Social Science - General

Cataloguing and Classification introduces concepts and practices in cataloguing and classification, and common library standards. The book introduces and analyzes the principles and structures of library catalogues, including the application of AACR2, RDA, DDC, LCC, LCSH and MARC 21 standards, and conceptual models such...

Establishes a line of enquiry into the relationship between tourism and modernity. This book contextualizes it in terms of relationship between Logos-modernity and Eros-modernity. It focuses on the conditions of modernity that lure tourists towards pleasure travel. It also looks at the relationship between...

Clement Eaton analyzes the faults of the Southern Confederacy, focusing specifically of how the impact of the war led to negative changes in society. Clement Eaton analysis the life struggle of the Confederacy through previously unavailable materials, showcasing where the South went wrong and...

This is the first comprehensive reference grammar of Tajik, the Persian of Central Asia, to appear in English. It describes the modern literary language, with examples of colloquial and dialect usage, from the early Soviet period (1920s) up until Tajikistan's independence after 1991. Grammatical...

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A New Kind of Dialogue is a landmark in understanding the pervasive challenges of modern society.It is a serious but easy read, written as a first-hand narrative that encourages dialogic thinking.This is the story of how a new kind of Dialogue was conceived by...

A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.Author: M. Klimke, J....

The police are constantly under scrutiny. They are criticized for failings, praised for successes, and hailed as heroes for their sacrifices. Starting from the premise that every society has norms and ways of dealing with transgressors, A Short History of Police and Policing traces...

This political and diplomatic history of late nineteenth-century Afghanistan and its major ethnic groups lays bare how the ground was laid for the emergence of Afghanistan as a nation-state as well as for the implementation of schemes of modernization.It describes how Amir Sher 'Ali...

Behavioral economics - a field based in collaborations among economists and psychologists - focuses on integrating a nuanced understanding of behavior into models of decision-making. Since the mid-20th century, this growing field has produced research in numerous domains and has influenced policymaking, research, and...

How can you expect to reach your full potential when you settle for living beneath your means? How can you fulfill your obligations to your existence when you aren't even living within your purpose? How can you question the lack of prosperity and counterproductivity...

Behaving is a fascinating collection of papers on children's etiquette, originally presented at a series of meetings of the Mothers' Club of the P.S. 17 District in New York City. It covers topics such as table manners, conversation, behavior at home and in public,...

Sentient animals, machines, and robots abound in German literature and culture, but there has been surprisingly limited scholarship on non-human life forms in German studies. This volume extends interdisciplinary research in emotion studies to examine non-humans and the affective relationships between humans and non-humans...

In Animal-Assisted Therapy: Superstars Change Teen Lives, author Gaby Dufresne-Cyr explores the transformative power of animal-assisted therapy in the lives of at-risk teenagers. The story unfolds in a unique setting where dogs, wolves, rats, and horses become compassionate companions in the journey toward healing...

By analyzing appropriations of literary modernism in video, experimental film, and installation art, this study investigates works of media art as agents of cultural memory. While research recognizes film and literature as media of memory, it often overlooks media art. Adaptation studies, art history,...

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,...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

A storm journal describing the events that transpired in the New Orleans region during Hurricane Katrina. A simple effort to remember history, and reflect an average person's experience in the storm and the aftermath. With an introduction by the author, a small selection of...

Banjo Players Hand Book is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. 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...

This book addresses the question of animal rights in the context of literary criticism. Working from a committed position, it asks the question, 'What would literary studies look like if we took animal rights seriously?' It offers critical surveys of the main themes in...

This book is embedded in practical tools which proposes a fourth field of economics in addition to macro, micro and industrial organisation economics (IO); namely what may be called the economics of diversity. This book asserts that businesses are as individual as people. All...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on both slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nutritional, biological, and medical sciences with demography. The book begins with an examination of the pre-slavery era in Africa and then...

"Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals-especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies-the Mehinaku...

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Born a slave in Virginia, Elizabeth Keckley (c. 1824-1907) went on to become a talented dressmaker and designer, with some twenty employees of her own. Catering to the wives, daughters, and sisters of Washington's political elite, she included among her clientele Mary Todd Lincoln,...

This book examines the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things to forge the Next Internet. Ubiquitous computing enables universal communication, concentration of power, privacy erosion, environmental degradation, and massive automation and this title explores solving these issues to create...

