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A Daughter of the Sioux
by Charles KingPublished in 1902, A Daughter of the Sioux is a classic tale of the Old West and the demise of the Indian.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
by Charles King"Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic."--Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators, from the writers Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist activist Vladimir Jabotinsky an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth Of Modern Istanbul
by Charles King"Intrigue, violence, sex, and espionage, all set against the slow dimming of Ottoman magnificence. I loved this book."--Simon Winchester At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nation... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics And International Relations In The Former Soviet Union
by Charles KingBased on new field research by an international team of post-Soviet specialists, Nations Abroad is the first comparative study to examine the complexities of trans-border ethnic groups and state-building in the former Soviet Union. Focusing on seven key casesJews, Armenians, Russians, Ukrainians, Ka... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
by Charles King<P><P>From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story of our multicultural world.A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Coca-Cola's New Vending Machine (A): Pricing to Capture Value, or Not?
Chairman and CEO M. Douglas Ivester stumbles when he tells a Brazilian newsmagazine about a new Coke vending machine that can automatically raise prices in hot weather. Reaction around the world is swift and negative.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Strategic Change: Adjusting Western regional policy (Asian Security Studies)
The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af/Pak region) is undergoing a fundamental strategic change. This book analyses the nature of this strategic change, in ordre to seek possible future scenarios and to examine policy options. It also undertakes a critical review of the basic elements ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Pepcid AC: Racing to the OTC Market
Pepcid management must decide whether to risk all in a race to be first in the over-the-counter market with a new heartburn remedy.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Istanbul: Living With Difference In A Global City (New Directions In International Studies)
by Charles King • Susan C. Pearce • E. Fuat Keyman • Amy Mills • Nora Fisher-Onar • Çaglar Keyder • Sami Zubaida • Feyzi Baban • Ilay Romain Örs • Anna Bigelow • Kristen Sarah Biehl • Hande PakerIstanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Il triangolo dei maledetti (Costanegra #3)
by Charlie KingIl corpo di Luna Cubells, presidente del Banco Litoral, viene trovato senza vita in un piccolo hotel sulla spiaggia. Quello che apparentemente sembra un suicidio in realtà nasconde ben altro. Il dottor Martín Costa, consulente della polizia giudiziaria, accompagnato dal caporale Adriana Vázquez, de... More
Language: ITACopyright: 2022 -
The Ancient Roman Afterlife: Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead
In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes, watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives’ lives. But unlike the Greek hero-cult, the worship of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Ancient Roman Afterlife: Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead
A comprehensive study of the manes, their worship, and their place in Roman conceptions of their society.In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes, watched over and protected their surviving family... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Fundamentals of Acupuncture
by Charles Buck • Nigel ChingThis accessible textbook clearly explains the basic foundations and principles of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. With over 70 illustrations, it covers the theories of yin and yang, the five phases, the physiology of the body, the internal organs, the channel system, acupuncture point categories, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy
A growing controversy in recent years has arisen around the use and abuse of Native American team mascots. The Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Florida State Seminoles, and so forth--these are just a few of the images and names popularly associated with Nat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Managing Corporate Distress in the Philippines: Some Policy Recommendations
A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities in general and spatial perception in particular in a systematic and interdisciplinary way. It updates a long-standing philosophical fascination with this topic by incorporating theoretical and empirical research from cognitive sc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Terrorism Within Comparative International Context
The post-9/11 era, with its emphasis on preparedness against terrorist attacks, has seen an ongoing conflict of priorities between law enforcement agencies and the civilian sector: public safety versus individual rights. Community-oriented policing--mobilizing community support in partnership with l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Coach Who Got Poached (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
HBR Case Study... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Springboard to a Swan Dive? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
HBRCaseStudy... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks, and Publics of Early Cinema
The visionaries of early motion pictures thought that movies could do more than just entertain. They imagined the medium had the potential to educate and motivate the audience. In national and local contexts from Europe, North America, and around the world, early filmmakers entered the domains of sc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change
by Cody Ferguson • Adam Tompkins • Bill McKibben • Brinda Sarathy • Michael Egan • Kyle Powys Whyte • Sophia Cheng • Monica Mariko Embrey • Hugh Fitzsimmons • Paul Hirt • Jill M. Holslin • Anna J. Kim • Charles Laurier • Jeffrey C. Sanders • Adam M. Sowards • Ellen StroudThe Nature of Hope focuses on the dynamics of environmental activism at the local level, examining the environmental and political cultures that emerge in the context of conflict. The book considers how ordinary people have coalesced to demand environmental justice and highlights the powerful role o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Ranking Vaccines
by Institute of Medicine • Guruprasad Madhavan • Rino Rappuoli • Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice • Board on Global Health • Committee on Identifying and Prioritizing New Preventive Vaccines for Development, Phase II • Lonnie King • Kinpritma Sangha • Rose Marie Martinez • Charles Phelps • Dennis FrybackSMART Vaccines--Strategic Multi-Attribute Ranking Tool for Vaccines--is a prioritization software tool developed by the Institute of Medicine that utilizes decision science and modeling to help inform choices among candidates for new vaccine development. A blueprint for this computer-based guide was... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
30 Years of Social Change
by Tony Attwood • Stephen Jones • Priscilla Alderson • Gwen Adshead • Barbara Kelly • Paul Cooper • Nisha Dogra • Joyce Lishman • Carola Beresford-Cooke • Peter Beresford • Nick Luxmoore • Harriet Ward • Michael Mandelstam • Christiane Sanderson • Vanessa Rogers • Sarah Carr • Luke Beardon • Kim Golding • Marian Liebmann • Grace Watts • Sally Donovan • Belinda Hopkins • Lorraine Nicolle • Jennifer Peace Rhind • Charles Buck • Matthew J. Taylor • Nigel Ching • Dawn Brooker • Winnie Dunn • Cj Atkinson • Rex Haigh • Martin Barrow • Jan Lees • Jessica KingsleyWhat social change has been achieved over the past 30 years? What have been the main barriers to progress? What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today? Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together ov... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Creative, Successful, Dyslexic: 23 High Achievers Share Their Stories
by Richard Rogers • Benjamin Zephaniah • Charley Boorman • Nigel Mccrery • Paul Nixon • Richard Branson • Kenny Logan • Marcus Brigstocke • Eddie Izzard • Chris Robshaw • Mollie King • Meg Mathews • Ed Baines • Brian Conley • Darcey Bussell Cbe • Steven Naismith • David Bailey Cbe • Jackie Obe • Zoe Wanamaker Cbe • Theo Paphitis • Margaret Rooke • Lynda La Cbe • Sophie Conran • Zelda West-Meads • Kelly Hoppen Mbe23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023