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Roman Religion
by J. A. NorthProvides an account of the religious history of Rome starting from its mythical origins.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Religion and American Education
Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practice... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
Early Abilene
During the 1870s, there was wondrous change in West Texas. The area was ripe for settlement, and as the Texas and Pacific Railroad pushed west from Fort Worth, towns began springing up along the tracks. Ranchers coming to the area took advantage of the vast grasslands, and the new arrival of settler... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Interrogating Authenticity in Outdoor Education Teacher Education: Applications in Practice (Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices #21)
This book addresses student passivity in teacher education. Using a developed metaphor, the author critically examines the use of authentic learning to design and implement learning experiences for preservice teachers, and reveals the opportunities and limitations of a focus on authenticity.This boo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Cape Cod Canal, The: Breaking Through the Bared and Bended Arm
The cradle of New England's shipping doubled as its casket, earning the sailing route around Cape Cod the nickname of graveyard of the Atlantic. J. North Conway plunges into the character of Cape Cod, from its discovery to its chowder, and of the man who managed to cut a path through it.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Teaching for Social Justice?: Voices from the Front Lines
Teaching for Social Justice? Voices from the Front Lines examines the process of four K-12 educators and a university-based researcher discussing, studying, and acting on the potential power of social justice. Through frequent, lively, and complex meetings, these educators examine their varying educ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Queen of Thieves: The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country's top receiver of stolen goods, she accumu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Vascular Tumors and Developmental Malformations
This book comprehensively covers the classification, histopathology, pathogenesis, and molecular diagnosis of vascular tumors and malformations, correlating these with current approaches to clinical management. It offers a new multidisciplinary resource for clinicians, pathologists, molecular diagn... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Attack of the HMS Nimrod: Wareham and the War of 1812 (Military)
On the morning of June 13, 1814, the British warship HMS" Nimrod" attacked the town of Wareham, Massachusetts. As a center for shipbuilding and iron, Wareham was a perfect target for the British fleet. When the lead barge deceptively appeared with a white flag at its bow, Wareham never suspected any... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
New England Rocks: Historic Geological Wonders (American Heritage)
New England is a rocky, rugged region. Its towns are marked by stone walls and its cities anchored by native granite and marble buildings. Historically significant boulders, many with Native American as well as colonial and neo-pagan origins, attract tourists from around the world. Some are formatio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Orale implantaten in de algemene praktijk
Orale implantaten zijn niet meer weg te denken uit de mondzorg. Toch heeft het lang geduurd voordat het implantaat zijn weg vond in de geneeskunde. De opmars begon in de orale geneeskunde. Implantaten werden daarna steeds vaker toegepast bij amputaties in andere plaatsen in het lichaam. In 1965 ... More
Language: DUTCopyright: 2008 -
Encyclopedia of Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms
Aimed at college undergraduates and high school students, this reference covers the political history of presidential rhetoric and campaigns. The first part of the volume contains chronologically arranged entries describing the course and nature of each presidential campaign since 1789. The second p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)
Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions—all of which may vary by region and over time. John W. I. Lee and Michael North bring together interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide range of border issues and to encourage a nu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition (Native American Wisdom Ser.)
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Injuries and Health Problems in Football
by Helder Pereira • Philippe Neyret • C. Niek van Dijk • Moises Cohen • Stefano Della Villa • J. Miguel OliveiraThis book offers a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on the health problems and injuries associated with football and their clinical management. After an opening section on technical aspects and fundamental principles, all areas of football traumatology are addressed. The coverage includ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Sub-Saharan Africa Growth, Savings, and Investment, 1986-93
This paper assesses the economic performance during 1986-93 of sub-Saharan African countries as a group and of selected analytical subgroups of countries.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
Elements of a Science Plan for the North Pacific Research Board
The North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) was established in 1997 as custodian to a pool of funds intended for the study of the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, and Arctic Ocean. The success of the NRPB is the development of a high quality, long-range science plan that provides a better understanding ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Advances in Industrial Mixing
by North American Mixing Forum • Arthur W. Etchells • David S. Dickey • Suzanne M. Kresta • Victor A. Atiemo-ObengAdvances in Industrial Mixing is a companion volume and update to the Handbook of Industrial Mixing. The second volume fills in gaps for a number of industries that were not covered in the first edition. Significant changes in five of the fundamental areas are covered in entirely updated or new chap... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Het tandheelkundig jaar 2016
by J. A. Baart • H. S. Brand • R. Jacobs • N.H.J. Creugers • D. J. Witter • N. D'Hondt • H. Ghaeminia • A. E. Gerritsen • L. Witteman • B. Kreps • E.C. Kruijt Spanjer • M. L. Laine • D. Niesten • K. H. Phoa • C. Politis • T.C.T. van Riet • J.M. van der Ven • E. Van de Casteele • W. Vanhove • G. Willems • S. Adriaensens • J. Schoenaers • I. Naert • M. Vriesema • M.L.E. Linssen • A.J.G. Hopman • R.J.J. van Es • J. Muris • S. Rajasekharan • L. C. Martens • R.G.E.C. Cauwels • R.M.H. Verbeeck • A. Storms • T. Zogheib • C. Bral • J. W. Ting • M. Sheikh Rashid • W. A. Dreschler • G. E. Bart • E. Shaheen • Y. Sun • M. Ezeldeen • M. Shahbazian • L. Daems • P. Legrand • S. Geers • Y. Vermylen • K. Aelbrecht • A.W.J. van Pelt • M. Deveugele • W. Geelen • S. VertriestJ.K.M. Aps • M. De Bruyne • M.E.L. Nienhuijs • W.J. van der MeerHet tandheelkundig jaar 2016 biedt een overzicht van de meest recente ontwikkelingen in de tandheelkunde. Een breed scala aan onderwerpen komt aan bod, beschreven door een keur van gezaghebbende Vlaamse en Nederlandse auteurs. Nu met online KRT-geaccrediteerde kennistoetsen.... More
Language: DUTCopyright: 2015 -
Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Reconstructing America)
by Andrew Smith • Steven Hahn • Christopher Clark • Andrew L. Slap • Frank Towers • Benjamin Johnson • Mary Ryan • Robert E. Bonner • Ryan Hall • Jane Dinwoodie • Pablo Mijangos • Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler • Marcela Terrazas y BasanteNorth America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three nation-sta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Capital Account Convertibility
by Przemyslaw Gajdeczka • Peter J. Quirk • Owen Evans • Vicente Galbis • Arto Kovanen • Alexander Kyei • Dmitri Menchikov • Roger Nord • Mark O'Brien • Laura Papi • Susana Crossa de Sosa • S. Kal Wajid • Takashi YoshimuraThe paper summarizes the main issues arising from experiences of industrial and developing countries with capital account liberalization and it examines the IMF's treatment of capital controls in its surveillance, use of IMF resources, and technical assistance activities. Case studies of recent exp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Arbeitsbuch zu Atkins, de Paula, Keeler Physikalische Chemie
by Stephanie Smith • James J. Keeler • Peter Bolgar • Haydn Lloyd • Aimee North • Vladimiras OleinikovasDas Arbeitsbuch zum neuen "großen Atkins"! Der "große Atkins" ist und bleibt ein Muss für alle Studierenden, die sich ernsthaft mit der Physikalischen Chemie auseinandersetzen. In unverwechselbarem Stil deckt Peter Atkins mit seinen Koautoren Julio de Paula und James Keeler die gesamte Bandbreite d... More
Language: GERCopyright: 2022