Growing up in the 90's, my weekends were punctuated with endless VHS tapes and sleepovers withfriends. As the calendar flipped over to the 2000's and we became teenagers, those weekend gettogethers inevitably began to include discussions of crushes and our own emerging sexuality. My...

An Outline of Psychology is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1923. 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 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

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,...

Each booklet in the Bio Basics Series gives information describing the controversy of the issue and the implications for Christians and the church. The series addresses each concern with answers that will honor God and protect a humanity created in His image. Written from...

BABY BOOMING AMERICA BACK AGAIN...ROE VS. WADE OVERTURNED TELLS A SHORT POIGNANT HISTORICAL VIEW OF AMERICA, BEING A GREAT NATION AND HOW ALL IS FAIR IN "LOVE AND WAR, BUT IN THE DUE PROCESS OF TIME, THIS BOOK HIGHLIGHTS "THE FUTURE OF AMERICANS!" BABY...

Making sense of the practices and experiences of the Shan migrant community in the city of Chiang Mai in Thailand, the text articulates the process of making meaning about the contexts in which this community exists through their community media in an often unfriendly...

Written in 1972 by a nineteen-year-old white girl, Apartheid on Tuesday is the true story of her daily encounters with the system imposed on South Africa by the apartheid regime. By recording her experiences she reveals the absurdity, hypocrisy, and injustice of apartheid. She...

This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.Author: F. O. MikscheISBN-10: 1494072106ISBN-13: 9781494072100Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.60d

Over a thirty year career, Annabel's work has taken her to some extraordinary places. From commissions at the creative powerhouses of the Sydney Opera House and the London Coliseum, to assignments over the rugged terrains of Afghanistan and Iraq. Her collection showcases the unusual...

A Journey to the Seventh Heaven Because You are Allah...there is neither fear, nor worry, Nor sunset, nor night, nor twilight. Because You are Allah, my heart with hope is overwhelmed. Because You are Allah, my soul is set aglow.Author: Ali Jaber Al-FayfiISBN-10: 1805457144ISBN-13:...

The White Caps of Sevier County Tennessee were an extralegal vigilante group that dominated that county in the 1890s, through the corruption of the Justices of the Peace legal system. Prominent landowners hijacked the legal system by "organizing White Cap gangs," who were able...

A vigilante group called The White Caps of Sevier County organized in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the early 1890s. Their original mission was an expression of community consensus, meant to enforce community standards of conduct and behavior when a group of prostitutes arrived in...

This pamphlet offers a description of Karma as experienced by each individual astrological sign; it includes Vedic and Tibetan methods for evaluating not only past lives from a birth chart, but future incarnations. FROM THE PUBLISHERThe Philosophical Research Society is a nonprofit organization founded...

There is so much more to a police officer's badge, to any badge that all first responders wear. But that's what the world sees--a badge. What's behind and beyond that badge is what people need to know--the person.In BEHIND AND BEYOND THE BADGE, Donna...

This book provides a mirror to our past--a past that has been ignored or overshadowed for too long. From the foreword by Alex Haley Kern-Foxworth chronicles the stereotypical portrayals of Blacks in advertising from the turn of the century to the present. Beginning with...

"Being and Time changed the course of philosophy." -Richard Rorty, New York Times Book Review"Heidegger's masterwork." -The Economist"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic...

Annihilation of Caste is a speech prepared by B. R. Ambedkar in 1936 but never delivered. It was written for the 1936 Lahore conference of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers. Ambedkar has adopted a very firm position and attempted to make topics such...

Asgard and the Gods - The Tales and Traditions of our Northern Ancestors, Forming a Complete Manual of Norse mythology. Fourth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such...

Awful Disclosures: The Horrors of Convents Life by Maria Monk. Maria Monk (June 27, 1816 - summer of 1849) was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed (1836) claimed...

Arlington County was carved from a section of the District of Columbia and formally named by the Virginia General Assembly in 1920. The rural farming community across the Potomac River was home to vacationing District of Columbia elite as well as rumrunners and brothels....

Preface.- Introduction.- Overview of Behavioral Sport Psychology.- Assessment and Measurement.- Measurement of Physical Activity.- Quantitative Analysis.- Single-Case Evaluation of Behavioral Coaching Interventions.- Cognitive Assessment in Behavioral Sport Psychology.- Performance Enhancement.- Goal Setting and Performance Feedback.- Positive Reinforcement and Incentive Systems.- Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies.- Increasing and...