Discover the Magic of EFT for Bullying: You can't bully me by Debby Guddee (28 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Voted one of the best instructional books of 2014 by Shelf Unbound. Bullying stops when you change your emotional response to it. if you get called a name, receive a text message or email and it doesn't bother you at all - then the bully will have no hold over you, and this is exactly what this book teaches, how to change your emotional response to bullying. Covering the four main types of bullying, cyber, intimidating, verbal and physical, this book quickly and easily helps children release the emotional effects of bullying to ...

Genre: Parenting & Relationships

Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2 [Historic court memoirs] by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: History

Thrive: 30 Inspirational Rags-to-Riches Stories by Jason Navallo (Navallo Publishing) (417 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Thrive: 30 Inspirational Rags-to-Riches Stories shows the power of perseverance to achieve unbelievable success. Follow the stories of ordinary people who overcame adversity to become wealthy entrepreneurs, innovative businessmen, and famous artists, including Jim Carrey, Eminem, Vin Diesel, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Charlize Theron, Ellen DeGeneres, Mark Cuban, and Jay Z. Never give up. Thrive.

Genre: Self-Help

UNDERSTANDING FRACTIONS VISUALLY Second Edition Colour: Colour-coded Fractions, Visual Fractions, Equivalent Fractions, Decimal Fractions and ... by Eng S Jama (12 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Colour-coded maths fractions made visual and very simple. For children who think text-based fractions are no fun and grown-ups who have never found the best visual resources to master basic maths fractions. • Easy, logically ordered and illustrated with colour-coded shapes, images, words and basic equations • Visually teaches children and visual learners the fundamentals of shape and fraction association • Covers all common fractions; halves, quarters, eighths; fifths, tenths; thirds, sixths and ninths - each from nothing ...

Genre: Science & Math

Christlike Leadership: Leadership that Starts with an Attitude (Christlike Leadership Theory and Practice Series Book 1) by William C. Oakes (101 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This is Book 1 in the Christlike Leadership and Practice Series. Learn how your ethics impact your life, business, and career. Christ-based ethical principles and attitudes work. They make a difference at home, at work, at the club, at church. They are the means to becoming a better, more holistic, leader, manager, teacher, parent, and coach. And this book, written by a pastor and award-winning project manager, explains how.

Genre: Business & Money

Sweden after Nazism: Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War by Johan Östling (3 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

As a nominally neutral power during the Second World War, Sweden in the early postwar era has received comparatively little attention from historians. Nonetheless, as this definitive study shows, the war -- and particularly the specter of Nazism -- changed Swedish society profoundly. Prior to 1939, many Swedes shared an unmistakable affinity for German culture, and even after the outbreak of hostilities there remained prominent apologists for the Third Reich. After the Allied victory, however, Swedish intellectuals reframed Nazism as ...

Genre: History

Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals by Donald R. Chambers (CFA Institute Research Foundation) (27 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals provides an overview of alternative investments for institutional asset allocators and other overseers of portfolios containing both traditional and alternative assets. It is designed for those with substantial experience regarding traditional investments in stocks and bonds but limited familiarity regarding alternative assets, alternative strategies, and alternative portfolio management. The primer categorizes alternative assets into four groups: hedge funds, real ...

Genre: Business & Money

Hierarchy (The Agni Yoga Series Book 7) by Agni Yoga Society (27 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Hierarchy is the seventh book from the Agni Yoga Series which is composed of fourteen books. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is a path not of physical disciplines, meditation, or asceticism -- but of practice in daily life. It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the planetary consciousness is a pressing necessity and ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War (Central European Studies) by Mate Nikola Tokić (3 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, numerous attempted and successful assassinations, two guerilla incursions into socialist Yugoslavia, and two airplane hijackings during the height of the Cold ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical by Achilles Rose (61 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: History

Content Marketing with ChatGPT: The Definitive Content Creation Blueprint: Three Story Method for Content Creators and Creative Professionals by J. Thorn (Thorn Publishing LLC) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

In a world brimming with digital content, how do you ensure your voice not only reaches but also resonates with your audience? Ever wondered how AI could transform your content creation process, infusing efficiency without sacrificing your unique style and expertise? Introducing the revolutionary book by J. Thorn, a vanguard in the field of AI-assisted content creation. This book isn't just a guide; it's a paradigm shift in how you approach content marketing, whether it's blogs, newsletters, or social media posts. Thorn guides you ...

