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Orlando, Florida: A Brief History
Orlando is known internationally as a tourist destination, attracting fifty million visitors each year to its numerous resorts and parks. In all that excitement, it's easy to overlook the city's interesting past. In the 1800s, the area was embroiled in the Seminole Wars, and Fort Gatlin was construc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: Claude Pepper's Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary (Florida Government and Politics)
For nearly a century in Florida and throughout the South, election to the United States Senate virtually guaranteed a lifetime position, especially if you were a Democrat. Certainly no Republican candidate stood a chance in the general election, and it was nearly unthinkable to imagine a serious cha... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Florida Literary Luminaries: Writing in Paradise
Sit down for a spell with the bevy of famed writers who've found inspiration in the Florida sun. From the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca to James Patterson, writers have found inspiration in the Florida sunshine. Ernest Hemingway met his future wife at Sloppy Joe's in Key West. John Kennedy recover... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
A Concise History of Florida (Brief History Ser.)
In 1513, Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon first set foot on Florida's east coast. The land he discovered was a geographic anomaly so distinctive that astronaut Neil Armstrong said Florida was the first shape on earth he recognized on his return from a visit to the moon 456 years later. This unique sta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Hidden History of Florida (Hidden History)
Florida has a history as diverse as its residents. And much of that is still hidden. Since the arrival of the Spanish in 1513, the state has played host to strange stories. A heartbroken senator entered a mental institution over unrequited love for an heiress. Thousands of British pilots trained in ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
A History Lover's Guide to Florida (History & Guide)
Florida is a state of transplants. Even people who relocated here decades ago still claim their birthplace as their home. They might change their mind if they knew that the Sunshine State owns one of the richest histories in the nation. Decades before the Pilgrims, the Spanish celebrated Thanksgivin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution, Biology and Impacts
In The Wrong Place: Alien Marine Crustaceans - Distribution, Biology And Impacts provides a unique view into the remarkable story of how shrimps, crabs, and lobsters - and their many relatives - have been distributed around the world by human activity, and the profound implications of this global re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Nato At Forty: Change, Continuity, And Prospects
This book addresses the evolving role of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It seeks to answer whether NATO is capable of adjusting to changes in the forces that have held it together and have made it the centerpiece of the national security strategies of its members.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1990 -
A Machine Learning Based Model of Boko Haram (Terrorism, Security, and Computation)
This is the first study of Boko Haram that brings advanced data-driven, machine learning models to both learn models capable of predicting a wide range of attacks carried out by Boko Haram, as well as develop data-driven policies to shape Boko Haram’s behavior and reduce attacks by them. This book a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Teaching Professional and Technical Communication: A Practicum in a Book
by Dan Jones • Traci Nathans-Kelly • Christine G. Nicometo • Pam Estes Brewer • Kirk St. Amant • Karla Saari Kitalong • Dave Clark • Eva Brumberger • Paul Dombrowski • James M. Dubinsky • Peter S. England • David K. Farkas • Brent Henze • Tharon W. HowardTeaching Professional and Technical Communication guides new instructors in teaching professional and technical communication (PTC). The essays in this volume provide theoretical and applied discussions about the teaching of this diverse subject, including relevant pedagogical approaches, how to app... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Epilepsy in Children and Adolescents
