Michael J: 2158 books
Political Culture and Constitutionalism: A Comparative Approach
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This work is a cross-national examination of the relationship between political culture and constitutionalism. The countries studied include Nigeria, Turkey and Japan. Questions explored include whether constitutions must evolve and whether constitutionalism is only a western concept.
Emergency Ethics
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of its members. They raise important practical and theoretical questions about how we should treat each other in times of ’crisis’. The articles...
Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels
Religious Arbitration in America and the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and other values-oriented communities, and it argues that secular societies should use secular legal frameworks to facilitate, enforce, and also regulate religious arbitration. It covers the history of religious arbitration; the kinds...
by Michael J. Pomante II, Scot Schraufnagel
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States. In a country with a rich history of racial animosities, Obama represents a notable deviation in the trajectory of America’s presidential history. At the close of his second term in office, a survey of the personalities and...
The World's Water Volume 7
The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Produced biennially, The World's Water is the mcomprehensive and up-to-to date source of information and analysis on freshwater resources. Each new volume examines critical global trends and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water.
Volume 7 features chapters...
by Chad Richardson, Michael J. Pisani
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Much has been debated about the presence of undocumented workers along the South Texas border, but these debates often overlook the more complete dimension: the region's longstanding, undocumented economies as a whole. Borderlands commerce that evades government scrutiny can be categorized into informal...
Learning Together
The Law, Politics, Economics, Pedagogy, and Neuroscience of Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book makes a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary argument for investing in effective early childhood education programs, especially those that develop in children their proven natural capacity to construct knowledge by building meaningful relationships. Recent insights in the fields of law, policy,...
by Shigetoshi Aono, Elizabeth M Boon, Hitomi Sawai
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Gas molecules such as O2, NO, CO and ethylene are present in the environment and are endogenously (enzymatically) produced to act as signalling molecules in biological systems, including the regulation of metabolic networks, chemotaxis, circadian rhythms, mammalian hypoxia responses, and plant ethylene...
by Michael J. Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Omic Studies of Neurodegenerative Disease: Part A is part of a well-established international series on neuroscience that examines major areas of basic and clinical research, along with emerging and promising subfields.
The book informs the reader on the current state of the studies used to...
Ocean Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle
Principles and Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
This textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students presents a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ocean circulation and how it drives and controls marine biogeochemistry and biological productivity at a global scale. Background chapters on ocean physics, chemistry and biology provide...
Exploring Green Criminology
Toward a Green Criminological Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green crimes present the most important challenge to criminology as a discipline. This book argues that criminology...
The Myth of Autism
How a Misunderstood Epidemic Is Destroying Our Children, Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Experts agree that America is in the midst of a disturbing epidemic of what has thus far been diagnosed as autism. In just thirty years autism diagnoses have risen from 1 in 5,000 children to 1 in 110, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But in the history of our society...
by Gregory H. Bledsoe, Michael J. Manyak, David A. Townes
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
With an increase in visits to remote and dangerous locations around the world, the number of serious and fatal injuries and illnesses associated with these expeditions has markedly increased. Medical personnel working in or near such locations are not always explicitly trained in the management of...
by Jenny Spouse, Michael J. Cook, Carol Cox
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Now revised and fully updated in line with developments in nurse education, this fourth edition will prove indispensable to pre-registration nursing students on the Common Foundation Programme. It provides...