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  • - In the Footsteps of a Genius
    av Dieter (MPI fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte) Hoffmann
    585

    Dieter Hoffmann conveys how Einstein's life and work were linked to the scientific and social life of the city and inspires the reader to explore the places where he made his mark.

  • - How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs
    av Joseph (Florida State University) O'Shea
    525,-

    He establishes a context for better understanding this personal development and suggests concrete ways universities and educators can develop effective gap year programs.

  • - Volume 5: Iowa and Minnesota
    av Richard C. Carpenter
    895

    In Minnesota, the primary rail routes to the Pacific northwest-the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific-ran westward from Minneapolis-Saint Paul.

  • - Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation
    av Anthony Gierzynski
    415 - 585

    Gierzynski's captivating analysis of media's impact on political views, combined with the enjoyable Potter story details, makes for an irresistible project that social scientists can use to work a little magic in their classrooms.

  • - Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
    av Colin G. (Dartmouth College) Calloway
    365

    The second edition of New Worlds for All incorporates fifteen years of additional scholarship on Indian-European relations, such as the role of gender, Indian slavery, relationships with African Americans, and new understandings of frontier society.

  • - Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa
    av Timothy S. (Assistant Professor Wolters
    699

    He argues that the human-machine systems used to coordinate forces were as critical to naval successes in World War II as the ships and commanders more familiar to historians.

  • - Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It
    av Gerald B. Kauvar, Grady E. Bogue & Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
    479 - 549,-

    Grady Bogue, organize, classify, and explain patterns of leadership failures, drawing on firsthand testimonies from "deraileduniversity presidents, sixteen case studies in four sectors of higher education, and reviews of the scholarly literature on leadership failures in the public and private sectors.

  • - The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775
    av Peter Charles (Research Professor of History & University of Georgia) Hoffer
    335 - 725

    An excellent overview of the field."-Journal of Legal History, reviewing Law and People in Colonial America

  • - The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
    av Margaret Humphreys
    479 - 489,-

    Medicine and public health clearly advanced during the war-and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased.

  • av Nicholas Mason
    639

    Mason uses the antics of Romantic-era advertising to illustrate the profound implications of commercial modernity, both in economic practices governing the book trade and, more broadly, in the development of the modern idea of literature.

  • - The Science of Power Generation
    av Mark Denny
    385 - 775

    For those who wish to delve deeper into the science, a technical appendix provides estimations for a variety of power generators.Anyone who is interested in how energy works and how it is transformed to power our lives will get a charge out of Lights On!

  • - Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
    av Carlo (Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies Ginzburg
    359,-

    In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on the interplay of chance and discovery, as well as on the relationship between anomalous cases and historical generalizations.

  • av Carlo (Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies Ginzburg
    342

    Was he influenced by the environment, he asks himself, and if so, how? Ginzburg uses his own experience to examine the elusive and constantly evolving nature of history and historical research.

  • - The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
    av Carlo (Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies Ginzburg
    342

    Menocchio's 500-year-old challenge to authority remains evocative and vital today.

  • - Contemporary Principles and Practices
     
    1 239

    Presents an overview of the management and conservation of animals, their habitats, and how people influence both. This title includes topics such as: the definitions of wildlife and management; human dimensions of wildlife management; predator-prey relationships; structured decision making; and issues of scale in wildlife management.

  • - A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Families
    av Donald E. (Arthritis and Pain Associates of PG County) Thomas
    485 - 925

    Donald Thomas provides information for women who wish to become pregnant and advises readers about working with a disability, complementary and alternative medicine, infections, cancer, and a host of other topics.

  • - Shakespeare to Tolkien
    av Kevin (Concordia University) Pask
    655,-

    It recovers a distinctive aspect of English literary culture from across the entire early modern era and beyond, one that has been studied in the context of individual periods and writers but is only now explored in relation to the history of European nationalism and the creation of the modern literary system.

  • - How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
    av William J. (Professor of History Turkel
    469

    Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.

  • - The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski
     
    419

    Quandt, Robert Hunter, James Thomson, Patrick Vaughan, Marin Strmecki, James Mann, David Ignatius, Adam Garfinkle, Stephen F. Szabo, Francis Fukuyama, Charles Gati

  • - From Conflict to Integration
    av Benedetta (TED Senior Fellow Berti
    639

    Berti's innovative framework and careful choice of case studies, presented in a jargon-free, accessible style, will make this book attractive to not only scholars and students of democratization processes but policymakers interested in conflict resolution and peacekeeping efforts.

  • - The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy
    av Theodore Ziolkowski
    529

    After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content."

  • - Their History and Writings
    av Sarah B. Pomeroy
    655

    Pomeroy sets the Pythagorean and Neopythagorean women vividly in their historical, ecological, and intellectual contexts, illustrated with original photographs of sites and artifacts known to these women.

  • - A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region
    av Bryan (UMBC) MacKay
    355,-

    Whether you want to see snow geese and trumpeter swans pausing in their northward migration each March, or the mating "jubileeof polychaete worms during the new moon in May, A Year across Maryland offers valuable advice for the spontaneous adventurer and the serious planner alike.

  • - A Reader
     
    629

    This comprehensive sourcebook will be invaluable to investigators and scholars alike.

  • - A Life with Grace
    av Julie M. Hauer
    509

    Hauer offers hope and practical coping strategies in equal measure.

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    1 809

    This unparalleled collection of scientific information on, and photographs of, Mexican wildlife belongs on the shelf of every mammalogist, in public and academic libraries, and in the hands of anyone curious about Mexico and its wildlife.

  • - Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland
    av Sean D. (University of New Hampshire) Moore
    949

    Scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, Irish studies, Atlantic studies, Swift, and the history of the book will find Moore's eye-opening arguments original and compelling.

  • - Women, Performance, and Visual Culture
     
    895

    Instructors in feminist, cultural, and media studies who are looking for global perspectives will find that this fresh and provocative volume encourages students to see new connections among a variety of trends in contemporary scholarship.

  • - A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America
    av Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
    395 - 605

    Drawing from a wide range of scholarly research, archival records, and interviews, The Estrogen Elixir provides valuable historical context for one of the most pressing debates in contemporary medicine.

  • - Progress and Retreat
     
    775

    Weiss, Christopher Wyrod, Daniel J. Young

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