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In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly respected sociologists, political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of racial inequality in twenty-first-century America. Whitewashing Race argues that contemporary racism manifests as discrimination in nearly every realm of American life, and is further perpetuated by failures to address the compounding effects of generations of...

This book traces the development of internal marketing from initial conceptualisation through to the current issues. It identifies both significant underlying tensions between major theorists, and areas in which new perspectives may enrich our understanding of this crucial subject.

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Japanese gardens are found throughout the world today—their unique forms now considered a universal art form. This stunning Japanese gardening book examines the work of five leading landscape architects in North America who are exploring the extraordinary power of Japanese-style garden design to create an immersive experience promoting personal and social well-being. Master garden designers Hoichi Kurisu, Takeo Uesugi, David Slawson, Shin Ab...

This book traces the development of internal marketing from initial conceptualisation through to the current issues. It identifies both significant underlying tensions between major theorists, and areas in which new perspectives may enrich our understanding of this crucial subject.

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Learning the ABCs: Apologetics, the Bible, and Creation is a source of information that has taken the author nearly forty-four years to accumulate. The word apologetics comes from the Greek word apologia, which means "one capable of a strong defense." This book offers that ability to every reader, to become a strong defender. That strong defense is against those who would have us disbelieve in the Bible stories, events, prophecies, and overall...

Deadman's Tome presents Final Contact. This volume of galactic terror features stories that warn of the consequences of bold space exploration, exploitative mining, venturing too far, and contact with foreign entities. You see, dear reader, we are not alone, and the first contact might just be the last!

Complex Contracting uses core social science concepts to provide wide-ranging practical advice on how best to manage complex acquisitions.

First published in 2003 and revised in 2008, "Transformational Preaching: Theory and Practice" remains an internationally-acclaimed textbook, but this slimmed-down version will be a welcomed addition to the preacher's library. While the current work was produced primarily to ease the task of translators, it also makes the same material more easily accessible to the English-speaking readers. Twelve of the less-essential chapters and most of the...

At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the junior-senior high school in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school's basement. The odourless, colourless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nation's most modern, collapsed, burying everyone under a menacing pile of rubble and dust. As the se...

*Gold Medal winner in the 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Home & Garden* "Just flipping through the pages of Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America will instantly lower your blood pressure."—The New York Times Book Review Quiet Beauty: Japanese Gardens of North America is an extraordinary look at the most beautiful and serene gardens of the United States and Canada. Most Japanese garden books look to the gardens of Japan. ...

Like yeast, parables are explosive stories of Jesus that invade our lives and transform us into citizens of the kingdom of God. But they are also cryptic, and that's where this book is useful. More than an explanation or interpretation of each parable, this definitive work is primarily an exercise in hermeneutics. In it, readers are taken through a process of discovering which sayings of Jesus are parables, problematic questions related to cou...

This 1998 volume challenges the validity of the dynamic equilibrium concept for tropical forests.

An authoritative handbook, this volume offers both a comprehensive review of the current science of mindfulness and a guide to its ongoing evolution. Leading scholars explore mindfulness in the context of contemporary psychological theories of attention, perceptual processing, motivation, and behavior, as well as within a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue with the contemplative traditions. After surveying basic research from neurobiological, co...

An authoritative handbook, this volume offers both a comprehensive review of the current science of mindfulness and a guide to its ongoing evolution.

Es ist der wahrscheinlich gefährlichste Undercover-Auftrag der Geschichte, den Special Agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) Mitte der 1980er übernimmt: Er soll in der Rolle des smarten Geschäftsmannes Bob Musella das beispiellos mächtige Drogenkartell von Pablo Escobar unterwandern, der mit einer Armee von Dealern die USA mit Drogen überschwemmt und seine Geschäfte mit rücksichtsloser Gewalt absichert. Zur Seite stehen Mazur der impulsive Agent...

Es ist der wahrscheinlich gefährlichste Undercover-Auftrag der Geschichte, den Special Agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) Mitte der 1980er übernimmt: Er soll in der Rolle des smarten Geschäftsmannes Bob Musella das beispiellos mächtige Drogenkartell von Pablo Escobar unterwandern, der mit einer Armee von Dealern die USA mit Drogen überschwemmt und seine Geschäfte mit rücksichtsloser Gewalt absichert. Zur Seite stehen Mazur der impulsive Agen...

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The Seventh International Conference series on Vision in Vehicles was held in Marseilles in September 1997. This event was run in conjunction with the Applied Vision Association, the Ergonomics Society and with the participation of INRETS (Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Securite). This volume presents the selected and edited proceedings. The papers at the conference were ordered into sessions, from driver-specific as...