The Human Contribution

An encyclopedic coverage of regions and issues, some of the best scholarship in the field, and an emphasis on solutions make this book an important...

Reducere. This book examines the human auditory effects of exposure to beams of high-power microwave pulses, which research results have shown can cause a ca...

Reducere. An excellent resource for teachers and students of yogasana, medical professionals, and bodywork practitioners, A Handbook for Yogasana Teachers pr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Brenda A. LefrancoisEditor: Robert MenziesEditor: Geoffrey ReaumeIn 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: "An importan...

DescriptionCritical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary s on rights, ethics and global justice. The ...

This book brings together an impressive collection of meticulously collected articles on the lives and accomplishments of Muslim women icons of Ind...

Leading, Managing and Developing People is critical reading for all those studying the CIPD Level 7 Advanced module in Leading, Managing and Develo...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat they didn't want you to know"We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. Probably no one felt more disappointme...

Reducere. DescriptionA volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University "This is a remarkable and highly original wor...

Intends to explore the human contribution to both the reliability and resilience of complex well-defended systems. This book considers the human as...

Reducere. Now available in paperback, this book traces the complete story of the Missouri from her keel-laying in 1941, her participation in the Japanese sur...

Augustine provides a starting point for restoring the relational sense of belief encapsulated in the phrase ""believing into Christ"". In this volu...

Reducere. 'Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten' Denis Diderot's l ments de physiologie presents ...

DescriptionThis practical resource emphasizes the special contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and un...

Reducere. Karl Marx set about to analyze the development pf capital, the componets of capital and the modern day application of capital. As a political econo...

Reducere. This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in th...

This book analyses the UN's contribution to international human rights, and the desire to ensure that governments are held accountable for their tr...

DescriptionThe Secure Child: Timeless Lessons In Parenting and Childhood Education was designed to contribute meaning to the adage "what was old is...

- The disastrous consequences of rising sea levels in six regions around the world are captured in photographs that are both beautiful and disturbi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shihab Al-Din Ahmad ArabfaqihTranslator: Paul Lester StenhouseSihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader's account of the early s...

Reducere. DescriptionVolume II of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all o...

Reducere. Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume examines the many dimensions of dialogue as a key driver of peaceful personal and social change. While most people agree on ...

Reducere. DescriptionVolume I of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all ov...

Reducere. Human Becomings, Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of p...

Reducere. This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum has shaped human life since it was first discovered oo...

This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet inter...

Reducere. Research approaches in the field of transpersonal psychology can be transformative for researchers, participants, and the audience of a project. Th...

Reducere. Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of sociological investigation, Thomas J. Scheff brings together the study of communication and the social ...

Dr. Murray Stein's prolific career has produced a substantial body of writings, lectures, and interviews. His writings, captured in these volumes, ...

In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote a seminal essay on morbid jealousy in which he laid the foundation for the psychopathological phenomenology that throug...

Reducere. It is not a lack of training in the art of rhetoric that accounts for the ineffectiveness of preaching within Christian churches. More significant ...

Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and...

Reducere. DescriptionMulti NY Times author Mark Hyman MD calls it ..".An all-embracing, spiritual pathway to healing." From the #1 botanical medicine cancer ...

DescriptionStrategic human rights litigation (SHRL) is a growing area of international practice yet one that remains relatively under-explored. Aro...

Reducere. This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in th...

Reducere. It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Du...

This practical book sets out how HR can become a true business partner. It will require a rethinking of HR's contribution to the organization in th...

Reducere. "In this carefully written study of the constituents of human decision making, Robert Sokolowski lays an elaborate groundwork to develop the import...

Reducere. Greatness is the ability to unleash the best version of yourself, your team, and your organization.Ever since the dawn of civilization, greatness h...

Reducere. This volume presents an exhilarating and insightful collection of essays on Jane Austen - distilling the author's deep understanding and appreciati...

Reducere. Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in enviro...

Reducere. Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of pa...

Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as "An event to be acclaimed . . . a book of genuine brilliance on Freud'...

MARSILIO FICINO of Florence (1433-99) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Renaissance. He put before society a new ideal of human natur...

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza,...

Reducere. We have seen these children--the shy and the sociable, the cautious and the daring--and wondered what makes one avoid new experience and another av...

Proposing that people lived (and live) in "emotional communities"--each having its own particular norms of emotional valuation and expression--Barb...

Reducere. Evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to chloroform, a volatile liquid used in pesticide formulations and as a ...

Reducere. Most people are solving problems in the wrong way most of the time. It incurs big personal, organisational and societal costs. But it is possible t...

Reducere. About the BookWisdom and Silence (Nakem ken Ulimek) is a modest contribution to the pursuit of a huge dream; that is, the pursuit of the elusive Na...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert P. MurphyForeword by: Donald J. Boudreaux"Human Action" a treatise on laissez-faire capitalism by Ludwig von Mises i...

Reducere. The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation is a two-part work by frequent collaborators Dr. George Washington Carey (1845-1924) and Inez Eudora Perry (1...

Reducere. In 1964-65, the Roman Catholic Church brutally and almost universally abandoned the Latin language. This sparked a violent polemic in some places, ...

Reducere. Description- Designed for both church and academic audiences - Ecumenical appeal Residing at the intersection of constructive theology and critical...

Reducere. Ecclesiastes is a collection of sayings traditionally attributed to Solomon and deemed by some the strangest book in the canon. It comprises an unu...

Reducere. The narrative of the book of Ruth is a drama of ordinary human life, but the drama unfolds against a background of the providence and purposes of G...

The Star of Redemption is widely recognized as a key document of modern existential thought and a significant contribution to Jewish theology in th...

Werner G. Jeanrond approaches hope from the perspective of a theology of love. He distinguishes human hopes from the hope which God has given to hu...

DescriptionAnimal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex r...

Reducere. Edith Södergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for t...

Reducere. DescriptionHermeneutics, the study of interpretation, is an essential and valuable branch of philosophy. Hermeneutics is also a central component o...

Reducere. While examining the important role of imagination in making moral judgments, John Dewey and Moral Imagination focuses new attention on the relation...

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete): (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding) In Four Books - Vol. I & II This book is a result of...

Reducere. Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations - whether located in the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, or the Far Eas...

Throughout history, there has always been constant development and efforts made to better understand human form and function. The aim of this endea...

Reducere. Wordsworth Classics' new 'Best of' series enables you to buy a collection of the key works of the finest authors at an unbeatable price. Charles Da...

Reducere. In more than four decades as president of The Land Institute, Wes Jackson became widely known as one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil ...

Reducere. Lou Savary and Patricia Byrne have provided a valuable contribution in this book by clearly explaining Teilhard's doctrine of love on every level o...