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Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005
Making Waves unearths the successive, worldwide waves of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world from the eighteenth century to the present. It challenges us to rethink not only our limited conceptions of social movements but the very character and possibilities of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story
A Prophet with Honor celebrates one of the 20th century’s great luminaries. This engaging and comprehensive book will give both religious and secular readers a better understanding of the most successful evangelist in modern history, and the movement he led for over fifty years.This book makes a vit... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Prophet With Honor, Kids Edition: The Billy Graham Story (ZonderKidz Biography)
His Message Would Be Heard Around The WorldNo one guessed he would change the world. A simple country farm boy once prayed that God would use him…and prayed…and prayed. And God did use him, beyond what he ever imagined. He grew into a man who would lead millions of people to Christ, a man who would ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Schools That Deliver: Australia/uk Version
Real change and real results for your school In schools that deliver, we know our real work and create an aligned culture of authentic action and delivery. This book shares processes designed to deliver results that matter to each school community, drawing on research and the practical experience o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Schools That Deliver: Australia/uk Version
Real change and real results for your school In schools that deliver, we know our real work and create an aligned culture of authentic action and delivery. This book shares processes designed to deliver results that matter to each school community, drawing on research and the practical experience o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
From Toussaint To Tupac
Transcending geographic and cultural lines,From Toussaint to Tupacis an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness. At its core, black internationalism is a struggle against oppression, whether manifested in slavery, colonialism, o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Billy Graham - Su vida, su ministerio
Este libro celebra a una de las grandes luminarias del siglo veinte. Este libro cautivador y comprehensivo da a los lectores religiosos o seculares una mejor comprensión del evangelista más exitoso de la historia moderna, y del movimiento que él dirigió por más de cincuenta años.El libro hace una co... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2014 -
Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy (17th Edition) (2016 Presidential Election Edition) (AP Edition)
As Politics and government matter to everyone, Government in America explains how policy choices make a difference and shape the kind of country in which we live and how these choices affect the taxes we pay, the wars we fight, the quality of our environment, and many other critical aspects of our l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Scholars in the Changing American Academy
As the nature of education generally, and higher education in particular, changes irrevocably, it is crucial to understand the informed opinions of those closest to the institutions of learning. This book, based on a survey of academics in 19 nations and conducted by leading global scholars, is a th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation In Comparative And Historical Perspective
The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer a state-of-the-art survey of the new fiscal sociology that is emerging at the inte... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Reclaiming the Game
by William G. Bowen • James L. Shulman • Martin A. Kurzweil • Colin G. Campbell • Susanne C. Pichler • Sarah A. LevinIn Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about hi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Biology and Conservation of Martens, Sables, and Fishers: A New Synthesis
Mammals in the genus Martes are mid-sized carnivores of great importance to forest ecosystems. This book, the successor to Martens, Sables, and Fishers: Biology and Conservation, provides a scientific basis for management and conservation efforts designed to maintain or enhance the populations and h... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Fire on Earth
Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as integral, unique, or ancient.Fire on Earth put... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Preventing Black-Market Trade in Nuclear Technology
Every nuclear weapons program for decades has relied extensively on illicit imports of nuclear-related technologies. This book offers the most detailed public account of how states procure what they need to build nuclear weapons, what is currently being done to stop them, and how global efforts to p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Saving Water in a Desert City (Routledge Revivals)
This book was stimulated by and sets out to analyse a political battle over water pricing by a municipal system. Originally published in 1984, this title provides improved methods for demand function estimation where block rates are involved, suggests procedures for rational pricing of municipal wat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1984 -
Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional
Focusing on single-system designs, Evaluating Practice, 6/e presents clear guidelines on conceptualizing and measuring problems, developing practice-oriented evaluation designs, understanding and analyzing data, and ethical guidelines for practice evaluation.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Social Capital and Community Well-Being
