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Vulnerability in Technological Cultures
New Directions in Research and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology.
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable...
The Competitiveness of West African Economies in the Chinese Market
West African Economies in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, Xiamen University, language: English, abstract: West Africa is one of the regions on the African continent with abundant natural resources ranging from vast forest and arable land to mineral deposits. According...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
by Peter M. Burkholder, Shannon DuBose, James Wayne Dye
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Due to the unprecedented interest which the announcement of the topic of epistemology evoked from contributors, two annual volumes will be devoted to it. This volume accordingly is entitled Epistemology I, and the next volume will be entitled Epistemology II. The Editor KNOWING IN THE STRONG SENSE...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
The Common Sense Guide to Your Child's Special Needs
When to Worry, When to Wait, What to Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
What does it mean when a child is having difficulty with developmental milestones like walking, talking, and learning to read and write? What are the signs that a disability might be present, and what next steps can parents take to help their child?
Pediatrician Louis Pellegrino gives you clear...
by Elise B. Halajian, Zachary Nye, John M. Lavelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Zero-in on exactly what you must know to pass the OMM section of the COMLEX with this unique student-to-student guide
"As a test preparation book, this is a distillation of the OMM concepts and techniques that are considered pertinent to the examination. This is a very worthy idea primarily...
In the Crucible of Chronic Lyme Disease
Collected Writings & Associated Materials
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Following completion of his medical training and a one-year stint as attending physician on Howard Champion's Surgical Critical Care Service and MedStar Unit at Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, Kenneth Liegner, M.D. returned to Westchester County, home of his Alma Mater, New...
Operative Ultrasonography
During Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Surgery an essentially manual exercise in its early days, has progressively grown richer in complementary techniques helping the surgeon to perfect his movements and increase efficiency. This is particularly the case with digestive surgery, which has been thoroughly transformed by radiology, endoscopy...
by Michael M. Franz, Paul B. Freedman, Kenneth M. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
It has been estimated that more than three million political ads were televised leading up to the elections of 2004. More than $800,000,000 was spent on TV ads in the race for the White House alone and presidential candidates, along with their party and interest group allies, broadcast over a million...
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.
A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
by William B. MacCracken, M. D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Use Your Own Eyes was first published in 1937. The book was printed by The Professional Press (Berkeley, California).
The author is a physician with over forty years practice of general medicine. After having worn glasses constantly for thirty-seven years, he cures his own eyesight...
by Susan M. Alt, Melissa R. Baltus, Kenneth B. Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America
Across North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide...