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Thirty exciting, carefully researched drawings chronicle events leading up to the fall of the Alamo and the last stand of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis, and the many others. Captions.

Originally published: The Plymouth Antiquarian Society, 9th ed., 2004.

The powerful imagery and intensity of Ward's wordless novels have elicited comparisons to Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. This 1930 work tells a gripping tale through imagery alone, consisting solely of 128 hauntingly rendered woodcuts.

This book explores some of the key debates connected with equality and identity in the context of increasing globalization. The contributors acknowledge that the economic, cultural, psychological and political dimensions of globalization are each distinctively important but argue that issues of cultural recognition must always be considered alongside issues of economic distribution. Among the topics discussed are the integration of immigrant p...

The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions--and snares--of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of affairs in the first ever col...

The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London. Mayhew and his collaborators explored hundreds of miles of London streets in the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from the city's humblest residents. A classic reference source for sociologists, historians, and criminologists.

This book explores the rich literary character and rhetorical strategies of Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, " which tells the story of Italian art as it unfolded from its beginnings in the Trecento to its pinnacle in Michelangelo and the art of the Academy in the mid-sixteenth century. The contributors propose ways to read Vasari's text in the light of recent disputes over what is fact, fiction,...

Centered around an ethnographic case study of a dragon king temple, this book examines the social and political dynamics underlying the revival of popular religion in contemporary rural China.

Persian Steel' displays the remarkable collection of steel objects of the Iranian polymath Parviz Tanavoli. The Tanavoli collection, built up over the course of twenty years, testifies to the rich and longstanding place of steel in Persian society.

In this accessible, clear, jargon free, and comprehensive text, Projecting the Holocaust into the Present offers an insightful historical perspective on how public conceptions of the Holocaust in film have changed over time.

Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course.

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An exceptional collection of outstanding examples of German ironwork. More than 270 illustrations depict a wide range of Dusseldorf ironwork, with finely rendered examples ranging from elaborate castle gates to ornate weather vanes.

This book is an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct notions of home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations--Panama, China/Taiwan, and the United States.

Rowlandson's famous account of her abduction by the Narragansett Indians in 1676 is accompanied by three other narratives of captivity among the Delawares, the Iroquois, and the Indians of the Allegheny.

Sprechen - Schreiben - LesenDas Sprachbuch mit dem erweitertem Textteil wurde eigens entwickelt für die Länder Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen.Die Kombination aus thematischen Einheiten und werkstattmäßig konzipierten Praxis-Teilen gewährleistetsowohl integratives als auch sprachsystematisches Arbeiten, die Vermittlung der Grundlagen sowohl für das Sprechen und Schreiben als auch für das Lesen...

This ambitious volume brings together original essays on the U.S. women's movement with analyses of women's movements in other countries around the world. A comparative perspective and a common theme--feminism in social movement action--unite these voices in a way that will excite students and inspire further research. From the grassroots to the global, the significance of the U.S women's movement in the international arena cannot be denied. A...

fördert die selbständige Bearbeitung berufsbezogener Handlungssituationen mit didaktischen Hilfestellungenbietet die vollständige Lösung zu jeder Handlungssituation zur Ergebniskontrollebeinhaltet zusätzliche Übungsaufgaben sowie ¿vermischte Übungen¿ am Ende der Kapitelfördert die Problemlösungskompetenz und den Umgang mit TabellenkalkulationenLösungen sind separat erhältlich.

Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo is best known for his films about anti-colonial insurgency and terrorism. In this book, containing several black and white photos, author Carlo Celli examines Pontecorvo's entire career, from his days as a leader in the anti-Nazi/fascist resistance during World War II to his 1992 short documentary about Algeria's struggle with Islamic fundamentalism.

Advances in technology, such as MP3 players, the Internet and DVDs, have led to the production, storage and distribution of a wealth of audio signals, including speech, music and more general sound signals and their combinations. MPEG-7 audio tools were created to enable the navigation of this data, by providing an established framework for effective multimedia management. MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval is a uniq...