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by José Ramón Cossío Díaz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Este libro muestra uno de los rostros más luminosos de México: el de la pluralidad, la inteligencia y las instituciones.
En los últimos 15 años, México ha librado algunas de sus batallas más importantes... en la Suprema Cortede Justicia de la Nación. Ahí se han debatido -y definido-...
Comparative Environmental Politics
Theory, Practice, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems
How do different societies respond politically to environmental problems around the globe?...
by Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Charles H. McCormick, D.L. Stufflebeam
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What goals should be addressed by educational programs? What priorities should be assigned to the different goals? What funds should be allocated to each goal? How can quality services be maintained with declining school enrollments and shrinking revenues? What programs could be cut if necessary?...
Dreams That Can Save Your Life
Early Warning Signs of Cancer and Other Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An exploration of dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance for your health and well-being
• 2018 Nautilus Silver Award
• Shares stories--confirmed by pathology reports--from subjects in medical research projects whose dreams diagnosed illness and helped heal their...
Teach Me to Be Generous
The First Century of Regis High School in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Teach Me to Be Generous tells the remarkable story of Regis High School, the Jesuit school on New York’s Upper East Side that was founded in 1914 by an anonymous donor as a school for Catholic boys whose families could not otherwise afford a Catholic education. Enabled by the philanthropy of the...
Reconsidering Biography
Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
Catholic Philosophy of Education
The Church and Two Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Today’s pluralist and multicultural society raises questions about how to teach religiously and ethnically diverse students in Catholic schools. A Catholic Philosophy of Education addresses these challenges by examining the documents from the Roman Congregation for Catholic Education alongside the...
Water and Environment in the Selenga-Baikal Basin
International Research Cooperation for an Ecoregion of Global Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the region. In this large-scale river and lake basin, there are strong contrasts between regions of relatively pristine nature and massive anthropogenic impacts...
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 Janet Buckworth, Rod K. Dishman, Patrick J. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Exercise Psychology, Second Edition, addresses the psychological and biological consequences of exercise and physical activity and their subsequent effects on mood and mental health. Like the first edition, the text includes the latest scholarship by leading experts in the field of exercise adoption...
JMP for Basic Univariate and Multivariate Statistics
Methods for Researchers and Social Scientists, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
JMP Start Statistics: A Guide to Statistics and Data Analysis Using JMP, Fifth Edition, is the perfect mix of software manual and statistics text. Authors John Sall, Ann Lehman, Mia Stephens, and Lee Creighton provide hands-on tutorials with just the right amount of conceptual and motivational material...
Radical Psychology
Multicultural and Social Justice Decolonization Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Radical Psychology discusses psychological factors that shape multicultural competency and social justice effectiveness, such as implicit and explicit biases, difficulties in accurate self-assessment of cultural competency and social justice skills, and the historical colonial biases that still shape...
by Charles Dickens, L. Frank Baum, Clement Clarke Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Here is A Christmas Treasury for all ages. Included are Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, and other delightful poetry and fiction. Beautifully illustrated, this book will become part of your family's Christmas tradition for years to come.