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The Applied Anthropology of Obesity
Prevention, Intervention, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies...
The Inclusion Paradox
The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
**Praise for The Inclusion Paradox
“Andrés Tapia has become one of the foremost thought leaders in the area of workplace diversity. His unique perspectives on inclusion have shifted the paradigm on how leaders now think about diversity.”
- John W. Rodgers Jr., Chairman and CEO,...
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...
Integrity in the Business Panorama
Models of European Best-Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This volume explores the value of business integrity and ethics as a "best practice" model in business strategy. The authors define business integrity, explore areas in which integrity is often absent or discredited, and provide a framework and tools to help build better business ethics...
by Daaimah S. Poole, Miasha, Deja King
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
New to the big city, new to each other, and ready for new beginnings, four young, hip, beautiful women in a Harlem brownstone discover they have more in common than their address. . .
Dior's got a taste for the finer things in life. So far she's got the job and the apartment. Now she needs...
Spectrum
SmartyPants Spectrum Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
**You are an explorer in a galaxy of worlds... **
...with countless stories to delve into or even just try out.
Inside, you are the rescuer of the kitten who rescues you right back. You are the citizen making a life-or-death decision. You are the teenager experiencing her first...
by Larry Niven, S.M. Stirling, Jerry Pournelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
A Kzin's instinctively combative responses make for poor diplomatic relations between species. But now that their "first you scream and then you leap" approach to interstellar relations have led to three straight losses to the hairless hominidae of Sol III, there...
Cthulhu Lives!
An eldritch tribute to H. P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
At the time of his death in 1937, American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was virtually unknown. The power of his stories was too great to contain, however. As the decades slipped by, his dark visions...
Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities
A Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities...
by Margaret Furtado M.S; L.D.N; R.D; R.Y.T.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
With this guide, learn about the pros and cons of bariatric surgery, the qualifications, and it's right for you and your health needs.
Techno-Orientalism
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism...
by Edina Berlinger, Ferenc Illés, Milán Badics
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
This book is intended for those who want to learn how to use R's capabilities to build models in quantitative finance at a more advanced level. If you wish to perfectly take up the rhythm of the chapters, you need to be at an intermediate level in quantitative finance and you also need to have a reasonable knowledge of R.
His Mission
Jesus in the Gospel of Luke
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
“But who do you say that I am?”
—Jesus (Luke 9:20)
In this collection of biblical expositions, eight prominent Bible teachers look to the Gospel of Luke and its unique portrait of our Savior, exploring everything from the nature of Jesus's divine sonship to his rejection by the religious...
Alabama and the Borderlands
From Prehistory To Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto...