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Book cover of The Encultured Brain

The Encultured Brain

An Introduction to Neuroanthropology

by Katherine C. MacKinnon, Agustín Fuentes, M. Cameron Hay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012

Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture. The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately...
Book cover of Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation 3/E
by Ronald Moen, Thomas W Nolan, Lloyd P Provost
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

The latest experimental design techniques for quality improvement "The methods taught in this book are a major contribution to statistical methods as an aid to engineers, as well as to those in industry, education, or government who are trying to understand the meaning of fi gures derived from...
Book cover of Updates in Colo-Proctology
by A. Akovbiantz, P. Buchmann, C.A. Cabre-Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

"Updates in Colo-Proctology" covers the proceedings of the Anglo-Swiss Colo-Proctology Meeting held in St Moritz in 1990. The book contains the papers which were presented and dis­ cussed there by physicians of the various specialties concerned with the care of patients with diseases of...
Book cover of Environmental Law Handbook
by Kevin A. Ewing, Duke K. McCall III, David R. Case
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019

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...
Book cover of The Classic Fantasy Collection
by Robert Ervin Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, G. G. Pendarves
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

Epic romances, fearsome dragons and alien worlds lie between the pages of this volume. Containing more than 35 stories from the early masters of fantasy literature, the narratives here transport the reader to alternate worlds where magic abounds, cosmic terrors lie around the corner and intrepid heroes...
Book cover of The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
by W. P. Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017

“A memorable addition to the literature about the summer’s game” from the author of Shoeless Joe—the basis for the film Field of Dreams (Detroit Free Press). Bearing W. P. Kinsella’s trademark combination of “sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world,” The Iowa Baseball...
Book cover of The Improvement Guide

The Improvement Guide

A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

by Gerald J. Langley, Ronald D. Moen, Kevin M. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009

This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational...
Book cover of The Animal Why Book - Pictures by Edwin Noble
by W. P. Pycraft
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014

This lovely children's book provides an interesting insight to the anatomy and behaviour of the animals of the British countryside and farmyard. It endeavours to answer questions such as Why are the horns of the deer branched?, Why does the rabbit have a white tail? and Why the Sheep has a woolly...
Book cover of Life with the Greenland Esquimaux, Illustrated
by W P Snow
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

A journey to the home of the Esquimaux in Greenland during the mid Nineteenth Century exploring the Native customs and habits.
Book cover of Russian Dolls

Russian Dolls

Stories from the Breathing Castle

by W. P. Kinsella
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

Russian Dolls weaves in and out of the real and imaginary worlds of Wylie, a struggling author and self-proclaimed “unreliable narrator”, as he finds and then loses his muse, Christie, in their shared home - aptly named the “Breathing Castle” - in East Vancouver. Woven into the story of their...
Book cover of A History of St Peter’S Church, Brighton
by P.D.W.Nicholl
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013

During the course of the 19th and 20th centuries Brighton grew from a small fishing village on the Sussex coast to a large thriving city, popular with residents and visitors alike. Much building work went on during this time, but sadly many of the theatres, cinemas, dance halls and churches that were...
Book cover of Lincoln's Enduring Legacy

Lincoln's Enduring Legacy

Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment

by Danny Adkison, John Barr, Byron Daynes
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010

Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
Book cover of Tohopeka

Tohopeka

Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812

by Susan M. Abram, Robert P. Collins, Gregory Evans Dowd
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012

Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.   Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
Book cover of The Weimar Moment

The Weimar Moment

Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law

by Peter C. Caldwell, Christophe Chalamet, Rodrigo Chacón
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012

The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
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