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Does one have to speak English to be an American? Or follow a particular religion? Many students learn in school that America is the world's melting pot, yet this belies long-established attempts by many communities to retain aspects of life from original countries. Racial...

While it was a novelty less than a decade ago, the roster of the most talked-about-people today includes dozens of reality television stars. They know no limits to self-promotion, with constant posts to social media about themselves. The majority of the young public can't...

Your readers are presented with a series of essays that expresses various perspectives on the twenty-first century risks to human health. Readers will explore risks such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. They will evaluate the role of new treatments and technology, and examine America's...

A compelling true story of homicide and injustice in an outback town At first it looked like a swag, said the grader driver. He'd found the body just off the road outside the outback town of Katherine in the Northern Territory. Police quickly identified...

'Jeff Horn's story ... could have been the script for a boxing movie' Inside Sport Jeff Horn took up boxing after being tormented as a teenager. Twelve years later on 2 July 2017, the humble schoolteacher became a world boxing champion at Brisbane's Suncorp...

Awesome, weird and wonderful flicks from four corners of the globe Praise for Marc Fennell'Witty, irreverent and fun ...'Good Reading'Gold!'Cleo 'A film companion with a difference'Daily NewsWhich nation is best equipped to survive a zombie apocalypse?Why do obese moustachioed Tamil action stars make the...

Each year The Superannuation Handbook is fully revised and updated to reflect the many changes to superannuation rules, the ways you can save for retirement and the best way to eventually access your savings without it costing you thousands in fees. It includes information...

This collection of sources demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. The sources are introduced by a substantial overview of current thinking about English...

Written by three surveyors, each with extensive experience in the sector, Dilapidations and Service Charge Disputes will guide practitioners through the common and new practices involved in dealing with disputes on dilapidations and service charge matters. The book offers practical guidance on the related...

Government policy is to conserve buildings from every period. Listing has considerable implications for owners and occupiers. This book sets these out which is useful for the benefit of property managers and others involved in the day-to-day upkeep and long-term use of listed commercial...

This fascinating book provides a comprehensive and considered account of the nature of Liberal Democrat electoral politics in contemporary Britain. It explores the specific challenges facing the Liberal Democrats in their struggle for identity, distinctiveness and, most importantly, votes, and examines the different layers...

Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of...

Launched in 1949 as the 92 before evolving into the 93, 96 2-stroke and 96V4, this car was in production for thirty-one years. Attracting global admiration and sales, it also excelled in motorsport and by the early 1960s was the most successful rally-car in...

This book completes the Civil Engineering Heritage series for the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is an inventory and a guide to a selection of historical engineering works carried out in Scotland over the centuries, from the Callanish Standing Stones to the...

This study brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry, showing how images worked not only to script and maintain gender and social roles within patriarchal society but also to offer viewers ways of managing those roles. Some...

This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth-century to the present day. The book looks at the amateur activities of female 'home makers' in...

The eighteenth-century was long deemed 'the classical age of the constitution' in Britain, with cabinet government based on a two-party system of Whigs and Tories in Parliament, and a monarchy whose powers had been emasculated by the Glorious Revolution o. This study furthers the...

These are stories of courage, love, betrayal, greed, stupidity, magic and miracles. Leprechaun gold has always been a great draw for people with hardly any money, but, of course, the humans are taken for fools and the leprechauns win the day - every time!...

The author argues that the way the British Government managed dissent during World War I is important for understanding the way that the war ended. He argues that a comprehensive and effective system of suppression had been developed by the war's end in 1918,...

More than any other era in human history, the 21st century has been marked by rapid technological innovation. Learn about the inventions that have transformed medical care and advanced the frontiers of technology, from 3-D printed organs to artificial intelligence.Author: World BookISBN-10: 0716653648ISBN-13: 9780716653646Publisher:...

Australians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an integral part of the cultural envelope. This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of...

This new collection of essays by a panel of established international scholars sheds new light on what some of those influences were and what actions were taken as a result of Britain's Far Eastern commitments. Not only are new evidence and approaches to those...

Britain was the first country to come under sustained ballistic missile attack, during 1944-45. Defence against ballistic missiles has been a persistent, if highly variable, subject of political policy and technical investigation ever since. The British Second World War experience of trying to counter...

The origins of the NHS are the subject of this study that presents evidence on the key players who participated in the founding of the system. The author also traces those who opposed the NHS.Author: Marvin RintalaISBN-10: 0714655066ISBN-13: 9780714655062Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 164Format: HardcoverWeight:...

