L C: 1760 books
by Marvin K.L. Ching, Michael C. Haley, Ronald F. Lunsford
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems. In their introductory chapter, the editors of this collection of essays, by linguists on either side...
What Is Crime?
Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal...
by Barney L. Capehart, Ph.D., C.E.M.
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Completely revised and edited throughout, includes four new chapters covering electrical distribution systems; motors and drives; building commissioning; and the impact of human behavior on facility energy management. Also updated are chapters on lighting, HVAC systems, web based building automation...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Commodified and Criminalized
New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white...
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development
From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection...
by C.L. Parker
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Ils ont été rivaux acharnés et amants passionnés. Aujourd’hui, Cassidy et Shaw, tous deux agents sportifs, sont sur le point de jouer le seul rôle dont ils ignorent tout : celui de parents. Mais cette nouvelle donne dans leur relation menace d’atténuer le désir qui les a jadis poussé l’un...
Reconsidering Roots
Race, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...
Indian English Poetry
A Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Indian English poetry, which after independence breathed the air of freedom with an identity of its own, is rich in conception and execution. The charge that mere rubbish is being dished out in the name of Indian English poetry is not true. The poets who are rich in content as well as form remain...
by Carol S. Baugh, Melanie F. Myers, Michael S. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...
by Barney L. Capehart, Ph.D., C.E.M
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
The goal of this book is to bring to the forefront the huge benefits to energy and facility managers of the emergence and continuing development of technologies and applications in the area of energy information and control systems. This wave of information technology (IT) and web-based energy information...
Whispers of the Serpent
Zoë Delante Thrillers, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
No rest for the Wiccan.
Who is murdering babies in the Baltimore/D.C. area? For Zoë Delante, police clairvoyant, things gets personal when her one-year-old niece ends up missing. Someone is using magick to control and kidnap people, and they keep finding strange scales at all the crime scenes....
Face to Face with the Face
Working with the Face and the Cranial Nerves through Cranio-Sacral Integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Practical and clear, this comprehensive guide to cranio-sacral treatment of the face explains treatment approaches that can make a significant difference to persistent and intractable conditions, enabling profound transformation in quality of life through whole-person integration.
The book...
Clinical Acupuncture
Scientific Basis
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Acupuncture is rapidly moving out of the arena of "alternative" medicine, in large part because it is grounded more firmly than other alternative treatments in research. This book provides readers with the up-to-date information on the clinical bases of acupuncture.