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During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan experienced a remarkable resurgence, drawing millions of American men and women into its ranks. In Not a Catholic Nation, Mark Paul Richard examines the KKK’s largely ignored growth in the six states of New England—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, R... More

The Philosophy of Religion is one result of the Early Modern Reformation movements, as competing theologies purported truth claims which were equal in strength and different in contents. Renaissance thought, from Humanism through philosophy of nature, contributed to the origin of the modern concepts... More

When Caroline watches her disabled friend Shannon struggling with an old, rusty, squeaking, and wobbling wheelchair, she decides to use her grandmother's secret recipe to make and sell lemonade to raise money for a brand-new wheelchair. When the neighborhood kids see Caroline trying to help, they ch... More

Mary Douglas's innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces D... More

Laurent Lacherez, NLP therapist (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and author of the best-sellers L'anxiété, comment s'en sortir and L'Art de l'âcher prise, offers you now, Healing from Anxiety, to succeed in your life. As soon as anxiety appears, you lose your full ability to act in the desired direct... More

This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have yet to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional resources. With a particular focus on three countries on the bend of the Upper West African... More

This bookconstitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 10thInternational Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and ComputerGraphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, inMarch 2015. VISIGRAPP comprises GRAPP, International Conference on ComputerGra... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2010, the Joint Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), on Imaging Theory and Applications (IMAGAPP), and on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), held in Angers, France, in... More

This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, February 27 - March 1, 2017. The 18 thoroughly revised and extended papers pre... More

This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2018, held in Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018. The 18 thoroughly revised and extended papers prese... More

Savez-vous que la période allant de la naissance à l'âge de huit ans et même plus important encore, celle de la naissance à l'âge de trois ans, constitue un moment critique dans le développement du cerveau d'un bébé. C'est le moment idéal pour l’apprentissage des enfants. Bébé intelligent vous mon... More

A l'Aide ! J'ai Perdu Mon Emploi: Vous montre la démarche à suivre lorsque vous êtes inopinément sans emploi, quitter soudainement votre emploi peut être une période difficile et émotionnelle de votre vie. Voici quelques conseils à prendre en considération pour faire face à cette situation.... More

SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America. Culling transformative ideas from the realms of historic preservation, sustainability, ecological urbanism, and the inn... More

New computer and communications technologies have acted as the catalyst for a revolution in the way goods are produced and services delivered, leading to profound changes in the way work is organized and the way jobs are designed. This important book examines the nature, setting and impact of new te... More

This book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world increasingly characterised by nihilism. On the one hand there is widespread anxiety that standards are falling; on the other, new machinery of accountability and inspection to show that they are not. The authors in this bo... More

For Student Success and Career Development, or Critical Thinking courses. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this book's approach to critical thinking is as a process for taking charge of and responsibility for one’s thinking. Critical Thinking is based in theory developed over ... More

This miniature guide focuses on of the essence of critical thinking concepts and tools distilled into a short book. ... More

No one remembers where they came from or where they're going. For hundreds of years, the starship Argonos, home to generations of humans, has wandered throughout the galaxy, searching for other signs of life. Now, a steady, unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet, where remnants ... More

From one of America's most beloved storytellers comes his most spiritual book since The Christmas Box. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a modern-day, Christmas-themed retelling of the story of the prodigal son.It has been said that sometimes... More

When I wrote my first book, "The Christmas Box," it was an intensely personal expression. To me, "The Locket" has that quality too. When I was sixteen, a high school sociology teacher gave us the assignment to visit a nursing home resident every week for the duration of her course. My first meeting ... More

Focuses on the mechanics of Socratic dialogue, on the conceptual tools that critical thinking brings to Socratic dialogue, and on the importance of questioning in cultivating the disciplined mind. ... More

"As you read my story, there is something I want you to understand. That in spite of all the pain--past, present and that still to come--I wouldn't have done anything differently. Nor would I trade the time I had with him for anything--except for what, in the end, I traded it for." Beth Cardall has ... More

Three magical Christmas books from one of the world's most beloved storytellers, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Richard Paul Evans. The Christmas ListWhat if someone read their obituary before they died? When real estate mogul James Kier is mistaken for another by the same name, he learn... More

The author of the best-selling Terror and Liberalism on the rise to power of the generation of 1968. The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil... More

From Richard Paul Evans, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Christmas Box, "the most popular holiday tale since Tiny Tim" (Newsweek), a new holiday novel that sets a classic Christmas story in our time.Richard Paul Evans is the master of the holiday novel. As an integral part of the ... More