Irene: 1253 books
The Spectacular City
Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city’s outskirts only to find that the rights of citizens—basic rights of property and security, especially protection from...
Hall of Mirrors
Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2003
Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo were...
Smoldering Ashes
Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged...
Domination without Dominance
Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas, Gonzalo Lamana both examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. Lamana focuses on a key moment of transition: the years that bridged the first contact between Spanish conquistadores...
Blood and Fire
La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period of terror, known as la Violencia, is the subject of Blood and Fire. Scholars have traditionally assumed...
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Reviews latest research on zoonoses affecting poultry meat such as Salmonella and Campylobacter as well as methods for their control on the poultry farm and in the slaughterhouse
Summarises advances in understanding and optimising poultry quality traits such as flavour, colour, tenderness, shelf life...
by David Holton, Peter Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Greek: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to modern Greek. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language in short, readable sections. Explanations are clear and supported by examples throughout.
This new edition has been revised and updated...
Against War
Views from the Underside of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish...
Basic Spanish
A Grammar and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Presenting twenty individual grammar points in lively and realistic contexts, Basic Spanish is an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in one, easy to follow volume. Beginning with the simpler aspects of Spanish and progressing on to more complex areas, each chapter contains grammar...
by Irene Smit, Astrid van der Hulst, Editors of Flow magazine
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A perfect gift book filled with whimsical, colorful illustrations, short lists, cheerful prompts, recipes, and fun facts, The Tiny Book of Tiny Pleasures is the sweetest reminder imaginable that it’s the little things in life that make us happy. Little things like sharing tea with a friend. An ice...
by Irene Mcewen
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Occupational and Physical Therapy in Educational Environments covers the major issues involved in providing lawful, team-oriented, and effective occupational and physical therapy services for students with disabilities in public schools. For those involved with students with disabilities, this book...
by Irene Nowell OSB
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
These three colorful books offer gripping stories of how God shows his mercy and accomplishes his will through human actions. Jonah is a reluctant prophet who must be swallowed by a whale before he delivers his message to Israel's ancient enemies at Nineveh that they must repent or face doom. Tobit...
by Irene Nowell OSB
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
It is not possible to tell the story of Abraham’s descendants without taking note of how God’s plan unfolded in the lives of Sarah and Hagar. The best laid plans and the unexpected converge as these two women respond to God’s promises.
Deconstructing the Bible
Abraham ibn Ezra's Introduction to the Torah
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Deconstructing the Bible represents the first attempt by a single author to place the great Spanish Jewish Hebrew bible exegete, philosopher, poet, astronomer, astrologer and scientist Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) in his complete contextual environment. It charts his unusual travels and discusses...