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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of...

Photo associated reactions and light responsive materials have great potential to improve existing industrial processes, including liquid crystal alignment and capturing solar energy. This book presents a range of reactions and materials with some of the...

In A New Type of Womanhood, Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman's rights movement. She traces how the movement changed society's very conception of "womanhood" in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of contract for...

In "Home to Roost", Sheasley tells of the intertwined relationship between humans and chickens. It's the story of agriculture and human migration; of folk medicine and technology; of how we dreamed of the good life, threw it away, and want it back. He...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ordinary women affiliated with the women's movement were responsible for a veritable explosion of periodicals, poetry, and manifestos, as well as performances designed to support "do-it-yourself" education and...

In this boldly interpretive narrative, William McKee Evans tells the story of America's paradox of democracy entangled with a centuries-old system of racial oppression. This racial system of interacting practices and ideas first justified black slavery,...

The book gives a novel treatment of recent advances on constrained control problems with emphasis on the controllability, reachability of dynamical discrete-time systems. The new proposed approach provides the right setting for the study of qualitative...

She examines the decision-making processes at Monsanto that led to their making the drug available and discusses corporate, academic, and regulatory decision-making in the context of a restructured global political economy for agriculture. Mills shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140792987Author GentlewomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905745081Author Robert BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint VisionPublisher VISION Paperbacks

Xiaoyuan Hanyu responds to the practical needs of college students with a text that presents natural and idiomatic Chinese along with concise English instruction. Originally developed at the University of Washington, it has been used successfully at...

In Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries, leading scholars and practitioners analyse the current political, socio-economic, spatial, and cultural diversity in the countries under consideration before delving into the role that social, historical, and...

An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments,...

In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-06). In so doing, he sheds...

The debate over health care policy in the U. S. did not end when President Obama signed the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on March 23, 2010. Since then, half the states have sued and federal judges have issued conflicting...

". . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American race riots." -- American Historical Review "His work...

How do people come to live as they ought to live? Crooked Stalks seeks an answer to this enduring question in diverse practices of cultivation: in the moral horizons of development intervention, in the forms of virtue through which people may work upon...

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Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the realization of a progressive left politics in the United States. Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary political culture, Jodi Dean takes the left to task...

Acta Numerica surveys annually the most important developments in numerical mathematics and scientific computing. The subjects and authors of the substantive survey articles are chosen by a distinguished international editorial board so as to report the...

The University of Illinois College of Medicine has its origins in the 1882 opening of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. In 1897 the College of Physicians and Surgeons became affiliated with the University of Illinois and began a...

"New Perspectives on the Internet, International Edition" has been updated to cover the newest software including Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3, and Google Chrome. With the new perspectives on critical-thinking, problem-solving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781408688939Author Charles H. PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Descartes with his sharp separation of the mental and the physical set the stage for the philosophy of mind for the next 350 years. Philosopher Patrick T Mackenzie finds in the later writings of Wittgenstein the suggestion that Descartes got off on the...

Envisioning a New World Order that promotes environmental renewal, stronger democracy, economic justice, and citizen activismEnvisioning a New World Order that promotes environmental renewal, stronger democracy, economic justice, and citizen...

Popular dissent, such as street demonstrations and civil disobedience, has become increasingly transnational in nature and scope. As a result, a local act of resistance can acquire almost immediately a much larger, cross-territorial dimension. This book...

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of...

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of...

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933804347Author Terri SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Equity PressPublisher Equity PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Child and family law tells us much about how a society operates, since it touches the lives of everyone living in that society. In this volume, a variety of experts examine child and family law in thirteen countries - Australia, Canada, China, India,...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title After the end of World War II, covert war became the primary means of violence between cold war adversaries. While nuclear weapons made all-out war unacceptable, ideological differences fueled a ferocious struggle...

A thorough investigation of recent alcohol policy debates.A thorough investigation of recent alcohol policy debates.About the AuthorNorman Giesbrecht is senior scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto. Andree Demers is professor...

Understanding "precarious employment" and its links to labour market institutions, industrial and occupational contexts, gender, 'race,' and (dis)ability.Understanding "precarious employment" and its links to labour market institutions, industrial and...

Windows XP Home Edition is Microsoft's operating system for home users. It makes it easier for families to set up and switch between individual personalized accounts, search for files and customize the way they manage files and folders. This text...

A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794-1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788757404975Author Peter BlumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint DJOFPublishingPublisher DJOFPublishing

In a contemporary labour market that includes growing levels of precarious employment, the regulation of minimum employment standards is intricately connected to conditions of economic security. With a focus on the role of neoliberal labour market...

The Platonic Form is often presented as an instrument of explanation and as a cause in ontology, epistemology, and ethics. As such, it is usually approached from the perspective of its relations to the particulars of the sensible world. Frederic...

In this penetrating book, Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado use historical investigation and critical analysis to diagnose the cause of the pervasive unhappiness among practicing lawyers. Most previous writers have blamed the high rate of burnout,...