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Book cover of Dragon Writers

Dragon Writers

An Anthology

by Lisa Mangum, James A. Owen, Jody Lynn Nye
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture...
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Undercurrents

An Anthology of What Lies Beneath

by Lisa Mangum, Robert J. McCarter, Gregory D. Little
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear—and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, twenty-three talented...
Book cover of Refonder Haïti?
by Pierre Buteau, Rodney Saint-Éloi, Lyonel Trouillot
Language: French
Release Date: June 18, 2013

Penser le pays autrement. Faire émerger l'espace de la citoyenneté dans le discours social et dans l'espace public. Les espoirs sont grands et les promesses mirobolantes. Les interrogations qui accompagnent les mots refondation et reconstruction sont légion. Refonder comment? Reconstruire quoi?...
Book cover of Reasons for Faith (Foreword by Lee Strobel): Making a Case for the Christian Faith
by Norman L. Geisler, Chad V. Meister, Mark Mittelberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007

Many Christians want to witness for their faith, but they are afraid they will not be able to answer questions that others may ask of them. First Peter 3:15 reminds believers to always be prepared to "make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you." Norman Geisler and...
Book cover of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings
by J. Bruyn, L. Peese Binkhorst-Hoffscholte, B. Haak
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Since the second half of the last century art historians, realizing that the image of Rembrandt’s work had become blurred with time, have attempted to redefine the artist’s significance both as a source of inspiration to other artists and as a great artist in his own right. In order to carry on...
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Media Disparity

A Gender Battleground

by Gaye Tuchman, Julie L. Andsager, Dunja Antunovic
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the...
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The Naturalness of Belief

New Essays on Theism’s Rationality

by Clifford Williams, Paul C. Vitz, Aku Visala
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty,...
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The Sociology of Katrina

Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe

by Carl L. Bankston III, John Barnshaw, Christine Bevc
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores...
Book cover of Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World
by Kathryn E. Anthony, Francisco Cabezuelo-Lorenzo, Joe Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018

Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World: Communication Case Studies is an edited collection of cutting edge research on the practical applications of diverse types of emerging media technologies in a variety of industries and in many different regions of the world. In recent years, emergent...
Book cover of Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between

Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between

Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media

by Fatima Q. Al Hattami, Sara Austin, Thomas J. Billard
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017

Current characters in children’s entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children’s entertainment media around the world has consistently...
Book cover of Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases E-Book
by James Cherry, MD, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013

Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases helps you put the very latest knowledge to work for your young patients with unparalleled coverage of everything from epidemiology, public health, and preventive medicine through clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more....
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Tibes

People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos

by Edwin Crespo-Torres, Lisa M. Stringer, L. Antonio Curet
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009

The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico. The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
Book cover of Palaeoclimates and their Modelling

Palaeoclimates and their Modelling

With special reference to the Mesozoic era

by P.J. Valdes, B.J. Hoskins, R. Spicer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated into continental units similar to those of today,...
Book cover of Magnetic Resonance Angiography
by P.E. Peters, I.P. Arlart, Georg Bongartz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

A comprehensive overview of the current state of development in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). After an initial outline of the basic principles of the technique and a general description of flow phenomena, the individual chapters are devoted to a full range of technical considerations. Practical...
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