Author: Ian Hoskins
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Keywords: harbour, sydney
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2010-08-01
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1921410167
ISBN-13: 9781921410161
Ambitious and wide-ranging, this sweeping history of one of the world’s most recognized landmarks explores every aspect of Sydney Harbor through studies of its natural, human, and cultural history. Revealing why Sydney Harbor has been a defining element for the people who have lived around it since the time of the harbor clans, this volume examines the icon as a means of communication; a barrier; a resource to be exploited; and a place of beauty, spirit, and meaning. By chronicling the story of the waterway from the time of the first aboriginal communities and detailing contemporary debate
Author: Jim Hoskins
Publisher: Clear Horizon
Keywords: portal, websphere, accelerators, ibm, exploring
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2009-04-06
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0977356965
ISBN-13: 9780977356966
Increasingly, the "window" through which customers, business partners, and employees view a business is a computer screen. Expectations as to what a business provides in terms of online access to services through this window or portal are increasing rapidly. And it’s not enough to provide people with a consistent way of accessing the online tools they need to work, collaborate, or buy. Today’s businesses stand to achieve many benefits by implementing an enterprise-class portal that provides consistent access to customized tools that improve productivity, fuel innovation, and improv
Author: Craig Hoskins
Publisher: Dark Realm Press
Keywords: tales, tingly, twelve
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $14.49
ISBN-10: 0975264583
ISBN-13: 9780975264584
"Twelve Tingly Tales" is a mixture of fact and fiction. "Handyman," "John," "The Scientific Man," "Snake," "Toy Boy," and "Tough Guy," are complete works of the author’s imagination. "Noises," however, is a story from his youth - one that was related to Hoskins by his parents when he was in his mid-twenties. Craig’s father told him that his older brother and he slept through the ghostly brawl, and that he didn’t get really scared until their mother turned on their bedroom light and there was no one in our kitchen. Craig’s aunt related stories from her childhood u
Author: Janet Hoskins
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: asia, southeast, imagination, social, headhunting
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1996-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804725756
ISBN-13: 9780804725750
This book brings together material on headhunting from several Southeast Asia societies, examines its cultural contexts, and relates them to colonial history, violence, and ritual.
Author: Esther Hoskins Forbes
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: revere, paul, america
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1990-10-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0395249074
ISBN-13: 9780395249079
A vivid history of one of America’s best-loved patriots.
Author: Esther Hoskins Forbes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: classics, american, illustrated, tremain, johnny
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-10-26
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0395900115
ISBN-13: 9780395900116
Johnny Tremain, winner of the 1943 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was fifty years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War seen through the eyes of a boy who turns in his smithing tools to take up a rifle and fight for the liberty of America. Fourteen-year old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a bright future ahead of him, injures his hand in a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse-boy, ridi
Authors:Steven Hick, Edward F. Halpin, Eric Hoskins,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: internet, rights, human
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-11-11
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0333777336
ISBN-13: 9780333777336
The Internet is having an increasing influence on our lives, but what implications does it hold for human rights? How can it be used to promote and protect them? This book, written by an accomplished group of activists, writers, and academics, describes the development and use of the Internet for human rights, examines its impact across the world and upon various sectors of society, and discusses current and future trends in human rights promotion and protection.
