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Controversy in Cardiology
The Practical Clinical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this book is not to discuss in depth various topics in medicine nor to describe in detail all possible controversial subjects in car diology. The primary intention is to describe common cardiac problems with significant controversial viewpoints frequently encountered in our daily...
Practical Approaches to Cancer Invasion and Metastases
A Compendium of Radiation Oncologists’ Responses to 40 Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed. At the time of presentation about 70% of those patients represented limited local regional disease without evidences of distant dissemination. About 30% of the...
Social Media
Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Social Media: Culture and Identity examines the global impact of social media in the formation of various identities and cultures. New media scholars— both national and international— have posited thought-provoking analyses of sociocultural issues about human communication that are impacted by...
Hungarian-British Diplomacy 1938-1941
The Attempt to Maintain Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book deals with the relationship between Britain and Hungary during the crucial years 1938-1941. In addition to archival research in London and Budapest, mostly about the relations of the governments, Bán's work broadens into political, social, intellectual and cultural history. This is one...
Social Work with Groups
Social Justice Through Personal, Community, and Societal Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Help change the world by bringing ideas of social justice into your group work practice!
Social workers who use hip-hop music to reach out to troubled adolescents. Practitioners who compare First Nations talking circles with social work practice with groups. A retired professor who transforms...
Chemical Waste
Handling and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the past few years the worlds has reverberated of names like Seveso, Love Canal, Lekkerkerk, Times Beach, just to name the most publicized ones. All these names are connected with hazardous or toxic waste, waste from business and industry, especially the chemical industry. The list is endless...
The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom
Conceptualizing, Writing, and Defending the Dissertation
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...
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...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 2
Diseases, pests, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
La tienda de los sueños
Un siglo de cuento fantástico mexicano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2016
La literatura vuelve realidad todo. Y así lo ha demostrado una innumerable cantidad de autores desde hace cientos de años. Aquí no encontrarás elfos, dragones ni niños magos con lentes y varitas, sino que te enfrentarás a encuentros con el Diablo, desapariciones inexplicables, personas duplicadas,...
Imaniman
Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In homage to Gloria Anzaldúa and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain—the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands—that Anzaldúa inhabited, theorized,...
Called and Chosen
Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for...
by Marlon Anatol, Emily D. Bello-Pardo, Adriana Beltrán
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
The Americas face many security challenges, including drug trafficking, organized crime, guerrilla movements, terrorism, and environmental challenges. Experts have long debated whether some countries in the region can be classified as failed states. While various states in the Americas have been labeled...
by Peter Bergerson, Margaret Banyan, William K. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The 2012 congressional elections played an equally vital role in determining the future course of America as the presidential race that topped the electoral ticket. Readers of this book will gain insights about the formative aspects of the 2012 campaign season as well as in depth coverage of key races...