This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Di[...]
Princess Anna, Queen Elsa, Olaf the snowman, and all the stars from Disney "Frozen" are back in an all-new magical chapter book series perfect for girls and boys ages 6 to 9. Olaf has news for Elsa He has heard of a summer queen from a summer land with summer magic someone with similar powers as El[...]
Princess Anna, Queen Elsa, Olaf the snowman, and all the stars from Disney "Frozen" are back in an all-new magical chapter book series perfect for girls ages 6 to 9. Olaf has news for Elsa He has heard of a summer queen from a summer land with summer magic--someone with similar powers as Elsa's, wh[...]
Debra Robinson faced haunted houses, terrifying psychic encounters, shattered dreams, and a battle with evil. But nothing prepared her for the death of the two most important people in her life. Born psychic and raised in a religious family, Debra Robinson felt conflicted all her life about using he[...]
From "one of the wine world's most popular voices" ("USA""Today"), a newly updated edition of her by-now classic introduction to wine, "GREAT WINE MADE SIMPLE: Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier," reflects up-to-the minute wine trends, including the burgeoning popularity of the Shiraz grape, new [...]
Featuring 900 full-color illustrations, this book is a concise and practical atlas of the surgical pathology and cytology of the head and neck. It covers the most common head and neck lesions and tumors the general pathologist sees in daily practice and will aid pathology residents and practitioners[...]
How did the early Christian movement, which began among Jewish people and in close association with the Jewish temple and synagogues of the first century, develop into a predominantly Gentile movement by the end of the first century? Was this "parting of the ways" spurred by internal tensions within[...]
At first glance, there may seem little reason to think of English and German as variant forms of a single language. There are enormous differences between the two in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, and a monolingual speaker of one cannot understand the other at all. Yet modern English and Ge[...]
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North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. A good clean fight, for those who like that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field, striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends from Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette, flying their clapped-out Tomahawks on gr[...]
This book diagnoses an urgent need for change and renewal in a period of crisis for philosophy, science and society. The Florentine Renaissance, some six hundred years ago, took a huge leap forward into realism, rationality and self-awareness. It was born out of the waning authority of medieval inst[...]
An expert on Freemasonry offers a down-to-earth analysis of the history and principles of this much-maligned organization and refutes fundamentalist attacks against the group.[...]
English Unlimited is a six-level goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication.[...]
English Unlimited is a six-level goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication.[...]
First published in 1893, this illustrated study explores the important role of the English coffee house in seventeenth-century life.[...]