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Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality

Theoretical and Empirical Contributions from the Biological and Behavioral Sciences

Edited by David C. Rowe, Warren B. Miller, Joseph Lee Rodgers ...

Recent work in quantitative biology has shown theoretically why Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection does not preclude genetic influences on fertility, sexuality, and related processes. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality takes the next step, and presents a number of successful empirical searches for such genetic influence on a broad range of processes, such as puberty ... Read more

$188.09 USD

Recent work in quantitative biology has shown theoretically why Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection does not preclude genetic influences on fertility, sexuality, and related processes. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality takes the next step, and presents a number of successful empirical searches for such genetic influence on a broad range of processes, such as puberty
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Whose Middle Ages?

Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

by Geraldine Heng ...

Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
"An ethical and accessible introduction to a historical period often implicated in racist narratives of nationalism and imperialism." —Sierra Lomuto, Assistant Professor of Global Medieval Literature, Rowan UniversityA collection of twenty-two essays, Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the ... Read more

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"An ethical and accessible introduction to a historical period often implicated in racist narratives of nationalism and imperialism." —Sierra Lomuto, Assistant Professor of Global Medieval Literature, Rowan UniversityA collection of twenty-two essays, Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the
... Read more

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Human Development and Criminal Behavior

New Ways of Advancing Knowledge

by Kenneth Adams, Michael Tonry, Lloyd E. Ohlin, Felton Earls, David C. Rowe, Robert J. Sampson, Richard E. Tremblay, David P. Farrington ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
$49.49 USD
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Whose Middle Ages?

Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

by Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe, Thomas O'Donnell, David Perry, Geraldine Heng ...

Narrated by Linda Henning ...

Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in ... Read more

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Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in
... Read more

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Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition

by Meredith Minkler, Patricia Wakimoto, Lionel J. Beaulieu, Adam B. Becker, Lynn Blanchard, Anne Bluethenthal, Frances Dunn Butterfross, Lisa Cacari Stone, Caricia Catalani0, Charlotte Yu-Ting Chang1, Roxana Chen2, Wayland X. Coleman3, Chris M. Coombe4, Jason Corburn5, Lori Dorfman6, Eugenia Eng7, Nancy Epstein8, Jessica Estrada9, Jennifer Falbe0, Stephanie A. Farquhar1, Prisila Gonzalez2, Joseph Griffin3, Leslie Grover4, Lorraine Gutiérrez5, Trevor Hancock6, Susana Hennesey Laverty7, Reva Hines8, Mark S. Homan9, Lili Farhang0, Solange Gould1, Cheryl A. Hyde2, Barbara A. Israel3, Anthony B. Iton4, Whitney Johnson5, Michelle C. Kegler6, Josh Kirschenbaum7, John P. Kretzmann8, Ronald Labonté9, Blishda Lacet0, Pam Tau Lee1, Edith A. Lewis2, Jennifer Lifshay3, Laura Linnan4, Shaw San Liu5, Shaddai Martinez Cuestas6, Marty Martinson7, John L. McKnight8, Christine Mitchell9, Rachel Morello-Frosch0, Mary Anne Morgan1, Angela Ni2, Barack Obama3, Edith A. Parker4, Susan Racine Passmore5, Manuel Pastor6, Amber Akemi Piatt7, Cheri A. Pies8, Clara Pinsky9, R. David Rebanal0, Kathleen M. Roe1, Zachary Rowe2, Alicia L. Salvatore3, Shannon Sanchez-Youngman4, Amy J. Shulz5, Rinku Sen6, Lee Staples7, Celina Su8, Makani Themba9, Stephen B. Thomas0, Maria Elena Torre1, Evan Vandommelen-Gonzalez2, Dierde Visser3, Nina Wallerstein4, Tom Wolff5, Kirsten Wysen6, Marisa Ruiz Asari7, Nickie Bazell8, Derek M Griffith9, Heather Came0 ...

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, ... Read more

$26.69 USD

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color,
... Read more
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Poetry of Sex, The

Humanities greatest pleasure described by humanities greatest writers

by Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman, Robert Browning, Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, Daniel Sheehan, Daniel Sheehan0, Amy Lowell1, Amy Lowell2, Hafiz3, Sir Charles Sedley4, D H Lawrence5, Hart Crane6, Abu Nuwas7, William Shakespeare8, C P Cavafy9, Paul Verlaine & Aruthur Rimbaud0, Catallus1, A. E. Housman2 ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell3, Ghizela Rowe4, David Shaw-Parker5 ...

