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Forever A Caterpillar author Candi C. P. Perry is a native New Yorker who moved with her family to Indiana at a young age. Because of her many life experiences she is able to speak to young people in a very unique way that can be felt by the hearts of both youth and adults all across the world. This book is a true story about a beautiful young girl whose world was shattered by a few simple words of one of her classmates. This is truly a work o...

Forever A Caterpillar is a true story about a beautiful young girl whose world was shattered by a few simple words of one of her classmates. This is truly a work of art that will touch the hearts of people everywhere author Candi C. P. Perry is a native New Yorker who moved with her family to Indiana at a young age. Because of her many life experiences she is able to speak to young people in a very unique way that can be felt by the hearts of ...

This eighteenth-century study of the life and writings of the medieval English bishop Robert Grosseteste was too scandalous to be published in its author's lifetime. It is now available in print for the first time, showing how Grosseteste's reputation continued to be contested five centuries after his death.

Welcome to White Snake Diary: Exploring Self-Inscribers, where author and ethnographer Jane P. Perry asks: What is a diary and why do we keep them? Why do diarists feel compelled to record life, to collect memories and reflections? What happens when snapshots found in a junk store not only spark childhood memories but drive the creation of a diary?White Snake Diary explores the diary as a literary genre: what it looks like and what it can tell...

This book examines the intersections of religion and race in the context of the Christian Right's responses to the presidency of Barack Obama. Perry argues that the context of the war on terror allowed long-standing arguments on the Christian Right to morph into conspiracy theories and adversarial claims directed at President Obama.

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Originally published in 1973, this book brings together different views on British agriculture's unexpected transition from prosperity to misfortune between 1875 and 1914, providing a survey of changing approaches to one of the major economic crises in modern history.

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Chaos in Real Data studies the range of data analytic techniques available to study nonlinear population dynamics for ecological time series. Several case studies are studied using typically short and noisy population data from field and laboratory. A range of modern approaches, such as response surface methodology and mechanistic mathematical modelling, are applied to several case studies. Experts honestly appraise how well these methods have...

Die Psychologin Dr. Patricia Agnew hat einen Bestseller geschrieben, der auf einem Selbsttest basiert: Jedes Jahr fährt sie mit ihrem Mann und drei befreundeten Ehepaaren eine Woche in den Urlaub, um gezielt zu hinterfragen, warum man verheiratet ist und bleibt. Doch der diesjährige Ausflug steht unter einem schlechten Stern: Patricias und Gavins Ehe befindet sich im Leerlauf und Terry glaubt, dass seiner Frau Dianne ihr Job wichtiger ist als ...

Neun starke Frauen, die allein mit ihrem Schicksalkämpfen und am Ende doch feststellen müssen, dasssie gemeinsam am stärksten sind.Die Bar-Dame Tangie (Thandie Newton) nimmt jede Nacht einen andernMann mit nach Hause. Ihre Mutter Alice (Whoopi Goldberg) hat sich vonihrer Tochter abgewandt und lebt nur noch für ihren Glauben. Ihre andereTochter, die Tänzerin Nyla, wird ungewollt schwanger - gerade als sie einCollege-Stipendium bekommt. Die erfo...

Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21st Century is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. This book brings together pre-eminent scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and the USA to critically assess teaching and learning issues that cut across most disciplines. In addressing long-standing and newly emerging issues, the researchers examine the scientific evide...

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Based on extensive research initiated by the UK Home Office, Reducing Crime offers an objective look at the effectiveness of criminal justice interventions in the reduction of crime. Bringing together information about where, for whom and at what cost these interventions are effective, the book examines alcohol prevention and drug treatment studies, courts, sentencing and police interventions, probation and prison interventions, and situationa...

Chaos in Real Data studies the range of data analytic techniques available to study nonlinear population dynamics for ecological time series. Several case studies are studied using typically short and noisy population data from field and laboratory. A range of modern approaches, such as response surface methodology and mechanistic mathematical modelling, are applied to several case studies. Experts honestly appraise how well these methods have...

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Over the past several decades serious work in philosophy has become almost wholly inaccessible to people who do not specialize in the subject. To be sure, the writings of Aristotle and Kant were never easy reading, and even relatively untechnical philosophers like Mill or Santayana de­ mand careful study if we are really to understand them. But during the last generation or two the situation has steadily become worse for readers who may want t...

Over the past several decades serious work in philosophy has become almost wholly inaccessible to people who do not specialize in the subject. To be sure, the writings of Aristotle and Kant were never easy reading, and even relatively untechnical philosophers like Mill or Santayana de­ mand careful study if we are really to understand them. But during the last generation or two the situation has steadily become worse for readers who may want t...