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In this classic work of spiritualism, Mary Kyle Dallas offers glimpses into the afterlife through her own experiences and anecdotes from others. She explores topics such as reincarnation, mediumship, and communication with spirits, offering comfort and hope to those struggling with grief and loss.This...

Irvine's memoir is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Born into poverty in early 20th century Scotland, Irvine overcame tremendous obstacles to become a successful writer and pastor in the United States. This book is an inspiring read that will...

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,...

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,...

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,...

With the demise of the polygraph following the passage of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, honesty testing has come to be seen as an alternative approach. But it has become the subject of considerable controversy, some legal enactments, a barrage of union opposition, and...

The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an...

Donaldson studies how and why the United States contributed to the increase in contraceptive use from 1965 to 1980 by promoting family planning throughout the developing world. He argues that the people and institutions they supported overseas started a contraceptive revolution that has dramatically...

A former Greenpeace spokesperson and activist offers a way to draw on creative spirit and change the world. Blending the worlds of Deepak Chopra and Ralph Nader, The Spirit's Terrain explains how to access deep components of creativity, such as intuition, conscious and unconscious...

My Hair Goes Up uses essays and poetics to examine the California CROWN Act (SB 188), a law written to create a respectful, open workplace, and world, for natural hair. This book is a poetic tribute to the lofty, helically shaped hair that deserves...

Nearly all of Laurence's works from Africa and Canada are critiqued in this volume. The essays highlight Laurence's innovative narrative styles, showing how her combinations of oral literary forms and unique shifts in tense and point of view help her achieve vivid character portrayals....

In Oceans as Archives, the ocean forms a generative site to develop practices of reading, writing, thinking, and imagining a long era of climate catastrophe. Many scholars, artists, and activists have argued that climate catastrophe demands new methods of writing, representation, and critique that...

Author: Edward B. FranceISBN-13: 9798900192154Publisher: Ace Book WritersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2025Pages: 606Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d

Author: Lothrop StoddardISBN-10: 1593640366ISBN-13: 9781593640361Publisher: Liberty Bell PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2025Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

In a world defined by widening inequality and political polarization, Edward France offers a timely and deeply researched examination of how Europe's social democracies and Austria's unique system of Social Partnership have navigated these challenges, and how their models can offer the United States...

In today's volatile world, leaders face challenges that can't be solved with quick fixes or technical expertise alone. What's needed is a deeper capacity to think, act, and lead developmentally.The Developmental Practitioner introduces the pioneering work of Otto Laske, whose Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF)...

Written from inside a prison yet refusing a prisoner's mind, Emick Lee offers a clear, courageous summons to Black families, churches, and the global diaspora: pray it, then build it. With the cadence of the ancestors and the precision of a blueprint, Dear Black...

For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games are played in the courts and parliaments.Winner,...

'As a result, two concepts are competing: freedom and ownership. Both claim to be able to provide the ideal breeding ground for the knowledge society.' Never before has science had such a large platform for knowledge networking as it does today through digital networking;...

Although it is well known that narrative impacts our modes of assessing and interpreting the world as well as the creation of cultural identities and cultural communities, there is little research on the way in which cognition, culture, and narratives intersect. Cultural narratology usually...

Seven Decades of the Union, by Henry Alexander Wise, offers a comprehensive look at the tumultuous years of the United States through the lens of personal memoir and historical analysis. Focusing particularly on the life and presidency of John Tyler, the book delves into...

This book is about social robots and their disruptive potential with respect to social environments and cultural institutions. It seeks to develop an in-depth understanding and ethical analysis of how our cultural tenets are affected by the introduction of socially competent robotic technologies and...

Given a proliferation of crises from climate change, public health emergencies, and new threats of global war, engaging the future and probing new conjunctures of inquiry is becoming increasingly urgent. This volume enlists the cultural imagination and the study of culture specifically, asking how...

This Reprint of the Special Issue, titled "Cognitive Load Theory: Emerging Trends and Innovations" (Education Sciences, April 2025) explores the latest advancements in cognitive load theory (CLT), a pivotal framework for optimizing learning through cognitive psychology and instructional design. Featuring 15 articles from the...