Genre: Business & Money

It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: Reference

Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets (IMISCOE Research Series) by Elif Keskiner (Springer) Price verified 50 minutes ago

This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and 'strong ties'. This open access book addresses key questions about the role of networks in migration contexts, particularly in relation to how migrants and their descendants, access the labour market and ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Reichenbach’s Paradise: Constructing the Realm of Probabilstic Common “Causes” by Leszek Wronski (De Gruyter Open Poland) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Since its introduction by Hans Reichenbach, many philosophers have claimed to refute the idea - known as the common cause principle - that any surprising correlation between any two factors that do not directly influence one another is due to some common cause. For example, falsity of the principle is frequently inferred from falsifiability of Bell's inequalities. The author demonstrates, however, that the situation is not so straightforward. There is more than one version of the principle formulated with the use of different ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production by Kevin Sanson (University of California Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Contemporary film and television production is extraordinarily mobile. Filming large-scale studio productions in Atlanta, Budapest, London, Prague, or Australia's Gold Coast makes Hollywood jobs available to people and places far removed from Southern California -- but it also requires individuals to uproot their lives as they travel around the world in pursuit of ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Lyman Carrier (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Genre: Science & Math

Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson (2 Reviews)    Price verified 35 minutes ago

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Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction (Central European Studies) by Jill Massino (Purdue University Press) Price verified 4 hours ago

The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people's varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Colorado Marijuana Real Estate: Work from Home by Jay Hidoshi (25 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

"Colorado Marijuana Real Estate" is a how to guide for the entrepreneur and the blue-collar guy. This book provides a blueprint for starting a medical marijuana business plan. Colorado real estate is a great investment. Anyone that lived through the .com/tech boom/real estate boom, should try to borrow some money to buy Colorado real estate. This book explains the evolution of legal marijuana in Colorado from 2001 to 2014. It's for all who are interested in how it became Colorado Law. This book gives insight on Colorado marijuana ...

Genre: Science & Math

Tranquilidad (Spanish Edition) by Antonio Castro (162 Reviews)    Price verified 25 minutes ago

En la base lunar permanente Tranquilidad es asesinado el Director General; los mineros del turno semestral, los miembros del equipo de seguridad y mantenimiento y en general las mas de mil personas que conviven allí son sospechosos. Joseph Rogers, el encargado-jefe de seguridad, nos cuenta a través de sus vivencias personales, lo que sucedió y como se detuvo al asesino.

Genre: Foreign Languages

Digital Health Care in Taiwan: Innovations of National Health Insurance by Po-Chang Lee (Springer) Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and quality. The authors explicate how Taiwan integrates its strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry with 5G to construct an information system that facilitates medical information exchange, collects data for planning and research, refines medical claims review procedures and even assists in fighting COVID-19. Taiwan's NHI, ...

Genre: Medical eBooks

Bamboo Tales by Ira L. (Ira Louis) Reeves (1 Review)    Price verified 20 minutes ago

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State of the Union Address by William Jefferson Clinton (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson (7 Reviews)    Price verified 50 minutes ago

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Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Greegs & Ladders: An Incredible Journey Through Space And Time by Zack Mitchell (Mitchell Mendlow) (448 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Greegs & Ladders is a wildly exciting, experimental, comedic science fiction parody novel about three oddball characters romping around space and time in search of truth and/or justice all while narrowly escaping dangerous space-mazes, savage beasts and angry mobs. Equal parts social satire and fun loving adventure, Greegs promises laughs, a few mildly intelligent and/or interesting observations, & several run-on sentences. You'll also get to find out what the hell Greegs are, and how life on Earth came to be, and the meaning of it ...

