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This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody Partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of Indo-Pakistani relations. T.C.A. Raghavan...

Retired university professor Renate Schulz is looking for something to do with her life, some way to give back. She decides to rejoin the Peace Corps forty-six years after she first served. Life in Alien Territory: Memories of Peace Corps Service in Mali chronicles...

Early in the 20th century Clarence Day found success with his autobiographical book Life with Father. Day began as a stockbroker and then joined the Navy. His arthritis made him an invalid at an early age. In 1920 his first book This Simian World...

A study of work in the European-African colonial relationship during the first half of the 20th century. Labor relations became increasingly tense during the 1940s due to a rising urban working class, and this book examines the transformation of the relations by focusing on...

What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other...

Common Sense Thomas Paine Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775Author: Thomas PaineISBN-10: 1534778918ISBN-13: 9781534778917Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2016Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.08d

In an increasingly polarized society, and in the midst of seemingly endless culture wars, our civil discourse appears to be in shambles. What are we to do? If a lack of conversation is the primary culprit of the current state, then perhaps intentionally engaging...

This anthology will allow students the opportunity to analyze gangs and other adolescent subcultures as social phenomena. The book outlines the historical, etiological, behavioral, social, demographic, and environmental characteristics of these prevalent subcultures. Dr. LaTanya Skiffer's experience with gangs is both personal and professional....

For decades, the tiny Village was the scene of warfare, a raging street fight between the enlightened, who wished to dry up the flow of booze from Main Street saloons, and those who regarded those saloons as second homes.Author: Dave ThorntonISBN-10: 1511538783ISBN-13: 9781511538787Publisher: Createspace...

This is a collection of essays by the famed philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. From the preface: "When Schopenhauer was asked where he wished to be buried, he answered, "Anywhere; they will find me;" and the stone that marks his grave at Frankfort bears merely the...

This book provides intercultural training for international students studying in the U.S. so that they can more successfully navigate their experience abroad. Topics include: Intercultural Communication Competence Culture Shock Verbal Communication in Intercultural Contexts Nonverbal Communication in Intercultural Contexts Worldview Intercultural Perception This text...

Author: Charles ThorntonISBN-10: 1477112502ISBN-13: 9781477112502Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2012Pages: 90Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Daniel MacklerISBN-10: 1450023010ISBN-13: 9781450023016Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2010Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

This book shows how trapped we are in a mechanized, consumer-driven society. It describes how the corporation-economy creates a Machine Culture in which all of us are oilers of our spiritual impoverishment. We have been cut off from the sacred. By initiating elder-leaders, establishing...

Harrowing experiences and shocking details regarding the societal phenomenon known as, 'Racial Profiling" fill the pages of this true story based on the life of New Jersey State Trooper John Hogan. Following his involvement in the infamous, 'Turnpike Shooting" which ignited the nation's firestorm...

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...

What in the world is a social scientist doing collaborating with an engineer, and an engineer with a sociologist, and together on a book about drones and sociotechnical thinking in the classroom? This book emerges from a frustration that disciplinary silos create few opportunities...

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...

This interdisciplinary volume explores and engages the key thinkers and ideas of the Austrian School of political economy to better understand aspects of the market process and its implications for everything from disaster recovery and political development to morality and monetary policy.Author: Rosolino A....

Joseph Mark Glazner's upbeat memoir, California 1963-1967 Spaceship Earth, recreates the wild and crazy early years of the counterculture through the eyes of a college student, promising young writer, and conflicted war resister living on the edge of Hollywood and the music industry while...

"Now in its eighth edition, Public Policy in Canada: An Introduction continues to navigate and examine the changing landscape of public policy in Canada. The format of this classic text remains the same: Part I introduces concepts, theories, and approaches to Canadian public policy,...

Healthcare workers are exposed to several different occupational risk factors, and they pay an important tribute in terms of occupational diseases and work-related injuries. Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic has focused the attention on the problem of the infectious risk, which is certainly among the...

Delphi methods enable the systematic collection of expert judgments. They have proven to be particularly useful when a certain level of expertise and judgment is required to answer a research question. There are different variants of Delphi methods, such as the group Delphi or...

This book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present and the future. It compares three human rights museums and their respective...

This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself. Police brutality has been a defining controversy of the modern age, brought into focus most readily by the murder of...

Lord Melbourne's Papers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. 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 publisher we focus...

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,...

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,...

Title: Desultory reflections on the new political aspects of public affairs in the United States of America since the commencement of the year 1799.Author: John Ward FennoPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a...

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,...

The focus of the book is on the peculiarities of a journalist's work in the process of making a documentary. The authors have also studied several TV journalistic genres, which most of all include elements of documentaries, and have put the focus on the...

In this book an attempt has been made to trace the cultural relations between India and the Central Asian countries. The countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are jointly known as Central Asian countries. Relations between India and Central Asia have been...

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,...

The truth about culture, immigrants wont say about their own people. Regardless of the reasons, none of them should hold higher value than the inevitable truth about the disruptive and dissonant experiences of immigrants who refuse to integrate into the dominant society in which...

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,...

Likely written around 1607 or 1608 and attributed at least in part to Shakespeare, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" is an adventure-filled play that follows the extended sailing journeys of a young prince. Pericles, a young prince from Phoenicia, is forced to flee Antioch when...

The core thesis of this book is that to understand the implications of incentive structures in modern higher education, we require a deeper understanding of associated issues in the philosophy of science. Significant public and philanthropic resources are directed towards various forms of research...

This book focuses on the traditional Chinese ritual system of sacrifice to mountain and water spirits, a significant but largely overlooked sub-field of Chinse religious studies. This system mainly comprised the five sacred peaks, five strongholds, four seas, and four waterways, and was maintained...

County government is one of the most consequential, least understood levels of government in America. Specific county roles and responsibilities vary widely from state to state- and even within some states- but county governments everywhere play an important role in serving residents and communities....

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 book's title refers to the legendary Seal of Solomon, a ring that supposedly gave King Solomon the power to speak to animals. Lorenz claims that he likewise achieved this feat of communication with several species. He accomplished this by raising them in and...

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...

My Journey Through the Child Welfare EnterpriseBy: Mary C. YoungMy Journey Through the Child Welfare Enterprise details Mary Young's experience with the Child Welfare system. Young explores the intricacies of a system which she held prejudices against and the nuances within the system. Through...

Yuliana Kholodova - candidate of chemical sciences, doctor of biological sciences, professor of biochemistry. She has more than 200 scientific publications to her credit, including monographs and patents. She is also the author of socio-political works and literary essays. Details of her biography can...

Former Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was one of the great Egyptologists of the century and author of a host of books on ancient Egypt. For this collection, he carefully selected nine of the...

Special Issue of Arts: "Slavic and Eastern-European Visuality: Modernity and Tradition" is focused on researching interactions of art and literature, of philosophy and visual poetry, and generally on theoretical aspects of cultural analysis.Author: Dennis IoffeISBN-10: 303656635XISBN-13: 9783036566351Publisher: Mdpi AGLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2023Pages: 426Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.45lbsSize:...

Diane Marie is an American author. She has a Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She is a solution focused person, always trying to empower others, about ways, to not get lost in their problems, but work towards a solution and move forward...