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Sex. It’s a difficult subject. Full of taboos and embarrassment, subject to boundaries and yet hidden from view in our homes. Well, mostly.This very intimate act in modern times has taken on a transparency as it is widely discussed at dinner tables and public forums, and information on every kink and foible is easily obtainable and exchangeable in the 24/7 online universe.But in more classic times ... Read more

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Sex. It’s a difficult subject. Full of taboos and embarrassment, subject to boundaries and yet hidden from view in our homes. Well, mostly.This very intimate act in modern times has taken on a transparency as it is widely discussed at dinner tables and public forums, and information on every kink and foible is easily obtainable and exchangeable in the 24/7 online universe.But in more classic times
... Read more
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Neglected Authors, The - Volume 5

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Hannah More, Arthur Morrison, W C Morrow, Rosa Mulholland, Talbot Mundy, Jan Neruda, Hume Nisbet, Fitz James O'Brien, Margaret Oliphant, Owen Oliver, Barry Pain, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Luigi Pirandello, John Willaim Polidori, I N Potapenko, Boleslaw Prus, Edwin Pugh, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Ada Radford, Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

12 hours 5 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
A Scribe Trained for the Kingdom of Heaven

Essays on Christology and Ethics in Honor of Richard B. Hays

by Isaac Augustine Morales, O.P., Kathy Barrett Dawson, Dustin W. Ellington, Nathan Eubank, Leroy Andrew Huizenga, J. R. Daniel Kirk, Bradley R. Trick, Stephan K. Turnbull, J. Ross Wagner, David M. Moffitt0, C. Kavin Rowe2 ...

Stimulated by the signal contributions that New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays has made to Christology and Christian ethics, the essays collected here carry forward conversations involving close studies of particular passages in the Gospels and Epistles and wider-ranging forays into big questions in those fields. Some essays build on Hays’s work, pushing forward in new directions on questions ... Read more

$97.19 USD

Stimulated by the signal contributions that New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays has made to Christology and Christian ethics, the essays collected here carry forward conversations involving close studies of particular passages in the Gospels and Epistles and wider-ranging forays into big questions in those fields. Some essays build on Hays’s work, pushing forward in new directions on questions
... Read more
Of Courtiers and Kings

More Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices

by Professor Barry Cushman, John D. Fassett, John Q. Barrett, Raymond S. Troubh, Arthur Seder Jr, Mimi Early Clark, Norman Dorsen, Earl C. Dudley, Jr., Fred Davis, Daniel Fischel, Thomas Kauper, Alan R. Novak, Monroe E. Price, Thomas Rowe, David Schulte, Steven Umin, Chad Oldfather, Bridget Tainer-Parkins, Rebecca Hurley, Nancy Marder, Craig M Bradley, Julia C. Ambrose, Kermit Roosevelt III, Laura Krugman Ray ...

Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks.In Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman offer an intimate new look at the personal and professional relationships of law clerks with their justices. Going beyond the book’s ... Read more

$28.09 USD

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks.In Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman offer an intimate new look at the personal and professional relationships of law clerks with their justices. Going beyond the book’s
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – The 1900’s

Embrace the darkness

by Leonid Andreyev, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Barbara Baynton, Harold Begbie, A C Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Valery Bryusov, Ion Luca Caragiale, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, F Marion Crawford, Rebecca Harding Davies, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Maude K Griffin, W W Jacobs, M R James, Perceval Landon, R H Malden, Hume Nisbet, Barry Pain, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Allen Upward ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

11 hours 59 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
I Love Mormons

A New Way to Share Christ with Latter-day Saints

by David Rowe ...

David L. Rowe asserts that many Mormons view Christian witnessing as Bible bashing. What Christians need to understand, he suggests, is that Latter-day Saints are an entirely separate ethnic group with their own history, values, and customs. Evangelizing Mormons can be so much more effective if Christians first know, understand, and respect Mormon heritage.With helpful illustrations and ... Read more

$13.69 USD

David L. Rowe asserts that many Mormons view Christian witnessing as Bible bashing. What Christians need to understand, he suggests, is that Latter-day Saints are an entirely separate ethnic group with their own history, values, and customs. Evangelizing Mormons can be so much more effective if Christians first know, understand, and respect Mormon heritage.With helpful illustrations and
... Read more
Playing on the Edge

Sport, Society and Culture in Asia and Oceania

by David Rowe, Bonnie Pang, Keith Parry ...

Series Book 7 - Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies
Contemporary global sport is in constant, sometimes bewildering flux. This book goes beyond orthodox globalisation theory, deploying the metaphor of ‘playing on the edge’ in analysing the dynamic process of making and remaking sport culture in Asia and Oceania. Beyond sport’s traditionally dominant centres in the West, here the edges of the sport and media fields are vividly exposed, re-positioned ... Read more

$85.49 USD

Contemporary global sport is in constant, sometimes bewildering flux. This book goes beyond orthodox globalisation theory, deploying the metaphor of ‘playing on the edge’ in analysing the dynamic process of making and remaking sport culture in Asia and Oceania. Beyond sport’s traditionally dominant centres in the West, here the edges of the sport and media fields are vividly exposed, re-positioned
... Read more

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