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Genetics
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional...
Your Memory
How It Works and How to Improve It
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Do you want to stop forgetting appointments, birthdays, and other important dates? Work more efficiently at your job? Study less and get better grades? Remember the names and faces of people you meet? The good news is that it's all possible. Your Memory will help to expand your memory abilities beyond...
Harder Than I Thought
Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Meet Jim Barton, new CEO of Santa Monica Aerospace. Jim's job won't be easy: the company's hemorrhaging cash, struggling to regain investors' trust after an accounting scandal, and striving to transform its military and manufacturing culture to become a global aerospace integrator.
Jim isn't...
The ROV Manual
A User Guide for Observation Class Remotely Operated Vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The ROV Manual: A User Guide for Observation-Class Remotely Operated Vehicles is the first manual to provide a basic ""How To"" for using small observation-class ROVs for surveying, inspection and research procedures. It serves as a user guide that offers complete training and...
Agricultural Policy in the United States
Evolution and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Agricultural Policy in the US: Evolution and Economics traces the foundation of US agricultural policy from its colonial roots to the present, using economic concepts to analyze and interpret political and economic consequences. Ancient Roman food and agricultural reform, English Corn Law and other...
by E. L. Cussler, G. D. Moggridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
The chemical industry is changing, going beyond commodity chemicals to a palette of higher value added products. This groundbreaking book, now revised and expanded, documents this change and shows how to meet the challenges implied. Presenting a four-step design process - needs, ideas, selection,...
Research Design and Statistical Analysis
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Research Design and Statistical Analysis provides comprehensive coverage of the design principles and statistical concepts necessary to make sense of real data. The book’s goal is to provide a strong conceptual foundation to enable readers to generalize concepts to new research situations. Emphasis...
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
A Handbook on Low-Energy Buildings and District-Energy Systems
Fundamentals, Techniques and Examples
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Winner of Choice Magazine - Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 Buildings account for over one third of global energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Reducing energy use by buildings is therefore an essential part of any strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and thereby...
by Montserrat Díaz Méndez, Óscar Rodrigo González López
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2013
No cabe duda de que en la actualidad la comunicación adquiere cada vez mayor relevancia en las distintas esferas de la existencia humana: instituciones públicas y privadas, locales e internacionales, organizaciones mercantiles y sin ánimo de lucro, medios de comunicación, personas públicas del...
Children of the Fifth World
A Guide to the Coming Changes in Human Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Our species is evolving in preparation for the new world on the horizon
• Explains how the increase in intuitive, creative, and abstract-thinking abilities of children as well as incidences of ADHD, dyslexia, and autism signal evolutionary changes at work in humanity--the emergence of the...
by Ernest L. Rossi, David B. Cheek, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1994
A remarkable collaboration between psychologist Rossi and gynecologist-obstetrician Cheek, this book guides and empowers therapists and patients to find the keys to their own health and well-being through therapeutic hypnosis.
Hundreds of engaging case reports from Cheek's forty years of clinical...
by J.D. Mason, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Bernice L. McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Three national bestselling authors join talents in a multi-dimensional novel that illustrates the importance of love, family, and forgiveness.
After a lifetime of womanizing, making babies, and then disappearing and taking no responsibility for his actions, Amos Davis has finally reached an...
Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment 4e, Volume 3
Cultures at Risk and Roles of Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
798 pages, 466 images, with 44 contributors Volume three of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of topics ranging from the risks of the Internet, family abduction, the legal and forensic aspects of child maltreatment cases, and the roles of physicians, nurses, social workers, and...