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Health Professions (HP)

Squeezing minds from stones: cognitive archaeology and the evolution of the human mind

This anthology celebrates 40 years of an archaeology of mind, the investigation of how the modern human mind emerged, as discerned through material artifacts such as the stone tools used throughout the Paleolithic and the hunting technologies and numbers found in the Neolithic.

Restriction Enzymes: a History

Restriction enzymes cleave DNA at specific recognition sites and have many uses in molecular biology, genetics, and biotechnology. More than 4000 restriction enzymes are known today, justifying their description "the workhorses of molecular biology."

Air-borne

Air-Borne chronicles the dark side of aerobiology with gripping accounts of how the United States and the Soviet Union clandestinely built arsenals of airborne biological weapons designed to spread anthrax, smallpox, and an array of other pathogens.

Language and the brain: a slim guide to neurolinguistics

Interest in the brain bases of language goes back to the birth of the modern neurosciences in the late nineteenth century. In this book, Jonathan Brennan shows how brain signals are connected with the intricate cognitive structures that underlie human language.

Seven Deadly Sins

In Seven Deadly Sins, Guy Leschziner, a writer who has explored the mysteries of our sleeping brains and the odd crossed wires of our five senses, asks whether these traits truly represent sin, or simply reflect our intrinsic drive to survive and thrive.

The biology of us: the living world all around and in us

This book illustrates evolutionary strategies used successfully by common organisms for hundreds of millions of years. Howard shows that the organisms in our daily lives are not trivial neighbors or even pests but are just as amazing as those in the Serengeti or the Galápagos Islands.

Breast imaging techniques for radiographers

Covers up-to-date information about breast imaging and the surveillance pathway of the patient with breast cancer. This textbook is intended to give most of the information a Mammographer should have to understand and perform successfully breast imaging techniques.

Wondrous transformations

Drawn from research in archival documents, secondary sources, and interviews, Li tells the story of Benjamin's collaborative work with over a thousand transgender patients and his efforts in education, research, and networking, to create the institutional foundations of transgender medicine.

Vivir con Diabetes / Living with Diabetes

El doctor Franz Martín Bermudo es uno de los investigadores y educadores más destacados de Europa en este campo. Su experiencia y rigor científico son la base para ayudarnos a comprender mejor la diabetes y abordarla adecuadamente. Para que, en última instancia, podamos vivir con ella, pero no ser superados por ella.

Neurodegeneración y Alzhéimer: avances tecnológicos y de investigación para su prevención y tratamiento

Los avances científicos están revolucionando nuestra comprensión del Alzheimer y los biomarcadores que permiten su detección temprana. Este libro analiza cómo la aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías y el big data está transformando la investigación, allanando el camino hacia un futuro con una mejor calidad de vida para los pacientes.

Pediatric injectable drugs : the teddy bear book

Revised to include over 270 parenteral medications. Forty one new monographs, some of which are recently marketed drugs, have been added since the 11th edition. Previously published monographs have been extensively reviewed and updated to include the most recent literature available.

Period

Clancy takes up a host of timely issues surrounding menstruation, from bodily autonomy, menstrual hygiene, and the COVID-19 vaccine to the ways racism, sexism, and medical betrayal warp public perceptions of menstruation and erase it from public life.

Liberal Arts (LA) : Religion, Philosophy, Mythology & Histories

An unholy traffic: slave trading in the Civil War South

Regardless of the choices they made - to buy or to sell people, to risk sale or to flee from it - the effects of the slave trade reverberated throughout the conflict and produced legacies that endured long after the guns fell silent.

Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens

The archaeologies presented in this volume explore the impact of pervasive human mobility on the West - a world of transience, impermanence, seasonal migration, and accelerated trade and technology at scales ranging from the local to the global.

Black Elders

Black Elders offers a unique window into the individual and collective lives of African Americans, the day-to-day struggles they waged around their experiences of aging, and how they drew upon these resources to define the meaning of family, community, and freedom.

Philosophy of fame and celebrity

This book answers a pressing need, for if celebrity culture continues to expand and consume our social lives, the case for a philosophical reflection on the nature and value of this culture becomes even more necessary.

