Stereo Star Maps

Science & Math

COX, JOHN

Monkhouse, Richard

Astronomy & Space Science

HarperCollins, Publishers

As if snot wasn't enough to worry about . . . NITS?! After their adventures at the beach, Jack and the gang are looking forward to a well-earned rest. But the work of an alien-buster is never done! With rogue agent Bob still on the loose, and evil, gross aliens converging on Earth to steal our snot, there's plenty still to be done. And there's trouble closer to home, too—an outbreak of nits at Jack's school! But when Jack spots the new school nurse sticking out her tongue and eating a nit from a pupil's head, he realizes the two problems might just be linked!

Perinatal Mental Health: The EPDS Manual

Children's Books

Holden, Jeni

Henshaw, Carol

Action & Adventure

RCPsych Publications

Astronomical map makers and computer experts Richard Monhouse and John Cox make the night sky come to life in this unique 3-D book. Stars, gas clouds and galaxies leap form the page when you wear the special 3-D glasses.

3-D Star Maps: A View of the Universe in Three Dimensions

Harpercollins

Overkill (Peacock Books)

Penguin

To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century

History

World

Oxford University Press

There have been numerous books on genocide in the last twenty years, but To Kill a People offers a different approach. It is one of the few books on genocide expressly written for use in the college classroom. The book includes four case studies--the Armenian, Nazi, Cambodian, and Rwandan genocides--and substantive introductory and concluding chapters that contribute to two key debates within genocide studies: how to define "genocide" and place it in relation to other mass atrocities, and how to detect and analyze the social, historical, and cultural forces that produce genocidal violence. To Kill a People examines a vast range of the latest research, offers original interpretations and arguments, and draws upon the author's own archival research on three continents. The case studies are supplemented by primary readings and thought-provoking questions, and the book concludes with a chapter that synthesizes the lessons and issues that arise from the study of genocide. A chapter-length bibliographic essay further distinguishes this book and will be useful to students and experts alike.

To Kill A People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century

Standpoints: On the Warpath

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Fast Money Schemes: Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea (Framing the Global)

In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of 100 percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah Musingku, was a charismatic leader who promoted the scheme as a form of Christian mission and as the basis for establishing an independent kingdom. Fast Money Schemes uses in-depth interviews with investors, newspaper accounts, and participant observation to understand the scheme's appeal from the point of view of those who invested and lost, showing that organizers and investors alike understood the scheme as a way of accessing and participating in a global economy. John Cox delivers a "post-village" ethnography that gives insight into the lives of urban, middle-class Papua New Guineans, a group that is not familiar to US readers and that has seldom been a focus of anthropological interest. The book's concern with understanding the interweaving of morality, finance, and aspirations shared by a global cosmopolitan middle class has wide resonance beyond studies of Papua New Guinea and anthropology.

Reference

Indiana University Press

In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of 100 percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah Musingku, was a charismatic leader who promoted the scheme as a form of Christian mission and as the basis for establishing an independent kingdom. 
 Fast Money Schemes uses in-depth interviews with investors, newspaper accounts, and participant observation to understand the scheme's appeal from the point of view of those who invested and lost, showing that organizers and investors alike understood the scheme as a way of accessing and participating in a global economy. John Cox delivers a "post-village" ethnography that gives insight into the lives of urban, middle-class Papua New Guineans, a group that is not familiar to US readers and that has seldom been a focus of anthropological interest. The book's concern with understanding the interweaving of morality, finance, and aspirations shared by a global cosmopolitan middle class has wide resonance beyond studies of Papua New Guinea and anthropology.

South of the town of Gettysburg, Union troops take possession of the wooded heights at the tip of their "fishhook" defensive line. Defending Culp's Hill meant protecting the flank; it was the key to victory. Using official reports, letters, diaries, and memoirs, this book describes the struggle for the high ground and tells how and why the generals made their crucial decisions.

Culp's Hill: The Attack And Defense Of The Union Flank, July 2, 1863 (Battleground America Guides)

Americas

Da Capo Press

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