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Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and...
Custom, Courts, and Counsel
Selected Papers of the 6th British Legal History Conference, Norwich 1983
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This emphasis of this collection is upon the history of courts and their procedures, they also illustrate the varied approaches and themes of legal history today.
by A. R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
A virus killed 99% of the human population. Fisher found herself with no responsibilities, no need for money, and no limitations. For the first time in her life, nothing and no one stood in her way. This is the story of what one very independent woman did after the world's end.
Hans Nielsen Hauge
SÉRIE CONHECIMENTO, #3
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Esta breve biografia de Hans Nielsen Hauge tem por objetivo dar conhecimento sobre este grande homem e seu impacto no país que tanto amou, a Noruega.
by Michael A.R. Graves
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This excellent short survey looks at the workings of parliament under the first four Tudor monarchs. After an introductory first section which looks at parliament's medieval origins, the author then considers all aspects of early parliamentary history - including the historiography of the early Tudor...
by Ghulam Haider Aasi, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and...
Jim Crow's Legacy
The Lasting Impact of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jim Crow’s Legacy shows the lasting impact of segregation on the emotional and physical health of African Americans who lived through it, as well as its impact on future generations. The book features powerful interview excepts of African American southerners whose stories poignantly show the devastation...
New Perspectives in Scottish Legal History
New Per Scot Legal His
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Thanksgiving: Heart-Warming Stories for Children
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner, The Queer Little Baker Man, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Thanksgiving of the Wazir, A Turkey for the Stuffing...
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This carefully selected and edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) An English...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
by A. R. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
Every third bite of food you eat is made possible by bees! You've probably heard that honey bees are important for pollinating a lot of the fruits and veggies we enjoy. But did you know that there are many other bees that pollinate our food crops? In addition to bees, there are flies, moths,...
Baja California Sur
Historia breve
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Baja California Sur. Historia breve muestra la diversidad de los procesos que, originados en espacios histórico-geográficos distintos, confluyeron y se influyeron mutuamente en lo que podríamos llamar "la formación histórica de nuestro país". Esta historia pretende que un público...
Trans Studies
The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline...
by Albert C. Beer, Eicke R. Weber, Richard A. Kiehl
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 1994
Volume 41 includes an in-depth review of the most important, high-speed switches made with heterojunction technology. This volume is aimed at the graduate student or working researcher who needs a broad overview andan introduction to current literature.
The first complete review of InP-based...