The Remaking of Republican Turkey

By drawing on a diverse array of published and archival sources, Danforth offers a tour de force exploration of the relationship between democracy, diplomacy, modernity, Westernization, Ottoman historiography and religion in mid-century Turkey.

La Historia de Los Judíos / a History of the Jews

Esta obra magna histórica abarca 4.000 años de la extraordinaria historia de los judíos como pueblo, cultura y nación. Muestra el impacto del carácter judío en el mundo: su genio, su imaginación y, sobre todo, su capacidad de perseverar a pesar de las duras persecuciones.

Contraception and Modern Ireland

This is the first comprehensive, dedicated history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s. Laura Kelly provides insights into the lived experiences of those negotiating family planning,

Faith and Community

Faith and Community provides valuable insights into the relationship between religion and community engagement. The data illustrates how community engagement benefits individuals, congregations, and democracy and offers one solution to what ails religion in America today.

The Coming of the Celts, AD 1860

Who are the Celts, and what does it mean to be Celtic? In this book, Caoimhín De Barra focuses on nationalists in Ireland and Wales between 1860 and 1925, a time period when people in these countries came to identify themselves as Celts.

Embracing Emancipation

While myriad Irish Americans ultimately abandoned their hostility to antislavery, their backgrounds in and continuously renewed connections with Ireland remained consistent influences on how the Irish in America took part in debate over the future of American slavery.

Mi Amiga Anne Frank / My Friend Anne Frank

Mientras Hannah narra las experiencias de su propia vida durante y después de la guerra, ofrece una mirada mordaz a lo que innumerables niños soportaron a manos del régimen nazi, así como un retrato íntimo, nunca antes visto, de la víctima más reconocible del Holocausto.

Liberal Arts (LA) : Social Sciences, Anthropology, Recreation, Literature & Library Sciences

Translating Myself and Others

Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.

The Bible and Western Christian literature: books and the book; volume.2

From Beatrice Groves’ assessment of Shakespeare and the Psalms to Joseph Ashmore’s examination of the Bible as a material book in early modern culture, this volume demonstrates how varied, generative and impactful the early modern Bible was.

The Bible and Western Christian literature: books and the book; volume 3

During the Enlightenment and Romantic periods, how people read the Bible changed dramatically. From William Blake to Charlotte Bronte, this volume examines the ways contemporary secular literature reflected both changes to the Bible and its reception, and resistance to this change.

Whiteness

Drawing on decades of critical whiteness studies, citing a range of examples (primarily from the United States and Sweden), Lund argues whiteness is continually manufactured and sustained through language, laws, policies, science, and representations in media and popular culture.

The Bible and Western Christian literature: books and the book; volume 1

Discusses Origen and Jerome and their influence on the tradition of exegesis and hermeneutical principles; John Chrysotom, the homily as Christian grammatical instruction, 12th-century monastic exegesis, rabbinic and vernacular exegesis, and biblical exegesis in the medieval universities.

The Pushcart Prize XLIX

The annual international gathering of the best fiction, poetry, essays and memoirs from small, independent, literary presses, including more than 60 selections from 50 presses, chosen with the advice of 180 distinguished contributing editors.

The Hidden Powers of Ritual

An overview of the development, benefits, and importance of ritual in everyday life, written by a leading cognitive anthropologist. Bradd Shore presents ritual as an evolved form of human behavior of almost unimaginable significance to our species.

Modern Poetry

In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? "It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem," Seuss writes.

Simple Book Repair Techniques

Large or academic libraries often have staff specifically trained to care for their collections, but public and other small libraries don't have that luxury. Donia Conn shows libraries how to extend the usable life of their collections when there’s little staff time or money available.

Funny thing about the Civil War: the humor of an American tragedy

Examines humor in depictions of the Civil War, covering a wide range of literature, film and television in historical context. Giving attention to the stories behind the stories, the author focuses on what people laughed at, who they laughed with and what it reveals about their view of events.

