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Questioning Q
by Nicholas Perrin Mark S. GoodacreScholars have long been agreed that there is a single source for the gospels, which they refer to as 'Q'. This text challenges these assumptions and offers alternatives.
Reaction Kinetics
by Michael J. Pilling Paul W. SeakinsThe study of reaction kinetics - how fast chemical reactions happen - gives chemists insight into a range of chemical problems, from the ozone hole to enzyme reactions in living creatures. This text provides students with an accessible account of basic and applied aspects of chemical kinetics.
A Woman's Place (PDF): An Oral History of Working Class Women, 1890-1940
by Elizabeth Roberts'A highly readable picture of the lives of working-class women through childhood, adolescence, work, leisure, marriage (and more work), family and sexual relations...and motherhood. Through them emerges a picture of a wider working-class reality, which is all the more vivid for its sensitivity to the ambiguous and the unexpected.'--New Societ
The End Of Food: the coming crisis in the world food industry
by Paul RobertsThe emergence of large-scale food production gave us unprecedented abundance - but at a steep and ultimately unsustainable price. Relentless cost-cutting has made our food systems vulnerable to contamination and disease. More than a billion people are overweight or obese, yet roughly the same number are still malnourished. Over-crowded countries like China are already planning for tightened global food supplies. As the world veers back to a time of hunger and uncertainty, Paul Roberts explores the vulnerable miracle of our modern food economy and pinpoints the decisions we must make to avoid the coming meltdown.
Voces de la tierra : reflexiones sobre movimientos políticos indígenas en Bolivia, Ecuador, México y Perú
by Rodrigo Montoya Rojas Claudia BalarínPapers presented at the Seminario "Culturas y poder", held in 2006 at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales of the Universidad de San Marcos in Lima, Peru.
Teaching Science And Health From A Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide (Athene Ser.)
by Sue V. RosserTeaching Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective A Practical Guide - Athene Series
Women, Science and Society: The Crucial Union (Athene Ser.)
by Sue V. RosserThis work calls for women to come together to shape the research agenda for biotechnologies and reproductive technologies to guide their implementation in ways to benefit all.
Teaching Technology From A Feminist Perspective (PDF): A Practical Guide
by Joan RothschildTeaching Technology from a Feminist Perspective A Practical Guide - The Athene Series
At The Northern Frontier Of Near Eastern Archaeology: Recent Research On Caucasia And Anatolia In The Bronze Age
by Elena Rova Monica Tonussian Der Nordgrenze Der Vorderasiatischen Archaologie - Neue Forschung Uber Kaukasien Und Anatolien In Der Bronzezeit
Paying The Land
by Joe SaccoThe Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around-it is central to their livelihood and their very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are also home to valuable natural resources, including oil, gas and diamonds. With mining came jobs and investment-but also road-building, pipelines and toxic waste, which scarred the landscape; and alcohol, drugs, and debt, which deformed a way of life. In Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. Resource extraction is only part of Canada's colonial legacy- Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to remove the Indian from the child; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage labourers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture. Against a vast and gorgeous landscape that dwarfs all human scale, Paying the Land lends an ear to trappers and chiefs, activists and priests, telling a sweeping story about money and dependency, loss and culture, with stunning visual detail by one of the greatest comic's reporters alive.
Sociology As Applied To Medicine (PDF)
by Graham ScamblerThe 4th edition of this firmly established text gives a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of health, illness and health policy. Presents the principles of medical sociology and emphasizes practical issues. The text is concise, and designed in two colors with highlight boxes for easy use.
Canons And Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, And Reception History (Analysis In Context. Leuven Studies In Musicology Ser. #1)
by Katelijne Schiltz Bonnie J. Blackburn B. J. Blackburn K. Schiltz
The Liberal Ideal And The Demons Of Empire: Theories Of Imperialism From Adam Smith To Lenin
by Bernard SemmelAs Great Britain and other Western nations built empires - both formal and informal - writers on economic and social questions developed theories to explain why and how advanced industrial states exercised control over colonial regions. Different schools of thought emerged: some anticipated the growth of a cosmopolitan economic order, others believed in a brutal imperialism necessary for an expanding capitalism, still others saw evil pre-capitalist forces at work. In this book, Semmel traces the evolution of the ideas about imperialism and discusses four major schools of thought: the classical economists; the social theorists; the national economists; and the Marxists.;From Adam Smith to Lenin, the subject of colonialism - and then imperialism - has remained controversial. Although classical economists offered visions of a prosperous world economy based on free trade, and liberal idealists argued that rational self-interest would eliminate aggressive mercantilism and wars of conquest, such "utopian" ideals proved elusive. Even defenders of capitalism noted contradictions between the harsh realities of the emerging industrial system and the optimistic economic theories that attempted to describe it. In the end, the critics - including liberal sociologists, national economists and Marxists - would win the day by defining imperialism in terms of historic demons: feudal aristocrats, medieval usurers and evil empires. These ideas, Semmel concludes, became props of the liberal, socialist and fascist ideologies of our time.
The Sexual Politics Of Disability: Untold Desires (Sexual Politics Ser.)
by Tom Shakespeare Kath Gillespie-Sells Dominic Davies
Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, And Classic Horror Cinema (PDF) (Film And Culture Ser.)
by Angela SmithIntroduction: disability, eugenics, and classic horror cinema -- Eugenic reproduction: chimeras in Dracula and Frankenstein -- Enfreaking the classic horror genre: freaks -- Revelations and convulsions: spectacles of impairment in classic horror film -- Mad medicine: disability in the mad-doctor films -- Shock horror and death rays: disabling spectatorship -- Conclusion.
People Power: Fighting For Peace From The First World War To The Present
by Lyn SmithPeople Power charts the history of the anti-war movement in the UK from the outbreak of the First World War to present-day conflicts in the Middle East, telling the story of conscientious objectors and others who have been engaged in protest over the past century. Drawing on testimonies from the Imperial War Museum's vast collection, and its rich archive of visual material, including photographs, paintings, posters, cartoons and badges, the book explores the wide-ranging reasons for opposing war and examines the changes and continuity in the movement as the nature of conflict has evolved from trench warfare to nuclear weapons. The role of key organizations and groups within the movement is examined, such as the Peace Pledge Union in the 1930s and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the 1980s, as well as that of high-profile individual campaigners, including Fenner Brockway and Tony Benn. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London in 2017, People Power is an important and compelling counterpart to the myriad histories of war in the past 100 years.
The auto/biographical I (PDF): Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto-biography
by Liz StanleyThis feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.
Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption
by Bryan StevensonThe US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to prison. For black men this figure rises to one in 3. And Death Row is disproportionately black, too. Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in the racially segregated South. His innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to die for the murder of a white woman - a crime he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial inequality, and legal brinkmanship - and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. At once an unforgettable account of an idealistic lawyer's coming of age and a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, Just Mercy is an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
by James SurowieckiIn this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications: Decisions take by a large group, even if the individuals within the group aren't smart, are always better than decisions made by small numbers of 'experts'. This seemingly simply notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organised and how nation-states fare. With great erudition, Surowiecki ranges across the disciplines of psychology, economics, statistics and history to show just how this principle operates in the real world. Along the way Surowiecki asks a number of intriguing questions about a subject few of us actually understand - economics. What are prices? How does money work? Why do we have corporations? Does advertising work? His answers, rendered in a delightfully clear prose, demystify daunting prospects. As Surowiecki writes: 'The hero of this book is, in a curious sense, an idea, a hero whose story ends up shedding dramatic new light on the landscapes of business, politics and society'.