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Conversations about Energy
How the Experts See America's Energy Choices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key...
Deterrence
Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment...
by Kathryn Pitkin Derose, David E. Kanouse, David P. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance...
Extinction in Our Times
Global Amphibian Decline
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly and mysteriously. What is causing these extinctions? What role do human actions play in them? What do they tell us about...
by Michael Wilder, Sharon Coolidge, Leland Ryken
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Comprehensive in scope, this substantial volume was compiled in honor of Leland Ryken and champions the importance of an approach to faith and learning grounded in the Christian liberal arts.
by J. L. Sapphire, Adrienne Thompson, Penelope Christian
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Love is a powerful drug…whether it’s the love of family, friends, or that special someone who takes your breath away…chances are, you know the feeling. But what happens when it all goes wrong? Do you break up, then make up? Or do you just walk away? In The Ex Chronicles, twenty talented writers...
by Martin E.P. Seligman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
En este innovador libro, el renombrado psicólogo y autor, fundador del movimiento conocido como psicología positiva, ofrece una nueva teoría sobre un tema fundamental. ¿Qué es la felicidad? ¿Por qué algunas personas se sienten satisfechas con la vida y otras no? ¿Son las circunstancias externas?...
¿Quiénes somos?
Cuestiones en torno al ser humano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2018
El nacimiento de la filosofía es inseparable de las preguntas fundamentales en torno al ser humano: quiénes somos, de dónde venimos y a dónde vamos. Y de la respuesta a ellas dependen a su vez muchas otras cuestiones que nos interpelan a todos, como cuál es la relación del ser humano con la...
William Morris
Romantic to Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morris—the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writer—who remains a monumental and influential figure to this day. This account chronicles how his concern with artistic and human values led...
Contemporary Issues in Victimology
Identifying Patterns and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics include: intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder...
by E.P.F. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Written with dignity, candour and surprising wit, this soldier�s story of the horror of the Western Front trenches is a testament to the power of the human spirit. It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in...
History of Assyria
Rise and Fall of Ancient World Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Assyria was a great and powerful country lying on the Tigris. A mountainous region extending as far as to the high mountain range of Armenia, the Gordiaean or Carduchian mountains.
"The capital of Assyria was Nineveh, one of the most famous of cities. It was remarkable for extent, wealth, and...
Measuring the Quality of Care for Psychological Health Conditions in the Military Health System
Candidate Quality Measures for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
To inform improvements to the quality of care delivered by the military health system for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder, researchers developed a framework and identified, developed, and described a candidate set of measures for monitoring, assessing, and improving the...
The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex
Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the...