PWhat are the prospects for human health in a world threatened by disease and violence Since World War II, at least 160 wars have erupted around the globe. Over 24 million people have died in these conflicts, and millions more suffered illness and injury. In this volume, leading scholars and practitioners examine the impact of structural, military, and communal violence on health, psychosocial well-being,

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pThe aim of this book is to throw light on various facets of geometry through development of four geometrical themes.ppThe first theme is about the ellipse, the shape of the shadow cast by a circle. The next, a natural continuation of the first, is a study of all three types of conic sections, the ellipse, the parabola and the hyperbola.ppThe third theme is about certain properties of geometrical figures

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Is email taking over your life Meet Harold, an HR director so overwhelmed by email he feels like a hamster on a wheel. Just in time, Harold meets a coach who shifts his focus from time management to a simple yet surprising new way to manage email. The coach helps Harold conquer email overload, write incredibly effective messages, and get organized forever. Suddenly, Harold can find every file in a

In order to properly understand and compare traditional and innovative assessment techniques for students with disabilities, we must be able to access examples of how they work in a logical and thoughtful sequence. This finely curated collection of thirteen chapters presents ideas and research on different disability topics from key leaders in the field of the assessment of children with disabilities.br

Having become one of Canada\'s first police detectives in 1882, Nicholas Power developed a reputation as the nation\'s very own super sleuth, hailed in the newspapers as a homegrown \'Sherlock Holmes\'. He was involved in all the most heinous and shocking cases of the day, swiftly, almost superhumanly, determining the culprit and their modus operandi from only the barest of evidence. But all was not

Legal scholarship is one of the oldest academic disciplines, and the study of law has been passed on from generation to generation as an implicit \'savoir faire\'. It was presumed that all legal scholars understood the methodology of legal research, making its explicit clarification and justification unnecessary. Over the last decade, the lack of an explicit methodological tradition has become problematic

pJay De Vries prepared for an American dream retirement, which meant living in a nice country home with a nice boat and a truck in the driveway, and plenty of time for hunting, fishing, and camping. He soon began to feel unsettled with his selfish lifestyle. The restlessness continued and at the suggestion of a pastor he journeyed to Mexico and there the Lord gave him a vision for Mission Acapulco

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This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing economic nationalism as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic \'nation-building\', and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic nationness--from national economic symbols and memories, to the banal world of product communication. The editors seeks to highlight the importance of

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During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music. Indeed, revered contemporary film composers like John Williams and Danny Elfman use the same techniques that Steiner himself perfected in his iconic work

Susan, an eccentric sixty-year-old, decides to celebrate her birthday by repeating a journey to Australia she made with a group of friends when she was 20. This time, she\'s travelling alone - carrying the same hopes and dreams, but with 40 years of extra baggage Endlessly chatty, accident-prone and often looking like she\'s been dragged through a hedge backwards, Susan is undoubtedly colourful. Her

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pThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.ppThis work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity individual or corporate has a copyright on the body of the work.ppScholars believe,

pLe Gallienne\'s classic memoir of life as a struggling writer in the bohemian Paris of the late 19th century is a charming and vivid account of a bygone era. With its evocative descriptions of the city\'s streets, cafs, and artists\' quarters, the book provides an intimate view of the cultural and social landscape of one of the world\'s great cities.ppThis work has been selected by scholars as being

pAlbert Einstein once declared Science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind. In The Science of Religion Paramahansa Yogananda author of the acclaimed spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi reveals why the answers to the ultimate questions of both science and religion do not lie in scholarly research or blind belief, but in direct personal experience of a higher Reality