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Nigh

by Alan Miller ...

We're not getting any older...An extraordinary event at the genetic level changes everything - the world didn't see it coming. It takes time for people to adjust to waking up to smoother skin and better health. Vices and addictions can now be taken up with abandon as cells repair themselves on the slow but inexorable path to youth and infancy.A global spring clean begins, a purge to free the ... Read more

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We're not getting any older...An extraordinary event at the genetic level changes everything - the world didn't see it coming. It takes time for people to adjust to waking up to smoother skin and better health. Vices and addictions can now be taken up with abandon as cells repair themselves on the slow but inexorable path to youth and infancy.A global spring clean begins, a purge to free the
... Read more
Environmental Problem Solving

Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change

by Alan Miller ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of environmental problems that they are attempting to resolve. In Environmental Problem Solving, ... Read more

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Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of environmental problems that they are attempting to resolve. In Environmental Problem Solving,
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Hellraiser: The Toll

by Mark Alan Miller ...

Thirty years after Kirsty Cotton escaped from the clutches of the Hell Priest, Pinhead, and lived to fight another day, her life has never been the same.Every few years she fashions a new name, a new identity, and a new home for herself; She is a woman who is running from her past at all costs, which is why it comes as such a surprise when she receives a mysterious letter in the mail, addressed to ... Read more

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Thirty years after Kirsty Cotton escaped from the clutches of the Hell Priest, Pinhead, and lived to fight another day, her life has never been the same.Every few years she fashions a new name, a new identity, and a new home for herself; She is a woman who is running from her past at all costs, which is why it comes as such a surprise when she receives a mysterious letter in the mail, addressed to
... Read more
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What WeDo

by Alan Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa ...

Now available in paperback?a provocative new look at biology, evolution, and human behavior ?as disturbing [as it is] fascinating? (Publishers Weekly).Why are most neurosurgeons male and most kindergarten teachers female? Why aren?t there more women on death row? Why do so many male politicians ruin their careers with sex scandals? Why and how do we really fall in love? This engaging book uses the ... Read more

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Now available in paperback?a provocative new look at biology, evolution, and human behavior ?as disturbing [as it is] fascinating? (Publishers Weekly).Why are most neurosurgeons male and most kindergarten teachers female? Why aren?t there more women on death row? Why do so many male politicians ruin their careers with sex scandals? Why and how do we really fall in love? This engaging book uses the
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The Dybbuk

by S. Ansky, S. Ansky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Edward Asner, Theodore Bikel0, Ashley Gardner1, Carl Reiner2, Richard Kind3, Kenneth Mars4, Marian Mercer5, Robertson Dean6, Barbara Rosenblat7, Kristoffer Tabori8, Janet Borrus9, Harlan Ellison0, Amanda Karr1, James Otis2, Alan Miller3, Lorna Raver4, Stefan Rudnicki5, Shelly Hanson6, Steven Ovitsky7 ...

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1 hour 35 min

In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. In this case, the dybbuk is an impoverished student that possesses a young bride on her wedding day. She is taken to a great Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the spirit, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in life, why he has possessed the maiden, ... Read more

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In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. In this case, the dybbuk is an impoverished student that possesses a young bride on her wedding day. She is taken to a great Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the spirit, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in life, why he has possessed the maiden,
... Read more
Linux Administration Best Practices

Practical solutions to approaching the design and management of Linux systems

by Scott Alan Miller ...

Gain an understanding of system administration that will remain applicable throughout your career and understand why tasks are done rather than how to do them Key Features • Deploy, secure, and maintain your Linux system in the best possible way • Discover best practices to implement core system administration tasks in Linux • Explore real-world decisions, tasks, and solutions involved in Linux ... Read more

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Gain an understanding of system administration that will remain applicable throughout your career and understand why tasks are done rather than how to do them Key Features • Deploy, secure, and maintain your Linux system in the best possible way • Discover best practices to implement core system administration tasks in Linux • Explore real-world decisions, tasks, and solutions involved in Linux
... Read more
Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now!

The Ozone Treaty's Urgent Lessons for Speeding Up Climate Action

by Alan Miller, First Frame Magazine, Durwood Zaelke, Stephen O. Andersen ...

Series series Resetting Our Future
'Lays out an absolutely essential part of initial climate action in the US and other countries. Climate policymakers need to read this book, now.' James Gustave Speth, former chair, US Council on Environmental Quality.We have a decade or less to radically slow global warming before we risk hitting irreversible tipping points that will lock in catastrophic climate change. The good news is that we ... Read more

$5.99 USD

'Lays out an absolutely essential part of initial climate action in the US and other countries. Climate policymakers need to read this book, now.' James Gustave Speth, former chair, US Council on Environmental Quality.We have a decade or less to radically slow global warming before we risk hitting irreversible tipping points that will lock in catastrophic climate change. The good news is that we
... Read more
A Time for All Things

The Life of Michael E. DeBakey

by Craig Alan Miller ...

He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of ... Read more

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He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of
... Read more
Rhetoric's Earthly Realm

Heidegger, Sophistry, and the Gorgian Kairos

by Bernard Alan Miller ...

Series series Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric. For Plato, earth harbors the façade of mere appearances and the evils of the bewitching powers of language. In RHETORIC’S EARTHLY REALM: HEIDEGGER, SOPHISTRY, AND THE GORGIAN KAIROS, Bernard Alan Miller counters this intellectual legacy with an innovative and thoroughly ... Read more

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Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric. For Plato, earth harbors the façade of mere appearances and the evils of the bewitching powers of language. In RHETORIC’S EARTHLY REALM: HEIDEGGER, SOPHISTRY, AND THE GORGIAN KAIROS, Bernard Alan Miller counters this intellectual legacy with an innovative and thoroughly
... Read more
Block Granting Medicaid

A Model for 21st Century Health Reform?

by Edward Alan Miller ...

Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States. Reform in this area, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to study the intersection between federal and state policy making in an area recently characterized by substantial uncertainty deriving from the lingering effects of the Great Recession, ongoing debate over the federal budget, and implementation of the Patient Protection ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Medicaid is the largest grant-in-aid program in the United States. Reform in this area, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to study the intersection between federal and state policy making in an area recently characterized by substantial uncertainty deriving from the lingering effects of the Great Recession, ongoing debate over the federal budget, and implementation of the Patient Protection
... Read more
Digital Medicine

Health Care in the Internet Era

by Darrell M. West, Edward Alan Miller ...

Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of medical information online. Some physicians encourage patients to use email or web messaging to manage ... Read more

$25.69 USD

Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of medical information online. Some physicians encourage patients to use email or web messaging to manage
... Read more
Order By Accident

The Origins And Consequences Of Group Conformity In Contemporary Japan

by Alan Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa ...

While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys a safe society. However, Japan pays a price-the loss of personal freedom, and the inability to exploit its citizens' talents. ... Read more

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While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys a safe society. However, Japan pays a price-the loss of personal freedom, and the inability to exploit its citizens' talents.
... Read more

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