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Book cover of The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption
by Peter C. Whybrow, Sarah F. Brosnan, Darby Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014

Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption. Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....
Book cover of Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy E-Book
by Lonie R Salkowski, MD, Jamie Weir
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010

Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy, 4th Edition provides a solid foundation for understanding human anatomy. Jamie Weir, Peter Abrahams, Jonathan D. Spratt, and Lonie Salkowski offer a complete and 3-dimensional view of the structures and relationships within the body through a variety of imaging modalities....
Book cover of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants
by Carlos Aguilar, Mary Grace Antony, Heather L. Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017

As global societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. This book addresses this lapse by presenting interdisciplinary perspectives...
Book cover of Blood in the Hills

Blood in the Hills

A History of Violence in Appalachia

by Bruce E. Stewart, Kevin T. Barksdale, Kathryn Shively Meier
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011

To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After the Civil War, this characterization continued...
Book cover of The Taste of American Place

The Taste of American Place

A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods

by Cary W. de Wit, Stephen Frenkel, Marjorie A. Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999

Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
Book cover of Theistic Evolution

Theistic Evolution

A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique

by Douglas Axe, C. John Collins, John D. Currid
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two...
Book cover of Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

A Century of Science Fiction

by Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Book cover of Life Cycle Assessment in Industry and Business

Life Cycle Assessment in Industry and Business

Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications

by Paolo Frankl, M. Bartolomeo, H. Baumann
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

1.1 Life Cycle Assessment (LeA): a fascinating and sophisticated tool The greening of the economy is not a new task, but it is a challenge for which a lot of tasks still have to be done. It is known that the main source of environ­ mental deterioration by industry is not any more the chimneys and...
Book cover of Transforming Undergraduate Education

Transforming Undergraduate Education

Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed

by Jann H. Adams, Jerzy Axer, Kenneth R. Bain
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
Book cover of Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations
by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...
Book cover of The Roswell Dig Diaries
by SCI FI Channel, Donald R. Schmitt, Thomas J. Carey
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

In July 1947, something crashed in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico. What that object was, as well as what happened in the days following the crash, has been hotly disputed ever since. Did the United States government cover up the existence of an extraterrestrial UFO? Were alien bodies recovered...
Book cover of Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 1
by Lisa K. Williams, Prof. Tom J. Humphrey, Dr Sabrina Vandeplas
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...
Book cover of Fallen

Fallen

A Theology of Sin

by Gerald Bray, David B. Calhoun, D. A. Carson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013

From marital infidelity to global war, the world is obviously broken, leaving people desperate to find an explanation for our universal sin problem. In the latest addition to the Theology in Community series, Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson have assembled an interdisciplinary team of evangelical...
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National Service and Volunteerism

Achieving Impact in Our Communities

by Maria-Elena Augustin, Emily Bachman, Koen P. R. Bartels
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...
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