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Family and HIV/AIDS
by Willo Pequegnat • Carl BellThree decades into the HIV pandemic, the goals remain clear: reduce the number of infections,improve the health outcomes of those who are infected, and eliminate disparities in care. And one observation continues to gain credence: families are a powerful resource in preventing, adapting to, and copi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2012 -
Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of the Indricotheres
Written for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, this book introduces the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals inhabited Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls 6 feet long, stood 22 ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
UN Peacekeeping in Trouble: Peacekeepers' Views on the Limits and Possibilities of the United Nation in a Civil War-Like Conflict (Routledge Revivals)
by Michael Rose • Carl Bildt • Yasushi Akashi • Hans Hækkerup • Bertrand De Lapresle • Sadako Ogata • John M. Sanderson • Thorvald Stoltenberg • Lars-Erik Wahlgren • Wolfgang Biermann • Martin VadsetFirst published in 1998, this volume is a record, both by detailed statistical analysis and by personal account, of lessons learned. These lessons are only useful if they are shared to ensure that they are not relearned the hard way. Any soldier or statesman who is involved in Peacekeeping Operation... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1999 -
Port Towns and Urban Cultures
Despite the port's prominence in maritime history,its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role withineconomic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime andurban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book,the product of in... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
At The Water's Edge: Fish With Fingers, Whales With Legs, and How Life Came Ashore But Then Went Back To Sea
Everybody Out of the Pond: At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1998 -
A Death in China
A man's mission to solve a friend's murder makes him the next target in a deadly Chinese conspiracy in this gripping thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Carl Hiaasen Art history professor Tom Stratton hasn't seen his former mentor David Wang for years--until they unexpectedly run into ea... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1984 -
Powder Burn
New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen's gripping debut--now available as an ebookA witness to a gangland murder must outwit and outrun the vicious hit men on his trail--before it's too lateChris Meadows's charmed life as an up-and-coming architect has kept him far removed from Miami's blood... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2010 -
Trap Line
The gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen--now available as an ebook A Key West fishing captain takes on Florida's drug lords in an underground war that could cost him his freedom--and his life Though he is one of Key West's most skilled fishing captains, Breeze Albur... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 1982 -
Overcome Prejudice at Work (Harvard Medical School Guide)
by Carl C. Bell • Ranna ParekhAlmost all of us have been on the receiving end of prejudice, whether for our age, race, skin color, religion, weight or some other superficial reason. Being subtly ignored, disrespected or treated as a stereotype is hurtful and sometimes shocking, particularly when it comes from someone at work. In... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2012 -
The EC Archives: The Vault of Horror Volume 5
Dark Horse Comics brings even more macabrely majestic stories from the Vault! This terrifying tome has been digitally recolored--using Marie Severin's original palette as a guide--and features stories drawn by all-star comic artists Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Joe Orlando, Jack Davis, Jack Kam... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear Volume 5
This fifth and final volume of the EC Comics horror classic The Haunt of Fear collects a scary assortment of unforgettable frights!Featuring work from the legendary talents of Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, and Reed Crandall, this volume collects... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Physical Models: Their historical and current use in civil and building engineering design (Edition Bautechnikgeschichte / Construction History)
Physical models have been, and continue to be used by engineers when faced with unprecedented challenges, when engineering science has been non-existent or inadequate, and in any other situation when the engineer has needed to raise their confidence in a design proposal to a sufficient level to begi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook (Contemporary Legend Casebook Series)
Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook explores the practice of legend tripping, wherein individuals or groups travel to a site where a legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is a common informal practice depicted in epics, stories, novels, and film throughout both contempor... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Complex Biological Systems: Adaptation and Tolerance to Extreme Environments
