Claudia: 2015 books

This excellently designed Atlas of Acupuncture is easy to access and provides clear information on the full range of acupuncture points and main channels in a systematic and clear way. Each of these points combine anatomical drawings and photographs of surface anatomy. This acupuncture atlas not only...

Physics of Cancer focuses on the mechanical properties of cancer cells and their role in cancer disease and metastasis. It discusses the role of the mechanical properties of interacting cells and the connective tissue microenvironment and describes the role of an inflammation during cancer disease....

The first book-length study of Harper Lee's two novels, this is the ultimate reference for those interested in Harper Lee's writing, most notably as it considers race, class, and gender. • Assists students as they strive to better understand complex issues of race, class, and gender that...

The Jewish rites, traditions, songs and recipes from all over the world, together with the relative different menus for all the holidays are here clearly described. As a result of more than twenty centuries of migration of the Jewish People scattered around the world, their traditions, ceremonial...

Die Feierlichkeiten zum 500. Reformationsjubiläum haben in vielen protestantischen Kirchen weltweit mehrere Jahre in Anspruch genommen. Es ist wohl das erste Reformationsjubiläum gewesen, bei dem deutlich wurde, dass die Reformation eine weltweite, vielfältige, ökumenische Bewegung ist. Die Beiträge...

Today we confuse love with sex and it is a wonder that anyone finds real love at all. The Egyptians understood better than us that love is the most important life force. Theirs was an eternal concept of love - love transcending death. My reflection on the story of Isis and Osiris reveals this perfectly....

Reaching for your blessing and pulling them down. And I will give into thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Are you speaking the word out of your mouth, but from your...

In Köln tanzt der Schwarze Tod … Köln, 1348. Ketlin ist noch nicht lange Novizin in einem Kölner Kloster, als sie sich in den Apothekerlehrling Jacob verliebt. Getrieben von der vagen Hoffnung, dass anderswo ein gemeinsames Leben möglich ist, wollen sie Köln verlassen. Da erreicht die...

Like a friend in a foreign city, The Locals' Guide to Glasgow is a new departure in travel guides. Based around interviews with local legends, the book gives a fresh insight from a diverse range of people living there. In addition, tips on where to stay, eat, drink and party are sandwiched between...

Silver Creek Ranch, nestled in Natrona County, Wyoming, and all its horses mean the world to Callie Marshall. She couldn't imagine living anywhere else and believes that a life without horses is no life at all. Callie's world erratically falls to shambles when a drive back from town turns horribly...

This book demonstrates how data from participatory visual methods can take people and communities beyond ideological engagement, initiating new conversations and changing perspectives, policy debates, and policy development. These methods include, for example, photo-voice, participatory video,...

Designed for use by teachers and teacher educators, this text should help both novice and experienced teachers reinterpret their working lives. The reader is led on a path of personal exploration that goes beyond standard approaches and leads from the personal to the critical. Illustrative material...

Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion...

Working in the fractional Laplace framework, this book provides models and theorems related to nonlocal diffusion phenomena. In addition to a simple probabilistic interpretation, some applications to water waves, crystal dislocations, nonlocal phase transitions, nonlocal minimal surfaces and Schrödinger...