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Archaeologists as Activists
Can Archaeologists Change the World?
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of “archaeology activism” or “activist archaeology”: using archaeology to advocate for and affect...
by Paul Whitney, John M. Hinson, Michael W. L. Chee
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Sleep Deprivation and Cognition, Volume 247, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, covers the effects of sleep deprivation, with this new release featuring sections on the Impact of sleep deprivation on long-term memory, Adolescent sleep restriction effects on cognition and...
LAOS FOLKLORE - 48 Folklore stories from Old Siam
48 children's stories from ancient Lan Xang
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The 48 Folk-Tales in this book hail from the South East Asian land-locked country of Laos.
Herein are stories like The Enchanted Mountain, The Spirit-Guarded Cave, The Monkeys and the Crabs, The Origin of Lightning (a tale which seems to be endemic amongst all the world’s cultures,) The Faithful...
The War on Terror and the Laws of War
A Military Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Many years after the United States initiated a military response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the nation continues to prosecute what it considers an armed conflict against transnational terrorist groups. Understanding how the law of armed conflict applies to and regulates military...
Coronary Artery Diseases
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Imaging Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
2 Diagnostic Use of Radiographic Methods in Coronary Disease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 3 Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 4 Mode of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5 Radiological Projections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6 Monitoring...
by Thomas Briggs, W.-Y. Chan, Albert M. Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As stated in the preface to the first edition, this book is intended to be a review and not a comprehensive textbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The book covers only the highlights from the much more detailed knowledge that is usually found in textbooks and we recommend that the reader...
Nursing Education in Thanatology
A Curriculum Continuum
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Nursing Education in Thanatology is an excellent source book for planning thanatology courses or for integrating concepts of thanatology into a nursing curriculum. As the formal teaching of thanatology in schools for health care professionals is generally overlooked and ill-defined, many students...
The Low Countries History Yearbook 1982
Acta Historiae Neerlandicae
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The present volume, number 15 of the Acta Historiae Neerlandicae - which have been appearing since 1978 under the title The Low Countries History Yearbook - is the last of the series. Economic reasons force the publishers to discontinue it. This is a matter for regret. Both the editors of the Yearbook...
American Catholics and Civic Engagement
A Distinctive Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...
by A.H. Neilson, D. Mackay, S. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Creepies 2: Things That go Bump in the Closet
Creepies, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
From the masters of horror at Writers, Poets and Deviants:
Prepare for terror…
- An exterminator meets his match in a family's attic…
- A cuddly toy with a disturbing origin is all the rage…
- A boy's survival of a deadly accident turns out to be more curse than miracle…
- A man...
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism
A Response to Evangelical Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
A controversy of major proportions has spread through the church. Recent generations bear witness to the rise of "evangelical feminism"-a movement that has had a profound impact on all of life, challenging some of our basic Christian beliefs.
In this new edition of an influential and award-winning...
How to Get Published in Anthropology
A Guide for Students and Young Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This one-stop guide to getting published in anthropology gives graduate students and young professionals the crucial information and tools they need to tackle the all-important requirement to publish. Part I provides step-by-step guidance on key efforts that budding anthropologists can benefit from,...
Congress and Harry S. Truma
A Conflicted Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection of essays examines President Truman’s somewhat contentious relationships with Congress. Authors evaluate Truman’s successes and defeats and measure him against later presidents of the United States. While the Truman era has been perceived as a stalemate between the executive and...