Genre: Humor & Entertainment

Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals by Henny Kindermann (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: Science & Math

ADHD 101: Parents Edition by Sandy Pace (Mental Health 101) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

ADHD101 Parents Edition is about empowering parents to understand sensitive topics like medication and rights versus responsibility. Through taking a compassionate non-sugar coating approach with parents to acknowledge their problematic attitudes & behavior regarding this sensitive issue. I intend to assist parents in developing a more realistic approach to their child's diagnosis by giving them the tools to acknowledge their unhelpful thoughts, actions, and problematic beliefs. With easy-to-learn psychological techniques designed ...

Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting

Biomineralization: From Molecular and Nano-structural Analyses to Environmental Science by Kazuyoshi Endo (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book is the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XIV) held in 2017 at Tsukuba. Over the past 45 years, biomineralization research has unveiled details of the characteristics of the nano-structure of various biominerals; the formation mechanism of this nano-structure, including the initial stage of crystallization; and the function of organic matrices in biominerals, and this knowledge has been applied to dental, medical, pharmaceutical, materials, agricultural and environmental ...

Genre: Science & Math

The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon by David Prescott Barrows (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: History

Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess by Anna Benneson McMahan (3 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Roumania Past and Present by James Samuelson (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Some Problems for Parents Concerning Punishment, Reasoning, Lies, Ideals and Ambitions, Fear, Work and Play, ... by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

The Smart Set Correspondence & Conversations by Clyde Fitch (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: Reference

Fantasy Football for Smart People: How to Cash in on the Future of the Game by Jonathan Bales (130 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Fantasy Football for Smart People: How to Cash in on the Future of the Game is the first book of its kind to break down the actual strategies used by the top owners in the world of daily fantasy football. With daily fantasy football growing at an exponential rate, there's a whole lot of money to be made, and advanced daily owners are already cashing in to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit. With input from one of the daily fantasy football "sharks" -- FFFC $150,000 winner Peter Jennings -- How to Cash in on the ...

Genre: Humor & Entertainment

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 12 by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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National Strategy for Combating Terrorism February 2003 by Executive Office of the President United States (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 23) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 9 hours ago

For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in-and thinking about-sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological range: from the Hellenistic period (first century BCE) to the most recent basketball season. The range of athletes covered is equally broad: from participants in Roman-style games to wrestlers, boxers, fencers, baseball players, and ...

Genre: Sports & Outdoors

Mishpachah: The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 27) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 2 hours ago

Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the ...

Genre: History

Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 07 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 10 by Duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Hypochondriasis A Practical Treatise (1766) by John Hill (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 26) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 8 hours ago

Economic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twenty-first century. Although these issues have not troubled all people at all times, they are nonetheless not new. Thus, it is not surprising that Judaism has developed many perspectives, theoretical and practical, to explain and ameliorate the circumstances that produce serious economic disparity. This volume offers an accessible collection of articles that deal comprehensively with this phenomenon from a variety of approaches and perspectives. Within this framework, the ...

Genre: History

Is Judaism Democratic?: Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 29) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

As government by the people, democracy has always had its proponents as well as opponents. What forms of government have Jewish leaders, both with and without actual political power, favored? Not surprisingly, many options have been offered theoretically and in practice. Perhaps more surprisingly, democracy has been at the heart of most systems of governance. Biblical Israel was largely a monarchy, but many writers of the Bible were critical of the excesses that almost always arise when human kings take charge: the general populace ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Who Is A Jew?: Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 25) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 minutes ago

Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?" This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2 by Stephen Rust (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specific national and indigenous film contexts to discussing ecojustice, ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria (Central European Studies) by Scott O. Moore (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 minutes ago

Teaching the Empireexplores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic level, this civic education taught children about their state while also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could bind society together. For the most part historians have focused on the development of civic education in nation-states like Germany, France, and ...

