316 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

Remembering the Year of the French" is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798 and folkloric representationsof those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland s rich oral traditions, Guy Beiner reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiat...

Keine Beschreibung.

First English translation of de Rossel's transcription of d'Entrecasteaux's journal, with introductory essay and explanatory notes. In 1791 Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed with two ships from Revolutionary France to search for his compatriot, the explorer La Pérouse, who was missing in the Pacific. Over a period of nearly two years he had held his ideologically divided expedition together. Without his exceptional maritime skills his men (...

Keine Beschreibung.

Werk, Bedeutung und Rezeption.Kardinal Johannes Gropper (1503-1559) stand den Reformvorhaben seines Erzbischofs Hermann von Wied zunächst positiv gegenüber und war mit Martin Bucer bis zum Januar 1543 fast freundschaftlich verbunden. Seit dem Jahr 1543 aber wurde er zum Wortführer der Gegner der protestantischen Reform des Erzbistums Köln.In seiner »Christlichen und catholischen Gegenberichtung« (1544) setzte sich Gropper im Namen des Kölner D...

Werk, Bedeutung und Rezeption. Die Werke Bucers zur Reformation des Erzbistums Köln, die er in den Jahren 1542 bis 1545 im Auftrag des Kölner Erzbischofs Hermann von Wied vorbereitete und betrieb und deren schließliches Scheitern für die deutsche Reformationsgeschichte von weitreichender Bedeutung sind, werden in drei Bänden dokumentiert und ediert, von denen dieser der letzte ist. Er enthält die Edition der »Beständigen Verantwortung«. Dieses...

There is a small town on the east coast waiting for you to take a savage walk on the wild side of Maryland's toughest, dirtiest, and the most dangerous ghetto hood's ever created.

Miguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to the office by President William McKinley. Long after his retirement from politics, Governor Otero wrote and published his memoirs in three volumes, a major contribution to New Mexico history. But he also published a biography in 1936 titled "The Real Billy the Kid." His aim in that book, he proclaimed, was to w...

Herzog brings his well-received prose and soccer knowledge together with Rose's charming and realistic illustrations to detail every facet of the game. For older readers, the expository text gives specific details about goaltending, referees, the World Cup, and many other aspects.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

An extensive and up-to-date annotated bibliography of international resources (print and online) makes this a truly global sourcebook on strategies, approaches, and tools to mainstream gender-equality concerns in the formulation of health policy and practice.

Keine Beschreibung.

Teaching is as much about students as it is about curriculum, and no one understands this better than middle and high school teachers. But even the most dedicated teacher can sometimes feel defeated by the challenge of reaching distracted, disconnected, and defiant adolescents. Drawing on her own experience as a high school teacher, Katy Ridnouer shares an approach to classroom management that will help you spend less time dealing with your ad...

Keine Beschreibung.

Radical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe's novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters wrestle with serious political and metaphysical questions against the backdrop of urban, suburban, and rural America.

Keine Beschreibung.

The focus of this book is on filtering for linear processes, and its primary goal is to design filters from a class of linear stable unbiased filters that yield an estimation error with the lowest root-mean-square (RMS) norm. Various hierarchical classes of filtering problems are defined based on the availability of statistical knowledge regarding noise, disturbances, and other uncertainties. An important characteristic of the approach employ...

Explores the culture of the Aztecs, the pre-Columbian people of Mesoamerica who thrived from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. This book employs the use of illustrations to tell us about their life, art and rituals.

Keine Beschreibung.