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This book presents an intelligent overview into the driving forces that shaped American history in the Northeast. It draws on primary documents such as farmer's diaries, small rural papers of the 19th century, and the publications of state agricultural societies.

Management and organization theories have, in the years, developed rich methodological paraphernalia to test hypotheses. This book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory.

By offering a broad empirical approach to different modes of audience participation from the late eighteenth century up to the present, this book not only provides new insights to the expanding field of media history but also challenges the rhetoric of newness that characterizes contemporary discussions of participatory media.

Health and the Modern Home explores shifting and contentious debates about the impact of the domestic environment on health in the modern period.

In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories of past reading experiences shape the ways in which we react to literary works. The book also examines the concrete mnemonic qualities of poetry, as ...

Many people suffer in life just because they don't know who they are and what they are destined for. This book will help you to know who you are and what you are destined for in order to break through in life. Many people also fail in life due to their negative response to change. Change is permanent, constant and so powerful that it affects everything under the sun. With the exception of God, everything goes through change. Since everyt...

Families Under Fire is an indispensable guidebook designed for the broad spectrum of civilian mental health practitioners who provide professional services to military personnel, their spouses, and their family members.

Steven Moyer was a typical teenager until an untimely car accident claimed the lives of his parents. When his immediate family refused to take him in, Steven was forced into the foster care system. Being carted from one foster home to the next (over a dozen times in two years), has made it difficult for Steven to make friends or fit in. Now in his teens, he is placed with the Joneses. Although he is immediately made to feel welcome, once the c...

The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and scholars since it was written some 1, 500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at the time, it is simultaneously a taxonomy and history of genres and styles and a manual for good writing. Its chapters, organized according to the I...

David Poiry's New and Revised, Third Edition It was a warm September evening in 1973. Rabbit was a twenty-eight-year-old Los Angeles uniformed policeman, on duty working a black and white police car in Westchester, a district of Venice Division near the Los Angeles airport. He had been assigned there for almost four years. Although Rabbit's assignment to this sleepy hollow town was somewhat of a forced retirement for him, it was a peaceful com...

The windigo is a cannibal spirit prevalent in the traditional narratives of the Algonquian peoples of North America. From Labrador in the north to Virginia in the south, and from Nova Scotia in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west, this phenomenon has been discussed, feared, and interpreted in differentways for centuries. Dangerous Spirits tells the story of how belief in the windigo clashed with the new world order that came about afte...

In the early 1980s, Vancouver residents were still reeling from the sensational arrest of child murderer Clifford Olson when a new terror surfaced in the headlines: a serial rapist was attacking women across the city. In May 1982, with a tarnished image and few leads in their case, the Vancouver Police Department made an arrest. Ivan Henry was an ex-convict still adjusting to civilian life when he was detained on a break-and-enter charge. A sh...

Scope offers a challenging syllabus with a manageable amount of course material, and the objectives and learning outcomes for every lesson provide a clear framework to measure student progress.

Scope offers a challenging syllabus with a manageable amount of course material, and the objectives and learning outcomes for every lesson provide a clear framework to measure student progress.

Re-examines questions of aesthetics in applied theatre by introducing new perspectives from comparative fields and incorporating a range of practical studies.

The central focus of this book is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water - governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. Through a series of case studies it is shown how decision-making and implementation at the appropriate geographic and governmental scales can resolve conflicts and share best sustainable practices.

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Defending the methodological naturalism of the sciences, Dawes finds that theistic explanations are unlikely to ever be the best explanation for phenomena. His arguments offer a critical contribution to both the philosophy of science and the philosophy of religion.

In The Creative Therapist, Bradford Keeney makes the case that "creativity" is the most essential aspect of vibrant, meaningful, and successful therapy. Using a collection of clinical case studies this book illustrates how creativity may be brought into therapy. and prescribes various strategies for awakening clinical creativity as well as finding your own unique style of therapeutic presence and performance.

Combat Stress Injury represents a definitive collection of the most current theory, research, and practice in the area of combat and operational stress management, edited by two experts in the field, Charles Figley and Bill Nash.