eBooks List For Item Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)
Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)
- ISBN:
- 0387708448
- Authors:
- Hernan Vera, Joe R. Feagin
The study of racial and ethnic relations has become one of the most studied aspects in sociology and sociological research. In both North America and Europe, many traditional cultures are feeling threatened by immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia. Sociology is at the hub of the human sciences concerned with racial and ethnic relations. Since this discipline is made of multiple paradigms and methodological orientations it has been able...
Telling Sexual Stories
- ISBN:
- 0415102952
- Authors:
- Ken Plummer
Telling Sexual Stories explores the rites of a sexual storytelling culture. Taking three major examples--rape stories, coming-out stories, recovery stories--it examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions which give rise to them. It looks at the rise of the women's movement, the lesbian and gay movement and the ``recovery'' movement as harbingers of significant social change that encourage the...
If I Only Had a Brain: Deconstructing Brain Injury (New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Changes, and Social Justice)
- ISBN:
- 0415975727
- Authors:
- Mark Sherry
This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queer theory, postcolonial and postmodern literature) to frame an enriching narrative about the lived experience of brain injury.
Introduction to Chemicals from Biomass (Wiley Series in Renewable Resource)
- ISBN:
- 0470058056
Nature provides us with an abundance of chemical potential. Presenting an overview of the use of bioresources in the 21st century, Introduction to Chemicals from Biomass covers resources, chemical composition of biomass, key factors affecting composition, utilization of wastes, extraction technologies, controlled pyrolysis, fermentation, platform molecules, and green chemical technologies for their conversion to valuable chemicals. The text...
Climate Change: Causes, Effects, and Solutions
- ISBN:
- 0470850191
- Authors:
- John T. Hardy
This book addresses civilization’s most important environmental challenge: climate change. Burning of fossil fuels has greatly increased the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases, trapping more of the sun’s energy near the Earth’s surface. In response, our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and ecosystems are already changing. Modern industrialized economies depend largely on the combustion of coal, oil and gas. However,...
Multiculturalism in Global Society
- ISBN:
- 063122193X
- Authors:
- Peter Kivisto
Explores the concepts and debates surrounding the complex modern phenomenon of multiculturalism, and its varied effects of the advanced industrial nations of the world. Softcover available.
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
- ISBN:
- 0761932534
- Authors:
- Dev Nathan
This book deals with two processes of globalization that are profoundly influencing the lives of indigenous people - the role of their resources in providing environmental services, and the civilizational changes caused by privatization. Examining how to deal with the exclusion of indigenous people in global flows in order to create a more equal and democratic alternative, the book goes beyond the trend for decrying globalization. Instead it...
Nationalism: A Critical Introduction
- ISBN:
- 0761947213
- Authors:
- Mr Philip Spencer, Mr Howard Wollman
Nationalism provides an indispensable review of the study of nationalism that both introduces and critically positions all the main issues, theories and contemporary debates. Drawing upon and introducing a wide range of literatures from across politics, sociology, history, social anthropology and cultural studies, the authors seek to further challenge fixed notions of national identity, ethnicity and culture to more fully explore and understand...
Champs algébriques (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics) (French Edition)
- ISBN:
- 3540657614
- Authors:
- Gerard Laumon, L. Moret-Bailly
Provides mathematicians with the first systematic account of the general theory of algebraic stacks over an arbitrary base scheme. Covers the techniques for scheme-theoretic notions to stacks, Artin's representability theorems, and topics on 'lisse-etale' topology. DLC: Algebraic fields.
Modelling Environmental Dynamics: Advances in Geomatic Solutions (Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Science)
- ISBN:
- 3540684891
Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response to the large number of influences including urbanisation, climate change and deforestation. Simulation and modelling provide support for decision making in environmental management. The first chapter introduces terminology and provides an overview of methodological modelling approaches which may be applied to environmental...
