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A HistoryWhat are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from        gods, faeries, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? This concise        introduction investigates stories and speculations about angels in religions old and        new, in art, literature, film, and the popular imagination....

The Second World War in the Lives of America&'s ChildrenLooking out a second-story window of her family&'s quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the...

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Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in carbon storage and exchange. Many of the human-induced pressures these regions are facing, such as fragmentation and deforestation, have been widely reported and well documented. However, there have been surprisingly few efforts to synthesize cutting-edge...

Accounting and the role of accountants have permeated modern societies. For the most part we have accepted the impartiality and objectivity of accounting and not recognized how accounting systems are embedded in a country's economic and legal framework, much of which is in turn shaped by political processes. This web of interactions results in...

In the first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure, John E. Joseph restores the full character and history of a man who is considered the founder of modern linguistics and whose ideas have influenced literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and virtually every other branch of humanities and the social sciences....