F A P A : 180 books
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall
Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes...
by P. Harris, R. Firsching, R.A. Frowein
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by H. Alvarez, I.S. Choi, G.M. Debrun
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The methods of interventional neuroradiology represent a distinct and difficult branch with in the new field of interventional radiology. The editor of this volume, Anton Valavanis, is a pioneer in this area, and one of the outstanding neuroradiologists in the world. Furthermore, he has brought...
Comparative Physiology and Evolution of Vision in Invertebrates
A: Invertebrate Photoreceptors
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the comparative physiology of photoreception by the Protista and the invertebrates two aspects are emphasized: (1) the diversity of visual processes in these groups and (2) their bearing upon general mechanisms of photoreception. Invertebrates have evolved a far greater variety of adaptations than...
by S.M. Dodd, D. Falkenstein, S. Goldfarb
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over recent years, much renal research has focused on the pathology of the glomerulus, where many primary renal insults occur. However, nearly thirty years have passed since Risdon's study made the apparently anomalous observation that the extent of damage to the tubulointerstitial compartment is...
Manual of Cable Osteosyntheses
History, Technical Basis, Biomechanics of the Tension Band Principle, and Instructions for Operation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In bone surgery it is essential to compress fractures interfragmentarily in order to make them resistant to the tensile force of muscles and the force resulting from acceleration and deceleration. This can be best achieved by the use of cable tension bands as a traction mechanism. The cable tension...
by David Bueno i Torrens, Marta Burguet Arfelis, M.ª Rosa Buxarrais Estrada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sean las que sean las diversas estrategias somos muchos los que sentimos que una pedagogía de la interioridad influye tanto en la calidad de la mirada con la que nos dirigimos a los demás, sean los alumnos o los compañeros, como en la profundidad de lo que vivimos?
Imprensa Pedagógica na Ibero-América
local, nacional e transnacional
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Os impressos, sobretudo as revistas, tornaram-se fontes privilegiadas e objeto de estudos no campo da História da Educação, desde a década de 1980. Os trabalhos que se debruçam sobre os periódicos permitem investigar as questões da Educação de uma maneira bastante peculiar. O trabalho com...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
La cristalina superficie del silencio
Muestra de los Juegos Florales de Zapotlán el Grande
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Este volumen es una muestra de la vitalidad cultural y poética de Zapotlán el Grande a través de la organización y premiación del certamen de los juegos florales, la jovial justa provenzal que los zapotlenses —entre ellos Juan José Arreola, de quien celebramos el centenario— comenzaron a...
by H.R. Friman, C.G. Garcia, P. Hobart
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Criminals, police, military forces, and civilians practice martial arts which often utilize weapons. One major difference is weather or not the weapons are handled according to legal guidelines. This special anthology includes insightful writings that focus on aspects of martial...