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Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and...

Wildlife Toxicity Assessments for Chemicals of Military Concern is a compendium of chemical-specific toxicity information with discussions on the rationale and development of Wildlife Toxicity Reference Values (TRVs) intended for use on terrestrial wildlife for risk assessment applications. Substances...

Wheat is the most widely cultivated cereal in the world and a staple food for around 3 billion people. It has been estimated that demand for wheat could increase by up to 560% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests and...

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One of the most sweeping, categorical, and absolute phrases that has ever been employed by the hierarchical teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church refers to a concept called ‘intrinsic evil’. In short, intrinsic evil is invoked to describe certain kinds of human acts that can never be...

This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected...

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...

How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs...

What Does a Strip Club, a Dead Man and a Dove Ice Cream Bar All Have in Common? Peaches Donnelly Peaches has a major problem: she's just been fired. Unaccustomed to filling her days with nothingness, she embroils herself toute suite in the recent murder of a childhood friend. However,...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...

For over seventy-five years Word Pictures in the New Testament has been a cornerstone of Bible scholarship. Now, the classic six-volume set has been condensed into a one-volume edition to make in-depth New Testament study accessible and enjoyable to a wider audience than ever. Each New Testament book...

Experience the first three novels in A. T. Ross's sweeping epic fantasy series, The Word and the Sword, collected for the first time together in one volume. Finian is an orphan with no knowledge of his family, sold into slavery, and rescued by Methuseld, a kindly mage who promises to help him find...

CORVINUS FINCHis an Inspector with the City Watch in Karvalahall, capital city of the Nulorian empire. Gruff, determined, and brilliant, Finch has spent his career solving crime, magical and otherwise. JOHN RALISSis a bright young man with less than a month on the Watch.Yet he has already proven...

Sometimes a Closet Full of Designer Shoes is Better Than a Good Lover... Loyalty has never been high on the list of characteristics in Cecily Washington's life. She prefers cash over love, designer shoes over men and freedom over marriage. On the eve of her 30th birthday bash she'll...