Lost Libraries, Vanished Labyrinths & the Astonishing Truth Under the Saqqara Pyramids

Confessions of an Egyptologist

'Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence is a welcome contribution to the field! This book demonstrates that prejudice and discrimination begin in childhood, whereas prior books on the problem of discrimination have mostly focused on the phenomenon in adulthood. Brown does an excellent job integrating the developmental research and theory produced over the last 20 years, and uses developmental intergroup theory to provide the reader with a conceptual framework for understanding how and why prejudice and discrimination emerge, and how they affect children's and adolescents' development. Importantly, she presents empirically based strategies for reducing prejudice and discrimination. Brown has written a very engaging book, which I expect will capture and sustain the interest of many students, researchers, educators, and policymakers.' - Campbell Leaper, University of California, Santa Cruz
'This book is a much needed and exemplary resource for individuals interested in youth and discrimination. Written in a clear, accessible manner by a leading researcher of children’s experiences with and views of discrimination, the coverage is unique in its scope. Brown provides a comprehensive review of what is known in the field of psychology about the antecedents and consequences of youth’s perceptions of discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, immigrant status, sexual minority status, and other social categories. Brown’s compassion for youth and commitment to social justice are evident in her work, which most certainly will inspire future scientific progress in an area that is crucial for understanding child development.' - Rebecca Bigler, The University of Texas at Austin

A Developmental Intergroup Approach

Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence

Two Theban Princes, Kha-em-Uast & Amen-khepeshf, Sons of Rameses III., Menna, a Land-steward, and Their Tombs

The Southern African Experience

Developing Geographical Indications in the South

The Gen Z Guide to Personal Finance

The New Money Rules

"Social scientists are engaged in understanding how people live. In this valuable book William Michelson shows that the detailed study of how people spend their days should be a major tool in that enterprise. In addition to a lucid introduction to the method the book offers a fascinating illustration of its application in comparing the lives of women and men in our society." —Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2002

“William Michelson’s examination of time use data, its use and its explanatory power, provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the intricacies of these data as well as illuminating the potential power these data holds for explanation in the social sciences.”
—Canadian Journal of Sociology Online

Expanding Explanation in the Social Sciences

Time Use

A pleasingly tactile exploration of the possibilities inherent in mistakes. "A torn piece of paper... is just the beginning!" Spills, folded paper, drips of paint, smudges and smears—they "all can make magic appear." An increasingly complex series of scenarios celebrates random accidents, encouraging artistic experimentation rather than discouragement. The folded-over paper can be a penguin's head; a torn piece of newsprint can turn into a smiling dog with a little application of paint; a hot-chocolate stain can become a bog for a frog. Thanks to a telescoping pop-up, a hole is filled with nearly limitless possibilities. The interactive elements work beautifully with the photo-collaged "mistakes," never overwhelming the intent with showiness. Saltzberg's trademark cartoon animals provide a sweetly childlike counterpoint to the artful scribbles and smears of gloppy paint. A festive invitation to creative liberation. - Kirkus Reviews

Beautiful Oops!

Dr English is ... careful to lighten this impressive text with some sense of the humanity and charm of some of those he has interviewed.

Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State, 1925-1937

Radicals and the Republic

38 Fallgeschichten mit Fragen und Fakten

Viszeralchirurgische Fälle für die Facharztprüfung

Das erfolgreiche "Lehrbuch der Lymphologie" ist das einzige Lehrbuch, das
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 Fundierte, reich bebilderte Darstellung der anatomischen und physiologischen
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Beschreibung aller lymphologischen Krankheitsbilder - Hinweise zur komplexen
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Für Mediziner und Physiotherapeuten

Lehrbuch der Lymphologie

‘[This book]…offers empirically rich and theoretically innovative ethnographic accounts of social life in Africa in the era of AIDS…The level of sophistication, the depth of the ethnographic evidence, and the overall coherence of the chapters are impressive.”  ·  African Studies Review

	“The introductory chapter, by Dilger, offers one of the best overviews of anthropological research available on HIV in Africa. It is concise, well structured, and to the point, successfully positioning HIV research within the field of anthropology and providing a historical overview of the emergence of anthropological research on HIV in Africa… Overall, this book should be considered an important collection, relevant for researchers working on HIV in Africa and elsewhere. The findings presented, although often quite particularistic, also have much wider implication for other geographic locales.”  ·  Medical Anthropology Quarterly

