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The Barons of Texas

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sherman, Jory, PUBLISHER: Forge, Jory Sherman returns to the story of the unforgettable Baron family, which he began in Grass Kingdom and continued in The Barons of Texas and The Baron Range. It is the eve of the bloodiest conquest in American history and the ranchers of the Rio Grande Valley are fighting the Apaches and each other. Martin Baron is soon in danger when a killer from New Orleans conspires to destroy everything he has worked so hard for. This is a story of slave smuggling, murder, treachery, violence, and passionate love as the men and women of central Texas struggle for wealth and power in a savage and uncertain world.

Mathematical Investigations: Book One

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Souviney, R. / Gargiulo, S. / Britt, M., PUBLISHER: Dale Seymour Publications, Meaningful mathematical experiences with interconnected situational lessons and real-world activities: Book One: geometry, patterns, operations research, photography, and genetic inheritance. Book Two: networks, sports math, finite-difference patterns, rates, and maps. Book Three: fundamentals of money, scaling, finance, loans, probability, and linear programming. Each investigation includes individual and whole-class activities, plus a "Check-up" that tests students' understanding.

Next Generation Wireless Networks

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tekinay, Sirin, PUBLISHER: Springer, This book is an organized and edited work of enabling technologies for the applications and services needed for future wireless networks. Its focus is the defining architectures, services and applications, with coverage of all layers, i.e., from the physical layer to the information handling layers of the network. The new wireless network architectures are geared specifically for enabling mobility and location-enhanced applications. Presented first are tutorials on new network architectures, including a discussion of "infostations," the role of satellites in broadband wireless access, and the "infocity" concept. The next three chapters present material that describes the state-of-the-art in wireless geolocation systems (including "assisted GPS"), alternatives for wireless geolocation, and empirical data on wireless geolocation capabilities. The first of the last two chapters demonstrates the use of location information in next generation wireless networks, with coverage of real-time geolocation measurements in mobile connectivity. The final chapter portrays the creation of a "killer application" in wireless networks. Leading researchers in the field have contributed to this volume. Next Generation Wireless Networks is essential reading for engineers, researchers, application design specialists, and product managers in the field of wireless network architectures and wireless geolocation.

Cities and Civilizations

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hibbert, Christopher, PUBLISHER: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, From Thebes, Jerusalem, and Athens to New York, London, Sydney, Amsterdam, Moscow, and Berlin, Cities and Civilizations explores the world's great cities and their golden ages. Famed historian Christopher Hibbert vividly brings each city to life -- its moments of power and prestige, of cultural ferment and political dominance -- providing a panoramic sweep encompassing almost four thousand years.

Networking: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hallberg, Bruce / Hallberg Bruce, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, Here is an unparalleled introduction to networking, offering easy-to-follow details on design and configuration, hardware, networking protocols, remote access, and security. This updated guide contains expanded coverage of wireless networking, the latest Windows and Linux releases, and security measures. New networking professionals will first learn what they need to know about network technology, and then how to apply that knowledge to set up, manage, and secure networks.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Orwell, George / Pynchon, Thomas / Fromm, Erich, PUBLISHER: Plume Books, A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment, where war is peace freedom is slavery, and Big Brother is watching... Thought Police. Big Brother. Orwellian. These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, . The story of one man's nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory, is a prophetic, haunting tale. More relevant than ever before, exposes the worst crimes imaginable--the destruction of truth, freedom, and individuality.

Grass Kingdom

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sherman, Jory / Sherman, Joy, PUBLISHER: Forge, Jory Sherman returns to the story of the unforgettable Baron family, which he began in Grass Kingdom and continued in The Barons of Texas and The Baron Range. It is the eve of the bloodiest conquest in American history and the ranchers of the Rio Grande Valley are fighting the Apaches and each other. Martin Baron is soon in danger when a killer from New Orleans conspires to destroy everything he has worked so hard for. This is a story of slave smuggling, murder, treachery, violence, and passionate love as the men and women of central Texas struggle for wealth and power in a savage and uncertain world.

Nation Building and Develoment Assistance in Africa:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ishikawa, Kaoru, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, Sub-Saharan Africa seems to be forgotten in the post-cold war era. But Kaoru Ishikawa's analysis of Africa's history and its political and economic development suggests that a brighter future is in prospect for the nations of Africa. The African nations hosted dynamic societies prior to the slave trade era, and many of the obstacles to their future prosperity and dynamism have been removed. The focus of the book is on how African countries and the international community beyond Africa can work together to realize this potential and build on recent improvements, notably in health and the position of women in society. The ability of South Africa--no longer an international pariah--to be a locomotive for growth is assessed.