This book provides the contemporary, caring guidance you need to diagnose and manage seizures in a young patient. Beginning with an overview of the classification of seizure syndromes, the authors take a practical approach to a common but complex clinical challenge. Aimed at both professionals and t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education
by Constance Curry • Juan Williams • George Lipsitz • John Hope Franklin • David O'Brien • Julian Bond • Lani Guinier • Darlene Clark Hine • John Jennings • Christopher Benson • Mary L. Dudziak • Ralph Lemon • Orville Vernon Burton • Jason Chambers • Freeman A. Hrabowski • Kathryn H. Anthony • Joe Feagin • Carrie Mae Weems • Kal Alston • Margaret L Andersen • Nathaniel C Banks • Bernice McNair Barnett • Ed Blankenheim • Joseph A. De Laine • Ophelia De Gona • Jim Loewen • Laughlin McDonald • James C. Onderdonk • Sekou Sundiata • Christopher Teal • Nicholas Watkins • Joy Ann WIlliamsonInspired by the University of Illinois's celebration of the Brown v. Board of Education decision's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, this collection addresses the significance of the Brown decision in the contributors' lives or work in education and civil rights. The book stands as a historic document i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Christian Education: Foundations for the Future
by Edward Hayes • Michael Lawson • Robert Clark • Craig Williford • Robert Barron • Valerie Wilson • Julie Gorman • Richard Patterson • Pamela Campbell • Brian Richardson • Lawrence Richards • Dennis Williams • Cliff Schimmels • Irving Jensen • Marta Elena Alvarado • Mark Senter • Kenneth Gangel • Wayne Widder • James Wilhoit • Wesley Willis • Warren Benson • Lynn Gannett • C Fred Dickason • Dennis Dirks • Robert J. Choun • C Keith Mee • Stanton Campbell • Perry Downs • Stanley Olsen • Carolyn Koons • Julie Hight • Marlene LeFever • James Plueddemann • Colleen Birchett • Johng Ook Lee • Doris Freese • J Omar Brubaker • Donald Geiger • Ray Syrstad • Harold Westling • Wesley Haystead • Lowell Brown • James Slaughter • Wayne RickersonWhether in the home or in the church or in a Christian school, the challenge of contemporary Christian educators is to meet the academic needs of students while remaining unswerving in adherence to biblical principles. Christian Education: Foundations for the Future introduces you to the basics o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
Christian Education: Foundations for the Future
by Edward Hayes • Michael Lawson • Robert Clark • Craig Williford • Robert Barron • Valerie Wilson • Julie Gorman • Richard Patterson • Pamela Campbell • Brian Richardson • Lawrence Richards • Dennis Williams • Cliff Schimmels • Irving Jensen • Marta Elena Alvarado • Mark Senter • Kenneth Gangel • Wayne Widder • James Wilhoit • Wesley Willis • Warren Benson • Lynn Gannett • C Fred Dickason • Dennis Dirks • Robert J. Choun • C Keith Mee • Stanton Campbell • Perry Downs • Stanley Olsen • Carolyn Koons • Julie Hight • Marlene LeFever • James Plueddemann • Colleen Birchett • Johng Ook Lee • Doris Freese • J Omar Brubaker • Donald Geiger • Ray Syrstad • Harold Westling • Wesley Haystead • Lowell Brown • James Slaughter • Wayne RickersonWhether in the home or in the church or in a Christian school, the challenge of contemporary Christian educators is to meet the academic needs of students while remaining unswerving in adherence to biblical principles. Christian Education: Foundations for the Future introduces you to the basics o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
Martial Culture, Silver Screen: War Movies and the Construction of American Identity
by Liz Clarke • Jason Phillips • Brian Matthew Jordan • David Kieran • Andrew Graybill • Kylie A. Hulbert • James Trae" Welborn • Jessica Chapman • Meredith Lair • Andrew C. McKevitt • Richard N. Grippaldi • Calvin FaganMartial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin: Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
by John W. Ives • Alwynne B. Beaudoin • Angela M. Younie • Brian M. Ronaghan • Brian O. Reeves • Duane G. Froese • Elizabeth C. Robertson • Eugene M. Gryba • Gloria J. Fedirchuk • Grant M. Clarke • James A. Burns • Janet Blakey • Jennifer C. Tischer • Laura Roskowski • Luc Bouchet • Murray Lobb • Nancy Saxberg • Raymond J. Le Blanc • Robert R. Young • Robin J. Woywitka • Stephen A. Wolfe • Thomas V. Lowell • Timothy G. FisherOver the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made d... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Sick of the System: Why the COVID-19 recovery must be revolutionary
