Matthew S : 173 books
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
by Ikuko Asaka, Caree Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...
How to Serve
In Simple, Solemn and Pontifical Functions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The ever increasing interest in the Liturgical Traditions of the Church gives rise to the need for adequately trained altar servers and what better way to assist than to resurrect this classic! This famous handbook is an invaluable resource for all altar boys from beginning to advanced. Though written...
Mapping "Race"
Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...
Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture
A View from the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the
Southeast.
The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existed
within communities...
HALLOWEEN Ultimate Collection: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories
The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Black Magic, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Dracula, The Monk, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, The Beetle…
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection of the greatest horror classics, the darkest mysteries and supernatural tales: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer &...
Applied Christian Ethics
Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. The book is divided in three parts. In the first section, “Foundation,” several contributors reveal their Christian realist roots and discuss the prophetic origins and multifarious agenda of social ethics. Thus, the...
by Zimbell House Publishing, Tom Barlow, Justin Boote
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Ever wonder what your neighbors are really like? What they may be hiding?
The Neighbors features twenty aspiring writers wishing to entertain you with their short stories inspired by these very questions. From humorous conflicts with the home owners association to a seedier malevolence, suspicious...
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
Moral Brains
The Neuroscience of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Many people, including a number of philosophers, believe that results from neuroscience...
Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
CARR Yearbook 2018/2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
by Matthew Green, Daniel Martinez, Jeremy Slack
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility. Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes,...
by Matthew J.S. Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In the small town of Elgin, a horrendous storm strikes forever changing the lives of everyone who lives there. A young man is struck by lightning and miraculously survives, left only with three circles on his chest that glow a brilliant blue. Then he discovers that it has done more than scarred him,...
Philosophy and Geography II
The Production of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1997
The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence....