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by Mara Murphy, Anna Branning, Dutch Door Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This enchanting tour of America's most cherished birds and flowers is an intimate collection of lovely images from beloved letterpress studio Dutch Door Press. Each state's emblematic flora and fauna are paired in winsome vintage-inspired compositions and accompanied by fascinating facts about the...
Hybrid Nanocomposites for Nanotechnology
Electronic, Optical, Magnetic and Biomedical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
This book covers the latest advances in polymer-inorganic nanocomposites, with particular focus on high-added-value applications in fields including electronics, optics, magnetism and biotechnology. The unique focus of this book is on electronic, optical, magnetic and biomedical applications of hybrid...
The Missing Martyrs
Why Are There So Few Muslim Terrorists?
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem counterintuitive, in light of the death and...
Myths and Mysteries of Kansas
True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
This selection of twelve stories from Kansas's past explores some of the Sunflower State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Within These Walls
Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Have you been brainwashed? Who is in control of your life? What is religion? Discover the answers to these questions and many more in Within These Walls, an explosive new expos by author Alan Morrison.
Within These Walls reveals how the twin pillars of societythe church and the statework in...
Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams
Montana Women's Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Ruth Garfield was a ranching wife. Her husband had just been elected to a second term as sheriff of newly created Golden Valley County in 1920 when he was fatally shot. Mrs. Garfield set aside her grief to assist the community and serve out her husband’s term. She was Montana’s first female sheriff.
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by James R. Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Trace the history of Illinois and its legal systemspecifically the Fifth Judicial Circuitwith this historical account written by one of the circuits judges. The circuit was created in 1897 and consists of Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar, and Vermilion Counties. Its judges have sorted through complicated...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state,...
Shot in Alabama
A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Shot in Alabama by Frances Osborn Robb is a visual and textual narrative of Alabama’s photographic history from 1839 to 1941. It describes the phenomenon of photography as practiced in Alabama as a major cultural force, paying close attention to the particular contexts from which each image emerges...
by Prasanta Misra
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Physics of Condensed Matter is designed for a two-semester graduate course on condensed matter physics for students in physics and materials science. While the book offers fundamental ideas and topic areas of condensed matter physics, it also includes many recent topics of interest on which graduate...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, linked URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student casenotes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of Developments in the Law. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It...
Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts
Historic and Ethnographic Case Studies of Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Alternative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and sociopolitical balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By taking...
Soft Force
Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country’s public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these women—including...