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'Six Feet Under' - originally broadcast on the American cable channel HBO from 2001 to 2005 - is a widely acclaimed, award winning family saga. Taking as its starting point the sudden death of...

This book is about historical archaeology. It treats historical issues through archaeology. Thus, it provides information about the significances of early 'archaeological practices' during the reign...

The interaction of globalization and technology diffusion will impact warfare's diversity, affordability, and effectiveness. Moreover, the widening socio-economic gap, climate changes, human...

We live in a hypersexualized society that infantilizes women and commodifies girls at the service of the capitalist system. In recent years, Western societies have witnessed a rising concern about...

""Diverse Informalities"" Spatial Transformations in NairobiAuthor: Tom J. C. AnyambaPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 15, 2008Number of Pages: 308 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

""Everyone Speaks English, Right?""Author: Karin SpeedyPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 04, 2008Number of Pages: 244 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363910269XISBN-13:...

Dieses Buch besch?ftigt sich mit den Werken von Jackie Kay unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Identit?tskonstruktion ihrer Charaktere. Jackie Kay wurde 1961 als Tochter einer Schottin und eines Nigerianers...

Pharmacy as a profession has changed rapidly in the UK over recent years. A decline in traditional aspects such as formulation has been matched by the emergence of a much greater advisory role...

Architects often ask the question; "What is the Architect Latin?" This is a common concern within the educational sector, construction Industry and the architectural profession. This body of work,...

What was the image of Africa in America during the 1950s and 1960s, and how did these perceptions impact the the formulation of US foreign policy toward the African nations? This work endeavors to...

This book investigates the way in which African- American and Afro-Brazilian prose fictions perceive and critique the concept of "racial democracy" in Brazil. African-Americans view Brazil as a...

""Ravishing Harmony""Author: Hea Gyong JoPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 18, 2008Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639096894ISBN-13: 9783639096897

A number of scholars argue that Protestant Scots' migrations to Ireland in the seventeenth century were precipitated by overpopulation and economic hardships, especially those that struck South-...

PAST TENSES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Following previous studies of the syntactic variation on tense, this work reviews the historical development and present-day usage of two past tenses in Latin-American...

This book investigates the role that the Roman Catholic church has played in the socialization of Filipinos in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The research is based on scholarly acknowledgement of...

When internet‐mediated messaging and social networking applications were introduced in mobile phones, mobile messaging entered a new paradigm. Users can easily create profiles and communicate...

It seems a habit of our time to lament about the state of the world and simultaneously profess that there is nothing we, as individuals, can do about it. In this auto/ethnographic study, Elisabeth...

In this book I am attempting to scrutinise the Big Brother show (Endemol, 1999) - the archetype of the 'reality show' genre (Cummings, D, 2002, xii) - as a cultural product of our 'post-modern-late...

Artistic accomplishment was an important social and cultural skill for young women of the elite and aristocratic classes in the eighteenth century. Georgiana Keate, the subject of this book, is an...

The aim of this thesis is to encourage the multidimensional approach in the study of social identities. 'Identisation' is presented as an amalgamation of factors, forces and interests that should not...

Microsoft and SAP are leading manufacturers for software products. Therefore different integration scenarios between these technologies occur in our daily business. The first part of the book...

16S Ribosomal RNA Gene SequencingAuthor: Sandra TscherwizekPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 10, 2008Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639109031ISBN-13:...

The discipline of peacemaking has been evolving for the past 20 years. Somalia was Canada's first attempt to engage in peacemaking and restabilising a failed state; the mission was a failure...

High-precision, two-dimensional planar motion is often required in the manufacturing industry. Switched Reluctance (SR) motor has a simple and robust structure. However, due to its highly nonlinear...

This study describes the ocean circulation of the Indonesian Seas based on results using a 3D regional model. The study is divided into 3 parts. In the first part, Chapter 2, the basic properties of...

A restaurant's success depends on many different factors of influence which can be summarized in four segments, the product, the place, the price and the promotion of a restaurant. Therefore, a...

The link between stock prices and investor trading, especially retail in-vestor trading, is at once both obvious and perplexing. Which is the cause, which the effect and who or what do we blame when...

A Bell in the Storm begins with the experience of persistent pain in an attempt to prove his pain is real to his doctor, the author engages the theory of pain from Descartes to the most recent...

A growing number of evangelical scholars have recently embraced a new perspective on God's nature called Open Theism. Open Theism is one of the hottest theological issues in the church and academia...

The concept of buoyancy propulsion is investigated for a lighter-than-air platform in the upper- stratosphere. This alternative to conventional thrust propulsion requires a cyclical change in net...