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Finally: Someone Who Gets It Adults may mean well, but do they really get everything you're facing as a teenager? The pressure to drink and party, cheat on that test, or give in to that guy? How about the devastation of losing a friend, parents divorcing, or low self-esteem? Who can better relate than your peers? This Is Now is a devotional written by your peers across the country who face the exact same things you do. God wants you to find en...

Decade of Betrayal" focuses on the experiences of individuals illegally shipped from the U.S. to Mexico in the 1930s and the recent questions of a formal apology and fiscal remuneration.

With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones provides a cultural critique of torch singing--describing the genre as a rich drama of passiveness, deception, desire, and resistance.

Services Marketing Management builds on the success of the previous editions, formerly entitled The Management and Marketing of Services, to provide an easily digestible approach to the service industry, with a specific focus on the management and marketing elements.

The book discusses the notion of knowledge cultures in relation to claims for the new economy and the 'communicative turn', as well as cultural economy and the politics of postmodernity. It focuses on national policy constructions of the knowledge economy, 'fast knowledge' and the role of the so-called 'new pedagogy' and social learning under these conditions to argue for knowledge networks as development possibilities in educational policy fu...

Benin fungiert dank politischer Stabilit¿und guter Flugverbindungen als Tor zu den n¿rdlichen Sahelstaaten Burkina Faso, Mali und Niger. Benin ist reich an kultureller Vielfalt ¿ schlie¿ich leben hier mehr als 60 V¿lker mit verschiedenen Sprachen, Kulturen und Religionen friedlich zusammen. Ein Beispiel ist der Voodoo, dessen Bilderwelt sich einem durch blo¿s Zuschauen und Fotografieren nicht erschlie¿n will. Das Franz¿sisch der Fon ist gro¿...

The book explores the current state of laser dynamics and provides reference data and basic experimental facts for old- and new-generation lasers. The most frequently used mathematical models are presented. The author discusses the reasons for the spontaneous occurrence of pulsation of the intensity of radiation of solid-state lasers and the influence of the non-stationary nature of laser elements on lasing characteristics. Special emphasis is...

This book inspires the Christian in the face of deep opposition to be encouraged through faith in the power of God. this book promotes the power of positive thinking and of a strong faith in the truth of God. Your enemy doesn't know or fails to realize that behind you is a greater force for good than they could ever imagine, namely, the awesome power of God.

Now in paperback, a photographic exploration comparing celebrations in seven indigenous world cultures and the United States, highlighting common rituals such as body decoration, music, and dance.

This book explores how the practice of art, in particular of avant-garde art, keeps our relation to time, history and even our own humanity open. Examining key moments in the history of both technology and art from the beginnings of industrialisation to today, Charlie Gere explores both the making and purpose of art and how much further it can travel from the human body.

Philosophers have increasingly advocated a virtue-based ethics that challenges traditional moral theories founded on moral obligation and delineation of right or wrong in given situations. Stan van Hooft provides a broad overview of the history of virtue ethics from Aristotle to Nietzsche to the ideas of contemporary writers Ricoeur and Levinas. He explores the major themes of moral theory and shows how a virtue ethics approach differs from th...

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Discusses aspects of daily life, including domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational and religious, of Native Americans during the 20th century.

A lively tour of yesterday's Badger State.

This story of "Buffalo Bill" Cody's second British tour as experienced by Lakota Indian performers, includes 16 b&w, illustrations and 1 map.

A masterful analysis of the most significant American political trend in the past forty years.

After eleven hundred years of struggle, the warring tribes that survived the apocalyptic destruction of the United States have finally united, forming the peaceful Heart River Federation. But three eastern cities remain outside the federation. Led by Innanigani forces, these last rogue tribes seek western victories and rich lands from the Heart River Federation. In their desire for land, the tribes unleash yet another war. Yet this war is diff...

Twenty years after the great battle at Northwall, the disparate warring tribes are moving toward a peaceful unity for the first time since before the Time of the Fire. With the comfort of peace, the running bands of nomadic Shumai Axemen are settling down and forgoing their traditional ways. So Tor, last of the great Shumai Axemen, takes his nephew Tristal on a last run to teach the boy the Way of the Axeman. But Tristal will have to survive d...

Taken from an ancient text found abandoned in a cave, "The Last Man" ends in 2100, "the last year of the world." A devastating worldwide plague has annihilated all of humanity except for one man, who chronicles the world's demise. This novel of apocalyptic horror, originally published in 1826, was rejected in its time and was out of print from 1833 to 1965, when the first Bison Books edition appeared.

The second edition of "A Handbook of American Military History" delineates the military history of the United States from the Revolutionary War into the opening stages of the twenty-first century war on terrorism. Comprehensive and easy to use, it supplies essential information on the social, technological, political, tactical, and strategic developments that have affected the evolution of the U.S. armed forces. New to the second edition is a ...