Humanizing the Remote Experience Through Leadership and Coaching

This book responds to the growing need for understanding how we can foster wellness, raise engagement, and strengthen connections in professional contexts as human interactions become increasingly remote.

The Professional Actor's Handbook

Provides struggling artists with strategies to successfully negotiate every stage of their careers. Includes vital updates to reflect the current industry: post-pandemic shifts in the industry. inclusive language, additional resources specific to various affinity groups, video auditions, self-tapes, and more.

Public Services (PS) : Psychology, Social Welfare & Education

Critique Is Creative

Critical Response Process® (CRP) is an internationally recognized method for giving and getting feedback on creative works in progress. In this first in-depth study of CRP, Lerman and her long-term collaborator John Borstel describe in detail the four-step process, its origins and principles.

Anatomy of a Train Wreck

Examines scientists' intellectual strategies, responses to criticism, and assumptions about the nature of subjectivity, Ruth Leys raises crucial questions about evidence surrounding unconscious influence and probes the larger stakes of the replication crisis: psychology's status as a science.

The Importance of Being Educable

In the age of AI, our future depends on better understanding what makes us human. If we want to play to our species' great strength and protect our collective future, we must better understand and prioritize the vital importance of being educable.

Aging angry: making peace with rage

Never before in the history of humanity have so many people lived to be so very old. Throughout our past, a few individuals might have made it to old age but "mass aging" is a new concept for the human species.

Edge of catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the Holocaust

Introduces readers for the first time to the Holocaust letters in the family of the public intellectual and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. The letters provide new insights into Fromm's life and work, particularly in relation to his lifelong concerns with fascism, racism, and human destructiveness.

Conspiracy theories: a reference handbook

A comprehensive guide to the history and current shape of conspiracy theories in American life, including the findings of research seeking to understand their origins, type, function, and widespread appeal.

Helping teen moms graduate: strategies for families, schools, and community organizations

Helping Teen Moms Graduate offers practical strategies families, schools, and community organizations can employ to support pregnant and parenting students as they strive to complete their education and reduce the 50% dropout rate.

The Perfection Trap

Curran shows what we can do as individuals to resist the modern-day pressure to be perfect, and in so doing, win for ourselves a more purposeful and contented life. Filled with many useful lessons and valuable insights - and the relief of letting go to focus on what matters most.

Gun country: gun capitalism, culture, and control in Cold War America

World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, forging the gun country America is today. Gun Country recasts the story of guns in postwar America - one of Cold War and racial anxieties, unfettered capitalism, and exceptional violence that still haunts us.

Toxic Stress

Explore the fascinating mysteries of our hidden stress response system with Dr. Wulsin, who uses his decades of experience to show how toxic stress impacts our bodies; he gives us the expert advice and tools needed to prevent toxic stress from taking over.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Many do not comprehend that the alcoholic is a very sick person. Members of Alcoholics Anonymous are sharing these accounts of their experiences to help everyone to better understand the alcoholic. However, showing other alcoholics how they have recovered is their primary purpose for this book.

Murder in a mill town : sex, faith, and the crime that captivated a nation

In December 1832 a farmer finds the body of a young, pregnant woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. A meticulously reconstructed historical whodunit, this book exposes the troublesome workings of criminal justice in the young democracy and the rise of a sensational popular culture.

STEM (ST) : Earth & Life Sciences, Agriculture & Biology

Microbes: the unseen agents of climate change

Throughout the book, it examines how climate change may alter what microbes are doing with greenhouse gases: will they consume more or produce more? The answer is critical in predicting what the planet will look like in the coming decades if climate change continues at its current pace.

On life: cells, genes, and the evolution of complexity

On Life aims to make life intelligible by giving an understanding of the biological landscape. It sketches the principles as biologists presently understand them and highlights major unresolved issues. What emerges is a biology bracketed by two stubborn mysteries: the nature of the mind and the origin of life.

El Huerto Autosuficiente (Grow Food for Free)

Huw Richards se propuso el reto de ser autosuficiente cultivando sus propias frutas y verduras gratis durante un año. Lo logró y quiere ayudarte a conseguirlo. Descubre estrategias para cultivar tus propios alimentos en tu huerto, parcela o maceta y disfruta de una cosecha abundante todo el año.

