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This volume addresses how the rhetoric of feminist empowerment has been combined with mainstream representations of food, thus creating a cultural consciousness around food and eating that is unmistakably pathological. Throughout, Natalie Jovanovski discusses key texts written by women, for women: best-selling diet books, popular cookbooks produced by female food celebrities, and iconic feminist self-help texts. This is the first book to engag...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides through an up-to-date analysis of the changing opportunities for young people in Britain across different life domains. A central question addressed is whethe...

This book explains, in simple but accurate terms, how orthodox quantum mechanics works. The author, a distinguished theoretical physicist, shows how this theory, realistically interpreted, assigns an important role to our conscious free choices. Stapp claims that mainstream biology and neuroscience, despite nearly a century of quantum physics, still stick essentially to failed classical precepts in which mental intentions have no effect upon o...

This unique book provides a multidisciplinary review of current, climate-change research projects at universities around the globe, offering perspectives from all of the natural and social sciences.Numerous universities worldwide pursue state-of-the-art research on climate change, focussing on mitigation of its effects as well as human adaptation to it. However, the 2015 Paris 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Conv...

This book provides researchers and graduate students with an overview of the latest developments in and applications of adsorption processes for water treatment and purification. In particular, it covers current topics in connection with the modeling and design of adsorption processes, and the synthesis and application of cost-effective adsorbents for the removal of relevant aquatic pollutants. The book describes recent advances and alternativ...

This book presents a state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as well as Georgia and Ukraine. Based on new empirical evidence, it highlights major trends in, characteristics and forms of entrepreneurship common to countries in transition. The contributions cover topics such as levels of opportunity-based entrepreneurship, incen...

Now with Canada Cup racing experience under her belt, rising star mountain biker Maryn O'Brien plots how to pedal her way to the top, even mapping out her critical path to the Olympics! The teenager believes she's got it all figured out-that is, until she doesn't.Maryn is knocked sideways when a close family member receives a frightening diagnosis. As the O'Briens rally to deal with the life-changing situation, Maryn's Olympic dreams are threa...

If you are looking for the ultimate in logic puzzles that require pure deductive reasoning then this second collection is for you.Even if you are new to logic puzzles, the startlingly simple instructions and crystal clear grids provide an easy introduction to this totally absorbing and intellectually stimulating pastime.Every puzzle is a whodunnit in its purest form with each grid being a scene of crime, each digit representing a potential sus...

What is FA-VR? Futuristic Augment Virtual Reality, for short. Not just a virtual reality, but a social network and video game.But life is not a video game, as the actions you take have consequences.FA-VR is the brainchild of a group called the Rubicon Initiative.12 members strong, one of them we followÉ Her name is Blue.If youÕre able to imagine something, youÕre able to make it reality.The Initiative knows this, as does Blue. They believe FA-...

Written about the year 400. [Faustus was undoubtedly the acutest, most determined and most unscrupulous opponent of orthodox Christianity in the age of Augustin. The occasion of Augustin's great writing against him was the publication of Faustus' attack on the Old Testament Scriptures, and on the New Testament so far as it was at variance with Manichæan error. Faustus seems to have followed in the footsteps of Adimantus, against whom Augustin ...

Moreover now at Hippo-Regius as Presbyter I wrote a book on the Profit of Believing, to a friend of mine who had been taken in by the Manichees, and whom I knew to be still held in that error, and to deride the Catholic school of Faith, in that men were bid believe, but not taught what was truth by a most certain method. This book begins thus, "Si mihi Honorate, unum atque idem videretur esse." St. Augustin enumerates his book on the Profit of...

Selbst die kleinste Flamme spendet Wärme. Bis zum Schluss. Und bevor sie erlischt, kann sie ein neues Feuer entfachen.Gwyn lebt in einer geteilten Welt. Ein Großteil der Menschheit hat die Erde verlassen, die nun überwiegend von der Gem Nation, der Edelstein Nation, bewohnt wird. Doch auch die Zirkoner, grausame und seelenlose Geschöpfe, treiben ihr Unwesen in der neuen Welt und jagen die Gem Men, um an ihre Herzen zu gelangen. Als der kleine ...

An interesting and informative look into the life and behavior of penguins for young readers.This book covers the physical characteristics, habitat, family life, behavior, and conservation of penguins.

An interesting and informative look into the life and behavior of whale sharks for young readers.This book covers the physical characteristics, habitat, life, behavior, and conservation of whale sharks.

The four books of St. Augustin On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana, iv libri) are a compend of exegetical theology to guide the reader in the understanding and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, according to the analogy of faith. The first three books were written a.d.397, the fourth was added 426. He speaks of it in his Retractations, Bk. ii., chap. 4, as follows: "Finding that the books on Christian Doctrine were not finished...

An interesting and informative look into the life and behavior of penguins for young readers.This book covers the physical characteristics, habitat, family life, behavior, and conservation of penguins.

An interesting and informative look into the life and behavior of whale sharks for young readers.This book covers the physical characteristics, habitat, life, behavior, and conservation of whale sharks.

To write the Book on the Work of Monks, the need which compelled me was this. When at Carthage there had begun to be monasteries, some maintained themselves by their own hands, obeying the Apostle, but others wished so to live on the oblations of the faithful, that doing no work whence they might either have or supply the necessaries of life, they thought and boasted that they did rather fulfill the precept of the Gospel, where the Lord saith,...

KAYMEE wants out of the projects and the desolate lifestyle she's been forced to live. She's determined to do something positive with her life, and she doesn't want to use her body to get what she wants. On the road to attaining her goals, the young, strong-willed butterfly has overcame every obstacle that was placed in her path, except one, her abusive mother, DOT.Dot would've been better off had she been born infertile. The way she treats he...

Stay Safe This Summer: Health and Safety for Young Workers was written to improve knowledge of safety among young workers and interns worldwide. It informs young adult and teenage workers who work temporary, summer and seasonal jobs of their rights as workers while clearly and simply explaining the need for all workers to be fully responsible for their own safety and health. Features: Workplace Rights Handling of Health and Safety Procedures H...