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Theory-Based Ecology
A Darwinian approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Ecology is in a challenging state as a scientific discipline. While some theoretical ecologists are attempting to build a definition of ecology from first principles, many others are questioning even the feasibility of a general and universal theory. At the same time, it is increasingly important...
The European Union and the Catholic Church
Political Theology of European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
As the first comprehensive monograph on the relations between the Catholic Church and the European Union, this book contains both a detailed historical overview of the political ties between the two complex institutions and a theoretical analysis of their normative orders and mutual interactions.
Family Resilience in the Military
Definitions, Models, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Most leaders in the Department of Defense (DoD) agree that family resilience is an important construct, yet DoD does not have a standard definition. The authors of this report review existing definitions of family resilience and offer a candidate definition for DoD use. They also review models of...
The School Choice Journey
School Vouchers and the Empowerment of Urban Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This in-depth chronicle of 110 families in Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program provides a realistic look at how urban families experience the process of using school choice vouchers and transform from government clients to consumers of education and active citizens.
The Abcs of a Pharaoh’S Dreams
J~Dza Drifting Along the Philosophical Stream
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Welcome to the never-ending stream, a place of deep thought and emotional conflictions. As we embark on this journey, you may experience some feelings of connection to the Pharaoh. That is because each of us has our own king/queen inside that is on their own journey of self-discovery. As we go through...
Not by Faith Alone
Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that faith-based organizations attempt to mend...
Persian Sufi Poetry
An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Persian Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
by H.J.M. Bowen, T. Frevert, W.D. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
by John S. Grabowski, Montague Brown, Roger Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
It has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms,...
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
Healing through the Bones
Empowerment and the Process of Exhumations in the Context of Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950–1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots. This study explores specifically an effect of violent conflict—Missing Persons and the bi-communal process of their humanitarian return. This process is important for peacebuilding...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice Volume 2
Cultivation, pest and disease management
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
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by Edward T Ryan, David R Hill, MD DTM&H FRCP FFTM FASTM
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
New emerging diseases, new diagnostic modalities for resource-poor settings, new vaccine schedules … all significant, recent developments in the fast-changing field of tropical medicine. Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10th Edition, keeps you up to date with everything...
by J.W. Hand, K. Hynynen, P.N. Shrivastava
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The development of equipment capable of producing and monitoring safe, effective and predictable hyperthermia treatments represents a major challenge. The main problem associated with any heating technique is the need to adjust and control the distribution of absorbed power in the tissue during treatment....