Mara: 571 books
Beware The Corn Woman
More than Life or Death, it's Revenge!
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A young Native American believes an ancestor killed nearly three hundred years ago haunts him. He also has the conviction that he and his family are tormented at every twist and turn of their lives by the injustices exacted on their people both in the past and modern day. Spurred on by this ancient warrior...
Typhoid Fever
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
In the 21st century, typhoid fever afflicts more than 21 million people each year, primarily in underdeveloped countries. In the age before sanitation and antibiotics, the infection was even more devastating, crippling entire armies and claiming the lives of both rich and poor. The story of typhoid...
Wireless Public Safety Networks Volume 1
Overview and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Wireless Public Safety Networks, Volume One: Overview and Challenges presents the latest advances in the wireless Public Safety Networks (PSNs) field, the networks established by authorities to either prepare the population for an eminent catastrophe, or as support during crisis and normalization...
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism
When God Left the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism asks what happened when the world was shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated both their actions and beliefs. When Reformers gave up the doctrine of transubstantiation (even as they held onto revised forms...
LEGENDS OF NORSELAND - 24 Illustrated Norse and Viking Legends
24 Illustrated Legends from Northern Lands
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Herein are 24 illustrated easy-to-read Norse and Viking legends, including the Song of the Valkyries, rewritten with young adults in mind. Here you will find the legends of the Norse and Viking inhabitants of Asgard – Odin, Freya, Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Baldur and many others. These are the legends...
by Lonely Planet, Ray Bartlett, Paul Clammer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Cruise Ports Caribbean is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip cocktails on the colorful portside of Curacao; sail into the...
Restorative Community Justice
Repairing Harm and Transforming Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
An anthology of original essays, this book presents debates over practice, theory, and implementation of restorative justice. Attention is focused on the movement’s direction toward a more holistic, community-oriented approach to criminal justice intervention.
Latin America's Middle Class
Unsettled Debates and New Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken...
Responsible Tourism and CSR
Assessment Systems for Sustainable Development of SMEs in Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014
What are Responsible Tourism and Corporate Social Responsibility? What is the industry's awareness regarding these concepts? What are the systems and tools currently available on the market that tourism SMEs can use to assess their engagement and the sustainability of their business?
This book...
by Alejandro Cámara
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
This thesis focuses on the fundamental problem of characterising partially coherent beams. The book describes several non-interferometric methods based on phase-space tomography for recovering the spatial coherence information of optical beams.
In the context of optical beams, partially coherent light...
Governance and Sustainability of Responsible Research and Innovation Processes
Cases and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book provides methods and practical cases and experiences with the aim of stimulating Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) through the direct engagement of researchers, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), citizens, industry stakeholders, policy and decision makers, research funders and communicators....
by Mara Roberti
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 24, 2013
La vita ogni tanto sembra avercela con te. Come quando ti ritrovi sul più bello senza fidanzato e con un lavoro appeso al filo di una missione impossibile: annunciare lo sfratto all’anziana proprietaria di un rifugio per cani. Se non vi sembra impossibile come missione, è perché non sapete ancora...
How to Become a Shaker Washer
How to Become a Shaker Washer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to become a Shaker Washer. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to become a Shaker Washer
by Daniel Câmara
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Bio-inspired techniques are based on principles, or models, of biological systems. In general, natural systems present remarkable capabilities of resilience and adaptability. In this book, we explore how bio-inspired methods can solve different problems linked to computer networks.
Future...