Genre: History

President Trump’s First Term: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 5 by Robert X. Browning (Purdue University Press) Price verified 9 hours ago

C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided--without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view. The C-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is the home of the online C-SPAN Video Library. The Archives has recorded all of C-SPAN's television content since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler by Tom Pfister (Purdue University Press) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 35 minutes ago

Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans -- Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic -- who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment ...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

The C-SPAN Archives: An Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement (The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research) by Robert X. Browning (Purdue University Press) Price verified 9 hours ago

The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and preserves all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, and research uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, from all House and Senate sessions in the US Congress, to hearings, presidential speeches, conventions, and campaign events, totaling over 200,000 hours, is contained in the video library and is immediately and freely accessible through the database and electronic archival systems developed and maintained by staff. Whereas C-SPAN is best known as a resource for political ...

Genre: Engineering & Transportation

Impress The World With Your Body in SEVEN DAYS! by David Madow (336 Reviews)    Price verified 15 minutes ago

Do you ever dream of being stronger, healthier, more confident, younger looking and more attractive? If so, you owe it to yourself to check out the Kindle version of the classic "IMPRESS THE WORLD WITH YOUR BODY IN SEVEN DAYS." Organized in a very easy to digest format, "SEVEN DAYS" will help you become a more vibrant, healthier and physically fit human being. Do you ever stop to wonder why some people look so good and others simply look terrible? It took Dr. Madow more than thirty years to figure it out, but he can now teach you the ...

Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting

The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research: Volume 4 by Robert X. Browning Price verified 5 hours ago

C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided--without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view. C-SPAN Video Library, adjacent to Purdue University, archives copies of all broadcast content, including policymaking proceedings, events, discussion, and debate, aired on the C-SPAN network since 1987. Extensive ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Letters of George Ade (The Founders Series) by Terence Tobin (Purdue University Press) Price verified 20 minutes ago

George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland all received letters from the Hoosier humorist. Ade's keen observation, compact and straightforward style, and understated humor mark his correspondence, as well as his immensely popular newspaper columns, books, and plays. His friendships were so diversified ...

Genre: History

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda (The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research) by Robert X. Browning Price verified 8 hours ago

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference, includes chapters that explore issues in presidential debates, minority representation, the presentation of the first ladies, stem research, and innovative ways to analyze video. The book is divided into five parts: Part 1 consists of an overview of and common scholarship using the C-SPAN Archives and how this research advances the ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Advances in Research Using the C-SPAN Archives (The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research) by Robert X. Browning Price verified 6 hours ago

This book is a guide to the latest research using the C-SPAN Archives. In this book, nine authors present original work using the video archives to study presidential debates, public opinion and Congress, analysis of the Violence Against Women Act and the Great Lakes freshwater legislation, as well as President Clinton's grand jury testimony. The C-SPAN Archives contain over 220,000 hours of first run digital video of the nation's public affairs record. These and other essays serve as guides for scholars who want to explore the ...

Genre: Humor & Entertainment

Leaders of the Pack: Women and the Future of Veterinary Medicine (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond) by Julie Kumble (Purdue University Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Veterinary medicine has undergone sweeping changes in the last few decades. Women now account for 55 percent of the active veterinarians in the field, and nearly 80 percent of veterinary students are women. However, average salaries have dropped as this shift has occurred, and even with women in the vast majority, only 25 percent of leadership roles are held by women. These trends point to gender-based inequality that veterinary medicine, a profession that tilts so heavily toward women, is struggling to address. How will the ...

