Richard Paul: 263 books
Contemporary Public Health
Principles, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Public health refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. and an esteemed group of scholars and practitioners offer...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
NATO
From Regional to Global Security Provider
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance’s new vision (the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact – associated tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon. The book serves as a relevant...
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese
Core Vocabulary for Learners
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly used in the language. Based on a fifty-million-word corpus composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction...
Making Threats
Biofears and Environmental Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses,...
by Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Educational research is widely believed to be essentially empirical, consisting mainly of collecting and analysing data, with randomised control trials as the 'gold standard'. This book argues that good educational research is often philosophical in nature. Offering a critical overview of the current...
Engineering Health
How Biotechnology Changed Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Biotechnology harnesses cellular and biochemical systems to advance knowledge of the molecular cause of disease and to provide new diagnostic tools and more precisely targeted drugs. Within a decade, global investment in medical biotechnology has increased more than ten-fold, resulting in therapies...
Been There. Done That. Try This!
An Aspie's Guide to Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
If you only buy one book to improve your life this year, make it this one.
Temple Grandin, Liane Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Stephen M. Shore, and many other Aspie mentors, offer their personal guidance on coping with the daily stressors that Aspies have identified as being the most significant,...
Back to Life, Back to Normality
Cognitive Therapy, Recovery and Psychosis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
• Written specifically with sufferers and carers in mind, to help them understand and apply the basic concepts of cognitive therapy for psychosis. • Illustrates what it is like to have common psychosis and how people's lives can be restored using therapy. • Increases understanding of how the...
by Paul Bowers, Peter Smith, Richard Beale
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
The Planning Guide to Piping Design, Second Edition, covers the entire process of managing and executing project piping designs, from conceptual to mechanical completion, also explaining what roles and responsibilities are required of the piping lead during the process. The book explains proven piping...
by Leslie Wilson, Paul T. Matsudaira, Richard Nuccitelli
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1994
A Practical Guide to the Study of Calcium in Living Cells describes popular techniques along with helpful do's and don't's and computer programs. The volume enables investigators to evaluate confocal images, use the latest dyes, and design Calcium buffers appropriate to their research needs. This...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3
Animal health and welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
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Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
Theories in Tension
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...
by Paul Cullen, Richard Jones, David Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Considering the minor settlements of England’s Danelaw-villages known as thorps or throps-this history demonstrates how place-name evidence can be used to understand early cultures. By integrating linguistic and archaeological approaches, it establishes a compelling connection between the creation...