65 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

New Faces of the Fur Trade is a collection of fifteen essays selected from the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1995. These articles question the traditional focus of fur trade literature and suggest that there are richer, more diverse narratives to be constructed and new ways to look at the fur trade. Many focus on subjects and themes that either have been formerly overlooked or have been introduced...

This book is devoted primarily to injuries of the eye. The first of these is an account of how Benvenutus repaired the split eyeball of a boy from Messina and actually restored his sight (1011-18). This is followed by instructions for diagnosing and treating damage to the sight caused by blows to the forehead, temples, or cheekbones (1047-74). Then treatment is prescribed for a fistula, or boil-like infection, in the inner corner of the eye (1...

African American Females: Addressing Challenges and Nurturing the Future illustrates that across education, health, and other areas of social life, opportunities are stratified along gender as well as race lines. The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women intersects with race and class to create multiple levels of disadvantage. This book is one result of a unique forum intended to bring into focus the K-12...

The frontier of science" is a metaphor that has become ubiquitous in American rhetoric, from its first appearance in the public address of early twentieth-century American intellectuals and politicians who aligned a mythic national identity with scientific research, to its more recent use in scientists' arguments in favour of increased research funding. Here, Leah Ceccarelli explores what is selected and what is deflected when this metaphor is...

No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR's administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government, within the federal government it shifted from Congress to the president, and internationally, it moved from Europe to the United States. All of these changes required significant effort on the part of the president, who triumphed over fierce opposi...

The true heritage of turfgrass science and culture is best represented by an extensive historical record encompassing the principles, cultural practices, grasses, materials, and equipment that have been developed over the course of 300 years by turfgrass scientists, private companies, professional turfgrass managers, and amateur practitioners. A detailed chronicle of the evolution and history of turfgrass by the leading expert in the field, ...

The terms "civic engagement" and "community engagement" have various definitions, but they are united by the sense that individuals who are civically engaged not only are concerned about the quality of life in their communities but also take action to improve conditions for the common good. In the United States, to be civically engaged means to actively participate in a civil democratic society. Going Public examines programmes related to civi...

The population of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States is a diverse one, as reflected by age, class, gender, sexuality, and religion. This vibrant book explores the language and ethos of Chican@/Mexican@ hip hop in the context of progressive social change, social justice, identity, and a new transnational, polycultural America.

Peterson challenges C.S. Lewis's definition of "drab" and "golden" strains of poetry in 16th-century English. Instead he dubs the different types "eloquent" and "plain", and argues that the strength of the latter tradition rivals the finest flowers of the courtly lyric.

This anthology interrogates two salient concepts in studying the black experience. Ushered in with the age of New World encounters, modernity emerged as brutal and complex, from its very definition to its manifestations. Equally challenging is blackness, which is forever dangling between the range of uplifting articulations and insidious degradation. The essays in "Western Fictions "address the conflicting confluences of these two terms. Quest...

Keine Beschreibung.

Over the last two decades, the implosion of economies under the burden of debt, the negative repercussions of structural adjustment programs, the crisis of legitimacy, civil wars, and the collapse of some states have resulted in serious health issues across the African continent. Newly emerging diseases, such as Ebola virus and HIV/AIDS have killed and disabled millions. Some "old diseases, " such as yellow fever, tuberculosis, and polio have ...

The essays assembled in this volume are shaped by conditions -- both enabling and constraining -- that can perhaps best be described as an "ethnographic chiasmus." This expression refers to the surprise and reversal of position that are characteristic of fieldwork, and it attends to the fact that transcultural understanding comes about as a meeting, touching, or "crossing." Chiasmus also pertains to the relationship between culture and rhetori...

From Black to Schwarz explores the long and varied history of the exchanges between African America and Germany, with a particular focus on cultural interplay. Covering a wide range of media of expression -- music, performance, film, scholarship, literature, visual arts, reviews -- these essays trace and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration, and mutual transformation that began in the eighteenth century, boomed during the Harlem Renai...

Keine Beschreibung.

The much-anticipated second edition of this innovative, proficiency oriented materials packet for advanced college-level "business German" instruction includes a completely revised and updated two-volume textbook/workbook -- Volume 1: Die Volks- und Weltwirtschaft (Economics), and Volume 2: Die Betriebswirtschaft (Business). Other materials include a PC and MAC compatible CD ROM, which features full-color full-screen images, new visual content...

The much-anticipated second edition of this innovative, proficiency oriented materials packet for advanced college-level "business German" instruction includes a completely revised and updated two-volume textbook/workbook -- Volume 1: Die Volks- und Weltwirtschaft (Economics), and Volume 2: Die Betriebswirtschaft (Business). Other materials include a PC and MAC compatible CD ROM, which features full-color full-screen images, new visual content...

The much-anticipated second edition of this innovative, proficiency oriented materials packet for advanced college-level "business German" instruction includes a completely revised and updated two-volume textbook/workbook -- Volume 1: Die Volks- und Weltwirtschaft (Economics), and Volume 2: Die Betriebswirtschaft (Business). Other materials include a PC and MAC compatible CD ROM, which features full-color full-screen images, new visual content...

Keine Beschreibung.

As compelling as it is turbulent, "The Weedkiller's Daughter "captures a family at the center of the rapidly changing society of midcentury Detroit. Fifteen-year-old Susie greets this new era with a sense of curiosity, while her father rages against it, approaching anything and everything foreign, unconventional, or unfortunate as he does the weeds he perpetually removes from his garden. As Susie seeks escape from her parents' increasingly res...