Genre: Medical eBooks

101 Mac Tips: OS X & Safari: Tips,Tricks and Techniques To Help You Get the Most From Your Mac by Gary Rosenzweig (CleverMedia, Inc.) (19 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This short book includes 101 tips, tricks and techniques for using your Mac. If you know the basics, but are looking to learn how to work more efficiently on your Mac, then this is the book for you. Learn 101 tips for using OS X and Safari that will save you time and effort. Then impress your friends with your ninja-like Mac skills.

Genre: Computers & Technology

Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos (4 Reviews)    Price verified 20 minutes ago

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Genre: History

Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences) by John W. White (Purdue University Press) Price verified 2 hours ago

Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library's role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate education. Academic libraries are nexuses of research and technology; as such, they provide fertile ground for cultivating and curating digital ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

American Politics and the Jewish Community (The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review Book 11) by Dan Schnur (Purdue University Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

At its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that America's Jews have devoted themselves to civic engagement and the democratic process. From before the Revolutionary War to the early twenty-first century, when America saw the first Jewish vice presidential nominee of a major party and the first Jewish Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Jewish community has always devoted itself to public service, issue advocacy, and ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty by Nora Lustig (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Edited by Nora Lustig, the Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty (Brookings Institution Press and CEQ Institute-Tulane University, 2nd edition, 2022) is a unique manual on the theory and practical methods to estimate the impact of taxation and public spending on inequality and poverty. In addition, the second edition covers frontier topics such as alternative approaches to measure the redistributive effect of education, health, and infrastructure spending. Policymakers, social ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb by W. R. (William Robert) Roe (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove (12 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: History

Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050 by Claudia Ringler (6 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

As the global population grows and incomes in poor countries rise, so too, will the demand for food, placing additional pressure on sustainable food production. Climate change adds a further challenge, as changes in temperature and precipitation threaten agricultural productivity and the capacity to feed the world's population. This study assesses how serious the danger to food security might be and suggests some steps policymakers can take to remedy the situation. Using various modeling techniques, the authors project 15 different ...

Genre: Science & Math

Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 12 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1 Review)    Price verified 50 minutes ago

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Genre: History

Human Rights Standards: Hegemony, Law, and Politics (SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics) by Makau Mutua (SUNY Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

How are human rights norms made, who makes them, and why? In Human Rights Standards, Makau Mutua traces the history of the human rights project and critically explores how the norms of the human rights movement have been created. Examining key texts and documents published since the inception of the human rights movement at the end of World War II, he crafts a bracing critique of these works from the hitherto underutilized perspective of the Global South. Attention is focused on the deficits of the international order and how that ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru by Ilana Johnson (University Press of Colorado) Price verified 9 hours ago

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory. Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often the Moche. While Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru does examine the Moche, it offers a wider thematic approach to a ...

Genre: History

Macroeconomic Modelling of R&D and Innovation Policies (International Economic Association Series) by Ufuk Akcigit Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book encompasses a collection of in-depth analyses showcasing the challenges and ways forward for macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies. Based upon the proceedings of the EC-DG JRC-IEA workshop held in Brussels in 2017, it presents cutting-edge contributions from a number of leading economists in the field. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current academic and policy challenges surrounding R&D as well as of the state-of-the-art modelling techniques. The book brings to the forefront ...

Genre: Business & Money

Agroecology: research for the transition of agri-food systems and territories by Thierry Caquet (Quae) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 25 minutes ago

Agroecology was chosen by INRAE as one of the interdisciplinary foresight projects aimed at identifying research fronts in response to major societal challenges. Eighty researchers drew up an assessment and proposed research avenues for agroecology. This book summarizes their main conclusions.

