Luke: 965 books
Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy
Individualist Themes in Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner. The argument of the book is that these thinkers offer distinct visions...
by Gallup John Luke; Gaviria Alejandro; Lora Eduardo
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that...
Disabled Children and the Law
Research and Good Practice Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Now in its completely updated second edition, this accessible guide provides essential information about how the law can be used to promote good practice and policy development for disabled children and young people.
The authors take an anti-discriminatory and inclusive approach that involves...
Language, Corpus and Empowerment
Applications to deaf education, healthcare and online discourses
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language, Corpus and Empowerment applies a novel corpus-driven approach to the exploration of the concept of empowerment in healthcare. The book proposes an innovative corpus-based methodology for finding evidence of empowerment in language use, using data from a video intervention delivered to families...
by Luke Hartwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A likeable, intelligent high school senior, Mateo Bernard is new to Little Rock. Cody Redan has lived there all his life. Yet, when they meet, there's a familiarity, a sense they've known each other before. By turns funny, romantic, insightful, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the...
Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety
9/11, the Global Financial Crisis and ISIS
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This book confronts the issues young people face growing up in the confusion and anxiety of today’s highly global society. Young people face their futures consumed with feelings of doubt, uncertainty and ambivalence. The Global Financial Crisis and the rise of the Islamic State means young people...
Marikana
Voices from South Africa’s Mining Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this...
Human Rights - Illusory Freedom
Why We Should Repeal the Human Rights Act
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
A progressive argument for repealing the Human Rights Act. Contrary to contemporary panic around human rights repeal, Human Rights - Illusory Freedom puts a progressive case against the Human Rights Act. It describes how human rights arose as a new language for western governments following the collapse...
Coaching Youth Cricket
An Essential Guide for Coaches, Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Written by an experienced youth cricket coach, Coaching Youth Cricket is an essential guide for all coaches, parents and teachers. This one-stop practical resource will give a new coach everything they need to deliver fun, dynamic, player-centred practice sessions and guidance on how to run a team....
The Sword of Ambition
Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the concerns of this genre were more social and political than theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned,...
by Sunil Sinha, Lawrence Miall, Luke Jardine
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Essential Neonatal Medicine combines the depth and breadth of a textbook with the clarity and efficiency of a learning consolidator. Providing a solid reference for trainee doctors, neonatal nurses and midwives, this full colour edition has been extensively updated with a range of new illustrations,...
by Luke Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Clinical Respiratory Physiology covers the practical aspects and theoretical concepts of applied respiratory physiology. The book describes the methods of measuring ventilator capacity, lung volumes, ventilation, diffusion, cardiac output, and ventilation-perfusion rates. The text also tackles methods...
by Jennifer Isaacs, Luke Whitesell
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Hsp90 in Cancer: Beyond the Usual Suspects, the latest volume in the Advances in Cancer Research series, focuses on the multifunctional molecular chaperone Hsp90 which regulates the post-translational stability and function of a broad repertoire of client proteins and discusses some of the lesser-known...
Practical Cardiovascular Hemodynamics
With Self-Assessment Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Practical Cardiovascular Hemodynamics provides an in-depth understanding of waveforms and tracings seen in various disease states as well as pathophysiology behind those findings. Practical issues that are rarely discussed or focused upon in textbooks are highlighted in this book with detailed waveform...