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Worlds of Autism

Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference

Edited by Joyce Davidson, Michael Orsini ...

Since first being identified as a distinct psychiatric disorder in 1943, autism has been steeped in contestation and controversy. Present-day skirmishes over the potential causes of autism, how or even if it should be treated, and the place of Asperger’s syndrome on the autism spectrum are the subjects of intense debate in the research community, in the media, and among those with autism and their ... Read more

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Since first being identified as a distinct psychiatric disorder in 1943, autism has been steeped in contestation and controversy. Present-day skirmishes over the potential causes of autism, how or even if it should be treated, and the place of Asperger’s syndrome on the autism spectrum are the subjects of intense debate in the research community, in the media, and among those with autism and their
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Seeing Red

HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada

Edited by Suzanne Hindmarch, Michael Orsini, Marilou Gagnon ...

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers who look ahead to the new and complex challenges associated with HIV/AIDS and Canadian society.In ... Read more

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What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers who look ahead to the new and complex challenges associated with HIV/AIDS and Canadian society.In
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Mobilizing Metaphor

Art, Culture, and Disability Activism in Canada

Edited by Christine Kelly, Michael Orsini ...

Series series Disability Culture and Politics
Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the rich and vibrant tradition of disability mobilization in Canada – and in the process, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.Until now, research on Canadian disability activism has focused on legal and policy spheres and overlooked how disability ... Read more

$31.49 USD

Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the rich and vibrant tradition of disability mobilization in Canada – and in the process, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.Until now, research on Canadian disability activism has focused on legal and policy spheres and overlooked how disability
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Dispatches from Disabled Country

by Catherine Frazee ...

Series series Disability Culture and Politics
“Disability is not our worst-case scenario – our worst-case scenario would be its annihilation.” This is the starting point for this powerful collection of writing by and about Catherine Frazee, disability activist, Officer of the Order of Canada, and poetic scholar of justice.For Frazee, disability is not something to be dreaded or overcome but a force to be reckoned with – a prism of insight and ... Read more

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“Disability is not our worst-case scenario – our worst-case scenario would be its annihilation.” This is the starting point for this powerful collection of writing by and about Catherine Frazee, disability activist, Officer of the Order of Canada, and poetic scholar of justice.For Frazee, disability is not something to be dreaded or overcome but a force to be reckoned with – a prism of insight and
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Advances in plant factories

New technologies in indoor vertical farming

by Emeritus Professor Toyoki Kozai, Dr Eri Hayashi, Dr Wenqing Jin, Dr Yuxin Tong, Dr Qianxixi Min, Dr Yongran Ji, Dr Na Lu, Dr Pavlos Kalaitzoglou, Dr Hiroki Koga0, Dr Katashi Kai1, Mr Lawrence Ross2, Dr Neil Mattson3, Professor Leo F. M. Marcelis4, Dr Francis Baumont De Oliviera5, Dr Michael Martin6, Dr Francesco Orsini7, Dr Yoshiaki Kitaya8, Dr Wei Ma9, Dr Laura Carotti0, Dr Mohammed Kazem Souri1, Dr Giuseppina Pennisi2, Dr Giorgio Gianquinto3, Dr Michael Eaton4, Dr Zhiwei Tian5, Dr Hua Li6, Prof Ernst Woltering7, Dr Michele Butturini8, Dr Wenshou Xu9, Dr Duyen Nguyen0, Dr Ronald Dyer1, Dr Viviana Correa Galvis2, Dr Pádraic Flood3, Dr Kenzo Uchigasaki4, Dr Morio Okabe5, Dr Gonçalo Neves6, Dr Andrew Lloyd7, Dr Niall Skinner8, Dr Douglas Elder9, Dr Dave Scott0, Dr Niels Kortstee1, Dr Emily Seward2, Dr Csaba Hornyik3, Dr Alexander Keel-Dwyer4, Dr Ying Liu5, Dr Paul Kusuma6 ...

