Columbus, Cortés, and other essays

Columbus, Cort�es : and other essays /

by Iglesia, Ramón, 1905-1948

Table of Contents: “…--On the present state of historical studies.--Right and left in the Morelia Historical Congress.…”


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The Business Manager's Guide to Software Projects A Framework for Decision-Making, Team Collaboration, and Effectiveness by Crosby, Jonathan Peter

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Conceptual Guide -- Chapter 1: Architecture and Construction -- Chapter 2: Planning and Scope -- Chapter 3: Teething Troubles -- Chapter 4: Greenfield Construction -- Chapter 5: Laying the Right Foundation -- Chapter 6: Renovating and Extending -- Chapter 7: Technical Debt -- Chapter 8: Maintenance -- Chapter 9: Differences Between Physical Construction and Software Development -- Chapter 10: More Metaphors -- Part II: Practical Guide -- Chapter 11: The Practical Side -- Chapter 12: Plan and Prepare -- Chapter 13: Define -- Chapter 14: Develop -- Chapter 15: Test -- Chapter 16: Training, Going Live, and Maintenance -- Part III: Technical Guide -- Chapter 17: The Technical Side -- Chapter 18: Coding and Design -- Chapter 19: Metaphors for Technical Terms -- Chapter 20: Tricky Areas in Technical Development -- Chapter 21: To Sum Up -- Appendix A: Collaboration -- Appendix B: Glossary -- Appendix C: References and Further Reading.…”
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Doppler Echocardiography in Infancy and Childhood by Hofbeck, Michael, Deeg, Karl-Heinz, Rupprecht, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Truncus arteriosus -- 14. Double outlet right ventricle -- 15. Transposition of the great arteries -- 16. …”
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Crow country by Constable, Kate, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The wheeling crows seem to speak to her about an old wrong she must set right, and she finds herself catapulted back to a time just after World War I ... …”


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Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior by Frick, Paul J., Barry, Christopher T., Kamphaus, Randy W.

Table of Contents: “…Classification and Developmental Psychology -- Chapter 4. Ethics in Testing: Rights, Responsibilities, and Fairness -- Chapter 5. …”
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Multiple moralities and religions in post-Soviet Russia

Table of Contents: “…Multiple moralities: discourse, pratices, and breakdowns in post-Soviet Russia / Jarrett Zigon -- Exploring Russian religiosity as a source of morality today / Alexander Agadjanian -- Post-Soviet orthodoxy in the making: strategies for continuity thinking among Russian middle-aged school teachers / Agata Ladykowska -- The politics of rightness: social justice among Russia's christian communities / Melissa L. …”
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Statistical Modeling and Analysis for Complex Data Problems by Duchesne, Pierre

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Contributing Authors -- Preface -- Dependence Properties of Meta-Elliptical Distributions -- The Statistical Significance of Palm Beach County -- Bayesian Functional Estimation of Hazard Rates for Randomly Right Censored Data Using Fourier Series Methods -- Conditions for the Validity of F-Ratio Tests for Treatment and Carryover Effects in Crossover Designs -- Bias in Estimating the Variance of K-Fold Cross Validation -- Effective Construction of Modified Histograms in Higher Dimensions -- On Robust Diagnostics at Individual Lags Using RA-ARX Estimators -- Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Periodic Preventive Replacement Policies -- Statistics for Comparison of Two Independent cDNA Filter Microarrays -- Large Deviations for Interacting Processes in the Strong Topology -- Asymptotic Distribution of a Simple Linear Estimator for VARMA Models in Echolon Form -- Recent Results for Linear Time Series Models with Non Independent Innovations -- Filtering of Images for Detecting Multiple Targets Trajectories -- Optimzal Detection of Periodicities in Vector Autoregressive Models -- The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test for Cluster Correlated Data.…”
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Outlaw culture : resisting representations by hooks, bell, 1952-2021

Table of Contents: “…: an interview with Marie-France Alderman -- Seduction and betrayal : The crying game meets The bodyguard -- Censorship from left and right -- Talking sex : beyond the patriarchal phallic imaginary -- Camille Paglia, "black" pagan or white colonizer -- Dissident heat : fire with fire -- Katie Roiphe, a little feminist excess goes a long way -- Seduced by violence no more -- Gangsta culture : sexism and misogyny : who will take the rap -- Ice Cube culture : a shared passion for speaking truth -- Spending culture : marketing the black underclass -- Spike Lee doing Malcolm X : denying black pain -- Seeing and making culture : representing the poor -- Back to black : ending internalized racism -- Malcolm X, the longed-for feminist manhood -- Columbus, gone but not forgotten -- Moving into and beyond feminism : just for the joy of it -- Love as the practice of freedom.…”
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Hitler's Berlin : abused city by Friedrich, Thomas, 1948-2011

