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King Stephen
This well-known text, the standard account of the subject, is essential reading for students and scholars of the Norman period from undergraduate level upwards, and was hailed on first publication as: " a landmark in twelfth-century studies." Written in the form of a biography this completely revise... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1990 -
Reading across the Disciplines (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
by Rosemary Green • Daniel Shapiro • Pat Hutchings • Margaret Mackey • Angela Zito • Heather C. Easterling • Joyce Tang Boyland • M. Soledad Caballero • Yvonne Davila • John Eliason • Nelson Graff • Neela Griffiths • Rachel Henry • Rebecca Kersnar • Aimee Knupsky • Ryne Leuzinger • Elizabeth Marquis • Trent W. Maurer • Brett McCollum • Layne A. Morsch • Catelyn Shipp • Dana Statton Thompson • Kris Vasquez • Jakob T. Zehms • Jordan R. DonovanReading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in their particular fields... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California
Since it was first published in 1932, A Frontier Lady has held a high and special place in the literature of Americas westward migration. Written in the 1880s at the request of her son, the philosopher and educator Josiah Royce, Sarah Royce's narrative of the family odyssey across the continent and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1977 -
The Chemistry of Joy
by Rachel Kranz • Henry EmmonsThe Chemistry of Joy presents Dr. Emmons's natural approach to depression -- supplemented with medication if necessary -- blending the best of Western science and Eastern philosophy to create your body's own biochemistry of joy. Integrating Western brain chemistry, natural and Ayurvedic medicine, Bu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice (Contemporary Security Studies)
This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war. Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, peace... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Music in the Making of Modern Japan: Essays on Reception, Transformation and Cultural Flows (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
This volume explores the notion of “affective media” within and across different arts in Japan, with a primary focus on music, whether as standalone product or connected to other genres such as theatre and photography. The volume explores the Japanese reception of this “affective media”, its transfo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Nature and Walking
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
Transcendentalism: Essential Essays of Emerson & Thoreau
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and notes to help the modern reader appreciate details that may otherwise be confusing or overlooked. Funny, fascinating, irritating, and impossible to ignore, the Transcendentalists demand that readers look inward, heed their own ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
The Story of My Misfortunes
In this classic of medieval literature, a brilliant and daring thinker relates the spellbinding story of his philosophical and spiritual enlightenment--and the tale of his tragic personal life as well. Peter Abélard paints an absorbing portrait of monastic and scholastic life in twelfth-century Pari... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Cut Flowers and Foliages (Crop Production Science in Horticulture)
The cut flower and foliage industry is a global business with major production locations in North America, South America, Central America, East Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Few other horticulture crops are as ubiquitous, yet the production techniques and challeng... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Recovery Bible
by Henry Drummond • William James • James Allen • Emmet Fox • Bill Wilson • Ralph Waldo Trine • Sam ShoemakerThe founders of the modern recovery movement, including Bill Wilson, Bob Smith, and other early AAs, were deeply influenced by a handful of inspirational authors, from whom they received practical guidance, key insights, and concrete ideas. Their explorations of inspirational literature and useable... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Wild, Wild West: Thrilling Tales by Famous Authors
by Rudyard Kipling • Mark Twain • Ralph Waldo Emerson • O. Henry • Max Brand • Charles Dickens • Bret Harte • Jack London • Arthur Conan Doyle • James Fenimore Cooper • Henry David Thoreau • Stephen Crane • Robert Louis Stevenson • Oscar Wilde • Washington Irving • Zane Grey • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Ambrose Bierce • Walt Whitman • John Muir • John Richard StephensA town that had a man for breakfast every morning.That's how Tombstone, Arizona was described in the late-1800s, bolstering the myth that a corpse would be found cooling in the town's dusty streets each sunrise. The reality was quite different and much less violent, of course, but that hasn't kept t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Letters from the Grief Club: How we live with loss
by Helen • Will • Tom Leonard • Lisa • Kim • Rebecca • Martin • Ellen • Alison • Faith • Tim Callen • Chloe • Rachel Clarke • Sasha • Steph • Karl Knights • Saijal • Bridget Hamilton • Lottie Hawkins • Gavin Breen • Henry Hodges • Anna Kate Blair • Adelana Luken • Anne Marie • Molly Lloyd • Kate Dickinson • Jermaine Omoregie • Phil Hargreaves • Tulasi Das • Etain • Amy Burnside • Kylie Noble • Jerena • Milly Stubbs • Kerrie Bridges • Eloïse • Jessi Parrott • Shirin Shah • Chanelle • Lily Grace Blank • Ryan Davies • Lucy E. Wakefield • Nic Norton • Henika Patel • Joel Baker • Francesca Hopkins • Ali Pritchard • Abbie Mitchell • Fred-Garratt-Stanley • Megan Abernethy-Hope • Marie-Teresa Hanna • EilishWelcome to the club you never wanted to join. When someone you love dies, it may seem impossible to know what will happen next and how you will cope. Losing someone in early adulthood, you may feel even more alone, when no-one around you seems to have had the same experience. Our letters don't have... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
How to Create Kind Schools: 12 extraordinary projects making schools happier and helping every child fit in
by Henry Winkler • Anthony Horowitz • Friends • Michael Sheen • Jamie Oliver • Families • The Prince's Trust • Jack Jacobs • Charlie Condou • Diversity Role Models • Nocturn Dance • Achievement For All • Youth Dance England • Baroness Janet Whitaker • Jenny Hulme • Linda Jasper • David Martin Domoney • Jane Asher • 2faced Dance • Beat • Kidscape Claude Knights • The National Autistic Society • Ade Adepitan • Kidscape • Dance United • Carers Trust • Nspcc • David Charles Manners • Thrive • Jill Halfpenny • The Mentoring • Befriending Foundation • TravellersCelebrating the 30th Anniversary of Kidscape, the national charity that works to challenge and prevent bullying, this book offers readers an insight into a collection of innovative projects currently running in schools to promote inclusion, tolerance and kindness.<P><P> From a gay role model to a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Almonds: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by Patrick Brown • Gregory Reighard • Mariano Cambra • James Adaskaveg • Robert Curtis • Vicente Pallás • José M Alonso • José M Ansón • Octavio Arquero • Roger A Baldwin • Ignasi Batlle • Mireia Bordàs • Miguel A. Cambra • Joseph H. Connell • Federico Dicenta • David A. Doll • Henri Duval • Iban Eduardo • Daniel Esmenjaud • José L Carbó • Maria T Espiau • Antonio J. Felipe • Angel Fernández i Martí • Carolina Font i Forcada • Helga Förster • Luis Iannamico • Santiago Izquierdo • Sat Darshan Khalsa • Ossama Kodad • Maria M. López • Carmen Martínez • Pedro Martínez-Gómez • Saiful Muhammad • Eva Núñez Seoane • Antonio Olmos • Ana Palacio-Bielsa • Katherine Pope • Maria J Rubio-Cabetas • Ned T. Ryan • Sebastián Sáa Silva • Raquel Sánchez-Pérez • Francisco J. Vargas • Steve Weinbaum • Michelle Wirthensohn • Shu-Biao Wu • Frank G Zalom • Alexis VerdúThis book provides a comprehensive overview of almond growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective, covering botany, production, processing and industrial uses. Almonds are an important crop; they are highly regarded for their flavour, nutritional properties and culinary uses, and almond ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
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