Protecting Pollinators

Along with inspiring stories of revival and lessons from failed projects, readers will find practical tips to get involved. They will also be reminded of the magic of pollinators - not only the iconic monarch and dainty hummingbird, but the drab hawk moth and homely bats that are just as essential.

Plantas de Interior (Houseplant)

Consejos de cuidado esenciales para mantener sus plantas vivas y prósperas, consejos de propagación para ayudarlo a hacer crecer su colección y 24 proyectos paso a paso diseñados para aprovechar al máximo su vegetación: todo lo que necesita para crear, cultivar y cuidar su jardín interior.

The Hidden Life of Trees

A visually stunning journey into the diversity and wonders of forests. Compelling, abridged selections from the original book and stunning, large-format photographs of trees from around the world, this gorgeous volume distills the essence of Wohlleben's message to show trees in all their glory and diversity.

Becoming a Wildlife Professional

For anyone planning a career in wildlife management and conservation. Pragmatic advice on applying for and obtaining a job; presents 100+ career options available to aspiring wildlife workers, including biological field research, forestry, rehabilitation, ranching, photography, and refuge management.

Un Geólogo en Apuros: un Viaje a Través Del Tiempo y Hacia lo Más Profundo de la Tierra / a Geologist in Trouble: a Journey Through Time and Deep into the Earth

A través de este libro descubriremos la historia de nuestro planeta y cómo los procesos geológicos han tenido una profunda influencia en el origen y evolución de los seres vivos, aunque en ocasiones nos han acercado a la extinción.

Nietzsche and the Earth

Presents key Nietzschean concepts as the foundations of an ecological 'art of living' for the twenty-first century; introducing the concept of 'terra-sophy', which combines the notions of terra (earth) and sophy (wisdom), to contend that humans should reimagine themselves as in a reciprocal relationship with the planet.

History of Plant Breeding

Reference for knowing our past, understanding the present, and creating the future provide a comprehensive treatment of the development of crop improvement methods over the centuries, and presents approaches to the sustainability of breeding to cope with climatic changes as well as the growing world population.

¡Verdura! - Jardinería para Tu Bienestar / ¡Verdura! - Living a Garden Life (Spanish Edition)

Celebra el poder de añadir más verde a tu vida con 30 proyectos de jardinería sencillos y económicos que promueven el bienestar a través de las plantas. La autora puertorriqueña y celebridad de la jardinería, Perla Sofía Curbelo Santiago, ofrece una guía para formar un amor permanente por la naturaleza, las plantas y la jardinería.

La tormenta perfecta : una historia real sobre la lucha del hombre contra el mar

Describe las condiciones que dieron origen a este suceso sin precedentes y reconstruye cuidadosamente tres apasionantes historias: seis tripulantes del barco pesquero Andrea Gail; un velero atrapado en una tormenta; el rescate de la tripulación de un helicóptero de rescate que cayó al mar.

Fiction & Children's

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. The two bind themselves to one another, becoming intimate friends and agreeing "there warn't no home like a raft, after all."

Out of Nowhere

At a Texas county fair, children's book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her favorite cowboy: her two-year-old son, Charlie. But just as they're about to head home, a shooter opens fire into the crowd

Fan Service

Ever since his show went off the air, Devin and his career have spiraled, but waking up naked in the woods outside his LA home with no memory of the night before is a new low. It must have been a coincidence that the once-in-a-century Wolf Blood Moon crested last night

Great Expectations

Great Expectations traces the coming of age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity.

El Terrible Problema Del Murciélago / the Bat's Big Dilemma

Murciélago tiene un problema: no puede dormir. Sus amigos le ofrecen remedios, pero ninguno parece funcionar. Finalmente, busca el consejo de Don Pistrelus, el más sabio de los murciélagos, quien le explica cómo se supone que los mamíferos voladores duermen, colgados boca abajo y durante el día.