Global climate change is one of the most serious and pressing issues facing our planet. Rather than a “silver bullet” or a single study that solves it, the study of global climate change is like a beach, with each contribution a grain of sand, gathered together as a whole to create a big picture, m... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
CIO Best Practices
by Joe Stenzel • Michael H. Hugos • Gary Cokins • Bill Flemming • Randy Betancourt • Karl D. Schubert • Alyssa Farrell • Jonathan HujsakEnabling Strategic Value with Information Technology Second EditionAnyone working in information technology today feels the opportunities for creating and enabling lasting value. The CIO helps define those opportunities and turn them into realities. Now in a Second Edition, CIO Best Practices is an ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
CIO Best Practices
by Paul R. • Joe Stenzel • Gary Cokins • Bill Flemming • Anthony Hill • Hugos • Michael H. • Niven • Schubert • Karl D. • Alan StrattonAre you a seasoned information technology (IT) executive looking for options available on leadership structures within your IT organization? Look no further. Now in a Second Edition, CIO Best Practices is an invaluable resource that provides a comprehensive, practical guide for CIOs and their execu... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2007 -
Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook
by Anne Phillips • Betsy Leondar-Wright • Robert Elliott • Nik Theodore • Chris Newman • Julian Matthews • Tim Sieber • Leontina Hormel • Carl Wilmsen • Natalicia R. Tracy • Lisa Marie Alatorre • Bilal Mafundi Ali • Jennifer Friedenbach • Chris Herring • Tj Johnston • Dilara Yarbrough • Peggy Kahn • Bill Hoynes • Jonathan Bix • Diane E. Bush • Victoria Breckwich Vásquez • Rich Heyman • Emily Timm • Pablo Alvarado • Bliss Requa-Trautz • Teófilo L Reyes • Christina Fletes-Romo • Veronica Avila • Gretchen Purser • Kathleen Sexsmith • Fabiola Ortiz Valdez • Rebecca Fuentes • Carly Fox • David A Gadsby • Robert C Chidester • Elliott Moffett • Lucinda Simpson • Chris Norden • Janne UnderrinerAcross the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based r... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020 -
Conservation Agriculture in Africa: Climate Smart Agricultural Development
by Neil Miller • Richard Bell • Patrick Gicheru • Trent W Bunderson • Zwide D Jere • Josef Kienzle • Erna Kruger • Peter Kuria • Simon Lugandu • Weldone Mutai • Brian G. Sims • Hendrik J. Smith • Christian Thierfelder • Reynolds K. Shula • Johann Strauss • Joseph Mureithi • Mohamed Annabi • Haithem Bahri • Mloza Banda • Gotlieb Basch • Alexandra Bot • Martin Bwalya • Hatem Cheikh M’hamed • Cornelius Chiduza • Cary Clark • Demba Diakhaté • Mazwi Dlamini • Sjoerd Duiker • Alioune Fall • Aymen Frija • Josiah Gitari • Tom Goddard • Emilio Gonzalez-Sanchez • Isaac Gura • Enamul Haque • Michel Havard • Zied Idoudi • Mohammad Jahiruddin • Onesmos Kitonyo • Phlorentin Philip Lagwen • Ngari Macharia • Temakholo Mathebula • Sixolise Mcinga • Alfred Micheni • Frank Mmbando • Rachid Moussadek • Pearson Nyari Mnkeni • Rachid Mrabet • Ndabhemeye Mulengera • Walter Mupangwa • R. M. Museka • Munyaradzi Mutenje • Lindah Muzangwa • Remmy Mwakimbwala • Andre A Nel • James Njeru • Rama Ngatoluwa • Phumzile Ngcobo • Isaiah Nyagumbo • Putso Nyathi • Ricardo Ralisch • Leonard Rusinamhodzi • John Sariah • Ibrahima Sarr • Peter Setimela • Richard Shetto • Dimas Soares Júnior • Peter Steward • Gerhardus Trytsman • Jean Twilingiyumukiza • Carl Wahl • Peter Waweru • Nouhoun ZampaligreTillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2023 -
Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts
by Matthew Burnett • Bill Pranty • Diederik Strubbe • Erik Matthysen • Matthieu Guillemain • Johan Elmberg • Iain Henderson • Ding Li Yong • Juan Carlos Reboreda • Alexander Cruz • Tim Adriaens • Craig R Allen • Michael L Avery • Alexander V Badyaev • Fabrice M Brescia • Sarah E Britton • Daniel M Brooks • Jessica L. Burnett • Corey T Callaghan • César Capinha • Jen Cele • Jameson F Chace • Jocelyn Champagnon • Alice Cibois • Andrew Close • Alyssa R Conn • Richard T Corlett • Adrian J Craig • Amy E Dunham • James A Eaton • David A Smith • Yvette C Smith • Mike W Eichholz • Cyril Eraud • Chris L Feare • Jason M Gleditsch • Guillaume G Gayet • Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito • Haley E Hanson • Frank Huysentruyt • John G Innes • Salit Kark • Michael R Leven • Ricardo J Lopes • Jean-Francois Maillard • Ndivhuwo Maligana • Chloe I Marcheli • Lynn B Martin • Blake A Mathys • Myriam E Mermoz • Jean-Yves Meyer • Dai K Morgan • Katherine G Ohman • Claire Pernollet • Murray A Potter • Eileen C Rees • Luís Reino • Joana Ribeiro • Peter A Robertson • Andrew M Rogers • Philip D Round • Joana Santana • Cavin T Shivambu • Neftalí Sillero • Preshnee Singh • Pär Söderquist • Karina L Speziale • Martin J Sullivan • Jean-Claude Thibault • Martin Thibault • Berndt J van Rensburg • Eric Vidal • Joseph R Waas • Amy-Leigh Wilson • Katherine Winston • Kevin A Wood • Pierre Yésou • Jaime E ZolikExamining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020