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Author: Max Decharne

Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960's, Straight From t ...

Author: Max Decharne

Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies.
Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actua ...

Author: Robert Collis & Han Hogerzeil

First published in 1947, Straight On is a first-hand account of the authors work with the Red Cross in central and eastern Europe at the end of the Second World War, including their work providing medical care to surv ...

Author: Nicholas Yardley

Author: Andrew Ross

Author: Aatish Taseer

What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the twenty-first century? When Aatish Taseer receives a challenging letter from his estranged father in Pakistan, he decides to set off on an expedition across the Islamic world ...

Author: Rita Keresztesi

"Strangers at Home" reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this ...

Author: Eric J. Sundquist

Charts volatile debates over social justice and liberalism, anti- Semitism and racism, through extended analyses of fiction by Bernard Malamud, Paule Marshall, Harper Lee and William Melvin Kelley, as well as the juxtapo ...

Author: Lillian Serece Williams

Examines the settlement of African Americans in Buffalo during the Great Migration. This book delineates values and institutions that the black migrant population brought with it from the South, as well as those that evo ...

Author: S Pony Hill

Harsh "racial" segregation during the Jim Crow era prevented South Carolina's Indian groups from assimilating. Due to their three-fold genetic admixture, they were labeled with such fanciful names as Red Bones, Brass ...

Author: Peter Veth, Peter Sutton & Margo Neale

Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and ...

Author: Jifu Dr. Wang

This book focuses on the strategic challenges, strategic responses, and strategies for China's state-owned enterprises (SOE), which face significant challenges from a nationwide economic transformation towards a market e ...

Author: Lawrence Freedman

For three decades the analysis of strategic coercion has been dominated by two landmark books: Tom Schelling's Arms and Influence and Alex George's Strategic Diplomacy, both of which addressed the requirements of Americ ...

Author: Lynda Dee Dixon

Designed for introductory business and organizational communication classes, this successful, multi-edition book focuses on helping the reader to master the four essential elements of effective communication--setting goa ...

Author: Daniel J. Canary & Sandra Lakey

Strategic Conflict offers a research-based, accessible analysis of how people can manage conflict productively. Moving beyond the basics of conflict, it examines interpersonal situations in which conflict occurs and prom ...

Author: Dr. Kenneth W. Rice

Author: Dr. Kenneth W. Rice

Author: Stefan Elbe

This text argues that the growing AIDS pandemic not only has important health and development ramifications, but is rapidly evolving into an international security issue as well. To date, however, strategists and securit ...

Author: Dr. Yang-Im Lee & Dr. Peter R. J. Trim

This book acts as a bridge between marketing and strategic management, as it is written from a strategic marketing perspective. It provides students and practising managers with an appreciation and an understanding of ho ...

Author: Sandra Nelson

"Strategic Planning for Results" is the fully revised version of "Planning for Results", the foundational book in this groundbreaking series."The PLA Results Series" has long served to help public librarians envision, ev ...