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A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

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Report copyright infringementby Claudine Burton-Jeangros (Editor), Stéphane Cullati (Editor), Amanda Sacker (Editor)This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health status over time.The essays examine a wide range of health issues, including the consequences of military service on body mass inde...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert J. Nicholls (Editor), W. Neil Adger (Editor), Craig W. Hutton (Editor)The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world's deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major land use...

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Report copyright infringementby Yvonne Rydin (Author)Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes. While most texts on such research emphasise methodologies, this book is unique in addressing how theoretical frameworks and perspectives can inform research activity. Providing both a concise introduction to a wide range of such theories ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennie Naidoo (Editor), Jane Wills (Editor)This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemiology, psychology, human and environmental geography, and anthropology, it is the only book to explore in one volume all of the core disciplines that contribute to understanding health. It illustrates how the complexity of health problems such as obesity should be viewed with...

Criminal Juries in the 21st Century: Psychological Science and the Law

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia Najdowski (Editor), Margaret Stevenson (Editor)The jury is often hailed as one of the most important symbols of American democracy. Yet much has changed since the Sixth Amendment in 1791 first guaranteed all citizens the right to a jury trial in criminal prosecutions. Experts now have a much more nuanced understanding of the psychological implications of being a juror, and advances in technology and neuroscience make the work of rendering a decision in ...

Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites

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Report copyright infringementby Nadia E. Brown (Author), Danielle Casarez Lemi (Author)"They don't think I'm viable, because I'm a Black woman with natural hair and no husband." This comment was made by Stacey Abrams shortly before the 2018 Democratic primary after she became the first Black woman to win a majory party's nomination for governor. Abrams' sentiment reflects the wider environment for Black women in politics, in which racist and sexist cultural ideas have long led Black women to ...

A Child's Introduction to Egyptology: The Mummies, Pyramids, Pharaohs, Gods, and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

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Report copyright infringementby Heather Alexander (Author), Sara Mulvanny (Illustrator)Get ready to go back in time and discover one of history's most fascinating civilizations--Ancient Egypt! This illustrated introduction to Egyptology is packed with stories of pyramids, mummies, pharaohs, gods, and more. In A Child's Introduction to Egyptology, kids will travel back in time and discover one of history's most fascinating civilizations: Ancient Egypt. Author Heather Alexander leads young re...

Good Governance and Economic Growth: Complimentary or Problematic?

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Report copyright infringementby Ramesh Chandra Das (Editor)Governance has been incorporated into the development models of many countries because of its role in ameliorating inequalities in society. This book explores whether good governance boosts or hinders economic growth with perspectives from countries like India, the USA, Nigeria, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and others, and on groups of developing nations like BRICS and ASEAN.Governance has twin roles within economic systems. T...

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Report copyright infringementby Naomi Cahn (Author), June Carbone (Author), Nancy Levit (Author)A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back. In an era of supposed equality, women are falling behind in the workplace faster than before, a trend exacerbated by Covid-19. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past, wage g...

Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State

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Report copyright infringementby T. D. Allman (Author)Longlisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, "god's waiting room," and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today it's home to nineteen million. The site of vicious racial violence, including mass...

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Lomas (Author)A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness. What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it's elusive. As a concept--despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject--it's poorly understood. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise and engaging overview of our current understanding of happiness. Lomas explains that although the field of pos...

An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences: Comprising the Whole Range of Arts, Sciences and Lliterature As Connected With the Institutio

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Gallatin Mackey (Author), William James Hughan (Author), Edward L. Hawkins (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of th...

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Report copyright infringementby George V. N. Dearborn (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

Modern Police Leadership: Operational Effectiveness at Every Level

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Roycroft (Editor), Lindsey Brine (Editor)This edited textbook covers a range of key operational and strategic aspects of police administration, from experts who have both an academic and practitioner background. It sets out the modern challenges and demands facing the police and then covers the theory and practice of how to deal with such issues, including the leadership skills which are required at every level. These challenges are covered in sections on ...

The Young Champion's Mind: How to Think, Train, and Thrive Like an Elite Athlete

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Afremow (Author)The ultimate guide for student athletes to train, play, and feel their best, from an expert in sports psychology. Sports psychologist Jim Afremow has earned accolades from Olympians to professional athletes for his insightful approach to training the mind, body, and spirit of a competitor. Now this award-winning coach is turning his talents to student athletes in the new young adult edition of his highly praised The Champion's Mind. As stude...

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Griffin (Author)In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth--both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato's fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to bolster their power over both women and nature is brilliant and persuasive, c...

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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Report copyright infringementby Shoshana Zuboff (Author)An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior "Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming." - Financial Times The heady optimism of the Internet's early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy. The fight for a human future has never been more urgent. Shoshan...

New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Marty (Author), Amanda Palmer (Foreword by)A completely new edition of Robin Marty's bestselling manual on what to do now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case scenarios of a post...

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Report copyright infringementby Matthias Wingens (Author)This introductory book provides an insight into sociological life course research and informs about its theoretical assumptions, analytical concepts and main results. Sociological life course research - like biographical research - has developed into an independent and fruitful field of research since the end of the 1960s. It is true that half a century earlier, in their famous study of "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America" (1918-2...

