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Across the Shaman's River: John Muir, The Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North
The story of one of Alaska&’s last Indigenous strongholds, shut off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and a naturalist.Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alaska, the Tlingits had successfully warded off the Anglo influences that had swept into other corners of the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Vintage Quilt Revival: 22 Modern Designs from Classic Blocks
Vintage Quilt Revival is a resource for quilters of any age or style who love to use today's modern colors and fabrics. With fresh quilt layouts, detailed instructions on foundation piecing, and a wide variety of traditional blocks and modern projects, Vintage Quilt Revival is at the forefront of th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Community-Based Ethnography: Breaking Traditional Boundaries of Research, Teaching, and Learning
by Mary Frances Agnello • Ernest T. Stringer • Sheila Conant Baldwin • Lois McFayden Christensen • Deana Lee HenryCo-written by a professor and 10 students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting to represent aspects of people's lives. The fundamental project, around which their explorations in writing textual accounts turned, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Narratives from Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline: The System is Sound (Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music)
This book explores the history of reggae in modern Britain from the time it emerged as a cultural force in the 1970s. As basslines from Jamaica reverberated across the Atlantic, so they were received and transmitted by the UK’s Afro-Caribbean community. From roots to lovers’ rock, from deejays harne... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering
For 'Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering' Brain and Cognitive Engineering is a converging study field to derive a better understanding of cognitive information processing in the human brain, to develop "human-like" and neuromorphic artificial intelligent systems and to help predict an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Voice User Interface Projects: Build voice-enabled applications using Dialogflow for Google Home and Alexa Skills Kit for Amazon Echo
by Henry LeeDevelop intelligent voice-empowered applications and Chatbots that not only understand voice commands but also respond to itKey FeaturesTarget multiple platforms by creating voice interactions for your applicationsExplore real-world examples of how to produce smart and practical virtual assistantsBu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Presumed Dead
by Henry LeeA computer genius. A missing Russian bride. A true-life murder mystery. Computer genius Hans Reiser married beautiful Russian pediatrician Nina Sharanova, moved with her to his native Oakland, California, and had two children. But bliss soon soured, and in the middle of a contentious divorce Nina ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections
by Henry LeachSir Henry Leach spent forty-five years of active service in the Royal Navy, starting as a thirteen year old Cadet in 1937 and finishing as a fifty-nine year old Admiral of the Fleet in 1982. Son of a distinguished naval Captain, killed in action while commanding the Battleship Prince of Wales in 194... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Endangered and Transformative Childhood in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Studies in Childhood and Youth)
This book examines childhood in four Caribbean SIDS (Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and St. Lucia). Through the analysis of primary and secondary data, the author reveals that children in Caribbean SIDS experience an endangered childhood. The intrinsic characteristics of SIDs, including susceptibility to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Way Forward for Chinese Medicine
by Henry Lee • Kelvin ChanAn introductory text aimed at practitioners of Chinese medicine and orthodox medicine, and other interested healthcare professionals, this book focuses on the conditions for which traditional Chinese medicine may be appropriate and its wider use healthcare. The book divides the subject into three se... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
The Discourse of Sensibility
This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of sensibility is then necessarily to enter in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context
This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade—one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European thought—with the broader themes of the Enlightenment. Rather than seeing himself as a mere pornographer, Sade understood himself as continuing ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement
"We might have possessed the genius to break the Purple code, but in 1941 we didn't have the brains to know what to do with it." --Henry C. Clausen, special investigator for secretary of war Henry L. Stimson On December 6, 1941, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the United States Pac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1944 -
CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys: How and Why US Agents Conspired to Assassinate JFK and RFK
The US Central Intelligence Agency is no stranger to conspiracy and allegations of corruption. Across the globe, violent coups have been orchestrated, high-profile targets kidnapped, and world leaders dispatched at the hands of CIA agents. During the 1960s, on domestic soil, the methods used to prot... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Flower Drum Song
Originally published in 1957, The Flower Drum Song was a groundbreaking work of popular literature. An immediate bestseller, it inspired the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. This charming, bittersweet tale of romance and the powerful bonds of family tells the story of Wang Ta, who wants what... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
The American
Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Introduction to Forensic Science and Criminalistics, Second Edition
This Second Edition of the best-selling Introduction to Forensic Science and Criminalistics presents the practice of forensic science from a broad viewpoint. The book has been developed to serve as an introductory textbook for courses at the undergraduate level—for both majors and non-majors—to pro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Kwangju Uprising: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press (A\pacific Basin Institute Book Ser.)
The Kwangju Uprising that occurred in May 1980 is burned into the minds of South Koreans in much the same way that Tiananmen is burned into the minds of contemporary Chinese. As the world watched in horror following the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, student protesters were brutally supp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
The American
In this classic collision of the New World with Old Europe, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Life's Purpose
Does life have meaning? What's the purpose of my life? Drawing from both his sermons and writings, Life's Purpose: Wisdom from John Henry Newman lets us reflect with one of the great philosophers of the 19th century on a problem that continues to perplex us today. Find meaning in your life with Newm... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Entrepreneurship Education and Training: The Issue of Effectiveness (Routledge Advances In Management And Business Studies)
This title was first published in 2003. The book covers the areas of: entrepreneurship and economic development; entrepreneurship theories (traditional and alternative); entrepreneurship education and training programmes; a comparative European analysis of entrepreneurship programmes; a profile of t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Off-Grid Electrical Systems in Developing Countries
by Henry LouieThis book provides students and practicing engineers with a comprehensive guide to off-grid electrification: from microgrids and energy kiosks to solar home systems and solar lanterns. As the off-grid electrification industry grows, universities are starting and expanding courses and programs in hum... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Face of Betrayal
by April Henry • Lis WiehlFOX News legal correspondent and former Federal Prosecutor Lis Wiehl has created a suspense series as timely as tomorrow's headlines. While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television report... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Lethal Beauty
by April Henry • Lis WiehlIt should have been an open and shut murder case, but Mia Quinn finds out nothing about it is simple. After a young Chinese prostitute is stabbed to death by her rich American client, the tabloids dub Dandan Yee "Lethal Beauty"--despite the fact that she was the one who ended up dead. Yet even with... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Mia Quinn Collection
by April Henry • Lis Wiehl"A fast-paced detective series [that] will keep legal thriller readers and John Grisham fans totally engrossed." --Library Journal (on A Deadly Business) A Matter of Trust Prosecuting murderers for a living can give a person trust issues... A Deadly Business Mia prosecutes violent criminals...and no... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013