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Charitable Choices
Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.
Charitable Choices is an ethnographic...
Messy Eating
Conversations on Animals as Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A thought-provoking collection of interviews with a variety of scholars that weaves their intellectual and political orientations with their daily intimate practices of preparing and eating food.
by A. P. Schaffarczyk
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Wind-Turbine Aerodynamics is a self-contained textbook which shows how to come from the basics of fluid mechanics to modern wind turbine blade design. It presents a fundamentals of fluid dynamics and inflow conditions, and gives a extensive introduction into theories describing the aerodynamics of...
by Michael Hauskeller, Chris A. Kramer, Will Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift’s writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it demonstrates how well informed Swift’s criticism...
World-Systems Theory in Practice
Leadership, Production, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1998
In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric...
Listening to Sexual Minorities
A Study of Faith and Sexual Identity on Christian College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Students arrive on campus with various boxes of belongings to unpack, some heavy, some tidy, some more valuable, some more private. For many students, two of these boxes could be labeled "My Faith" and "My Sexuality"—and these two can be among the most cumbersome to handle. How to balance the two...
History as Prelude
Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world—intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic—creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History...
National Service and Volunteerism
Achieving Impact in Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national...
Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites
Zero- to Three-Dimensional Materials and Their Composites
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Nanomaterials are defined as materials in which at least one length dimension is below 100 nanometers. In this size regime, these materials exhibit particular - and tunable - optical, electrical or mechanical properties that are not present at the macro-scale. This opens up the possibility for a plethora...
by Stephen A. Smith, P.S. Atiyah
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
Atiyah's Introduction to the Law of Contract is a well-known text through which thousands of university students have first encountered the law of contract, and the new edition has long been eagerly awaited by university teachers and students. This sixth edition, updated by Stephen Smith, continues...
by Dato' R. Palan Ph.D., A.P.T., FBILD(UK).
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Creating Your Own Rainbow, features of a Rainbow, Life Management, Successful life, focus of life, Life satisfaction, Managing by Wandering about (MBWA)
Personal Accountability, Authentic Change, independent leadership, positive mindset, Self-Reflection, Clear Thinking
Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems
An Anisotropy-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems takes an anisotropy-based approach to the explanation of random input disturbance with an information-theoretic representation. It describes the random input signal more precisely, and the anisotropic norm minimization included in the book enables readers...
by Michael A Collins, Matthew Addicoat, Anthony J H M Meijer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The focus of this excellent textbook is the topic of molecular reaction dynamics. The chapters are all written by internationally recognised researchers and, from the outset, the contributors are writing with the young scientist in mind. The easy to use, stand-alone, chapters make it of value to students,...
by A.P.L. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book, first published in 1928, was written at a time when the tendency in industry was towards the formation of large combines. With competition growing as markets and methods of communication grew, many manufacturers considered their only option was to unite in self-defence, setting up a movement...