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Life's Vital Link
The astonishing role of the placenta
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The development of the placenta was a pivotal event in evolution. Without it, we would still be laying eggs instead of giving birth to live offspring. It represents the critical link between the foetus and the mother, but its character is extraordinary — it is, in effect, a foreign tissue that invades...
Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Policing Black and Brown Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
There is a reason why people claim great respect for officers of the law: the job, by description, is hard—if not deadly. It takes a certain kind of person to accept the consequences of the job— seeing the very worst situations, on a regular basis, and knowing that one’s life is on the line...
The School-to-Prison Pipeline
Structuring Legal Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
The “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points,...
by C.Y. Lack
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Healthy Diet: The Essential Paleo BlueprintLose Weight, Raise Energy & Stay Healthy for LifeLooking to try out the paleo diet? What does adopting the paleo diet involve? This is a must-read primer on the paleo diet where I will explain what exactly does the paleo diet involves and what you need to know to decide whether to take the paleo diet plunge.
by Fabián Ávila Torres, Agustín De Pavía Iturralde, Francisco Joaquín Moreno y Gutiérrez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 14, 2019
El principal objetivo de la Ley que se comenta debe ser, en nuestra opinión, generar oportunamente información de calidad para que, a través de la debida utilización de los Avisos, las autoridades puedan, como fin último, privar a la delincuencia organizada de los cuantiosos recursos económicos...
by Sofía Olarte Encabo, José Antonio Fernández Avilés, José Luis Monereo Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Esta obra cubre un vacío en el mercado al editorial respecto a la prevención de riesgos laborales. Se divide en siete extensas partes que abarcan: caracterización técnica de la prevención de riesgos laborales; políticas e instituciones en materia de prevención de riesgos laborales: organización...
Communing with the Divine
A Clairvoyant's Guide to Angels, Archangels, and the Spiritual Hierarchy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
“All seekers of truth yearn for the mystical experience. In this remarkable journey, you do not walk alone. With you is your indispensable partner to success—the spiritual hierarchy.”
The Angelic Keys to Fulfilling Your Life’s Purpose
In their newest book, award-winning authors Barbara...
31 Devotions for Writers
31 Devotions, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Feeling discouraged and need some encouragement?
Read 31 Devotions for Writers, written by published authors who want to help encourage you in your writing through God’s written Word.
Writing can often be discouraging. Some writers have spouses or children who don’t understand why...
by Yüksel Sezgin
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
About one-third of the world's population currently lives under pluri-legal systems where governments hold individuals subject to the purview of ethno-religious rather than national norms in respect to family law. How does the state-enforcement of these religious family laws impact fundamental rights...
Cosmologies of Credit
Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the...
Street Therapists
Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in *Street Therapists,*examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the navigation of interracial relationships among US-born...
Saving Face
The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The many images used to describe the prototypical Asian family have given rise to two versions of the Asian immigrant family myth. The first celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the “normal...
Black Women against the Land Grab
The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is these very women who determine how urban policies are established. Focusing...
by Caroline Y Preston
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
2nd Issue, Updated 5 October 2013.
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Cornwall has much more to it than imaginary playful Cornish pixies and delightful clotted cream teas; it is steeped in Arthurian legend, ancient customs, pirate attacks, smugglers and romantic tales of lands lost to the sea; all of which enhance...