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This book explores the state of the American Jewish world in the early 21st century, after decades of accelerating change that has transformed it and all other religious groups in the United States. It reveals a community in an unparalleled …
View book details for Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the IoT Era
First EAI International Conference, FoNeS IoT 2020, Virtual Event, October 1-2, 2020, Proceedings
This proceedings constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First EAI International Conference on Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the IoT Era, FoNeS 2020, held in October 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 13 papers presented …
This book provides a comprehensive review of the structure, function and pathophysiology of the pulmonary vasculature. Emerging evidence reveals the multifaceted roles played by the pulmonary vasculature. To reflect those roles, the individual chapters address topics ranging from pulmonary blood …
View book details for Regulation of Implantation and Establishment of Pregnancy in Mammals
Tribute to 45 Year Anniversary of Roger V. Short's "Maternal Recognition of Pregnancy"
Over the past few decades technological advances in transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and glycomics along with the ability to selectively knockout genes of interest has greatly advanced our understanding of maternal-conceptus interactions that are essential for the establishment and maintenance of …
View book details for Alltagsumbruche und Medienhandeln
Eine qualitative Panelstudie zum Wandel der Mediennutzung in Ubergangsphasen
Erstmalig erfolgt in diesem Buch eine systematische Analyse uber die Auswirkungen von Alltagsumbruchen wie Elternschaft, Wohnungswechsel oder neue Partnerschaft auf die Nutzung von Medien. Anhand einer ethnografisch-orientierten Panelstudie mit 25 Paarhaushalten wird prazise herausgearbeitet, dass in solchen Ubergangsphasen Veranderungen in …
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Talking, Reading and Praying in an Age of Words
Jean-Yves Lacoste is one of the best known French philosophers alive today. Along with Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Chretien, and Michel Henry, Lacoste is hailed as a leading figure in the revival of French phenomenology in its engagement with Christian theology. …
Pittsburgh in Your Pot! is the second cookbook in my Pittsburgh journey of food and of the city I love. It is filled with over 180 recipes and stories that define the city, its people, and its culture. Pittsburgh is …
Why will a sailor never go to sea on Friday 13th?Why are boats always referred to as 'she'?How do you navigate the ocean without a compass?Does the Bermuda Triangle really exist?Why do sailors wear earrings?Did Blackbeard actually exist?Did Nelson really …
RSPB The Nature Tracker's Handbook is a complete guide to how to interpret the signs that animals leave behind.The art of nature tracking is very much like learning to read, but instead of reading words the tracker reads traces. Every …
A complete practical introduction to observing, understanding and investigating the natural world written by an experienced and well travelled naturalist. Nick Baker's fascination with the natural world began at an early age, inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's classic book …
Fordham University Press
An indispensable resource for scholars and students of James Joyce, Joyce Studies Annual gathers essays by foremost scholars and emerging voices in the field.
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Discover the World of the Mini-beast!
We are all fascinated by, and often wary of, the tiny animals that creep and crawl in our gardens or lurk in the dark corners of our homes, but how much do we really know about insects and their relatives?Nick …
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The Rangers at Pointe-du-Hoc, D-Day 1944
Written by one of the world's leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitler's Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers' attack on Pointe-du-Hoc.The Ranger attack on the German gun batteries at Pointe-du-Hoc in the early morning hours of …
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The International Bestseller
WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 READ RUSSIA PRIZE RUNNER-UP FOR THE EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE, 2020 Zuleikha is the model of …
Exquisite (Lisa Barr, New York Times best-selling author of Woman on Fire) and utterly engrossing (Katherine Gray, cohost of the Netflix series Blown Away), The Color of Ice will wrap you in its spell, all the way to its unforgettable …
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Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award
*Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 2017* World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio fixer, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar …
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How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was Gods messiah. Less than …
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Women Men Work Family
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" first appeared, it immediately went viral, …
The EU referendum in the UK and Trumps victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces …
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Playdate Adventures
Guaranteed free of unicorns and princesses, its fun, empowering fiction for 5-8 year olds. David Nicholls, author of One Day Every young girl should read this series! Amanda Holden I loved learning about how the ocean is in trouble. Tess, …
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Ready-to-Read Level 2
Discover what its like to grow up in Australia in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world!Hello! My name is Ruby, and Im a kid just …
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The Truth Behind Ten Defining Events in British History And the Half-truths, Lies, Mistakes and What We Really Just Don't Know About Brexit
From the Magna Carta to the Falklands, the years that have made Britain, for better and for worseDid the longbow secure victory at Agincourt or are the English just better in mud? Did Queen Elizabeth I know the Armada had …
From the multi-award-winning author of Twice Born comes this dazzling, emotionally charged tale of two mothers fight to protect their childrens futures When the water is safer than the land... As Gaddafi clings to power in Libya, Farid and his …
If justice is an intrinsic value in Islam, why have women been treated as second-class citizens in Islamic legal tradition? Today, the idea of gender equality, inherent to contemporary conceptions of justice, presents a challenge to established, patriarchal interpretations of …
What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when …
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