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The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. In this fascinating new book Paul Escott considers the evolution of the president's thoughts on race in relation to three other, powerful - and often conflicting - voices.

Winner, 2017 Margaret Mead Award presented by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2015 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize presented by the Society for Medical Anthropology Every year in the U.S., thousands of women and hundreds of men participate in sexual assault forensic examinations. Drawing on four years of participatory research in a Baltimore emergency room, Sameena Mulla reve...

The first Indian to become an international film star, Sabu rose to fame as a child actor in Elephant Boy (1937), and subsequently appeared in a succession of British pictures before relocating to Hollywood, where he died in 1963. Repeatedly cast in orientalist extravaganzas and jungle thrillers, he was associated with the 'exotic' and the 'primitive' in ways that reflected contemporary attitudes towards India and 'the East' more generally. ...

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This is the story of a theoretical astronomer who at age 40 switched from being a correspondence chess player to face new challenges as a mountaineer. During the next 40 years, a number of adventures were undertaken which sometimes became life-threatening epics experienced alone. This involved visiting remote locations on all the seven continents and also included wildlife safaris as a second hobby. Although the style was often reckless, the d...

Arzneimittellehre, Homöopathietabellen, Homöopathieindex, Homöopatieverzeichnis, Homoeopathie

Textiles were a hugely important Roman industry yet, because of their perishable nature, only fragments remain. These twenty-two essays provide a detailed study of surviving fragments from across the Roman world, from the dry sands of Egypt to the Atlantic coast and the northern frontiers and beyond. The result is a comprehensive reconstruction of both everyday and exotic Roman clothing with information about the influences of fashion and of R...

All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: earthquakes, plague, warfare, soil erosion and subsistence crises. However, while some settlements were stable over the long term, other settlements proved more vulnerable to crisis. This book has been stimulated by the hypotheses put forward by a recent ¿disaster studies¿ literature, which suggests that vulnerability of habitation is less to do with the crises themselves, but on end...

Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies draws together postcolonial and indigenous thinking through the conceptual lens of core-periphery relations to advance debate in organization studies. A particular aim of this book is to broaden, deepen and critically reassert a postcolonial imagination in this domain.

Rigorous theory and real-world applications for modeling and analysis of the behavior of complex communicating computer systems

Ranger Rom wakes up to another beautiful day in the African savanna, only to be summoned by Lisha the leopard to help a friend in danger. Ranger Rom introduces wildlife and conservation in a fun and engaging adventure story.

This unique book represents the first multi-disciplinary examination of ageing, from basic cell biology to social participation in later life, drawing on the pioneering New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, the UK's largest research programme in ageing.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 was the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. The explosion spewed ash across eleven states killing 57 people and causing over a billion dollars in property damage.Past Prophesies: In the early 1970s, at a time when the Holy Spirit moved across the nation, many prophesies had warned of the Northwest and Puget Sound area being devastated by e...

Situating the origins of American environmental fiction in early Republic natural histories, Indian captivity narratives, juvenile literature, and the subsequent development of a uniquely American brand of environmental fiction that began with James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that these works of early environmental thought contributed to a growing cultural conception of the environment¿s importance in shaping th...

Aitken examines key life-changing events to look at the interconnections between space, politics, change and emotions. Analyzing the intricate spatial complexities of these events, he explores the emotions that undergird the ways change takes place, and the perplexing spatial politics that almost always accompany transformations. Aitken positions young people as effective agents of change without romanticizing their political involvement as fa...

This unique book represents the first multi-disciplinary examination of ageing, from basic cell biology to social participation in later life, drawing on the pioneering New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, the UK's largest research programme in ageing.

Prescribed Form of Record for a Large Raised Reservoir is fully updated to incorporate the latest amends to the Reservoirs Act.

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The THINKING CHAIR is a children's picture book that relates the use of a chair as a time-out place when dealing with misbehavior. The protagonist is a slightly mischievous but definitely creative young girl. She is sent to the Thinking Chair three times to contemplate the error of her ways, and as she reflects, she wonders, "What if the Thinking Chair disappeared?" Humor and whimsical illustrations enhance this story about a common childhood ...