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Tropical Rain Forests
An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
The first edition of Tropical Rain Forests: an Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison exploded the myth of ‘the rain forest’ as a single, uniform entity. In reality, the major tropical rain forest regions, in tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, have as many...
Reliving the Past
The Worlds of Social History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Five historians uncover the ties between people's daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which...
by T.B. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initially serving with the French Foreign Legion as a soldier in the trenches, he soon became a founding member of the Lafayette Escadrille, a squadron made up mostly...
Culturally Proficient Education
An Asset-Based Response to Conditions of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Develop culturally proficient policies and practices that create opportunities for students of poverty!
Countering the perspective that students from poverty come to school with deficits that prevent them from learning, this resource offers educators the knowledge and skills to maximize educational...
by Harold N. Lee, Edward G. Ballard, Stephen C. Pepper
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Tradition v. Rationalism
Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing...
Supernatural and Natural Selection
Religion and Evolutionary Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation...
by Marie T. Friedmann Marquardt, Gemma Tulud Cruz, Ogenga Otunnu
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration examines the complicated social ethics of migration in today’s world. Editors Elizabeth W. Collier and Charles R. Strain bring the perspectives of an international group of scholars toward a theory of justice and ethical understanding for the...
by Alan B. Carr, DMD, MS
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The standard in prosthodontics for nearly 50 years, McCracken's Removable Partial Prosthodontics, 13th Edition walks readers through all the principles and concepts surrounding removable partial denture treatment planning and design that today’s practitioners need to know. Using an evidence-based...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
by W. L. Araújo, C. Nick, F. T. Delazari
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Tomatoes are the second most important vegetable crop in the world after potatoes. Originating in South America, they are now grown widely around the world. As the population continues to grow, there is a need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests...
Visible Learning for Science, Grades K-12
What Works Best to Optimize Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Inquiry, laboratory, project-based learning, discovery learning—which science instructional approach is most effective? In Visible Learning for Science, the authors reveal that it’s not which strategy, but when, and plot a vital K-12 framework for choosing the right approach at the right time,...
Personal Styles in Neurosis (RLE: Group Therapy)
Implications for Small Group Psychotherapy and Behaviour Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Originally published in 1981, the inadequacies of the ‘medical model’ for the understanding and psychological treatment of neuroses were widely recognized. A number of alternative approaches had arisen in response, but most of the models were theoretical, and little experimental support was documented.
One...