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Das Leben im Haushalt der wohlhabenden Bellamys von 1903 bis 1930: Der Parlamentsabgeordnete Richard Bellamy und seine Frau Marjorie können sich dank ihres ererbten Reichtums ein großes Haus und einige Angestellte leisten. Doch um dieses und ihren gesellschaftlichen Status zu halten, sind sie dringend auf Richards Karriere angewiesen. Der Ruf der Familie wird immer wieder durch die Eskapaden ihrer beiden Kinder James und Elizabeth gefährdet. A...

Das Leben im Haushalt der wohlhabenden Bellamys von 1903 bis 1930: Der Parlamentsabgeordnete Richard Bellamy und seine Frau Marjorie können sich dank ihres ererbten Reichtums ein großes Haus und einige Angestellte leisten. Doch um dieses und ihren gesellschaftlichen Status zu halten, sind sie dringend auf Richards Karriere angewiesen. Der Ruf der Familie wird immer wieder durch die Eskapaden ihrer beiden Kinder James und Elizabeth gefährdet. A...

Das Leben im Haushalt der wohlhabenden Bellamys von 1903 bis 1930: Der Parlamentsabgeordnete Richard Bellamy und seine Frau Marjorie können sich dank ihres ererbten Reichtums ein großes Haus und einige Angestellte leisten. Doch um dieses und ihren gesellschaftlichen Status zu halten, sind sie dringend auf Richards Karriere angewiesen. Der Ruf der Familie wird immer wieder durch die Eskapaden ihrer beiden Kinder James und Elizabeth gefährdet. A...

Just because you're extremely cute, doesn't mean you can't operate a bulldozer! From author-illustrator David Gordon comes a fun, funny, and whimsical take on believing in yourself and telling bullies who's boss!Karen and the other extremely cute animals just want to build sand castles. But the terribly mean bullies Skyler, Mike, and Trent keep knocking them down! So Karen and her friends get another idea. They'll build something the bullies c...

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The study, when published in 2002, received coverage across the globe from Brazil to Greece and attracted the support of the then High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. Anyone interested in understanding, campaigning or simply debating the issues facing policy makers today will find this book a rich and compelling resource.

With its stylish new package, updated information on the health and environmental benefits of insect eating, and breed-your-own instructions, this new edition of The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook is the go-to resource for anyone interested in becoming an entomological epicure. For many Americans, eating a lowly insect is something you'd only do on a dare. But with naturalist and noted bug chef David George Gordon, bug-eating is fun, exciting, and downrig...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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This work examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the stability of the country's economic and political order. It focuses on the success of innovative manufacturers in France's chief industrial centres.

Nachituti's Gift" challenges conventional theories of economic development with a compelling comparative case study of inland fisheries in Zambia and Congo from pre- to postcolonial times. Neoclassical development models conjure a simple, abstract progression from wealth held in people to money or commodities, instead, Gordon argues, primary social networks and oral charters like "Nachituti's Gift" remained decisive long after the rise of inte...

Help your congregation develop a deeper understanding of stewardship that goes well beyond the traditional function of supporting the church financially. With this comprehensive manual, you'll learn how to plan and implement a year-round stewardship focus that involves more members in the life of the church community.

This compact introduction to today's political and economic realities in Africa sets forth a foreign policy to fill the post -Cold War ideological void. From the stable rise of Ghana and Botswana to the violence and disintegration of Sudan and Nigeria, African nations present a wide range of opportunities and problems to which the United States has reacted with little consistency. Drawing lessons from recent events, the authors untangle our pe...

This authoritative study reports, for the first time, the most comprehensive survey of poverty and social exclusion ever to be undertaken in Britain: The Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey. It provides a clear conceptual understanding of poverty and social exclusion from both a national and international perspective. This essential course book for social policy and sociology students is part of the successful Studies in Poverty, Inequality an...

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2nd edition. With step-by-step guidance to developing key sentence forms in Spanish.

David M. Gordon is an associate professor of history at Bowdoin College. He is author of Nachituti’s Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa and numerous articles on African social, cultural, and environmental history.Shepard Krech III is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Brown University and a research associate in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. A trustee of...

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