Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War (Central European Studies) by Mate Nikola Tokić (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, numerous attempted and successful assassinations, two guerilla incursions into socialist Yugoslavia, and two airplane hijackings during the height of the Cold War. In Australia alone, Croatian separatists carried out no less than sixty-five significant acts of violence in one ten-year period. Diaspora Croats developed one of the most far-reaching terrorist networks of the Cold War and, in total, committed on average one act of terror every five weeks worldwide between 1962 and 1980. Toki? focuses on the social and political factors that radicalized certain segments of the Croatian diaspora population during the ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Savage Hunger by Shelli Stevens (Shells Bells Publishing) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Sienna Peters is a scientist trying to get ahead in the field. But her world is sent spinning when she discovers a secret shapeshifter species being held in the lab where she works. Realizing the horrible things being done to them, she's compelled to free the creatures. Warrick Donovan is a federal agent on a mission who just found more trouble than he bargained for. Unfortunately, trouble comes in the form of Sienna Peters, the younger sister of his close friend. Now not only does he need to save her pretty butt, he needs to discover just how involved she is with the imprisonment of the shifters. Sienna has been told she can't trust anyone. As the danger escalates, so does passion. She finds herself wanting to trust Warrick. With her life and with her heart. Even if it means he'll break it all over again.

Genre: Romance

Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets (IMISCOE Research Series) by Elif Keskiner (Springer) Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and 'strong ties'. This open access book addresses key questions about the role of networks in migration contexts, particularly in relation to how migrants and their descendants, access the labour market and develop their employment trajectories over time. Rather than adopting a narrow essentializing ethnic lens, the research presented in this book explores intersectional identities of class, generation and gender. By focusing on the kinds of capital circulating between ties, including the dark side of social capital, the book offers insights into power dynamics and the potentially exclusionary dimension of networks. Taking a long term view, across generations, the ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Why we should read by S. P. B. Mais (3 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer by Isambard Brunel (10 Reviews)    Price verified 53 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson (2 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Chasing Columbus to the Mother of All Worlds : A Standalone Bloodline Novel by Anthony Vincent Bruno (4 Reviews)    Price verified 43 minutes ago

Was Christopher Columbus a hero, or a nonchalant fantasist who inadvertently delivered genocide to the shores of a naïve continent? Genoese born Marcus Tychon Triarius regards the 'Boss' as a man of enormous vison and courage. The youngster stows away aboard the Pinta, fleeing a European blood feud, but the New World is not distant enough for the man who murdered Marcus' father and who now seeks to kill Marcus, stranded somewhere beneath the canopy of the unforgiving Hispaniola wilderness. Marcus survives attacks by a demon in many guises and eventually marries a beautiful new arrival from Spain, unaware that his wife was sent his way by his father's aging murderer. Marcus happens across a cave of unblemished gold deep in the jungle interior and is determined to put it to good use, but the Conquistadors have other ideas. Sickness forces the Triarius family across the sea to Mexico where the Mother of all Worlds lays waiting in Guadalupe. When tragedy strikes anew, a man comes forward ...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Digital Health Care in Taiwan: Innovations of National Health Insurance by Po-Chang Lee (Springer) Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and quality. The authors explicate how Taiwan integrates its strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry with 5G to construct an information system that facilitates medical information exchange, collects data for planning and research, refines medical claims review procedures and even assists in fighting COVID-19. Taiwan's NHI, launched in 1995, is a single-payer system funded primarily through payroll-based premiums. It covers all citizens and foreign residents with the same comprehensive benefits without the long waiting times seen in other single-payer systems. Though premium rate adjustment and various reforms were carried out in 2010, the NHI finds itself at a crossroads over its financial stability. With the advancement of technologies and an aging population, it faces ...

Genre: Medical eBooks

War's Peace (Club Apocalypse Book 1) by Raisa Greywood (Raisa Greywood LLC) (139 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Kendra Hall is a fixer. As far as Mark Luciano is concerned, nothing in his life needs fixing -- not him, and certainly not his business. As part owner of Club Apocalypse, a resort catering to those who share certain proclivities, he's perfectly happy with the small, select clientele they've curated. He doesn't need some fancy suit telling him how to run his business -- even if the advice is coming from the most stunning woman he's ever seen. Worse, she's right more than she's wrong. When he discovers that behind closed doors Kendra enjoys taking orders rather than giving them, their relationship takes a turn he never expected. But trouble is coming for Club Apocalypse. If Mark can't learn that sometimes even the Master must bend, he risks losing everything he's worked to build.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane (11 Reviews)    Price verified 7 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Biomineralization: From Molecular and Nano-structural Analyses to Environmental Science by Kazuyoshi Endo (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book is the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XIV) held in 2017 at Tsukuba. Over the past 45 years, biomineralization research has unveiled details of the characteristics of the nano-structure of various biominerals; the formation mechanism of this nano-structure, including the initial stage of crystallization; and the function of organic matrices in biominerals, and this knowledge has been applied to dental, medical, pharmaceutical, materials, agricultural and environmental sciences and paleontology. As such, biomineralization is an important interdisciplinary research area, and further advances are expected in both fundamental and applied research.

