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Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith - How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval - Bok av Philip (Distinguished Professor of History Jenkins - Inbund

The world has repeatedly suffered severe climate-driven shocks, which have resulted in famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. Such episodes have often been understood in religious terms, through the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. And they have frequently had real religious consequences, for instance by spawning new religious movements and revivals, or driving the persecution of religious minorities. Philip Jenkins shows howclimate change has redrawn the..

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Divided Sovereignty - International Institutions and the Limits of State Authority - Bok av Carmen (Lecturer in International Politics and Director of

Divided Sovereignty explores new institutional solutions to the old question of how to constrain states when they commit severe abuses against their own citizens. The book argues that coercive international institutions can stop these abuses and act as an insurance scheme against the possibility of states failing to fulfill their most basic sovereign responsibilities.

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The Quest for the Perfect Hive - A History of Innovation in Bee Culture - Bok av Gene (Professor Kritsky - Inbunden

Beekeeping is a sixteen-billion-dollar-a-year business. But the invaluable honey bee now faces severe threats from diseases, mites, pesticides, and overwork, not to mention the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder, which causes seemingly healthy bees to abandon their hives en masse, never to return. In The Quest for the Perfect Hive, entomologist Gene Kritsky offers a concise, beautifully illustrated history of beekeeping, tracing the evolution of hive design from ancient Egypt to the present. Not..

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Addressing Health Inequities in People with Serious Mental Illness - Bok av Leopoldo J. Cabassa - Inbunden

This book looks at decades of research on people with severe mental illness (SMI) and asks two questions: Why do people with SMI die at an earlier age than those in the general population without these disorders? And, what can be done to address these deadly health inequities? Readers will come away with a better understanding of the factors that shape the physical health of people with SMI and an awareness of the interventions, programs, and policies aimed at improving the health of this underserved..

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A New Engagement? - Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen - Bok av Cliff (Professor of Political Science and Public P

Seeking answers as to why young people differ from their parents when it comes to turning out the vote, this title aims to challenge the conventional wisdom that the youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. It concludes that, while older citizens participate by voting, young people engage by being active in their communities.

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Electroconvulsive Therapy - Bok av Max (Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus Fink MD - Häftad

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), despite its controversial history, may well represent the only viable treatment for severe psychiatric illness in those for whom medication is not an option. In Electronconvulsive Therapy, Dr. Max Fink draws on over 50 years of clinical experience to describe this safe, painless, and often life-saving treatment. Extensively revised and restructured since its original publication a decade ago, the book provides readers with a detailed explanation of the ECT procedure,..

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Microbes - Bok av David L. (Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies Kirchman - Inbunden

From heat waves and wildfires to flooding and record droughts, the impacts of climate change are now obvious. While the primary cause is the rise in greenhouse gases mainly from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum, the complete story behind greenhouse gases also involves microbes and what they are doing in natural ecosystems. Although microbes contribute to the problem by producing greenhouse gases, climate change would be even more severe if not for other microbes that consume..

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The Woman's Guide to Managing Migraine - Understanding the Hormone Connection to find Hope and Wellness - Bok av Susan (Associate Clinical Professor o

Hormones and migraine are intimately connected. Ten million women in the US suffer from migraine associated with hormones ΓÇö but they may not know it. Migraines that occur right before and right after the menstrual period can be more frequent and last longer than migraines that occur in other stages of the menstrual cycle. Often they are more severe and more difficult to treat.Many women aren''t sure if the headaches they suffer from are migraine, tension, cluster, \period headaches,\ or part..

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The Dogs of War - 1861 - Bok av Emory M. (Professor Emeritus Thomas - Inbunden

Acclaimed historian Emory Thomas highlights the delusions that dominated each side's thinking at the beginning of the Civil War.

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Like Cats and Dogs - Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism - Bok av Steven (Professor of Religious Studies and History Director of Asian Studies Hein

Steven Heine offers a compelling examination of the Mu Koan, widely considered to be the single best known and most widely circulated and transmitted koan record of the Zen school of Buddhism.

