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Ben is the type of person who finds happiness very easily. He is content with his neglectful wife. He is content with his job. He is even content with being a servant to all, placing everyone on a pedestal, never thinking of himself. After a young starlet walks into his life, and begins to place him on a pedestal just as high as the one he places her, he finally begins to question his own happiness.On A Pedestal is not only a book about a find...

This volume offers a state-of-the-art review of terrestrial geochemical sedimentology by internationally recognised experts in the field, integrating their most current research with earlier work. For the first time, the full range of these sediments is reviewed in a single volume, from duricrusts (calcrete, laterite and silcrete) to deposits precipitated in various spring, lake, cave and near-coastal environments. Each chapter summarises the ...

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Notorious Doctors" deals with the many facets of medical practice. Subtle fighting among doctors to secure more patients, the destructive nature of professional jealousy that destroys honest and conscientious physicians, disregard for patients' welfare, and falsifying research data to gain more research money. Follow the ups and downs of the life of Jake Miller, a nave pathologist, as he gets caught up in the sometimes humorous, sometimes trag...

This book is a first-person, pedagogical reflection on what the author - an applied philosopher with an appointment in a professional school - has learned about being a teacher and a student, over a thirty-five-year career in a «public ivy» university. This narrative candidly recounts a series of life-changing, intellectual, and emotional insights gleaned over three decades from students, colleagues, scholars, and mentors. The author's persona...

This book argues that American colleges and universities need to enlarge their understanding of pluralism and multiculturalism by sponsoring open, challenging, spiritually and educationally revitalizing conversations among students about genuine religious difference. Although religious difference is a pivotal component of cultural pluralism, too often today it gets ignored, marginalized, or sugar-coated in higher education. Together administra...

At a time when STEM research and new technologies are dominating the curricula of colleges and universities, this important book refocuses the conversation on holistic education for all students. Organized around the most important and difficult questions that students face, Preparing Students for Life Beyond College explores a vision of education that will enable students to talk about universal issues openly and honestly, preparing them for ...

At a time when STEM research and new technologies are dominating the curricula of colleges and universities, this important book refocuses the conversation on holistic education for all students. Organized around the most important and difficult questions that students face, Preparing Students for Life Beyond College explores a vision of education that will enable students to talk about universal issues openly and honestly, preparing them for ...

Mims' Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease is the landmark book in the field of infectious disease. The new, revised edition of this work provides a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the mechanisms of microbial infection and the pathogenesis of infectious disease. Presented in a clear, accessible style, it deals in an integrated manner with the spectrum of microorganisms, describing the factors common to all infectious diseases. Molecular...

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013. The book deals concretely with the most effective ways for educators to be social justice advocates, with questions about what it means to be a social justice advocate, and with the best communication strategies to advocate for a particular social justice view that might start and sustain an open dialogue. The book presents a number of practi...

The courtroom was crowded by the time Trina arrived. Judge Gray sat on the bench looking tired of all the same old cases that were presented to him everyday. Nodding to all the familiar faces Trina took a seat close to the front. Johnson failed to call her back, but Alice called once more and informed her that Vaughn was going to be indicted on two counts of manslaughter and sixteen counts of first-degree murder. When Trina Robinson's uncle is...

This volume tackles religion in American schools. It presents and analyzes four different religious perspectives - fundamentalist, prophetic, alternative spiritualists, and post-theist. It is designed as a practial pedagogical tool for teachers who want to deal with religion in the classroom.

Navigate 2 Advantage Access for Population Health, Second Edition is a digital-only Access Code that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting system. Navigate 2 is nearly here. In the meantime, we invite you to redeem your Access Code and join our Lounge. Once your Navigate 2 Advantage Access is live, we will notify you via...

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This volume examines the importance of establishing egalitarian relationships in fieldwork, and acknowledging the impact these relationships have on scholarly findings and theories. The editors and their contributors investigate how globalization affects this relationship as scholars are increasingly involved in shared networks and are subject to the same socio-economic systems as locals. The editors argue for a processual approach that begins...

This collection of primary sources includes both classic and lesser-known documents describing the rich mosaic of American life from the pre-contact era to the present day. The sources, both public and private documents--ranging from letters, diary excerpts, stories, novels, to speeches, court cases, and government reports--tell the story of American history in the words of those who lived it.

Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and soon became one of America's foremost tourist attractions. It is the resting place for many notables, including Tiffany, Steinway, and Currier and Ives, but the cemetery also has a hidden baseball history. Green-Wood is home to almost two hundred baseball pioneers: members of the Knickerbocker, Atlantic, and Excelsior Clubs of the nineteenth century, Brooklyn's beloved Charles Ebbets, stadium owners,...

In the fall of 1897, over 250 baseball fans from Roxbury, Massachusetts, traveled to Baltimore with saloon keeper Nuf-Ced McGreevy and Pres. John F. Kennedy's future grandfather Honey-Fitz Fitzgerald to cheer their Beaneaters to the pennant. They became known famously as the Royal Rooters. Singing their fight song, "Tessie, " they cheered on five world champion teams in the early 1900s. When Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees after 1919, "Tessi...

This information was taken from the published City of Nashua, New Hampshire Annual Reports. There were many births at home during this period that were not registered in the year of birth but were later reported to the city clerk. These late recordings were never recorded in subsequent annual reports. (To find out about these births one would have to make a request to the Nashua city clerk.) The births are recorded as follows: last name, first...

Excerpt from The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, 1856, Vol. 9: An American Farmers' Magazine If the duty on wool should be at once repealed, it would not bring foreign wools into our country at less than the farmers obtained for their clips last summer, owing to the advance in the price of wools abroad, mainly caused by the repeal of duties on the article in France, and the orders which would be sent from this country to London for wool the ...