Filter by
From Slavery to Civil Rights : On the streetcars of New Orleans 1830s-Present
The history of Louisiana from slavery until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that unique influences within the state were responsible for a distinctive political and social culture. In New Orleans, the most populous city in the state, this was reflected in the conflict that arose on segregated streetcars that ran throughout the crescent city. This study chronologically surveys segregation on…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789622249
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 341.48
Identity and Heritage: Contemporary Challenges in a Globalized World
This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and experiences in the New and Old World, and opens a discussion, in a shrinking world, to look beyond national and regional contexts. If the heritage s…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-09688-9
- Collation
- X, 172
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 930.1 IDE
Forms of Practitioner Reflexivity
This edited volume addresses the different methods professionals use to promote a critical reflective and reflexive stance among practitioners, leading to both a reconceptualization of practice and its subsequent change. The goal of increased reflection in professional education is intended to expand approaches for professionals to work with diverse others. It is also intended to increase thei…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-52712-7
- Collation
- XI, 249 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Waves and Compressible Flow
Now in its second edition, this book continues to give readers a broad mathematical basis for modelling and understanding the wide range of wave phenomena encountered in modern applications. New and expanded material includes topics such as elastoplastic waves and waves in plasmas, as well as new exercises. Comprehensive collections of models are used to illustrate the underpinning mathematic…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4939-3381-5
- Collation
- VII, 243
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
A Cultural History of Twin Beds
A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangement for married couples between 1870 and 1970. Modern preconceptions of the twin bed revolve around their use by couples who have no desire to sleep in the same bed space. Yet, for the best part of a …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1000185265
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300
Loud and Proud Passion and politics in the English Defence League
The book uses interviews, informal conversations and extended observation at EDL events to critically reflect on the gap between the movement's public image and activists' own understandings of it. It details how activists construct the EDL, and themselves, as 'not racist, not violent, just no longer silent' inter alia through the exclusion of Muslims as a possible object of racism on the groun…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526114013
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
A Tale of the Unknown Unknowns A Mesolithic Pit Alignment and a Neolithic Ti…
The site of Warren Field in Scotland revealed two unusual and enigmatic features; an alignment of pits and a large, rectangular feature interpreted as a timber building. Excavations confirmed that the timber structure was an early Neolithic building and that the pits had been in use from the Mesolithic. This report details the excavations and reveals that the hall was associated with the storag…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780000000903
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Change In Classroom Practice
Over the last ten years deliberate and determined efforts have been made to improve schooling. This book charts recent and current developments in the practical business of changing classroom practice to make schools more effective. It is devoted to detecting the effects on classroom practice of the efforts made to improve schools and classrooms, and to understanding how classroom practice chan…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203974766
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography