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Strong Democracy in Crisis
Promise or Peril?
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is a robust and relevant collection from a truly distinguished group of political theorists actively rethinking the promise and perils of democracy. The book is coherent in its focus on a common theme and aim: to advance and refine the political project of promoting democratic theory and practice....
Swiftly Sterneward
Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of...
The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems
Toward a Model for Understanding and Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A landmark book that strives to provide both grand theory and practical application, innovatively describing the structure and dynamics of human ecosystems As the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance...
The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world’s population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic...
With Love From New Orleans
Voyages of the Heart, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Voyages of the Heart
Cities around the world have their own charming allure which pulls you in, allowing you to enjoy their secrets. They offer love, passion, laughter, healing, and even heartbreak. The authors have penned these emotions and more into their stories one page at a time. Pack...
Undead Tales
15 Thrilling Zombie Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
They're coming for you.
In 1968, a young and ambitious film maker created an iconic cinematic masterpiece and changed the industry forever. 50 years later, a group of hardy writers converged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Romero's classic, Night of the...
The Book of Learning
Nine Lives Trilogy Part 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The exciting adventures of Ebony Smart, a twelve-year-old girl who discovers she is part of a special tribe of reincarnated people – and a terrible curse. Ebony has just one week to break the curse or die; if she fails, the future of her family, and her people, is at risk – does she have what...
by Lewis R. Gordon, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Randall Halle
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue, critical imagination, and the desire to travel to enter those discursive spaces where the love of wisdom gets inflected through both lived embodiment and situational history. The text raises significant meta-philosophical questions around...
by Anon E. Mouse, Illustrated by JOHN R. NEILL, Compiled and Edited by Hartwell James
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Persia, that magical and mystical land centred on the Silk Route, is a land rich in folk lore. For hundreds and hundreds of years the stories in this book, and many others as well, have been told to the wondering boys and girls of that country, who, as they hear them, picture their native land as...
by E R Wieske
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
For those with heart break and lost loves. Whos hearts will forever be tormented by the missing piece of someone who once held them. This is for you. To grow and to heal.
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System
Candidate Quality Measures for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
To inform improvements to the quality of care delivered by the military health system for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder, researchers developed a framework and identified, developed, and described a candidate set of measures for monitoring, assessing, and improving the...
by E. R. Frank
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
"Where would you like to be five years from now?" Dr. B. asks.
"Nowhere," America answers.
By age fifteen, America has already been nowhere. Been nobody. Separated from his foster mother, Mrs. Harper. A runaway living for weeks in a mall, then for months in Central Park. A patient at...
by E.R. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
The follow up to the critically acclaimed children's title The Book of Learning.
• A magical story with an Irish setting for readers aged 9–12 years;
appeals to both boys and girls.
• The follow-up to the Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Citywide
Read 2016: The Book...
by E.R. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Liv Bloom's life is even more complicated than that of your average fourteen-year-old: her father walked out on the family when she was young, her mother is in a recovery centre for alcoholics, and her older sister is struggling to step into Mum's shoes. The only person she can turn to is her best...