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Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morphy, Howard, PUBLISHER: UNSW Press, "Becoming Art" provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Transcending the boundaries between anthropology and art history, the book draws on arguments from both disciplines to provide a unique interdisciplinary perspective that places the artists themselves at the centre of the argument. Western art history has traditionally regarded Aboriginal art as distanced from time and place. "Becoming Art" uses the recent history of Aboriginal art to challenge some of the presuppositions of western art discourse and western art worlds. It argues for a more cross-cultural perspective on world art history.

Exploring the Epistle of Jude: An Expository Commentary

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Phillips, John, PUBLISHER: Kregel Academic & Professional, Books in the "John Phillips Commentary Series" are designed to provide pastors, Sunday school teachers, and students of the Scripture with doctrinally sound interpretation that emphasizes the practical application of Bible truth. Working from the familiar King James Version, Dr. Phillips not only provides helpful commentary on the text, but also includes detailed outlines and numerous illustrations and quotations. Anyone wanting to explore the meaning of God's Word in greater depth--for personal spiritual growth or as a resource for preaching and teaching--will welcome the guidance and insights of this respected series.

From Molecules to Minds: Challenges for the 21st Century:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Institute Of Medicine, PUBLISHER: National Academies Press, Neuroscience has made phenomenal advances over the past 50 years and the pace of discovery continues to accelerate. On June , the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders hosted more than 70 of the leading neuroscientists in the world, for a workshop titled "From Molecules to Minds: Challenges for the 21st Century." The objective of the workshop was to explore a set of common goals or "Grand Challenges" posed by participants that could inspire and rally both the scientific community and the public to consider the possibilities for neuroscience in the 21st century. The progress of the past in combination with new tools and techniques, such as neuroimaging and molecular biology, has positioned neuroscience on the cusp of even greater transformational progress in our understanding of the brain and how its inner workings result in mental activity. This workshop summary highlights the important issues and challenges facing the field of neuroscience as presented to those in attendance at the workshop, as well as the subsequent discussion that resulted. As a result, three overarching Grand Challenges emerged: How does the brain work and produce mental activity? How does physical activity in the brain give rise to thought, emotion, and behavior? How does the interplay of biology and experience shape our brains and make us who we are today? How do we keep our brains healthy? How do we protect, restore, or enhance the functioning of our brains as we age?

Beyond Year Innovative Solutions for the Evolving

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mancini Newell, Lucy, PUBLISHER: Jossey-Bass, This issue explores how many healthcare organizations are meeting the challenge of bringing meaningful patient information to those who practice medicine. It features case studies describing new and innovative solutions to delivering patient information and it addresses the complex problem of consolidating information systems in a clinical laboratory setting. The contributors also examine integration issues related to linking radiology information to collected digitized images, education strategy, and the challenges of meeting compliance requirements.This is an issue of the "Journal for Healthcare Information Management," sponsored by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society.

DNA Cloning: A Practical Approach Volume III

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Glover, David M. / Glover, D. M., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This volume presents for the first time in a single book a variety of current techniques for cloning and expressing DNA molecules. Protocols are described in sufficient detail for immediate use in the laboratory.

Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Beaver, David / Clark, Brady, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell, "Sense and Sensitivity" advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in fact results from three different mechanisms. The book Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of focus sensitivity - a field exploring interactions between sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on the effects of focus, such as "she only LIKES me" (i.e. nothing deeper) compared to "she only likes ME" (i.e. nobody else) Discusses the features of the QFC theory (Quasi association, Free association, and Conventional association), a new account of focus implying a tripartite typology of focus-sensitive expressions Presents novel cross-linguistic data on focus and focus sensitivity that will be relevant across a range of linguistic sub-fields: semantics and pragmatics, syntax, and intonational phonology Concludes with a case study of exclusives (like "only"), arguing that the entire existing literature has missed crucial generalizations, and for the first time explaining the focus sensitivity of these expressions in terms of their meaning and discourse function

Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Hanlon, Redmond, PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, Limited (UK), Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, the indefatigable Redmond O'Hanlon sets off on his next adventure: his own perfect storm, in the wild waters off the northern tip of Scotland. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks, and no seamanship whatsoever, O'Hanlon joins the commercial fishing crew of the "Norlantean," a deep-sea trawler, " " to stock a bottomless hull with their catch, even as a hurricane roars around them. Rich in oceanography, marine biology, and uproarious humor, "Trawle"r is Redmond O'Hanlon at his finest.

