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Urban God Talk
Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false. From its beginning,...
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Policing and Race in America
Economic, Political, and Social Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups’ daily lives and success. The contributors explore the Black Lives Matter movement, the...
by Dr. D.N.N.S. Yadav LL.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The book gives an account of socio-legal analysis relating to prevailing state of justice administration system. Justice delayed is justice denied. If the system is pregnant with justice, then should it deliver? Pregnancy is good news, but no delivery is bad news. If the pregnancy crosses period of...
Practical Carbohydrate Counting
A How-to-Teach Guide for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
The essentials of teaching carbohydrate counting are presented in this revised and much expanded edition. This resource provides clear and practical approaches that will allow you to help your patients achieve glycemic control with Basic or Advanced Carbohydrate Counting. Includes: reasons for teaching...
Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century
A Human Dumping Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in...
Warlords Rising
Confronting Violent Non-State Actors
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005
Violent non-state actors (VNSA) often serve a destabilizing role in nearly every humanitarian and political crisis faced by the international community. As non-state armed groups gain greater access to resources and networks through global interconnectivity, they have come to dominate the terrain...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War
Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions—spanning developments for more than one hundred years—may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Colleagues representing different traditions...
Les Boudoirs de Paris
Tome VI
Language: French
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Extrait : "Lorsque l'Empereur promenait ses ailes victorieuses d'un bout à l'autre de l'Europe, et que, suivant l'expression du grand poète, il apprenait à nos drapeaux le chemin de toutes les capitales, il ne négligeait rien de ce qui pouvait ajouter à l'éclat de sa marche triomphale. A plus de...
by A. Elizabeth Patrick, D. Robert Beaumont, Terrence L. Brookie
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Now, in one place, you'll find concise yet nuanced definitions of the key terms used in the construction industry and in the practice of construction law. The Annotated Construction Law Glossary provides a fundamental understanding of each defined term, making this an invaluable resource whether the reader is a law student or seasoned construction law practitioner, project manager or architect.
by D.A. Klyushin, S.I. Lyashko, D.A. Nomirovskii
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Abstract models for many problems in science and engineering take the form of an operator equation. The resolution of these problems often requires determining the existence and uniqueness of solutions to these equations. "Generalized Solutions of Operator Equations and Extreme Elements"...
Modelling Population Dynamics
Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
Carbon Responsibility and Embodied Emissions
Theory and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Climate change policy and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are currently discussed at all scales, ranging from the Kyoto Protocol to the increasingly frequent advertisement of ''carbon neutrality'' in consumer products. However, the only policy option usually considered is the reduction of...