia Marelli, Kam Eshghi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are gaining momentum in enterprise and client applications, replacing Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) by offering higher performance and lower power. In the enterprise, developers of data center server and storage systems have seen CPU performance growing exponentially for the past...
Religion in the Neoliberal Age
Political Economy and Modes of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book, together with a complementary volume 'Religion in Consumer Society', focuses on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion. Claiming that we are entering a new phase of state-religion relations,...
Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism
The Church Rate Conflict in England and Wales 1852–1868
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1994
This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called "church rates" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax required of all ratepayers, regardless of denomination, for the upkeep of parish...
by Giuseppe Grosso, Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Solid State Physics is a textbook for students of physics, material science, chemistry, and engineering. It is the state-of-the-art presentation of the theoretical foundations and application of the quantum structure of matter and materials.
This second edition provides timely coverage of the...
by Giuseppe Grosso, Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini, Giuseppe Grosso
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2000
Although there are many books published in solid state physics, there is a wide gap between the active field of research and the concepts
traditionally taught in solid state courses. This book fills that gap. The style is tutorial, simple, and completely self-contained.
Solid State Physicsexplains...
Arkansas History
A Journey through Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Arkansas History: A Journey through Time—The Growth of the Twenty-Fifth State of the Union from 1833 to 1957 places in the hands of students and teachers a curated compilation of excerpts from original sources that tell the story of Arkansas from the founding efforts of the first advocates for...
by Lori Baird, Marcel Brousseau, Amber Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Take an eye-opening tour of America by flipping through each state’s informative guide to facts, geography, and interesting history.
What was the last state to join the Union? What does the state quarter for Alabama look like? What is the state bird of Texas? All the answers are contained...
The Impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock
Judicial Independence and Civic Populism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
At this juncture in American history, some of our most hard-fought state-level political struggles involve control of state supreme courts. New Hampshire witnessed one of the most dramatic of these, culminating in the impeachment of Chief Justice David Brock in 2000, but the issues raised by the case...
The Second Disestablishment
Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century. Left undiscussed is the long period between the ratification of the Constitution and the 1947 Supreme Court ruling in Everson v. Board of Education, which...
A Century of Controversy
Constitutional Reform in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution will serve as an indispensable guide for legislators and citizens considering reform of the outdated document.
Alabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most,...
by Robert L. Stamps, Robert E. Camley
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Solid state physics is the branch of physics primarily devoted to the study of matter in its solid phase, especially at the atomic level. This prestigious serial presents timely and state-of-the-art reviews pertaining to all aspects of solid state physics.
Contributions from leading authorities
Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field