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The Wartime President
Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
“It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority,” wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding...
Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
Results of New Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 2
Breeding, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Body Experience
The Subjective Dimension of Psyche and Soma Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book body experience is seen as the subjective expression of psyche and soma and is discussed in relation to its significance in modern medical practice and psychoanalysis. The authors relate how the patient's subjective expression of his or her body frequently plays only a marginal role in...
by Olek C Zienkiewicz, Robert L Taylor, P. Nithiarasu
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The Finite Element Method for Fluid Dynamics offers a complete introduction the application of the finite element method to fluid mechanics. The book begins with a useful summary of all relevant partial differential equations before moving on to discuss convection stabilization procedures, steady...
THE CHOICE IS YOURS
How to Take Control and Be The BEST That You Can Be
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This book reveals powerful techniques that can help you live your life to the fullest. Follow the simple recommendations at the end of every chapter, and you will learn the importance of your body’s ‘frequency’ – your body’s energy field or vibration – as well as taking care...
by C.P. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
For reporter Harry Sinclair small towns spell trouble. This time, in Eden Springs for a funeral, things would prove no different. The widow, a woman who hated his guts for the better part of twenty years, asks Sinclair for help in finding her husband's killer. He'd prefer to remember the bad old times...
by Ian C.P. Irvine
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2014
Following the international success of Haunted From Within, Haunted From Without is the latest thought-provoking medical thriller from Ian C.P. Irvine.
This Free ebook is Part One of Two Parts. To conclude the story, readers must source and read Book Two in the series.
Based upon a real...
by John P. Bartkowski, Gary C. Bryner, John J. Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
In their introduction, the editors of New Ways of Doing Business assert that in retrospect, it will be apparent that today's government, that of the early years of the 21st century, "was undergoing its most significant transformation since the decade of the 1930's when direct government-delivered...
by Peter C. Whybrow, Sarah F. Brosnan, Darby Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.
Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....
by Pol Antràs, Ngo Van Long, Sebastian Benz
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Theoretical and empirical perspectives on the fragmentation of production processes across borders, shedding light on global sourcing decisions and their economic effects.
Recent decades have seen a fragmentation of production processes across borders, as firms find it increasingly profitable...
State of Horror: Illinois
State of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
WHAT IS YOUR STATE OF HORROR?Come take a unique tour of the state of Illinois. Visit a little known pizza place where the deep-dish pizza is to die for. Spend the night in a haunted house or explore an abandoned resort town. What happens when you disturb the sanctity of an ancient deity? Swim...
Big Dams of the New Deal Era
A Confluence of Engineering and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’...
Canada and the Age of Conflict
Volume 1: 1867-1921
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Few historians are as qualified as C.P. Stacey to address the questions underlying Canada and the Age of Conflict. This volume begins his authoritative and magisterial general history of Canada's relations with the outside world.
The basic theme of the work is that foreign policy, like charity,...