The frustrating stalemate on the western front with its unprecedented casualties provoked a furious debate in London between the civil and military authorities over the best way to defeat Germany. The passions aroused continued to the present day. The mercurial and dynamic David Lloyd...

As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.Author:...

This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the "New Man" that has animated all revolutionaries, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging...

This volume is a compendium of four Battle Summaries or Naval Staff Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for internal use only, these histories are published here for the first time. The...

First published in 1990. This collection of essays examines the position of immigrants and minorities in Caribbean creóle society which, as M.G. Smith and Edward Brathwaite have pointed out, originated from the interaction between Europeans and Africans in the New World context during the...

In a time of unprecedented political and economic transformation, the middle classes of Victorian and Edwardian England became principal players in a new social order. Nowhere did their culture, values and identity gain clearer expression than in their sports, and their influence is still...

The Caspian Region, Volume 2 - together with Volume 1 - offers new issues and approaches to give readers a fuller understanding of this part of the world, as well as correcting some erroneous notions.Author: Moshe GammerISBN-10: 0714652482ISBN-13: 9780714652481Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2004Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual...

The Queer Uncanny investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in representing lesbian, gay, and transgender characters in a selection of British, American, and Caribbean fiction published between 1980 and 2007. Paulina Palmer...

The British Museum's collection of late hieratic religious papyri, particularly those of the Graeco-Roman period, is one of the most important in the world, in terms both of its number and its diversity. The papyri mainly comprise funerary texts laid beside the deceased as...

School mathematics is a complex subject and an ever-changing topic, but this book will help teachers, parents and employers to understand it better.Author: Peter G. DeanISBN-10: 0713001682ISBN-13: 9780713001686Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/1982Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.42h x 6.38w x 0.97d

The Medieval Castles of Wales is a concise but informative guide that highlights the most important and interesting medieval castles throughout the Welsh countryside. The opening chapter traces the history of castle architecture in Britain. The five subsequent chapters--divided by region--guide the reader through...

First Published in 1995. The law of treaties, a central field of international law, was also a central concern for Paul Reuter as a jurist. In close association with Jean Monnet, he made a decisive contribution to the Schuman Plan which led to the...

The five central Asian States of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan stand at the crossroads of world civilization. Influenced by South Asia, Iran, China and Russia, this region which has recently burst onto the world stage once again, guards a distinct identity. This collection...

'Ayn al-Qudat is one of the great multi-dimensional geniuses of Islamic intellectual history and has even been described as the true father of deconstructionism, yet he remains little known and even less understood in the English speaking world. Hamid Dabashi has filled this gap...

Life isn't worth living without an Internet connection. I'm always on the computer, video chatting, and even reading books on my phone. It was natural for me to use the TerraMates app to find a husband. I didn't know they would match me with...

The arc of cancer's narrative is a long one. For some, the aftermath of cancer starts immediately upon being diagnosed. For others, it sneaks in, a shadow extending its reach. The book's authors have many stories to tell-stitching broken and scarred bodies back together,...

My world crumbled, a stable, happy and peaceful life disintegrated in to millions of pieces- from a man I became a patient". These were the words of one of my patients who suffered an unexpected heart attack. The pain and sadness hidden in these...

Clinical Dharma: A Path for Healers and Helpers is the result of Dr. Steve's over 25 years experience with Buddhist mindfulness practice and as many years as an educator and a therapist. In that time he has seen how so many of his colleagues...

When three former cops commit suicide, private investigator Alec Santana knows it not a coincidence. An ex-cop inexplicably commits suicide in Miami, and his widow turns to her husband's best friend, Alec Santana, for assistance. Soon after, two more ex-cops commit suicide. After talking...

Students who struggle with multi-digit arithmetic often lack key base ten place value understanding. Rhyme and illustration bring place value to real life in this picture book designed for teachers and learners. This book features illustrated models of base five place value in the...

This major study analyses the traditional modes of Sino-Tibetan relations in order to unearth general patterns beyond partisan points of view. It sheds light on contemporary issues in the Sino-Tibetan dialogue, and discerns possible future structures for conflict resolution in occupied Tibet. With its...

In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation toward humankind and their gods, and their conception of the supernatural, as well as...

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the...

No one has ever seen a quark. Yet physicists seem to know quite a lot about the properties and behavior of these ubiquitous elementary particles. Here a top researcher introduces us to a fascinating but invisible realm that is part of our everyday life....

John Servos explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A. A. Noyes, G. N. Lewis, and Linus Pauling, and of key institutions, including MIT, the University of California at...