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  • Topics in Dental Biochemistry

    by Martin Levine ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Over the last 20 years, biochemistry and molecular biology have undergone a revolution that has affected our understanding of the oral cavity. Topics in Dental Biochemistry is primarily designed for students of dentistry who need to relate biochemistry and molecular biology to dentally related topics in physiology, nutrition, anatomy, histology, microbiology, and immunology. The book will also be ... Read more

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  • Building Coalitions, Making Policy

    The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies

    Getting past "No" in an age of partisan noise.In an age when partisan politics has reached a deafening—and arguably impotent—pitch, how does the real work of politics get done? This book opens the door on backroom politics and gives readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers from three presidential administrations to get past the naysayers and effect real and lasting policy ... Read more

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  • Islam and Popular Culture

    Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the “Arab Spring,” while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and ... Read more

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  • Do Jews, Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?

    Most Jews, Muslims, and Christians are devoted and faithful. Still, on any given day, it’s difficult to avoid the vigorous and heated disputes between them, whether over the “Ground Zero” mosque, lobbying state legislatures against Sharia law, sharing worship space, dissecting the fallout of the Arab Spring, protecting civil rights, or challenging the authority of sacred texts. With so much rancor ... Read more

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  • The Elderly

    Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare Policy

    Edited by Martin Lyon Levine ...
    Series series The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law
    Aging is a public health priority that is becoming increasingly important in both developed and less developed nations, with individual health care providers and law-makers each facing difficult ethical and policy dilemmas. The complex issues physicians deal with include informed consent and patient decision-making capacity, use of advance care planning and decision-making by family and medical ... Read more

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  • Programming and Performance Visualization Tools

    International Workshops, ESPT 2017 and VPA 2017, Denver, CO, USA, November 12 and 17, 2017, and ESPT 2018 and VPA 2018, Dallas, TX, USA, November 16 and 11, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book contains the revised selected papers of 4 workshops held in conjunction with the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC) in November 2017 in Denver, CO, USA, and in November 2018 in Dallas, TX, USA: the 6th and 7th International Workshop on Extreme-Scale Programming Tools, ESPT 2017 and ESPT 2018, and the 4th and 5th International ... Read more

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  • All I Know About Management I Learned from My Dog

    The Real Story of Angel, a Rescued Golden Retriever, Who Inspired the New Four Golden Rules of Management

    When 91-year-old legendary management guru Martin Levin decided to adopt a dog by the name of Angel, he thought he was in for an interesting experience, yet not a challenging one. It didn’t take long for him to learn that he was wrong. Very wrong. Following one of the guiding mantras of his life to never stop learning, Levin found that each day with his dog brought new insights. Through ... Read more

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  • Blessings Beyond the Binary

    Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family

    Transparent made history as the first television show to feature a transgender character in the main role, as the first streaming series to win the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, and as, in the words of journalist Debra Nussbaum Cohen, “the Jewiest show ever.” No television show in history has depicted the lives of American Jews with as much attention to Jewish rituals, quirks, or ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism

    A unique examination of how faculty and university administrators understand their work and professional identities under neoliberalism.This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with academics in the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors analyze the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Dunkirk Evacuation in 100 Objects

    The Story Behind Operation Dynamo in 1940

    by Martin Mace ...
    At 18.57 hours on Sunday, 26 May 1940, the Admiralty issued the directive which instigated the start of Operation Dynamo. This was the order to rescue the British Expeditionary Force from the French port of Dunkirk and the beaches surrounding it. The Admiralty believed that it would only be able to rescue 45,000 men over the course of the following two days, ‘at the end of which’, read the signal ... Read more

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  • Schooling and Work in the Democratic State

    A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue the goals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism

    Legacies of French Colonialism

    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, personal memoirs, public commemorations, and new ethnicities associated with the settlement of postcolonial immigrant minorities, the legacy of colonialism is now more apparent in France than at any time in the past. How ... Read more

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