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This engaging and informative resource provides readers with an understanding of the social, cultural, and historical influences that shape our encounters with death, dying, and bereavement-a universal experience across humanity.

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How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time This volume looks at the essential elements in the Aztecs' rise, fall, and enduring influence.

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This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history.

Comprising some 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1965, the Baby Boomers have significantly changed every aspect of American history and culture.

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A passionate and revealing examination of the unethical processes taking place within the U.S adoption system today

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"Translation of Der babylonische Planet (1st edition) is published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc by arrangement with UNIVERSITATSVERLAG WINTER."

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Lectures and essays of the well-known literary scholar.

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Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy is made an offer that would be hard to refuse: first-class living on an island paradise in exchange for just one file at police headquarters.

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It may seem ironic to conclude a study of police use of deadly force with surprise that more people are not shot by police. highly recommended to students of human behavior, especially students in police science and criminal justice, sociology, psychology, and the law .

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Since the early twentieth century, the Baha religion has worked to establish racially and ethnically diverse communities. During Jim Crow, it was a leader in breaking norms of racial segregation. Each chapter of this book presents an aspect of Bahai history that intersects with African American history in novel and socially significant ways.

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This book provides new material on the members of the Bah Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony is central to their religious expression. Using historical research, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir, the contributors document the Bahs efforts to address Americas most challenging issue.

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Sets out to accomplish two main goals: to introduce to the American reading public a religion whose name may be commonly mentioned, yet in terms of its history, world-view, beliefs, and laws; and, to trace the historical development of the American Baha'i community since its earliest beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Clear introduction to the Bah' vision and development of its community.

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This anthology provides in a convenient format a good selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.

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This book tackles how to educate our children on the cornerstones of a humanistic foundation as a person; harboring those traits of responsibility, caring, honesty, and service to others. It helps parents, educators, and most of all, children to recognize that one must embrace these abilities in order to gain the tools to be fulfilled.

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This book tackles how to educate our children on the cornerstones of a humanistic foundation as a person; harboring those traits of responsibility, caring, honesty, and service to others. It helps parents, educators, and most of all, children to recognize that one must embrace these abilities in order to gain the tools to be fulfilled.

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This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyondregions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinopleas well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.

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This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyondregions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinopleas well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.

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Examines the Baltimore Afro-American from its founding in 1892 to the dawn of the Civil Rights Era in 1950.

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