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Human Trafficking: A Reference Handbook

Human Trafficking: A Reference Handbook

Alexis A. Aronowitz

Kathryn Bolkovac (1960–) Kathryn Bolkovac was a Nebraska police officer and investigator for 10 years before being hired by DynCorp Aerospace Operations, Ltd., a private company contracted by the United States, to support the United ...
Roll Over Beethoven: The Return of Cultural Strife

Roll Over Beethoven: The Return of Cultural Strife

Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz traces the history of the cultural issue – in both British and American manifestations.
False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class ...

False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class ...

Stanley Aronowitz

Aronowitz’s new introduction situates the book in the context of developments in current scholarship and the epilogue discusses the effects of recent economic and political changes in the American labor movement./div ldquo;Stanley ...
Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith

This fully illustrated catalogue provides an overview of Los Angeles-based artist Alexis Smith's (born 1949) work from 1994 to 2015.
The Hidden Keys

The Hidden Keys

Andre Alexis

It's a grand thing, then, that this spry novel by Canadian Andre Alexis spends its 160 pages repeatedly defying expectations .
Asylum

Asylum

André Alexis

It is playful, linguistically accomplished, and psychologically profound. Its yearnings constitute the highest level of human concerns and pursuits. Alexis has written The Great Canadian Novel, with a twist. From the Hardcover edition.
The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Origin and ...

The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Origin and ...

Peter Augustine Lawler

This book offers the most comprehensive account yet published of Alexis de Tocqueville's extraordinary thought and life.
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alexis M. Smith

Alexis M. Smith. She doesn't know why, but out it comes weighted with anger and grief. It sounds like an accusation, but too it is a confession: of all the things she thought about soldiers before she met him—that they are emotionally damaged ...
Beauty and Sadness

Beauty and Sadness

Andr_ Alexis

In the final piece of the book, entitled "Water", Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form (fiction/literature) that he contends is in ...
Beauty and Sadness

Beauty and Sadness

André Alexis

In the final piece of the book, entitled "Water", Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form (fiction/literature) that he contends is in ...
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André Alexis

A is a work of fiction in which André Alexis presents the compelling narrative of Alexander Baddeley, a Toronto book reviewer obsessed with the work of the elusive and mythical poet Avery Andrews.
The Capacity for Infinite Happiness

The Capacity for Infinite Happiness

Alexis Von Konigslow

Effortlessly weaving together these two storylines, Alexis von Konigslow draws the reader into an astonishing tale of ill-fated love, extraordinary courage, and a daring transatlantic escape.
The Journal of American history

The Journal of American history

Organization of American Historians

The American Sunday ALEXIS MCCROSSEN Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces conflicts over the meaning of Sunday that have shaped the ...
Pastoral

Pastoral

André Alexis

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England ...

The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England ...

Gervase Rosser

5 Alexis Torrance, 'Individuality and identity-formation in late antique monasticism ', in Alexis Torrance and Johannes Zachhuber, eds, Individuality in Late Antiquity (Farnham, 2014), 111–27. 6 On fraternity with monastic communities in the ...
Christianity's Dangerous Idea: How the Christian Principle & ...

Christianity's Dangerous Idea: How the Christian Principle & ...

Jonas E. Alexis

How the Christian Principle & Spirit Offer the Best Explanation for Life & why Other Alternatives Fail Jonas E. Alexis ... in a recent book entitled A Crime so Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modem-Day Slavery, by E. Benjamin Skinner. What does ...
The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 ...

The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 ...

Daniel Bubbeo

Cast: Paul Hen- reid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith, Janis Paige, Edmund Gwenn, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson. Night and Day (Warner Bros., 1946) Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, ...
Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and ...

Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and ...

Alexis McCrossen

In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classses to acquire watches and clocks.
Implicating Empire

Implicating Empire

Stanley Aronowitz

The first truism of globalization--that we live in an increasingly interconnected world, one in which it is impossible to separate the fate of one nation from that of the others--was dramatically illustrated on September 11, 2001, when the ...
HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World: Powerful HTML5 and CSS3 ...

HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World: Powerful HTML5 and CSS3 ...

Alexis Goldstein

HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World by Alexis Goldstein, Louis Lazaris, and Estelle Weyl Copyright © 2015 SitePoint Pty. Ltd. Product Manager: Simon Mackie Technical Editor: Aurelio De Rosa English Editor: Kelly Steele Cover Designer: Alex ...
Learning CSS3 Animations & Transitions, Video-Enhanced ...

Learning CSS3 Animations & Transitions, Video-Enhanced ...

Alexis Goldstein

A Hands-on Guide to Animating in CSS3 with Transforms, Transitions, Keyframe Animations, and JavaScript Alexis Goldstein. Learning CSS3 Animations and Transitions, VideoEnhanced Edition A Handson Guide to Animating in CSS3 with  ...
Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems

Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems

Stanley Aronowitz

In these essays, Stanley Aronovitz examines some of the crucial cultural shifts associated with the crisis of modernity.
Lonely Planet Iceland

Lonely Planet Iceland

Lonely Planet

This 10th edition of Lonely Planet's Iceland guidebook was researched and written by Carolyn Bain and Alexis Averbuck. The previous edition was also written by Carolyn and Alexis. The 8th edition was written by Brandon Presser, Carolyn ...
Pharrell Williams: Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter & ...

Pharrell Williams: Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter & ...

Alexis Burling

Grammy-Winning Singer, Songwriter and Producer Alexis Burling. CONTEMPORARY LIVES GRAMMY-WINNING SINGER, SONGWRITER & PRODUCER www.abdopublishing.com Published by Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO, PO.
Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future

Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future

Stanley Aronowitz

Demonstrating why Democrats lose when they cling to centrism and compromise their core values, this book shows us what a new left party in America would look like in an era of globalization, terrorism, and a crisis of public confidence in ...
Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal and Radical ...

Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal and Radical ...

Stanley Aronowitz

11. Michael Apple, “The Hidden Curriculumand the Nature of Conflict,” Interchange2(1971), pp.27–40; Henry A.Giroux and AnthonyN.Penna, “ SocialEducation inthe Classroom:The Dynamicsofthe Hidden Curriculum,”Theory andResearch in ...
From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future

From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future

Stanley Aronowitz

A professor of sociology at the City University of New York examines the decline of the labor movement over the past twenty-five years and its reemergence as a political force in the past five, offering a blueprint for its continued ...

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