Melvin: 353 books
Stewardship in African-American Churches
A New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"When the church embraces the responsibility of living as faith managers of God's vast resources [as Psalm 24:1 teaches], the community of faith will prosper." So begins this practical and theological study of stewardship, both in the context of the African-American church tradition and beyond....
Global Formulations of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics on Manifolds
A Geometric Approach to Modeling and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book provides an accessible introduction to the variational formulation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, with a novel emphasis on global descriptions of the dynamics, which is a significant conceptual departure from more traditional approaches based on the use of local coordinates on...
Seeing Through New Eyes
Changing the Lives of Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and other Developmental Disabilities Through Vision Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005
Seeing Through New Eyes offers an accessible introduction to the treatment of visual dysfunction, a significant but neglected problem associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other developmental disabilities.
Dr. Kaplan identifies common ASD symptoms such as hand-flapping, poor...
by Melvin Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
How to Get Rid of Ick (Ich)
Ick, or white spot disease, affects aquarium fish. Ick (also known as ich) is caused by a white parasite that is very small. Stress is the main reason fish suffer from the condition. Stress can be caused by everything from moving fish or adding fish to a new aquarium,...
Social Work with Latinos
Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The focus on Latinos in the United States has generally overlooked key social-economic-political dimensions that are not only growing in importance, but may ultimately hold an important key to how well this group does in the immediate and distant future in the country. The approximate ten-year period...
Music, Song, Dance, and Theater
Broadway meets Social Justice Youth Community Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The performing arts is one particular area of youth community practice can that can be effectively tapped to attract youth within schools and out-of-school settings, or what has been referred to as the "third area between school and family." These settings are non-stigmatizing, highly attractive community-based...
Urban Youth and Photovoice
Visual Ethnography in Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions. But, effective community practice is predicated on the availability...
by Melvin Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Prepper's Pantry 55 Most Popular Convenience Food for Tasty Life Saving Meals
Who says that your emergency food stockpile has to be filled with bland, flavorless junk? With the right advice and the right amount of ingenuity, you can recreate a familiar, delicious, nutritious, and most of all...
Carbon Nanotubes as Nanodelivery Systems
An Insight Through Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
This book showcases the application of carbon nanotubes as nanodelivery systems for copper atoms, using molecular dynamics simulations as a means of investigation. The nanodelivery system of the carbon nanotube presents the possible usage of the carbon structure in many areas in the future. This book...
How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own
Understanding the Impact on Americans’ Public and Private Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Famous: How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own explores the effects celebrities have on their impressionable audience's lives, from copycat suicides, to postfeminist hypersexuality, to taking questionable celebrity health advice, and more. Celebrity advocacy and philanthropy are analyzed as contributors...
by Melvin Campas
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Have you ever finally just gave in to the temptation and read your horoscope in the newspaper on Sunday morning? Sure, we all have. For most of us, it’s a curiosity, an amusement to see what they say our day will be like based on the sign of the zodiac that we were born under. Sometimes we forget...
by Melvin Wilk
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Wilk is a poet not only of the utmost competence but brilliance. Here is a poet able to give mature voice to the oldest and most enduring American theme: the immigrant as spiritual pilgrim. The clarity of the pilgrim voice is the admirable center of Wilks bookas if a straight-speaking Brooklynite...
by Melvin Hausner
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
A fascinating exploration of the correlation between geometry and linear algebra, this text portrays the former as a subject better understood by the use and development of the latter rather than as an independent field. The treatment offers elementary explanations of the role of geometry in other...
by Melvin Winfrey
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
This book is my translation of the Bibles prophecy as well as how it ties into todays events. It breaks down a couple of books within the Bible. You dont have to be a priest or a pastor or attend a Bible school to have a better understanding of the word of God. You can read this book and follow along...