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by B. J. Smith, G M Phillips, M Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Matt King, Michael Moats, Matthew J. King
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
More sulfuric acid is produced every year than any other chemical. It has a wide range of uses including phosphate fertilizer production, explosives, glue, wood preservatives, and lead-acid batteries. It is also a particularily corrosive and dangerous acid, with extreme environmental and health hazards...
Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales
The Phantom of the Opera, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Turn of the Screw, The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, A Haunted Island, Black Magic, The Beetle, The Picture of Dorian Gray…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental…...
Dalit Women Speak Out
Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
“Women always face violence from men. Equality is only preached, but not put into practice. Dalit women face more violence every day, and they will continue to do so until society changes and accepts them as equals.” — Bharati from Andra Pradesh The right to equality regardless of gender and caste...
In/visible War
The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between...
Neighborhoods and Crime
The Dimensions of Effective Community Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2002
This book is an excellent resource in examining the influence that community control can have on crime.
by Erik Velásquez García, Enrique Nalda, Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Esta obra sigue los pasos de la Historia general de México, publicada por vez primera en 1976 bajo la dirección de Daniel Cosío Villegas, pero es a la vez una renovación completa de aquel proyecto original como resultado de los cambios sustanciales que ha sufrido el panorama historiográfico en...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
by G. J. Koch
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Captain Alexander Outland of the Sixty-Nine (short for Space Vessel 369, of course) is the best pilot in the galaxy. He’s also a pirate, a smuggler, and loved and loathed by women in umpteen solar systems. His crew of strays and misfits includes an engineer of dubious sanity, a deposed planetary...
by J. Scott Coatsworth, B.G. Thomas, Jamie Fessenden
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States made a monumental decision, and at long last, marriage equality became the law of the land. That ruling made history, and now gay and lesbian Americans will grow up in a country where they will never be denied the right to marry the person they...
by Stephen G. Myers, Michael J. Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
As a growing city on Lake Erie, Buffalo was considered the second largest railroad hub in the Unites States. Given its location, it saw the effects of westward expansion as the country grew and greatly benefited as a result. Buffalo rapidly became a city of importance as the stockyards, grain, steel,...
Latin American Perspectives on Globalization
Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...
The Rise of Korean Leadership
Emerging Powers and Liberal International Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
South Korea has emerged as a new middle power playing a significant role in a wide range of important global issue areas and supporting liberal international order with its leadership diplomacy. The growing role played by new powers like Korea calls into question the prevailing view that global governance...
The 2012 French Presidential Elections
The Inevitable Alternation
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Was the victory of François Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book argues that a combination of economic downturn, policy choices and personal unpopularity meant that the Right-wing incumbent faced an almost impossible task in holding onto power for another five years.