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Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at...

The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...

What are the limits of justified retaliation against aggression? What actions are morally permissible in preventing future aggression? Against whom may retaliation be aimed? These questions have long been part of the debate over the ethics of warfare. They all took on new meaning after terrorists...

THE history of the present volume is soon told. I was engaged in collecting material for illustration of the migrations and transformations of Popular European Tales and Fictions, and, in the course of my researches, had occasion to consult the works of Sir William Jones, where meeting with his translation...

A werewolf story like no other. Peg, a racing greyhound, begins to transform, his mind and body expanding beyond his control. Refusing to race any more, he is sent to be `euthanised`, but fights his way out of a mass grave, to run away. He wanders into a seaside town, to be taken under the wing of...

The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement...

Flawed Thoughts & Imperfect Perspectives is a book intended to poetically express the ideas and feelings of many that are brought forth by way of a bold and unashamed writer, W.A. Gordon. The poems of this book explore several facets, centering tightly around the lives that many people live, but...

This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined...

*Note: SPARKS is prequel to the POINT-BLANK HEART-SLASHES Quintuplet; Short Story Poetry re Love, Deception, Compromise, Mediocrity, Reputation, Success, and Longing to Matter.* Yearning, longing, for love, for meaning, or for a new start, lead many to see need of a renewed mind, a purposeful...

This seminal volume, written by the principal author of the original report (Anthony W. Jackson) along with one of the main leaders in implementing its principles (Gayle A. Davis):Synthesizes crucial lessons learned from educators attempting to improve middle grades education across the country...

Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use of technology to organize and manage the assessment process and...

Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal forces and state actions brought about the region's one thousand two hundred institutions of higher learning in 15 western states.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.