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by R. P. Deiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
The national media named me the Piano Man. It’s because I love to use a piano wire garrote to strangle my helpless victims. It’s been 15 years since I held the Fox River Valley in an icy grip of terror. I’ve missed the power I held over others. The fear I’ve felt in them as my wire tightened...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Reclaiming the Center
Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in Postmodern Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
"When evangelicals confuse an improper passion for novelty witha proper pursuit of academic and pastoral relevance, the resultscan be distressing. I cannot express how grateful I am for thewell-formed wisdom with which this book points to the abiding anddecisive relevance for future route-finding...
Eagle's Talon
Bears and Eagles, #3
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
It feels as though World War 1 could come to an end any day now, and the Canadian unit, the Bears and Eagles, who call themselves simply, The Regiment, are chomping at the bit to get overseas and do their part.
Russia is in the midst of postrevolutionary chaos and decending into civil war....
by Christopher Bell, F. William Brownell, David R. Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible...
by Jaakko Stenros, Torill Elvira Mortensen, Victor Navarro-Remesal
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
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....
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...
Time's River
Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast.
The...
Preventive Measures
Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition.
This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
by Nirmal Sinha, Jean-Luc Le Quéré, Raquel P. F. Guiné
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Acting as chemical messengers for olfactory cells, food flavor materials are organic compounds that give off a strong, typically pleasant smells. Handbook of Fruit and Vegetable Flavors explores the flavor science and technology of fruits and vegetables, spices, and oils by first introducing specific...
by D.C. Allen, A.J. Blackshaw, W.V. Bogomoletz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There have been many advances in the field of gastrointestinal pa thology which are of considerable clinical significance during the 13 years since the last publication of a volume of Current Topics in Pathology devoted to this subject. Many have arisen from the app lication of new techniques...
Gotas que agrietan la roca
Crónicas, entrevistas y diálogos sobre territorios y acceso a la justicia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Con un prólogo del nobel de literatura José Saramago, en este libro encontramos una serie de crónicas sobre la historia del Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo. 'Gotas que agrietan la roca' es una invitación a conocer esas "salas de urgencia" de la convulsa historia reciente...