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Cooperation and Drug Policies in the Americas
Trends in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This volume examines drug policies and the role of cooperation in the Americas. Many current and former politicians have discussed the failures of the war on drugs and the need for alternative approaches. Uruguay as well as Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana. The Organization of American...
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history. The contributors look at an array of graphic novels about conflicts such as the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), the Irish struggle for national...
by Syed A. Hoda, Paul Peter Rosen, Fred Koerner
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
For three editions, Rosen’s Breast Pathology has been widely recognized as the “gold standard” reference. Now in its Fourth Edition, this classic text continues its legacy of being the leading reference work on the pathology of the breast. Precise pathological diagnosis of breast disease is...
by Peter M. Burgess, A I Pshenichnyuk
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Superplasticity is a state in which solid crystalline materials, such as some fine-grained metals, are deformed well beyond their usual breaking point. The phenomenon is of importance in processes such as superplastic forming which allows the manufacture of complex, high-quality components in such...
Collaborative Parish Leadership
Contexts, Models, Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Collaborative Parish Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnerships out of which it has grown. These include “Project INSPIRE,” a pastoral team-formation project sponsored by Loyola University and the Archdiocese of Chicago...
Preventive Measures
Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...
Victims of the Environment
Loss from Natural Hazards in the United States, 1970–1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States. In addi tion, it reports on sources of aid proffered to households and the extent to which there are differences...
Understanding Traffic Systems
Data Analysis and Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Road traffic and its impacts affect all aspects of modern life, leisure and industry, with safety, congestion and pollution being of greatest public concern. Transport planning increasingly emphasises travel demand management (TDM) and traffic calming - aided by dynamic, lower cost data from Intelligent...
by Peter C. Ordeshook, K.A. Shepsle
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Researching edTPA Promises and Problems
Perspectives from English as an Additional Language, English Language Arts, and World Language Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Teacher effectiveness and licensure in the United States continue to be scrutinized at the state and national levels. At present, 40 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted edTPA to inform initial teacher licensure and/or certification decisions (American Association of Colleges for Teacher...
Controversy in Cardiology
The Practical Clinical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this book is not to discuss in depth various topics in medicine nor to describe in detail all possible controversial subjects in car diology. The primary intention is to describe common cardiac problems with significant controversial viewpoints frequently encountered in our daily...
by A. Peter Perdian
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
*** Blowback ***
Colin Banner gritted his teeth. American grayshirts, an arm of the government, were hot on his trail. As leader of the Resistance, he had to survive at any cost. He lied and used innocent people all the time. Why should Jena Nayman be any different from the others? But she...
by Peter J. Fos, David J. Fine, Miguel A. Zúniga
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
A new edition of the comprehensive and practical introduction to managerial epidemiology and population health
Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations has introduced the science of epidemiology and population health to students and practitioners in health management and health...
by Liliana Mammino, Franz Rauch-Alpen-Adria, Kenneth M. Doxsee
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Educating the next generation of chemists about green chemistry issues, such as waste minimisation and clean synthesis, is vital for environmental sustainability. This book enables green issues to be taught from the underlying principles of all chemistry courses rather than in isolation. Chapters contributed...