Genre: Science & Math

The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Literature & Fiction

Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

The Isles of Scilly Their Story their Folk & their Flowers by Jessie Mothersole (10 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Literature & Fiction

Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 23) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 12 hours ago

For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in-and thinking about-sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological range: from the Hellenistic period (first century BCE) to the most recent basketball season. The range of athletes covered is equally broad: from participants in Roman-style games to wrestlers, boxers, fencers, baseball players, and basketball stars. The authors of these essays, many of whom actively participate in athletics themselves, raise a number of intriguing questions, such as: What differing attitudes toward sports have Jews exhibited across periods and cultures? Is it possible to be a "good Jew" and a "great athlete"? In what sports have Jews excelled, and why? How have Jews overcome prejudices on the part of the general populace against a Jewish presence on the field or in the ...

Genre: Sports & Outdoors

Mishpachah: The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 27) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified one hour ago

Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the light of ancient literary traditions, archaeological discoveries, and rabbinic exegesis. Rabbinic literature also is filled with discussions about interactions, rancorous as well as amicable, between parents and among siblings. Sometimes harmony characterizes relations between the parent and the child; as often, alas, there is conflict. The rabbis, always aware of the realities of life, chide and advise as best they can. For the modern period, the changing ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhar Hauptmann (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Science Fiction

Next Year in Jerusalem: Exile and Return in Jewish History (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 30) by Leonard J. Greenspoon Price verified 10 hours ago

Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times through today. Among the exiles highlighted are the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), the exile after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (70 CE), and the years after the Crusaders (tenth century CE). Events of return include the aftermath of the Babylonian Exile (fifth century BCE), the centuries after the Temple's destruction (first and second CE), and the years of the establishment of the modern State of Israel (1948 CE). In each instance authors pay close attention to the historical settings, the literature created by Jews and others, and the theological explanations offered (typically, this was seen as divine punishment or reward for Israel's behavior). The entire volume is written ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

Who Is A Jew?: Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 25) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?" This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide range of academic and theological disciplines. Some of the authors directly address the issue of Jewish identity as it is being played out today in Israel and Diaspora communities. Others look to earlier time periods or societies as invaluable resources for enhanced and deepened analysis of contemporary matters. All authors in this collection make a concerted effort to present their evidence and their conclusions in a way that is accessible to the general ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. Fullerton (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Time After Time: A young adult 1980s time travel novel by Sara Crawford Price verified 10 hours ago

Megan Gallagher has only ever seen her mother as neurotic and overworked. When a Whitney Houston song at the 80s dance sends Megan back to 1987, she discovers her teenage mom dressed in all black and sneaking liquor in the bathroom. After preventing her mom's drunk car accident, Megan realizes she has one month to get her teenage parents to stop partying and learn enough about her family's secret to get back home. Too bad the much cuter teenage version of her history teacher is such a distraction. With time running out and her future at stake, Megan must learn that, when it comes to family, you can't always get what you want but you might just get what you need. "A fast-paced novel about love and family and the 1980s that manages to be both totally tubular and amazingly poignant. Crawford is one to watch." - Carrie Jones, NYT Bestselling Author of Need

Genre: Teen & Young Adult

Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria (Central European Studies) by Scott O. Moore (2 Reviews)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

Teaching the Empireexplores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic level, this civic education taught children about their state while also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could bind society together. For the most part historians have focused on the development of civic education in nation-states like Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. There has been an assumption that the multinational Habsburg Monarchy did not, or could not, use their public schools for this purpose. Teaching the Empire proves this was not the case. Through a robust examination of the civic education curriculum used in the schools of Habsburg from 1867-1914, Moore demonstrates that Austrian authorities attempted to forge a layered identity rooted in loyalties to an individual's home province, ...

