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Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance
Claiming a Seat at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Contemporary research on the lives and experiences of women of color tends to neglect the influence of women’s perceived access to voice as they manage tensions related to race, class, and gender. Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance: Claiming a Seat at the Table contributes to current...
Screw Chocolate 2
14(+2) Queer Valentines to Get You Through February 14
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Roses, cupid’s arrows, chocolate—chocolate? Screw chocolate! Queer up Valentine’s Day instead with these hilarious, heartbreaking (sometimes deliciously filthy) valentines by a posse of queer authors who have a fresh, occasionally revolutionary (always, insightful) take on love.
This...
Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico
Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help?
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug- trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Mexico.
Rights and Decisions
Formal Models of Law and Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The game-theoretic analysis of rights forms a rapidly growing field of study to which this book makes an important contribution. Van Hees combines the game-theoretic approach with the results and tools from logic, in particular from the logic of norms. The resulting synthesis between logic and game...
Common Ground?
Readings and Reflections on Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Public spaces have long been the focus of urban social activity, but investigations of how public space works often adopt only one of several possible perspectives, which restricts the questions that can be asked and the answers that can be considered. In this volume, Anthony Orum and Zachary Neal...
A History of the Sudan
From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
A History of the Sudan by Martin Daly and PM Holt, sixth edition, has been fully revised and updated and covers the most recent developments that have occurred in Sudan over the last nine years, including the crisis in Darfur.
The most notable developments that this text covers includes the...
by Ko-wu Huang, Philip Yuen-sang Leung, Wang Ke-wen
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
China Reconstructs includes ten articles that investigate the reconstruction of modern China and provide different dimensions to the vibrant and multifaceted history of the country. The book discusses how prominent individuals, political parties, and ordinary people alike looked for ways to "reconstruct China" in a period of great political upheavals.
Luther, Bonhoeffer, and Public Ethics
Re-Forming the Church of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the commemoration of the Reformation in conversation...
Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being
A Helper's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2006
Loneliness can be a terrible experience. Yet, surprisingly counsellors, therapists and professional helpers are rearely taught how to help their clients manage loneliness. Written specially for professional helpers, Loneliness, Stress and Well-Being provides a thorough background to the theories concerning...
Pages from the Past
Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the circumstances in which medieval books were produced, copied...
by H.J.M. Bowen, T. Frevert, W.D. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Manual Nonfatal Strangulation Assessment
For Health Care Providers and First Responders
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
138 pages, 112 images, 19 contributors Manual Nonfatal Strangulation Assessment for Health Care Providers and First Responders is designed to standardize anatomic nomenclature, as it relates to the head and neck, for both new and experienced sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) and sexual assault...
Child Abuse Quick Reference 3e
For Health Care, Social Service, and Law Enforcement Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
490 pages, 174 images, 64 contributors The Third Edition of Child Abuse Quick Reference is completely revised and expanded, with new and emerging science for the multidisciplinary response to child abuse. It features updated models for the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of child abuse as...
Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span 2e, Volume 3
Special Settings and Survivor Populations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
260 pages, 194 images, 17 contributors Sexual assault responders working among, or associated with, assault survivors in assisted living homes, academic institutions, correctional facilities, and more will benefit from an uncommonly focused and precise study of the populations they serve. With chapters...