A Michael: 1281 books
by Rickert Althaus, Adam Brown, Charles S. Bullock III
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process...
An American Health Dilemma
A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous...
Parkinson’s Disease. A Guide to Medical Treatment
A Guide to Medical Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In Parkinson’s disease, the past half-century of research has brought many fascinating advances in treatment.
Proper identification and treatment of both motor and non-motor symptoms lead to a better overall quality of life, reducing stress incurred by both patient and caregiver.
This book provides...
Showing and Doing
Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational researchers and practitioners through provocative, innovative, and playful readings of his work. They vividly demonstrate the influence of his thinking...
by Michael A. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Education plays an important role in challenging, combating and in understanding terrorism in its different forms, whether as counter-terrorism or as a form of human rights education. Just as education has played a significant role in the process of nation-building, so education also plays a strong...
by Michael A. Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This textbook provides a survey of the Speech and Communication Studies areas of Communication, focusing on human communication through the transactional model of communication. Interpersonal Communication chapters constitute the largest portion of the book, with the Public Speaking chapters the next...
Boundless Awareness
A Loving Path to Spiritual Awakening and Freedom from Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Suffering is part of the human experience, and everyone in the world is seeking relief. But there is something greater, something that we all share, indeed something that we all are, that can alleviate that pain: it is the formless presence—the loving, boundless awareness—at the heart of all experience....
International Development Studies
Theories and Methods in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
'A sure-footed and self-confident book, ambitious in scope, authoritative in execution and practical in its implications' - Simon Maxwell, Director, Overseas Development Institute, London
'At last, a development studies text that encourages self-reflection from within the discipline. Highly...
Acknowledged Legislator
Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original...
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
**A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, **and fieldwork
A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication,...
by Funso Adesola, I. D. David, A. O. Ologunde
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Globally, women are oppressed and this book introduces the perspective of African women and especially that of Nigerian women. This book looks at the major themes that drive the women's empowerment programs in Nigeria. Feminists in Nigeria are shaped by the institutions, values, ideologies, and since...
by John A. Kaufman, MD, MS
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Get the essential tools you need to make an accurate diagnosis with Vascular and Interventional Radiology: The Requisites! This bestselling volume delivers the conceptual, factual, and interpretive information you need for effective clinical practice in vascular and interventional radiology, as well...
by Lise Wallach, Michael A Wallach
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!
This book examines seven different answers to the question, "What are we talking about when we talk about the mind?" It begins by considering the dualistic view, frequently taken for granted by students, that words like "belief,"...
by Michael A. Black
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Set in the latter half of the fabulous 1940s, Pope’s Last Case and Other Stories details the adventures of tough, hardboiled, ex-Private Eye Vince Pope and his lovely, rich, socialite wife, Laura. Vince, a veteran of WW II, has hung up his PI shingle in favor of a life of leisure, but old pals and...