Books On Demand: 13195 books
by J. William
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Man is an organism for reacting on impressions: his mind is there to help determine his reactions, and the purpose of his education is to make them numerous and perfect. Our education means, in short, little more than a mass of possibilities of reaction, acquired at home, at school, or in the training...
by Spenser Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
On the afternoon of Monday, the 2nd of July, 1866, King William of Prussia with his retinue drove into the little town of Gitschin, in the hilly region of Northern Bohemia, on the southern side of the Giant Mountains. His upright bearing scarcely showed the burden of his sixty-nine years, nor did...
by Robert Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
"Rohan, Rohan! Can you not hear me call? It is time to go. Come, come! It frightens me to look down at you. Will you not come up now, Rohan?" The voice that cries is lost in the ocean-sound that fills the blue void beneath; it fades away far under, amid a confused murmur of wings, a busy...
Best After
Basic Instructions on Being a Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Best After — Basic Instructions on Being a Human ought to be a part of every human being’s upbringing. No one should be withheld from information on how to cast a solid foundation for one’s mental health and maturation into an authentic adult. This book helps to improve self-worth, straighten distortions...
You Can't Copy Tradition
A View on the Eventful History and Bilateral Work of the Austro-American Institute of Education from 1926 – 2016. Volume 1 (1926-1971)
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The horrors of World War I left a mark on all of Europe as well as on the United States of America. Within the political, intellectual and academic life the catchphrase of international good will established itself. This term, rather this vision, must not be ignored in the context of the birth hour of...
Mapping Cultural Information
Augsburg and Venice in Infographics
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Mapping cultural information Augsburg and Venice in Infographics Living in Europe today is a wonderful gift. Looking back in history, one hardly will find a timespan of peace and prosperity as long as the current one, that started after the end of World War 2. A key element of modern democracies is the...
iPads in the Classroom
A Development of a Taxonomy for the Use of Tablets in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The current media landscape is changing and growing at a fast pace which is increasingly affecting the school sector. Numerous schools all over the world have already focused on the value added to lessons by tablet computers, such as Apple’s iPad. A myriad of learning applications and ways to transfer...
China's Modernization I
ProtoSociology Volume 28
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The idea of only one way leading to a modern society seems to be hardly tenable. But even if we agree to this, our theories and terms describing modernization are gained on our own Western history. So social science has to reconsider its basic terms to describe China’s modernization, and maybe even...
Newspapers on the Mind - Around the World
The IFLA Round Table on Newspapers (RTN) 1989 - 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The Round Table on Newspapers (later: Section on Newspapers, now Newsmedia Section) of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) has been the authoritative group of experts for newspaper matters within the international library community. It has been involved in the major newspapers...
by Andreas Port
Language: German
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Deutschland Magazin rund um den blutigen Film in der hochwertigen COLLECTORS EDITON, gedruckt auf Foto-Papier und Seiten in Farbe mit News und Reviews zu I spit on your Grave 2, Aftershock, Hatchet 3, Curse of Chucky, S-VHS, Outpost 3,, No one Lives, Zombie Hunter, Hooligans 3, Last Days on Mars, Outpost...
by Okpame Oronsaye
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The Benin Empire flourished as an independent kingdom in the present-day southern Nigeria. On February 19, 1897, a combined British Navy and Niger Coast Protectorate Force, code-named "Benin Punitive Expedition", captured Benin City, the kingdom's capital city. According to the British official statement,...
by Charles Bunyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
CHARLES J BUNYAN is a retired lawyer living in Scotland. Berliner Luft is a trilogy of novels which, though not entirely set in Berlin, have many of the main scenes, characters or events set there: THE DARK SIDE OF FRED is a psychological thriller about a„minor“ German aristocrat who, in his youth,...
The Three Gorges Dam's Impact on Peasant Livelihood
China's Project on the Yangtze River
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Due to the Three Gorges Dam, China’s Yangtze becomes a 600 kilometers long reservoir that submerges everything below. Therefore, more than 1.3 million people lose their houses, their arable land, as well as their personal belongings. The book in hand examines the socio-economic impact on peasant livelihood before, during and after the state-forced resettlement.
by Stephan Salinger, Lutz Prechelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
There has been and still is a lot of controversy on whether pair programming is a useful engineering technique - as if this would not strongly depend on the specific goals, task, and the pair's pair programming skill. Rather than providing still more bottom-line, quantitative results on pair programming,...