The Unconscious in Philosophy, and French and European Literature: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. (Value Inquiry Book)
- ISBN:
- 9042025778
- Authors:
- Fernand Vial
This book traces the idea of the unconscious as it emerges in French and European literature. It discusses the functioning of the normal unconscious mind and provides examples of the abnormal unconscious in poems and literature. Psychiatric cases as they are understood today are illustrated as mirrored in literature describing the functioning of the disturbed mind.
Getting Lost with Boys
- ISBN:
- 0060824328
- Authors:
- Hailey Abbott
Cordelia Packer hates the unexpected, but she's in for a surprise when Jacob Stein offers to be her travel companion, all the way from San Diego to her sister's place in northern California. Before she knows it, her neatly laid out summer plan has turned into a wild road trip, where anything can – and does – happen. Who knew getting lost with a boy could be so much fun?
The Secrets of Boys
- ISBN:
- 0060824336
- Authors:
- Hailey Abbott
Eric: Loves surfing, has killer abs, an even better smile, and a heart of gold. Joe: A sarcastic goofball who gives great advice, which no one ever takes. Zach: Sophisticated college boy, wise in the ways of French painting as well as other French things. A California girl like Cassidy Jones should be out on the beach, not stuck in summer school! But her life heats up when she meets the worldly and romantic Zach – she can't stop thinking...
Saints of Augustine
- ISBN:
- 0060858125
- Authors:
- P. E. Ryan
Sam and Charlie used to be best friends. But then Sam cut Charlie out of his life—no explanation, no discussion, nothing. Fast-forward one year, and both Sam's and Charlie's lives are spiraling out of control. Sam has a secret he's finding harder and harder to hide, and Charlie is dealing with an increasingly absent dad and a dealer whose threats are anything but empty. Now, during the sticky Florida summer before their senior year, the...
Persian Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
- ISBN:
- 0192806351
- Authors:
- Montesquieu
Persian Letters is a classic of European literature by Baron de Montesquieu, the brilliant thinker who had a huge influence on the Enlightenment. Through the astute observations of his two fictional Persian travelers in Europe--Usbek and Rica--Montesquieu asks fundamental questions about human nature, the manners and flirtations of polite society, the structures of power, and the hypocrisy of religion-all in a witty, inventive satire that...
Scripture and Ethics: Twentieth-Century Portraits
- ISBN:
- 0195110994
- Authors:
- Jeffrey Siker
How should the Bible be used in Christian ethics? Although this question has been addressed many times, little attention has gone to how the Bible actually has functioned in constructing theological ethics. In this book, Siker describes and analyzes the Bible's various uses in the theology and ethics of eight of the twentieth century's most important and influential Christian theologians: Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, Bernhard Haring,...
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age
- ISBN:
- 0195146328
Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age examines a variety of significant multidisciplinary and multicultural topics within the subject of aesthetics. Addressing the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to current political and cultural concerns, the contributors to this volume attempt to bridge the two decades-old gap between scholars and critics who hold conflicting views of the purposes of art and criticism. By exploring some of the ways in...
Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror
- ISBN:
- 0198208677
- Authors:
- J. M. Beattie
This pioneering study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the century after the Restoration. The author reveals how and why an alternative means of dealing with crime emerged in the policing of London, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London
- ISBN:
- 0226978133
- Authors:
- Caitlin Zaloom
From New York to Singapore, from Chicago to London, the trading floors of the world’s financial markets are icons of global capitalism. Images of them are used on the news all the time—traders burying their heads in their hands when the market is down, their arms flailing in a frenzy when fortunes are rising—to convey the current state of the economy. But these marketplaces, and the cultural life that sustains them, are dissolving into the...
Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel
- ISBN:
- 0309102030
- Authors:
- Committee on Review and Evaluation of International Technologies for the Destruction of Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, National Research Council
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide: [Six Volumes]
- ISBN:
- 0313336148
- Authors:
- Laura Arntson, Irving Epstein, Leslie Limage, Sheryl Lutjens, Jyotsna Pattnaik, Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, Talhami, Ghada Hashem
From the skyrocketing AIDS rate in Haiti to the oppressive pollution in industrial China, from the violent street culture of Nigeria to the crippling poverty in Nicaragua, from child trafficking in Thailand to child marriages in India, this jam-packed six-volume set explores all these issues and more in an unprecedented look at the world's children at the dawn of the 21st century. In recent years, while many countries have enjoyed a higher...
Culture and Customs of the United States [Two Volumes] (Culture and Customs of North America)
- ISBN:
- 0313338752
American life and culture is truly unique in that it was born from many other cultures around the world. When immigrants migrated to the Land of Opportunity, they brought with them pieces of their own heritage: foods, religions, holidays, festivals, music, and art, just to name a few. Through time, these customs have developed into what we now know as American life. Explore how even within the US, various cultures and customs differ from New...
RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
- ISBN:
- 0321480791
- Authors:
- Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka
Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster. Inside, the authors walk you step by step from the creation of the site's virtually static...
The Transformation of Cities: Urban Theory and Urban Cities
- ISBN:
- 0333745973
- Authors:
- David C. Thorns
The aim of the book is to examine the transformation of the city in the late 20th century and explore the ways in which city life is structured. The shift from modern-industrial to information/consumption-based 'post-modern' cities is traced through the text. The focus is not just on America and Europe but also explores cities in other parts of the world as city growth in the twenty first century will be predominantly outside of these regions.
Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning
- ISBN:
- 0865715483
- Authors:
- Jeffrey Hollender, Geoff Davis, Meika Hollender
Compelling evidence links the chemicals in household products to cancer, asthma, allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome-also known as environmental illness-hormonal disruption, reproductive and developmental disorders, and other conditions. Yet cleaning products are exempt from the full ingredient disclosure on product labels as required for food and personal care products and enter the marketplace with little or no testing for...
Crow's Range: An Environmental History Of The Sierra Nevada
- ISBN:
- 0874175623
- Authors:
- David Beesley
John Muir called it the "Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I’ve ever seen." The Sierra Nevada—a single unbroken mountain range stretching north to south over four hundred miles, best understood as a single ecosystem but embracing a number of environmental communities—has been the site of human activity for millennia. From the efforts of ancient Native Americans to stimulate populations of game animals...
Nevada's Environmental Legacy: Progress or Plunder (Wilber S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History)
- ISBN:
- 0874177693
- Authors:
- James W. Hulse
This book presents environmental issues and policies in Nevada during the last 150 years. Nevada's relatively brief history (it became a state in 1864) has been largely a story of the exploitation of its natural resources. Mining has torn down mountains and poisoned streams and groundwater. Uncontrolled grazing by vast herds of sheep and cattle has denuded grasslands and left them prey to the invasion of noxious plant species and vulnerable to...
The Unheavenly City Revisited
- ISBN:
- 0881335290
- Authors:
- Edward C. Banfield
One of the most widely read and widely debated books on contemporary American urban problems! In the more than twenty years since this book was written, the situation of the American city has not changed fundamentally. This is particularly true of the big cities an their larger, older suburbs. All of the old problems are still with us: racial injustice and animosity, poverty, crime, joblessness, ignorance and what goes with them. Some problems...
Dehalogenation: Microbial Processes and Environmental Applications
- ISBN:
- 1402074069
Halogenated organic compounds constitute one of the largest groups of environmental chemicals. The industrial production of new halogenated organic compounds has increased throughout the last century and these compounds are integral to a variety of industrial applications. Although organohalide compounds are typically considered to be anthropogenic industrial compounds, these have their counterpart in several thousands of natural biogenic and...
Citizenship and Political Education Today
- ISBN:
- 140393553X
Citizenship and Political Education Today brings together essays from leading researchers around the world including discussion of politics and education in England, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Norway and the wider European Union. The contributors examine vital issues surrounding the engagement of citizens in politics and political institutions, particularly the role of education in encouraging active citizenship.
