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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson's biography traces Che's extraordinary life, fr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
The Fall of Baghdad
For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds-George Orwell's Homage to Cataloniaand the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's Hiroshimaand the dropping of the first at... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World
Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and his firsthand reports on the war in Iraq in the acclaimed THE FALL OF BAGHDAD, Jon Lee Anderson wrote GUERRILLAS, a daring on-the-ground account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world: the mujahedin o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
The Fall Of Baghdad
For every great historical event, at least one reporter writes an eye-opening account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds - George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's Hiroshima and the dropping of the first atomic b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Che: A Revolutionary Life
&“A remarkable accomplishment, one that belongs next to such works of graphical history as the March series and Shigeru Mizuki's Showa books. By foregrounding the tension between myth and truth, Che illuminates the present state of our politics as well as the past.&” —NPRThe graphic adaptation of th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Marsh Arabs
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein-Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptanc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Crónicas Negras. Desde una región que no cuenta
Aquí están las protagonistas de la violencia; vemos sus caras, sus gestos, escuchamos sus voces, suenan los tiros y caen los muertos casi a nuestros pies...Centroamérica es una región que poco conoce la palabra paz. Tras las guerras civiles de finales del siglo pasado, sus países recibieron una olea... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2013 -
Superdiversity and Teacher Education: Supporting Teachers in Working with Culturally, Linguistically, and Racially Diverse Students, Families, and Communities
This edited volume addresses the pressing imperative to understand and attend to the needs of the fast-growing population of minority students who are increasingly considered "superdiverse" in their cultural, linguistic, and racial backgrounds. Superdiverse learners—including native-born learners (I... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Energy Technology 2018: Carbon Dioxide Management And Other Technologies (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series)
by Tao Wang • Lei Zhang • Shadia Ikhmayies • Mingming Zhang • Amit Pandey • Donna Post Guillen • Cong Wang • Elsa Olivetti • Huimin Lu • Xiaofei Guan • Ziqi Sun • Neale R Neelameggham • John A. Howarter • Dirk Verhulst • Allie Anderson • York R. Smith • Sarma PisupatiThis collection focuses on energy efficient technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, recycling and waste heat recovery. The volume also covers various technological aspects of sustainable energy ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce thermal ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Retinal Degenerative Diseases: Laboratory And Therapeutic Investigations (Advances In Experimental Medicine And Biology #723)
by Joe G. Hollyfield • Robert E. Anderson • Christian Grimm • John D. Ash • Catherine Bowes Rickman • Matthew M. LaVailThe blinding diseases of inherited retinal degenerations have no treatments, and age-related macular degeneration has no cures, despite the fact that it is an epidemic among the elderly, with 1 in 3-4 affected by the age of 70. The RD Symposium will focus on the exciting new developments aimed at un... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Retinal Degenerative Diseases: Mechanisms and Experimental Therapy (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology #1185)
by Joe G. Hollyfield • Robert E. Anderson • Christian Grimm • John D. Ash • Catherine Bowes Rickman • Matthew M. LaVailThis book contains the proceedings of the XVIII International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration (RD2018). A majority of those who spoke and presented posters at the meeting contributed to this volume. The blinding diseases of inherited retinal degenerations have no treatments, and age-related macul... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Piano for leisure, series 3, first grade
