Devine: 180 books

The Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences is an impressive and important body of work. Prepared by an international team of experts, this reference work covers all important aspects of meat science from stable to table, including animal breeding, physiology and slaughter, meat preparation, packaging, welfare,...

This collection of essays examines President Truman’s somewhat contentious relationships with Congress. Authors evaluate Truman’s successes and defeats and measure him against later presidents of the United States. While the Truman era has been perceived as a stalemate between the executive and...

Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery....

A solitary aviator checks his instruments before taking off on a flight that will mean glory or, more likely, death. A fearless war correspondent relies upon the kindness of strangers to pursue her next big story. The best baseball player in the world enjoys a night out on the town in the company...

This edited collection explores a wide range of communication elements and themes, representing a variety of topics and methodologies. It focuses broadly on the role and function of communication within the context of the 2016 United States presidential election, with chapters devoted to topics including...

The cities of Los Angeles and San Diego were boomtowns during World War II. California aviation companies designed many of the greatest combat aircraft of the era, and bustling armies of women and men helped quickly churn them out by the thousands. An astounding 41 percent of all US warplanes came...

Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or...

Clearing Your Karma before the Shift presents God's message of love and peace at a time when Earth is experiencing increased violence and chaos. People looking for God's peace will discover healing tools designed to clear their fears. Earth experiences that created fear, anger, hatred and physical...

First published in 2005, this book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel. Late-century writers such as Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells question the middle-class Victorian...

Disgraced NYPD Lieutenant Mac Ryan is desperate to flee his new unwelcome celebrity after his undercover investigation implodes and his partner is killed in a shootout with a notorious Afghan drug baron. Escape is offered aboard a Mediterranean yacht where an enigmatic English writer, Max, appears...

Reviews the issues involved in most of the principal medical-ethical dilemmas that face our society from a multidisciplinary point of view. Updated to reflect the many changes that have occurred in medical-ethical issues.

Rock Henderson needs a wife—and fast. His dying mother's last wish is to leave this world knowing her son is blissfully married…and producing grandchildren. It's just a small lie to make her eternally happy, one he doesn't think he'll have to make good on until Zelda shows up the week before Christmas...

Congratulations - you've volunteered to chair a fundraising auction for your kids' school, or perhaps a local non-profit organization. Now what?  The SchoolAuction.net Guide to Running a Fundraising Auction offers you a road map to the journey ahead - a tested framework for planning, managing,...

This updated and expanded 1985 edition of the classic 1974 work covers deindustrialisation, industrial and competition policy, the public enterprise sector, regional and urban policy, and privatisation, as well as focussing on the firm and the industrial sector in all its facets. It remains the key work on industrial economics.