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This is not a book about the history of computing or the history of information. Instead, it is a meta-historical book about the research and writing of these types of history.

What Are We Fighting About? How to Transform Conflicts Into Conversations gives couples who want to break the patterns that sabotage their happiness the ability to find their answers.

"This book provides sociological insight into the everyday lives and experiences of people who live with dogs as companions; and glimpses aspects of the lives of the dogs who share their homes. It explores the power relations, privileged needs and desires, and interplay of domination and affection, and balance of agency shared by humans and their companion animals"--

The climate crisis has been portrayed as deadly to humans, and it could be. However, serious environmental and resulting public health crises have run rampant for a century or more. This book looks at how several of these crises developed and were miraculously resolved and then compares how the climate crisis is being addressed.

This bookoffers a nostalgic deep-dive into the legendary period in Matte¿s life when the running back was asked to play quarterback as well as the lasting impact of his playing time on the NFL and the Colts organization as a whole.

This book examines the cultural impact and creation of the cult-hit television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It looks at the most famous episodes, creators involved, and analyzes why the series has resonated with so many viewers.

Disasters change how we understand the world, and in doing so they can accelerate social movements that drive long-term change. This book uses social epistemology to chart how disaster experiences change us, how current systems harm us by shutting down that change, and how we can reform disaster practices to better adjust to our future crises.

Vegas Concierge is the story of how the biggest sex trafficking investigation in Las Vegas history came crashing down, ending law enforcement careers, harming scores of vulnerable women, and resulting in its primary target recently receiving only 33 months in prison.

This book offers librarians an opportunity to learn about and develop approaches to the health humanities, for their benefit and the benefit of their constituents and stakeholders, as well as for impacting the future health care professionals of our global community.

Historical Dictionary of Mexico contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Twelve-year-old Edie embarks on an exciting and chilling adventure as she searches for a long-lost Viking hoard. But there are ghosts around Edie who want the past to stay buried, and will stop at nothing to keep secrets hidden. An emotional and spine-tingling adventure perfect for fans of The House with Chicken Legs, A Girl Called Owl and A Pocketful of Stars. It's October half term and twelve-year-old Edie and her younger brother Pip are forced to spend their holiday at Fortune Farm, high in the Irish mountains, with their estranged grandmother Lolly. Edie has been dreading it for months - not only is Lolly's isolated cottage on the shores of Lough Ivarr, the bleakest and most boring place on Earth, it's also the place where they spent all their holidays when Dad was alive. And Edie doesn't like thinking about Dad - the memories hurt too much.When Edie uncovers a clue that could lead her to a long-lost Viking hoard, it's just the adventure she needs to take her mind off of Dad. But the adventure soon takes an unnerving and dangerous turn, as Edie discovers that Fortune Farm has more secrets, ghosts and forgotten treasures than she had ever dared to dream. Not only must Edie protect Pip from the restless and vengeful spirit of a long-dead Viking chief, she must confront the painful memories she has tried so hard to bury deep within herself. As Edie races against time to follow the clues that will lead her to the long-lost Viking treasure, she must journey into her grief, her family's tragic and secretive history and the truth about Coco, Edie's mysterious new friend who is so much more than she seems.

Pastry is one of our favourite things to indulge in - the golden crust of a pie, the flaky pastry of the immortal Cornish pasty, or the soft encasing of a suet pudding: all provide comforting, homely dishes that we know and love. However, often it feels out of reach for everyday cooks, surrounded by rumours of impossibility, stories of failure and unachievable recipes. In River Cottage Great Pies Gelf Alderson will dispel all fear, giving every home cook the tools they need to achieve pastry greatness with achievable, delicious recipes for every pastry-laden occasion, from the buffet to the centrepiece of any meal. Starting with a chapter dedicated to the core recipes for the most-used pastry - including shortcrust, puff and rough puff, hot water, filo, suet, choux and sweet pastry and a range of wholemeal pastries - these become the basis for the pastry masterpieces in the book. (And if you don't have time to make pastry from scratch, don't despair - the recipes in the book are doable with shop-brought for when time and inclination are against you.) In chapters such as veggie pies, open pies and tarts, saucy pies, raised pies, pasties and sweet stuff, you'll find recipes for kitchen classics (from the ultimate quiche to a beef and ale pie, and from the classic River Cottage pork pie to custard tarts), as well as unexpected sweet and savoury treats (think spanakopita, chicken balti pie or peach, redcurrant, hazelnut and cardamom meringue pie), rounded out with a chapter of sauces, gravies and custards - everything you'll need to accompany your pies, pastries and pasties.With an introduction from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this book provides an essential kit list and information on different flours and fats, with 100 comforting recipes of grounded pastry cooking, achievable for everyone and on your table in no time.

"This book explores the interaction between the EU and international investment law, both at the internal level, namely within the EU internal market, and at the external level, i.e. in the context of its relations with third States. The joint treatment of these dimensions reveals that the EU has assumed an ostensibly ambivalent attitude towards international investment law. At the internal level, it has consistently asserted that intra-EU international investment agreements (IIAs) are not compatible with EU law and advocated their termination. At the external level, by contrast, it has eagerly deployed IIAs to develop its post-Lisbon international investment policy. The book finds that beneath this apparent ambivalence towards international investment law ultimately lies the EU's attempt to impose, both internally and externally, its own original model of regulation of cross-border investment. It then argues that the EU adopted this approach with a view to supporting its internal market, enhancing its external influence, and, ultimately, pursuing long-term 'federal aspirations'. Finally, the book identifies the legal and political obstacles that have curtailed the EU's efforts at both the internal and the external level"--

This book serves as a concise exploration of the Shâmaran's enduring presence, resilience, and the ongoing efforts to reclaim her cultural significance from the shadows of colonization. Thus the study is a valuable resource for future studies on feminine spirituality and eco-spirituality.

This book explores why and how the design of architecture contributes to Christian pursuits of social and environmental justice. Edwards offers a new understanding of architectural design¿s relation to Christian ethics and proposes five moral commitments for orienting the design process towards the flourishing of humanity and God¿s creation.

Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: High School, Volume 1 provides high school readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements.

Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: High School, Volume 1 provides high school readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements.

Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: Middle School provides readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements

Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: Middle School provides middle school readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements

This book traces the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), who is rightly revered as one of the greatest of all engineers. His leading role in the transport revolution of the nineteenth century, and especially in the building of the Great Western Railway, left an indelible mark on the British landscape. His achievements captured the imagination of his contemporaries and subsequent generations, whilst his colossal energy and determination to carry out projects on the largest scale and to an extremely high standard set him apart from his rivals. Brunel tells the story both of the engineer, who followed his father Marc into what was then a new profession, and of the man. It explores his successes and failures, at home and abroad, including both the broad gauge GWR and the SS Great Eastern, as R. Angus Buchanan expertly brings out Brunel's imagination, drive and inventiveness. Above all, it sets him in the context of his times, showing both what made him who he was and how he made the most of the great opportunities offered to him.

In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of weather from various angles becomes vital in shedding light on its importance to our experience of the changing world. In response, offering the first in-depth and nuanced examination of the aesthetics of weather, this book underlines the relevance the concept has for scientific communication, for fostering sustainable patterns of behaviour and for rejecting the environmentally-damaging "consumption" of landscapes and fine weather. In addition, it provides examples taken from global, contemporary popular culture whilst calling attention to the socioeconomic and political dimensions of individual experience, demonstrating and analysing our fascination with, and cultural interpretations of, weather phenomena in our everyday lives.Within its three sections, the volume reinvents traditional phenomenological methods to create socially, politically and historically embedded 'phenomenographies' and explore the importance of aesthetic practices in shaping our experience of weather and climate. It also provides a deeper engagement with general topics, such as the relationship between perception, emotion, imagination, and cognition in our aesthetic experience of the weather, combining these with aesthetic analyses of the so-called "fine weather". With its broad scope of inquiry ranging from Aristotle to eco-phenomenology, from the pioneers of scientific meteorology to contemporary art, and from everyday aesthetics to geoengineering, this book argues that an aesthetics of weather inflected by greater knowledge and the taking of a critical stance towards aestheticism can become a valuable ally to climate ethics in the Anthropocene.

There is a long thread of discussion within migration studies around EU border externalisation-that is, around the European Union's tendency to extend its own border and migration control operations into the Global South. Yet these discussions almost never address the colonial legacy on which this tendency draws or how it interacts with local, colonially inherited power structures. Such oversights have yielded largely ahistorical, abstract understandings of the contemporary offshore operations of the EU border regime. Hassan Ould Moctar here offers a much-needed conversation starter around these issues through a close analysis of a telling case-study: namely, that of the West African state of Mauritania, which remains woefully understudied relative to its importance for EU externalisation strategies. As Moctar shows, Mauritania is representative of much of the Global South insofar as its recently constructed, Global-North-dictated concern with preventing "irregular migration" draws impetus from longstanding local socio-economic disparities, many of which owe to a deeper historic arc of colonial bordering and racialised population management. In order to trace how all this actually plays out in practice, Moctar offers fine-grained ethnographic accounts of the conditions and experiences of various migrant workers who have come up against the violence of externalisation at various points in their trajectories. By tying these narratives to equally formative experiences of urban informality and rural dispossession, Moctar ultimately demonstrates how the EU border regime in the Global South coalescences between colonially inherited frameworks of racialised territorial belonging and the wasteful dynamics of contemporary postcolonial capitalism.

Military expert Michael O'Hanlon examines America's major conflicts from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Now updated with to include the Revolutionary War and brief observations on three other conflicts in U. S. History, this unique book serves as an important treatment of America's military history at the strategic and theater of operations levels.