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Genetics
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional...
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions
Programs, Policies, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The first of its kind, Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions brings together innovative work from the family of institutions known as minority-serving institutions: Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Asian...
The Applied Anthropology of Obesity
Prevention, Intervention, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies...
by Cecilia Castaño Collado, Olga Cantó Sánchez, Cecilia Castaño Collado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2015
La larga y compleja recesión económica actual constituye un reto para la igualdad de género. Asistimos a un retroceso respecto a los avances en la posición de las mujeres en empleo, salarios, disponibilidad de servicios públicos de cuidados y acceso al poder económico y empresarial. El progreso...
Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs
Perspectives on Innovation by Faculty, Staff, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enrich student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer mentor to the students enrolled. Peer...
by Rachel Harris L.C.S.W., Ph.D., Dorothy Law Nolte Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1998
The timeless New York Times bestselling guide to parenting that shows the power of inspiring values through example.
A unique handbook to raising children with a compassionate, steady hand—and to giving them the support and confidence they need to thrive. Expanding on her universally loved poem...
Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias
The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003
The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the...
Aging Heroes
Growing Old in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality....
by L.S. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
We will survive this, Caroline.
When a stranger arrives in their village and asks to see the damaged bay, Caroline Daniels and Joanna Chase know that word of the creature has spread despite the efforts of Mr. Smith. With tensions simmering between France and England, they depart in haste for...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Table of contents
A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
At Sea
Aunt Kipp
Little Bun Rabbit
The Ambitious Guest
The Story Of The Bad Little Boy
Vanka
The Body Snatcher
The Mark On The Wall
The Affair at Coulter's Notch
A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
by O. Henry
At midnight the cafe was crowded....
Cien años de sueño
Antologíade cuentos mexicanos del siglo XIX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Aquí se reúnen diecinueve cuentos mexicanos del siglo XIX. La recopilación presenta un panorama de la literatura que empezó a escribirse en México mientras el país se conformaba como república. Los escritores incluidos en este libro reflejan un ánimo literario enfocado en relatar hechos sobrenaturales...
Unveiling Man's Origins (Routledge Revivals)
Ten Decades of Thought About Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the story of the major discoveries which have been made and the attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. For anyone interested in man's past and...
by Nikki Landis, D. J. Doyle, K. A. Denver
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Under the onslaught of supernatural beings, the acts of good people can seem insignificant, but a courageous few stand apart. These are stories of brave men and women who stand up to the darkness, fight for what they believe in, for loved ones, for their lives. Stories of triumph, sacrifice, and...
by L.S. Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
A compelling novel that touches upon the hardships that refugees face and their resilience in the most dire of situations, “celebrat[ing] the human spirit and inherent kindness” (School Library Journal).
My story starts the day that my parents told me we must leave our adopted home forever....