Scholars in the fields of history, theology, art history, and English, most of whom teach in the US (two are in Germany and France), have written the dozen articles that make up this volume on aspects...
Tuberculosis (TB), a deadly airborne disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, takes the lives of almost 2 million people each year and is considered to be the most common infectious...
The book tackles significant contemporary problems that each historian of law faces in the light of present decline of philosophical, ethical and ideological canons in the overall context of western c...
Zainspirowana prawdziwą historią zasiedlania Grenlandii opowieść o dzikiej Północy, mistrzowsko poprowadzona przez duńskiego autora, Sorena Mosdala. W roku 982 Eryk Thorwaldsson, znany również jako Er...
This is the latest book from Cengage Learning on "New Era of Management, International Edition".
Refuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to...
After surviving Skyhold's deadly labyrinth, Hugh and his friends are looking forwards to an uneventful summer. Their teacher Alustin has chartered a sandship for a training expedition into the vast s...
The third quarter of the twentieth century was a golden age for labor in the advanced industrial countries, characterized by rising incomes, relatively egalitarian wage structures, and reasonable leve...
In American history, "Reconstruction" is the term applied to the period 1862-1877, when the United States sought to bring order from the tremendous changes wrought by the Civil War. The Encyclopedia i...
One Christmas Eve, Prince Sanruddin Aga Khan gave to his wife a magnificent jeweled box made by Cartier in the 1930s. So began the making of perhaps the most remarkable jewelry collection of a remarka...
Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have all been affected by the focus on gender. With the dismantling of "universal" meaning and the struggle for women's visibility in...
This book presents analyses of several distressed industries in the United States, including the steel, footwear, textile and apparel, paper and publishing, and automobile industries. It particularly ...
America's current involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has drawn the attention of policymakers, military analysts, and the general public to the lessons of the counterinsurgency era of the 1950s and 19...
Eli Monpress is clever, he's determined, and he's in way over his head. First rule of thievery: don't be a hero. When Eli broke the rules and saved the Council Kingdoms, he thought he knew the price,...
Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief. But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age - and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with th...
Eli Monpress is brilliant. He's incorrigible. And he's a thief. He's also still at large, which drives Miranda Lyonette crazy. While she's been kicked out of the Spirit Court, Eli's had plenty of tim...
With the pressure on after his success in Gaol, Eli Monpress, professional thief and degenerate, decides it's time to lie low for a bit. Taking up residence in a tiny seaside village, Eli and his comp...
Eli Monpress is vain. He's cocky. And he's a thief. But he's a thief who has just seen his bounty topped and he's not happy about it. The bounty topper, as it turns out, is his best friend, bodyguard,...
Professor Carr is concerned here with the devotional arts of the Byzantine world in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The first set of studies deals with groups of illuminated manu...