Dog Behavior
Dog Behavior: Modern Science and Our Canine Companions provides readers with a better understanding of canine science, including evolutionary concepts, ethograms, brain structures and development, sensory perspectives, the science of...
Accidentally Like a Martyr
One of the most mysterious yet celebrated singer-songwriters of the 1970s revealed through artful essays that go inside and beyond the music.
How to Read a Financial Report
Learn how to read, understand, analyze, and interpret different types of financial reports In the newly revised and updated 10th Edition of How to Read a Financial Report, seasoned accounting, financial, and business consultant Tage C. Tracy guide...
Black Jacobins
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean. 'Brilliantly conceived and executed...The absorbing narrative never departs from its rigid faithfulness to method and documentation.' -- Books 'Mr. James is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling -- a sense
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1450 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organised and well-financed rivals. The volum...
City Walls
The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resource...
Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War
Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) asserted his princely authority by deciding at times to lead his own armies to war, despite the misgivings of advisers. Since Europe's wars were fought with money borrowed against future revenues, even an emperor had ...
Social Media Marketing
The original, bestselling, and award-winning textbook on social media marketing, featuring all the essential topics, concepts, research, and practical application for study and career success. Now thoroughly updated in this fifth edition to ...
The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies
Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of method...
Stages of Emergency
In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance hist...
Energy Healing for Empaths
The practical skills you need to keep your energy safe and secure!Do you struggle with drawing and maintaining boundaries when dealing with the people in your life? Are you highly sensitive and attuned to other's feelings and energy, to the point ...
Minty Alley
First published in London in 1939, Minty Alley is now made available for the first time to American readers. In the pages of this work C. L. R. James is both an imaginative political theorist and a sensitive commentator on the West Indian social a...
Toussaint Louverture
The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years, against a backdrop of the French Revolution, they fought...
The Rise of Merchant Empires
European dominance of the shipping lanes in the early modern period was a prelude to the great age of European imperial power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet in the present age we can see that the pre-imperial age was in fact ...
Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650
In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the comp...
Beyond a Boundary
This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated "Beyond ...
Black Jacobins
'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times 'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The iconic study of the Haitian revolution, b...
Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies
Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies
On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children
Raising happy, successful children is a goal of every parent of gifted children. In On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, the nation's leading authority on the psychology of gifted children offers advice and encouragement for both ...
Posterior Pelvic Floor Abnormalities
Posterior Pelvic Floor Abnormalities, by Tracy Hull, MD, is the ideal way to enhance your surgical skills in this key area of gynecology, obstetrics, and urology. In this volume in the Female Pelvic Surgery Video Atlas Series, edited by M...