Academic Press: 465 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Written by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, this report explores the two most influential theoretical discourse traditions, namely Discourse Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. Based on numerous Swedish and Scandinavian case studies, this account reveals the usefulness of the study...
Infants of Parents with Mental Illness
Developmental, Clinical, Cultural, and Personal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
During the last 100 years infant mortality rates have improved dramatically, yet even in a developed country such as Australia the physical health of infants varies greatly, despite advances in science and technology. It has now become clear that emotional and physical development is affected by many...
Future Theatre Research
Origin, Medium, Performance-Text, Reception and Acting
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Eli Rozik explores the principles that generated the theatre medium, and its possible roots in the preverbal imagistic mode of thinking. This mode characterizes the remnants of preverbal thinking, such as unconscious thinking (dreaming), the embryonic speech of toddlers, and their imaginative play...
José 'Pepe' Mujica
Warrior, Philosopher, President
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Toward the end of his administration (2010–2015), then Uruguayan President José ‘Pepe’ Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-globalization...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Social scientists, a rehabilitation researcher, a folklorist, a political commentator, and other contributors survey some of the differences in European culture and discuss the complex topic of national identity in Europe. This volume forms a fascinating mosaic of European diversity, revealing idiosyncrasies...
Anglo-American Policy toward the Persian Gulf, 1978–1985
Power, Influence and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
For many commentators and historians the announcement of the Carter Doctrine signaled the end of the British presence and the final transfer of power to the United States in the Persian Gulf. But on the ground the reality was different. After the announcement of the British leaving the Persian Gulf...
Las dos Españas
Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The idea of a divided Spain, where one half is antagonistic to the other half, dates back at least to the 19th-century. The narrative of las dos Españas is evident across many political and historical debates operating in the Spanish state, and contemporarily it shadows and informs national issues...
by John M. Regan
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
When we read a history we believe ourselves to be reading cold, hard, facts of the events that took place and how they occurred. But there is no real, truthful way to know the approach our historian has taken with the historical sources. This book deals with the uncertainty in writing history in the...
Palestine Investigated
The Criminal Investigation Department of the Palestine Police Force, 1920–1948
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book tells the story of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Palestine Police Force (PPF) in the historical context which impacted the CID's missions, methods, and composition. At first, the CID was engaged in providing technical assistance for criminal investigation. Following...
Herbs for Diabetes and Neurological Disease Management
Research and Advancements
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This new volume provides a plethora of new information about potential medicinal herbs and their usefulness in treating diabetes and neurological diseases. Most large multinational companies are interested and engaged in the commercialization of herb-based formulations, and consumers continue to seek...
Spain Bleeds
The Development of Battlefield Blood Transfusion During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Research into local aspects of the Spanish Civil War and of the International Brigades' Medical Service resulted in an informal trilogy of sorts. ¡Salud! British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 and Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances: British...
Guerrilleros and Neighbours in Arms
Identities and Cultures of Anti-fascist Resistance in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Spanish Civil War, fought between 1936 and 1939, was the first battle against fascism in Europe. Five months after the victory of dictator Francisco Franco in Spain the conflict moved to Europe with the outbreak of the Second World War. Fascism and anti-fascism again faced each other on the battlefield....
by Bjørn Ottesen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Bjørn Ottesen provides us with an insight into the future of Christian mission in Northern Europe and beyond. He offers an honest account of the church's successes and failures. His analysis of the Danish Adventist context has relevance beyond Denmark and beyond Adventism. His assessment of the attitudes...
Europe
The Return of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
This anthology gives an overview and an in-depth description of Europe in historical terms, providing explanation for the current period of dramatic development and integration process that has led to the increased strength of the European Union. It also explores the simultaneous trend towards disintegration,...