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Queer Aging in North American Fiction
Queer Aging in North American Fiction

Exploring representations of queer aging in North American fiction, this book illuminates a rich yet previously unheeded intersection within American culture. At a time when older LGBTQ persons gradually gain visibility in gerontological studies and in the media, this work provides a critical perspective concerned with the...

Global Outsourcing Discourse: Exploring Modes of IT Governance (Technology, Work and Globalization)
Global Outsourcing Discourse: Exploring Modes of IT Governance (Technology, Work and Globalization)

The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena. The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing relationships in order to test the application of these discourses...

Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine: Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact
Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine: Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact

This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi to medical education, from TV series to ethics, it offers different...

The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being
The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being
Turn your home into a Montessori home—and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent.

It’s time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a “terrible two” into a mutually rich
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The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution
The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly...

Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly poisoning us. 

Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand Americans. It is strongly linked to
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The Big Book of Healing Drinks: Juices, Smoothies, Teas, Tonics, and Elixirs to Cleanse and Detoxify
The Big Book of Healing Drinks: Juices, Smoothies, Teas, Tonics, and Elixirs to Cleanse and Detoxify
Lose weight, fight sickness and disease, and gain energy with dozens of delicious drinks.

The Big Book of Healing Drinks goes beyond The Healthy Juicer's Bible and The Healthy Smoothie Bible, the previous two books by Farnoosh Brock, by introducing new healing drinks such as elixirs, health
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Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub, and More
Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub, and More

Mine the rich data tucked away in popular social websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. With the third edition of this popular guide, data scientists, analysts, and programmers will learn how to glean insights from social media—including who’s connecting with whom, what they’re...

Public Administration in Europe: The Contribution of EGPA (Governance and Public Management)
Public Administration in Europe: The Contribution of EGPA (Governance and Public Management)
This book considers the ways in which public administration (PA) has been studied in Europe over the last forty years, and examines in particular the contribution of EGPA, the European Group for Public Administration, both to the growth of a truly pan-European PA, and to the future of PA in Europe. The book provides a lively reflection on the...
Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore
Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore

Whether it’s Cecil Beaton’s flamboyant, classically tailored suits, Frida Kahlo’s love of bright color, or Cindy Sherman’s penchant for minimalism, an artist’s attire often reflects the creative and spiritual essence of his or her work. In Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore, fashion...

Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World (Volume 27) (California World History Library)
Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World (Volume 27) (California World History Library)
"For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane’s book is the ideal place to begin."—The New York Review of Books

In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the
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Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell: Sayings of the Fathers of the Church
Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell: Sayings of the Fathers of the Church
Catholic University of America Press is proud to present the second volume in its new Sayings of the Fathers of the Church Series. Featuring a wide range of scholars compiling material from our acclaimed Fathers of the Church volumes, each title will be devoted to a few specific areas of theology. The inaugural volume covered The...
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