The Centaur secret agent Brooks is at it again, but this time he and his partner Elias are traveling to Africa to disrupt a trafficking operation. With a little help from local folks, they make their way through Africa on a road trip to a place known locally as the Bastille, where problems arrive, and they have to call for assistance from the team that Brooks has been training.

From presidential to congressional, state, and local tickets, this book explains the 2024 elections through more than 125 full-color maps that unleash the illustrative power of cartography. A mix of geographers, political scientists, and historians provide a comprehensive examination of the elections from the primary campaigns to the final results.This 2024 entry in a long-running franchise covers the 2024 presidential primary and general elections, significant ele...

The German-Soviet War revises the conflict's generally accepted understanding through case studies, demonstrating the complexity of the war at the local level. The contributors assembled by Jeff Rutherford and Robert von Maier examine the multiplicity of experiences of individuals caught in this savage war, starting with the German war of annihilation launched against Soviet state and society in June 1941.This detailed collection shows tha...

Current notions of nationhood, communal identity, territorial entitlement, and collective destiny are deeply rooted in historic interpretations of the Bible. Interweaving elements of history, theology, literary criticism, and cultural theory, the essays in this volume discuss the ways in which biblical understandings have shaped Western – and particularly European and North American – assumptions about the nature and meaning of the nation.Part of the Green College Lecture Series, t...

Brooks Arthur's just trying to live as a centaur police officer - one of the many Neotypes navigating through a world built for humans. A murder investigation leads Brooks to being forcefully recruited into a organization that's trying to keep the world from falling apart.

So what happens in the future when humans are considered too dangerous to go to war with? They get hired by aliens as mercenaries, of course. One such alien is Gryzzk, servant who's duty starts with observing one such company as they go on a mission. But then things get complicated...

The 2020 presidential election was one of the most historic, contested, and contentious in American history. Joe Biden was the oldest person elected president. Kamala Harris was the first female elected vice president and the first vice president of Black and Asian descent. The primaries, campaigns, and elections were held for the first time amid an international and national pandemic. Despite this, voter turnout was the highest in 120 years. Donald Trump was the first president in modern ...

Sociogenesis Reexamined offers the foundation for an inter- disciplinary social scientific approach towards the development of persons in their historical and societal contexts. The editors have organized herein the opportunity for exchange and theoretical confrontation on the theme of mechanisms in sociogenesis. Stemming from a workshop that took place at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht in December 1990, the editors and contributors attempt to begin the refinement and rewor...

Psychology: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive overview of 200 concepts central to a solid understanding of Psychology and includes the latest recommendations from the British Psychology Society (BPS). The focus is on practical uses of Psychology in settings such as nursing, education and human resources, with topics ranging from Gender to Psychometrics and Perception.

This book provides students with a concise introduction to the philosophy of methodology. The book stands apart from existing methodology texts by clarifying in a student-friendly and engaging way distinctions between philosophical positions, paradigms of inquiry, methodology and methods. Building an understanding of the relationships and distinctions between philosophical positions and paradigms is an essential part of the research process and integral to deploying the methodology and met...

The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?

Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel.Presents a reassessment of the works of Lev Vygotsky in light of the tradition of Spinoza and Hegel informing his workReveals Vygotsky’s connection with the work of contemporary philosophers such as Brandom and McDowell