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by Rachel Abbott, Sharon Bolton, Jane Casey
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by bestselling, award-winning female crime writers from the Killer Women crime-writing collective. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as twenty deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places...
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The Philosopher's Book of Questions & Answers
Questions to Open Your Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Your life through the lens of the world's greatest thinkers!
Do you ever wonder how important money really is in life or what you need to do to achieve happiness? With The Philosopher's Book of Questions and Answers, you will be one step closer to solving these uncertainties. Inside, you'll...
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
Economics for Investment Decision Makers Workbook
Micro, Macro, and International Economics
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The economics background investors need to interpret global economic news distilled to the essential elements: A tool of choice for investment decision-makers.
Written by a distinguished academics and practitioners selected and guided by CFA Institute, the world’s largest association of finance...
by Eric W. Sanderson, Ph.D., Paul E. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
More than 400 years of history unfold in the pages of this lavishly illustrated volume, which presents sixty-five full-color maps of America's oldest major city. This is Manhattan's first atlas of historical maps, gathered from private collections and libraries throughout the world. From Giovanni...
Lens of War
Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the...
Akelig Kort
korte onaangename verhalen
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Geheimzinnige, trieste, ellendige, onheilspellende, onverklaarbare en griezelige verhalen die een onbehaaglijk gevoel kunnen achterlaten.
Het boek bevat korte onaangename verhalen die zoals de waarschuwing beschrijft een verschillende sfeer hebben; sommigen verhalen zijn geheimzinnig...
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
The ‘Great Pedestrian' of North and South America
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Cabeza de Vaca’s mode of transportation, afoot on portions of two continents in the early decades of the sixteenth century, fits one dictionary definition of the word “pedestrian.” By no means, however, should the ancillary meanings of “commonplace” or “prosaic” be applied to the...
by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.
The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Instrument Flying
10 Indispensable Principles to Know and Remember
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Written by an instrument instructor for instrument pilots Instrument Flying offers fresh insight into—and distinct ways to remember—10 specific principles designed to calibrate your thinking and lead to safer, better-managed, and less stressful flights. Validated by a cadre of distinguished instructors...
Enhanced Interrogation
Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qa'ida leaders and terror suspects.
A civilian contractor who had spent years training U.S. military members to resist...
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.
Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades the nation’s religious landscape has been reshaped.
America has experienced...