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Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong. Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...

*Best Nonfiction Book about Florida Award for 2015 from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association*Key Biscayne is an island paradise umbilically connected to Miami by a three-and-a-half-mile-long causeway. Its recorded history is one of the longest in North America, starting five centuries ago with...

This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels...

The rapid growth and development of urban areas in the South have resulted in an increase in the number of urban archaeology projects required by federal and state agencies. These projects provide opportunities not only to investigate marginal areas between the town and countryside but also to recover...

Christian therapists doing family therapy have never had a resource to help them navigate the various family therapy theories from a Christian perspective--until now. In this book Mark A. Yarhouse and James N. Sells survey the major approaches to family therapy and treat, within a Christian framework,...

Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality. This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide...

Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.” Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning...

When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics...

Pau es un ejecutivo aburrido de su vida que quiere dejar la gran ciudad para empezar de cero en un pueblo de montaña. Lleva tiempo sin decidirse a dar el paso, hasta que una noche conoce a Sandra, una joven bailarina, y a Diego, un viejo pastor del Pirineo Aragonés que quiere volver...

The Tales of Montvillard, three short stories from The Wosnick Tunnel universe, which bring us to the countryside of the small town of Montvillard where different lives, past, present and future, cross paths with a looming technological doom. In “The Summers Of Miss Fagouasse”, we follow the life...

Based on the Commonwealth Harvard Alcohol Research and Teaching Program, this clinically oriented work is designed to give internists and primary care practitioners the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and care for patients with alcoholism.

El tomo V de Materia Laboral, cuarto de los tomos de Materias específicas, desarrolla en 20 temas la materia laboral, dentro de la cual figuran temas de Derecho laboral y temas de Derecho procesal laboral, de tal manera que los aspirantes disponen del material que les permite preparar adecuadamente...

"La igualdad es una necesidad vital del alma humana. La misma cantidad de respeto y de atencin se debe a todo ser humano, porque el respeto no tiene grados." Weil, Simone: El pleno reconocimiento de los derechos humanos y de la dignidad humana de todas las personas es el inicio para construir...

In the 26th century the last person on Earth wrote the epitaph for humanity. "Greed and stupidity came to rule our world. We all thought we would survive it. We were wrong." Then an alien entity representing the Continuity intervenes by manipulating events in time to change the outcome....