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Myths of Northern Lands - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

Contributions to the Science of Mythology - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

The Essentials of Method - A Discussion of the Essential Form of Right Methods in Teaching 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...

The Azores or Western Islands - A political, commercial and geographical account is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial - And Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity - Three Years' Imprisonment for Religious Belief, by the Arbitrary Will of a Husband is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of...

Money - Its uses and abuses, coinage, national bonds, curency, and banking, illustrated and explained is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions,...

Hymnal, for Christian Science Church and Sunday School Services 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...

Chinese Music is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. 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 on...

Pulpit Elocution - Comprising remarks on the effect of manner in public discourse 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...

Fortuna - A Story of Wall Street is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. 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...

1. Bridging the Climate-Energy Information Gap; Don Gunasekera .- 2. Achieving Valuable Weather and Climate Services; Alberto Troccoli .- 3. European Climate Services; Carlo Buontempo .- 4. What Does the Energy Industry Require From Meteorlogy?; Laurent Dubus, Shylesh Muralidharan and Alberto Troccoli 5. Forging...

1 ​Introduction: The Shakespeare User.- 2 South of Elsinore: Actions that A Man Might Play.- 3 Beyond The Tempest: Language, Legitimacy, and La Frontera.- 4 Young Turks or Corporate Clones? Cognitive Capitalism and the (Young) User in the Shakespearean Attention Economy.- 5 Circum-Global Transmission...

This book provides a needed overview of the scholarship on medieval public culture and popular movements such as the Peace of God, heresy, and the crusades and illustrates how a changing sense of the populus, the importance of publics and public opinion and public...

The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24-25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural studies, Literary and Media studies, and...

This book examines the notion of storytelling in videogames. This topic allows new perspectives on the enduring problem of narrative in digital games, while also opening up different avenues of inquiry. The collection looks at storytelling in games from many perspectives. Topics include the...

This Special Issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious Studies, and here, we present studies of the Hindu...

This volume incorporates Darko Suvin's thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s. While the focus is on the United States and the United Kingdom, the essays also draw on French, German and Russian...

This book presents new and original research in Statistical Information Theory, based on minimum divergence estimators and test statistics, from a theoretical and applied point of view, for different statistical problems with special emphasis on efficiency and robustness. Divergence statistics, based on maximum likelihood...

This volume features thirteen original chapters on the causes and consequences of gender segregation in scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") occupations and fields of study. Although women have made great strides in equalizing access to labor markets and higher education, many STEM fields--particularly...

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as...

This book offers important insights into the challenging yet rewarding journey of undertaking a PhD. Written by students, for students, the book explores a range of case studies from creative arts and humanities doctoral students, embracing a cognitive, emotional and transformational metaphor of the...

This book calls for a collective strengthening of the progressive dimension of climate action in the face of continued myopic governmental response. Delina argues that consent must be revoked and power realigned to avoid suffering the consequences of unabated climate change. He looks back...

1. Sustainability Definitions, Historical Context and Frameworks; Sandra Garren and Robert Brinkmann .- Section 1: Environment .- 2. Sustainability and Natural Landscape Stewardship: A United States Conservation Case Study; Johanna Kavorik .- 3. Policy Design for Sustainability at Multiple Scales: The Case of Transboundary...

The New Revelation is a non-fiction account of Sherlock-Holmes-creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's philosophical look at religion. He spent many years of his life lecturing about spiritualism and even wrote many pamphlets and essays about the matter. In The New Revelation, he expounds on...

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,...

Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for...

How To Manipulate People Using Mind Control, NLP & Persuation Techniques Manipulation is a linguistic term used with most creative potential to convince someone with one's thought and ideas. The first attempt to control someone starts from first breath of life when a baby...

The first "Crisis" is of especial historical interest. It was written during the retreat of Washington across the Delaware, and by order of the Commander was read to groups of his dispirited and suffering soldiers. Its opening sentence was adopted as the watchword of...

Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative describes her experience as a captive of the Native Americans during the King Philips War in 1676. Her diary accounts for her capture to her return, although written a few years post her release. Her capture spanned around 11 weeks...

How can we understand -- when nonviolent movements will stay nonviolent? When are they likely to break down into violence? In this monograph, Jonathan Pinckney analyzes both what promotes and undermines nonviolent discipline in civil resistance movements. Combining quantitative research on thousands of nonviolent...

Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE proved to be one of the most influential publications during the American Revolution. Published anonymously by Paine in early 1776, COMMON SENSE was an instant bestseller, with more than than 120,000 copies distributed. In COMMON SENSE, Paine advocated the independence...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Leonard Jason-LloydISBN-10: 1859417051ISBN-13: 9781859417058Publisher: Routledge CavendishLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/04/2005Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d

On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impacts of population growth on 19 global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income and health....

a very useful starting point for teachers wanting to involve pupils in developing anti-bullying strategies, and in raising awareness about the possible consequences of bullying. The text is clearly set out and easy to follow.' - Cambridge Journal of Education 'dozens of bright ideas...

Why do we think about and interact with other people in the particular ways that we do? Might these thoughts and actions be contemporary products of our long-ago evolutionary past? If so, how might this be, and what are the implications? Research generated by...

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues...

When "revolution" becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content,...

This book discusses what it means to "perform the State," what this action means in relation to the country of Iran and how these various performances are represented. The concept of the "State" as a modern phenomenon has had a powerful impact on the...

Our current education system is overloaded with amendments, additions and adjustments which have been designed to keep an outdated model in the air. But it is crashing. And as it comes down, we see the battle of blame begin. It is time to take...

The Communist Manifesto is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in German, just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as...

LEARN PARANORMAL ABILITIES FOR YOURSELFWhat are God Like Powers & Abilities?These are the abilities of the human spirit which are supposed to be impossible, but which really exist.The abilities and powers reviewed in this book include Telepathy, Psychokinesis, Levitation, Invisibility, Invulnerability, Teleportation, Creating your...

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two...

The main title of this book is "Black Men Wake Up" but there are three other sub titles in this book also. The book describes the relationship between black and white men and where we're headed if we don't work together. This book tells...

Following The Streets Are Blue, this book, More Than Heroic, marks the second installment in a series of true tales of service from the front lines of the Los Angeles Police Department. In this book, the realities of police work are captured through the...

Alberto is a charismatic and crafty immigrant who has developed a thriving business selling non-existent legal services to immigrants at exorbitant prices. He handpicks lawyers who are incompetent, unsuccessful or of questionable character to maintain his facade. as well as those who have become...

Endorsements: "This book adds a significant dimension to the current emphasis on Total Quality Management by emphasizing both the need and the means for bringing about cultural change that will ensure positive bottom line results." --George Morrisey, author of Creating Your Future: Personal Strategic...

More often than not it's a class in the social sciences that challenges the faith of students, not a class in biology. Does critical understanding of our religious traditions, institutions, and convictions undercut them? Or can a modern social scientific approach deepen faith's commitments,...

Four decades after its end, the American war in Vietnam still haunts the nation's collective memory. Its lessons, real and imagined, continue to shape government policies and military strategies, while the divisions it spawned infect domestic politics and fuel the so-called culture wars. In...

A volume in Research in Curriculum and Instruction Series Editor: O. L. Davis, Jr. The University of Texas at Austin This volume is the fourth, and last, volume in the series entitled Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: An Annotated...

Obamacare and the changes it represents could save our primary care doctors from extinction, or it could crush them. Imagine health care without your Familiar Physician. Every time you're sick, you're a stranger, enduring long waits for medical treatment from someone who may never...