This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It defines critical concepts of so... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives #10)
School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children's academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being. And the time when many children typically have the least adult supervision - immediately after school - is also the time that they are at the highest risk to act as... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Terrestrial Mammal Conservation
Terrestrial Mammal Conservation provides a thorough summary of the available scientific evidence of what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of all of the conservation actions for wild terrestrial mammals across the world (excluding bats and primates, which are covered in separate synops... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Diversifying STEM: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
by H. Richard Milner • Abiola Farinde-Wu • Julius Davis • Christopher C. Jett • Kecia M. Thomas • Ebony O. McGee • William H. Robinson • Lorenzo DuBois Baber • Robbin Chapman • Monica F Cox • Krystal Madden • Priscila Pereira • Sara Rezvi • Victoria F Trinder • Danny Bernard Martin • Jomo W Mutegi • Dorinda J. Andrews • Dara Naphan-Kingery • Stacey Houston • Gabriela León-Pérez • Lindsay Brown • Alissa M Manolescu • Laura Provolt • Aspen RobinsonResearch frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars. The essays cover three main areas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Transcriptomics in Entomological Research
by Patrick Von Aderkas • May R Berenbaum • Bernarda Calla • Joanna C. Chiu • Jürgen Ehlting • Melanie Gee • Aman Gill • Martin Hasselmann • Matthew Huff • Brian R Johnson • Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes • William E Klingeman • Kyle M. Lewald • Shanlin Liu • Antonino Malacrinò • Guanliang Meng • Yoonseong Park • Amber Rose Paulson • Steven J Perlman • Ratnasri Pothula • Sampurna Sattar • Margaret E Staton • James P Tauber • Gary A Thompson • Will Kipling • Chengran ZhouBridging the gap between genome and phenotype, the transcriptome is a molecular-level snapshot of the act of living. Transcriptomics shows which genes are expressed into proteins in a specific tissue of a specific organism at a specific time and condition. This book gives an account of the extraordi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
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: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Iatrogenicity: Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
by Gan-Xin Yan • Martin Borggrefe • Ihor B. Gussak • John B. Kostis • Ibrahim Akin • Giovanni Campanile • Arshad Jahangir • Willam J Kostis • Gloria Bachmann • George L Bakris • Joseph A Barone • Stefan Baumann • Tobias Becher • Michael Behnes • Edo Y Birati • Chrysoula Boutari • Haiming Cao • Kyriakos Dimitriadis • Jeanne Dobrzynski • Professor Michael Doumas • Christina Dosch • Christie Fleetwood • Aatish Garg • Miriam Gonzalez • Guido Grassi • Maria Gussak • Yuya Hagwira • Evelyn R Hermes-DeSantis • Kostantinos Imprialos • Vibha Iyengar • Ahad Jahangir • Mariell Jessup • Stephen K Jones • Rigas G Kalaitzidis • Ariba Khan • D Kostantinidis • John B Kostis • William J Kostis • Rajeesh Kumar • Jurgen Kushyck • Pauline Lerma • Volker Liebe • Dirk Loznitzer • Thomas Makris • Michael Malone • Giusseppe Mancia • Jawahar L. Mehta • Aalep Narichania • Michael S Nolledo • Vasilios Papademetriou • Theano Papvassiliu • Neela Patel • Hakan Paydak • Vj Periyakoil • Nancy Phillips • Naga Venkata Pothineni • Magaret Rees • Susanne Roger • Boris Rudic • Teodoro V Santiago • Gino Servalle • Win K Shen • Kostantinos Stravopoulos • Sulaiman Sultan • A Jamil Tajik • Costas Thomopoulos • Kostantinos P Tsioufis • Erol Tulumen • Ioannis N Vogiatzakis • Thomas J Watson • Gao-Xin Yan • Yasuhiro YokoyamaIatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge pu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Barbara Jones • Paul Coleman • Anna Dean • David Waltner-Toews • Michael Clarke • Iain J. Gordon • Rea Tschopp • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Karin Hediger • Mahamat Bechir • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Marcel Tanner • Solveig Danielsen • Professor Craig Stephen • Esther Schelling • Angela Cassidy • Martin Bunch • Maxine Whittaker • Dennis C Turner • Abigail Woods • Michael Bresalier • Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky • Wiku Adisasmito • Cécile Aenishaenslin • Seid Mohamed Ali • Ian Allen • Silvia Alonso • Vilda Amir • Maurizio Aragrande • Sara Babo Martins • Zolzaya Baljinnyam • William Bazeyo • Andrea Beetz • Jeffrey Bender • Mónica Berger-González • Benjamin Blair • Barry Blakley • Massimo Canali • Nakul Chitnis • Guéladio Cissé • Kathryn C. Conlon • Lisa Crump • Soledad Cuevas • Paula Dominguez-Salas • Colleen Duncan • Kaylee Errecaborde • Patricia Farnese • Thomas Fries • Samuel Fuhrimann • Christa A. Gallagher • Ratna B. Gurung • Felix Hafner • Barbara Häsler • Jan Hattendorf • Joldoshbek Kasymbekov • Julia S. Lankton • Huong Le Thi • Henrik Lerner • Michael Mahero • Stephanie Mauti • Céline Mbilo • Hélène Meier • Mary Elizabeth Miranda • Vi Nguyen-Viet • Brigit Obrist • Peter Odermatt • Anna Okello • Christopher A.L. Oura • Katharine Pelican • Kristina Pelikan • Phuc Pham-Duc • Sue Pollock • Sangay Rinchen • Karma Rinzin • Felix Roth • Johanne Saint-Charles • Alexandra Shaw • Jonathan M. Sleeman • Woutrina Smith • Keira Spinner • Katharina D. Stärk • Arlette C. Szelecsenyi • Tenzin Tenzin • Jimmy Tickel • Karin Tschanz-Cooke • Hoang Van Minh • Alain Vandermissen • Tu Vu-Van • Daniel P. Walsh • Sylvia Wanzala • Lenke Wettlaufer • C. LeAnn White • Andreas F. Widmer • Hind Yahyaoui • Christian ZurbrüggOne Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021