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Paolo Veronese: Piety and Display in an Age of Religious Reform (Routledge Revivals)
This title was first published in 2001: Paolo Veronese: Piety and Display in an Age of Religious Reform examines the large body of religious paintings with which Veronese (1528 -1588) played a crucial role in shaping Venetian piety. With 117 illustrations (26 in colour) Richard Cocke sets Veronese’s... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
Heart Of Middle East
by Richard CokeThe Heart of the Middle East is a classic account of the history and culture of Iraq. Written in 1925 at the height of the colonial era, it offers a unique insight into a complex past that continues to influence events today. Beginning with the earliest known inhabitants of what was called Mesopot... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2010 -
Thomas World
by Richard CoxThomas Phillips knows he's losing his mind. He's been losing it for as long as he can remember. And yet, when a strange old man asks him to consider that he, out of everyone in the world, knows the real truth, Thomas' life begins to spiral out of control. He loses interest in his job and is fired. H... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
The Boys of Summer
by Richard CoxBoth a haunting coming-of-age story set in North Texas against the backdrop of a deadly tornado, and a character-driven, deeply-affecting supernatural thriller. In 1979, a massive tornado devastates the city of Wichita Falls, Texas, leaving scores dead, thousands homeless, and nine-year-old Todd Wi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2002
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The God Particle
by Richard CoxThere is a divine spark within us all. In one man, that spark is about to explode. American businessman Steve Keeley is hurtled three stories to the cold cobblestone street in Zurich. In the days that follow, a doctor performs miraculous surgery on Keeley, who wakes up to find that everything ab... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2005 -
The First Generation of Electronic Records Archivists in the United States: A Study in Professionalization
by Richard CoxThis book helps readers understand the current status of archivists in the United States. It addresses issues of professionalization by re-examining two major aspects of the archival community: institutional forms and structures, and the basic educational foundations that are important to any profes... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1995 -
Rift
by Richard CoxIn an age where reality and science fiction are colliding, Richard Cox's extraordinary debut thriller takes its place as an all-too-believable novel of white-knuckle adventure. For when an ordinary man makes one great leap for mankind, he triggers a chain of events that endangers his life, fractures... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
Thomas World
by Richard CoxThomas Phillips knows he's losing his mind. He's been losing it for as long as he can remember. And yet, when a strange old man asks him to consider that he, out of everyone in the world, knows the real truth, Thomas' life begins to spiral out of control. He loses interest in his job and is fired. H... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
North Carolina Triad Beer: A History (American Palate)
Now centered on Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, the Triad was home to one of North Carolina's earliest brewery operations in the Moravian community of Bethabara. Easy access by rail and then highways attracted national breweries, and starting in the 1960s, the region began producing beer f... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
The Palgrave Handbook of Psychological Perspectives on Alcohol Consumption
This Handbook provides a broad and comprehensive overview of psychological research on alcohol consumption. It explores the psychological theories underpinning alcohol use and misuse, discusses the interventions that can be designed around these theories, and offers key insight into future developme... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Encyclopedia of British Football
This reference work aims to provide sports enthusiasts, journalists, librarians, students and scholars with an authorative source of information on a comprehensive range of subjects covering the history and organization of football in Britain. Over 250 entries focus on key organisations or individua... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2002 -
Behind Human Error
Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents. The result is a widespread perception of a 'human error problem', and solutions are thought to lie in changing the people or their role in the system. For example, we should reduce the human role with more automation, or regim... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2010 -
Clear-Cutting Disease Control: Capital-led Deforestation, Public Health Austerity, And Vector-borne Infection
by Robert G. Wallace • Rodrick Wallace • Luis Fernando Chaves • Luke R. Bergmann • Constância Ayres • Lenny Hogerwerf • Richard KockThe vector-borne Zika virus joins avian influenza, Ebola, and yellow fever as recent public health crises threatening pandemicity.By a combination of stochastic modeling and economic geography, this book proposes two key causes together explain the explosive spread of the worst of the vector-borne o... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Handbook of Chemical Synonyms and Trade Names
To this Eighth Edition of the late Mr William Gardner‘s Chemical Synonyms and trade Names there have been added some 3,300 new entries, principally in the field of plastics, alloys and pharmaceuticals. A number of entries describing products known to the Editors to be no longer commercially availabl... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1978 -
Taking it to the Bridge: Music as Performance
The overriding aim of this groundbreaking volume--whether the subject is vocal ornamentation in 19th-century opera or the collective improvisation of the Grateful Dead--is to give new recognition to performance as the core of musical culture. The collection brings together renowned scholars from pe... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century
An ambitious, comprehensive reimagining of 21st century higher education Improving Quality in American Higher Education outlines the fundamental concepts and competencies society demands from today's college graduates, and provides a vision of the future for students, faculty, and administrators. Ba... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
Manpower is the lifeblood of armies regardless of time or place. In the First World War, much of Canada’s military effort went toward sustaining the Canadian Expeditionary Force, especially in France and Belgium. The job was not easy. The government and Department of Militia and Defence were tasked ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
Multistate Models for the Analysis of Life History Data (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
Multistate Models for the Analysis of Life History Data provides the first comprehensive treatment of multistate modeling and analysis, including parametric, nonparametric and semiparametric methods applicable to many types of life history data. Special models such as illness-death, competing risks ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Recent Advances in Analysis, Design and Construction of Shell & Spatial Structures in the Asia-Pacific Region
This edited volume features a collection of extended versions of 13 papers originally published in the proceedings of the 12th Asian Pacific Conference on Shell & Spatial Structures held in Penang, Malaysia in October 2018. All chapters in this book have been written by experts from Malaysia, Singap... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020 -
George, Thomas, and Abe!: The Step into Reading Presidents Story Collection (Step into Reading)
This collection features three of our most popular biographies: Washington, the stoic general with a soft spot for animals; Jefferson, the brilliant statesman who was a foodie at heart, and Lincoln, the absentminded lawyer whose compassionate caseload foretold his presidency. Beginning readers will ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2003 -
Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet: The Failure of Mainstream Economists (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics)
The solutions and tools generally offered to policy-makers on environmental issues – such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation – most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods fro... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023 -
Sisterhood of the Spectrum: An Asperger Chick's Guide to Life
Spectrum gals, ever wished you had a handbook to help navigate the confusing world of teenage girlhood? Look no further! Aspie-in-the-know, Jennifer Cook O'Toole provides just that with her inspirational guide to life for teenage girls with Asperger syndrome. Drawing on her own, real-life exper... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
Spanking Shakespeare
by Jake Wizner • Richard EwingShakespeare Shapiro has always hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another. Entering his senior year of high school, Shakespeare has never had a girlfriend, his younger b... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2007 -
Spanking Shakespeare
by Jake Wizner • Richard EwingSHAKESPEARE SHAPIRO HAS ALWAYS hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another. Entering his senior year of high school, Shakespeare has never had a girlfriend, his younger b... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2007