Cadence

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hoff, B. J., PUBLISHER: Walker Large Print, Book 2 in the "American Anthem" series A Silver Angel Award-winning Author Beloved storyteller B. J. Hoff presents a sweeping saga of men and women whose love shaped America's heart and America's music. Cadence takes you on an unforgettable ride through the bustling world of nineteenth-century New York to tell a poignant story of men and women struggling through fear and doubt toward enduring faith and triumphant love.

Working with Muslim Young People: Context and Concepts

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Khan, M. G., PUBLISHER: Policy Press, Written by a leading practitioner and academic in the field of youth and community work, this multidisciplinary book approaches the lives of Muslim young people from theoretical, social, and theological viewpoints. M. G. Khan moves beyond notions of gendered provision and confessional activity to ask what defines a Muslim pedagogy. He presents a theoretical frame for Muslim youth work that is accessible to informal educators and Muslims alike, providing insight and analysis of nuances that are only possible from on-the-ground engagement.

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smelser, Neil J. / Wilson, William Julius / Mitchell, Faith, PUBLISHER: National Academy Press, Leading scholars and commentators explore past and current trends among African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans in the context of a White majority. This collection of papers represents the most current literature in the field. Volume I focuses on demographic trends, immigration, racial attitudes, and the geography of opportunity.

Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Olsen, Christopher J., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies. Christopher J. Olsen has drawn on local election returns, rural newspapers, manuscripts, and numerous county records to sketch a new picture of the intricate and colorful world of local politics. In particular, he demonstrates how the move toward secession in Mississippi was deeply influenced by the demands of masculinity within the state's antiparty political culture. Face-to-face relationships and personal reputations, organized around neighborhood networks of friends and extended kin, were at the heart of antebellum Mississippi politics. The intimate, public nature of this tradition allowed voters to assess each candidate's individual status and fitness for public leadership. Key virtues were independence and physical courage, as well as reliability and loyalty to the community, and the political culture offered numerous chances to demonstrate all of these (sometimes contradictory) qualities. Like dueling and other male rituals, voting and running for office helped set the boundaries of class and power. They also helped mediate the conflicts between nineteenth-century American egalitarianism, democracy, and geographic mobility, and the South's exaggerated patriarchal hierarchy, sustained by honor and slavery. The political system, however, functioned effectively only as long as it remained a personal exercise between individuals, divorced from the anonymity of institutional parties. This antiparty tradition eliminated the distinction between men as individuals and as public representatives, which caused them to assessand interpret all political events and rhetoric in a personal manner. The election of and success of the Republicans' antisouthern, free soil program, therefore, presented an "insulting" challenge to personal, family, and community honor. As Olsen shows in detail, the sectional controversy engaged men where they measured themselves, in public, with and against their peers, and linked their understanding of masculinity with formal politics, through which the voters actually brought about secession. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi provides a rich new perspective on the events leading up to the Civil War and will prove an invaluable tool for understanding the central crisis in American politics.

Negotiation: Readings, Cases, and Exercises

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewicki, Roy J. / Saunders, David M. / Barry, Bruce, PUBLISHER: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, Updated with more than 50 percent new articles, "Negotiation "explores the major concepts and theories of negotiation and bargaining psychology, and helps professionals understand and resolve both interpersonal and inter-group conflicts.. Roy J. Lewicki is a professor at Ohio State University. David M. Saunders is a dean at the University of Calgary. John Minton is the president and CEO of Havatar Associates, Inc. Bruce Barry is on the faculty of Vanderbilt University..

Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, B.C.: The

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kendall, Timothy, PUBLISHER: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian I, This book chronicles one of the 20th century's greatest discoveries in African archaeology. In , in the village of Kerma in the northern Sudan, G.A. Reisner identified the remains of an ancient city with colossal architecture and spectacular tombs. Kerma mystified scholars for decades until new research and renewed excavations by C. Bonnet revealed it to be the capital of the early Nubian kingdom of Kush. Written to accompany an exhibition of ancient Nubian pottery, jewelry, and cultural artifacts, the book documents the archaeological site and ancient art works.

On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gall, PUBLISHER: General Books, Title: On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts: With Observations on the Possibility of Determining the Instincts, Propensities, and Talents, or the Moral and Intellectual Dispositions of Men and Animals, by the Configuration of the Brain and Head Volume: 5-6 Publisher: Boston, Marsh, Capen

The Big Book of Dummies, Rebels and Other Geniuses

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pouy, Jean-Bernard / Bloch, Serge / Blanchard, Anne, PUBLISHER: Enchanted Lion Books, An entertaining and humorous introduction to 26 famous individuals from history, the arts, literature and the sciences, who were considered rebels or dunces during their childhood and teen years.

