Search Results - Velia~

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II : Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe /

Table of Contents: Full text available:

Granny D's American century by Haddock, Doris

Table of Contents: “…Book I -- Full Measure -- Steaming into Life : 1928 -- The Birthplace of Liberty, Including My Own -- Castles and Princes -- At Sea -- Bubbles Burst -- Jim's Girl -- The Bohemians -- Surviving by Our Wits -- The Main Course of Life -- Back to Harvard -- Book II -- On the Road Again -- Alligators, Mermaids, Etcetera -- Wake Up and Live -- From the Very Balcony -- Finding Life Everywhere -- The Wind Shifts -- Shared Courage -- A Campaign from Our Town -- Lessons from My Century -- Last Delivered Speech -- Last Undelivered Speech -- Closing Note to the Reader.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Contested borders : territorialization, national identity and "imagined geographies" in Albania / by Kalemaj, Ilir

Table of Contents: “…Delineating the playing field : virtual borders and imagined geographies -- Boundary mapping and territorialization of identity -- From nation-building to state-formation : how virtual mapping intersected with recognized borders in the Albanian imagination -- The interwar period, various shifts in the configuration of boundaries at elite level and national imagining amongst Albanians in Albania and abroad : from contractionary to expansionary and vice-versa -- From greater Albania during the Second World War to contractionary borders during the communist era -- Reimagining territorial landscape and mental borders in the post-communist and democratic transition era.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Peripheral visions : politics, society, and the challenges of modernity in Yucatan /

Table of Contents: “…Religion -- Josâe Canuto Vela and Yucatan's "benign" clergy from independence to the reform, 1821-1861 / Lynda S. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Rivers of the Anthropocene /

Table of Contents: “…Kelly -- Ecosystem service-based approaches for status assessment of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. …”
Full text available:

ABC of emergency radiology

Table of Contents: “….] -- Knee / Lisa Meacock and David A. Elias -- Ankle and foot / Tudor Hughes -- Head / Suki Brown and Amrish Mehta -- Face / Simon Holmes ... …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Artistry of the Homeric Simile by Scott, William C.

Table of Contents: “…Preface ·; CHAPTER ONE; Similes, the Shield of Achilles, and Other Digressions ·; The Usefulness of Book Divisions ·; CHAPTER TWO; The Simileme: The Background of the Homeric Simile ·; The Oral Nature of Homeric Verse ·; The Simileme ·; Homer and His Audience ·; Simile and Simileme ·; CHAPTER THREE; Homer's Use of Similes to Delineate Character and Plot ·; Iliad, Book 2: Ironic Characterization ·; The Similes of Book 2 ·; The Role of Similes in Book 2 ·; Iliad, Books 21 and 22: Similes to Show a Thematic Contrast ·; Iliad, Book 11: Similes to Mark a Shifting Scene ·; Conclusion ·…”
Full text available:

Artistry of the Homeric Simile by Scott, William C.

Table of Contents: “…Preface ·; CHAPTER ONE; Similes, the Shield of Achilles, and Other Digressions ·; The Usefulness of Book Divisions ·; CHAPTER TWO; The Simileme: The Background of the Homeric Simile ·; The Oral Nature of Homeric Verse ·; The Simileme ·; Homer and His Audience ·; Simile and Simileme ·; CHAPTER THREE; Homer's Use of Similes to Delineate Character and Plot ·; Iliad, Book 2: Ironic Characterization ·; The Similes of Book 2 ·; The Role of Similes in Book 2 ·; Iliad, Books 21 and 22: Similes to Show a Thematic Contrast ·; Iliad, Book 11: Similes to Mark a Shifting Scene ·; Conclusion ·…”
Full text available:

Intelligence quest : project-based learning and multiple intelligences / by McKenzie, Walter

Table of Contents: “…IQuest: a new teaching paradigm -- Thinking critically: the analytic domain of intelligences -- Thinking within: the introspective domain of intelligences -- Thinking outward: the interactive domain of intelligences -- The IQuest format -- The evaluation exchange iquest: delivering data meaningfully -- The critical collaboration IQuest: working to build consensus -- The partner puzzle IQuest: authentic problem solving -- The people perspective IQuest: seeing multiple solutions -- The qualitative quantities iquest: creating products in context -- The principle partners IQuest: information literacy meets cultural literacy -- Multiple intelligences and the future of education -- Appendix: national educational technology standards for students (NETS's).…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Microfinance 3.0 Reconciling Sustainability with Social Outreach and Responsible Delivery /

Table of Contents: “…Evaluating Adequacy and Performance of Agricultural Microcredit -- The Role of DFIs in the Emerging 3.0 Responsible Funding Landscape - Responsible Corporate Governance and Beyond -- The Microfinance Approach: Does It Deliver on Its Promise?.…”
Get full text

