Looking for a convenient language course that gets you speaking Mandarin Chinese in hours, not years? The Michel Thomas audio courses have helped over five million language learners to master a new language, with no writing, no stress and no memorisation.Perfect for absolute beginners, little or no prior knowledge of the language is needed for the Foundation course. The audio course provides everything needed to build your confidence and start speaking.During the course, yo...

A southern Renaissance man, Eugene Walter (1921–1998) was a pioneering food writer, a champion of southern foodways and culture, and a legendary personality among food lovers. The Happy Table of Eugene Walter, which introduces a new generation of readers to Walter’s culinary legacy, is a revelation to anyone interested in today’s booming scene in vintage and artisanal drinks — from bourbon and juleps to champagne and punch — and a southern twist on America’s culinary heritage....

Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas. Some have called this development the “Hillary Effect.” But well before our most recent female secretary of state there was Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve in that capacity, and later Condoleezza Rice. Beginning at a more junior post in the Department of State in 1971, there was “the little Elam girl” from Boston.Diversifying Diplomacy tells the story of Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas, a young black wo...

This publication contains Geneva Bible (1560) translation. It has 74,387 references. It contains 2 different formats of the Bible.It includes Geneva Bible formatted in a read and navigation friendly format, or the Navi-format for short. It also includes the Geneva Bible, tailored Text-To-Speech (tts) software technology.How the general Bible-navigation works:A Testament has an...

2024 Spur Award Winner!2024 Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner!Grand Prize Winner for the 2023 Chanticleer Laramie Award for Americana Fiction!"A novel as compelling as the incredible true story it's based on." James Wade, two-time Spur Award-winning author of Hollow Out the Dark.When Santa Claus enters a Texas bank just before Christmas in 1927, no one expects him to pull a gun.

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Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France.Looking at how Marie was represented in politics, art, literature and journalism, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural cont...

How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracyCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVID-19, shedding new light on how his administration tied the pandemic to the president’s political fate in an election year and chose partisanship over public healt...

Redefines the theoretical and thematic contents of world literature by considering it in connection with film.What gets lost when we understand film as essentially different from literature? What gets lost when we think them essentially the same? Does the constructed difference between literature and film also create social and political exclusions, exclusions that may exacerbate class struggle or exclusions of certain ways of thinking the future as different? ...

This publication contains Matthew, Mark, Luke & John of the Geneva Bible (1560) and Die Bibel: Übersetzt von Hermann Menge (1926) and Türkçe İncil (2001) in a parallel translation. And it holds a total of 23,132 references linking up all the books, chapters and verses. It includes a read and navigation friendly format of the texts. Here you will find each verse printed in parallel in the English - German - Turkish (gen-men-tur) order.How the general Bible-n...

Give your patients the non-surgical spine pain relief they need with help from the Atlas of Image-Guided Spinal Procedures by Dr. Michael Bruce Furman. This medical reference book features a highly visual atlas format that shows you exactly how to safely and efficiently perform each technique step-by-step. A unique, systematic, safe, and efficient approach makes Atlas of Image-Guided Spinal Procedures your go-to resource for spine pain relief for your patients. The highly visual format sho...