E Victoria: 53 books
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
Hope Haven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Sixteen-year-old Lauren Harts summer is shaping up to be a first-rate disaster. Even after she asks God to make things the way they used to be, Laurens reality is still as harsh as ever. Her parents are separated, and now she has to help care for her terminally ill grandma. Just as Lauren wonders...
Dread Naught but Time
Scribes Divided Anthology, Vol 2: Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The unshakable specter of Time hovers over each of the 26 tales in Scribes Divided’s second anthology. Brought to you by a collective of accomplished authors from nearly every time zone across the world, these timeless stories inspire, terrify, delight, and explore that most human of shared experiences:...
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada
From Boys to Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Great Depression of the 1930s had a devastating impact on sparsely populated Nevada and its two major industries, mining and agriculture. Luckily, thanks to Nevada’s powerful Senate delegation, Roosevelt’s New Deal funding flowed abundantly into the state. Among the programs thus supported...
Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia
Mutual Representations in Academic Projects
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...
by Victoria E. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The United Nations has called violence against women "the most pervasive, yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world" and there is a long-established history of the systematic victimization of women by the state during times of peace and conflict. This book contributes to the established...
Screening the Nonhuman
Representations of Animal Others in the Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as...
All Aboard for Santa Fe
Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
By the late 1800s, the major mode of transportation for travelers to the Southwest was by rail. In 1878, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) became the first railroad to enter New Mexico, and by the late 1890s it controlled more than half of the track-miles in the Territory....
Beyond the DSM Story
Ethical Quandaries, Challenges, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Beyond the DSM Story presents challenges to the Diagnostic Statistical Model (DSM) system from ethical and cultural perspectives, critically evaluating its fit with other professional and theoretical orientations. It offers possible solutions or best practices for addressing ethical, theoretical,...
Russia at the Barricades: Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 Coup
Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 Coup
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
What does the Congress do? How does it do it? Is the Congress up to the challenges ahead? This primer offers students an introduction to Congress and the role it plays in the US political system. It explores the different political natures of the House and Senate, and examines Congress's interaction with other branches of the Federal government.
Martial's Rome
Empire and the Ideology of Epigram
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
This provocative book is a major contribution to our understanding of Martial's poetics, his vision of the relationship between art and reality, and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome. The study shows how on every scale from the microscopic to the cosmic, Martial displays epigram's...
Los otros muertos
Las víctimas civiles del terrorismo guerrillero de los 70
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Historias de las víctimas civiles de las organizaciones guerrilleras en los 70 en la Argentina. Lista de muertos, heridos y secuestrados.
Juan tenía tres años cuando murió en medio de la balacera de un
operativo montonero. Andrea tenía diez años cuando una bomba activada a
distancia por...
The silenced dead
The civilian victims of Argentina's terrorist guerrillas in the 1970s
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Silenced Dead is an invaluable contribution to filling a substantial gap in the memory picture of our recent past and to putting an end to the conversion of crime into an archetype of good.
Juan was only three years old when he was killed in a barrage of gunfire unleashed by Montoneros...
Examining Millennials Reshaping Organizational Cultures
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
In From Theory to Practice: Examining Millennials Reshaping Organizational Cultures, contributors to the collection focus on several interrelated issues. They examine the ways in which the members of the millennial generation influence how we work and communicate with our millennial students, colleagues...