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Author: David Eltis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-07
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0300151748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal from the 17th through the 19th century. The book contains research on slave ship voyages, origins, destinations numbers of slaves per port country, year, and period.
Author: Ngoh Tiong Tan
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis commemorative volume is a landmark volume, celebrating 50 years of professional education in social work in Singapore. the book aims to convey to readers the early history of the department, the status of a selected set of social issues in the Singapore context, as well as provide a bird's eye view of the new frontiers of social work as envisioned by the faculty. Researchers, policymakers and students will gain insights into the development of innovative social work methods, and will find it a useful reference for their own socio-cultural, economic and political contexts.
Author: Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-12-08
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9781470025854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe X-15 was the ultimate "X" vehicle. Built in the 1950s, she became the fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft of its time. During 199 flights from 1959 through 1968, she collected data about hypersonic flight that was invaluable to aeronautics and to developers of the space shuttle. This book describes the genesis of the program, the design and construction of the aircraft, years of research flights and the experiments that flew aboard them.-publisher description.
Author: Richard M. Eaton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1107034280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has brought together some of the foremost scholars of South Asian and Global History, who were colleagues and associates of Professor John F. Richards to discuss themes that marked his work as a historian in an academic career of almost forty years. It encapsulates discussions under the rubric of 'frontiers' in multiple contexts. Frontier has often been conceived as a space of transformation marking new forms of economic organization, commodity trade, land settlement and state authority. The essays here underline the range of interests and approaches that marked Professor Richards' illustrious career - frontiers and state building; frontiers and environmental change; cultural frontiers; frontiers, trade and drugs; and frontiers and world history. The volume discusses issues from medieval to early modern South Asian history. It also reflects a concern for large-scale global processes and for the detailed specificities of each historical case as evident in Professor Richards' work.
Author: Michael S. Webster
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 1351646788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Extended Specimen highlights the research potential for ornithological specimens, and is meant to encourage ornithologists poised to initiate a renaissance in collections-based ornithological research. Contributors illustrate how collections and specimens are used in novel ways by adopting emerging new technologies and analytical techniques. Case studies use museum specimens and emerging and non-traditional types of specimens, which are developing new methods for making biological collections more accessible and "usable" for ornithological researchers. Published in collaboration with and on behalf of The American Ornithological Society, this volume in the highly-regarded Studies in Avian Biology series documents the power of ornithological collections to address key research questions of global importance.
Author: Stanley Schachter
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 1990-04-02
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 1610444868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeon Festinger's forty-year scrutiny of that "curious animal, the modern human being" fundamentally transformed psychological thinking and shaped an entire scientific field, that of social psychology. The twenty-four papers brought together for the first time in Extending Psychological Frontiers encompass the classic contributions and critical turning points of Festinger's long career. Spanning the post-war decades, this unprecedented volume reveals the full scope, diversity, and import of Festinger's work. Its thematic arrangement clarifies the complex network of problems that preoccupied Festinger and the unique imaginative style that characterized his intellect. Whether examining the voting behavior of Catholics and Jews, the meaning of minute eye movements, the decisions of maze-running rats, or the proselytizing behavior of cultists, Festinger consistently transcended the traditional bounds of the discipline. His theory of cognitive dissonance, which describes how people attempt to resolve the tensions that result when they hold simultaneously two inconsistent beliefs, challenged preexisting psychological theories and produced more important ideas and experimentation than any other development in social psychology. Major writings on group dynamics, decision making, and perceptual processes further underscore the impact of Festinger's research not only on psychology, but also on a wide range of intellectual fronts, from literary theory to ethnology and from historical studies to contemporary political analysis. Extending Psychological Frontiers is an invaluable resource, providing a comprehensive and coherent picture of an extraordinary body of work.
Author: Nitya Nanda
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-02-07
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1134107145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining theoretical analysis with insights derived from interactions with trade negotiators, this book analyzes the issues surrounding the creation of newtrade rules', addressing trade topics including the trade and development linkage.
Author: Philip Nanton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-01-30
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1526113759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book argues that the Caribbean frontier, usually assumed to have been eclipsed after colonial conquest, remains a powerful but unrecognised element of Caribbean island culture. Combining analytical and creative genres of writing, it explores historical and contemporary patterns of frontier change through a case study of the little-known Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Modern frontier traits are located in the wandering woodcutter, the squatter on government land and the mountainside ganja grower. But the frontier is also identified as part of global production that has shaped island tourism, the financial sector and patterns of migration.
Author: Jonathan Phillips
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-01-08
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0300168365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay of a society raised on the triumphant legacy of the First Crusade, only in Iberia did they achieve any success. This book, the first in 140 years devoted to the Second Crusade, fills a major gap in our understanding of the Crusades and their importance in medieval European history. Historian Jonathan Phillips draws on the latest developments in Crusade studies to cast new light on the origins, planning, and execution of the Second Crusade, some of its more radical intentions, and its unprecedented ambition. With original insights into the legacy of the First Crusade and the roles of Pope Eugenius III and King Conrad III of Germany, Phillips offers the definitive work on this neglected Crusade that, despite its failed objectives, exerted a profound impact across Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.
Author: William G. Tierney
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0791488659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time when college enrollment rates for low income and under-represented students are far below those of non-minority students, policies and practices designed to increase access should be a priority for colleges, universities, high schools, and community agencies. Increasing Access to College examines pre-college enrichment programs that offer a specific and immediate remedy.
