This unique volume brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars as well as Czech and Slovak decisionmakers who were personally involved in the events leading up to the separation of Czechoslovakia. Asking whether the dissolution was inevitable, the contributors bring a range of different approaches and perspectives to bear on the twin problems of democratic transitions in multinational societies and ethnic separatism and its origins. The blend of analysis and insider experiences ...

Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it’s the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and culture in a relatively small, six-state region. Maybe it’s the regenerative powers of the ecosystem in a place of repeated exploitations. Or maybe we have simply been thinking about our relationship with the natural world longer than everyone.If all successive nature writing is a footnote to...

Barron’s Math 360: Pre-Calculus is your complete go-to guide for everything pre-calculusThis comprehensive guide is an essential resource for:High school and college coursesHomeschoolingVirtual LearningLearning podsInside you’ll find:Comprehensive Content Review: Begin your study with the basic building blocks of pre-calculus and build as you go. Top...

Barron’s Math 360: Geometry is your complete go-to guide for everything geometryThis comprehensive guide is an essential resource for:High school and college coursesHomeschoolingVirtual LearningLearning podsInside you’ll find:Comprehensive Content Review: Begin your study with the basic building blocks of geometry and build as you go. Topics include,...

Three years ago, I attended a minor league cricket match near my home, and I was captivated by the action and the passion of the fans. That evening ignited my journey into cricket, transforming my curiosity into a love for this global sport.Raised on American sports, I initially found cricket unfamiliar. However, I soon discovered its rich history and appeal: over 200K people play or watch cricket in the U.S., and globally, it is the second-largest sport, boasting 2.5 billi...

It's hard to imagine a poet who could take more joy in nature, both earthly and human. In Blue Marble Gazetteer, David Leff looks closely, always, and revels in the names of things; the catalogs of species that recur throughout are delicious to mind and ear. Still, an elegiac tone haunts the book; David loves the planet as much as he fears for its demise. But this "world of open wounds" is blessed with fellow sojourners: the poet's wife and children, his neighbors, and all the bei...

In a penthouse on Telegraph Hill, Candy Matson answers her telephone and agrees to take on yet another case. Natalie Park stars as Matson, a San Francisco private investigator who is not only smart, sassy and sexy, but tough, too! Candy's best friend and trusted assistant is photographer, and confirmed bachelor, Rembrandt Watson, played by Park's real-life uncle, Jack Thomas.Candy and her boyfriend, Police Detective Ray Mallard (Henry Leff), usually end up working the same case, but Candy ...

What distinguishes the study of rhetoric from other pursuits in the liberal arts? From what realms of human existence and expression, of human history, does such study draw its defining character? What, in the end, should be the purposes of rhetorical inquiry? And amid so many competing accounts of discourse, power, and judgment in the contemporary world, how might scholars achieve these purposes through the attitudes and strategies that animate their work?Rethinking Rhetorical...

Older adults are living longer with more chronic disease and functional impairment than at any other time in history. Office-based practice is inadequate to meet the needs of patients who have difficulty leaving their homes for routine or urgent visits, and health care clinicians must choose between trying to manage their problems via telehealth or sending them to the emergency room via ambulance. Indeed, many clinicians receive little or no training in home-based medical care and are unab...

This book introduces the birth and development of the Anna Freudian Tradition from a perspective of developmental lines, by addressing the early development of this tradition and the conflicts and innovations arising from the interaction between the internal and external world of the organization.

This work is the accumulation of the writing done over the years, that is provocative and meant to inspire people to think out of the box and be the best at everything that they do. Subjects range from Dedications, Concepts, Love, Names, Nature and thirteen essays of yesterday, tomorrow and the future.

Building upon the idea that our current "environmental question" arises from the history of metaphysics—which privileged thought about Being (or ontology) over the conditions of life—this book reinterprets Heraclitus’s notion of physis as the fundamental, emergent potency of life, as the category to-be-thought by thinkers. In so doing, it deconstructs the interpretation offered by Heidegger and so stresses the struggle between the creative force of life and its subjection to the human Logo...