Afr Am Voices 2v

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Straub, Debroah / Straub, Deborah Gillan, PUBLISHER: UXL, With "African American Voices," your students will discover 35 full or excerpted speeches and other notable spoken works of African Americans. Covered are famous oral presentations such as Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" and Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speeches, as well as lesser-known and harder-to-find orations, such as Fannie Lou Hamer's chilling testimony to the Democratic National Convention about her efforts to register to vote in Mississippi in . Each entry is accompanied by an introduction and boxes explaining terms and events to which the speech refers. The 2-vol. set also contains 90 black-and-white illustrations, a timeline and a subject index.

Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McCaskill, Barbara / Gebhard, Caroline, PUBLISHER: New York University Press, The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the "Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem" era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected, though vitally important, period of our nation's past. Using a wide range of disciplinary approaches, the sixteen scholars gathered here offer both a reappraisal and celebration of African American cultural production during these influential decades. Alongside discussions of political and artistic icons such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and James Weldon Johnson are essays revaluing figures such as the writers Paul and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the New England painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, and Georgia-based activists Lucy Craft Laney and Emmanuel King Love. Contributors explore an array of forms from fine art to anti-lynching drama, from sermons to ragtime and blues, and from dialect pieces and early black musical theater to serious fiction. Contributors include: Frances Smith Foster, Carla L. Peterson, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Barbara Ryan, Robert M. Dowling, Barbara A. Baker, Paula Bernat Bennett, Philip J. Kowalski, Nikki L. Brown, Koritha A. Mitchell, Margaret Crumpton Winter, Rhonda Reymond, and Andrew J. Scheiber.

MY DAD COOKS (DOMINIE CAROUSEL READERS)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pearson Education, PUBLISHER: Dominie Elementary, Ideally suited for Guided Reading and proven highly successful in Reading Recovery and similar early intervention programs, the 169 Carousel Readers were conceived and created by teachers and teacher trainers. The Carousel Big Books contain the same text and illustrations and are ideal for shared reading. Teacher's Cards for each title provide comprehensive support.

Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: James, Joy / Gordon, Lewis / James Joy, PUBLISHER: Routledge, The role of black public intellectuals is being passionately debated both within and outside of academia. Now " Transcending the Talented Tenth" offers an expansive examination of African-American intellectuals, both historically and in contemporary life. Joy James explores the work and politics of thinkers, activists, and topics from W.E.B. Du Bois to Ida B. Wells, from Ella Baker to women's autobiographies of the civil rights movement, from academic intellectualism to its relationship to Black feminists. Her original, sometimes controversial analysis will be necessary reading for all those concerned with the past and the future of African-American intellectual life.

Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shaw, Brent D., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine played a central role as Bishop of Hippo. The development and deployment of images of hatred, including that of the heretic, the pagan, and the Jew, and the modes by which these were most effectively employed, including the oral world of the sermon, were critical to promoting acts of violence. Shaw explores how the emerging ecclesiastical structures of the Christian church, on one side, and those of the Roman imperial state, on the other, interacted to repress or excite violent action. Finally, the meaning and construction of the acts themselves, including the Western idea of suicide, are shown to emerge from the conflict itself. Acquista Ora

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So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moynihan, Ruth B. / Dichamp, Christine Fischer / Armitage, Susan M., PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, The genuine creative achievements of nineteenth-century western women have often been obscured by sentimental tributes to their devotion and diligence, while men are praised as pathfinders, entrepreneurs, and community builders. But the nineteen narratives in "So Much to Be Done" by women of diverse status and background reveal women's involvement in every aspect of settlement. Their part in making hard decisions, producing essential income, and developing new communities was as important as their flexibility, humor, and sense of adventure. This collection describes the experiences of pioneer women responding in individual ways to the challenge of frontier hardships. The letters, diaries, and memoirs presented here offer glimpses of women's courage, physical strength, and independence that were the equal of any man's, even as they also reveal the failures, weaknesses, and tragedies that beset both sexes during the complex settlement process. Women describe their multiple daily tasks, the ingenuity by which they asserted themselves or circumvented patriarchal authority, the networks of relatives and friends who made the survival of both men and women possible. Such information is seldom found in men's narratives. Women's words provide rich veins of new material for social historians.

Men Are Clams, Women Are Crowbars: Understanding Your

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clarke, David, PUBLISHER: Promise Press, This entertaining, practical humorous, and distinctively Christian look at the differences between the sexes offers solution to men and women who want to successfully bridge the gender gap.

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