Genre: History

President Trump’s First Term: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 5 by Robert X. Browning (Purdue University Press) Price verified 8 hours ago

C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided--without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view. The C-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is the home of the online C-SPAN Video Library. The Archives has recorded all of C-SPAN's television content since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and other enhanced online features provide researchers, policy analysts, students, teachers, and public officials with an unparalleled chronological and internally cross-referenced record for deeper study. Books in this series present the finest interdisciplinary research utilizing tools of the C-SPAN Video Library. Each volume highlights recent scholarship and comprises leading experts and emerging voices in political science, journalism, psychology, ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler by Tom Pfister (Purdue University Press) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans -- Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic -- who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as ...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences) by Suzanne M. Ward (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use ...

Letters of George Ade (The Founders Series) by Terence Tobin (Purdue University Press) Price verified 3 hours ago

George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland all received letters from the Hoosier humorist. Ade's keen observation, compact and straightforward style, and understated humor mark his correspondence, as well as his immensely popular newspaper columns, books, and plays. His friendships were so diversified that his letters forms a patchwork of popular history, literature, politics, and entertainment. Ade's interchange of ideas about people and events shaping the twentieth century as well as his own life will provide insights for students of varied aspects of American culture. This volume presents 182 of the most interesting and informative letters from the thousands of extant pieces of his correspondence in scores of collections scattered throughout the ...

Genre: History

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda (The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research) by Robert X. Browning Price verified one hour ago

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference, includes chapters that explore issues in presidential debates, minority representation, the presentation of the first ladies, stem research, and innovative ways to analyze video. The book is divided into five parts: Part 1 consists of an overview of and common scholarship using the C-SPAN Archives and how this research advances the conversation after previously published studies. Featured are the ways in which the collection is indexed and tips on how individuals can find particular materials. This section is essential for increased scholarship and pragmatic applications. Part 2 contains applied research using the video collection. Topics in this section include a look at oral histories of minority members of Congress, an analysis of presidential debates, and the presentation style of ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos (4 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: History

Shift (Fuel Series Book 1) by Ginger Scott (Little Miss Write, LLC) (304 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Dustin Bridges has always had two things he could count on -- his fearless instincts behind the wheel and the support of his two best friends, Tommy and Hannah Judge. Dustin brought the speed. Tommy, the brains. And Hannah... she was the glue that held everyone together. Together, they were unstoppable. From the dirt tracks of their youth to the late-night drag races under a desert moon as teens, the Judge siblings pushed and watched in awe as their friend edged closer to his dream. Always racing, always running. That was Dustin's gift and curse. And while his life at home was unbearable, his world with the Judges always seemed perfect. Growing up with people makes for a special bond. But sometimes life has a way of testing just how strong a relationship is. And falling in love with one of your best friends, not to mention your other best friend's sister? Well, that can be the toughest test of all. Heartbreak doesn't know what it's up against, though, because when there is a ...

Genre: Teen & Young Adult

Something’s Gotta Give: Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2011 by Beth R. Bernhardt (Purdue University Press) Price verified 11 hours ago

The theme of the 2011 Charleston Conference, the annual event that explores issues in book and serial acquisition, was "Something's Gotta Give." The conference, held November 2-5, 2011, in Charleston, SC, included 9 pre-meetings, more than 10 plenaries, and over 120 concurrent sessions. The theme reflected the increasing sense of strain felt by both libraries and publishers as troubling economic trends and rapid technological change challenge the information supply chain. What part of the system will buckle under this pressure? Who will be the winners and who will be the losers in this stressful environment? The Charleston Conference continues to be a major event for information exchange among librarians, vendors, and publishers. As it begins its fourth decade, the Conference is one of the most popular international meetings for information professionals, with almost 1,500 delegates. Conference attendees continue to remark on the informative and thought-provoking sessions. The ...

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru by Ilana Johnson (University Press of Colorado) Price verified 2 hours ago

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory. Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often the Moche. While Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru does examine the Moche, it offers a wider thematic approach to a broader swath of prehistory. Chapters on various time periods use a comparable scale of analysis to examine long-term continuity and change and draw on a large corpus of prior research on states, rulership, and cosmology to offer new insight into the intersection of household, community, and state. Contributors address social reproduction, construction and reinforcement of gender identities and social hierarchy, household permanence and resilience, and ...

Genre: History

Those Dale Girls by Frank Weston Carruth (1 Review)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity (Environmental Discourses in Science Education Book 7) by María S. Rivera Maulucci (Springer) Price verified 3 hours ago

This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation. Sustainability, with a focus on justice, authenticity and inclusivity, can be integrated into many different courses or disciplines even if it is beyond their historical focus. The narratives describe sustainability education in the classroom, the laboratory, and the field (broadly defined) and how the authors navigate the complexities of particular sustainability issues, such as climate change, water quality, soil health, biodiversity, resource use, and education in authentic ways that convey their complexity, the sociopolitical context, and their hopes for the future. The chapters explore how faculty engage students in learning about sustainability and the ways in which working at the edge of what we know about sustainability can be a significant source of ...