The Bitter Kingdom

In the deeply satisfying conclusion, seventeen-year-old sorcerer-queen Elisa travels into the unknown realm of the enemy to win back her true love, save her country, and uncover the final secrets of her destiny.

Drácula (Edición Conmemorativa) / Dracula (Commemorative Edition)

El abogado Jonathan Harker viaja a Transilvania para ayudar al Conde Drácula a adquirir una casa en Londres. Extraños sucesos comienzan a ocurrir en Inglaterra. Se desata una batalla entre el Conde y sus adversarios en esta clásica novela gótica de terror, romance oscuro y suspense escalofriante.

The Pairing (Menú para Dos) (Edición Limitada, Cantos Pintados)

Dos exes bisexuales reservan por accidente el mismo tour gastronómico y vinícola europeo y se retan a una competición de encuentros casuales para demostrar que ya lo han superado, aunque definitivamente no es así. Theo y Kit han sido muchas cosas: mejores amigos de la infancia, enamorados, y ahora exes distanciados.

The Grief of Stones

Celehar’s investigations lead him to the Cemchelarna School for Foundling Girls, where all is not as it seems. Discovering the truth about its headmistress will lead him deep into the city's history - and into the shattering depths of the loss he fears the most.

The Moonlight Healers

For generations, Winston women have possessed an unspoken magical gift: they can heal with the touch of a hand. As Louise begins to embrace her unique legacy, she learns that it can also come with a mysterious cost. With a life hanging in the balance, she'll be forced to make the most impossible of choices..

The Stardust Thief

A legendary smuggler. A cowardly prince. A dangerous quest across the desert to find a magical lamp. In a world where story is reality and illusion is truth, Loulie discovers her enemy, her magic, even her own past - is not what it seems. She must decide who she will become in this new reality.

The Battle for WondLa

News of the city Solas being captured by the human leader, Cadmus Pryde, forces Eva into action once again. With help from an unlikely ally, Eva tries to thwart Loroc's ultimate plan for both mankind and the alien life on Orbona.

Graphic Novels & Manga

Black Butler, Vol. 21

As the precocious aristocrat of evil attempts to make his escape from the forest, a monster cloaked in olive drab trundles ever nearer, taking aim at the back of the fleeing earl...

Elden Ring: the Road to the Erdtree, Vol. 5

He’s suppressed the riot at Castle Morne. He’s done battle with D, Hunter of the Dead and Rogier in Ailing Village. Now, as he makes his way through Limgrave, Aseo finally embarks on his search for Caelid.

Radiant Black Volume 3: Rogues' Gallery

With all the big problems handled, Marshall is looking forward to some good old-fashioned downtime. But the power of the Radiants won’t stay secret forever, and as his personal life starts to unravel, Marshall will face a gauntlet of new foes that threaten to put an early end to his superhero career

Blacksad

Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery, digging into the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets.

Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 24

Hohenheim finally gets his chance to stop the mysterious homunculus "father" who rules over Central City. Will Hohenheim's surprise be enough to defeat the most powerful homunculus of them all

Soul Eater, Vol. 24

DWMA braces for the final showdown as the Kishin awakens from his slumber at the heart of the moon. Unable to contain his rage, Noah is the first to attack, the Book of Eibon and "BREW" fueling his assault.

Mexikid (Spanish Edition)

Toda la familia (¡11 personas!) se apretará dentro del Winnebago para manejar 2,000 millas hasta México con una misión: traer a su misterioso abuelito de la era de la Revolución Mexicana a vivir con ellos.

One-Punch Man, Vol. 21

Immediately before the big Monster Association battle, the Class-S heroes hold a strategy meeting. Unfortunately, they just aren't in sync, and when Amai Mask barges in, the situation only gets worse. Thankfully, King appears just in time to boost morale!

Batman Vol. 3: I Am Bane (2024 Edition)

He is no rich boy pretending to be a knight. He is Bane. The Batman invaded his home, scarred his mind and broke his back. Now Bane has returned to Gotham City for a single purpose- break the Batman once and for all.

