Issues in Kidney Disease-Transplantation is a collection of seventeen independent chapters written by renowned authors, covering a wide range of to...

This book examines the analysis of language (possibly in conjunction with other semiotic systems) in the course of our lives as citizens of establi...

Hospital emergency departments are a major part of the nation's health care safety net. Of the estimated 119 million visits to U.S. emergency depar...

Sociology is the systematic study of the taken-for-granted assumptions that people make about everyday life. This book explores a triumvirate of im...

Health and healing; Traditional Aboriginal education; Cross-cultural methods of learning and identity; Self-government and the northern cooperative...

Cultural and economic benefits of Aboriginal resource management; Effects of contaminants on Aboriginal lifestyles; Aboriginal self-government' Dec...

Health and healing; Aboriginal education and curriculum development; Economic, environmental, political, and cultural issues; and, Northern fisheri...

In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of behaviour. Motivation is a temporal and dynamic state t...

Federal assistance to public transportation is provided primarily through the public transportation program administered by the Department of Trans...

Local television stations play an important role in educating, entertaining, and informing the citizens they serve. FCC limits the number of televi...

The Faster Care for Veterans Act of 2016 called for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a pilot program under which veterans can use...

Automated facial recognition systems compare two or more images of faces to determine whether they represent the same individual. Facial recognitio...

One of the largest and most populated cities of the world, Istanbul has a unique place in world history. Located on a very strategic end of Europe ...

Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment was the most remarkable B-movie studio of the 1990s, responsible for a barrage of sci-fi, fantasy, and horro...

Trace the evolution of the Brooklyn tattooing scene's iconographic status with this rare look into the borough's gritty history. Long before hipste...

A savage comedy of manners, "It Just Stopped" explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes...

Ever wondered how to carry out business planning, deal with customers, analyse business requirements, design IT systems and manage finance and prop...

Throughout the 1960s and 70s, London-based Big O Posters helped define the new and democratic art medium of the psychedelic poster, a vehicle for r...

"My parents were slaves in New York State. My master's sons-in-law … came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bu...

Bruce Tilbrook hooks you with his unique brand of humor and observations about fly-fishing and reels you in with this collection of entertaining st...

Japan marched into Hong Kong at the outbreak of the Pacific War on 8 December 1941. On the same day, Graham Heywood was captured by the invading Ja...

When today’s Barbie® doll collector puts together an outfit for the world’s most fashionable doll, they soon find out that the bulk of the value li...

When today's Barbie doll® collector puts together an outfit for the world's most fashionable doll, they soon find out that the bulk of the value li...

Since the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed: Shutdowns, working in home offices, contact restrictions, daily b...