Eric Gyllenstierna (1882-1940) innehade som fideikommissarie Krapperups gods i Skåne. Under sina juridikstudier i Lund deltog han livligt i det glada - och dyrbara - studentliv, som så vältaligt skildrats av Fritiof Nilsson Piraten i "Tre terminer", där Gyllenstierna har en framträdande roll. H[...]
"Film and Genocide" brings together scholars of film and of genocide to discuss film representations, both fictional and documentary, of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and genocides in Chile, Australia, Rwanda, and the United States. Since 1955, when Alain Resnais created his experimental doc[...]
Following the record-shattering successes of "Marvel's The Avengers" in 2012, The Avengers must reassemble on the big screen to combat the robotic menace of Ultron "Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron" is set for US release on May 1, 2015. Acclaimed writer/director Joss Whedon and producer Kevin Feige[...]
THESE COWBOYS ARE IN NEED OF SOME HEALING--THE RIGHT WOMAN'S LOVE CAN SAVE THEM
"COWBOY FEVER "
Dakota Ledger is a bull rider at heart and a loner by choice...until fate has him rescuing Viviana Mancini. He's never forgotten the passion they shared, but now she's in trouble...and so is the [...]
"A Common Core Exemplar Text by an award-winning author-illustrator team"
Tomas is a son of migrant workers. Every summer he and his family follow the crops north from Texas to Iowa, spending long, arduous days in the fields. At night they gather around to hear Grandfather's wonderful stories. B[...]
For all the debate about belief and nonbelief in today's world--and how everyone becomes pigeonholed by one or the other-- Toma Halik teaches that God requires us to persevere with our doubts, carry them in our hearts, and allow them to lead us to maturity. For Halik, patience is the main differen[...]
Tomas Halik is a wise guide for the post-Christian era, and never more so than in his latest work, a thought-provoking and powerful reflection on the relationship between faith, paradox, change, and resurrection.
As the challenges of cultural secularization and dwindling congregation size confro[...]
This book provides an empirical study of the increasing importance of the concept of the entrepreneur in the context of the neoliberal cultural paradigm. Using the theoretical framework of the post-structural discourse theory and methods of qualitative discourse analysis, the book describes the chan[...]
Integrating renewable energy and other distributed energy sources into smart grids, often via power inverters, is arguably the largest "new frontier" for smart grid advancements. Inverters should be controlled properly so that their integration does not jeopardize the stability and performance of po[...]
"â¦warmly recommended as a comprehensive, introductory text on a subject which should become increasingly important." (Review of the First Edition in Contemporary Physics) The rapid evolution of photovoltaic technology has highlighted the increasing capabilities of solar electricity as a power s[...]
Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hagg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre flourished.[...]
This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of 'white supremacy' in the state. Drawing from an array of primary and secondary sources, Tomas Almaguer weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racia[...]
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomas R. Jimenez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendants of Mexican imm[...]
The integration of the location of activities in space and the use of transport has been a theoretical planning issue for many years. However, most books on this subject treat each component of the land use and transportation system with different, sometimes even conflicting, theories. The purpose o[...]
This ground-breaking book explores what happens when the fine line between competitive excellence and fraudulent and corrupt practice is crossed. Whilst most fraud literature focuses on the individual perpetrator, "The Anatomy of Fraud and Corruption" looks at how organizations as a whole and the pe[...]