by Benny Andersson • Mark Gibson • Andrew Lloyd Webber • Georges Bizet • Australian Music Examinations Board • Sonny Chua • Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky • Bjorn Ulvaeus • Steven Baker • Neil Diamond • Fischer, Johann Caspar Ferdinand • Jane Stavrinoudis • Kay Hicks Ward • Martini, Johann-Paul-Aegidius • Catherine RollinAMEB's popular piano syllabus... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing (CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series)
by Shirley Du Plooy • Alison T. Smith • E. Moore Quinn • Vivienne Keely • Matthew R. Anderson • Mary Farrelly • Tessa Garton • George D. Greenia • Richard LeSueur • Ian S. McIntosh • Aateka Khan • Suzanne Van BeekPilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing provides an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. It reveals many aspects of the practice of pilgrimage, from its nationalistic facets to its effect on economic development; from the impact of the internet to questions of globalization; f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Dream: A Tale Of Wonder, Wisdom And Wishes
by Robert Ingpen • Raúl Colón • Steve Johnson • Lou Fancher • Leo Dillon • Diane Dillon • Christian Birmingham • James Bennett • Shaun Tan • Mike Carter • Barbara Reid • Bruce Wood • Michele Lemieux • Susan Bosak • Zhong-Yang Huang • Wayne AndersonRemarkable illustrations from 15 internationally acclaimed artists complement a beautifully poetic story that celebrates living and dreaming. Children will discover all the possibilities within themselves and adults will be reminded that their best can be just ahead. Full color.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
by Richard Van Camp • Lisa Tatonetti • Kim Anderson • Gregory Scofield • Robert Alexander Innes • Sam Mckegney • Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair • Brendan Hokowhitu • Ty P. Tengan • Warren Cariou • Daniel Heath Justice • Bob Antone • Phillip Borell • Kimberly Minor • Scott L. Morgensen • Robert Henry • Allison Piché • Sasha Sky • Leah Sneider • Erin Sutherland • John Swift • Lloyd L. Lee • William Kahalepuna Richards • Thomas Ka’auwai KaulukukuiWhat do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculini... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation And Healing (Cabi Religious Tourism And Pilgrimage Series)
by Ian S. McIntosh • Shirley Du Plooy • Alison T. Smith • E. Moore Quinn • Vivienne Keely • Matthew R. Anderson • Mary Farrelly • Tessa Garton • George D. Greenia • Richard LeSueur • Suzanne Van Der BeekPilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing provides an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. It reveals many aspects of the practice of pilgrimage, from its nationalistic facets to its effect on economic development; from the impact of the internet to questions of globalization; f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
T. S. Eliot And Christian Tradition
by Dominic Manganiello • James Seaton • James Matthew Wilson • William Marx • John D. Morgenstern • Seaton Wilson • Benjamin G. Lockerd • Christopher McVey • Lee Oser • Paul Robichaud • Shunichi Takayanagi • L. Marx • Anderson D. Araujo • Hazel Atkins • William Blissett • William C. Charron • Thomas Dilworth • David Huisman • Charles A. HuttarT. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris (1910-1911), he became involved with a group of Catholic writers there and subsequently went through ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Writers of the Future Volume 31
by Rebecca Moesta • Larry Niven • Orson Scott Card • L. Ron Hubbard • David Farland • Tim Napper • Martin L. Shoemaker • Amit Dutta • Choong Nyung Yoon • Krystal Claxton • Quinlan Septer • Samantha Murray • Taylor Payton • Emily Siu • Tung Chi Lee • Alex Brock • Sharon Joss • Daniel J. Davis • Michelle Lockamy • Amy H. Hughes • Kary English • Daniel Tyka • Zach Chapman • Kevin A. Anderson • Megen Nelson • Scott R. Parkin • Michael T. Banker • Auston Habershaw • Megan Kelchner • Shuangjian Liu • Steve PantazisThe future is here...the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging star... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
by Amber Benson • Maureen Johnson • Francesca Lia Block • Ellen Hopkins • Melissa Marr • Wendy Toliver • Crissa-Jean Chappell • Sara Zarr • Hannah Moskowitz • Cyn Balog • Francisco X. Stork • Aprilynne Pike • Amy Reed • Jessica Burkhart • Lauren Oliver • Cynthia Hand • Megan Kelley Hall • Robison Wells • Dan Wells • E. Kristin Anderson • Tom Pollock • Jennifer L. Armentrout • Sarah Fine • Karen Mahoney • Rachel M. Wilson • Candace Ganger • Kelly Fiore-Stultz • Scott Neumyer • Tara Kelly • Kimberly McCreight • Cindy L. RodriguezYour favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental illness in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD. <P><P>Have you ever felt like you just couldn’t get out of bed? Not the occas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and Plant Breeding
