Michael A: 1281 books
Retaking Rationality
How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In Retaking Rationality,...
Political Humor in a Changing Media Landscape
A New Generation of Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
In the past decade various studies have examined how political humor may influence various political attitudes and voting behavior; whether it affects learning, cognition and media literacy, how it might shape political participation; how people process different forms of political humor; and more....
The Politics of War
Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
War often unites a society behind a common cause, but the notion of diverse populations all rallying together to fight on the same side disguises the complex social forces that come into play in the midst of perceived unity. Michael A. McDonnell uses the Revolution in Virginia to examine the political...
Constructing Catalan Identity
Memory, Imagination, and the Medieval
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This is a book about how Catalans use their past, real and imagined, in the construction of their present and future. Michael A. Vargas inventories the significant people, signal events, and familiar icons that constitute the Catalan collective memory, from Wilfred the Hairy and Sant Jordi to the...
by Michael A. Heck
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
This sequel to Dancing with the Angels finds Michael Angel continuing to live a life of loneliness since the death of his wife four years ago. He continues to operate several family businesses in a small town where he does not venture out in public with others. He seeks solitude at his home among...
Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Primatology in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
This book introduces to the reader unfamiliar with primatology in Japan three research projects representative of the unique multidisciplinary approach carried out by scientists at Kyoto University, the country’s premier institution for primate studies. The projects are all aimed at understanding...
The Supplement Pyramid
How to Build Your Personalized Nutritional Regimen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
One of the most common questions Dr Michael A. Smith hears from people is: 'I eat a pretty healthy diet. Do I really need to take supplements?' His answer is always a resounding 'Yes!' And there is a very good reason. In this book, Dr Smith covers the many reasons why even the healthiest diets fall...
Stroke E-Book
Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
First published in 1986 under the editorial direction of Dr. Henry J.M. Barnett, Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management continues to provide the dependable, current answers you need to effectively combat the increasing incidence of this disease. Dr. J.P. Mohr, together with new associate...
by Hani H Abujudeh, MD, MBA
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Part of the highly respected Requisites series, Radiology Noninterpretive Skills, by Drs. Hani H. Abujudeh and Michael A. Bruno, is a single-volume source of timely information on all of the non-imaging aspects of radiology such as quality and safety, ethics and professionalism, and error management...
Mind Unmasked
A Political Phenomenology of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The human mind has proven uniquely capable of unraveling untold mysteries, and yet, the mind is fundamentally challenged when it turns back on itself to ask what it itself is. How do we conceive of mind in this postmodern world; how can we use philosophical anthropology to understand mind and its...
by Michael A. Maney
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Amy Devlin, whom her parents call “Buttons”, is a bright and popular six grade student. She is a happy child, but that’s before tragedy strikes in the form of death. Now suffering from nightmares, the child’s education and life are compromised. Years later Amy is diagnosed with a personality...
Early Social Interaction
A Case Comparison of Developmental Pragmatics and Psychoanalytic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
When a young child begins to engage in everyday interaction, she has to acquire competencies that allow her to be oriented to the conventions that inform talk-in-interaction and, at the same time, deal with emotional or affective dimensions of experience. The theoretical positions associated with...
by Michael A. Burt
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
When a closed off Homicide Detective has to break in a new partner, things buried in his past are drudged up. Ten years and the love of his life still haunts him, a love he never got over closes a fist on his heart. Will it break him to remember everything they had, or will he finally be released from the torment of memory?
by Michael A. Burt
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
From the fire of Section Eight's annihilation, a new enemy emerges. The arrival of Azalie Ravenwood has brought death to the Brute's doorstep once again. Decan's assigned to the investigation as a U.S. Marshall, and he's right in the line of Azalie's cross-hairs. Suspicion rises when Decan receives messages from her at the scenes, leaving one question. What is the truth of Decan Morris?