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Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 12 Feb 2010 21:10:35 | Comments : 1

Michael von Albrecht, "A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius".
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | english | ISBN: 9004107126 | edition: 1997 | PDF | 1843 Pages | 97 Mb

Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. In this monumental survey work the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. With extensive indices and bibliographies.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 12 Feb 2010 21:09:00 | Comments : 0

Yvonne Sherwood, "The Prostitute and the Prophet: Hosea's Marriage in Literary-Theoretical Perspective (JSOT Supplement)".
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press | english | ISBN: 1850755817 | edition: 1996 | PDF | 357 Pages | 22 Mb

The only consensus that has been reached on Hosea 1-3 is that it is a notoriously 'problematic' text. Sherwood unpicks this rather vague statement by examining the particular complexities of the text and frictions between the text and reader that conspire to produce such a disorientating effect. Four dimensions of the 'problem' are considered: the conflict between text and reader over the 'improper' relationship between Hosea and Gomer; the bizarre prophetic sign-language that conscripts people into a cosmic charade; the text's propensity to subvert its central theses; and the emergent tensions between the feminist reader and the text.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 12 Feb 2010 21:08:56 | Comments : 1

Joan E. Lynaugh RN PhD FAAN, "Nursing History Review, Volume 10, 2002: Official Publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing".
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company | english | ISBN: 0826114776 | edition: 2001 | PDF | 224 Pages | 12 Mb

Long neglected, the history of nursing has recently become the focus of a considerable amount of attention. Over the past decade, developments in the history of medicine, the history of women - particularly of women's work - and nursing itself have resulted in a new recognition of the importance of the subject. Nursing History Review enables those interested in nursing and health care history to trace new and developing work in the field. The Review publishes significant scholarly work in all aspects of nursing history as well as reviews of recent books and updates on national and international activities in health care history.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 12 Feb 2010 21:05:52 | Comments : 0

Anne Power, "Jigsaw cities: Big places, small spaces (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place & Policy)".
Publisher: Policy Press | english | ISBN: 1861346581 | edition: 2007 | PDF | 280 Pages | 16 Mb

This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw, which are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal. How did our major cities become so divided? How do they respond to housing and neighbourhood decay? "Jigsaw City" examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second largest city and pioneer of the modern urban order, as our strongest model of the drive to create public solutions to private squalor is in three parts. Through looking at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, the authors explore: the origins of Britain's acute urban decline; the idea that "one size doesn't fit all"; the continuing urban flight that traps the poor and pays the rich to move out.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:33:48 | Comments : 1

Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'H, "The Malay Peninsula: Crossroads of the Maritime Silk-Road (100 Bc-1300 Ad)".
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | english | ISBN: 9004119736 | edition: 2001 | PDF | 607 Pages | 40 Mb

This title attempts to evaluate the role of the Malay Peninsula as a crossroads in the great wave of commercial relationships along the maritime Silk Road from the first centuries of the Christian era to the 14th century. Through these exchanges, representatives of all the civilizations of Asia entered into contact along its shores. They left in this place a part of themselves, as can be seen in the great stylistic diversity of the religious and commercial artefacts which have been found in the area.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:32:08 | Comments : 0

Spencer Apollonio, "Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland".
Publisher: University of Calgary Press | english | ISBN: 1552382400 | edition: 2008 | PDF | 342 Pages | 19 Mb

This is an informal history of East Greenland. Author Spencer Apollonio has written the only known overview of the history of this region, summarising indigenous settlements over four millennia and describing European explorations from the Norse to recent years. East Greenland, running from Kap Farvel in the south to Kap Morris Jesup in the north, is an immense land of great mountains and fjords, of glaciers and meadowlands, and contrasts of weather perhaps unique in the world.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:31:56 | Comments : 0

James W. Cortada, "Making the Information Society: Experience, Consequences, and Possibilities".
Publisher: Pearson Education | english | ISBN: 0130659061 | edition: 2001 | PDF | 496 Pages | 20 Mb

Dr. Cortada demonstrates how the values and behavior of the information age are firmly rooted in hundreds of years of Western culture. He also illuminates the complex chain of experiences, consequences, and new possibilities that made the information age a reality, and continue to drive it forward today.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:31:42 | Comments : 0

Richard L. Hume, "Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction".
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press | english | ISBN: 0807133248 | edition: 2008 | PDF | 528 Pages | 16 Mb

