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by William Binning, Jerry McBeath, Walter Clark Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The 2014 midterm congressional elections provided a view of the attitude of American voters in the sixth year of Barack Obama’s presidency. This book provides insight about the formative aspects of the 2014 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races for Congress. The first section...
Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatres of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.
War and...
The New American Poetry
Fifty Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called “the fountainhead of radical American poetics.”
The New American Poetry is referred to in every...
by Stuart J. Smyth, William A. Kerr, Peter W. B Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of the conflict, discussing the...
by Michael E. Watson, Sara Lewis, Peter Cacioppi
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Using strategic supply chain network design, companies can achieve dramatic savings from their supply chains. Now, experts at IBM and Northwestern University have brought together both the rigorous principles and the practical applications you need to master. You’ll learn how to use supply chain network...
National Service and Volunteerism
Achieving Impact in Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national...
Wellington's Masterpiece
The Battle and Campaign of Salamanca
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The Peninsular war was not only one of the great periods in British military history, it was also a war in which guerillas exerted a major influence, and as such, has continued relevance today. Salamanca established Wellington as one of the great military commanders of any age and it is one of the...
The World's Water 2008-2009
The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Produced biennially, The World’s Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the msignificant trends worldwide, and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water. The 2008-2009...
Collaborative Approach to Trade
Enhancing Connectivity in Sea- and Land-Locked Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This book applies regional analysis to the challenges facing global investment agencies seeking to enhance trade in lagging regions. It shows how spatial interaction and agent-based modelling can be used as the basis for developing new plans and policies. An in-depth analysis of trade routes is presented,...
by Stephen Addiss, Minh Nguyen, Yuriko Saito
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...
by Annie Roe Carr, Alice Duer Miller, Berthold Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...
Deconstructing Dads
Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
In the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations of involvement and caretaking. The social expectations of fathers start even before the children are born. Mr. Mom is now displaced with fathers who don’t...
Crossing Borders
Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the...
by Richard J. Hobbs, Peter Cale, Barbara H. Allen-Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
As scientific understanding about ecological processes has grown, the idea that ecosystem dynamics are complex, nonlinear, and often unpredictable has gained prominence. Of particular importance is the idea that rather than following an inevitable progression toward an ultimate endpoint, some ecosystems...