Twenty-First Century Books (CT)

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tara HaelleVaccines are biological substances that cause the human immune system to build up its defenses against specific ...

Reducere. Over the past 50 years, scientists have made incredible progress in the application of genetic research to human health care and disease treatment....

Reducere. Young adults need eight to ten hours of sleep each night, yet nearly half fail to get the sleep they need, and nearly a third have fallen asleep in...

Reducere. In January 2009, a mysterious software developer, Satoshi Nakamoto, exchanged a specially designed code with another developer. The code was a digi...

Reducere. While many scientists believed influenza would cause the next great pandemic, no one was prepared for the new strain of coronavirus that appeared i...

Reducere. This official companion to the latest Star Wars film features behind-the-scenes interviews, movie stills, character profiles, and descriptions of i...

Reducere. Containing 97 percent of Earth's water supply, the ocean plays a huge role in regulating global temperatures, supporting plant and animal life, and...

A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the future What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Wh...

DescriptionArchitecture reflects not only a nation's history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since th...

This edited volume features academic experts using leading policy frameworks to analyze the prominent U.S. public policy issues of the twenty-first...

Reducere. Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes: incarnations of the "...

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first underst...

Reducere. The artist's book as activist tactic: a toolkitFreedom of the Presses is at once a textbook and a toolbox for using artists' books and creative pub...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat does prayer look like in contemporary America? With a welcoming tone and plainspoken diction, the forty poems in Hansen's collectio...

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? Although academic writing is an an...

What does the CO-VID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it?

Reducere. One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent--but all are underrepresented ...

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The veritable tsunami of anxieties that are affecting individual lives, the increasingly dysfunctional nature of society and the potential catastro...

Reducere. Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century, Paperback

Reducere. Maps the Path of Pan-Wesleyan ChristologiesAn international group of Pan-Wesleyan scholars address this question posed by Jaroslav Pelikan: What ha...

A practical, grassroots, self-empowerment book for theatremakers. An inspiring and unconventional collection of ideas and provocations designed to ...

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"It is increasingly evident that the dramatic consequences of the Earth's changing process cannot be avoided, that our civilization today is not wi...

This book analyzes the successes and impediments of various educational policies in Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. The authors analyze how ...

Reducere. Beginning with a conversation prompted by African American scholars like Dr. Alvin Poussaint of Harvard Medical School in 2007, to the current Blac...

Have these gleaming business districts, mega malls and gated developments led to 'regeneration', or have they intensified social divisions and made...

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An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ev...

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The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the ...