Titles starting with K from Gulls Nest Books

Prentice Hall, 2003. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Emphasizing the teacher's roles as guide and strategist, this textbook provides first-time teachers with examples, activities, cases, and suggestions for instructional practice. Chapters address the role of reflection in teaching, the creation of a classroom community, social responsibility and school work habits, models of guidance, learner responsibility, instructional communication, classroom applications, cognitive strategy instruction, and model... more information

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Otago University Press, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Published in honor of the centenary of the Hocken Collections' Deed of Trust in 1907 that began with items donated by Thomas Morland Hocken to the U. of Otago, this volume catalogs 200 items from the thousands held in the collection. These include books, manuscripts, sheet music, paintings, and other documents relating to New Zealand, the Pacific, and Antarctica, from the seventeenth century to the present day, with a focus on southern New Z... more information

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Basic Books, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Based on original sources and interviews as well as archival research, this text tells the story of Dora Diamant, who was Franz Kafka's last mistress. Best known for burning many of Kafka's papers after his death, Diamant experienced a number of dramatic events in her lifetime, including evading the Gestapo in Berlin, escaping Stalin's purges in Russia, and surviving the bombing of London. Kathi Diamant (no relation to Dora) is Director of the ... more information

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Basic Books, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Based on original sources and interviews as well as archival research, this text tells the story of Dora Diamant, who was Franz Kafka's last mistress. Best known for burning many of Kafka's papers after his death, Diamant experienced a number of dramatic events in her lifetime, including evading the Gestapo in Berlin, escaping Stalin's purges in Russia, and surviving the bombing of London. Kathi Diamant (no relation to Dora) is Director of the ... more information

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Saqi Books, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Gibran (1883-1931) considered The Prophet (1923) his magnum opus, so it is not surprising that readers of this still-popular book of wisdom may be unaware of other achievements of this Lebanese-American poet/artist/Arab nationalist. Drawing on access to unpublished letters and manuscripts, Njjar (a Lebanese literary critic) traces influences on his mystic, humanistic philosophy and contribution to Arabic poetic prose. Translated from the French, the biograp... more information

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Editions Rodopi, 1999. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Houtzagers, for whom no credentials are cited, offers a synchronic description of a Croatian immigrant dialect spoken in and around the Austrian-Hungarian border region, specifically in the two villages of the title. The dialect is unique in being the only surviving Kajkavian dialect that was separated from its original surroundings as early as the 16th century, and there are indications that these original surroundings were located somewhat east of wh... more information

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Praeger Security International, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. "Kalashnikov culture," named after the widely available automatic assault rifles, was a term first used in the late 1980s by Pakistani officials to describe the social and political violence of the North West Frontier Province. As the late Benazir Bhutto and other officials defined it, it mixed tribal discontent, urban political factionalism, organized crime, corruption, drugs, and the proliferation of light military weapons. W... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Nine papers from an April 1990 conference on the history of philosophy at Leeds, England discuss German philosopher Kant (1724-1804) and post-Kantian philosophy of the 19th century. The contributors, mostly from Scotland or outside Britain, ponder such topics as art and genius in Kant's aesthetic, the early reception of Kant's thought in England, and aspects of his influence on British theology. Only names are indexed. The clothbound... more information

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Univ. Press of America, 1997. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. An introduction to Kant's critical thinking on the question of knowledge. The author explores Kant's methodology in which everything which humans experience must be treated as phenomena, for it is impossible for human knowledge to have one to one correspondence with the objects of knowledge. Kant's "Copernican revolution" thus becomes an examination of what mind can know before objects: reason. (©1998 Book News, Inc., ... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The Continent and Britain fought over more than geography, politics and empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their respective philosophers battled over rationalism (the Continental school) and empiricism (the British favorite). Upon Kant's publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, the conflict appeared to be resolved, which did not lead to a lasting peace but at least reconciled the virtues of rationalism to the ... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The Continent and Britain fought over more than geography, politics and empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Their respective philosophers battled over rationalism (the Continental school) and empiricism (the British favorite). Upon Kant's publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, the conflict appeared to be resolved, which did not lead to a lasting peace but at least reconciled the virtues of rationalism to the ... more information

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Greenwood Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Unlike many hip-hop stars affiliated with gangs, Kanye West was raised by parents who were university professors; at the age of 10, he spent a school year in China on a trip with his Fulbright Scholar mother. Written for general readers in high school and up and illustrated with b&w photos, this biography of West describes his early life, his education, his personal and professional influences, and his struggles and accomplishments, including an MT... more information

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Greenwood Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Unlike many hip-hop stars affiliated with gangs, Kanye West was raised by parents who were university professors; at the age of 10, he spent a school year in China on a trip with his Fulbright Scholar mother. Written for general readers in high school and up and illustrated with b&w photos, this biography of West describes his early life, his education, his personal and professional influences, and his struggles and accomplishments, including an MT... more information

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Von Eyben (ESL, Pasadena City College) explores the work of Danish author Karin Michaëlis (1872-1950), including the novels Justine, Bogen om Kaerlighed (The Book about Love), 30 Dages Laan (The 30-Day Loan), and Lillemor (Little Mother). She identifies a number of themes in Michaëlis' writing: the way in which female sexuality is lived out, the conflict between socially- prescribed behavior and the way the individual woman eith... more information

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2003. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Kim (Christian theology, Pyongtaek U., Korea) explores how Barth's Church Dogmatics and its Christocentric ecclesiology was indigenized and is still received on the peninsula. He describes the unique relationship between Christianity and Confucianism in Korea, investigates whether Barth's theology of mission accounts for different cultures and religions, and argues that his theology can be indigenized despite its typically European co... more information

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K.P. Bagchi & Co., 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The Kashmir insurrection--a case where decolonization has left an area where ethnic loyalty group (nation) and political state are not coterminous--is the author's first focus. The Kashmiri example is then used to look at the situation in Sindh (often spelled Sind and located in southeast Pakistan). Such antagonisms in subcontinental Asia differ from those in the industrialized North, writes Das (history, U. of Calcutta), because in the North... more information

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Orient Longman, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Puri, a journalist based in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, endeavors to explain the historical roots and causes for the militant insurgency that exploded in his state in 1990. He argues that the Indian central government, which had promised regional autonomy within the framework of the nation state at the time of independence, eventually abandoned that notion, deepening alienation, while simultaneously the state government denied autonomy to the... more information

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Irish Academic Press, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Ó Hógartaigh (medicine, Victoria U. of Wellington, New Zealand) presents a biography of Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955), a prominent, controversial female physician who worked with Dublin's poor, established a hospital for infants, and was a political activist involved with Sein Féin. Dr. Lynn's life offers a lens on changes in the medical profession, views on public health, suffragism, and Irish politics during this period.... more information

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Ibidem-Verlag, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This study analyzes the factors behind the economic performance of Kazakhstan's industrial sectors. Ketenci (economics, Yeditepe U., Turkey) begins by analyzing how particular industries were located during the Soviet era according to the wider needs of the Soviet economy and how perestroika impacted the administrative managerial system. He then looks at location trends of the industrial performance of Kazakhstan following the collapse of the Soviet ... more information

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South-Western College Pub., 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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