Genre: Science & Math

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 7: Miscellaneous by Artemus Ward (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: Reference

Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1): Comparing Access to Welfare Entitlements (IMISCOE Research Series) by Jean-Michel Lafleur (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This first open access book in a series of three volumes provides an in-depth analysis of social protection policies that EU Member States make accessible to resident nationals, non-resident nationals and non-national residents. In doing so, it discusses different scenarios in which the interplay between nationality and residence could lead to inequalities of access to welfare. Each chapter maps the eligibility conditions for accessing social benefits, by paying particular attention to the social entitlements that migrants can claim ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity (Environmental Discourses in Science Education Book 7) by María S. Rivera Maulucci (Springer) Price verified 25 minutes ago

This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation. Sustainability, with a focus on justice, authenticity and inclusivity, can be integrated into many different courses or disciplines even if it is beyond their historical focus. The narratives describe sustainability education in the classroom, the laboratory, and the field (broadly defined) and how the ...

Genre: Science & Math

The Meaning of Life by Vimal Sehgal B.Tech. IIT Delhi (48 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Love is divine and Divinity is love personified. The author explains that divine love is the meaning of life and shows the reader how everyone can attain peace, love, immortality and happiness by the easy method of mantra meditation. The book elaborately describes love as the ultimate reality, love is divine, reincarnation and its significance, immortality and bliss, law of karma, mind and meditation, bhakti yoga and the art of dying. The book also presents a synthesis of science and religion by explaining the fundamentals of life ...

Genre: Science & Math

Educational Work of the Girl Scouts by Louise Stevens Bryant (6 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Money and Happiness (The Scientific Way): Scientifically Proven Ways To Be Happy And Highly Effective Life Hacks For Financial Independence by Dr L V George (13 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

#1 BEST SELLER IN FREE KINDLE BOOKS** What is the fastest and most effective scientifically proven way to become a happier person? There is a growing body of scientific research answering those exact questions and it turns out that money has a small but significant role to play. This is not only a fascinating book full of surprises, but vital too: you will be left with practical, evidenced based techniques that will help you live a happier and more fulfilled life. In this practical and scientific based guide towards happiness and ...

Genre: Business & Money

Heart (The Agni Yoga Series Book 8) by Agni Yoga Society (37 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Heart is the eighth book from the Agni Yoga Series which is composed of fourteen books. In them is found a synthesis of ancient Eastern beliefs and modern Western thought and a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. Unlike previous yogas, Agni Yoga is a path not of physical disciplines, meditation, or asceticism -- but of practice in daily life. It is the yoga of fiery energy, of consciousness, of responsible, directed thought. It teaches that the evolution of the planetary consciousness is a pressing necessity and that, ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War (The United States in the World) by Kazushi Minami (Cornell University Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

In People's Diplomacy, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations. Top policymakers in Washington and Beijing drew the blueprint for the new bilateral relationship, but the work of building it was left to a host of Americans and Chinese from all walks of life, who engaged in "people-to-people" exchanges. After two decades of estrangement and hostility caused by the ...

Genre: History

Being Human during COVID by Kristin Ann Hass (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 8 hours ago

Science has taken center stage during the COVID-19 crisis; scientists named and diagnosed the virus, traced its spread, and worked together to create a vaccine in record time. But while science made the headlines, the arts and humanities were critical in people's daily lives. As the world went into lockdown, literature, music, and media became crucial means of connection, and historians reminded us of the resonance of the past as many of us heard for the first time about the 1918 influenza pandemic. As the twindemics of COVID-19 and ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Reason, Ego & the Right-Minded Teamwork Myth: The Philosophy and Process for Creating a Right-Minded Team That Works Together as One (Right-Minded ... by Dan Hogan (978-1-939585-03-5) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT) is an intelligent and empowering teamwork system that guides teams to overcome interpersonal challenges, improve processes, and work together seamlessly to achieve business goals. With RMT, your team can compassionately address interpersonal conflict, regain focus, and produce astounding results. What Is This Book About? Written for team leaders and team facilitators ready to create positive, lasting change in their teams, this book teaches two significant Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT) concepts. First, you ...

Genre: Business & Money

The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo by Nathan Kelsey Hall (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Genre: History