Social Science - General

Why would a well-educated, middle class woman leave a teaching career and spend nineteen years in a California cult that imposed authority over decisions about material possessions, privacy, children, marriage, food, personal appearance, and ultimately her identity? Why didn't she and hundreds like her...

The Academy continues its steady progress with this volume of working papers that were considered at the second international conference in 2019. The proceeds of the previous year's inaugural annual conference were subtitled Gathering the Field. The current volume, Setting the Bearings, demonstrates the...

This volume serves as a companion to Martin Albrow's previous book China's Role in the Shared Common Future: Towards Theory for Global Leadership (2018). It consists of essential selections of work on the theory and practice of globalization (Chapter 2) by the author, the...

In The Courageous State, Richard Murphy argues that neoliberalism has bred weak governments led by weak politicians who believe implicitly in the supremacy of the market. It has created a cowardly state: a state that sees responsibility and then runs away from it. Worse,...

Examines how Western perceptions of the Middle East were formed and how we have used them as a rationalization for setting policies and determining actions.Author: Thierry HentschISBN-10: 1895431131ISBN-13: 9781895431131Publisher: Black Rose BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1992Pages: 218Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

In the 1850s, early Euro-American settlers established two remote outposts on the slopes of the eastern Sierra Nevada, both important way stations on the central emigrant trail. The Carson Valley settlement was located on the western edge of the Utah Territory, while the Honey...

Book of Ancient Ethiopian religious doctrine, history, and mysticism.Author: By Wallis BudgeISBN-10: 1639232052ISBN-13: 9781639232055Publisher: Lushena BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2022Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d

In Conversations on Bilingualism, Fabrice Jaumont delves deeper into the topics of bilingualism, bilingual education, and cognitive development through a series of conversations with worldrenown experts from the Americas, Europe, and Africa: Ana Ines Ansaldo, Ellen Bialystok, Mbacké Diagne, Ofelia García, François Grosjean, and...

Among runners, it's called hitting the wall. You've reached the utter limit of your physical abilities. No amount of willpower can keep your legs moving, and your forward progress comes to a crashing halt sometimes literally. In business and in life, it's called reaching...

Among runners, it's called hitting the wall. You've reached the utter limit of your physical abilities. No amount of willpower can keep your legs moving, and your forward progress comes to a crashing halt sometimes literally. In business and in life, it's called reaching...

In 1999, General Museveni, Uganda's autocratic leader, ordered police to arrest homosexuals for engaging in behavior that he characterized as "un-African" and against Biblical teaching. A state-sanctioned campaign of harassment of LGBT people followed. With the approval of sections of Uganda's clergy (and with...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1783. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

Tables Requisite to be Used with the Astronomical and Nautical Ephemeris is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1766. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Social Studies (General), grade: B, CEVRO Institute, language: English, abstract: This Master s thesis is concerned with the question of how the meritocratic style of governance and culture fostered Singapore s way to becoming one...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - Mathematics, grade: A, Kampala International University (Bachelor of sciences), course: BSC, language: English, abstract: The objective of this study was to investigate the reasons behind poor performance of girls in mathematics in selected...

The World of Nationalities and the Issue of Nationality.- Taking into Perspective the Historical Conditions in China and Building a United Multi-nationality Country.- Practicing the Principle of Nationality Equality and Exercising Regional National Autonomy.- Developing the Western Region in the Primary Stage of Socialism.-...

Media was different in the past. In order to read, one might go to a library; to listen to music, one went to a music room. Life is much more convenient now with transmedia, to the extent that instead of sourcing different media outlets,...

After the Chinese anti-satellite test in 2007, the international community responded with fear that a new space race was soon to begin. Soon after the test, debate began on the need for an arms control treaty specifically for the use of banning weapons in...

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between nurse staffing ratios and patient outcomes. This investigation studied the relationships among nursing quality indicators of patient care; that is structure, process, and outcome indicators of patient care. The structure, process, and outcome...

Through a comparison with the paradigmatic French events of mai 68, this book explores how Northern Ireland's 1968 has been marginalised in the way the events are remembered at a European level. It argues a case for its inclusion on the list of countries...

This volume stresses the strong links between mathematics, culture and creativity in architecture, contemporary art, geometry, computer graphics, literature, theatre and cinema. It is designed not only for mathematicians but for anyone interested in the various aspects of culture, both scientific and literary, with...

The story of Tristan and Iseult - rendered into English from the German is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

The folk-song of Israel in the mouth of the prophets is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle - new and abridged edition, in Two Volumes - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...

The Excellency of the Pen and Pencil - exemplifying The Uses of them in the most Exquisite and Mysterious Arts of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Limning, Painting in Oyl, Washing of Maps & Pictures is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1668....

Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Theology - Islamic theology, grade: 65, Newman University, course: Islamic Education, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence of pornography, its effect on Muslim students, and how this can...

Two treatises on civil government 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...

Brazilian Flowers Drawn From Nature - in the years 1880-1882, in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro; viz. Larangeiras, Tijuca, Paquetá, Petropolis, many of the specimens gathered in primeval forests is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor...

Valuable information concerning patents and patent law is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. 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...

Letters on the Masonic Institution is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. 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...

Substance and Shadow - An Exposition of the Tabernacle Types is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

Why I am a Republican - A History of the Republican Party, a Defense of its Policy and the Reasons which Justify its Continuance in Power is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on...

Confession is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. 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 the...

Protection and Communism is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . 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...

The Primitive Baptist Hymnal - A Choice Collection of Hymns and Tunes of Early and Late Composition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel...

Principles of Torts and Contracts - A short digest of the common law, chiefly founded upon the works of Addison. With illustrative cases. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas...

Speech of Hon. Joseph C. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Repreesentatives is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

Shakespeare as a Physician - Comprising every word which in any way relates to medicine, surgery or obstetrics, found in the complete works of that writer, with criticisms and comparison of the same with the medical thoughts of to-day is an unchanged, high-quality reprint...

Mogul Emperors of Hindustan 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 nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we...

The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller - Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of...

The Other World - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. 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...

The Two Old Men is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. 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...

Thoughts on Ireland - Its present and its future. By the late Count Cavour. Tr. by W.B. Hodgson, LL. D is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...

Communism in America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. 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...

The Theory of Legal Duties and Rights - an introduction to analytical jurisprudence is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

Patriotic Songs - For school and home is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. 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...

Philosophy of Ritual - apologia pro ritu. Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

Songs of Devotion - A collection of Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, with music, for church service, prayer and conference meetings, Young Men's Christian Associations, religious conventions and family worship is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor...

Songs of the Church - Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...

The gospel for an age of doubt - The Yale lectures on preaching 1866 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...