M P P : 1366 books
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
We Have Sinned
Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...
Columns to Characters
The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter...
The Sociology of Katrina
Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
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...
Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
Results of New Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 2
Breeding and nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
To meet growing demand, the FAO has estimated that world poultry production needs to grow by 2-3% per year to 2030. Much of the increase in output already achieved has been as a result of improvements in commercial breeds combined with rearing in more intensive production systems. However, more intensive...
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition.
This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
Ollam
Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature....
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
by D. Miannay, P. Costa, D. François
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2000
Since its inception in 1991, EUROMAT has been held each year on behalf of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), and alternates between general and topical prospectives.
This year's theme, Advances in Mechanical Behaviour, Plasticity and Damage, was proposed by the Societe Francaise...
Ebola unzensiert
Fakten und Hintergründe, von denen Sie nichts wissen sollen
Language: German
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Fakten und Hintergründe, von denen Sie nichts wissen sollen
Was Sie zum Thema Ebola in den Medien erfahren, ist das, was Sie über Ebola glauben sollen. In Wahrheit jedoch läuft derzeit hinter den Kulissen der vielleicht größte Wissenschaftsbetrug aller Zeiten ab. Mit von der Partie ist...
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
by Tom Horn, Geronimo, William T. Parker M. D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
"Geronimo and The Apache Wars: Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout, Geronimo's Story of His Life, Annals of Old Fort Cummings, New Mexico 1867-1868, The Dread Apache: Early Day Scourge of the Southwest" (4 Volumes In 1) by (in order) Tom Horn, Geronimo (told to S. M. Barrett), William Thornton...