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Patsy Hallman's collection of East Texas folk tales, vignettes, and memories is a delightful foray into times past. Readers will discover courtships determined by the washing of bread bowls, hear about Sam Houston's baptism and amorist pursuits, and find out what role Nacogdoches played in the Civil War South, among a wide range of other topics.

Humanitarian intervention, preventive war, and just war are all framing mechanisms aimed at convincing domestic and international audiences to go to war and to decide who is justified in ethically killing. The international group of scholars assembled in this book critically examine these frameworks to ask if they are flawed.

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This book examines the intersections between the ways that marriage was represented in eighteenth-century writing and art, experienced in society, and regulated by law. The interdisciplinary and comparative essays explore the marital experience beyond the 'matrimonial barrier' to encompass representations of married life including issues of spousal abuse, parenting, incest, infidelity and the period after the end of marriage, to include annulm...

Die Königs Erläuterung Spezial zu Ruth Weiss: Meine Schwester Sara - Ganzschrift der Realschulen Baden-Württemberg 2018 ist eine verlässliche und bewährte Textanalyse für Schüler und weiterführende Informationsquelle für Lehrer und andere Interessierte: verständlich, übersichtlich und prägnant. Mithilfe der Kurzzusammenfassung, Angaben zu Leben und Werk des Autors, Zeitgeschichtlicher Hintergrund, Textanalyse, Rezeptionsgeschichte und Material...

Die junge Amber Green bekommt eine neue Chance. Nach der Ausbildung zur Pflegeassistentin tritt sie eine Stelle im Krankenhaus an. Ambers Motivation, nach Lehrbuch zu arbeiten, ist vorbildlich. Die erfahrene Kollegin Luise öffnet ihr jedoch mit ihren schonungslosen Ansichten und ihren bizarren Ideen eine ganz andere Welt der Inneren Medizin. Machtlos erkennt Amber die unethischen Methoden von Lebensverlängerungsmaßnahmen. Doch dann macht sie e...

Marco Lori completed his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, with a thesis about Stan Brakhage¿s spiritual quest.Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her books include Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde, Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry, Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage and Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form. ...

Myth-busting insights that will empower family members to cope with the challenges and blessings of caregiving while aging successfully themselves.

The off-balance and lively characters in Subcortical use braininess and grit in their attempts to navigate beyond the borders of their homes and histories.

How did the concept of spontaneous generation survive for so long?

It will help them empathize with and interact positively with their elderly loved ones while imagining a positive future for themselves.

Why has the Civil War continued to influence American life so profoundly?

The first comprehensive examination of the Italian, Spanish and French Old Master paintings in the collections of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Analyse, Bewertung und Gestaltung von Migration gehören zu den zentralen Aufgaben der pluralistischen Gesellschaft. Auch Wissenschaft und Bildung sind in besonderer Weise gefordert. Es kommt darauf an, die Erkenntnisse unterschiedlicher Disziplinen zusammenzutragen und neue Forschungsansätze zu entwickeln. Gleichzeitig bedarf es didaktisch-methodischer Konzepte, um Erfahrungen und Probleme mit Migration und kulturellem Pluralismus zu thematisi...

The Middle East conflict has now been going on for a whole century. The region has not had a stable political order or solution since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and the conflicts between the various parties involved keep flaring up again and again. To provide a better understanding of the complex situation in the Middle East, this book sketches the basic outlines of the conflict and precisely identifies the protagonists and the goals ...

A practical, up-to-date guide to the diagnosis, understanding, and treatment of kidney problems and hypertension in adult patients"In contrast to many other books in this area, this one provides a concise yet comprehensive review of each topic without getting lost in too much detail..." - Doody's Review Service (review of previous edition)Presented in the consistent, easy-to-follow CURRENT format, CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Nephrology & Hyp...

The vast majority of student-athletes dreaming of athletic stardom won¿t make it to the pros. Yet, the discipline and skills they¿ve developed while balancing a sport and academics make them ideally suited for satisfying careers elsewhere.

Examining a range of popular cultural production, from music and dance to theater and film, this book explores how transatlantic and inter-American artistic exchanges redefined Brazilian identity, especially the perception of "race".

The final volume in The Oratory of Classical Greece series presents four speeches by or falsely ascribed to the most renowned of the ancient Greek orators, Demosthenes, which have not been translated in recent times.

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