Boyd: 1234 books
Protecting the Public?
Executive Discretion and the Release of Mentally Disordered Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas. Protecting the Public? explores the tension between...
Black Men Worshipping
Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where Black masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and culture. It judiciously considers the anxiety that emerges from Black male negotiations with these constructions
The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement
Woman Suffrage and Politics, Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Throughout the suffrage struggle, America's history, principles and traditions stood forth to indicate the inevitability of woman suffrage, to suggest that it would normally be the first country in the world to give the vote to women. Yet the years went by, decade followed decade, and twenty-sixother...
by Jensa Bell, Jensa Bell, Bhaswati Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The book provides a common framework for physicians and biomedical researchers who wish to learn more about environmental concerns, and for members of the environmental community who desire a greater understanding of biomedical issues.
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 2
Cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Wheat is the most widely cultivated cereal in the world and a staple food for around 3 billion people. It has been estimated that demand for wheat could increase by up to 560% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests and...
Water Quality
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Water quality is important to everyone, but professionals in many disciplines need an understanding of this subject. Although water quality is complex, its general aspects can be grasped readily and with little background - only introductory chemistry and biology and a little algebra are needed. Unfortunately,...
Train Your Brain to Get Thin
Prime Your Gray Cells for Weight Loss, Wellness, and Exercise
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
Get your brain fit--and your body will follow!
Conventional wisdom has always been that in order to lose weight, you need to eat less and move more. But skyrocketing obesity rates tell us that it's not that simple. If you really want to get in shape and stay that way, you need to start at the...
by Claire Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Anxious about managing medicines? Worried you’ll make a mistake? This handy book is an essential guide for all nursing students, enabling you to understand the theory and practice of drug administration and facilitate your confidence and competence.
This essential guide explores the theory...
Principled Practices for Adolescent Literacy
A Framework for Instruction and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book presents an evidence-based framework for understanding the literacy needs of adolescents. The premise is that educators and other critical stakeholders need to understand evidence-based principles in order to develop effective curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners. Recommendations...
by William Boyd Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
“Parallax,” the Founder of the Zetetic Philosophy, is dead; and it now becomes the duty of those, especially, who knew him personally and who labored with him in the cause of Truth against Error, to begin, anew, the work which is left in their hands. Dr. Samuel B. Rowbotham finished his earthly...
by Gary A. Boyd, John McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation, just as the adoption of international style modernism in architecture was perceived as a way to escape the colonial past. Accordingly, infrastructure...
Body Talk
A Power Guide for Girls
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
**Is your body tired of being talked at, judged, gossiped about, silenced or ignored?
Then this is the book for you. It?s time to take control of the talk, so the conversation starts going your way.**
You have more freedom than before, but you also have more challenges. Body Talk gives...
by Sarah B. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Life-Cycle Assessment of Semiconductors presents the first and thus far only available transparent and complete life cycle assessment of semiconductor devices. A lack of reliable semiconductor LCA data has been a major challenge to evaluation of the potential environmental benefits of information...
Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life
Might We All Be Aliens?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have been produced in the cosmos, and that the fact that the Earthly amino acids have a specific handedness...