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Book cover of Jugendjahre in der Schweiz 1930-1950
by Lys Wiedmer-Zingg, Jürg Ramspeck, Emil Steinberger
Language: German
Release Date: November 7, 2014

Die Geschichte vor, während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war auch in der neutralen Schweiz geprägt durch die Wirtschaftskrise, durch Militärdienst und Lebensmittelrationierungen, durch technische Entwicklungen und durch die Aufbruchstimmung nach dem Krieg. Für diejenigen, die sie erlebt haben,...
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HALLOWEEN Boxed Set

550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M. R. James
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: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...
Book cover of Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
by Robert R. Archibald, Patrick J. Boylan, David Carr
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006

What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians,...
Book cover of Virginia Women

Virginia Women

Their Lives and Times

by Catherine Allgor, E. Susan Barber, Mary C. Ferrari
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...
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Intelligence and the National Security Strategist

Enduring Issues and Challenges

by Matthew M. Aid, Christopher M. Andrew, Michael R. Bromwich
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
Book cover of From the Yenisei to the Yukon

From the Yenisei to the Yukon

Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia

by Norman A. Easton, Dr. Robert E. Ackerman, Jacob Baus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Book cover of The Professions and Civic Life
by Christopher Caldwell, Paul A. Cantor, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

Professions are institutions which, through their small size, self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state nor are entirely private, the individual...
Book cover of US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall
by Lisa Benton-Short, Raymond Blanton, Timothy J. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018

US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated...
Book cover of Great War Modernism

Great War Modernism

Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918

by Graeme Stout, Gregory M. Dandeles, Michael J. K. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore...
Book cover of Individual Positive Behavior Supports

Individual Positive Behavior Supports

A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings

by Martin Agran Ph.D., Richard Albin Ph.D., Sharon Ann Ballard-Krishnan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Book cover of Presidential Swing States
by Scott L. McLean, Sean D. Foreman, Donna R. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018

The 2020 United States presidential race is arguably already over except for about 12 states and 20 counties. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2020, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their...
Book cover of The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan
by Jason T. Eberl, George A. Dunn, George A. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

As a director, writer, and producer, Christopher Nolan has substantially impacted contemporary cinema through avant garde films, such as Following and Memento, and his contribution to wider pop culture with his Dark Knight trilogy. His latest film, Interstellar, delivered the same visual qualities...
Book cover of Heresies Exposed
by William C. Irvine, H. A. Ironside, W. E. Vine
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018

The days in which you and I are living are days in which Christians need to know their Bibles, for the only way by which we may know whether or not a system of teaching is of God is by viewing the system through the lens of Holy Writ—reading the system in the light of the Bible and not reading the...
Book cover of Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture
by Danielle M. Stern, William E. Loges, Steve Granelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming;...
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