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Dark Pedagogy: Education, Horror and the Anthropocene (Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment)

Palgrave Pivot, 2019

Dark pedagogy explores how different perspectives can be incorporated into a darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education. Drawing on the work of the classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and new materialist insights of speculative realism, the authors link Lovecraft’s ‘tales of the horrible’ to the current...

Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!

Addison Wesley, 2003

Say goodbye to Windows(R) crashes, viruses, hassles, and cost!

Moving to Linux can help you migrate from Windows to Linux in just hours! By the time you've finished, you'll be able to do virtually anything in Linux-without the aggravation, crashes, security risks, or...

30-Second Nutrition: The 50 most significant food-related facts, each explained in half a minute

Ivy Press, 2019

If you only have 30 seconds, there is time – using this book – to bone up on how to eat well. We’re served a daily diet of food facts, fads and often far-fetched claims for what we put on our plates, which makes it difficult to distinguish healthy from harmful. With obesity, heart disease,...

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge

When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he...

And Every Word Is True: Newfound evidence reveals Truman Capote's

Literati Editions, 2019

Truman Capote’s bestselling book “In Cold Blood” has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas.But what if robbery was not the motive at all, but something more sinister? And why would the...

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Women in Antiquity)

Oxford University Press, 2019

Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other short-lived kings of Macedonia), and grandmother of Alexander the Great. Her career marks a...

Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter

St Martin Press, 2019

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.

In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO?the first quick-draw duel on the frontier....

Diagnostic Interviewing

Springer, 2019

The first three editions of this book had Michel Hersen and Samuel M. Turner as its editors. After Sam’s untimely death, Michel invited me to join the team and we coedited the fourth edition together, which was published in 2010. Now that Michel has retired, I remain as the sole editor for this new fifth edition. That...

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Religion

Routledge, 2019

While orthodox religion by its very nature is conservative, philosophy at its best is inherently radical. It challenges authority, tradition, and the whole idea of "dogma." For this reason, philosophy of religion can be explosively controversial. It is bound to disturb those who peddle incontrovertible truth and fascinate...

Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks: A Semi-tensor Product Approach

Springer, 2010

Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks presents a systematic new approach to the investigation of Boolean control networks. The fundamental tool in this approach is a novel matrix product called the semi-tensor product (STP). Using the STP, a logical function can be expressed as a conventional discrete-time linear system. In the light of...

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2007 (Tech)

Visual, 2006

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Word 2007 tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for...

The Black Death (Great Historic Disasters)

Chelsea House Publications, 2008

In 1346, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Generally believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the length and breadth of Europe from Sicily to Norway, from Ireland to Russia, for five terrible years. Scholars can...

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