After the Civil War, Congress required ten former Confederate states to rewrite their constitutions before they could be readmitted to the Union. An electorate composed of newly enfranchised former slaves, native Southern whites (minus significant numbers of disenfranchised former Confederate officials), and a small contingent of "carpetbaggers," or outside whites, sent delegates to ten constitutional conventions. Derogatorily labeled "black and tan" by their detractors, these assemblies wrote constitutions and submitted them to Congress and to the voters in their respective states for approval. Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags offers a quantitative study of these decisive but little-understood assemblies--the first elected bodies in the United States to include a significant number of blacks.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:31:32 | Comments : 0

Isabel Rivers, "Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays".
Publisher: Continuum | english | ISBN: 0826467172 | edition: 2003 | PDF | 294 Pages | 21 Mb

A collection of eight essays that investigate the book trade revolution of the 18th-century and the ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. It sets out to explore the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. Following on from Professor Rivers' "Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-century England", published in 1982 this new collection contains the results of important research by well-known specialists in the field of book publishing history.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:27:48 | Comments : 0

Naomi Wiener Cohen, "Encounter With Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914".
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America | english | ISBN: 0827602367 | edition: 1984 | PDF | 408 Pages | 32 Mb

JEWS of German origin, who after 1840 dominated the American Jewish scene, have received inadequate critical study. Historians have preferred to concentrate on the first Jewish settlers, the Sephardim, or the colorful east European immigrants of the turn of the century. Yet, as it unfolds, the story of the German Jews reveals that it merits far greater attention than it has customarily commanded. Its significance extends beyond any arbitrarily imposed chronological date, for it was the German Jews—not the Sephardic pioneers nor the numerous Russian Jews—who laid the foundations of the modern American Jewish community.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:25:41 | Comments : 0

Patricia A. Schechter, "Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 (Gender and American Culture)".
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | english | ISBN: 0807826332 | edition: 2001 | PDF | 408 Pages | 19 Mb

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled, place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad. Schechter's comprehensive treatment makes vivid the scope of Wells-Barnett's contributions and examines why the political philosophy and leadership of this extraordinary activist eventually became marginalized.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:25:32 | Comments : 0

Jonathan D. Ablard, "Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 (Research in International Studies)".
Publisher: University of Calgary Press | english | ISBN: 1552382338 | edition: 2008 | PDF | 319 Pages | 19 Mb

"Madness in Buenos Aires" examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Argentine state's relationship to modernity and social change during the twentieth century, while also examining the often contentious place of psychiatry in modern Argentina. Drawing on a number of previously unused archival sources, author Jonathan Ablard demonstrates how the experience of psychiatric patients serves as a useful case study of how the Argentine state developed and functioned over the last century and of how Argentines interacted with it.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:25:13 | Comments : 1

M.C. Ricklefs, "A History of Modern Indonesia Since c.1200".
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | english | ISBN: 0333801008 | edition: 2001 | PDF | 512 Pages | 12 Mb

Recognized as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, from the coming of Islam c.1200 to today, this book covers the rich history of the Indonesian archipelago with a focus on indigenous affairs. Merle Ricklefs poses the question of how diverse but related linguistic and ethnic communities came to form the unitary Republic of Indonesia, and sheds important light on the crises and challenges facing this vast nation.
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Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 11 Feb 2010 20:25:06 | Comments : 0

Bernd Horn, "Tip of the Spear: An Intimate Account of 1 Canadian Parachute Battalion, 1942-1945: A Pictorial History".
Publisher: Dundurn Press | english | ISBN: 1550023888 | edition: 2002 | PDF | 350 Pages | 30 Mb

In the midst of the Second World War, the Germans introduced a new kind of warfare that had never been seen before, featuring a new kind of soldier: the paratrooper. The public and military alike were astonished by the feats of daring and martial prowess displayed by the intrepid troops, who soon became the epitome of the modern combat soldier.
Posted By : NSL123 | Date : 10 Feb 2010 07:15:19 | Comments : 0

Philip Hagan, "Accident Prevention Manual: Administration&Programs 12th Edition (Occupational Safety and Health Series)".
Publisher: National Safety Council | english | ISBN: 0879122129 | edition: 2000 | PDF | 848 Pages | 80 Mb

For more than 50 years, professionals have relied on the Accident Prevention Manuals for unbiased, well-researched information on best practices in safety and health. The manuals outline industry standards for progressive safety programs and administrative practices reflecting current industry trends and regulations.