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View book details for The King of Confidence
A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil …
This volumes consists of 59 peer-reviewed papers, presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-16) held in Chania, Crete Greece in April 2016. Leading-edge research into sustainable design and manufacturing aims to enable the manufacturing industry to …
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Portraits of Latino Immigrants
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Unauthorized: Portraits of Latino Immigrants takes readers inside the diverse contemporary worlds of undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States, exploring the myths and realities of education, health care, work, deportation, and more. This book aims to dispel common misconceptions …
View book details for Migration and Domestic Work
The Collective Organisation of Women and their Voices from the City
With female migrants dominating low paid and ever-expanding domestic work worldwide, this book brings together the voices of 120 migrating women of 28 national identities and 10 different religious affiliations. Together they tell how patriarchal and religious gender codes in …
View book details for Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies
Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century
Lexington Books
When adapting Shakespeare's comedies, cinema and television have to address the differences and incompatibilities between early modern gender constructs and contemporary cultural, social, and political contexts. Screening Gender in Shakespeares Comedies: Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century analyzes …
View book details for Introduction to Superfluidity
Field-theoretical Approach and Applications
Superfluidity and closely related to it, superconductivity are very general phenomena that can occur on vastly different energy scales. Their underlying theoretical mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking is even more general and applies to a multitude of physical systems.In these …
View book details for Strategic Followership
How Followers Impact Organizational Effectiveness
The concept of followership is not new, to the extent that it has been around since the beginning of time. In the organizational literature, followership (a complementary role to leadership) was ignored until recently, when scholars observed that followers play …
Lexington Books
American literature has long celebrated the figure of the self-made man and the idea of establishing selfhood, particularly male selfhood, in nature. However, during the crisis of masculinity that swept across America in the middle of the twentieth century, a …
View book details for Confrontation Management
Improve Performance and Maintain Relationships
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The ability to successfully confront an employee AND maintain a quality relationship is a skill impediment for many school leaders. Confrontation Management is a practical framework to help any leader plan and facilitate a confrontational conversation. The reader will learn …
View book details for Extractions
An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism
Michal Nahman traces different kinds of 'extraction': the practices of human egg harvesting in different national contexts; the political economic consequences of such extraction for the women involved and the ways in which this has consequences for nationalism and race …
View book details for Confronting Climate Crises through Education
Reading Our Way Forward
Lexington Books
Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing world. Young advocates a paradigm shift that positions ecopedagogy as the central …
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The Evolution of Baseball
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Baseball began as a schoolyard game, brought to America by the colonists. It evolved rapidly over the second half of the nineteenth century, with innovations and rule changes continuing throughout the twentieth century and into the modern era. But why …
Lexington Books
Aristophanes was clearly anxious about the role of the sophists and the new education in Athens. After the perceived failure of Clouds in 423 and its subsequent, unperformed revision, Aristophanes, this book argues, returned in 414 with Birds, a continuation …
View book details for Visual Literacy
Reading, Thinking, and Communicating with Visuals
Visual Literacy examines how teachers can use visuals to improve learning for all students. It provides teachers with a foundation in visual literacy, defined as the ability to read, think, and communicate with visually presented information. Results of studies of …
This well-illustrated book is a comprehensive guide to the cutaneous clinical presentations of mycobacterial infections. The Mycobacterium genus includes over 170 species, nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) having been added to the obligate human pathogens such as M. tuberculosis and M. leprae. …
Lexington Books
Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups in Chile seeks to overcome an existing void in the literature of Latin American studies addressing the impact of Chiles post dictatorial legal framework on its historically and structurally disadvantaged groups, concentrating on the various issues …
Romanticism is multifaceted, and a wide range of nostalgic, emotional, and exotic concerns were expressed in such styles and movements as the Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Orientalism, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Some movements were regional and subject-specific, such as the …
View book details for Markets against Modernity
Ecological Irrationality, Public and Private
In Markets Against Modernity, economist Ryan Murphy documents a clear continuity between the systematic errors people make in their personal lives and the gaps between public opinion and informed opinion. These errors cluster around specific divergences between how the modern …
This book provides a review of the multitude of nucleic acid polymerases, including DNA and RNA polymerases from Archea, Bacteria and Eukaryota, mitochondrial and viral polymerases, and other specialized polymerases such as telomerase, template-independent terminal nucleotidyl transferase and RNA self-replication …
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My Lifelong Journey in the World of Professional Boxing
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Randy Gordon has spent over 40 years in the world of professional boxing, as a broadcaster, ring announcer, New York States athletic commissioner, editor of TheRing magazine, and host of SiriusXM Radios At the Fights. No one else has ever …
Android Best Practices by Godfrey Nolan shows you how to make your Android apps stand out from the crowd with great reviews. Why settle for just making any Android app? Build a brilliant Android app instead that lets your users …
View book details for Tawada Yoko
On Writing and Rewriting
This collection draws from scholars across different languages to address and assess the scholarly achievements of Tawada Yoko. Yoko, born in Japan (1960) and based in Germany, writes and presents in both German and Japanese. The contributors of this volume …
View book details for Komfortgewinn fur Passagiere auf Langstreckenflugen
Validierung chronobiologisch wirksamer Kabinenbeleuchtung zur Jetlag-Reduktion
Achim Leder vergleicht in einer randomisierten Kontrollgruppenstudie die Nutzung einer herkommlichen Kabinenbeleuchtung aus Langstreckenflugzeugen mit einer nach chronobiologischen Erkenntnissen modifizierten Beleuchtung. Insbesondere weist er nach, dass allgemein erforschte chronobiologische Wirkungen von Licht auch auerhalb von Laborsituationen in einem lebensnahen Anwendungsbereich …
View book details for Can We Ensure Safe Schools?
A Collaborative Guide on Focused Strategies for School Safety
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book was written as a guide to practitioners, with input and strategies from police authorities, mental health professional and educators. School safety is an issue for school communities across the country. Collaboration with all stakeholders provide comprehensive strategies that …
View book details for Diagnosis Female
How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health
Why do so many women have trouble getting effective and compassionate medical treatment? Diagnosis Female examines this widespread problem, with a focus on misdiagnosis and gender bias. The book zeroes in on specialties where women are more likely to encounter …
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