Genre: Education & Teaching

The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Kerby (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Being Human during COVID by Kristin Ann Hass (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 7 minutes ago

Science has taken center stage during the COVID-19 crisis; scientists named and diagnosed the virus, traced its spread, and worked together to create a vaccine in record time. But while science made the headlines, the arts and humanities were critical in people's daily lives. As the world went into lockdown, literature, music, and media became crucial means of connection, and historians reminded us of the resonance of the past as many of us heard for the first time about the 1918 influenza pandemic. As the twindemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice tore through the United States, a contested presidential race unfolded, which one candidate described as "a battle for the soul of the nation." Being Human during COVID documents the first year of the pandemic in real time, bringing together humanities scholars from the University of Michigan to address what it feels like to be human during the COVID-19 crisis. Over the course of the pandemic, the questions that occupy the humanities -- ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Holding Mia (Rockers' Legacy Book 1) by Terri Anne Browning (1,235 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

They call me the rocker's princess, some even call me the dance prodigy, but none of them knows the real Mia Armstrong. Now that dancing is no longer my future, I don't know either. All I want is the opportunity to find out, to have some time to try being just a little normal. To discover who this new girl is. I fought for the chance to go to college on my own. Without the guards overshadowing my shot at a real college experience, drawing unwanted attention and making it impossible to learn new things about myself. My goal was to get my degree and start my own dance school. Barrick wasn't part of that goal, but suddenly, he was everywhere -- and I was so damn tempted. His arms felt so good wrapped around me, making me feel safer than I'd ever felt in my life. But Barrick had more secrets than I could ever hope to uncover. And one just might break me completely.

Genre: Romance

Mediaeval Tales by Various (2 Reviews)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 33 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Literature & Fiction

European Lobbying: An Occupational Field between Professionalism and Activism (Routledge Studies in Political Sociology) by Christian Lahusen (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Lobbying is an integral part of the political reality of the European Union and a highly competitive and dynamic field of interest groups. This book takes a systematic look at lobbyists in order to broaden our understanding of the staff entrusted with the responsibility of influencing European politics. Who are the European lobbyists? What are their professional backgrounds, career patterns, practices, and beliefs? The study uses a sociological framework to explore the professionalisation and professionalism of the field across national proveniences, policy fields and interest groups, and develops a systematic analysis that considers three different dimensions: occupational patterns, shared knowledge and common convictions. Based on original research that combines in- depth interviews with survey data, European Lobbying demonstrates that European lobbying is a firmly established and highly professionalised métier. In an organisational field characterised by growth, pluralisation and ...

Algorithms for Big Data: DFG Priority Program 1736 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 13201) by Hannah Bast (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

This open access book surveys the progress in addressing selected challenges related to the growth of big data in combination with increasingly complicated hardware. It emerged from a research program established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as priority program SPP 1736 on Algorithmics for Big Data where researchers from theoretical computer science worked together with application experts in order to tackle problems in domains such as networking, genomics research, and information retrieval. Such domains are unthinkable without substantial hardware and software support, and these systems acquire, process, exchange, and store data at an exponential rate. The chapters of this volume summarize the results of projects realized within the program and survey-related work. This is an open access book.

Genre: Computers & Technology

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie) Hay, Marie (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: History

Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton (3 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era: Contexts, Companies, Connections (Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics) by Niels P. Petersson (Palgrave Macmillan) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

This open access book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series. This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar era. Shipping was both an example and an engine of globalization and structural change. In turn, the industry experienced and pioneered, mirrored and enabled key developments that led to the present-day globalized economy. Contributions address issues such as the macro-level shift of shipping's centre of gravity from Europe to Asia, the political and legal frameworks within which it developed, the strategies and performance of both successful and unsuccessful firms, and the links between the shipping industry and the wider economy and society. Without shipping and its ability to forge connections and networks of a global reach, the modern world would look very different. By bringing together scholars from various ...

Genre: Business & Money

Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams (1 Review)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Various Classes of Parisian Society by Alvan Francis Sanborn (1 Review)    Price verified 57 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Vistas in Sicily by Arthur Stanley Riggs (4 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times by Zhiyi Yang (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 13 hours ago

Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on cultural memory: modern mainland China prohibits serious academic research on wartime collaboration in general, and on Wang Jingwei in particular. At this critical juncture, when the recollection of World War II is fading from living memory and transforming into historical memory, this knowledge embargo will undoubtedly affect how China remembers its anti-fascist role in WWII. In Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times, Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang's impact on cultural memory of WWII in China. In this book, Yang brings disparate methodologies into a fruitful dialogue, including sophisticated methods of poetic interpretation. The author argues that Wang's lyric ...

