Francis: 3998 books
Tribes and Analogous Peoples in India
Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The concepts of " Tribe" and " Tribal identity" in Indian context are very complex and contested.The politics of inclusion in and exclusion from 'Scheduled Tribe ' list adds to the din at regional and national levels. The claims as well as preferences of tribes to the attributes...
Mandeville's Travails
Merging Travel, Theory, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book offers a critical methodology for analyzing travel literature. The subject of travel literature, as well as travel literatures, have not always been regarded with respect or given much critical attention. In order to amend this lack of positive reception, Francis Tobienne Jr. analyzes the...
by Francis Parkman, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism."
Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era
The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world. They strengthen the mobilization power of movements, extend movement networks, facilitate new modes of protest participation, and give rise to new protest formations. Meanwhile, conventional...
by Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date.
With...
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...
by Scott N. Romaniuk, Francis Grice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the future of US warfare, including its military practices and the domestic and global challenges it faces. The need to undertake a comprehensive analysis about the future of warfare for the US is more pressing today than ever before. New technologies...
by Francis Kroncke
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
How can we humans dwell peacefully and comfortably at-home on Earth? It seems impossible. The Warrior vision which placed the image of the Atom Bomb’s Mushroom Cloud in the human psyche continues to evoke dreadful fear in every human heart. “Globalization” appears to mean the successful exporting...
Colloquial Swahili
The Complete Course for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Colloquial Swahili: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Swahili as it is written and spoken today.
Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language,...
by James Francis Horn
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Fifty years after Jefferson County found itself wedged between the Union and the Confederacy, President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany and the Central Powers. Suddenly towns like Shepherdstown, Charles Town and Harpers Ferry once again prepared for war, this time an ocean away. Civilians supported...
Why Noise Matters
A Worldwide Perspective on the Problems, Policies and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Is noise the most neglected green issue of our age? This book argues compellingly that it is, and tells you all you need to know about noise as a social, cultural, environmental and health issue.
Across the world, more people are disturbed by noise in their day-today lives than by any other...
The Making of the British Landscape
How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from...
by Sir Francis Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1921, this is a record of a dynasty which arose in Ashanti in 1695, lasting until 1895, when it fell under the extension of British rule.
Break up with Defeat
Recognize and Shatter Hidden Mindsets That Defeat You
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Do you feel unmotivated, drained, overwhelmed, and beaten up by life? Are you just going through the motions, but have no passion? Do you feel like defeat is your best friend because you have experienced it so much? Public speaker Jermaine Francis talks straight about how defeat is ruling many of...