The sources of genomic diversity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The sources of genomic diversity: DNA and mutation, effect of mutations, inheritance, selection and drift -- Environmental diversity -- Natural selection -- Human genomic diversity -- Population growth -- G6PD -- DNA and mutation: point mutations (SNPs) and more complex mutations -- The effect of mutations: insertions or deletions and large chromosomal inversions -- Translation -- Coding mutations -- The fate of mutations -- Neural mutations -- Deleterious mutations -- Radically beneficial mutations: FOXP2 -- Sometimes beneficial/sometimes deleterious mutations: CCR5 delta-32 and Hgb S -- Promoter mutations -- Mutations traveling together: haplotypes.…”
Get full text
Series

The sources of genomic diversity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The sources of genomic diversity: DNA and mutation, effect of mutations, inheritance, selection and drift -- Environmental diversity -- Natural selection -- Human genomic diversity -- Population growth -- G6PD -- DNA and mutation: point mutations (SNPs) and more complex mutations -- The effect of mutations: insertions or deletions and large chromosomal inversions -- Translation -- Coding mutations -- The fate of mutations -- Neural mutations -- Deleterious mutations -- Radically beneficial mutations: FOXP2 -- Sometimes beneficial/sometimes deleterious mutations: CCR5 delta-32 and Hgb S -- Promoter mutations -- Mutations traveling together: haplotypes.…”
Get full text
Series

Understanding street drugs a handbook of substance misuse for parents, teachers and other professionals / by Emmett, David

Table of Contents: “…A brief history of drug use and a snapshot of the current drugs situation in Britain -- Cannabis (Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol -- Stimulants -- Hallucinogens -- Opiates -- Volatile substance abuse : 'sniffing' -- Tranquillisers and sleeping pills (anxyiolytics and hypnotics) -- Anabolic steroids -- Over-the-counter medicines and prescription-only medicines -- 'Date rape' drugs -- Signs and symptoms of substance misuse : things you need to look out for -- Physical evidence of possible drug or substance use -- Managing drug-related incidents -- Common reasons for drug and substance misuse, and details of available treatment -- The language of drug and substance abuse -- The legislation debate.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The sources of genomic diversity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The sources of genomic diversity: DNA and mutation, effect of mutations, inheritance, selection and drift -- Environmental diversity -- Natural selection -- Human genomic diversity -- Population growth -- G6PD -- DNA and mutation: point mutations (SNPs) and more complex mutations -- The effect of mutations: insertions or deletions and large chromosomal inversions -- Translation -- Coding mutations -- The fate of mutations -- Neural mutations -- Deleterious mutations -- Radically beneficial mutations: FOXP2 -- Sometimes beneficial/sometimes deleterious mutations: CCR5 delta-32 and Hgb S -- Promoter mutations -- Mutations traveling together: haplotypes.…”
Get full text
Series

Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…Hall -- Beyond Rankings and Impact Factors / Michelle Stack and André Elias Mazawi.…”
Full text available:

Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…Hall -- Beyond Rankings and Impact Factors / Michelle Stack and André Elias Mazawi.…”
Full text available:

Representing religion essays in history, theory and crisis / by Murphy, Tim, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…: a critique of William James' individualistic approach to religion in the varieties of religious experience -- The concept of essence-and-manifestation in the history of the study of religion -- The concept of development in continental geisteswissenschaft and religionswissenshaft : before and after Darwin -- The transcendental pretense and Eliade's humanist hermeneutics towards a Nietzschean semiotics of religion -- Post-structural (dis)placements : genealogy, religious studies, and the problematics of historical identity -- Religion as the structuring of asymmetrical relations : towards a definition -- Towards a semiotic theory of religion.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Everything you know about Indians is wrong by Smith, Paul Chaat

Table of Contents: “…Everything we make is art -- Americans without tears -- Delta 150 -- Luna remembers -- Standoff in Lethbridge -- Struck by lightning -- Meaning of life -- States of amnesia -- pt. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Maltese in Michigan by Lubig, Joseph M.

Table of Contents: “…A short history of Malta -- The Maltese as early patriots in America -- Coming to America prior to World War II -- World War II and immigration -- One family's journey -- Connections to the Church -- The struggle to become "American" -- Keeping the Maltese identity -- The measure of success -- Appendix 1: Maltese food -- Appendix 2: A eulogy for Mary Stella and Michael L. Zampa, delivered by Victor M. Zampa -- Appendix 3: Maltese surnames -- Appendix 4: Language -- Appendix 5: 2000 census of Maltese in Michigan -- Appendix 6: Reflections on World War II -- Appendix 7: Maltese ethnic and social organizations.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Military satellites issues, goals and challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Improving satellite protection with nanotechnology / Joseph Juntington -- DOD is making progress in adopting best practices for the transformation satellite communications system and space radar but still faces challenge / United States Government Accountability Office -- Space based infrared system high program and its alternative / United States Government Accountability Office -- Space acquisitions: DOD's goals for resolving space based infrared system software problems are ambitious / United States Government Accountability Office -- Space acquisitions: DOD is making progress to rapidly deliver low cost space capabilities, but challenges remain / United States Government Accountability Office.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view