Table of Contents: “…'It's a wonderful city': 1916-18: Hitler's early visits to Berlin -- 'Not away from Berlin but towards Berlin': 1919-25: a social climber from Munich on his way north -- 'It is the Gau's tragedy that it never had a real leader': 1922-6: setbacks in building up the NSDAP in Berlin -- 'A second headquarters': 1926: Goebbels takes over the running of the party in Berlin -- 'The alternative Berlin is lying in wait, ready to pounce': 1927-28: the successes of a dangerously misjudged splinter group -- 'The movement is now gaining ground in worrying ways': 1928-30: the breakthrough as the dominant paryy of the Right -- 'Hitler is standing at the gates of Berlin': 1930: the NSDAP between legitimate tactics and open violence -- 'He hates Berlin and loves Munich: 1931: the capital as the butt of ridicule and vituperation -- 'The power struggle is just beginning': 1932: the start of a decisive year -- 'German Berlin is on the march': 1932-33: the road to power -- 'A real and genuine capital': 1933 and later: Hitler's metropolis.…”


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Making global self-regulation effective in developing countries

Table of Contents: “…Using International Institutions to Enhance Self-Regulation: The Case of Labor Rights in Cambodia -- 8. Local Politics and the Regulation of Global Water Suppliers in South Africa -- 9. …”
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The ethical entrepreneur. Succeeding in Business without Selling Your Soul by Silberberg, Paul

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Accountability patient safety and policy reform

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Accountability and justice in patient safety reform / Virginia A. Sharpe -- Writing/righting wrong / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Life but no limb: the aftermath of medical error / Carol Levine -- In memory of my brother, Mike / Roxanne Goeltz -- Error disclosure for quality improvement: authenticating a team of patients and providers to promote patient safety / Bryan A. …”
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Between terror and tolerance : religious leaders, conflict, and peacemaking

Table of Contents: “…Hibbard -- Religion, war, and peacekeeping in Sudan: Shari'a, identity politics, and human rights / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Nigeria's religious leaders in an age of radicalism and neoliberalism / Rosalind I.J. …”
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The enchanted screen : the unknown history of fairy-tale films by Zipes, Jack, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Filmic adaptation and appropriation of the fairy tale -- De-Disneyfying Disney : notes on the development of the fairy-tale film -- Georges Méliès : pioneer of the fairy-tale film and the art of the ridiculous -- Animated fairy-tale cartoons : celebrating the carnival art of the ridiculous -- Animated feature fairy-tale films -- Cracking the magic mirror : re-presentations of Snow White -- The trials and tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood revisited and reviewed -- Bluebeard's original sin and the rise of serial killing, mass murder, and fascism -- The triumph of the underdog : Cinderella's legacy -- Abusing and abandoning children : "Hansel and Gretel," "Tom Thumb," "The Pied Piper," "Donkey-skin," and "The juniper tree" -- Choosing the right mate : why beasts and frogs make for ideal husbands -- Andersen's cinematic legacy : trivialization and innovation -- Adapting fairy-tale novels -- Between slave language and utopian optimism : neglected fairy-tale films of Central and Eastern Europe -- Fairy-tale films in dark times : breaking molds, seeing the world anew.…”
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You are what you eat : literary probes into the palate

Table of Contents: “…FOOD SYMBOLISM IN THREE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TEXTSAT THE CORE OF THE GIVING TREE'S SIGNIFYING APPLES; PERCEPTIVE APPETITES; CHAPTER FIVE; NEVER THE RIGHT FOOD; FOOD CONSUMPTION AND THE TROUBLED SELF IN KINGSTON'S THE WOMAN WARRIOR, WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE, TAN'S THE JOY LUCK CLUB, AND ERDRICH'S LOVE MEDICINE; A MARRIAGE MADE IN THE KITCHEN; THE JOY OF COOKING AND EATING; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.…”
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The Internet book of life : use the Web to grow richer, smarter, healthier, and happier by McDermott, Irene E., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Anti-virus : online medical and health information ; E-xercise and E-ating right : diet and fitness on the web ; Tech support : self-help and support groups ; Latency : help for procrastination and productivity ; E-lation : using the web to feel happier.…”


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Maverick Screenwriting : a manual for the adventurous screenwriter. by Golding, Josh

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 13: Taking it to the limit7 Which structure is right for you?; Chapter 14: Mashing genre; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
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Public sex : the culture of radical sex by Califia, Patrick, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Among us, against us: right-wing feminism. Among us, against us-the new puritans: does equation of pornography with violence add up to political repression? …”


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Conquering the past : Austrian Nazism yesterday & today

Table of Contents: “…/ Max E. Riedlsperger -- Right-wing student politics in Austria after 1945 / Reinhold Gärtner -- The Waldheim connection / Melanie A. …”


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Writing with power : techniques for mastering the writing process by Elbow, Peter

Table of Contents: “…An approach to writing -- Freewriting -- Sharing -- The direct writing process for getting words on paper -- Quick revising -- The dangerous method: trying to write it right the first time -- More ways of getting words on paper. …”
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