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Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting
This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Building a Roll-Off Roof Observatory: A Complete Guide for Design and Construction (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)
Almost every amateur astronomer who has taken the pursuit to its second level aspires to a fixed, permanent housing for his telescope, permitting its rapid and comfortable use avoiding hours of setting-up time for each observing session. A roll-off roof observatory is the simplest and by far the mos... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Building a Roll-Off Roof or Dome Observatory: A Complete Guide for Design and Construction (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)
Almost every practical astronomer eventually aspires to have a fixed, permanent observatory for his or her telescope. A roll-off roof or dome observatory is the answer for the most popular home observatory design. Building a Roll-Off or Dome Observatory will help you decide whether to embark on th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, Second Edition
New collection of stories from lesbian, gay and transgender foster and adoptive parents about the challenges and rewards of parenting children of all ages. Interviews with some of the first LGBT families to adopt or foster also gives unique insight into parenting adolescent and adult children with r... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream
American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Home and Community: Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme
Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena. Based on the AHRC... 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 -
Stretched Thin
The nation has difficult trade-offs in facing calls on Army forces for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This report describes the effects of large deployments on the Army's ability to provide forces for other contingencies, to ensure that soldiers are trained, and to continue to recruit and retai... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Advanced Signal Integrity for High-Speed Digital Designs
A synergistic approach to signal integrity for high-speed digital designThis book is designed to provide contemporary readers with an understanding of the emerging high-speed signal integrity issues that are creating roadblocks in digital design. Written by the foremost experts on the subject, it le... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto
by Stephen Greenblatt • Ines G. Zupanov • Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus • Heike Paul • Pal Nyiri • Friederike PannewickCultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Senior Trauma Patients: An Integrated Approach
This book describes a fully integrated approach to the management of elderly patients who are at risk of or suffer trauma, drawing on up-to-date knowledge from multiple specialties in recognition of the fact that the number and severity of comorbidities in this population requires expertise in many ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement
State borders regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples' chances to travel, work, and study across the globe. This book looks at how global mobility is defined by borders in 2011 in comparison to the 1970s. The authors trace the transformation of OECD-state borders in recent decades and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Europe’s Solution Factories
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Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Hong Kong Society: High-Definition Stories beyond the Spectacle of East-Meets-West (Hong Kong Studies Reader Series)
This book borrows the concept of “high-definition” from digital broadcasting to highlight our unique approach to Hong Kong society, which gives a sharper image than analyses. It intends to highlight contrasts with many common and taken-for-granted stories, myths and representations of Hong Kong— whi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The Social Faces of Humour: Practices and Issues (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1996, this volume is a sequel to Humour in Society: Resistance and Control which was edited by George E.C. Paton and Chris Powell. Now, seven years later, the culturally central nature of humour seems greater than ever. This collection of original essays critically assesses the p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis
This introduction to the world of statistics draws examples from a broad range of applications, including business, government, medicine, social sciences, biology, and everyday life. The first four chapters present a brief course in exploratory data analysis. The authors place special emphasis on me... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1983 -
I See Reality: Twelve Short Stories About Real Life
by James Preller • Jordan Sonnenblick • Kekla Magoon • Marcella Pixley • Stephen Emond • Heather Demetrios • Patrick Flores-Scott • Kristin Elizabeth Clark • Jason Schmidt • Jay Clark • Grace Kendall • Faith Erin Hicks • Trisha LeaverA collection of twelve original short stories by top authors exploring real issues for real teens.Through prose and comics alike, these heart-pounding short stories for young adults ask hard questions about a range of topics from sexuality and addiction to violence and immigration. Here is the perfe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense April 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2: An Anthology
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith.RESCUING HIS SECRET CHILDTrue North Heroesby Maggie K. BlackTrapped with armed hijackers aboard a speeding train in the northern Ontario wilderness, army corporal ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Understanding the Global Experience: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen
by Anthony Weston • Thomas Arcaro • Mathew Gendle • Duane Mcclearn • Laura Roselle • Jean Schwind • Kerstin Sorensen • Rosemary Haskell • Jeffrey C. Pugh • Robert G. Anderson • Ann J. Cahill • Chinedu Ocek" Eke • Lawrence A. Basirico • Jeffrey Pugh • Anne Bolin • Stephen Braye • Ann Cahill • Brian Digre • Ocek EkeThis cross-disciplinary anthology of contemporary global issues explores a number of topics and methodologies critical to developing responsible world citizenship. Globalism, Globalization, Culture, Environmentalism, Western Imperialism, Global Media and News; Global Media and News. For anyone wishi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Understanding the Global Experience: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen
by Anthony Weston • Robert Anderson • Thomas Arcaro • Mathew Gendle • Laura Roselle • Jean Schwind • Kerstin Sorensen • Rosemary Haskell • Jeffrey Pugh • Anne Bolin • Stephen Braye • Ann Cahill • Brian Digre • Chinedu Eke • Duane McClearnFirst Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
by Ambrose Bierce • Stephen King • Roald Dahl • Ray Bradbury • John Varley • Dan Simmons • Michael Lewis • Richard Matheson • Joe Hill • Tom Bissell • Bev Vincent • Cody Goodfellow • E. C. Tubb • Arthur Conan Doyle • David Schow • Peter Treemayne • James L. DickeyFasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
by Ambrose Bierce • Stephen King • Roald Dahl • Ray Bradbury • John Varley • Dan Simmons • Michael Lewis • Richard Matheson • Joe Hill • Tom Bissell • Bev Vincent • Cody Goodfellow • E. C. Tubb • Arthur Conan Doyle • David Schow • Peter Treemayne • James L. DickeyFasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent.This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018