With increasing temperatures and an escalation in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, agricultural productivity remains at risk of being compromised. With the food security of millions threatened, there remains a need to develop alternative, sustainable production models which can thrive in the face of climate change.Advances in plant factories: New technologies in indoor ... Read more

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With increasing temperatures and an escalation in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, agricultural productivity remains at risk of being compromised. With the food security of millions threatened, there remains a need to develop alternative, sustainable production models which can thrive in the face of climate change.Advances in plant factories: New technologies in indoor
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Instant Insights: Controlled environment agriculture

by Various authors, Dr Ying Liu, Dr Paul Kusuma, Professor Leo F. M. Marcelis, Dr Michael Martin, Dr Francesco Orsini, Prof Nazim S. Gruda, Dr Josef Tanny, Dr James E. Faust ...

Series Book 116 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on controlled environment agriculture.The first chapter summarises rapid improvements in the technology used for plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs), including developments in automation, lighting, climate control, sensors and algorithms.The second chapter briefly discusses the sustainability of indoor vertical farms (IVF) and details best ... Read more

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This book features five peer-reviewed reviews on controlled environment agriculture.The first chapter summarises rapid improvements in the technology used for plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs), including developments in automation, lighting, climate control, sensors and algorithms.The second chapter briefly discusses the sustainability of indoor vertical farms (IVF) and details best
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Self-Alteration

How People Change Themselves across Cultures

by Max Harwood, Gil Hizi, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Kavesh, Gisella Orsini, Nigel Rapport, Kathryn Rountree, Banu Senay, Jaap Timmer ...

Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people ... Read more

$28.09 USD

Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people
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The Murder Rule

A Novel

by Dervla McTiernan ...

Narrated by Kate Orsini, Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch ...

Unabridged

9 hours 19 min

A New York Times best thriller of the year! Read by Kate Orsini, Sophie Amoss, and Michael Crouch"Matters culminate in a courtroom fireworks display worthy of Perry Mason in his prime. The Murder Rule holds one’s interest from its cheeky opening pages through its final scene." —Wall Street JournalFor fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter ... Read more

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A New York Times best thriller of the year! Read by Kate Orsini, Sophie Amoss, and Michael Crouch"Matters culminate in a courtroom fireworks display worthy of Perry Mason in his prime. The Murder Rule holds one’s interest from its cheeky opening pages through its final scene." —Wall Street JournalFor fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter
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The Good Turn

by Dervla McTiernan ...

Narrated by Aoife McMahon ...

Series Audiobook 3 - DI Cormac Reilly
Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

When Peter Fisher is called to the scene of a supposed prank call, irritation turns to terror when he realises this is no joke. A young boy says he witnessed a little girl being bundled into the boot of a car, and Peter believes him. DI Cormac Reilly and Peter search frantically for answers, but find obstacles put in their way by the one person who should be helping them: Superintendent Bryan ... Read more

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When Peter Fisher is called to the scene of a supposed prank call, irritation turns to terror when he realises this is no joke. A young boy says he witnessed a little girl being bundled into the boot of a car, and Peter believes him. DI Cormac Reilly and Peter search frantically for answers, but find obstacles put in their way by the one person who should be helping them: Superintendent Bryan
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The House of Ashes

by Stuart Neville ...

Narrated by Caroline Lennon ...

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

“Here, now, till I tell you …”Sara Keane’s husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a “fresh start” in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, carless,friendless—all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being ... Read more

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“Here, now, till I tell you …”Sara Keane’s husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a “fresh start” in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, carless,friendless—all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being
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What Happened to Nina?

A Novel

by Dervla McTiernan ...

Narrated by Kristen Sieh, Stacey Glemboski, Lisa Flanagan, Robert Petkoff, George Newbern, Jenna Lamia, Preston Butler III ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

A New York Times' best thriller of the year! Read by an ensemble cast.From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home.WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?Nobody know... ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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A New York Times' best thriller of the year! Read by an ensemble cast.From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home.WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?Nobody know...
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Last One Alive

by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush ...

Narrated by Sophie Amoss ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Coroner's Daughter Mysteries
Unabridged

10 hours 43 min

Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation—and into the path of a killer.Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation—and into the path of a killer.Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade
... Read more

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