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Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, John O. Voll
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy. In Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring, John L. Esposito, John Voll, and Tamara Sonn examine the state of democracy in Muslim-majority societies today. Applying...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
Understanding and Treating Self-Injurious Behavior in Autism
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Self-injurious behavior occurs in almost half of those with autism and is one of the most devastating and challenging-to-treat behaviors. There are many different forms of self-injury, such as head banging, hand biting, hair pulling, excessive scratching, and much more. With contributions from the...
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...
Psychological Injuries
Forensic Assessment, Treatment, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Human emotional suffering has been studied for centuries, but the significance of psychological injuries within legal contexts has only recently been recognized. As the public becomes increasingly aware of the ways in which mental health affects physical - and financial - well-being, psychological...
by A.A. Christy, L. Eriksson, M. Feinberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Pattern recognition and other chemometrical techniques are important tools in interpreting environmental data. This volume presents authoritatively state-of-the-art applications of measuring and handling environmental data. The chapters are written by leading experts.
by Dale L Shaner, Susan L O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book presents detailed information on the imidazolinone herbicides, provided in chapters contributed by scientists and product development managers who work for American Cyanamid, categorized in sections covering chemistry, biology, metabolism and residues, environmental fate and product performance....
Modelling Population Dynamics
Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
by Annie Roe Carr, Alice Duer Miller, Berthold Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This ebook comprises the 4 volumes of our series named "50 Classic Christmas Stories". All 4 volumes are also available separately in the shop. This edition includes bonus streaming links to our album called "35 essential christmas songs (guitar arrangements)" (Spotify, Apple Music,...
by Prof. Peter Von Fragstein und Niemsdorff, Prof. Bernhard Freyer, Dr Paul Mäder
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Reviews key advances and best practice in cultivation techniques across the value chain of organic farming
Discusses ways of monitoring and improving the environmental impact of organic crop production
Particular focus on ways of supporting organic farming in the developing world
by Fundación Heberto Castillo Martínez AC, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Jaime Cárdenas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Publicación de debates de expertos, líderes de opinión e interesados sobre temas que reflejan puntualmente las más vivas preocupaciones sobre el presente y el futuro de los recursos energéticos de los mexicanos.