Carol B A : 16 books
by Carol B. A.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
La vida de Tesa no es precisamente interesante: un trabajo aburrido, un jefe odioso y un novio «finiquitado» no dan ni para un chiste. Sin embargo, una llamada cambiará su vida por completo.
Con mucha ilusión y con un poco de insensatez también, Tesa decide embarcarse en una nueva experiencia,...
by Carol B. A.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Álex es una mujer orgullosa de su presente, con un futuro prometedor, pero con un pasado aún por descubrir.
Hugo es un hombre hecho a sí mismo, con un pasado difícil de superar y con un futuro aún por resolver.
Un terrible suceso unirá sus vidas, pero ¿qué férrea determinación...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
by Peter M. Burkholder, James K. Feibleman, Carol A. Kates
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1
Breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
by Carol S. Baugh, Melanie F. Myers, Michael S. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...
Our Bodies Not Ourselves
WOMEN AGING FROM MENOPAUSE TO ONE HUNDRED
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published.The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was on the youthful female body: on reproduction, sexuality, genitalia, intimacy and relationships in the context of North American cultural expectations. Our Bodies Not Ourselves is...
Viewpoints on Media Effects
Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers
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...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
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...
Ethics, Literature, and Theory
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics.
Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
The Parallel Curriculum
A Design to Develop Learner Potential and Challenge Advanced Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Engage students with a rich curriculum that strengthens their capacity as learners and thinkers!
Every learner is somewhere on a path toward expertise in a content area. This resource promotes a model for developing high-quality curriculum that moves learners along the continuum toward expertise...
Infancy and Culture
An International Review and Source Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Infancy and Culture: An International Review and Source Book provides a cross-indexed, annotated guide to social and behavioral studies of infants of color. Derived from five major data bases of published scientific literature, this volume was designed to elevate the scientific study of infants of...
The Lotos-Eaters
Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging. This new book is based on years of participant observation in "the Sands," a beautiful ocean community of well-off individuals and couples seeking the easy life. Yet the community members contend...
Pushbutton Psychiatry
A Cultural History of Electric Shock Therapy in America, Updated Paperback Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This volume uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The authors trace the history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages: from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the...
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