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Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies
Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies is a collection of new essays by recognised experts from around the world on various aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies. Essays are grouped in five distinct but interconnected sections focusing respectively on: (I) the theory... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Persuasive Communication: How Audiences Decide
This updated and expanded edition of Persuasive Communication offers a comprehensive introduction to persuasion and real-world decision making. Drawing on empirical research from social psychology, neuroscience, business communication research, cognitive science, and behavioral economics, Young reve... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Handbook of Qualitative Health Research for Evidence-Based Practice
This progressive reference redefines qualitative research as a crucial component of evidence-based practice and assesses its current and future impact on healthcare. Its introductory section explains the value of sociocultural context in case conceptualization, and ways this evidence can be integra... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Counseling and Action: Toward Life-Enhancing Work, Relationships, and Identity
Engaging in action is at the heart of our most meaningful experiences. And given the fast-paced, goal-driven nature of modern society, engagement in action is also central to how we perceive ourselves. Action has traditionally been viewed as an end product of the counseling process, but now a bold... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Reading Empirical Research Studies: The Rhetoric of Research
For the most part, those who teach writing and administer writing programs do not conduct research on writing. Perhaps more significantly, they do not often read the research done by others because effective reading of articles on empirical research requires special knowledge and abilities. By and l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
Transition to Adulthood
by Richard A. Young • Anat Zaidman-Zait • Ladislav Valach • Sheila K. Marshall • José F. Domene • Matthew D. GrahamThe transition to adulthood involves, for most individuals, moving from school to work, establishment of long-term relationships, possibly parenting, and a number of other psychosocial transformations. Now more than ever, there is a concern within popular and research literature about children growi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Drug Discrimination
Drug discrimination: a practical guide to its contributions to the invention of new chemical entities and evaluations of new or known pharmacological agentsDrug discrimination can be described as a "drug detection" procedure that uses a pharmacologically active agent as the subjective stimulus. Alth... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
James E. Carter: 39th President Of The United States
Follows the life of Jimmy Carter, including his childhood, education, employment, political career, and term of presidency. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1989 -
Though Bombs May Fall: The Extraordinary Story of George Rue, Missionary Doctor to Korea
An inspirational story of tenacity and self-sacrifice. Though Bombs May Fall is the extraordinary story of George Henry Rue, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary doctor who left a lucrative medical practice in the U.S. to serve the Korean people during the war years. It is a story that takes you into ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Railway Security: Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters
This book provides an overview and assessment of the security risks, both manmade and natural, facing the railways and rail networks. Railroads face significant threats from disasters, but with situational awareness and coordinated effort these can often be substantially minimized. Transportation as... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract
Self-expandable stents were initially placed for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases but now play an integral role in the relief of benign and malignant obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract and biliary system. Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract will familiarize the reade... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Data and Decision Sciences in Action: Proceedings of the Australian Society for Operations Research Conference 2016 (Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering)
Offering a concise and multidisciplinary reference guide to the state of the art in Australian operations research, this book will be of great value to academics working in many disciplines associated with operations research, as well as industrial practitioners engaged in planning, scheduling and l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Essentials of Forensic Accounting (AICPA)
Essentials of Forensic Accounting Essentials of Forensic Accounting is an authoritative resource covering a comprehensive range of forensic accounting topics. As a foundation review, a reference book, or as preparation for the Certification in Financial Forensics (CFF®) Exam, this publication will p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Periprosthetic Fractures of the Hip and Knee: Surgical Techniques and Tips
This up-to-date, comprehensive yet concise guide for orthopedic surgeons covers the salient points of anatomy and operative approaches for the management of periprosthetic fractures of the hip and knee: breaks in bone that occur around the components or implants of a total joint replacement. The ope... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
X-ray Imaging of the Soil Porous Architecture
The advent of X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) as a tool for the soil sciences almost 40 years ago has revolutionised the field. Soil is the fragile, thin layer of material that exists above earth’s geological substrates upon which so much of life on earth depends. However a major limitation to our un... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Running Behavioral Studies With Human Participants: A Practical Guide
Running Behavioral Experiments With Human Participants: A Practical Guide provides a concrete, practical roadmap for the implementation of experiments and controlled observation using human participants. Covering both conceptual and practical issues critical to implementing an experiment, the book i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
by Tim O'Reilly • Larry Wall • Eric S. Raymond • Chris Dibona • Mark Stone • Sam Ockman • Open Source Organization • Brian Behlendorf • Scott Bradner • Jim Hamerly • Kirk Mckusick • Tom Paquin • Bruce Perens • Richard Stallman • Michael Tiemann • Linus Torvalds • Paul Vixie • Bob YoungThrough essays that explain how the movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going. A powerful vision from the movement's spiritual leaders, this book reveals the mysteries of how open development builds better software and how businesses can leverage freely available software for a competit... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Adventures in Shondaland: Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
by Stephanie Young • Vincent Pham • Tina Harris • Melissa Ames • Mark P Orbe • Michaela D.E. Meyer • Rachel Alicia Griffin • Richard G Jones • Emily Vajjala • Joan Faber McAlister • Jessica L Furgerson • Jennifer Billinson • Jade Petermon • Shadee Abdi • Bernadette Calafell • Myra Washington • Mary Ingram-Waters • Leslie Balderas • Sean SwensonShonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work is atte... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Cyst Nematodes
by Maurice Moens • Roland N. Perry • Victoria Taylor • John T. Jones • Godelieve Gheysen • Jon Pickup • Matthew A. Back • James G. Baldwin • George W. Bird • Vivian C. Blok • David J. Chitwood • Laura Cortada • Matthias Daub • Keith G. Davies • Walter S. Jong • Loes J.M.F. Nijs • Sebastian Eves-van Akker • Aska Goverse • Ivan G. Grove • Professor Johannes Hallmann • Zafar A. Handoo • Catherine J. Lilley • Horacio D. Lopez-Nicora • Edward P. Masler • Melissa G. Mitchum • Sharad Mohan • Terry L. Niblack • Adrian M.I. Roberts • Andrea M. Skantar • Geert Smant • Richard W. Smiley • Sergei A Subbotin • Gregory L. Tylka • Lieven Waeyenberge • Inga A. ZasadaThis book is a compendium of current information on all aspects of these economically important parasites. It provides comprehensive coverage of their biology, management, morphology and diagnostics, in addition to up-to-date information on molecular aspects of taxonomy, host-parasitic relationships... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set): From the Global to the Individual
by James Gilligan • Gwen Adshead • Kate Rothwell • Grace Lee • Estela Welldon • Christopher Scanlon • John Adlam • Anna Motz • Alex Maguire • Julian Manley • Simon Hackett • David W. Jones • Matt Killingsworth • Thilo Kroll • Lucy Neal • Tilman Kluttig • Bandy Lee • John L Young • Annie Stopford • Gardnel Carter • Gina Donoso • Gloria Uwizeye • Efrat Even-Tzur • Ismail Karolia • Klaus Hoffmann • Barry Richards • Aileen Schloerb • Hayley Berman • Reinmar Du Bois • Maggie McAlister • Clinton Van der Walt • Zoe Berko • Sarita Bose • Martha Ferrito • Martina Mindang • Robyn Timoclea • Deborah J. Cohan • Claude Barbre • Jill Barbre • Tamsin Cottis • Andrew Ware • Gerrard Drennan • James S. VrettosThis is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent state... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
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