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Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art.

Containing more than 450 entries, this easy-to-read encyclopedia provides concise information about the history of and recent trends in drug use and drug abuse in the United States-a societal problem with an estimated cost of $559 billion a year.

Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, 1567, was compiled and published by Johann Leisentrit, a Roman Catholic priest who from 1559 to the time of his death in 1586, was Dean at the Cathedral of St.

As the last volume in the series sponsored by the SSRC Committee on Comparative Politics, this book reflects-as does the preceding volume-the Committee's decision to devote renewed attention to the original state building experiences of the West, after having studied political development in the newer countries of the Third World.

Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world.

Master Quilt Borders, Backing, and Bindings!

Prepare to have your preconceived notions about shelter, security and wellbeing turned topsy-turvy.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability is a far-reaching survey of the deep and contemporary history of sustainability.

Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career.

This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding in the inferno of the South African apartheid system.

First published in 2004.

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The focus of this bibliography is the native literary tradition expressed in Irish and Welsh verse and prose from the earliest time to circa 1450.

Italy is a country that exercises a hold on the imagination of people all over the world.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

Dictionary of Agriculture is now available in a new, completely-revised second edition: it now includes 6,500 main headwords--a wide range of terms relating to agriculture, horticulture, and veterinary science.

Originally published in 1970, this volume provides a survey of the wide field of the development of education since 1800.

Critical Government Documents on Law and Order reviews of many law and order issues facing us today.

A Devotional, Verse-Memorization Journey Through 52 Key Passages of Scripture.

This full-color guide showcases the diversity of cannabis varieties.

The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the interior between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The ground-breaking first collection of essays on Anne Lister, featuring both established and new scholars, a screenwriter and a novelist.

The very important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 20th century.

Today, some Christians--as part of their own personal growth--and some churches--as part of their desire to reach the 'spiritual but not religious'--are adapting spiritual practices that have their roots in East Asian religions or in disciplines that emerge from New Age and New Spirituality.

In the year 2002, An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith was the first book to gaze at the cinema of one of New Jersey's favorite sons, the independent and controversial auteur of Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001).

An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir explores and highlights achievements and stories of success throughout the author's academic and administrative experiences.

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This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

The importance of technology transfer for the competitive advantage of companies and the economic success of nations cannot be overstated.

Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs.

Given the recent advances in telecommunications and the fact that the French lead the field in many aspects of information technology, this will be a valuable tool for students, translators and interpreters.

The most comprehensive volume on one of the most controversial directors in American film history A Companion to D.

In the last twenty years, Orthodox Catholics have come to expect their art to be necessarily about beauty.

A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writersFrom a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness.

In En Cyclo Pedia Johan Tell - award-winning Swedish writer and cycling obsessive - uncovers the very soul of cycling, exploring and explaining the many and varied stories that form the basis of cycling culture.

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The Reformed tradition of worship in England has given the English-speaking world the Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God, and the hymns of Isaac Watts.

Discussions of any religion can easily raise passions.

Globalizing through the Vernacular analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth.

This book, first published in 1940, is a systematic analysis of Britain's principal food supplies and the means by which they are distributed to the people.

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.

Twenty four years after investment managers decided to implement Standard & Poor's 500 indexing strategy, the verdict is in.

Although relatively small, the northern countries of Scandinavia have made a disproportionately large contribution to world cinema.

Some say that telling the story of the Holocaust is impossible, yet, artists have told the story thousands of time since the end of World War II in novels, dramas, paintings, music, sculpture, and film.

In the seven chapters of this book, first published in 1991, the topics of planning and creativity as they apply to the management of academic libraries are discussed fully, with specific examples and detailed guidelines.