	“Although the book is intended for development workers and anthropologists with an interest in sub-Saharan Africa, it is interesting to anyone who wishes to understand the social and cultural context of the people of this region in relation to the dynamics of HIV infection…A strength of the book is its provision of extensive experiences of localities and societies that represent multiple countries and regions of Africa dealing with many aspects of the epidemic.”  ·  Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

	“This is a fascinating and thought-provoking collection, in which every chapter speaks of the resilience as well as the suffering of Africans coping with the effects of the AIDS epidemic…It particularly advances understanding of the ramifications of the increasing, but still limited, availability of anti-retroviral drugs in the under-resourced health systems of Africa.”  ·  Africa

	“…the volume as a whole is a thought-inspiring collection of articles describing and analyzing how individuals and  groups explain, interpret, and respond to HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of the articles are of outstanding quality and will motivate anthropologists to design additional anthropological studies, which will help to better understand the local realities of HIV/AIDS, their impact on individuals and groups, and how to alleviate the immense suffering caused by the epidemic.”  ·  Anthropos

	“…the very high quality of the analysis renders this book an outstanding contribution to the debate. Few collections reach so directly to the heart of the lived realities of AIDS in Africa…By rigorously employing local perspectives, it renders intelligible especially those responses to AIDS that often appear as tragically irrational to students who are unfamiliar with the subject.”  ·  African Affairs

	"We have come to expect that an emergent disease, once the initial hysteria it sparks has died down, will either be eradicated by money and medicine, or it will settle into the prosaic landscape of ordinary maladies with attendant routines, inconveniences, and bureaucratic exasperations. In Africa, AIDS has not followed either pathway. This outstanding collection of essays takes explicit aim at the tensions that this ‘non-resolution’ has generated in the world region that has felt the greatest impact of the disease: eastern and southern Africa. In these papers, we see vividly how the potential death warrant that AIDS presents to couples, households, children, has institutionalized new forms of social stigma and, at the same time, new levels of collective resilience and courage."  ·  Caroline Bledsoe, Northwestern University

	“This volume brings together some of the best, most thoughtful scholarship on AIDS in Africa. The essays are grounded in the troubling economic realities and intimate moral politics of daily life amid widespread existential angst. Together they offer novel insights into contemporary African social processes and experiences. Paying careful attention to the ways people create and tend to local moral worlds, Dilger and Luig have made a compelling, important book.”  ·  Julie Livingston, Rutgers University

	“[This book offers] a set of reports on how a whole range of issues in daily social life in Africa have been shaped by the presence of AIDS. Even more powerfully, these chapters about experience in the age of AIDS tell us about how ordinary people have re-created their social and cultural worlds under the threat of a new disease, and also in the face of extremely challenging economic conditions...an extremely valuable book.”  ·  Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania

Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa

Morality, Hope and Grief

This book is a good investment. And while the book is really great for undergraduate students, I believe graduate students and specialists alike will learn a lot from it. Storer knows his stuff and does a good job covering a really big secondary literature concisely and equitably.

Revised Edition

A Short History of the Weimar Republic

"... a valuable reference for high-speed device and circuit researchers and design engineers."—James Chu, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, Georgia, USA, from IEEE Microwave Magazine, November 2015

High-Speed Devices and Circuits with THz Applications

Cootsona’s work is the first contemporary book I have read that marshals a true intellectual history in the service of situating where we are now as a society in terms of the relationship between science and religion.　
This is consequential work.　

— Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, US

Past, Present, and Future

Negotiating Science and Religion In America

Philosophy of Physical Magnitudes

Katechismus der Katholischen Kirche

Neo-brunswikian and Process-tracing Approaches

Judgment and Decision Making

Challenging our preconceptions of student success

Understanding Undergraduates

Signals, Systems, Transforms, and Digital Signal Processing with MATLAB

… Students and the public are not aware of the rapid speed at which the research in nanoscience moves from the lab into devices and materials for public consumption. Since this size of science involves the study and manipulation of atoms, it opens a window of nature that can improve our understanding of self-assembly and self-organization at the cellular level of all matter. Learning through biomimicry in all research areas can advance our knowledge base safely for enhancing and enabling materials and medical discoveries. I don't know if this book accurately describes this aspect. … The lack of education in nanoscience for K-12 and the lack of informal coverage by the news media has created gaps in our knowledge base as the technology advances rapidly in the public domain. The public will not be able to evaluate new medical advances or environmental technology, nor make informed decisions for medical procedures offered in the future until the knowledge base is expanded in all areas. … An Introduction to areas of research and development in the nanoscience fields that could become products for the public. Should stimulate a desire to learn more as the integrated fields of research develop products and procedures requiring consumers to expand their knowledge base to make informed decisions. ––Judith Light Feather, President, The NanoTechnology Group Inc., Nacogdoches, TX 

"The book gives a good overview of both central areas within nanotechnology and important ethical discussions. It is a particular strength of the book that it continually balances the potential benefits and risks of nanotechnological advances. … The book is a good introduction to nanotechnology and its societal and ethical implications. It will serve as an excellent resource for courses on nanotechnology and ethics – and for researchers looking for an overview of the field."––Ulrik Becker Nissen, Center for Bioethics and Nanoethics, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Denmark

Nanotechnology and Human Health

Diatribae; or, Discourses Upon Select Texts: Wherein Several Weighty Truths Are Handled and Applyed Against the Papist and the Socinian

A graph theoretic approach to Information hiding

Transforming Youth Justice

"This book is a refreshing exception to [the dour expectations of multiauthored books]. Instead of merely repackaging their own scientific findings, the authors focused on the methodology of creating computational implementations of conceptual models of biological neurons and networks." - N.T. Carnevale, Psychology, Yale University, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 77, No. 2

Realistic Modeling for Experimentalists

Computational Neuroscience

A Description of Models Illustrating the Physical Geography of Wisconsin

Discover How to Find Answers to Adoption Secrets

OH, Richard You Are Not My Son. You Were Adopted

The Lively Lady

Found History in the Carnegie Mellon University Archives (Spring 2018)

Stories Past

The past decade has seen a growing interest in the idea of ‘powerful knowledge’, but what this looks like in practice is not always clear. Brian Hudson and colleagues have significantly advanced our collective understanding with a collection that uses the framework of didactics to explore ideas of epistemic access and transformation. This book takes the debate about knowledge and curriculum to a new level.

Epistemic Quality across School Subjects

International Perspectives on Knowledge and Curriculum

"Dr. Shellock's book was a pleasure to read. He has succeeded admirably in compiling a comprehensive survey of the various potential health effects and safety issues associated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This achievement reflects Dr. Shellock's stature in the sensitive and controversial area of safety in MRI... The most compelling attribute of this book is that it contains information for absolutely every practitioner of MRI... The book is both up to date and timely." - Investigative Radiology, vol. 36, no. 8 "Magnetic Resonance Procedures: Health Effects and Safety is an extremely useful book, combining both a reference volume and a practical, day-to-day guide for MR operations. It consolidates most of our current knowledge of MR imaging safety into one volume, and it warrants a place on the bookshelf of every MR imaging facility, especially those with teaching responsibilities." - American Journal of Roentgenology, 177 "…both up-to-date and timely…the most compelling attribute of this book is that it contains information for absolutely every practitioner of MRI…"-Investigative Radiology, August, 2001

Health Effects and Safety

Magnetic Resonance Procedures

Comparative Matters truly matters, for if indeed we are now entering the "era of comparative law," we will need instruction and guidance in both the sources for, and possible futures of, this exciting renewal of intellectual exploration. In this wonderful book Ran Hirschl demonstrates that he is uniquely qualified to fill this role. By tracing contemporary debates and challenges in comparative constitutionalism to classical antecedents, he clears the path
for a "renaissance" of methodologically and analytically diverse scholarly inquiry into the multifarious ways in which societies might choose to organize themselves constitutionally. In so doing he exemplifies the very transcendence towards which the book is devoted; thus the reach of his learning and the
catholicity of his inter-disciplinary applications are precisely what are required for the successful evolution from comparative constitutional law to comparative constitutional studies.

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