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Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools
A Critical Demography Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical...
by D.L. DeAngelis, J.Y. Zhuang, J.C. Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
After the 1998 flood of the Yangtze River, one of the world’s most important rivers, environmental experts realized that, to control flooding, much more attention must be paid to vegetation cover on bare lands, thin forest land, and shrub-covered land in mountain areas. In 1999, an environmental...
Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias
The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the...
A Life Apart
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
From the author of Color Me Butterfly, a poignant novel about a decades-long love affair and the complicated and unbreakable ties between two families that live worlds apart.
Morris Sullivan joins the navy in 1940 with a love of ships and high hopes. Though he leaves behind his new wife,...
The Valiant Hearts Romance Collection
9 Stories of Love Put to the Test
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Join brave women who take on wars, social injustices, and westward expansion, living to find love and build a legacy in these nine stories of historical romance. From Virginia west to Oregon, meet Lucy, a nurse; Helen, a bookkeeper; Permelia, a farmer; Birdie, a seamstress; Francie, a writer; Collette,...
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.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery
Ensure Post-Surgery Success and Win the Weight Loss Battle for Good
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Essential info for the quarter million people a year adjusting to life after weight loss surgery...
With an increasing array of weight-loss procedures to choose from, more and more are opting for it. But once patients return home, they need guidance for keeping the weight off, while nourishing...
Handbook of Forensic Assessment
Psychological and Psychiatric Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
The first handbook to explore forensic assessment from psychiatric and psychological perspectives
"The editors have assembled a magnificent collaboration between psychiatrists and psychologists to bring forth critical knowledge and insight to the core competency of forensic assessment. This...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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by Howard L. Hartman, Jan M. Mutmansky, Raja V. Ramani
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This revised edition presents an engineering design approach to ventilation and air conditioning as part of the comprehensive environmental control of the mine atmosphere. It provides an in-depth look, for practitioners who design and operate mines, into the health and safety aspects of environmental conditions in the underground workplace.
by Y. N. Grigorenko, V.S. Sobolev, T. A. Andiyeva
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Much of the world’s petroleum is located on continental margins, and any further development of these offshore deposits would be impossible without new technologies and new methods contained in this volume. Written by some of the world’s foremost authorities on oil and gas, this volume explains...
Selling Fear
Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
While we’ve long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, Selling Fear is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism—and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration manipulated coverage to maintain a climate...
Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding
EXIT-Chart-Aided Near-Capacity Designs for Wireless Channels
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Covering the full range of channel codes from the most conventional through to the most advanced, the second edition of Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding is a self-contained reference on channel coding for wireless channels. The book commences with a historical perspective on...
Widows' Words
Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.
Some were widowed young, while others were...