Frederick Banting and the Discovery of Insulin

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bankston, John, PUBLISHER: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Written especially for young adult readers, this series helps place each significant invention, discovery, or development in historical perspective while exploring the life of the person responsible for each breakthrough. Readers will travel back in time to learn about each important scientific, medical, or technological discovery. No science fiction story even approximates the mystery and suspense contained in these true science biographies. Canadian physician who discovered insulin

River Days: Exploring the Connecticut River from Source to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tougias, Michael, PUBLISHER: On Cape Publications, "As a boy, I had the Huck Finn dream that many do of letting the river carry me to adventure." Now, some 30 years later, award-winning outdoor writer Michael Tougias lives that dream. Trading Huck Finn's log raft for canoe and kayak, Tougias journeys the length of the Connecticut River--from its source near the Canadian border through four New England states to where it meets the sea in Connecticut. Recently designated an American Heritage River, the Connecticut provides the perfect setting for Tougias's narrative--a wonderful blend of adventure, fishing tales, history, and natural history.

Human Differences

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Aiken, Lewis R. / Aiken, PUBLISHER: Psychology Press, This text reviews the mass of information concerning the ways in which individuals and groups differ from each other. Reviews of research findings and interpretations are provided on: physical appearance, performance and health; cognitive abilities; personality; and development across the life span. Extensive treatment of foundations (historical, measurement, research methods, biological, social, and cultural) is also provided. Both normal and abnormal behaviors are considered. The book provides an interdisciplinary focus, including material from all the behavior and natural sciences, not just psychology, sociology, or biology.

Exploring Space The High Frontier

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Kabul

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Medley, Dominic / Barrand, Jude, PUBLISHER: Bradt Travel Guides, As usual, Bradt guides lead the way in exploring areas in the news. This new, mini guide format features: Background information to Kabul and the surrounding area Comprehensive advice on safety, security and health People and culture in depth Hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs, plus restaurants and bars Up-to-date telephone numbers, websites and other communications information Beyond Kabul - towns and cities within easy reach of the capital Maps and town plans Words, phrases and Afghan proverbs

Weirdos from Another Planet!: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Watterson, Bill, PUBLISHER: Andrews McMeel Publishing, "Flashes of innovative genius abound. Exploring the world of Calvin and Hobbes is great therapy. The antics of the precocious boy and his suave stuffed tiger pal can pull anyone out of the doldrums." --"Amarillo News Globe" In "Calvin and Hobbes" book "Weirdos From Another Planet," this power-packed extravaganza of creative energy and imagination feature the childhood fun and fantasy that was a Watterson trademark. "Weirdos From Another Planet," is out of this world

Kingdom of the Seven

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Land, Jon, PUBLISHER: Forge, Dr. Karen Raymond has made the medical breakthrough of the century, a vaccine that could halt the spread of our most devastating modern plague, AIDS. But when her laboratory is destroyed and her colleagues murdered, she realized she's in danger: a conspiracy of proportions she never dreamed possible is out to crush her work. In another part of the country the population of an entire town has disappeared into thin air, leaving behind only half-finished meals, empty offices and schools. Who is responsible? A cabal of power-seeking corporations? Rogue victims of Army medical experiments gone horribly wrong? Who is behind the traitorous plot that threatens to sacrifice our country to the "Kingdom of the Seven,"

Cadogan Guide Cairo, Luxor and Aswan

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Haag, Michael, PUBLISHER: Cadogan Guides, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan all run alongside one of Egypt's most famous features, the river Nile, but all have their own distinct character. Cairo, the most well-known, is both one of the world's finest medieval cities and a vibrant metropolis, and is the perfect base for exploring Egypt's great Pyramids. Luxor is home to a wonderful temple, built by Amenophis III, and is the best place from which to discover the ancient Necropolis of Thebes. And Aswan, the frontier outpost of Egypt, lays claim to the Elephantine Island, the ruins of Yebu and the tranquil Nubian villages. Written with insight, charm, and wit, Cadogan's superb guide offers the best way to enjoy a three-destination break or sample the cities individually.

Exploring Writing and Play in the Early Years, Second

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hall, Nigel / Hall Nigel / Robinson, Anne, PUBLISHER: David Fulton Publishers, The second edition of this text shows how play and literacy can combine to help young children develop a more complete understanding of writing, as well as literacy more generally. In addition to discussing the implications of the new Guidance for the Foundation Stage, the authors use more recent research to extend the discussion of how and why play and literacy work together so powerfully, and provide further advice on planning and developing effective experiences. Early years practitioners should find that this book helps them to focus on the development of literacy knowledge and skills.

Exploring College Writing: Reading, Writing and Researching

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Melzer, Dan, PUBLISHER: Equinox Publishing (UK), Exploring College Writing: Reading, Writing and Researching across the Curriculum is a rhetoric for first-year and sophomore composition courses that uses a constructivist, ethnographic approach to introducing students to academic reading, writing, and researching. This text will be especially useful to composition instructors who wish to provide students with both a general overview of academic discourse and an introduction to the purposes, audiences, and genres of writing across disciplines. This textbook works from the premise that the best way to initiate students to academic discourse is to have them explore academic literacies using an ethnographic, fieldwork approach to their own institution. Students are cast in the role of researchers, exploring their own experiences as college writers and investigating writing in General Education and in their prospective majors. The book provides instructors and students sequences of engaging and exploratory "Writing to Learn" and "Learn by Doing" activities and formal, extended writing projects that ask students to interview professors, analyze writing assignments, and reflect on their own reading, writing, and researching processes and histories. These writing projects connect to students' interests, experiences, and goals and provide them with a sense of purpose and audience for writing. The organization of Exploring College Writing moves students from reflection to investigation. Part I of the book provides a broad introduction to academic reading, writing, and researching and introduces students to the rhetorical situations, genres, and common college thinking and writing strategies. Part I presents students with prompts that ask them to explore the similarities and differences between high school and college literacy and reflect on their own literacy histories. Part II asks students to think critically about their reading, writing, and researching processes and to explore strategies for college reading, writing, and researching processes. Part II includes prompts that ask students to explore college reading, writing, and researching processes and practice academic research and making academic arguments. Part III introduces students to writing across the curriculum and the idea of disciplines and discourse communities. Part IV asks students to investigate the reading, writing, and researching assigned in the General Education and major courses at their campus and to consider discipline-specific ways of writing and thinking. Unlike other textbooks Exploring College Writing uses authentic student and professional texts from across disciplines in a variety of genres such as lab reports, scholarly book reviews, ethnographies and case studies to guide and inspire the writing process.

A Brief Atlas of the Human Body

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hutchinson, Matt / Mallatt, Jon / Marieb, Elaine Nicpon, PUBLISHER: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, This full-color atlas is packaged with every new copy of the text, and includes 107 bone and 47 cadaver photographs with easy-to-read labels. This edition of the atlas contains a comprehensive histology photomicrograph section featuring over 50 slides of basic tissue and organ systems. Featuring photos taken by renowned biomedical photographer Ralph Hutchings, this high-quality photographic atlas makes an excellent resource for the classroom and laboratory, and is referenced in appropriate figure legends throughout the text. Acquista Ora

The Evolution Book

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stein, Sara Bonnett / Beame, Rona, PUBLISHER: Workman Publishing, How did life begin? What makes the continents move? Are Birds really dinosaurs? The answers to such questions can be discovered by reading the ancient messages left on the earth. Sara Stein, author of "The Science Book" and "The Body Book," involves children, who are earth's newest inhabitants, in exploring beaches, mountains, woodlands, and swamps and unlocking the ancient secrets of the world. Scores of fascinating projects range from raising tadpoles and preserving snake skins and paw prints to making a plankton net, a plant press, and seaweed pudding. Hundreds of drawings and photographs are featured throughout. Selection of the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club. Winner of the New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book Award, First Prize. Suitable for ages copies in print.

Prey

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Crichton, Michael, PUBLISHER: Harper, In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles--micro-robots--has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.

Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cooper, Lisa H., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Lisa H. Cooper offers new insight into the relationship of material practice and literary production in the Middle Ages by exploring the representation of craft labor in England from c.. She examines genres as diverse as the school-text, comic poem, spiritual allegory, and mirror for princes, and works by authors both well-known (Chaucer, Lydgate, Caxton) and far less so. Whether they represent craft as profitable endeavor, learned skill, or degrading toil, the texts she reviews not only depict artisans as increasingly legitimate members of the body politic, but also deploy images of craft labor and its products to confront other complex issues, including the nature of authorship, the purpose of community, the structure of the household, the fate of the soul, and the scope of princely power. Acquista Ora

Exploring C.S. Lewis' the Chronicles of Narnia

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Beetz, Kirk H., PUBLISHER: Beacham Publishing Corporation, Year after year since , The Chronicles of Narnia remains one of the best-selling and best loved children's series of all time. Full of biblical references, myths and legends, the chronicles provide a moral frame for millions of young readers. The Chronicles of Narnia sourcebook traces Lewis's spiritual journey from atheist to Christian, identifies and explains the many uses he makes of the Bible, and takes readers into the land of Narnia as they have never experienced it. The sourcebook includes projects and activities for young readers, questions that generate lively discussion between parents and children, websites for internet research by young surfers, lesson plans for teachers, and resources for librarians.

Understanding Attitudes about War

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brunk, Gregory G. / Tamashiro, Howard / Secrest, Donald, PUBLISHER: University of Pittsburgh Press, Choice Outstanding Academic Book Why have some traditional cold warriors opposed involvement in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, while many vocal critics of the Vietnam war supported the use of U.S. forces in Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans? What do these debates tell us about American attitudes toward the use of military force to achieve foreign policy goals? The authors examine the ethical and moral underpinnings of U.S. international relations by exploring the attitudes of decision makers and foreign policy elites toward war. Their unique contribution is to bring together the various doctrines in the literature and to characterize them using behavioral methodologies, in an attempt to bring normative questions back into the mainstream of political science.

Neutrino Physics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Winter, Klaus, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition presents a comprehensive overview of modern neutrino physics. The book covers all the major areas of current interest. An international group of distinguished contributors discuss the intrinsic properties of neutrinos, the theory of the interaction of neutrinos with matter, experimental investigations of the weak interaction in neutrino processes, the theory and supporting experiment for the basic properties of the interaction of neutrinos with fermions, and neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology. This edition presents new data on solar neutrinos and an update of the results of searches for double beta decay. It also contains a new chapter on direct measurements of the neutrino mass, with high precision data from experiments at Fermilab and CERN, and at the Kamiokande Laboratory in Japan. This is an essential reference text for particle physicists, nuclear physicists and astrophysicists.

Donor Insemination

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barratt, Christopher / Barratt, Christopher L. R. / Cooke, Ian Douglas, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This volume provides clear guidelines on the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the use of donor insemination to treat infertility. The team of authors, drawn from a wide range of disciplines, covers all aspects of implementing and organising a successful donor insemination programme. The volume includes practical information on recruitment, screening and selection of suitable donors; counselling of patients and donors; clinical, scientific and laboratory aspects, including fertility assessment, ovulation timing and cryopreservation. The volume concludes with information on organisation of sperm banks, the use of computerisation and ethical and legal aspects. The volume is designed to assist all those involved in the treatment of infertility - including andrologists and clinicians in the fields of reproductive medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology.

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