Systematic Mixed-Methods Research for Social Scientists

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy Olsen (Author)This textbook provides clear and accessible guidance on the importance and practical application of mixed-methods research. Professor Olsen presents a range of multiple mixed-methods techniques using quantified data. Critical realism underpins key arguments. She offers detailed examples based on wide experience with international applied social-science projects. The book shows readers how to join quantitative and qualitative data together. D...

Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism

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Report copyright infringementby Calvin Mercer (Author), Tracy J. Trothen (Author)We live in an age of rapid technological advancement. Never before has humankind wielded so much power over our own biology. Biohacking, the attempt at human enhancement of physical, cognitive, affective, moral, and spiritual traits, has become a global phenomenon. This textbook introduces religious and ethical implications of biohacking, artificial intelligence, and other technological changes, offering perspect...

Excel 2019 in Applied Statistics for High School Students: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas J. Quirk (Author)This textbook is a step-by-step guide for high school, community college, and undergraduate students who are taking a course in applied statistics and wish to learn how to use Excel to solve statistical problems. All of the statistics problems in this book come from the following fields of study: business, education, psychology, marketing, engineering and advertising. Students will learn how to perform key statistical tests in Excel with...

Africa: An Introduction to History, Politics and Society

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Report copyright infringementby Rainer Tetzlaff (Author)Interdisciplinary perspectives on AfricaSpecialized knowledge in understandable language and didactically prepared with numerous current examplesUnique formatBack JacketThe textbook provides an in-depth overview of African history and politics from the Atlantic slave trade, through the phases of colonialism and decolonization, to the development problems of the present. Various development theories are used to explain successful and fail...

Human-Environment Interactions: An Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby Mark R. Welford (Author), Robert A. Yarbrough (Author)TIMELY: With and increasing focus on society-environment relations there are surprisingly few truly integrated textbooks on the market. This book hopes to fill the current gap in the market.INTERDISCIPLINARY APPEAL: Written in an accessible and engaging style to appeal to undergraduate students looking for an engaging overview of this important field. Will appeal to students within Geography, Environment Stu...

Le Maroc À l'Horizon 2040: Investir Dans Le Capital Immatériel Pour Accélérer l'Émergence Économique

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Pierre Chauffour (Author)Le Maroc à l'horizon 2040: Investir dans le capital immatériel pour accélérer l'émergence économique documente les grandes avancées économiques et sociales réalisées par le Maroc au cours des 15 dernières années et analyse les politiques économiques ainsi que les conditions d'économie politique à même d'accélérer le rythme de rattrapage de l'économie marocaine d'ici 2040. Un tel rattrapage passerait par des efforts décuplés pour re...

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Report copyright infringementby Danny Schechter (Author), Greg Palast (Introduction by)Danny Schechter the "News Dissector," a veteran journalist, filmmaker, and participant in many social movements, began covering Occupy Wall Street for Al Jazeera and other leading websites, international TV News programs, and Progressive Radio Network shows. Occupy collects his essays, blog reports, and movement documents. As the filmmaker behind In Debt We Trust (2006) and Plunder: The Crime of Our Time (2...

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Radden Keefe (Author)In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people. "Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it's ...

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys

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Report copyright infringementby Jawanza Kunjufu (Author)Advice for parents, educators, community, and church members is provided in this guide for ensuring that African American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible African American men. This book answers such questions as Why are there more black boys in remedial and special education classes than girls? Why are more girls on the honor roll? When do African American boys see a positive black male role model? Is the future of ...

100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro

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Report copyright infringementby J. A. Rogers (Author)Classic collection of black history and triviaFirst published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers' columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the look of Ripley's popular Believe It or Not the multiple vignettes in each episode recount short items from Rogers's research. The feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934 and ran throug...

Pink, Blue, and You!: Questions for Kids about Gender Stereotypes

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Report copyright infringementby Elise Gravel (Author), Mykaell Blais (Author)Simple, accessible, and direct, this picture book is perfect for kids and parents or teachers to read together, opening the door to conversations about gender stereotypes and everyone's right to be their true selves. Is it okay for boys to cry? Can girls be strong? Should girls and boys be given different toys to play with and different clothes to wear? Should we all feel free to love whoever we choose to love? In th...

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Report copyright infringementby Ariane Loening (Author)Inquiry into the Nature of Women's Exploitation was written in order to assemble ideas about the psychological, historical and contemporary reasons for the gross differences in life opportunities and experiences of men and women in rural West Bengal and beyond. As a result of her inquiry, the author came to a couple of conclusions concerning time management in the home and men and women's differing reproductive consciousness; an awareness...

Correctional Leadership Competencies for the 21st Century

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Report copyright infringementby National Institute of Corrections U (Created by)Characteristics that result in the best performance of executive and senior level leaders are identified along with the key skills, knowledge, and attributes of effective and successful leaders which are then linked to a set of specific behaviors. Following an executive summary, this manual provides an exploration of: managerial profiles; self awareness; ethics and values; vision and mission; strategic thinking; m...