Michael D : 1112 books

In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...

In this third Fiction River Special Edition, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch proves a master of intrigue with a wide variety of spy stories. Ranging in tone from satire to serious, from touching to brutal, from light to oh-so-very-dark, these fifteen stories illuminate the secret world...

The Healing Power Of Jerusalem Artichoke Fiber is a current and up-to-date informational Source for persons who wish to take advantage of the healing properties of the newly introduced nutraceutical, inulin. Over half of all persons today take antibiotics on a regular basis. Most people can enhance the...

Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...

From the bestselling authors of The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, the most comprehensive and practical guide available to the nutritional benefits and medicinal properties of virtually everything edible As countless studies have affirmed, diet plays a major role in both provoking and preventing...

In Volume 5 of his innovative series on biodynamic and craniosacral therapy, Michael Shea presents invaluable information about therapeutic approaches to pre- and neonatal babies--in particular, low-birth-weight babies. In addition, more than 50 meditations on stillness are provided for the benefit...

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Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...

The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....

23 Erzählungen internationaler Spitzen-Autoren und -Autorinnen, vereint in einer Fantasy-Anthologie der Extra-Klasse (zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von Christian Dörge): u. a. von Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert E. Howard, Lin Carter, Roger Zelazny, C. J. Cherryh, Andrew J. Offutt, Ramsey Campbell, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, Henry Kuttner, Fitz Leiber.

Esta coletânea reúne a história de milhares de ex-escravos e de seus descendentes dos últimos anos do século XIX até a década de 1980. De forma plural e inovadora, analisa os significados do pós-abolição - período de propostas, lutas e expectativas - por meio de biografias, da trajetória...

“A mix of magic realism and Southern gothic, this stunning collaboration between King and McDowell…moves at a hypnotic pace, like an Alabama water moccasin slipping through black water.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Calliope “Calley” Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears...

Reviews advances in understanding and improving the welfare of dairy cattle;  Summarises current research on rumen biology, digestion and ways of optimising nutrition of dairy cattle from grazing to feed and feed supplements;  Discusses latest developments in maintaining the health of dairy cattle, including the genetics of disease resistance and dairy herd health management