Social Science - General

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood...

Mechanics Of The Household is a book written by Edward Spencer Keene and published in 1918. The book is a comprehensive guide that focuses on the study of domestic machinery and household mechanical appliances. It provides detailed information on the mechanics of various household...

Jonathan Kozol has been a leading educational critic and social activist since 1967 when Death at an Early Age, his book about racism in Boston's schools, was published and won a National Book Award. Since then, Kozol has written eleven more books which focus...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

American Wild Fowl Shooting is a comprehensive guidebook written by Joseph W. Long in 1874. The book is focused on providing a detailed description of the haunts, habits, and methods of shooting wild fowl, particularly those found in the western states of America. It...

""Clubs: Making and Management"" by Renee B. Stern is a comprehensive guide for anyone interested in starting or managing a club. The book covers everything from the initial planning stages to day-to-day operations, including topics such as recruiting members, developing a mission statement, creating...

This comprehensive guide to horses and ferries is an essential resource for anyone who loves or works with these magnificent animals. Divided into two books, the first covers horse management, riding, and training techniques, while the second focuses on the care and treatment of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

There is no objective reality independent of an observer: we construct our own reality. This central premise of "constructivism" is the theme of this book dealing with the ideas of Heinz von Foerster, one of its founders. "This book presents in thoroughly clear manner...

The papers collected here were originally presented at a conference on multinational culture held at Hofstra University to explore the sociocultural impacts of the transformation to a global economy. Written by a distinguished group of contributors from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean,...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Over the last 150 years,...

What if the chains of slavery were never fully broken-only reshaped, hidden, and carried forward in the way we live, love, and raise our families today?Slave Ways is a bold, unflinching look at how the legacy of slavery continues to echo through Black families,...

The Ontology of Pain: A New Metaphysics of Existence by Muhammad Taha Alam redefines pain as the foundation of Being, challenging traditional metaphysical views that equate existence with harmony or perfection. ​ Pain is presented as the first vibration of existence-the strain that makes...

How Positive Youth Development Became a Battle¬ground for Democracy is a powerful dual memoir that traces the collision of public service, equity, and political backlash within one of America's most iconic youth programs: 4-H.Co-authored by two leaders from vastly different backgrounds-Lisa, a lifelong 4-H...

ABOUT THE BOOK: Some books inform. Some provoke. A few ignite. India: Science, Politics, Geostrategy - A Thirty-Year Thought Journey belongs to the last category. This work by Dr. Gautam Desiraju is not merely a collection of essays; it is the chronicle of a...

What if you could access the profound wisdom of the cosmos, uncover the secrets of creation, and awaken your soul to its true purpose?The Divine Pymander is a modern translation of one of the most revered Hermetic texts, attributed to the mystical figure Hermes...

This book explores how political power has shaped the elite and their development in North Korea by examining the change of the elite, their interactions, and specific elite figures, based on the transformation of power structure and characteristics in the North Korean regime since...

This book offers a comprehensive scientific exploration of Morus nigra L. (black mulberry), emphasizing its historical, botanical, biochemical, nutritional, and medicinal aspects. The species is notable for its rich phenolic content, intense coloration, and therapeutic properties, especially antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial activities. The work...

Pandemic and Public Health Communication in Low Literacy Context: Strategies for Reaching Underserved Populations in Health Crises explores the critical intersection of health communication and literacy during public health emergencies. Drawing on PhD research conducted in Southwest Nigeria, the book examines how the Nigeria...

Can a thief be truly honest?In An Honest Thief, Fyodor Dostoevsky presents a deeply human and morally complex tale that explores the boundaries between honesty and deception. The story revolves around Emelyan Ilyich, a down-and-out drunkard who is given shelter by the narrator. He...

This series of documents is a companion volume to Search for New Guinea's Boundaries: From Torres Strait to the Pacific (Australian National University Press, 1966). It brings together not only scattered, previously published documents, but also some of the correspondence surrounding them and reports...

Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is at once a very new and a very old field of interest. Risk analysis, as Krimsky and Plough (1988:2) point out, dates back at least to the Babylonians in 3200 BC. Cultures have traditionally utilized...

Space is no longer the special, protected domain that it was in the past. Because of the importance of its practical applications, it is becoming integrated into the mainstream of economic activity. Technology push is giving way to the assessment of market opportunities and...

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information and data- processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests...

Fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl, the main founder of the phenomenological current of thought, we present to the public a four book collection showing in an unprecedented way how Husserl's aspiration to inspire the entire universe of knowledge and scholarship has...

block possible Soviet expansion by mobilizing European "democracies", the policy soon extended to some developing countries in Asia and Latin America. In response, the USSR gradually initiated development programs for newly independent nations in Asia and Africa. In this context, super power rivalry operated...

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities. Such metaphors, which have been relegated to the back seat in most of the cognitive science research, are the focus of attention in this study, which addresses...

Modern logic has Wldergone some remarkable developments in the last hun- dred years. These have contributed to the extraordinary use of formal logic which has become essentially the concern of mathematicians. This has led to attempts to identify logic with formal logic. The claim...

Bestseller instantáneo del New York Times. Cointeligencia es el manual definitivo para trabajar, aprender y vivir en la nueva era de la inteligencia artificial. La inteligencia artificial generativa ha llegado. Y con ella la inevitable confusión que conlleva intentar saber cómo afectará a nuestra...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a...

Change, transformation and development.- i. Evolutionary processes.- Knowledge of growth and the growth of knowledge.- Bringing institutions into evolutionary growth theory.- Choice, chance, and necessity in the evolution of forms of economies.- ii. Demand, innovation and evolution.- Designing clunkers: demand-side innovation and the early...

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1798. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

Cultural heritage, especially the fine arts, plays an invaluable role in the cultural, historical, and economic growth of our societies. Works of fine art are primarily developed for aesthetic purposes and mainly expressed through painting, sculpture, and architecture. In recent years, owing to technological...

Life's Apologies for Our NationBy: Carolann MurrayLife's Apologies for Our Nation is a book about current views of issues that challenge our Nation. It is intended to provide transparency on political issues that one may not be aware of, and the commitment, honor, and...

We tend to define 'technology' as devices and 'democracy' as majority rule. Given these narrow definitions, the two often seem related to each other only in special cases such as electronic voting machines or the use of the Internet in political campaigns. Once we...

The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. -- Thomas De Quincey, The Caesars Originally published in 1853, this intriguing volume incisively examines an era of the...

Gain access to the vast number of historical statistics contained in census publications with this guide. Intended to increase the usefulness of Henry J. Dubester's standard bibliography of historical U.S. census publications (Catalog of United States Census Publications, 1790-1945), this work adds a section...

Essays on Political Economy is a classic collection of political science essays by Frederic Bastiat. My object in this treatise is to examine into the real nature of the Interest of Capital, for the purpose of proving that it is lawful, and explaining why...

This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.Author: Alexander KaunISBN-10: 1494097389ISBN-13: 9781494097387Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.77d

Many questions concerning adoption are discussed by the authors after many years of keeping in close touch with adoptive parents, child-placing agencies, social workers, and all the professions interested in the physical, psychological, and legal aspects of adoption. Adoptive parents themselves, they see inside...

The impetus for this volume began with our research in the 1980's involving serial neuropsychological evaluation with various patient populations. At that time, reports on the practice effects associated with routinely utilized clinical neuropsychological instruments were sparse. While test-retest data were available for almost...

Practical Performance Modeling: Application of the MOSEL Language introduces the new and powerful performance and reliability modeling language MOSEL (MOdeling, Specification and Evaluation Language), developed at the University of Erlangen, Germany. MOSEL facilitates the performance and reliability modeling of a computer, communication, manufacturing or...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

Title: An address to an assembly of the friends of American manufactures: convened for the purpose of establishing a society for the encouragement of manufactures and the useful arts: read in the University of Pennsylvania, on Thursday the 9th of August, 1787.Author: Tench CoxePublisher:...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...