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Democracies in Flux - The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society - Bok - Häftad

Social capital--good will, fellowship, sympathy, and social intercourse--is vitally important for the health of communities. In his new work, the author of \Bowling Alone\ presents a panoramic look at the strength of civil society in eight advanced democracies. 50 line illustrations.

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The Velizh Affair - Blood Libel in a Russian Town - Bok av Eugene M. (Associate Professor of History and Tobor Family Scholar in the Program in Jewish

The Velizh case was the longest ritual murder investigation in the modern world. Drawing on newly discovered trial records, historian Eugene M. Avrutin looks beyond antisemitism as the single most important factor in understanding ritual murder accusations, and in the process, provides an intimate glimpse of small-town life in eastern Europe.

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Democracy in Hard Places - Bok - Häftad

In Democracy in Hard Places, Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud bring together a distinguished group of social scientists to explore how democracies around the world continue to survive even in an age of democratic decline. Adopting a comparative, cross-regional perspective, the authors present nine case studies in which democracy emerged and survived despite tumult and crisis, economic underdevelopment, ethnolinguistic fragmentation, and chronicinstitutional weakness. By bringing these cases into..

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Iphigeneia in Tauris - Bok av Euripides - Häftad

The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the tragic actors would have defined it as pure tragedy, the happy ending notwithstanding. While not one of his \deep\ dramatic works, the play is Euripidean in many respects, above all in its recurrent theme ofescape, symbolized in the rescue of Iphigeneia..

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Nightmare in Red - The McCarthy Era in Perspective - Bok av Richard M. (Associate Professor of History Fried - Häftad

Attempts to set \McCarthyism\ in its historical context, covering both the political ascent of Joseph McCarthy and the rise of an extremist anti-communism movement in the USA from the 1930s until its lingering demise in the early 1960s.

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Glossae in Martianum - Bok av Dunchad - Inbunden

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Personality Assessment in Managed Health Care - Using the MMPI-2 in Treatment Planning - Bok - Inbunden

Contributors to this volume show the importance of psychological assessment in the era of managed care. They argue that this assessment plays a vital role in managed care as a means for evaluating the effectiveness of therapy and for structuring and shortening of the process of therapy.

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The Constitution in 2020 - Bok - Häftad

The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language. Featuring some of America's finest legal minds-Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kramer, Noah Feldman,Pam Karlan, William Eskridge, Mark Tushnet,..

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Strategy in Politics - Bok av F. Christopher Arterton - Häftad

In Strategy in Politics, F. Christopher Arterton seeks to clarify the meaning of strategy and delineate a defensible method of pursuing victory in politics. Recognizing that unbridled pursuit of power can be corrupting, Arterton advocates certain guardrails that political managers should live by in their strategic maneuvers and their employment of power. In turn, Arterton shows those engaged with the institutions of democratic politics how to be adroit in their strategic thinking, so that they may..

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Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation - Bok - Häftad

Tantric traditions in both Buddhism and Hinduism are thriving throughout Asia and in Asian diasporic communities around the world, yet they have been largely ignored by Western scholars. This collection of original essays fills this gap by examining the ways in which Tantric Buddhist traditions have changed over time and distance.

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Religion and the War in Bosnia - Bok - Häftad

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In My Father's House - Africa in the Philosophy of Culture - Bok av Kwame Anthony (Professor of Afro-American Studies Appiah - Häftad

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Embattled Dreams - California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 - Bok av Kevin (University Professor in the Department of History Starr - Häftad

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In Praise of Skepticism - Bok av Pippa (Paul McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics Norris - Häftad

Trust is conventionally believed to have many beneficial consequences for citizens and societies. Pippa Norris' In Praise of Skepticism questions the prevalent assumptions underpinning modern accounts of trust. Norris unpacks the concept and advances a new four-fold typology where trust by principals is compared with indicators of the competency, integrity, and impartiality of governments. Drawing on new evidence from the European Values Survey/World ValuesSurvey conducted in more than 100 societies..