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The only English-language translation of one of Schmitt's most controversial works.

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James Ermatinger's multifaceted account allows the reader a unique opportunity to view the many and complex elements that contributed to the demise of this vast empire, painting a vivid picture of a world in transition.

Provides historical narratives, five or more issue essays, primary source documents, biographies, and bibliographies of books, Web sites and other resources.

Reforming Schools" will transform the study of school reform, development and improvement. It not only provides an overview of research findings, professional and political issues and policy developments and their history, it also relates such thinking to practice through a rich and multi-faceted case study of school reform. Particular emphasis is given to urban schooling, with a candid look at what can be learnt not only from successful schoo...

It is a common belief that the Internet can provide real opportunities for political transformation, especially in societies where freedom of speech is constrained by the government. This volume explores the Internet's political and developmental impact by analyzing it at the local, regional, and international levels. The essays combine to show that limited Internet accessibility in some countries has led to a problematic "digital divide.

Samuel Romanelli was a free spirit who spent most of his life traveling in search of adventure, knowledge, and patrons for his literary endeavors.... During a voyage to Italy in 1786, he became stranded in Gibraltar... and circumstances forced him to join a merchant traveling to Morocco. Through misadventure, he lost his passport and was retained in that country for four years, the story of which forms Travail in an Arab Land. This first-perso...

H. G. Wells's first and fourth novels, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, have together largely created the science fiction genre. The centennial of the initial publication of The War of the Worlds was the focus of the 19th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, and this volume includes selected essays from that conference. The first section of the book offers fresh interpretations of The War of the Worlds, while the s...

Offers the first encyclopedia devoted to Ellis Island, documenting its various incarnations.

This book--written by a long-time mathematics teacher--explains why mathematics education is commonly listed as the number one concern of parents and teachers in K-12 schools and provides guidance for addressing the issue.

Bondage, Gunshots and Mergers is an anthology of stories from life on the road as a PeopleSoft consultant. After nine years of getting lost in small towns, stranded in airports and abused by customers, Peter takes a humorous look of the trials and tribulations of a traveling software consultant. Handholding some of his customers through a difficult implementation becomes even more challenging after Oracle announced its hostile takeover attempt...

Although Bob Hope has been the subject of many biographies, no book yet has fully explored the comic persona he created in vaudeville and radio, brought to fruition in dozens of films from the 1930s through the 1960s, and made a lasting influence on comedians from Woody Allen to Conan O'Brien. Now, in The Road to Comedy: The Films of Bob Hope, noted film comedy authority Donald W. McCaffrey finally places Hope in his well-deserved position amo...

Thirty-six scholars present the eclectic and wide-reaching cultures found on the west coast, Alaska, and Hawaii.

An anthology of nineteenth-century travel writing about southern Appalachia, reflecting a body of magazine travel writing that emerged during a period in which the region was being "discovered" and defined within mainstream American culture.

This index provides subject entries for numerous articles about World War II that were published in major military periodicals between 1939 and 1949. The majority of the articles are essential sources and were written by participants in the events they describe. Most of the periodicals in this volume have either not been previously indexed before or have not been indexed in this user-friendly fashion.

The essential guide to successful couples therapy at every stage of the lifecycle A variety of therapeutic interventions can help couples develop the tools for a successful relationship. Yet many practitioners begin seeing couples without extensive training in couples work. To fill this gap in their therapeutic repertoires, noted couples therapist Michele Harway brings together other well-known experts in marriage and family therapy to offer t...

By exploring the relationships between African novels and Joseph Conrad's fiction, this book examines the many discontinuous functions postcolonial revisions of "the canon" can serve. While contemporary literary studies too often represent such revisions merely as a means for postcolonial writers to challenge a colonial worldview, Caminero-Santangelo explores how African authors engage with a wide range of historically specific ideologies gene...

Thirteen scholars and writers provide a comprehensive and unique reference on the unique regional cultures to come out of the Rocky Mountain states.

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Alert and modest, generous and perspicacious, Daniel Webster's poems invite us into the various worlds his questing curiosity opens up: worlds not only of other languages and cultures but of the entire world outside the self. What I am tempted (if not qualified) to call Webster's excellent translations--graceful, deft, poignant--from Russian and German stand out in this collection, as do the riddles, but "KEEPING ORDER ON MY SHELF" as a whole ...