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America's traditional values of liberty and equality have recently been overshadowed by a new ideal: diversity. This ideal claims that group differences matter more than commonalities, personal freedom, and individual rights. In Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, Wood told the story of how this hitchhiker on the Constitution has gained popularity since the 1970s. Diversity Rules covers what happened after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor bestow...

Der Österreichische Pavillon der Venedig Biennale 2019 präsentiert dieses Jahr Renate Bertlmann, eine Vorreiterin und ein Vorbild der frühen feministischen Performance Kunst. Kuratorin Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein gewann in Renate Bertlmann eine Künstlerin für die Biennale, die nicht nur eine signifikante Position in der Geschichte der weiblichen Performancekunst in Österreich einnimmt, sondern auch in der internationalen feministischen Avantgard...

What if I told you guys that you could be alone and intimate with a nearly limitless selection of beautiful and stimulating women with no strings attached? What if I told you gals that you could make an amazing amount of money in the company of typically generous, handsome, well mannered, and educated gentlemen? This is all reality in the covert world of escorts and the men that they entertain. I call this world the Hidden Playground, as most ...

What if I told you guys that you could be alone and intimate with a nearly limitless selection of beautiful and stimulating women with no strings attached? What if I told you gals that you could make an amazing amount of money in the company of typically generous, handsome, well mannered, and educated gentlemen? This is all reality in the covert world of escorts and the men that they entertain. I call this world the Hidden Playground, as most ...

Matthew Wasn't Always a Problem Child, But Now He's Screwing Up… Big TimeAfter Matthew's parents' marriage collapsed and his brother and father both disappeared, this once-popular high school kid learned how to act out: fighting, stealing, skipping school, and generally tearing his world to pieces.But when Matthew runs away to the seductive streets of Greenwich Village, he becomes fascinated with a mysterious panhandler called Sailor Barlow. B...

DCI Matilda Darke steht am Tatort eines Verbrechens von unglaublicher Brutalität: Ein Mann wurde bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verprügelt und erschossen, eine halbnackte Frau mit einem Bauchschuss sterbend zurückgelassen. Dabei begann Matildas Morgen bereits mit einem Schock: In der Zeitung stieß sie auf einen Artikel, der sie ganz allein für den missglückten Ausgang einer Kindesentführung verantwortlich macht. Der öffentliche Druck ist enorm und a...

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Engaging and accessibly written, Strange New Land explores the history of slavery and the struggle for freedom before the United States became a nation. Beginning with the colonization of North America, Peter Wood documents the transformation of slavery from a brutal form of indenturedservitude to a full-blown system of racial domination. Strange New Land focuses on how Africans survived this brutal process--and ultimately shaped the contours ...

Ten years in the making, the new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood reveals Benjamin Franklin's life and meaning.Why did Benjamin Franklin retire from business and become gentleman? Why did he admire the British Empire--and join the American Revolution? Why did he being writing his Autobiography when he did? And how did the "first American" become an American in the first place?Renowned historian Gordon S. Wood spent ten...

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Brilliant combination of illustrations, content and question/answer sections. Good balance between theoretical immunology and case studies make it very useful for both lecturers and students.' - Professor Olivier Sparagano, Northumbria University Understanding Immunology is a well-established introduction to this complex subject for readers with no previous exposure. It is aimed primarily at undergraduates in biological sciences, biomedical sc...

Mathematicians are everywhere and nowhere: although they play key roles in industry and research, business and science, the people who use the ideas and tools of the mathematics are often invisible and difficult to identify. This leads to a lack of clarity for students who are studying the mathematical sciences in their transition to professional life. Becoming a Mathematician  considers the process of developing a mathematical identity and be...

Without parallel in sophistication of coverage for readers curious about labor, Rising from the Ashes? provides sharp analysis of the hottest issues being debated by labor scholars and activists. Topics covered include the changing composition of the international working class, patterns of work under contemporary capitalism, the relationship of race and gender to class, the promise and limitations of recent eruptions of labor militancy, and t...

Perhaps no other American painting is at once so familiar and so little understood as Winslow Homer's "The Gulf Stream (1899). For more than a century, scholars have praised the artist and yet puzzled over this harrowing scene of a black man adrift in the open sea, in a derelict boat surrounded by sharks. Critical commentary, when it was departed at all from the painting's composition and coloring, has generally viewed "The Gulf Stream as a un...

Mathematicians are everywhere and nowhere: although they play key roles in industry and research, business and science, the people who use the ideas and tools of the mathematics are often invisible and difficult to identify. This leads to a lack of clarity for students who are studying the mathematical sciences in their transition to professional life. Becoming a Mathematician  considers the process of developing a mathematical identity and be...

Consultancy and Innovation links two important aspects of European economic development in the past thirty years: the pace of technical and management innovation, and the growing significance of technical and business consultancy. This book includes detailed studies of consultancy activities or 'knowledge intensive services' (KIS) in eight EU countries, written by national experts in the field.

This book links two important aspects of European economic development in the past thirty years: The pace of technical and management innovation and the growing significance of technical and business consultancy.

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The definitive account of the life and work of Top Withins Farm, internationally famous as the inspiration for Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, with a preface by Sir Tony Robinson.

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