खोज परिणाम
Search results: 21
-
Rasputin
Told with humor, intrigue, and a shrewd eye for detail, this riveting short biography sheds much-needed light on the life of nineteenth-century Russian icon Grigory Rasputin.Grigory Rasputin, a Siberian peasant turned mystic and court sage, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played the ro... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2014 -
Rasputin: A short life
Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played the role of the simple man, eating with his fingers and boasting, 'I don't even know my ABC...' But, as the only person able to relieve the symptoms of haemophilia in the Tsar's heir Alexis, he... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2015 -
Imperial Tea Party: Family, politics and betrayal: the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance
The British and Russian royal families had just three full meetings before the Romanovs’ tragic end in 1918. In The Imperial Tea Party, Frances Welch draws back the curtain on those fraught encounters, which had far-reaching consequences for 20th-century Europe and beyond.Russia and Britain were nev... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2018 -
Developing Inquiry for Learning: Reflecting Collaborative Ways to Learn How to Learn in Higher Education
Developing Inquiry for Learning shows how university tutors can help students to improve their abilities to learn and to become professional inquirers. An increasing proportion of students entering higher education seem to assume that learning is a relatively passive process. This may be the larges... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2011 -
Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember
Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the revolution first-hand, this poignant collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique record of life in Russia.... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2002 -
Core Topics in Thoracic Surgery
Core Topics in Thoracic Surgery provides accessible and concise coverage of the topics most often encountered in thoracic surgery practice. This handbook will guide the reader through revision of the topics covered in the FRCS(CTh) examination, and also covers more specialist topics in detail. In-... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2016 -
The Heart of Leonardo
This book contains all of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings on the heart and its physiology, accompanied by re-translations of all of the associated notes. All Leonardo's drawings have been interpreted in the light of modern knowledge by a practicing cardiac clinician and anatomist. The veracity of his w... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2013 -
New Scholarship in Critical Quantitative Research, Part 2: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 163 (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research)
This volume is the second in a two-part series on differentiating approaches to quantitative research from more traditional positivistic and postpositivistic approaches. While the first volume provided an expanded conceptualization of critical quantitative inquiry, this volume concludes the series b... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2015 -
New Scholarship in Critical Quantitative Research, Part 1: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 158 (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research)
This volume presents work focused on underrepresented persons in a variety of levels of higher education. Each scholar has used critical quantitative approaches to examine access and/or success in the higher education arena. Their scholarship pushes the boundaries of what we know by questioning main... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2014 -
A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac
Cheryl Wells provides an edited and fully annotated collection of Wafer's diary entries during the war, his letters home, and the memoirs he wrote after returning to Canada. Wafer's writings are a fascinating and deeply personal account of the actions, duties, feelings, and perceptions of a noncomba... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2008 -
Thoracic Surgical Techniques
This heavily revised second edition of this book provides a comprehensive overview of both common and rarely performed thoracic surgical techniques. Techniques covered include thymectomy, left and right lower lobectomy, rib resection for empyema, median sternotomy and lung biopsies. Emphasis is focu... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2018 -
Mitral Valve Disease: Basic Sciences and Current Approaches to Management
This book provides a comprehensive review of the basic science of the mitral valve needed to begin to comprehend both normal and the failing valve. This knowledge is infrequently discussed in the clinical arena, with a rush towards definition of lesions based on limited analysis. It provides a ready... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2021 -
Operative Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Surgery
