In 2009, three US professors with access to Adolf Hitlers alleged remains startled the world with scientific DNA proof that the skull and bones that Russia had claimed since the end of World War II were Hitlers actually belonged to a middle-aged woman whose identity remains unknown.
This exquisitely detailed, full-color field guide provides the identification details and practical information needed to find and properly use many of the medicinal plants and wild plant foods that provide chemicals necessary for optimum health and disease prevention.
The largest, most comprehensive, and most entertaining reference of its kind, The Dictionary of Clichs features more than four thousand unique clichs and common expressions.
Person to person (and station to station), bar sinister, the weed of crime bears bitter fruit, between the devil and the deep blue sea, will o the wisp, poor as Jobs turkey .
Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherishedand the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day.
Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years laterafter a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist.
In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, a sweeping history of food and culture that summons everyone to the table for a fresh look at the people, ingredients, events, and movements that have shaped how and what we eat in the United StatesThis exploration of the American table presents a fresh look at what and how we've fed ourselves, for sustenance and for pleasure, through the lens of location, immigration, ingenuity, innovation, and culture.
DK brings you an all-encompassing and illustrated guide to your pregnancy journey, from the moment of conception to the first two weeks of your newborn's life.
Die Familie ist keine konfliktfreie Zone, sondern ein Ort, an dem Generationen und ihre jeweiligen Weltsichten aufeinander prallen, an dem Genderrollen erlernt, vielleicht auch hinterfragt werden, an dem Werte und Normen vermittelt und soziale Kompetenzen trainiert werden.
The revered Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus explores the Christian culture warsthe debates over church and statefrom a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the New Testament, and offering a way forward for Christians today.
This book is the first comprehensive guide to Florida's amazing variety of tree species: from scrub oak on the high central ridges to mangroves stretching along the southern coasts, from mighty live oaks to the delicate and diminutive hawthornes, from bald cypress with their knees poking up from the swamps to the coppery-colored gumbo limbo found in tropical hammocks of the Everglades and Keys, from the sabal palm found all over the state to the rare and endangered yew found only along the banks of the Apalachicola River in northern Florida.
Al país de los baskos se le llama de muy diversas maneras: País Vasco, Vasconia, Baskonia, País Vasconavarro, Navarra, Euskadi o Euskal Herria, con sus adecuaciones a los diferentes idiomas.
El presente libro ofrece una revisión crítica de teorías y etnografías hechas sobre el tema del suicidio en pueblos indígenas en algunos países del continente americano.
Wie wird wissenschaftliches Wissen vor dem Hintergrund seiner zunehmenden ökonomischen und politischen Bedeutung in modernen Gesellschaften im Social Web an der Schnittstelle klassischem Wissenschaftsjournalismus und Laienkommunikation vermittelt und ausgehandelt?
Der Diskurs über die Qualität der Medien ist geprägt durch den Widerspruch von "Qualität" und "Quote", also von normativen Qualitätsansprüchen einerseits und ökonomischen Wechselwirkungen der Medienproduktion und -nutzung andererseits.
Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976) gilt neben Max Scheler und Helmuth Plessner als berühmter und umstrittener Vertreter der Philosophischen Anthropologie und ebenso als brillanter Soziologe.
Wie wird wissenschaftliches Wissen vor dem Hintergrund seiner zunehmenden ökonomischen und politischen Bedeutung in modernen Gesellschaften im Social Web an der Schnittstelle klassischem Wissenschaftsjournalismus und Laienkommunikation vermittelt und ausgehandelt?
'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets).