A Child in Palestine

Through his most celebrated creation, the witness-child Handala, al-Ali criticized the brutality of Israeli occupation, the venality and corruption of the regimes in the region, and the suffering of the Palestinian people, earning him many powerful enemies and the soubriquet "the Palestinian Malcolm X."

Nana, Vol. 19

The tabloid feeding frenzy has finally brought Blast down, but Nana is determined to keep hope alive. She's going to take a gig as a solo artist, by keeping herself in the spotlight, she knows there's a chance Blast can make a comeback. While all eyes are on Nana, what's happening to her friends?

Amazing Spider-Man by Zeb Wells Vol. 12: Dead Wrong

Tombstone - his enemy turned ally turned enemy once again - needs to show the other gangs of New York City his credentials as the Kingpin of Crime. And the best way to do that is by publicly killing Spider-Man

Business & Industry (BI)

The Capital Order

In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2023-2033

Handbook contains numerous occupations profiles and includes information on: job duties; education and training needed; median pay; important qualities for the job; licenses, certification, and registrations needed; and contact information to learn more about the occupation.

Conditional belonging: the racialization of Iranians in the wake of anti-Muslim politics

A comparative analysis of the Iranian diasporic experience in the United States and Germany, focusing on the different processes of racialization of the immigrants. This important and timely book broadens our understanding of how unpredictable and fluid a sense of belonging to a country can be.

Dignity Not Debt: an Abolitionist Approach To Economic Justice

Ondersma's new categories of debt - grounded in abolitionist principles - revolutionize how policymakers are able to think about debt. This will in turn revolutionize the American debt landscape itself. Forging a new path to financial security for all Americans.

Happimetrics: leveraging AI to untangle the surprising link between ethics, happiness and business success

Based on 20 years of research, this book lays out a proven and tested method for reaching the goal of employee happiness, analyzing individuals' communication patterns, and making them self-aware by mirroring their behavior back to them in a privacy-respecting way.

International directory of company histories. Volume 276

Provides histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.

Cómo Ganar Amigos e Influir Sobre Las Personas (Edición de Regalo) / How to Win Friends and Influence People

Un éxito de ventas histórico por una sencilla razón: lecciones de vida cruciales, transmitidas a través de una narrativa cautivadora. Los lectores aprenden a convertirse en quienes desean ser. Esta versión actualizada demuestra que esto es tan cierto ahora como siempre

Rewriting Contemporary Political Philosophy with Plato and Aristotle

Argues that we best exercise our rational and political nature by participating together with others in political activity without an ulterior motive. Lucid in argumentation, original in approach, this book presents a strong case for a eudaimonic polity that firmly favors public interest over private interest.

Business ethics : Kant, virtue, and the nexus of duty : foundations and case studies

This book offers students a philosophical introduction to the ethical foundations of business management. It combines lessons from Kant with virtue ethics and also touches upon additional approaches such as utilitarianism, and the concept of the "nexus of imperfect managerial duty."

¿Quién Domina el Mundo? / Who Rules the World?

En un análisis incisivo y exhaustivo de la actual situación internacional, Noam Chomsky sostiene que Estados Unidos, a través de sus políticas militares y su inquebrantable devoción por mantener un imperio mundial, corre el riesgo de una catástrofe y de arruinar los bienes comunes globales.

SilverComm : marketing practices and messages for the age of aging

The marketing world has long under-appreciated the buying power of adults over 65 years of age. In the current age of longevity, it's essential students engage with strategies to embrace all age groups. This text combines professional interviews, theory-based research, and practical exercises to supplement any strategic comm course.

Counting Americans

Counting Americans is a social history exploring the political stakes that pitted various interests and groups of people against each other as population categories were constantly redefined.

Creative Arts (CA)

Alfredo Boulton

This volume addresses Boulton's groundbreaking photographic practice, his central role in the construction of a modern national artistic canon, and his influence in formalizing and developing art history and criticism in Venezuela.

The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach

The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach makes her life and music accessible to a new generation of listeners. It outlines her remarkable talent as a child prodigy, her marriage to a prominent physician twice her age, and her subsequent international acclaim as a composer and piano virtuoso.

