piA to Z of Caribbean Arti is a visual overview of Caribbean art, from the beginning of the 20th century to now, and serves as a resource of information on some of the greatest artists of the region. Sequenced alphabetically, it mixes genres including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance. Each artist is represented by a page that shows a definitive work along with

pThe first documented encounter between an English scholar and a Chinese scholar took place in the Summer of 1687 in Oxford, England, when Thomas Hyde, Bodley\'s Librarian and the foremost oriental scholar of his day, met Shen Fuzong, a native of Nanjing and the child of Christian converts, who was visiting Europe in the company of the Jesuits. This book presents the first fruits of that encounter,

piBehavioral Dentistry, Second Edition, i surveys the vast and absorbing topic of the role of behavioral science in the study and clinical practice of dentistry. An understanding of social sciences has long been a central part of dental education, and essential for developing a clinician\'s appreciation of human behavior as it affects efficient dental treatment. This book gathers together contributions

pFirst published in 1956, Frederick Wilhelmsen\'s emMan\'s Knowledge of Reality emremains a classic study in Thomistic epistemology. Wilhelmsen begins with an examination of what he refers to as Descartes\' critical problem namely, the supposed inability of philosophy to procure what Descartes calls certain knowledge. Using Descartes\' argument as a starting point, he then launches into a comprehensive

The power of the modern prosecutor arises from several features of the criminal justice landscape widespread use of law and order political rhetoric and heightened fear of crime among voters legislatures\' embrace of extreme sentencing ranges to respond to such concerns and the uncertain or limited accountability of prosecutors to the electorate, the bar, or other political and professional constituencies.

Theocritus lived in the age called Hellenistic, following the conquests of Alexander the Great, which greatly increased the ascendancy of Greek culture. Both his poetry and what we can infer from it about his life display the cosmopolitanism that the widespread empire and its successors encouraged he appears to have been familiar with at least Sicily, Miletus, Cos an island near Anatolia, Athens and

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The official book from the world-renowned PUG CAFE the story of how one Pug called Bertie brought dogs from every walk of life together.

pCette histoire raconte L\'histoire D\'un militant Afro-Am ricain des droits civiques, W. E. B. Du Bois, enseignant aux enfants pourquoi l\' ducation est le pouvoir. Le jeune W. E. B. Du Bois, parlera de la fa on dont le pouvoir de l\' ducation lui a donn le pouvoir de devenir un grand leader et un grand enseignant ce qui l\'a amen devenir un leader, un auteur, un humanitaire, et un activiste,

In this exhaustive study of the NWFP and its adjoining area of Afghanistan, Raghvendra Singh argues that with an increasingly powerful China knocking on India\'s door, it is imperative to recognize that the docile acceptance of NWFP\'s loss in 1947 may have serious consequences for India\'s security in times to come.

If you have ever skied Vail, or just dreamed of it, this beautiful book belongs on your coffee table.

Hasn\'t everyone dreamed of changing their life Well Jo Ann Miller did it and writes of it candidly and openly in her A Marathon of Change A Radical Transformation of a Baby Boomer. The daughter of famed fighter pilot Thomas H. Miller and goddaughter of astronaut John Glenn who writes the Foreword for the book, Miller grew up in the midst of constant change and under the shadow of the United States

Literary Character of Men of Genius, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned

This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagen\'s essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in their field. They range widely across such topics as Quine\'s philosophy of quantification, the ontology of fiction, the part-whole relation, the theory of temporal parts, and human knowledge of modal truths. A specially-written introduction completes the

In the late nineteenth and twentieth century, with the disappearance of monarchies in many parts of the world, a new autocratic system emerged - the dictatorship, in which all power over a state or community was again concentrated into the hands of one person, without being restricted by constitution, laws or opposition. The individual with this kind of absolute authority was known as the dictator.

pOffering new critical approaches to Dada as quintessential part of the Avant-Garde, iDada and Existentialism the Authenticity of Ambiguityi reassesses the movement as a form of proto- Existentialist philosophy. Dada is often dismissed as an anti-art movement with a merely destructive theoretical impetus. French Existentialism is often condemned for its perceived quietist implications. However, closer

pThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.ppThis work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity individual or corporate has a copyright on the body of the work.ppScholars believe,

pstrongEvery year on my birthday, my tormentor returns to claim one of my firsts.strongppstrong strongppstrongA DARK MAFIA ARRANGED MARRIAGE ROMANCEstrongppOn my sixteenth birthday, a stranger from Corsica shows up at my party. Angelo Russo looks like an angel, but more the kind who decapitates dragons than the kind with soft white wings. He\'s dark like the ocean and breathless like water. He says

pIn this eye-opening look at the doctor-patient decision-making process, physician and law professor Jay Katz examines the time-honored belief in the virtue of silent care and patient compliance. Historically, the doctor-patient relationship has been based on a one-way trust--despite recent judicial attempts to give patients a greater voice through the doctrine of informed consent. Katz criticizes

To swither means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no faltering in these poems any uncertainty is not in the lines or the sounds or the images, but only in the themes of flux and change and transformation that thread their way through this powerful third collection. Robin Robertson has written a book of remarkable cohesion and range that calls on his knowledge of folklore and myth to fuse