Samhällsvetenskaplig metod ger en bred introduktion till teori, logik och praktiska metoder för kvalitativ och kvantitativ forskning samt för forskning med blandade metoder. Boken täcker alla centrala aspekter av forskningsdesign, datainsamling, dat…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time's most influential people. It's a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we've been taught…
How do sportsbooks make their lines? Which types of bets are the best? Can you beat the house?The Logic Of Sports Betting answers all these questions and more with a dash of humor and a whole lot of real talk about how it all works. Peek behind the…
Y si envejecer fuera una enfermedad y fuese tratable como tal? Un aclamado cient fico de la facultad de Medicina de Harvard y una de las personas m s influyentes seg n la revista Time. Que envejecer es inevitable es una verdad aparentemente innegab…
"My help comes from the Lord, maker of heaven and earth." Evil is an intruder upon a world created by God and declared good. Scripture emphasizes this: laments are regularly juxtaposed with declarations of God as creator. But evil is not merely a pr…
Machine of Death tells 34 stories about people who know how they will die. The machine doesn't give the date or specifics; using only a blood sample, it just spits out a sliver of paper upon which are printed, in careful block letters, words such as…
This volume explores the state of academic freedom in the United States and abroad. What impact have the attacks of September 11th and the ensuing war on terrorism had on free speech, access to information, government funding of the sciences, and ot…
This volume is the first of two to illuminate the buildings of the northeast of Scotland. It covers not only Aberdeenshire's historic districts of Formartine, Buchan, and Banff but also the whole of Moray. Picturesque former fishing villages cling t…
Deeply embedded in the landscapes of South Texas, Luz at Midnight tells the story of an ill-timed love that unfolds in the time of climate change. Booksmart but na ve, Citlali Sanchez-O'Connor has just been hired to organize a San Antonio campaign a…
Much scholarship on the British transatlantic slave trade has focused on its peak period in the late eighteenth century and its abolition in the early nineteenth; or on the Royal African Company (RAC), which in 1698 lost the monopoly it had previous…
Scientists from the planets Teronovaj and Pacienco return to Earth 10,000 years after their pioneering ancestors' departure. Physically altered by the need to adapt to harsh conditions on their planets, they struggle with the prejudice and fanaticis…
Wake up Christendom before it's too late This book by scriptural reference shows the difference between the Gospel of the Kingdom versus the Gospel of Grace, the Earthly ministry versus the Resurrected ministry, Paul's apostleship versus Peter's, La…
The next book in the hilarious series about history's greatest undead inventors Before Victor can figure out why Benjamin Franklin awoke from his two-hundred-plus years of sleep, giant bat planes and mysterious attacks bring mayhem to Philadelphia.…
The Buffalo and the Cowbird follows the commensalism between two animal friends who have their friendship criticised by other animals. The book s main objective is to have children think about the way they make friends, and exclude others who are di…
You know about King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and quite possibly about Athelstan and Prince Edwin, but do you know how the prince is connected with industrial relations? Or what the queen has to do with air freight? What do you know about the…
Should cultural meaning be understood in terms of psychological motivations and intentions, or in terms of collective codes and belief systems? Max Weber saw the task of the interpretive sociologist as that of reconstructing the objective and subjec…
It has been half a century since a few now-canonical Latin American writers introduced magical realism to the world. In that time, new generations of Latinx writers and artists have used that watershed moment as a springboard into new and bold explo…
Scattered Shadows tackles the unseen spiritual world around us while bringing together a known psychiatric condition with the alleged reality of supernatural activity. Joshua Gregory Pierce is a forty-nine-year-old, anal-retentive night manager at W…
Today's economic system premised on the sale of physical goods does not fit the information age we live in. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free re…
Enter the memories of a forgotten serial killer. Alexander Roy, known at one time as Jingle Jangle or the Yuletide Madman sits alone at the end of his life, and he remembers it all. Join the decrepit murderer as he writes his tale of bloody carnage…
Beyond Stewardship is intended to equip Christians to live better in this world by helping us all think more intentionally about the relationship we have with the nonhuman creation in which we are necessarily and thoroughly embedded. It responds to…
The desire for greater fuel efficiency and reduced emissions have accelerated a shift from traditional materials to design solutions that more closely match materials and their properties with key applications. This title presents cutting edge engin…
Arabia's Best Kept Secret Continues - The second book in the American Experiences in Arabia series puts you right back on the shores of Oman in a little town called Sur. Only this time, things have changed and so has the adventure. With the freedom…
Roses in December is a short story collection which defies categorisation. Some of the stories are haunting - others are deeply troubling. A man receives a religious vision in his ordinary back garden; a nuclear physicist in Australia experiences a…
In the world of web design, if one wants to create a successful web site, one needs an effective content strategy. Return on Engagement shows web designers and developers how to implement an effective content strategy and how to stay ahead in the ra…
In 2007, Apple released the iPhone. With this release came tools as revolutionary as the internet was to businesses and individuals back in the mid- and late-nineties: Apps. Much like websites drove (and still drive) business, so too do apps drive s…
Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading? This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources…
Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino is a companion volume to Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A Bibliography and Guide by David Damschroder and David Russell Williams (Harmonologia, No. 4, Pendragon Press). Like the previous work, the goal o…
Rene Girard interrogates the Brahmanas of Vedic India, exploring coincidences with mimetic theory that are too numerous and striking to be accidental. Recognizing that the Vedic tradition also converges on a revelation that discredits sacrifice, mim…
