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  • Audiobook

    Manhattan Phoenix

    The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York

    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 51 min

    In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it "spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible—the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and New Jersey." The fire Disosway witnessed devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Manhattan Phoenix

    The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York

    by Daniel S Levy ...
    Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. On a freezing December night almost two centuries ago, a fire erupted in lower Manhattan. The city's inhabitants, though accustomed to blazes in a town with so many wooden structures, a spotty water supply, and a decentralized fire department, looked on in horror at the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Mexico

    Paradoxes of Stability and Change

    by Daniel Levy ...
    In the four years since the first edition was published, Mexico's political system—exceptional among Latin American nations—has been severely tested. The administration has been struggling to cope with the effects of a depressed market for oil, the demands of an increasingly vocal opposition, and the foreign policy challenges posed by violence in Central America. In this timely second edition of a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Arrow-Pushing in Organic Chemistry

    An Easy Approach to Understanding Reaction Mechanisms

    Organic chemistry is required coursework for degrees in life, food, and medical sciences. To help the students discouraged by the belief that this topic cannot be mastered without significant memorization, Arrow Pushing in Organic Chemistry serves as a handy supplement for understanding the subject.• Includes new chapters, an expanded index, and additional problem sets complete with detailed ... Read more

    $55.00 USD

  • A World of Private Higher Education

    A World of Private Higher Education is the definitive treatment of a sector accounting for a third of the world's 200 million higher education enrolment--yet remaining largely unknown even to scholars of higher education and widely mis-characterized when it is considered by stakeholders or the general public. Beyond the eye-popping numbers, several inter-related thematic findings regarding the ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Private Higher Education in Asia

    Changing the Dynamics of Privateness and Publicness

    Series series Global Realities in Private Higher Education
    As Asia alone holds the majority of the world’s fast-expanding private higher education (PHE), this volume probes the character, diversity, and significance of Asian PHE.Across seven national case studies, astride both developing and developed countries, older and newer HE systems, in entrenched democracies to creakier ones, to Communist rule, the volume systematically addresses a common PHE ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Trust, Safety, and the Internet We Share

    Multistakeholder Insights

    ***Trust, Safety, and the Internet We Share: Multistakeholder Insights***is both an informative and provocative overview of online trust and safety that will influence how the trust and safety space evolves and how trust and safety decisions are made. The book covers key aspects of the field, focuses on underrepresented voices, and explains how organizations in the field came together and what ... Read more

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  • Public Policy and Private Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

    Series series Global Realities in Private Higher Education
    This edited collection takes a structured and systematic approach to exploring the policymaking and policy impacts that shape private higher education (PHE) across the globe.Although the rapid PHE expansion to a third of total global enrollment has owed much to a lack of initial government regulation, continued expansion (along with occasional stagnation or decline) results from complex interplays ... Read more

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  • A Teaching Artist's Companion

    How to Define and Develop Your Practice

    by Daniel Levy ...
    You are an artist, living the artist's life. But you also want to make a difference in the world as a teaching artist. You know how to pursue excellence in your art form; how can you pursue excellence in teaching artistry? A Teaching Artist's Companion: How to Define and Develop Your Practice is a how-to reference for veteran and beginning teaching artists alike. Artist-educator Daniel Levy has ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Human Rights and Memory

    Series series Essays on Human Rights
    Memories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance lies in their ability to bridge the universal and the particular—the universality of human values and the particularity of memories rooted in local human experiences. In Human Rights and Memory, Levy and Sznaider trace the growth of human rights discourse since ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Congenital Heart Disease Intervention, An Issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics

    Series Book Volume 8-1 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    Guest edited by Dr. Daniel Levi, this issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics will cover several key areas of interest related to Congenital Heart Disease Intervention. This issue is one of four selected each year by our series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Matthew Price of Scripps Translational Science Center. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: Current Transcatheter Approaches for ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Interpreting Modernity

    Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor

    There are few philosophical questions to which Charles Taylor has not devoted his attention. His work has made powerful contributions to our understanding of action, language, and mind. He has had a lasting impact on our understanding of the way in which the social sciences should be practised, taking an interpretive stance in opposition to dominant positivist methodologies.Taylor's powerful ... Read more

    $39.59 USD