*Silver medal winner in the 'Middle Grades Fiction' category of the Nautilus Book Awards 2015* Astie has always been different. Her 12th birthday is looming a...
The exhilaration of challenging and surviving rapids in a fragile canoe has made white water canoeing one of the fastest growing sports in Canada. Much of this ...
Vegetables make up a major portion of the diet of humans and are critical for good health. With the world population predicted to reach 9 billion people by 2050...
This book provides a robust conceptualization of peace. Hamelink defines peace as conceived of moments of celebrating human togetherness, with deep fractures th...
Human rights and communication are deeply connected: human rights need communication to expose violations and to offer platforms for dialogue, while communicati...
byCees Bos
This is a concise guide to the combined use of classical and molecular methods for the genetic analysis and breeding of fungi. It presents basic concepts and ex...
The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to natio...
This comprehensive rulebook is the only guide sanctioned and compiled by the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF), the governing body for chess in the United States. It...
After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, wit...
byJason Jung,Costin Badica,Attila Kiss
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, INFOSCALE 2014, held ...
byBenjamin J., Fennell,Lee Anne, Keys
No area of law and policy is more central to our well-being than housing, yet research on the topic is too often produced in disciplinary or methodological silo...
byChristopher Orr,Kaitlin Kish,Bruce Jennings
This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization’s ability to live within ecological limits. Freedom, in all its renditions – choice...
byErdener Kaynak,Joseph Wolfe,J Keys
If you find traditional lectures and course material ineffective for teaching students how to develop a sensitivity to cultural differences and apply “home gr...
byVan Cees, Cees B.M. Van Riel,Charles Fombrun
This lively and engaging new book addresses a topical and important area of study. Helping readers not only to understand, but also to apply, the most important...
byPéter Simon,Joel Miller,István Kiss
This textbook provides an exciting new addition to the area of network science featuring a stronger and more methodical link of models to their mathematical ori...