What happens behind the doors of the animal shelter? This book will introduce the reader to the work culture of animal shelter employees, volunteers, activists, educators, and pets. By weaving together her own personal memoirs with interviews with workers, the author describes the traditions, philosophies, history, and current social dynamics of a ......
This brief history of American agriculture from the prehistoric period to the end of the twentieth century is written for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America. This book provides the ......
This collection of papers follows the objectives of and work published in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, namely, the publishing of new work in comparative literature, cultural studies, and comparative cultural studies. CLCWeb also maintains an online Library with extensive and selected bibliographies, an international ......
Conversations of Eleven Contemporary American Male Fiction Writers
Trucks' The Pleasure of Influence is a collection of conversations with eleven of the most important male fiction writers in America today. In this collection Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, National Book Award nominees Thom Jones, Barry Hannah, and Stephen Dixon, as well as Russell Banks, Rick ......
St Benedict's Rule is one of a handful of documents such as the Magna Carta and US Constitution that make up the foundation of Western Civilization. Benedict's Rule is an organizational blueprint for success and Benedict's original organization is the oldest in the world (over 1500 years). The beauty of ""The Rule"" is its organizational genius ......
Without Covers incites conversation, debate, argument, and most pressingly, questions regarding the reasons behind and effects of small literary magazines moving to online publishing in North America. Questions discussed are: Is it possible? How? When? and the most puzzling, Why? Through the musings of nineteen well-known editors, poets, fiction, ......
This book constitutes a first look at the little-known phenomenon of the Italian/American short film. What becomes apparent is the conspicuous interest these members of the newer generation of Italian/American filmmakers exhibit vis-a-vis their ethnicity, be such films a fiction, a documentary, or a music video. Equally significant is the lens ......
Brood Bitch is a mother's reflection inspired by her hand-raising a litter of Pembroke Welsh corgis whose own mother died after a Caesarian delivery. Devastated by the loss of her only companion and awed by the task of saving the puppies, the narrator is surprised to discover she enjoys this exclusive commitment. Her education, career, marriage, ......
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computational Science in Celebration of the 65th Birthday of John R. Rice
The foundation of computational science is computational mathematics, and the general-purpose tools used to do computational mathematics are known as mathematical software. Computational Science, Mathematics and Software provides a snapshot of the latest research in these areas. It contains 19 contributions from 30 leading researchers who ......
