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Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages
This book is about patterns of social behavior in Indian peasant communities of central and southern Mexico after the severe hazards of the sixteenth century had passed, leaving the pressures of a mature colonial system on the lives of an expanding population. Without attempting to force connections... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1979 -
Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico
Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Reliving the Past
Five historians uncover the ties between people's daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in whic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1985 -
Absorbing and Developing Qualified Fighter Pilots
by Lawrence M. Hanser • Clarence R. Anderegg • John A. Ausink • William W. Taylor • Richard S. MarkenWhat qualifications determine whether a fighter pilot is experienced? Surveys of expert pilots revealed that, while flying time is an element of the experience needed for both combat and staff jobs, other things are also important. The Air Force needs to measure and credit different types of experi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Líneas de sangre
by William B. Taylor • GiselaUna herencia de $250 millones de dólares...¡y una mansión embrajada! Alex Tinsdill nunca pensó que una simple prueba de ADN lo llevaría a obtener una herencia de $250 millones de dólares y una mansión en Cove Point, una enorme propiedad construida durante la época de oro en Gold Coast de Long Islan... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2017 -
Bloodlines: Uma herança de US$ 250 milhões...e uma mansão mal-assombrada!
Alex Tinsdill nunca pensou que um simples teste de DNA o levaria a uma herança de US$ 250 milhões e à Mansão Cove Point, uma enorme propriedade construída durante a Era Dourada na Costa do Ouro em Long Island, Nova York. A herança de Alex não vem sem um custo, no entanto, quando duas parentes gananc... More
Language: PORCopyright: 2020 -
Cambridge Latin American Studies: Theater of a Thousand Wonders
by Taylor • William B.The great many shrines of New Spain have become long-lived sites of shared devotion and contestation across social groups. They have provided a lasting sense of enchantment, of divine immanence in the present, and a hunger for epiphanies in daily life. This is a story of consolidation and growth d... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Letters of Captain Thomas William Taylor of the 10th Hussars during the Waterloo Campaign
This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Jonathan Leach's service with the 95th Rifles throughout the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns placed him in an authoritative position to writ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence (6th Edition)
This 6th Edition examines fundamental elements of military leadership: the process of leadership, the dynamic personal interactions between leader and followers, and the values that foster effective leadership and provides a greatly expanded mix of classic and contemporary articles as well as origin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence
Taylor (management, U. of Louisville) and W. Rosenbach (leadership studies, Gettysburg College, retired) are both retired Air Force officers, and they have joined with E. Rosenbach (Executive Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard U. ) to edit the sixth edition of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Military Leadership
The sixth edition of this classic text continues its popular interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership by examining fundamental elements of military leadership: the "process" of leadership, the dynamic personal interactions between leader and followers, and the individual and organizatio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Military Leadership
The sixth edition of this classic text continues its popular interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership by examining fundamental elements of military leadership: the "process" of leadership, the dynamic personal interactions between leader and followers, and the individual and organizatio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Governance as Leadership
A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards. Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a new covenant between ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture
Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as what they can do in the face of challenging times. It does so by exploring the notion that architect... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Financing Energy Efficiency: Lessons from Brazil, China, India, and Beyond
While energy efficiency projects could partly meet new energy demand more cheaply than new supplies, weak economic institutions in developing and transitional economies impede developing and financing energy efficiency retrofits. This book analyzes these difficulties, suggests a 3-part model for pro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Psychological Therapies for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Psychological Therapies for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities brings together contributions from leading proponents of psychological therapies for people with intellectual disabilities, which offer key information on the nature and prevalence of psychological and mental health problems, the deli... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Broken Government: Bridging the Partisan Divide (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency)
by Alan Taylor • Larry J. Sabato • Gary W. Gallagher • Kyle Kondik • Kunal Modi • William J. Antholis • Carolyn Dewar • Tom Dohrmann • Andrew Erdmann • Ryan Harper • Bruce J. KatzIn an increasingly polarized political environment, the first year of the new president’s term will be especially challenging. With a fresh mandate, however, the first year also offers opportunities that may never come again. The First Year Project is a fascinating initiative by the Miller Center of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1800 -
The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (New Black Studies Series #1)
by Derrick P. Alridge • Keisha N. Blain • Cornelius L. Bynum • Jeffrey Lamar Coleman • Pero Gaglo Dagbovie • Stephanie Y. Evans • Aaron David Gresson • Claudrena N. Harold • Leonard Harris • Maurice J. Hobson • La TaSha Levy • Layli Maparyan • Zebulon V. Miletsky • R. Baxter Miller • Edward Onaci • Venetria K. Patton • James B. Stewart • Nikki M. TaylorConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. Thi... 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 -
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