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Unlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context.Both students and instructors will find in these pages a fresh and original...

This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the study of the dialects of English as they are spoken around the world, from the earliest dialect dictionaries of the sixteenth century to contemporary research emerging from the field of geolinguistics. Organised into ten thematic...

What the ancients knew well and folklore has long celebrated, modern science now concedes: Color abounds with psychic significance. It's not just a manner of speaking when we say that we 'see red' when angry, 'feel blue' when sad, or 'turn green' with envy. Color divination can indeed point the way through...

This brand new eBook edition of our international bestseller falls on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. In this epoch of instability, crisis, war and ever-growing inequality, Marxism is becoming an increasingly attractive proposition to millions of workers and young people around...

Unlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context. The second edition of this award-winning book has been substantially...

The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map. Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline. From...

Once you’re on the synchronicity highway, you’re traveling through a realm that often seems as magical and strange as Alice’s Wonderland. You feel connected to something larger than yourself and your immediate world. Your perceptions change, you see and experience yourself and life differently. You become immersed in a mystery that often defies reason and logic.

For many people Brazil conjures up images of football, Carnaval and fine coffee, but it is much more than beaches and bossa nova. If you could choose only one word to describe Brazil, it would be diversity. The variety of racial types, lifestyles, wealth, landscape and climate is enormous. Jeitinho...

A collection of political views from a liberal point of view. This book covers topics from gun control to civil rights and economic difficulties that many Americans face. This book is the first of ten from the author and is the one that got the whole America Views From the Left franchise off the ground as a podcast and blog would soon follow.

This book is a collection of my all-time favorite stories from working with patients as a medical professional over the past seventeen years. I have witnessed and been a part of some amazing experiences ranging from hilarious to shocking to just plain disgusting. I've told these stories many times...

What are the possibilities for process mining in hospitals?  In this book the authors provide an answer to this question by presenting a healthcare reference model that outlines all the different classes of data that are potentially available for process mining in healthcare and the relationships...

A concise history of Saddam’s road to ruin the denouement of Iraq.“The Lowdown: A Short History of the First Gulf War” gives an explanation of the causes of the Gulf War in 199091 and how the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s shaped the political and diplomatic landscape that led to a confrontation between...

The intention of the founding fathers was to have a well regulated militia, but that is not what we have in 2018 in America in regards to the second amendment and guns. What we have is something far more dangerous and what that is sadly is an unregulated populace. This book tells the story...

Stanley is a sugarcane farmer in Englewood, Florida. He and other residents live around the ancient Indian Mounds in town and are afflicted by their presence. The town morally erodes and its townspeople succumb to disastrous indulgences. Stanley's friends and his son's (Chip) friends work together...