Form as harmony in rock music

Offering a comprehensive theory of form in rock music, the premise is that rock songs are cohesive entities, gradually unfolding through time a unified musical structure. Their formal components are not merely discrete elements arranged in succession but interdependent, dialogic utterances.

Selena: Como la Flor

Bestselling author Jo Nick Patoski recounts both the ups and downs of Selena's life, as well as her stunning transformation into a sensual Latina superstar. Most of all, he pays tribute to the life of this one-of-a-kind talent and a young life cut short by murder, but one that will never be forgotten.

Tania león's Stride

Tania León's achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music. Nuanced and multifaceted, Tania León's Stride looks at the life, legacy, and milieu that created and sustained one of the most important figures in American classical music.

La Producción de ánforas en el Territorium de Neapolis Durante la Antigüedad Tardía

.El estudio de las ánforas de Sidi Zahruni nos ha permitido hacer una importante contribución al conocimiento del comercio entre África y el Mediterráneo occidental en la época tardorromana, planteando la cuestión de los productos contenidos en estas ánforas.

Mosaics of Alexandria pavements of Greek and Roman Egypt

A beautifully illustrated study of mosaic art in Greco-Roman Egypt. The aim is to better understand the artistic and artisanal production of a type of decoration that played an important role within the living environment of the ancients.

The Upside-down World

This is Holland and its great artists as we've never seen them before. And it's a highly personal coming-of-age-story, twenty years in the making: a revealing self-portrait by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

How Women Made Music

The audiobook edition of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History brings listeners closer than ever to their creative heroes. Featuring rare interview excerpts with Nina Simone, Sinead O’Connor, Lucinda Williams, Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift, Solange, and many more.

Mary Magdalene : a visual history

Faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalene's many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. This visual history reveals how images and presentations have created a Mary who is often far different from the real woman, the first witness of the Resurrection .

Power, Image, and Memory

Power, Image, and Memory examines a wide variety of artistic traditions, showing how art commemorating historical events can shape collective memory, and with it, the identities of social groups and nations.

A view of Venice : portrait of a Renaissance city

The contributors to A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City draw on a high-resolution digital scan of the over nine-foot-wide composite print to examine the complexities of this extraordinary woodcut and portrayal of early modern Venetian life.

STEM (ST) : Math, Science, Technology & Engineering

Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000

Provides short biographies of scientists and engineers who have worked in the areas of hydraulic engineering and fluid dynamics in the USA. On each page, a notable individual is highlighted by exact dates and locations of birth and death, and educational and professional details, and awards received.

Language and the Rise of the Algorithm

The modern idea of the algorithm is implicated in a long history of attempts to maintain a disciplinary boundary separating technical knowledge from the languages people speak day to day; a levee holding back the social complexity of language, and it is about to break.

Vector: a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation

Discovery of vectors and tensors enabled physicists and mathematicians to think new thoughts: Maxwell ushered in the wireless electromagnetic age; Einstein predicted the curving of four-dimensional space-time and the existence of gravitational waves. Quantum theory, too, uses these ideas.

Inteligencia artificial : una exploración filosófica sobre el futuro de la mente y la conciencia

Es la mente solo un programa? Este libro analiza hipótesis y escenarios futuros para impulsarnos a cuestionar la naturaleza profunda de nuestra identidad

Power metal: the race for the resources that will shape the future

Metals we need to power technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and murder. A sobering account of the battle between what civilization demands and what the planet can withstand, this is a compelling, important glimpse into a new, disturbing, and exciting world.

Computational and Statistical Methods for Chemical Engineering

Before the data revolution, most books focused either on mathematical modeling of chemical processes or exploratory chemometrics. This volume aims to combine these two approaches and provide aspiring chemical engineers a single, comprehensive account of computational and statistical method.

Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and the Climate Crisis

Symons argues that states should defend against climate threats through transformative investments in technological innovation. A good Anthropocene is still possible - but only if we double down on science and humanism to push beyond the limits to growth.

Living with Robots

There's a lot of hype about robots; some of it is scary and some of it utopian. In this accessible book, two robotics experts reveal the truth about what robots can and can't do, how they work, and what we can reasonably expect their future capabilities to be.