Genre: Poetry

Over the Border by Herman Whitaker (10 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: United States

Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson (1 Review)    Price verified 57 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: History

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Julian Street (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

A Friend Of The Family by Stuart Field (2 Reviews)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

Families are dying. No matter how hard DCI Platt tries, he's not seeing a pattern; not even after his own wife and daughter are targeted. Young Melanie has forgotten what life outside Larksford House was like. She's been in for so long. But when Toby joins the team, she starts to remember. She really shouldn't be there. Professor Hicks is delighted that Toby has made the breakthrough for him. It might actually allow Hicks to improve his own fortunes. Bill Brown sells security; his business improves with every strike of the family killer. As fear in the community grows, Bill's ability to gain a stranger's trust comes to the fore. But what is he hiding? As the clock ticks, can Platt get closer to the killer, and will Melanie remember the truth?

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Sir John Ross (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: History

The Audiencia in the Spanish Colonies As illustrated by the Audiencia of Manila (1583-1800) by Charles Henry Cunningham (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid (1 Review)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton (1 Review)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: History

Jean-Christophe à Paris. English by Romain Rolland (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Reference

Missing Bessie (The Bessie Series Book 1) by Jody Overend (Next Chapter) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

It's the summer of 1972 and Bessie has just turned fifteen in Ravenspond, Canada. She is young, curious and restless. Having just broken up with her boyfriend Jason, she decides to hitchhike to Vancouver with her best pal, Ash, and catch her hero Chris Lisacker in concert. But instead of ending up on the West Coast, Bessie and Ash find themselves in Heaven, with no idea how they got there. With the help of the Hawaiian-shirted Angel, Mel, Bessie gradually recovers her memories. But when her fate is about to be revealed, does she really want to know the truth?

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto (1 Review)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume III (of III) by Philip Freneau (1 Review)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

A Struggle for Rome, v. 2 by Felix Dahn (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Polly in New York by Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1 Review)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier (1 Review)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Remodeled Farmhouses by Mary H. Northend (1 Review)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (1 Review)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Science & Math

Participatory Research on Child Maltreatment with Children and Adult Survivors: Concepts, Ethics, and Methods (Emerald Studies in Child Centred ... by Maria Roth (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Childhood should be free of violence, and victims of childhood maltreatment should be entitled to participate as expert informants in research about these experiences. Placing children and adult survivors at the heart of research efforts on child maltreatment is critical to effective response and prevention measures in fighting this form of violence. Embedded in the European context, Participatory Research on Child Maltreatment with Children and Adult Survivors presents a mosaic of contexts, theories, and methods relating to children's and adult survivors' participation in research about their adverse experiences. Contributors demonstrate how research can mobilize children and adult survivors to become agents in constructing and disseminating reliable, evidence-based knowledge about child maltreatment. Enriching ongoing debates about ethical concerns and challenges of participatory research in the ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe (1 Review)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Wigwam and War-path; Or the Royal Chief in Chains Second and Revised Edition by A. B. (Alfred Benjamin) Meacham (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton (1 Review)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: History

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 57 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction

Remember (Protectors of the Elemental Magic Book 1) by Marnie Cate (4 Reviews)    Price verified 57 minutes ago

Mara Stone has always sensed an elusive emptiness within herself, a void she couldn't quite grasp. Raised by a nurturing and devoted grandmother and harboring an intense love for a boy with captivating blue eyes, Mara remained unaware of the missing pieces of her existence. But when the secrets of her great-grandmother, Genevieve Silver, are revealed, Mara's world shatters. The once-hidden secrets of her ancestry, bound by the ancient role of Protector of the Elemental Magic, burst forth into the light. As unseen realms are laid bare and forgotten memories flood her mind, Mara must confront a reality both wondrous and terrifying. In an extraordinary twist of fate, the revelations reshape Mara's life, forever altering not only her own destiny but the entire world she thought she knew. Embracing her newfound knowledge, Mara embarks on a transformative journey filled with enchantment and peril. As she grapples with her own powers and unravels the mysteries that surround her, Mara ...

Faith and Unfaith by Duchess (1 Review)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester (1 Review)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Reference

The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar (1 Review)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genre: Nonfiction