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The Bottlenose Dolphin
Biology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years.
After reviewing historical myths and legends of the dolphin back to the ancient Greeks and discussing current human...
by Tomás Straka, Guillermo Guzmán Mirabal, Alejandro E. Cáceres
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Venezuela is the seventh largest oil producer and holder of the largest proven reserves in the world. It’s also a country full of problems, as evidenced by having the biggest inflation rates and, by some estimates the highest crime rates worldwide. Despite having an oil boom between 2004 through...
Cholera
A Worldwide History
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
In seven major cholera pandemics beginning in 1817, the “King of Terrors” has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. The deadly effects of the so-called “disease of filth” spared no one, no matter their station in life—and today cholera is more prevalent than at any time throughout history....
Policing and Race in America
Economic, Political, and Social Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups’ daily lives and success. The contributors explore the Black Lives Matter movement, the...
by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as
the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have
scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of
historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings...
by R.M. O’Toole B.A., M.C., M.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
GCSE Maths Revision Book 2 of 3 Algebra (150 pages) provides an in-depth study of algebra including factorization, simplifying, solution of equations/inequations, simultaneous equations, polynomials, graphs of functions and use of graphs in solving problems. The content material is appropriate for...
by Risë VanFleet, PhD, RPT-S
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Highly practical, instructive, and authoritative, this book vividly describes how to conduct child-centered play therapy. The authors are master clinicians who explain core therapeutic principles and techniques, using rich case material to illustrate treatment of a wide range of difficulties. The...
The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
Reflective Essays Based upon Findings from the Tuskegee Legacy Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee is a collection of essays that seeks to redefine the "legacy" of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study in light of recent findings from other scientific studies that challenge the long-standing, widely-held understanding of...
Smallpox
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Scientifically known as Variola major, the deadliest form of smallpox has plagued mankind since “time immemorial.” This text chronicles the worldwide effects of the killer disease, with particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, including the devastations of the “speckled disease”...
by S.E. Al-Djazairi
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
This work charts the history of modern Turkey from 1911 until 1922. It looks at the four conflicts which involved Turkey during that period and their impact on the map and the people of Turkey.
First it deals with the Italian invasion of Libya in 1911 and the military conflict that ensued...
Without Benefit of Clergy
Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship--found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship--was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this...
Disability and the Environment in American Literature
Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained...
Spooky Florida
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Tales of hauntings, strange happenings and other local lore throughout the Sunshine state!
Spooky Texas
Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Suitably, hauntings and paranormal happenings in the Lone Star state are larger than life. Included in this must-read collection are tales of the ghost lights of Marfa, the werewolf of Elroy, and the Devil's brand in the eternal roundup of El Paso. Your hair will stand on end as you read about the mysteries and lore in Spooky Texas.