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It Happened in Louisiana
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
True Tales from the Pelican State—from the longest Civil War battle to one of history’s worst man-made disasters
Louisiana is well known for its spicy gumbo, Cajun music, and horrific hurricanes, but few may know why Tarzan once swung through the piney woods, how an entrepreneur used a...
by Philip Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Providing an up-to-date and lucid presentation of phenomena across modern advanced-level solid state physics, this new edition builds on an elementary understanding to introduce students to the key research topics with the minimum of mathematics. It covers cutting-edge topics, including electron transport...
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Religion and Politics in America: An Encyclopedia of Church and State in American Life [2 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Church and State in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
There has always been an intricate relationship between religion and politics. This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelation of religion and politics from colonial days to the present.
• Enables readers to understand why religion and politics are necessarily interrelated
•...
Death Underground
The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
* Death Underground:* The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119...
by Mehmet Merdan Hekimoglu
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Law - Public Law / Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This Study concerns itself with the Turkish constitutional developments from Ottoman times to the present state of the modern Turkish Republic.In this way, the historical...
The Pariah Problem
Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception...
by Jeffrey J. Polet, David K. Ryden
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This thoroughly annotated document collection gives students and researchers an authoritative source for understanding the evolving political and legal relationship between church and state from colonial times to the present day.
• Presents a balanced, fact-based examination of the myths...
Fort Davis
Outpost on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history of Trans-Pecos Texas—the far western reaches off the state. Wooster traces the history of this Davis Mountains region from the days when Indians and later Spaniards...
by Kartik N. Shinde, S.J. Dhoble, H.C. Swart
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The idea for this book arose out of the realization that, although excellent surveys and a phosphor handbook are available, there is no single source covering the area of phosphate based phosphors especially for lamp industry. Moreover, as this field gets only limited attention in most general books...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The institutionalization of Islam in the West continues to raise many questions for a range of different constituencies. Secularization represents much more than the legal separation of politics and religion in Europe; for important segments of European societies, it has become the cultural norm....
by Mingzhong Wu, Axel Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This volume of Solid State Physics provides a broad review on recent advances in the field of magnetic insulators, ranging from new spin effects to thin film growth and high-frequency applications. It covers both theoretical and experimental progress. The topics include the use of magnetic insulators...
A Journey into Reciprocal Space
A Crystallographer's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The concept of reciprocal space is over 100 years old, and has been of particular use by crystallographers in order to understand the patterns of spots when x-rays are diffracted by crystals. However, it has a much more general use, especially in the physics of the solid state. In order to understand...
The Catholic Church in State Politics
Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political Realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
What role, if any, should religion play in politics? By what authority and methods does the Catholic Church apply its teachings to public policy discourse? How do Bishops and lay leaders work together in Catholic conferences, and how do they work with political leaders? What impact do they have?
The...
Crystal Symmetry, Lattice Vibrations and Optical Spectroscopy of Solids
A Group Theoretical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the two fundamental aspects of a solid that determine its physical properties: lattice structure and atomic vibrations (phonons). The elements of group theory are extensively developed and used as a tool to show how the symmetry of a solid and the vibrations...