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Equal parts bildungsroman and purported literary artifact, The Age of Cities is -really about the age of innocence. A manuscript is discovered inside a hollowed-out home economics textbook: it is the story of a young man from a small town who comes to the big city at the height of the Cold War. His ... More

This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different way... More

Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows how the rise of formalized state networks of science in the mid nineteenth-century led to a constant tension between administrators and scientists.... More

Biomechanics is often overlooked when dealing with orthopedic injuries, whether regarding prevention or treatment, and practicing surgeons and surgeons-in-training may feel overwhelmed when referring to a book with a more complicated basic science approach. In order to make the subject clinically re... More

This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that range from empirical survey to conceptual modeling, reflecting the rich diversit... More

Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspe... More

When Joyce Bray accepted Jesus Christ into her life, she promised to follow wherever God would lead her. Little did she know, the time she spent ministering within the church was preparing her to live out her true destiny--to take the gospel outside the four walls of the church and into state prison... More

The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in Decomposition: Post-Disciplinary Performance a collection of great interest that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work. The essays move from the local to the global, from history to s... More

From International Thriller Writers comes Watchlist: two powerful novellas featuring the same thrill cast of characters in one major suspenseful package. The Chopin Manuscript and then The Copper Bracelet were a collaboration by some of the world's greatest thriller writers, including Lee Child, Jos... More

The fourth edition of this textbook provides an in-depth and engaging overview of community psychology, including its theoretical underpinnings and methods for conducting research and promoting change within communities. This book aims to get students, including nonpsychology majors, excited about t... More

Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory,... More

For thousands of years the immortal Gilgamesh has presided over the legendary Ur-Bar, witnessing history unfold from within its walls. Some days it is a rural tavern, others a fashionable wine shop. It may appear as a hidden speakeasy or take on the form of your neighborhood local. For most patrons ... More

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? What might they r... More

Ce que ne comprends pas, Pirate, c´est comment ils te collent en maths, toi qui estrès en avance dans la matière et dans la maîtrise du SYSTÈME BINAIRE parce que… tu n´as que des ZÉROS et des UNS!... More

Ceux qui auront lu “Salut, je suis Pirate” et “Que tu es bête, Pirate” reconnaîtront le style de l´auteur Lopetegi et la patte de Pirate. Les lecteurs qui ne sont pas très attirés par ce genre d´humour seront franchement et très positivement surpris par cette oeuvre. Il s´agit d´un scénario pour app... More

A banda desenhada relata as histórias que ocorrem diariamente a Guillermo Bandera Negra, apelidado de pirata, e vai narrando, através de vinhetas, cada situação que lhe acontece. Aparentemente, existem situações na vida do pirata que parecem não ter qualquer significado, mas todas elas ensinam ao me... More

O que não entendo, pirata, é como te podem chumbar a matemática, sendo que estás tão avançado na matéria e pela forma como dominas o sistema binário porque… só tens uns e zeros!... More

Quem tiver lido “Olá, sou o Pirata” e “Que tolo és... Pirata” conhecerá o estilo de Lopetegi tanto como o do seu personagem, Pirata. Quem não for especialmente fã do seu tipo de humor, ficará francamente - e positivamente - surpreendido com esta obra. Trata-se de um guia para aprender a desenhar ban... More

Ce que je ne comprends pas, Pirate, c´est comment ils te collent en maths, toi qui es très en avance dans la matière et dans la maîtrise du SYSTÈME BINAIRE parce que… tu n´as que des ZÉROS et des UNS !... More

Ulertzen ez dudana, Pirata, zera da, nola ez duzun gainditu matematika gaian hain aurreratua joanda eta SISITEMA BINARIARRA hain ondo menderatuta, zeren.... ZEROAK ETA BATAK besterik ez dituzu ateratzen!!!... More

“Kaixo, Pirata naiz” eta “Ze tuntuna zaren Pirata” irakurri dutenek Lopetegiren zein bere pertsonaiaren, Pirataren, estiloa ezagutuko dute. Bere humorera bereziki zaletuak ez direnak berriz, benetan -eta era positibo batetan- harrituta geratuko dira lan honekin. Komikiak nola marraztu azaltzen duen ... More

Quando Jack, o Estripador, aterrorizou Londres em 1888, ele desencadearia um mistério quando desaparecesse e sua série de assassinatos violentos e terríveis terminasse com a mesma rapidez com que começavam, deixando um dos mais antigos crimes não resolvidos do mundo em seu rastro. Agora, em 1907, o ... More

Este libro es la culminación de toda una vida sobre sus dos experiencias personales que tratan de los efectos del trastorno de estrés postraumático (TEPT), tanto en el Ejército como en las líneas del frente de la Fuerza Policiaca. Fueron estas experiencias las que lo llevaron hacia su ocupación actu... More