by John Clarke • Richard Swift • Emma Jackson • Justin Piché • Alberto Toscano • Jamie Swift • Harry Glasbeek • Gary Kinsman • Kai Cheng Thom • Robyn Maynard • Andrew Jackson • Anita Girvan • James T. Brophy • Nicole Marie Burton • Hugh Goldring • Dallas Hunt • El Jones • Margaret M. Keith • Julie S. Lalonde • Wayne Lewchuk • Jane E. McArthur • Alexander McClelland • Karen Messing • Elaine Power • Gina StarblanketFamilies left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep. Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceratio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1977 -
Conservation Agriculture in Africa: Climate Smart Agricultural Development
by Neil Miller • Richard Bell • Patrick Gicheru • Trent W Bunderson • Zwide D Jere • Josef Kienzle • Erna Kruger • Peter Kuria • Simon Lugandu • Weldone Mutai • Brian G. Sims • Hendrik J. Smith • Christian Thierfelder • Reynolds K. Shula • Johann Strauss • Joseph Mureithi • Mohamed Annabi • Haithem Bahri • Mloza Banda • Gotlieb Basch • Alexandra Bot • Martin Bwalya • Hatem Cheikh M’hamed • Cornelius Chiduza • Cary Clark • Demba Diakhaté • Mazwi Dlamini • Sjoerd Duiker • Alioune Fall • Aymen Frija • Josiah Gitari • Tom Goddard • Emilio Gonzalez-Sanchez • Isaac Gura • Enamul Haque • Michel Havard • Zied Idoudi • Mohammad Jahiruddin • Onesmos Kitonyo • Phlorentin Philip Lagwen • Ngari Macharia • Temakholo Mathebula • Sixolise Mcinga • Alfred Micheni • Frank Mmbando • Rachid Moussadek • Pearson Nyari Mnkeni • Rachid Mrabet • Ndabhemeye Mulengera • Walter Mupangwa • R. M. Museka • Munyaradzi Mutenje • Lindah Muzangwa • Remmy Mwakimbwala • Andre A Nel • James Njeru • Rama Ngatoluwa • Phumzile Ngcobo • Isaiah Nyagumbo • Putso Nyathi • Ricardo Ralisch • Leonard Rusinamhodzi • John Sariah • Ibrahima Sarr • Peter Setimela • Richard Shetto • Dimas Soares Júnior • Peter Steward • Gerhardus Trytsman • Jean Twilingiyumukiza • Carl Wahl • Peter Waweru • Nouhoun ZampaligreTillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition (Keywords #9)
by Michael Joseph • Beverly Lyon Clark • Michelle Martin • Peter Hunt • Karen Sánchez-Eppler • Colleen Glenney Boggs • Elizabeth Marshall • Clémentine Beauvais • Lynne Vallone • Philip Nel • Lissa Paul • Robin Bernstein • Evelyn Arizpe • Katharine Capshaw • Vanessa Joosen • Patricia Crain • Kerry Mallan • Kenneth Kidd • Kimberley Reynolds • Mavis Reimer • Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair • Clare Bradford • JonArno Lawson • Nicole Markotić • Ute Dettmar • Karen Coats • Louise Joy • Naomi Hamer • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer • Jacqueline Reid-Walsh • Joseph T. Thomas • Hugh Crago • Debra Dudek • Claudia Nelson • Derritt Mason • Zoe Jaques • Charles Hatfield • Anna Stemmann • Sandra L. Beckett • Kelly Hager • Mike Cadden • Boel Westin • Lydia Kokkola • Marah Gubar • Victoria Ford Smith • Nina Christensen • Sarah Park Dahlen • Eric L. Tribunella • Richard Flynn • B. j. McDaniel • Ebony Elizabeth Marshall • Elisabeth Lies Wesseling • Deirdre Baker • Karin E. Westman • Peter Hollindale • Michael Heyman • Kevin Shortsleeve • William Moebius • Stine Liv Johansen • Cathryn M. Mercier • Åse Marie Ommundsen • Emer O’SullivanIntroduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated editionOver the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Writing the Classroom: Pedagogical Documents as Rhetorical Genres
by Megan Knight • Lori Ostergaard • Jim Nugent • Lora Arduser • Christina Saidy • Kate Navickas • Logan Bearden • Megan Schoen • Michael Albright • Virginia M. Schwarz • Jessica Rivera-Mueller • Dustin Morris • Lindsay Clark • Amy Ferdinandt Stolley • Christopher Toth • Dana Comi • Mark A. Hannah • Matt Dowell • Cindy Mooty • Lesley Erin Bartlett • Laura R. Micciche • Cynthia Pengilly • Kate Nesbit • Zack K. De PieroWriting the Classroom explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to establish classroom expectations and teaching practices, as well as to articulate the professional identities they perform both inside and outside the classroom. The contributors to this unique collection employ ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022