For three years, COVID-19 Pandemic effected us all, world-wide. This pictorial retrospective memoir relates the dramatic life changing experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Our daily lives were upended in many ways we could neither predict nor prepare for. As a society, we were engulfed...

Embark on a journey through the intricate web of conspiracy theories, exploring their far-reaching impact on individuals and society. Delve into the psychological stress induced by perpetual suspicion, the erosion of trust in institutions crucial for progress, and the dangers posed to global cooperation...

With technological refinements, the web is awash with information. People are generating content promptly; the outcome is that there are more questions and limited answers. In an expansive range of application areas, data is being acquired at an unprecedented scale. Formerly, the conclusions were...

No detailed description available for "Reaching wa'y".Author: Ariela GrossISBN-10: 3879974055ISBN-13: 9783879974054Publisher: Klaus SchwarzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2012Pages: 111Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.40d

A Journey to Ashango-Land and Further Penetration into Equatorial Africa is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

When watching the collapse of the Twin Towers on CNN 11 September 2001, the international community was awakened to the urgent needs of open discussion to identify the emerging threat and the way to cope with it. Given the unprecedented heinous nature of the...

An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...

Hartmut Böhme's study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising, sport and popular culture today. In it he provides a thorough exploration of religion, magic, idolatry, sexuality and consumption, charting the...

The biography of the comic actor Thomas Doggett and the famous Coat and Badge Race which he founded for watermen on the River Thames. Contents: Part I. The Man By Theodore Andrea Cook Chapter I The Fame of Actors 3 Chapter II Bartholomew Fair...

What if you could unlock ageless wisdom to navigate life's transitions with grace and understanding?In this enlightening work, Aristotle reflects on the nature of youth and old age, offering insights into human development, energy, and vitality. Adapted for the modern reader, this timeless guide...

Explores the visual ways in which the concept of revolution is appropriated through public images across the globe using a diverse range of case studies. Author: Lisa B. Y. CalventeISBN-10: 1783485051ISBN-13: 9781783485055Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2016Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w...

Literary anthologies feature many of Ireland's most well-known authors, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Seán O'Casey, James Joyce, and Brendan Behan among them. While a number of notable scholars have contended that middle-class Irish Americans rejected or ignored...

What generation of mankind will take the responsibility of defeating the enemies that are destroying our society? Haven't our communities suffered long enough? This powerful book, The New Revolutionary War by Chicago firefighter John G. Curry, shares The Idea that will make it possible...

Covering more than the conventional food-only role of agriculture, the international contributors to Agriculture, Human Security, and Global Peace detail how the solution to agricultural problems can lead to the general socioeconomic and political development of impoverished countries. In the end, a stable agricultural...

Who's afraid of for-profit education? Those who work in non-profit or government owned and operated schools. Many parents and other stakeholders have been made fearful by this education establishment. What's more important to humans: nutrition or education? Nutrition is more important because it is...

Author: Devereaux KennedyISBN-10: 1516557077ISBN-13: 9781516557073Publisher: Cognella Academic PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2017Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.56d

Welcome to our classroom, the planet Earth. Our purpose in this classroom is to acquire the spiritual attributes we need for our eternal spiritual life - attributes that will contribute to our success and happiness both here and in the worlds to come. Dynamic...

Four distinguished scholars discuss our development during the last four hundred years in the arts, in politics, in science and invention, and in the intangible values of personality. For those who are interested in the more important aspects of our civilization, who are concerned...

This is a collection of characterizations of such significant southern leaders as Woodrow Wilson, Charles Aycock, Joel Chandler Harris, Booker T. Washington, and others. They were leaders whose contributions resulted from hard work and devotion to special causes rather than to any dominance of...

The results of Albert Kurek's many years of research are found in his book "The Troopers Are Coming". His information was taken from newspapers, court records and recollections of those who served. It is a historically accurate account of the first 25 years of...

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...

Revisionist Shakespeare appropriates revisionist history in order to both criticize traditional transitional interpretations of Shakespearean drama and to offer a new methodology for understanding representations of social conflict in Shakespeare's play and in Early Modern English culture. Rather than argue that Shakespearean drama allegorizes...

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...