Marcus: 2128 books

Have aches and pains, which refuse to leave? Want to make a change to your diet in order to find relief? Samantha Marcus pinpoints the importance of having an anti inflammatory diet and the best recipes to consider going down this route. Being on this diet does not mean you are going...

Institutionalized Persuasion provides new information about the history and dynamics of coercion in residential teen treatment settings. While private sector programs continue to make millions utilizing dangerous yet unregulated methods, adolescents are abused each year in the name of treatment. By...

Panegírico es un artefacto bicéfalo, un mosaico que guarda un enigma. En su Tomo primero (1989) encontramos unas memorias escritas a modo de autorretrato a la deriva y sin concesiones a lo que el buen tono de nuestra época admite como válido. El Tomo segundo (1997) contiene una serie de pruebas...

Despite many scholars noting the interdisciplinary approach of Aboriginal knowledge production as a methodology within a broad range of subjects – including quantum mathematics, biodiversity, sociology and the humanities - the academic study of Indigenous knowledge and people is struggling to become...

Charting the development of the travel plan as a concept, this book draws on a range of research-based contributions to determine the state-of-the-art and to explore a series of future scenarios in this area for practitioners and policy makers. Site-based mobility management or 'travel plans' address...

Realizing that a fairytale ending to each of their marriages was not going to happen, Bishop Marcus D. Hill and Minister Delendra TarsaVena Peterson were each forced to start new chapters of their lives. Although they did not know each other at the time, the two of them were asking themselves the...

How do societies decide whom to criminalize? What does it mean to accuse someone of being an offender? Entryways to Criminal Justice analyzes the thresholds that distinguish law-abiding individuals from those who may be criminalized. Contributors to the volume adopt social, historical, cultural, and...

Abducted by militants and taken to a fetid bunker deep in the mountains of North Waziristan, a journalist meets a dying holy man who saddles him with an ominous obligation. The obligation is unclear and Reis knows the man will expire within hours, freeing him from responsibility. He does nothing and...

“The Mistress of Stantons Farm” is novel by naturalist and nature writer Marcus Woodward. This charming tale offers the reader an authentic and informative insight into traditional rural life in England, interwoven with interesting facts and tips on how to better appreciate nature. Not to be missed...

11 year old Sarah almost dies during a violent gang attack in school. Aged 21 she starts a new job in an I.T. office and is confronted in the pub after work by her stalker who over the next few years becomes an increasing presence in her life and the situation quickly builds to one of nightmarish...

Dogs that visit patients with cancer have been convincingly shown to reduce stress, loneliness, and mood disturbance that may complicate cancer care. In addition, dogs may provide important motivation for patients to maintain rehabilitation programs that have been shown to reduce cancer risk and improve...

Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions. Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players....

This book explores fundamental aspects of geometric network optimisation with applications to a variety of real world problems. It presents, for the first time in the literature, a cohesive mathematical framework within which the properties of such optimal interconnection networks can be understood...

Hermaphrodites are probably the most misunderstood people on earth. Often shunned by "straight" and "homosexuals" alike, their life is often a hard path. Ridiculed by society as a whole theirs is not a life they have chosen, but what fate and nature have given them. Hopefully this book will give a better understanding of them.