This book examines social movements and transnational networks in the context of globalization in all its forms--economic, political, cultural, and technological. In addition to case studies on Islamism, feminism, and global justice, the third edition explores the origins, features, varieties, and challengers of the wave of right-wing

Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days. As more and more businesses seek to tame the massive unbounded data sets that pervade our world, streaming systems have finally reached a level of maturity sufficient for mainstream adoption. With this practical guide, data engineers, data scientists, and developers will learn how to work with streaming data in a conceptual and platform-agnostic

In-depth studies on the Bible by the most influential New Testament interpreter of our

The Collection of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the last building designed by Mies van der Rohe, has been closed a full six years for refurbishment. To mark its reopening the museum is presenting the highlights of its classical modernist collection under the title The Art of Society, 1900-1945. Visionary, critical, resigned or utopian, the paintings and sculptures

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler\'s Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world\'s largest peasant economy

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In Kid Wonder and the Half-Hearted Hero Kid Wonder faces her toughest test yet. How can she get the hopeless superhero, Doughnut Boy, to take his job seriously?TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of

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In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant\'s many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation. Hahn focuses her study on the most popular of these varieties, Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco. First grown in the inland Piedmont along the Virginia-North

The how-to handbook that exactly explains and illustrates the step-by-step processes for drawing complete, succesful landscapes and seascapes and teaches the fundamentals of good composition as well as the separate picture elements. This guide combines the simplest kind of scenery sketching with the most complex renderings to give every artist, beginner or professional, essential scenery drawing techniques.More

The perfect next book for fans of Elephant & Piggie, this laugh-out-loud story asks the very important question: What will Fat Cat sit on? What will Fat Cat sit on? The pig? (Oink ) The chicken? (Cluck ) How about the dog? (Grrrr.) Everyone in this bumbling animal gang (understandably) hopes the victim will be someone else Leave it to Mouse to come up with a brilliant solution that satisfies everyone,

I m trying to meditate one day but urgent thoughts keep intruding. Don t forget to take cupcakes to school I have to prepare for my presentation for the wellness conference Is that lunch with the other moms tomorrow or next week? My to-do list is stampeding through my mind, trampling any chance of tranquility. I feel overwhelmed, yes, but there s more: I feel guilty. Guilty that I m taking on too

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author. \'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics...highly recommended.\' The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid prose Jean Aitchison introduces and demystifies a complex and controversial subject: What is language

Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural

Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work in Africana Philosophy, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Afro-Latin philosophy, decolonial theory, and African American philosophy, the volume examines the full range of traditions that have, separately and in conversation with each other, worked through how philosophy