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Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents, with Reflections on the Future of Higher Education by Dr. J. Michael Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
by Saeid Mokhatab, John Y. Mak, Jaleel V. Valappil
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a commercially attractive phase of the commodity that facilitates the efficient handling and transportation of natural gas around the world. The LNG industry, using technologies proven over decades of development, continues to expand its markets, diversify its supply...
Global Issues
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Extensively revised and updated, the new Fourth Edition of Global Issues: An Introduction offers a unique approach to the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life.
Revised and updated to reflect the latest global developments
Examines the most important...
Global Issues
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Now reorganized and updated throughout, the fifth edition of this well-regarded introductory global issues text continues to reflect the most important aspects of an increasingly globalized world.
Reorganized into more accessible chapters better suited to semester-long courses, with new sections...
Cultivating Food Justice
Race, Class, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.
Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement...
Sooner Than You Think
A Prophetic Guide to the End Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Your Prophetic Handbook to End-Times Events!
In 2013, I had a dream that rocked my world. If you had asked me if I thought that Jesus was coming back in my lifetime, I would have said yes-but deep in my heart, I would not have been sure. But all that has changed. I was not even thinking about...
The Weight of the Nation
Surprising Lessons About Diets, Food, and Fat from the Extraordinary Series from HBO Documentary Films
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
People today work harder and take better care of their health than any previous generation. So how could two-thirds of us fail to measure up when it comes to eating right and exercising? HBO and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences have joined together to bring you the nation's...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
by Keri J. Sansevere, Michael J. Gall, Ross Thomas Rava
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic.
This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the...
Courting Justice
Ten New Jersey Cases That Shook the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Since 1947 a modernized New Jersey Supreme Court has played an important and controversial role in the state, nation, and world. Its decisions in cutting-edge cases have confronted society’s toughest issues, reflecting changing social attitudes, modern life’s complexities, and new technologies.
Paul...
Mystery!
The Origins Game Fair 2018 Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
The Origins Game Fair is proud and pleased to present Mystery!, our 2018 fiction anthology. The collection features stories by authors in the convention's Library program.
This collection brings together fourteen tales of mystery set across genres, in a legion of times and places. Each author...
by A. John Vinci, J. Leon Pridgen II
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Five tough as nails men. One hard-assed Sergeant. The only chance to change their lives. These are the men of Unit 416. Push them hard and they push harder. Things are about to get deadly—but with the skill and swagger of Unit 416, no mission is impossible…
Born and raised in America’s...
by Fundación Heberto Castillo Martínez AC, Óscar González, Enrique González Pedrero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 3, 2007
El lector encontrará aquí, reunidos y expuestos los textos de las presentaciones y de las ponencias con las que un reconocido grupo de participantes debatió con vivacidad y agudeza para dar continuidad a los esfuerzos independentistas, igualitarios, liberadores y justicieros a los que Heberto Castillo dedicó su pensamiento y la acción de toda su vida.