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Methamphetamine
Its History, Pharmacology and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
The definitive book on the impact of methamphetamine on individuals, communities, and society by two of America's leading addiction and criminal justice experts.
In recent years, the media have inundated us with coverage of the horrors that befall methamphetamine users, and the fires, explosions,...
Joint Attention
New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.
Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention—the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature—has increased rapidly over the past...
by P. Denhartog, Lois Dowdell, Anna R. Fitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Designed as a textbook for radiographers, this up-to-date manual provides an accessible store of information on pediatric imaging procedures, with clearly described techniques and instructions. The aim is to simplify the pediatric examination and facilitate the experience for the patient, parent,...
Generating Transworld Pedagogy
Reimagining La Clase Mágica
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Generating Transworld Pedagogy: Reimagining La Clase Mágica lays the foundation for addressing one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century: meeting the educational needs of a diverse society living in a complex, technology-driven world. It extends bilingual and bicultural transformative critical...
Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867–1898
Black and White Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
The inclusion of the Ninth Cavalry and three other African American regiments in the post–Civil War army was one of the nation’s most problematic social experiments. The first fifteen years following its organization in 1866 were stained by mutinies, slanderous verbal assaults, and sadistic abuses...
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great...
Thinking from the Underside of History
Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2000
Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the...
Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks
Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
In this edited collection of narrative-based, critically situated essays, each contributor explores how class has affected his/her personal and academic lives. The collection is divided into three sections: i) narratives that critique the meritocracy; ii) narratives that trace the effects of middle...
Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits
Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now?
Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure...
Diamond Mind
The Intelligent, Synergistic Approach to Science and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
As an established international speaker and consciousness facilitator, Dr. Nightingale Florence combines her wisdom and understanding of quantum mechanics and spiritual science, as they apply to educational programming, personal well-beingness, consciousness, and the creation of preferred realities.
Having...
Chimpanzee Rights
The Philosophers’ Brief
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.
While...
Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization
Exploring the Fandemonium
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Identity and socialization among sports fans are burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of scholars in the social sciences and beyond. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, is an eclectic collection of new studies from...
Ku Klux Klan
With Appendices Containing the Prescripts of the Ku Klux Klan, Specimen Orders, and Warnings
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
Chapter I. The Origin
Chapter II. The Spread of the Klan
Chapter III. The Transformation
Chapter IV. The Decline
Chapter V. Disbandment
APPENDICES.
Appendix I. Prescript...
The 2012 Nomination and the Future of the Republican Party
The Internal Battle
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The 2012 Republican nomination process went on longer than most pundits predicted early on. While Mitt Romney began the season as the prohibitive favorite, he was tested repeatedly by what was seemingly the Republican flavor of the week (including Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich,...