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Those Damned Immigrants
America’s Hysteria over Undocumented Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the
dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after
Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant,
was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his...
The Definitive Guide to Cancer, 3rd Edition
An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This comprehensive guide delivers informed hope along with effective tools for reclaiming your vitality in the midst of cancer treatment, healing, and recovery.
When you or a loved one is faced with a cancer diagnosis, the need for accurate and trusted medical information becomes urgent. Naturopathic...
by Richard A. Santillán, Joseph Thompson, Mikaela Selley
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Mexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas pays tribute to the baseball and softball players and teams from Houston, Sugar Land, Texas City, Richmond, and other surrounding communities in the region. Since the early 1900s, this game has had an important role in the lives of area Mexican...
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Reviews latest research on zoonoses affecting poultry meat such as Salmonella and Campylobacter as well as methods for their control on the poultry farm and in the slaughterhouse
Summarises advances in understanding and optimising poultry quality traits such as flavour, colour, tenderness, shelf life...
by William N. Findley, Francis A. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Pioneering book presents basic theory, experimental methods and results, solution of boundary value problems. Topics include creep, stress and strain, deformation analyses, multiple integral representation of nonlinear creep and relaxation, much more. Appendices. Bibliography.
by Patricia Alvarenga, Roger E. Bonilla-Calderón, Mónica Brenes
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica provides the first comprehensive examination of transnational migration patterns into and out of Costa Rica. This impressive edited volume brings together the work of 18 top scholars from diverse social science backgrounds to analyze Costa...
Treadmill of Production
Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Schnaiberg's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of environmental sociology. Elaborated and tested, it has been found to be an accurate predictor of political-economic changes in the global economy. In the global South,...
by Richard A. Santillán, Gregory Garrett, Juan D. Coronado
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Mexican American Baseball in South Texas pays tribute to the former baseball teams and players from Edinburg, McAllen, Mission, Pharr, Donna, Alamo, San Juan, Brownsville, Harlingen, and other surrounding communities. From the late 19th century through the 1950s, baseball in South Texas provided opportunities...
After the Victorians
The Decline of Britain in the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The distinguished historian A.N. Wilson has charted, in vivid detail, Britain's rise to world dominance, a tale of how one small island nation came to be the mightiest, richest country on earth, reigning over much of the globe. Now in his much anticipated sequel to the classic The Victorians, he describes...
by Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab, He Wenqi, Ali Mansour
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
New image-processing tools and data-processing network systems have considerably increased the volume of transmitted information such as 2D and 3D images with high resolution. Thus, more complex networks and long processing times become necessary, and high image quality and transmission speeds are...
Fracture and Damage Mechanics for Structural Engineering of Frames
State-of-the-Art Industrial Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
The certification of the structural integrity of buildings, bridges, and mechanical components is one of the main goals of engineers. For civil engineers especially, understanding the tools available for infrastructure analysis is an essential part of designing, constructing, and maintaining safe...
Globalization and Education
Integration and Contestation across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
The effects of globalization have long been dealt with in terms of economic and technological consequences, but what about the influence on education? Though still not a precise concept, what we understand as “globalization” is bringing forth numerous and profound changes in the economic, cultural,...
by Y. N. Grigorenko, V.S. Sobolev, T. A. Andiyeva
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Much of the world’s petroleum is located on continental margins, and any further development of these offshore deposits would be impossible without new technologies and new methods contained in this volume. Written by some of the world’s foremost authorities on oil and gas, this volume explains...
De harpij
een kleine geschiedenis van het paradijs
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Een man, lopend langs de snelweg, wordt opgepakt en verklaart dat hij een duivel is. Of eigenlijk: een voormalige administrateur uit de hel. Hij wordt opgesloten in een inrichting, en het is deze ongerijmde patiënt die, met verve en satanische humor, aan een dokter het verhaal vertelt van zijn herkomst,...