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The American Revolution in New Jersey
Where the Battlefront Meets the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Battles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the...
by A.W Tozer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
True religion confronts earth with heaven and brings eternity to bear upon time. The messenger of Christ, though he speaks from God, must also, as the Quakers used to say, “speak to the condition” of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself. His message must be not...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
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...
Ebbets to Veeck to Busch
Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few about the owners, the men and women who invested their time—and, frequently, their fortunes—in baseball teams. What has been written tends to concentrate on the financial aspects of ownership or individual owners and...
Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema
Sidesplitting sLaughter
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter presents the first focused look at the moment in audience reception where screams and laughter collide. John A. Dowell and Cynthia J. Miller bring together twelve essays from an international collection of authors across...
by Pamela A. Collins, Truett A. Ricks, Clifford W. Van Meter
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This introductory text provides a thorough overview of the private security system. This edition includes crime prevention and its zones of protection – the theoretical framework that provides the bridge between private and public sector law enforcement. From the historical development and the professional...
by W. N. Cottingham, D. A. Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
The second edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise but accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions, and the observations on matter-antimatter asymmetry. It has become clear that neutrinos...
Place Matters
Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes...
by Danielle M. Stern, William E. Loges, Steve Granelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
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;...
by A.W Reed, Timoti Karetu and R Calman
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
The Raupo Concise Maori Dictionary is an invaluable reference work, providing an essential list of words and their equivalents in Maori and English. First published in 1948, the dictionary has been revised and updated numerous times since, giving testimony to its ongoing reliability as a reference...
Geological Hazards
Earthquakes - Tsunamis - Volcanoes - Avalanches - Landslides - Floods
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Growth of population, communication and interdependence among countries has sharpened the impact of natural disasters. Not only have calamities and miseries been given wider publicity, but the realization has grown that through rational study and foresight much can be done to mitigate these hazards...
Campaign of the Indus
In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Dvision
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
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INTRODUCTION.
The circumstance of an English army penetrating into Central Asia, through countries which had not been traversed by European troops since Alexander the Great led his victorious army from the Hellespont to the Jaxartes and Indus, is so strong a feature in our military...
by A. W. Tozer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Este fue el último sermón predicado por el Dr. Tom en la Iglesia Avenue Road en Toronto (5 de mayo de 1963) y estaba planeado como un mensaje para el Consejo General del 19 de mayo del mismo año.
Este es el regalo supremo y óptimo de Dios. No lo son las puertas de perlas, ni el cielo, ni las calles...