Jonathan Turner: 32 books

Book cover of Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 3

Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 3

Dairy herd management and welfare

by Prof. Jeffrey Rushen, Dr Jan Hultgren, Dr Jennie E. Pryce
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017

Reviews advances in understanding and improving the welfare of dairy cattle;  Summarises current research on rumen biology, digestion and ways of optimising nutrition of dairy cattle from grazing to feed and feed supplements;  Discusses latest developments in maintaining the health of dairy cattle, including the genetics of disease resistance and dairy herd health management
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Human Emotions

A Sociological Theory

by Jonathan H. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007

This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions. It gives a comprehensive account of emotions, beginning with general sociological principles, moving over important theory construction of social formation and applying this to a detailed and unified...
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The New Evolutionary Sociology

Recent and Revitalized Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

by Jonathan H. Turner, Richard S. Machalek
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste Comte gave the discipline its name, as did concerns that its effect would only reduce sociology to another discipline – whether biology, psychology,...
Book cover of The Tennessee Campaign of 1864
by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016

Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles...
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Money Laundering Prevention

Deterring, Detecting, and Resolving Financial Fraud

by Jonathan E. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011

A how-to guide for the discovery and prevention of the illegal transfer of money Written for the private sector—where most money laundering takes place—this book clearly explains shows business professionals how to deter, detect, and resolve financial fraud cases internally. It expertly...
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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9

Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century

by James Fisher, Susan Kattwinkel, John E. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016

This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time. Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,...
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Incest

Origins of the Taboo

by Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

Throughout history humans have been fascinated with incest. Stories, fables, literature, philosophers, church officials, and scientists have explored this mysterious topic. The taboo is critical to human survival, as incest threatens the species and patterns of human social organization. Drawing upon...
Book cover of The Emergence of Sociological Theory
by Jonathan H. Turner, Leonard Beeghley, Dr. Charles H. Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011

Now published by SAGE, this scholarly text covers the first one hundred years of sociological theorizing, from 1830-1930, focusing primarily on Comte, Spencer, Marx, Weber, Simmel, Durkheim, and Mead. The text provides an in-depth examination of these early sociological theorists with biographical...
Book cover of Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia
by Fifa Rahman, Nick Crofts, Mike Trace
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia is a multi-author look at drugs in East and Southeast Asia, on drug policy, patterns and trends, local problems, human rights abuses, treatment prospects, and potential reforms. From the history of drugs in Asia, the book examines recent trends in illicit...
Book cover of Intellectual Property and EU Competition Law
by Jonathan D. C. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

The interface between intellectual property rights and competition policy is one of the most important and difficult areas of EU commercial law and corresponding national laws. The exploitation of exclusive rights can conflict with competition law, which aims to preserve competition as the driving...
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Christian Physicalism?

Philosophical Theological Criticisms

by Thomas Atkinson, John W. Cooper, Marc Cortez
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017

On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Book cover of Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3
by Dr Alejandro Ramirez, Dr Carla Correia-Gomes, Prof. Mick Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018

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The Emergence and Evolution of Religion

By Means of Natural Selection

by Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski, Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all human societies? The authors of the book—each with a different background across the social sciences and humanities—assimilate...
Book cover of Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 1
by Jonathan H. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010

In a general study of Sociological Theory, social processes are usually broken down into three tiers: macrodynamics (societies and large-scale institutions), microdynamics (interpersonal encounters), and mesodynamics (corporations, communities, smaller organizations). In this seminal work, the author...
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