List 1 of books by A B Martin

And Then, I Found You

by C.L. Foster, Jessica Surgett, Stina Rubio
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016

Relationships often suck... until we find that special someone that fits our lives just right. We clawed, we scratched, and we chomped at the bit for our own slice of the good life. Fights, misspoken words, hardships, battles, and other things made us feel like we weren't going to survive,...

The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education

An International Assessment of New Research and Theory

by Siikka Aapola, Jason Chang, A B. Dijkstra
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002

The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly...

Generation and Degeneration

Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe

by Elizabeth A. Clark, Dale B. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2001

This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies—in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, Generation and Degeneration moves from Greco-Roman...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach

by Wye J. Allanbrook, Gregory Butler, Eric Chafe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention...

Regime Resilience in Malaysia and Singapore

by Greg Lopez, Bridget Welsh, John Funston
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

Prominent scholars across the political divide and academic disciplines analyze how the dominant political parties in Malaysia and Singapore, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the People’s Action Party (PAP), have stayed in power. With a focus on developments in the last decade and...

Von Achtsamkeit bis Zuversicht

ABC des guten Lebens

by Gerd B. Achenbach, Prof. Regina Ammicht Quinn, Gottfried Bachl
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2017

Was ist ein gutes Leben? Was macht mein Leben einfacher, ohne es einzuschränken? Was tut mir gut, aber gleichzeitig auch anderen? Es sind bestimmte Werte, die sich in einer Einstellung, aber auch im Verhalten, im Tun ausdrücken. Welche das sein könnten, zeigt dieses Buch mit Themen wie Achtsamkeit...

Lexikon Raumphilosophie

by Stephan Günzel, Franziska Kümmerling, Kurt Röttgers
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ›spatial turn‹ der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ›linguistic turn‹, der das Gesicht der Philosophie...

Progress and Confusion

The State of Macroeconomic Policy

by Rafael Portillo, Paul A. Volcker, Viral V. Acharya
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”? What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist

Enduring Issues and Challenges

by Matthew M. Aid, Christopher M. Andrew, Michael R. Bromwich
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...

Das große Weihnachtsband: Weihnachtsgeschichten, Romane, Märchen & Sagen (Über 280 Titel in einem Buch)

Zusammen mit Weihnachtsgedichten (Die Heilige Nacht, Ihr Kinderlein kommet, Die Heilige Nacht, Nussknacker und Mäusekönig, Knecht Nikolaus, Der Schneider von Gloucester, Der Weihnachtsabend...)

by Charles Dickens, Selma Lagerlöf, Beatrix Potter
Language: German
Release Date: November 22, 2017

Wir haben Ihr Weihnachtsgeschenk für dieses Jahr früher vorbereitet und sind froh, Ihnen diese Sammlung der schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten präsentieren zu können: Die heil'gen Drei Könige (Heinrich Heine) Das Geschenk der Weisen (O.Henry) Nußknacker und Mausekönig (E.T.A Hoffman) Bergkristall...

Haïti. De la dictature à la démocratie?

by Étienne Tassin, Bérard Cénatus, Stéphane Douailler
Language: French
Release Date: February 16, 2016

Quels moyens l’État haïtien s’est-il donné de rendre justice et de surmonter les séquelles de la dictature? Rassemblés en 2014 pour en débattre, chercheurs et militants de tous les milieux (sciences politiques, philosophie, droit, anthropologie…) en discutent collectivement, librement,...

Best of Frauen-Erotik

69 frivole Fantasien

by Lena, Lee, Ina Stein
Language: German
Release Date: January 25, 2018

Best of weibliche Erotik! - 69 unterschiedliche Autorinnen haben uns ihre gehiemsten Sexfantasien geschildert, die wir in einem Sammelband it fast 900 Seiten zusammengefasst haben. Lesen Sie Storys zu vielen unterschiedlichen Themen, wie zum Beispiel: Voyeurismus, Sex im Büro, Hure aus Leidenschaft,...

Ending Poverty in America

How to Restore the American Dream

by Michael S. Barr, Jared Bernstein, Anita Brown-Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009

**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly). Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...

Die schönsten Weihnachts-Klassiker zur schönsten Zeit des Jahres: Über 280 Romane, Sagen, Märchen & Gedichte für die Weihnachtszeit (Illustrierte Ausgabe)

Book cover of Die schönsten Weihnachts-Klassiker zur schönsten Zeit des Jahres: Über 280 Romane, Sagen, Märchen & Gedichte für die Weihnachtszeit (Illustrierte Ausgabe)