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Women in the Story of Jesus: The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
This volume gathers the writings of thirty-one nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels—Mary and Martha, Anna, the Samaritan woman at the well, Herodias and Salome, Mary Magdalene, and more. Retrieving and analyzing rarely read works by Christina Rossetti, Harriet Beecher Stow... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Women in the Story of Jesus: The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
This volume gathers the writings of thirty-one nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels—Mary and Martha, Anna, the Samaritan woman at the well, Herodias and Salome, Mary Magdalene, and more. Retrieving and analyzing rarely read works by Christina Rossetti, Harriet Beecher Stow... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Wall Street Diet: The Surprisingly Simple Weight Loss Plan for Hardworking People Who Don't Have Time to Diet
The Wall Street Diet helps readers lose weight, keep it off, and still keep up with their busy lives.Heather Bauer knows there aren't enough hours in the day for you to focus on the details of a complicated weight loss plan. A registered dietitian with a thriving practice in New York City, her clien... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Resilient Cities, Second Edition: Overcoming Fossil Fuel Dependence
What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficient transportation systems, access to healthy green space, and lower-carbon buildings for all citizens?Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1984 -
The Loner
by Ester WierThe boy with no name doesn't remember his past; all he knows is that he has to survive. Staying with anyone who'll take him, he gives all his wages for food and a place to sleep. Then he finds a loving home and realizes he is not a loner.<P><P> Newbery Medal Honor book... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
Comparative Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation (Legisprudence Library #8)
This book is the first in the world to provide a cross-national, comparative exploration of omnibus legislation. It contributes to the global debate over omnibus legislation and offers comprehensive, thorough and multifaceted coverage that concerns the fields of legislation and legisprudence, compar... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
The authors of this spirited book don't believe that oblivion is necessarily the destiny of urban areas. Instead, they believe that intelligent planning and visionary leadership can help cities meet the impending crises, and look to existing initiatives in cities around the world. Rather than respon... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems
by Betsy Beyer • Heather Adkins • Paul Blankinship • Piotr Lewandowski • Ana Oprea • Adam StubblefieldCan a system be considered truly reliable if it isn't fundamentally secure? Or can it be considered secure if it's unreliable? Security is crucial to the design and operation of scalable systems in production, as it plays an important part in product quality, performance, and availability. In this b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
by Brad Barr • Heather Leslie • Karen Mcleod • Maria de los Angeles Carvajal • Lilian Lilian Naia Alessa Alessa • Marco Marco Octavio Aburto AburtoConventional management approaches cannot meet the challenges faced by ocean and coastal ecosystems today. Consequently, national and international bodies have called for a shift toward more comprehensive ecosystem-based marine management. Synthesizing a vast amount of current knowledge, Ecosystem-B... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Encouraging Openness
This volume features forty-two essays written in honor of Joseph Agassi. It explores the work and legacy of this influential philosopher, an exciting and challenging advocate of critical rationalism. Throughout six decades of stupendous intellectual activity, Agassi called attention to rationality... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition: Knowledge and Theory
by Mike Shepherd • Jan Fook • Steven Walker • Alastair Gibson • Rory Lynch • Mark Doel • Joyce Lishman • David Humphrey • Brigid Daniel • Jane Aldgate • Daphne Statham • Janine Bolger • Neil Gibson • Peter Marsh • Michael Sheppard • Heather Munro • Patricia Kearney • Pauline Hardiker • Rob Mackay • Amy Richert • Fiona Feilberg • Hazel Kelmshall • Judith Brearley • Steven Shardlow • Geraldine Macdonald • Amy Clark • Ian Fisk • Mary Barker • Colin Keenan • Alan Barr • Sheila Slessor • Terry Maclean • Robert BuckleyThis fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care. It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment model... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Health Humanities Reader
by Mark Vonnegut • Audrey Shafer • Martha Stoddard Holmes • Howard Brody • Jeff Nisker • Bradley Lewis • Rosemarie Tong • Ian Williams • Sander L. Gilman • Rafael Campo • Daniel Goldberg • Michael Rowe • Thomas R. Cole • Alice Dreger • Joseph N. Straus • Jonathan M. Metzl • Arthur W. Frank • E. Ann Kaplan • Rebecca Hester • John Lantos • Shelley Wall • Alan Bleakley • Marjorie Levine-Clark • Michael Sappol • Mark Clark • Professor Therese Jones • Professor Delese Wear • Professor Lester D. Friedman • David H. Flood • Rhonda L. Soricelli • Lisa Keränen • Martin F. Norden • Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni • Felicia Cohn • Martha Montello • Amy Haddad • Rebecca Garden • Jack Coulehan • Professor Bernice Hausman • Gretchen A. Case • Allen Peterkin • Susan M. Squier • Sayantani DasGupta • Maren Grainger-Monsen • Benjamin Saxton • Jerald Winakur • Anne Hudson Jones • Tod Chambers • Raymond C. Barfield • Lucy Selman • Jeffrey P. Bishop • Catherine Belling • Paul Root Wolpe • Professor Allison B. Kavey • Julie M. Aultman • Michael Blackie • Erin Gentry Lamb • Jay BaruchOver the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022