M I A: 194 books
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Reviews latest research on zoonoses affecting poultry meat such as Salmonella and Campylobacter as well as methods for their control on the poultry farm and in the slaughterhouse
Summarises advances in understanding and optimising poultry quality traits such as flavour, colour, tenderness, shelf life...
Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan
Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities**,** but also about migration and technology, especially social media....
by María M. García Lorenzo, Ana I. Zamorano Rueda
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Modern and Contemporary American Literature is a course book especially designed for students of UNED s Literatura Norteamericana II: Moderna y Contemporánea of the Grado en Estudios Ingleses: Lengua, Literatura y Cultura. It offers a survey of the main authors, texts and concerns of twentieth-century...
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....
by D.I. Allen, M.A. Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about the well-being of today's female physicians. The woman who chooses medicine as a career has a challenge that is in many ways unique, yet somehow similar to other women who are breaking the barriers in many professions. The increasing number of career women is an outgrowth of the...
Stigma Syndemics
New Directions in Biosocial Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between...
Bridging the High School-College Gap
The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book, scholars...
Biodemography of Aging
Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This volume is a critical exposition of the data and analyses from a full decade of rigorous research into how age-related changes at the individual level, along with other factors, contribute to morbidity, disability and mortality risks at the broader population level. After summarizing the state...
by A.I.M. Fothertop
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Three very unusual deaths that take place in Tangier, Cadiz and Gibraltar lead an international investigator and her team to visit the Viagra club in London, unmask a pair of killers in southern England and rescue a child out in the country.
There were two of them. The blonde American they...
by M. G. Krukovich, B. A Prusakov, I. G Sizov
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book presents the physico-technical basis and current state of the technology of boronized layers. Special attention is given to the layer structure and morphology of allocated phases and distributions in a superficial zone of chemical compounds. Two- and multi-component phases of alloys and...
The Ophthalmic Assistant E-Book
A Text for Allied and Associated Ophthalmic Personnel
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Freeman, is your go-to resource for practical, up-to-date guidance on ocular diseases, surgical procedures, medications, and equipment, as well as paramedical procedures and office management in the ophthalmology, optometry, opticianry or eye care settings. Thoroughly updated content and more than...
Crime, Second Chances, and Human Services
Creating a Pathway to Ordinary Life for the Convicted
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
This book promotes the notion of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system. Recognition of the fallibility of humans and the necessity of redemption is the first step to change our attitude toward guilt and punishment....
Vitiligo
What’s New, What’s True
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Vitiligo is still a stigmatizing and enigmatic spectrum of disorders in which too much contradictory data and too many hypotheses are still confusing the scientific community and the patients who are seeking for the cure or at least for a satisfactory treatment.In this e-book the Editors try with...