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Noback's Human Nervous System, Seventh Edition
Structure and Function
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
With this seventh edition, Noback’s Human Nervous System: Structure and Function continues to combine clear prose with exceptional original illustrations that provide a concise lucid depiction of the human nervous system. The book incorporates recent advances in neurobiology and molecular biology....
Culturally Proficient Collaboration
Use and Misuse of School Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Optimize school counselors and raise your school’s cultural competence
The authors make a compelling case for recognizing professional school counselors as leaders of 21st-century change rather than "gatekeepers" of the status quo. Today’s school leaders need to acknowledge counselors’...
Creating and Sustaining Arts-Based School Reform
The A+ Schools Program
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Taking a close look at the issue of the arts and school reform, this book explores in detail how the incorporation of the arts into the identity of a school can be key to its resilience. Based on the A+ School Program, an arts-based school reform effort, it is much more than a report of a single case...
Empathy
From Bench to Bedside
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.
There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help...
Quo Vadis, Evangelicalism?
Perspectives on the Past, Direction for the Future: Nine Presidential Addresses from the First Fifty Years of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
Quo vadis?-Where are you going?-is an appropriate question to ask of the current evangelical movement. To get a bearing on evangelical thought and assess future directions, the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Andreas J. Köstenberger, has gathered selected addresses from...
by B. L. Moiseiwitsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The ability to solve problems in applied mathematics depends upon understanding concepts rather than memorizing formulas or rote learning. This volume bridges the gap between lectures and practical applications, offering students of mathematics, engineering, and physics the chance to practice solving...
by B. L. Moiseiwitsch
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This graduate-level text's primary objective is to demonstrate the expression of the equations of the various branches of mathematical physics in the succinct and elegant form of variational principles (and thereby illuminate their interrelationship). Its related intentions are to show how variational...
Quantum Electrodynamics
Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Several significant additions have been made to the second edition, including the operator method of calculating the bremsstrahlung cross-section, the calcualtion of the probabilities of photon-induced pair production and photon decay in a magnetic
field, the asymptotic form of the scattering amplitudes...
Issues in Corrections
Research, Policy, and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Since the 1970s, the corrections system has experienced exponential growth. Over the past four decades, the number of inmates held in US prisons and jails has quadrupled. This massive growth is associated with a number of different issues and challenges within prisons and jails, including overcrowding;...
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering
Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...
Green Criminology
Crime, Justice, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This groundbreaking text provides students with an overview and assessment of green criminology as well as a call to action. *Green Criminology *draws attention to the ways in which the political-economic organization of capitalism causes ecological destruction and disorganization. Focusing on real-world...
by B. L. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Petra Larson is a head turner; people notice her more than other women. Young, smart and confident, she is an example of a beautiful, successful woman who appears to have it all, but there is more to her than meets the eye: her job at a lettings agency cloaks a dangerous and lucrative secret life....
by Doris L. Chitty, Geoffrey B. Ruggles
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Initially settled in 1777 within the town of Gilmanton, Gilford became incorporated on June 16, 1812. Gilford is different from surrounding towns because it originated as a farming settlement, with pastures being cleared as early as 1762. The construction of the Lake Shore Railroad brought many tourists,...
An Unseen Light
Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...