Beck: 1130 books
College Sports Traditions
Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Every year since 1961, football and basketball players at Middlebury College in Vermont pick up their wheelchair-bound fan, Butch, and bring him to the stadium sidelines to watch their games. At John Brown University, the volleyball team distributes candy to fans before each match. For years, fans...
The United States Social Networking Market
An Analysis of Cyworld's Failure to Succeed Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Company formation, Business Plans, grade: 1,0, University of St Andrews (School of Management), language: English, abstract: Only those networks, which are most innovative, and the most convenient for usage are likely to attract...
International community organising
Taking power, making change
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
As the Arab Spring continues to work through changes, the Occupy Movement is agitating for change and many are looking for alternatives in the face of global financial and political challenges, community organising offers a realistic way forward for many communities: a tried and tested way of improving...
by G. K. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
My book is an easy read book of rhymes. Many of the rhymes are accompanied by a color photo. Topics include, the Universe, Nature, Love, Conflict, Alcohol and Drugs, Rimas en Español, Sports, Food and Travel.
Maria, Mord und Mandelplätzchen
Weihnachtskrimis von Sylt bis zur Zugspitze
Language: German
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Erst 1, dann 2, dann 3, dann 4, dann steht der Mörder vor der Tür! Und das nicht nur in der Nachbarschaft: Gemeuchelt, vergiftet und die Waffe gezückt wird innerhalb ganz Deutschlands – und das zur Weihnachtszeit! Besinnlichkeit war gestern, denn jetzt lehren uns die besten Regiokrimi-Autoren...
by Louise Doswald-Beck
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
This book is a guide to international human rights law as it applies to situations of armed conflict, to counter-terrorism measures and to any other situation of actual or potential violence requiring security measures. These situations can lead to some of the most fundamental human rights being put...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
by Jean Marie Beck
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
In the tradition of a classic novella, Bringer of Light is the story of one womans journey from darkness into light. Feeling broken, Jacie McCall prays for help from a God whom she had lost faith in long ago. Then one night a mysterious woman named Lily appears in Jacies dream. As Jacies life turns...
by Christine S. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
To counter the discouraging statistics and achievement gap of black boys, Listen to Our Voices gives eight black middle school males the chance to express their thoughts loud and clear.
Boiotia in Antiquity
Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Boiotia was - next to Athens and Sparta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades pioneered and fostered the exploration of it and its people through his research. His seminal publications have covered all aspects...
Forging Southeastern Identities
Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent...
by Bernard C. Nalty, Alfred M. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The four years between 1941 and 1945 were years in which the nation raised and trained an air armada and committed it to operations on a scale unknown to that time. With Courage: The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II retells the story of sacrifice, valor, and achievements in air campaigns against...
The Juan Pardo Expeditions
Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.
This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians,...
by Noah Beck
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In this gripping doomsday thriller "ripped from the headlines," Iran has threatened to destroy Israel while developing the nuclear capability to do so. Struck by a medical emergency, Israel’s Prime Minister falls unconscious just as military action is needed to stop Iran’s nukes. History is now up...