<p>This book reviews the surgical management of the mitral and tricuspid valves. It provides a detailed examination of the recent exponential improvements in the understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease processes affecting these valves, which has resulted in significant changes in the str... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2018 -
The Survivors: A study of homeless young newcomers to London and the responses made to them (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1980, The Survivors is a detailed and original study of the experiences of homeless young people in central London. The book is based on in-depth interviews with 107 ‘newcomers’, who were selected at two nightshelters and a government reception centre. Their views and experiences ... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 1980 -
Viper’s Tangle
The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's greatest Catholic writers, Vipers' Tangle tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family. Louis writes a journal to explain to them--and to himself--why his soul has been deforme... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2016 -
Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises
One of the most radical feminist theorists in Europe before the nineteenth century, François Poullain de la Barre (1647-1723) was a man way ahead of his time. Applying Cartesian principles to "the Woman Question," Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction that the supposedly "self-evident" inequa... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2002 -
Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Using Mobile Technologies
by Robert Bednarz • Derek France • W. Brian Whalley • Alice Mauchline • Victoria Powell • Katharine Welsh • Alex Lerczak • Julian ParkThis book shows how tablets (and smartphones) using a variety of selected 'apps', can enhance fieldwork and other out-of-classroom activities. The authors review imaginative uses of tablets from their own project and as well as examples from other colleagues. To help readers keep abreast of new te... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2016 -
Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices
by Elizabeth George • Erik Larson • Nancy Rawles • Julia Quinn • Stephanie Kallos • Susan Wiggs • Robert Dugoni • Garth Stein • Deb Caletti • Jamie Ford • Suzanne Selfors • William Dietrich • Sean Beaudoin • Indu Sundaresan • Carol Cassella • Craig Welch • David Lasky • Kevin O'Brien • Nancy Pearl • Matthew Amster-Burton • Peter Mountford • Kevin Emerson • Clyde W. Ford • Erica Bauermeister • Jennie Shortridge • Maria Dahvana Headley • Karen Finneyfrock • Stacey Levine • Dave Boling • Ed Skoog • Greg Stump • Frances Mccue • Jarret Middleton • Kathleen Alcalá • Kit Bakke • Mary Guterson • Seattle7writers • Teri HeinThirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perc... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 1996 -
Unwatchable
by J. Hoberman • Jonathan Rosenbaum • Boris Groys • Susie Bright • Vivian Sobchack • W.J.T. Mitchell • Noel Carroll • Bill Nichols • Jonathan Crary • Stefano Harney • Jan Olsson • Barbara Hammer • B. Ruby Rich • Fred Moten • Mattias Frey • Abigail De Kosnik • E. Ann Kaplan • Jeffrey Sconce • Meghan Sutherland • Michael Boyce Gillespie • Christophe Wall-Romana • Jennifer Malkowski • Asbjørn Grønstad • Jack Halberstam • Jared Sexton • Rebecca Schneider • Frances Guerin • Peter Geimer • Alexandra Juhasz • Julian Hanich • Samuel England • Mauro Resmini • Katariina Kyrölä • Erika Balsom • Kenneth Berger • Alex Bush • Alec Butler • Mel Chen • Lynne Joyrich • Nathan Lee • Akira Lippit • Brandy Monk-Payton • Danielle Peers • Raul Perez • Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi • Philipp Stiasny • Bennet Togler • Leshu Torchin • Alok Vaid-Menon • Meir Wigoder • Emily Wills • Federico Windhausen • Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa • Genevieve Yue • Alenka Zupancic • Poulomi SahaWe all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2019 -
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 ... अधिक
Language: ENGकॉपीराइट: 2023 -
Genre, féminismes et développement: Une trilogie en construction (Études en développement international et mondialisation)
by Sarah A. Radcliffe • Sirma Bilge • Nora Nagels • Nadia Abu-Zahra • Marie France Labrecque • Christine Verschuur • Ochy Curiel • Sophie Tornhill • Christine Catarino • Emily Regan Wills • Emma Swan • Simone Bohn • Fabienne Richard • Stéphanie Florquin • Myriam Dieleman • Marie De Brouwere • Anne E. Calvès • Isabelle Auclair • Andrea Pequeño • Valentine Verdonck • Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais • Safaa Monqid • Nora Semmoud • Denise Beaulieu • Denyse Côté • Hélène Guétat-Bernard • Chantal Ndami • Denise Piché • Émilie Pinard • Maria del Rosario Ortiz Quijano • Isabelle Collet • Sophie Brière • Sophie M. Lavoie • Carmen ChouinardMisant sur la capacité d’agir et le pouvoir de transformation sociale des femmes des Suds, ce livre examine les enjeux du genre et du développement. Ce manuel féministe, clair et facile à consulter, est spécifiquement conçu pour les cours de premier cycle universitaire sur les femmes, le genre et le... अधिक
Language: FREकॉपीराइट: 2019