by Weikai Yan • Salvatore Ceccarelli • Surinder S Banga • Nourollah Ahmadi • Jacqueline Batley • Baffour Badu-Apraku • José Crossa • Ravi Prakash Singh • Manjit Kang • Meike S Anderson • Robyn Anderson • Paolo Annicchiarico • Vivi N Arief • Jérôme Bartholomé • Kaye E Basford • Dharminder Bhatia • Darshan S Brar • Juan Burgueño • Tuong-Vi Cao • Hernán Ceballos • Sandeep Chapagain • Binu Cherian • Monica Danilevicz • Ian H DeLacy • Professor Dave Edwards • M A Fakorede • Cassie Tay Fernandez • Mahalingam Govindaraj • Cécile Grenier • Mehak Gupta • L A Hunt • Shailesh Vinay Joshi • Philomin Juliana • Anand Kanatti • M T Labuschagne • D Lloyd Evans • Suschismita Modal • Gurbachan S Miglani • Osval A Montesinos-López • E Obeng-Bio • S A Oyekale • Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez • Wolfgang H Pfeiffer • M Pillay • K N Rai • Lovepreet Singh • Rajveer Singh • Prasanta K Subudhi • A O Talabi • S N Tchala • Soodeh Tirnaz • Parminder S VirkSince the first edition of this book was published in 2002, the field of quantitative genetics, genomics and breeding has changed markedly. In response, only four chapters have been updated for this new edition, and the remaining 16 chapters are entirely new. This book presents state-of-the-art,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Professional Spiritual and Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and Chaplain's Handbook
by Willard W. C. Ashley • George Fitchett • Brian Hughes • Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts • Bill Gaventa • H. Rafael Godstein • Daniel Grossoehme • Norma Gutierrez • George Handzo • Curtis W. Hart • Martha R. Jacobs • Gerald L. Jones • Nancy K. Anderson • Robert A. Kidd • Yoke Lye Kwong • Michele J. Guest Lowrey • Marcia Marino • Lynne M. Mikulak • Nancy Osborne • Jon Overvold • Brent Peery • Linda F. Piotrowski • David B. Plummer • Glenn A. Robitaille • Dane R. Sommer • Timothy G. Serban • Teresa E. Snorton • Shira Stern • Sue WIntz • Jo Clare Wilson • Nancy Berlinger • W. L. Bill Bross • Robin C. Brown-Haithco • Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas • Paula DeAngelo • D. W. DonovanThe first comprehensive resource for spiritual and pastoral caregivers―a vital resource for clergy, seminarians, chaplains, pastoral counselors and caregivers of all faith traditions. <P><P>This essential resource integrates the classic foundations of pastoral care with the latest approaches to s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Conversations in Food Studies
by Arthur Green • Carmen Wong • Penny Van Esterik • Keith Lee • Jennifer Sumner • Charles Z. Levkoe • Phil Mount • Colin R. Anderson • Jennifer Brady • Mustafa Koç • Mary A. Beckie • Eva A. Bogdan • Mark Bomford • Jennifer A. Braun • Samara Brock • Robyn Bunn • Kirsten Valentine Cadieux • Chantal Clement • Anais Detolle • Ankit Gupta • Robert Jennings • Josee Johnson • Emily Huddart Kennedy • Ahmed Khan • Mustafa Koc • Kristen Lowitt • Wanda Martin • Victoria Millious • Erika Mundel • Alan Nash • Seriy Polyakov • Keren Rideout • Steffanie Scott • Tammara Soma • Cathryn Sprague • David Szanto • Lani Trenouth • Matt Ventresca • Cassie Wever • Konstantinos ZougrisFew things are as important as the food we eat. "Conversations in Food Studies" demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Long Year: A 2020 Reader (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg • Joan Wallach Scott • Julie Livingston • Natalia Molina • Jun Li • Guobin Yang • Andrew Lakoff • Priscilla Wald • Warwick Anderson • Warren Breckman • Adam Tooze • Ananya Roy • Sophie Lewis • Neha Vora • Margaret O'Mara • Yarimar Bonilla • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • Margaret Morganroth Gullette • Marcia Chatelain • Jacob A.C. Remes • Joanne Randa Nucho • Xiaowei Wang • Miguel Centeno • Jean-Paul Gagnon • Keisha N. Blain • Sulfikar Amir • Mustafa Dikeç • David Schmidt • Gautam Bhan • David S. Barnes • Isabelle Guérin • Andy Horowitz • Simon Balto • Éric Charmes • Max Rousseau • Michelle Cera • Gilles Guiheux • Ye Guo • Renyou Hou • Manon Laurent • Anne-Valérie Ruinet • Govindan Venkatasubramanian • Mathieu Ferry • Marine Al Dahdah • Sherihan Radi • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder • Rachel Nolan • Evan Lieberman • Julia Foulkes • Soledad Álvarez Velasco • Sophie Gonick • Alfonso Fierro • Erick Corrêa • Gianpaolo Biaocchi • Jake Carlson • Quentin Ravelli • Rikki J. Dean • Afsoun Afsahi • Emily Beausoleil • Selen A. Ercan • Cordula Dittmer • Daniel F. Lorenz • Kathryn Cai • Kavita SivaramakrishnanSome years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
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