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The Information Diet
The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour--so, too, have we become gluttons... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour—so, too, have we become gluttons ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Comsumption
This is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material.The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Relationship Problem Solver: For Love, Marriage, And Dating
One of the greatest skills you can develop in your love, marital, or dating relationship is the ability to quickly and effectively solve disagreements and problems. This new book by Dr. Kelly Johnson, the author of A Relationship for a Lifetime, will help you learn real and practical solutions that ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
A Relationship for a Lifetime: Everything You Need To Know To Create A Love That Lasts
Everything You Need to Know to Create a Love That Lasts! This enlightening book will teach you to become your own relationship expert where you can create the relationship of your dreams.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies (Intersections #11)
Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely mult... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power (Biopolitics #19)
A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenshipCitizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years, developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies have given rise to new ways in which bodies ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Image-based Sexual Abuse: A Study on the Causes and Consequences of Non-consensual Nude or Sexual Imagery
This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse in a digital era. Image-based sexual abuse refers to the taking or sharing of nude or sexual photographs or videos of another person without their consent. It includes a diversity of behaviours beyond that of "revenge por... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Harmonious Hearts 2018 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge (Harmony Ink Press - Young Author Challenge #5)
by Arbour Ames • Chloe Smith • Nick Anthony • Mattye Johnson • A. Aduma • M. Caldeira • Kat Freydl • Sonali Gattani • B. K. Hayes • Daniel Okulov • Chelsea WintersEdited by Anne ReganDiversity is our strength, and now more than ever, the voices of young LGBTQIA authors need to be heard. Harmony Ink is proud to showcase the next generation of talented writers in our fifth annual Harmonious Hearts anthology. These authors, all between the ages of fourteen and t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
A Log Cabin Christmas Collection: 9 Historical Romances During American Pioneer Christmases
by Margaret Brownley • Liz Tolsma • Wanda E. Brunstetter • Jane Kirkpatrick • Kelly Eileen Hake • Liz Johnson • Christine Cain • Michelle Ule • Debra Ullrick • Erica VetschThe American pioneer didn't have an easy life, but a snug little log cabin was a blessing against the forces of winter. Beside a cozy fire, surrounded by log walls built off his own land, a frontiersman could feel like a king. All he really needed was someone to share his castle. In this exclusive ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Ex Chronicles
by J. P. Miller • Karen Williams • Sharon Lucas • Penelope Christian • Michelle Mitchell • Meredith E. Greenwood • Venita Alderman Sadler • Princis Lewis • Yvette Danielle • Elle Jaye • Christina Grant • Lamesha Junior Johnson • Brenda A. White • Dwon D. Moss • Jeida K Storey • Cheryl Cloyd Robbins • Tamika Tolbert Lucas • J. L. Sapphire • Adrienne Thompson • LaKesa CoxLove is a powerful drug…whether it’s the love of family, friends, or that special someone who takes your breath away…chances are, you know the feeling. But what happens when it all goes wrong? Do you break up, then make up? Or do you just walk away? In The Ex Chronicles, twenty talented writers s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Reconstructing America)
by Andrew Smith • Steven Hahn • Christopher Clark • Andrew L. Slap • Frank Towers • Benjamin Johnson • Mary Ryan • Robert E. Bonner • Ryan Hall • Jane Dinwoodie • Pablo Mijangos • Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler • Marcela Terrazas y BasanteNorth America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three nation-sta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Issues for Case Managers and Other Professionals
by Eric Emerson • David Green • Gordon Grant • Susan Balandin • Jim Mansell • Kelley Johnson • Christine M Bigby • Phillip Graves • Gwynnyth Llewellyn • Chris Fyffe • David Sykes • Marie Knox • Janet Robertson • Colin Hiscoe • Brenda Burgen • Tim Stainton • Margaret Spencer • Lesley Gough • Estelle Fyffe • Paul Ramcharan • Margaret Flynn • Peter Flynn • Susana Gavidia-Payne • Gary W. Lavigna • Elizabeth Ozanne • Thomas J. Willis'Thought-provoking, well-written, and offering a range of fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives, Planning and Support should be essential reading for people working in the field of learning disabilities. Highly recommended.' - Involve Magazine The authors outline the skills needed and commo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles
by Amber Benson • Maureen Johnson • Francesca Lia Block • Ellen Hopkins • Melissa Marr • Wendy Toliver • Crissa-Jean Chappell • Sara Zarr • Hannah Moskowitz • Cyn Balog • Francisco X. Stork • Aprilynne Pike • Amy Reed • Jessica Burkhart • Lauren Oliver • Cynthia Hand • Megan Kelley Hall • Robison Wells • Dan Wells • E. Kristin Anderson • Tom Pollock • Jennifer L. Armentrout • Sarah Fine • Karen Mahoney • Rachel M. Wilson • Candace Ganger • Kelly Fiore-Stultz • Scott Neumyer • Tara Kelly • Kimberly McCreight • Cindy L. RodriguezYour favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental illness in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD. <P><P>Have you ever felt like you just couldn’t get out of bed? Not the occas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality
by Mindy Fullilove • Camilo José Vergara • Janice Johnson Dias • Craig B Futterman • Chaclyn Hunt • Jamie Kalven • Norman W Garrick • Alecia J McGregor • Jay Allen Pearson • Jacqueline Olvera • Jacob Sterling Rugh • Kellee White • Anthony S Alvarez • Stacey Sutton • LeConté J Dill • Zaire Z Dinzey-FloresVacant lots. Historic buildings overgrown with weeds. Walls and alleyways covered with graffiti. These are sights associated with countless inner-city neighborhoods in America, and yet many viewers have trouble getting beyond the surface of such images, whether they are denigrating them as signs of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Understanding and Treating Self-Injurious Behavior in Autism: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective
by Temple Grandin • John Green • Nancy O'Hara • Manuel F. Casanova • Lucy Jane Miller • Margaret L. Bauman • V. Mark Durand • June Groden • Cooper R. Woodard • Harumi Jyonouchi • Paul Millard Hardy • Stephen M. Edelson • Kelly Mccracken Barnhill • Mary Coleman • Emily L. Casanova • Karen Misher • Leslie Weidenman • Jane Botsford Johnson • Lauren J. Moskowitz • Jamie D. Bleiweiss • Alexis B. Ritter • Caitlin E. WalshSelf-injurious behavior occurs in almost half of those with autism and is one of the most devastating and challenging-to-treat behaviors. There are many different forms of self-injury, such as head banging, hand biting, hair pulling, excessive scratching, and much more. With contributions from the l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Sexuality and Relationships in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities: Standing in My Shoes
by Takako Ueto • Patrick Kearney • Peter Peter • Clare Miller • Ruth Garbutt • Daniel Docherty • Toon Maillard • Louise Townson • Gudrun V Stefansdottir • Patsie Frawley • Jackie Downer • Janet Corry • Nigel Ingham • Eiji Tsuda • Chris Bigby • Rob Hopkins • Eyglo Ebba Hreinsdottir • Joe Mcgrath • Claire Azzopardi-Lane • Kathleen O'Leary • Alan • Jan Walmsley • Kelley Johnson • Ger Minogue • Craig Blyth • Niall Mcnulty • Rohhss Chapman • Adam Koronka • Rachel Fyson • Lee-Ann Monk • Bill Bill • Pauline Skehan • Lindy Shufflebotham • Janice Slattery • Steve Mee • Sharon Harrison • Linda Strickland • Sue Ledger • Linnette Farquarson • Sigurjon Jonni Gretarsson • Carol HamiltonDrawing extensively on personal experiences, this important volume looks at sexuality and relationships in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, painting a genuine picture of the range of sexualities and relationships people want. Honest and reflective, it shows how sexuality has bee... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
International Education at the Crossroads (Well House Books)
by Patrick O'Meara • Allan E. Goodman • Stephen E. Hanson • Kim Potowski • Zsuzsa Gille • Takyiwaa Manuh • Seung-Kyung Kim • Eva Egron-Polak • Hans De Wit • Brian Edwards • Elspeth Jones • Robin Matross Helms • Kris Olds • Safwan M. Masri • Daryl Baldwin • Dan E. Davidson • Michael A. McRobbie • Mary Sue Coleman • Kenneth Coleman • Jonathan Fanton • Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal • Francisco Marmolejo • Caroline Levander • Kathleen Claussen • Dawn Michele Whitehead • Cheryl Gibbs • Anthony Koliha • General Gene RenuartInternational Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of inter... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts
by Matthew Burnett • Bill Pranty • Diederik Strubbe • Erik Matthysen • Matthieu Guillemain • Johan Elmberg • Iain Henderson • Ding Li Yong • Juan Carlos Reboreda • Alexander Cruz • Tim Adriaens • Craig R Allen • Michael L Avery • Alexander V Badyaev • Fabrice M Brescia • Sarah E Britton • Daniel M Brooks • Jessica L. Burnett • Corey T Callaghan • César Capinha • Jen Cele • Jameson F Chace • Jocelyn Champagnon • Alice Cibois • Andrew Close • Alyssa R Conn • Richard T Corlett • Adrian J Craig • Amy E Dunham • James A Eaton • David A Smith • Yvette C Smith • Mike W Eichholz • Cyril Eraud • Chris L Feare • Jason M Gleditsch • Guillaume G Gayet • Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito • Haley E Hanson • Frank Huysentruyt • John G Innes • Salit Kark • Michael R Leven • Ricardo J Lopes • Jean-Francois Maillard • Ndivhuwo Maligana • Chloe I Marcheli • Lynn B Martin • Blake A Mathys • Myriam E Mermoz • Jean-Yves Meyer • Dai K Morgan • Katherine G Ohman • Claire Pernollet • Murray A Potter • Eileen C Rees • Luís Reino • Joana Ribeiro • Peter A Robertson • Andrew M Rogers • Philip D Round • Joana Santana • Cavin T Shivambu • Neftalí Sillero • Preshnee Singh • Pär Söderquist • Karina L Speziale • Martin J Sullivan • Jean-Claude Thibault • Martin Thibault • Berndt J van Rensburg • Eric Vidal • Joseph R Waas • Amy-Leigh Wilson • Katherine Winston • Kevin A Wood • Pierre Yésou • Jaime E ZolikExamining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020