K L Martin: 39 books
Surviving the Twenties Transformation
Empower Your Soul and Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
An identity crisis is not a new concept. A midlife crisis, commonly occurring in middle-aged adults, is a time when an individual is plagued by doubts concerning his or her identity and future purpose. What you might not know, however, is that you're just as likely to experience the same struggle...
Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.
The Archaeology of Slavery
A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun...
Great War Modernism
Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
Oppression and Resistance in Southern Higher and Adult Education
Mississippi and the Dynamics of Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book explores the long history of oppression and resistance in adult and higher education, situated in Mississippi. The state serves as a unique site in which intersecting narratives around race, ethnicity, social class, opportunity, democracy, and equity have played out over the past several...
Alternative Wege der Unternehmensfinanzierung
Chancen und Risiken für Unternehmer und potenzielle Investoren Praxisnah dargestellt
Language: German
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Nicht nur die Finanzkrise, sondern auch die Beschlüsse rund um Basel III haben die Rahmenbedingungen mit Blick auf die Unternehmensfinanzierung fundamental verändert. Daher gilt es neue Wege der Unternehmensfinanzierung zu bestreiten,um die Vorgaben aus Basel III gar nicht erst zur Bedrohung werden...
In 100 Years
Leading Economists Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In this book, ten prominent economists—including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates—offer their ideas about what the future might hold in 100 years.
This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers....
by Stephan Günzel, Franziska Kümmerling, Kurt Röttgers
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ›spatial turn‹ der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ›linguistic turn‹, der das Gesicht der Philosophie...
by Gail Z. Martin, Jody Lynn Nye, Alex Shvartsman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - English proverb
Cat stories set in ancient Egypt, pre-history Mexico, Victorian England, space stations, grim magical worlds, during the zombie apocalypse, and a typical neighborhood give a glimpse into the mysterious lives of felines. And each cat,...
by Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes, Robert Rollinger, Manfred Oeming
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Das »Wörterbuch alttestamentlicher Motive« erleichtert das Verständnis der alttestamentlichen Texte und erschließt die Bedeutung ihrer Themen und Motive. Rund 120 Artikel beschreiben die altorientalischen Wurzeln zu jedem Motiv und erwähnen die Wirkungsgeschichte, die zumeist über das Neue...
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 2
Cultivation, pest and disease management
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
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Reconsidering Roots
Race, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...