The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (Book & CD-ROM)
- ISBN:
- 1563523353
- Authors:
- Seymour Papert
At a time when parents wonder how computers are changing their children's lives, the world's foremost expert on how children learn to work with computers speaks out.
Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing
- ISBN:
- 1592138888
- Authors:
- Clinton Sanders, D Angus Vail
Originally published in 1989, this ground-breaking ethnographic exploration of tattooing - and the art world surrounding it - covers the history, anthropology, and sociology of body modification practices; the occupational experience of the tattooist; the process and social consequences of becoming a tattooed person; and the prospects of "serious" tattooing becoming an accepted art form. Curiously, despite the greater prevalence of tattoos and...
A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance (Gallica)
- ISBN:
- 1843841096
- Authors:
- Ben Ramm
The Holy Grail made its first literary appearance in the work of the twelfth-century French poet, Chrétien de Troyes, and continues to fascinate authors and audiences alike. This study, supported by a theoretical framework based on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, aims to strip the legend of much of the mythological and folkloric association that it has acquired over the centuries, arguing that...
Intersex
- ISBN:
- 1845201825
- Authors:
- Catherine Harper
Intersex is the condition whereby an individual is born with biological features that are simultaneously perceived as male and female. Ranging from the ambiguous genitalia of the true 'hermaphrodite' to the 'mildly or internally intersexed', the condition may be as common as cleft palate. Like cleft palate, it is hidden and surgically altered, but for very different reasons. This important book draws heavily on the personal testimony of...
Identification of Continuous-time Models from Sampled Data (Advances in Industrial Control)
- ISBN:
- 1848001606
System identification is an established field in the area of system analysis and control. It aims to determine particular models for dynamical systems based on observed inputs and outputs. Although dynamical systems in the physical world are naturally described in the continuous-time domain, most system identification schemes have been based on discrete-time models without concern for the merits of natural continuous-time model descriptions. The...
Artificial Life Models in Software
- ISBN:
- 1848822847
The advent of powerful processing technologies and the advances in software development tools have drastically changed the approach and implementation of computational research in fundamental properties of living systems through simulating and synthesizing biological entities and processes in artificial media. Nowadays realistic physical and physiological simulation of natural and would-be creatures, worlds and societies becomes a low-cost task...
Genesis of the Grail Kings: The Explosive Story of Genetic Cloning and the Ancient Bloodline of Jesus
- ISBN:
- 1862048096
- Authors:
- Laurence Gardner
Our race, Homo sapien sapien seems to have evolved out of nowhere--confounding anthropologists for years, and dubbed Darwin's "Missing Link." Yet the answer has been with us all along . Genesis reveals Adam and Eve as not the first man and woman on the earth--but the first of a kind. The result of exhaustive archaeological, anthropological, and theological research, Genesis of the Grail Kings exposes 'Biblical myth' as manipulated fact,...
Secrets of the Soil : New Solutions for Restoring Our Planet
- ISBN:
- 1890693243
- Authors:
- Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird
Asthma: An Atlas of Investigation and Diagnosis
- ISBN:
- 1904392180
Asthma: An Atlas of Investigation and Management is an illustrated textbook and reference for clinicians. Containing 144 full color pages, it provides vital visual information on the diagnosis, symptoms and prevention of asthma. Rich with photographic images supported by straight forward descriptions and explanations of each problem, the book is a practical and accessible resource that all doctors treating this condition will find invaluable in...
CoSMoS 2008: Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation
- ISBN:
- 1905986173
The study of Complex Systems is growing rapidly, and modelling and simulation tools are an important part of the process. This volume brings together work from a multidisciplinary group of scientists, from biology and computer science, who are studying a variety of techniques and applications for modelling and simulating complex systems. A common theme emerging from much of this work is an emphasis on validation: how one can have confidence that...