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Book cover of Viewpoints on Media Effects

Viewpoints on Media Effects

Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers

by Andrew W. Cole, Megan R. Hill, R. Lance Holbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...
Book cover of Achieving Competencies in Public Service: The Professional Edge
by James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, Marcia A. Beck
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, and multi-sector careers - require a 'skills triangle' of technical, ethical, and leadership abilities. This concise and readable work focuses on these three essential skills, and describes...
Book cover of Handbook of Models for Human Aging
by Stephen A. Benjamin, Caleb E. Finch, John C. Guerin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011

The Handbook of Models for Human Aging is designed as the only comprehensive work available that covers the diversity of aging models currently available. For each animal model, it presents key aspects of biology, nutrition, factors affecting life span, methods of age determination, use in research,...
Book cover of The Santa Claus Library (Illustrated and active TOC)
by Charles Dickens, L. Frank Baum, Mary Louisa Molesworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018

The santa claus library is a collection of books for Christmas to spend the Christmas hollidays with the most grandiose stories
Book cover of Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education
by Liliana Mammino, Franz Rauch-Alpen-Adria, Kenneth M. Doxsee
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

Educating the next generation of chemists about green chemistry issues, such as waste minimisation and clean synthesis, is vital for environmental sustainability. This book enables green issues to be taught from the underlying principles of all chemistry courses rather than in isolation. Chapters contributed...
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Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

by William Boyd, S. Edelson, Edda L. Fields-Black
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018

One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In...
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Is There Life After Football?

Surviving the NFL

by Richard S. Jones, George E. Koonce, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014

A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenges players face after leaving the NFL to the factors that can enable them to continue to find success 2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Is There Life After Football?draws upon the experiences...
Book cover of Wireless Security: Know It All
by Jon S. Wilson, John Rittinghouse, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf! Communications engineers need...
Book cover of Handbook of Oral History
by Mary Chamberlain, Pamela Dean, James E. Fogerty
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this...
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The Problem of Evil

New Philosophical Directions

by Hugo Strandberg, Jennifer Mei Sze Ang, A. G. Holdier
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015

This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests. For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the academy have thought about evil and its relation to religious belief. The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical...
Book cover of Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families

Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families

Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service

by Sayali S. Amarapurkar, Laura Bates, Libby Balter Blume
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...
Book cover of Alabama and the Borderlands

Alabama and the Borderlands

From Prehistory To Statehood

by Marvin T. Smith, Bruce D. Smith, Richard A. Krause
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009

Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto...
Book cover of Rethinking Social Movements

Rethinking Social Movements

Structure, Meaning, and Emotion

by Myra Marx Ferree, Richard Flacks, Marshall Ganz
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003

This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides—as...
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Innovations in Child and Family Policy

Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families

by Emily M. Douglas, Loretta L. C. Brady, Melissa Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010

Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
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