Our Universe

Our Universe conveys with authority and grace, the thrill of scientific discovery and a contagious enthusiasm for the endless wonders of space-time.

Algorithms, Humans, and Interactions

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to contribute to the ongoing development of human-AI interaction with a particular focus on the "human" dimension and provides insights to improve the design of AI that could be genuinely beneficial and effectively used in society

Biochemistry in the Lab

This textbook presents a foundational approach to modern biochemistry laboratory teaching together with a complete experimental experience, from protein purification and characterization to advanced analytical techniques.

Critical Data Literacies

A guide to everything you need to understand to navigate a world increasingly governed by data. Critical Data Literacies develops a powerful argument for collectively rethinking the role that data plays in our everyday lives and re-establishing agency, free will, and the democratic public sphere.

Public Services (PS) : Hospitality, Aesthetics, DIY & Military Service

Lessons in Foodservice Management

Lessons in Foodservice Management uses detailed case studies across diverse settings to illustrate key topics. The book aims to connect theory to practice and offers an engaging and human-centered approach to foodservice management.

Historia Secreta de la Bomba atómica: Cómo Se Llegó a Construir un Arma Que No Se Necesitaba / Fallout

Historia secreta de la bomba atómica revela vívidamente la historia de la construcción innecesaria de la bomba atómica, el arma más destructiva del mundo, y las consecuencias a largo plazo que aún persisten hasta el día de hoy.

Pastelería Japonesa: Ingredientes y Recetas Paso a Paso / Sweet and Easy Japanese Desserts

¡Los sabores japoneses infunden y transforman tus postres favoritos y crean nuevos placeres que puedes preparar fácilmente en casa! Incluye ingredientes y recetas de fácil acceso que se adaptan teniendo en cuenta al panadero occidental y al cocinero casero.

Dress, Fashion and Technology

Dress-making and fashion technology has changed beyond recognition: from needles and human hands in the ancient world to complex 20th-century textile production machines. New technologies such as the electronic media and high-tech manufacturing have helped not just to produce but to define fashion:

El Enigma Balenciaga / the Balenciaga Enigma

Paisajes, colores, textiles y fragancias nos transportan desde Getaria, la ciudad natal de Balenciaga, hasta las elegantes avenidas parisinas de la época dorada de la alta costura, para descubrir el enigma que es Balenciaga.

The new true crime: how the rise of serialized storytelling is transforming innocence

The new true crime has been influenced by the innocence movement, a diverse group of organizers and activists, be they journalists, lawyers, formerly incarcerated people, or family members, who now have a place in mainstream consciousness as DNA evidence exonerates the wrongly convicted.

The Boston Police Strike Of 1919

Through meticulous research, Oliver explores the perspectives and motivations of all involved, from the police officers attempting to unionize to the city's leaders trying to retain command and control of its patrolmen.

Careers in intelligence and national security.

The aim is to provide readers—especially students embarking on their lifelong careers—with accurate and detailed examples of some the many possibilities available in this field, which is instrumental in protecting our everyday way of life.

La guerra invisible

Con el ritmo implacable de un thriller e información jamás revelada hasta hoy, Marcelo Larraquy descubre los últimos secretos de inteligencia, espionaje y tráfico de armas de la Guerra de las Malvinas, celosamente guardados por ambos Estados durante casi cuatro décadas.

El país donde florece el limonero

Con una inmensa sabiduría, delicadeza y sentido del humor la autora nos relata los orígenes de los cítricos, de la gastronomía y del país, nos descubre los secretos del arte de la horticultura y nos ofrece recetas tan sencillas como suculentas.

The Cult of the Victim Veteran

In this book we see the long historical threads woven for MAGA: the twining of traditional and modern ways of knowing that imbues war trauma with political and cultural properties that complicate its diagnostic use, and the victim-veteran figure as metaphor for a wounded America, for which MAGA is the remedy.

Jumping the Broom

Parry discloses how marginalized people found dignity in the face of oppression by innovating and reimagining marriage rituals.

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