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A New Physiological History of Biotechnology. The global triumph of Mendelian genetics in the twentieth century was not a foregone conclusion, thanks to the existence of graft hybrids. These chimeral plants and animals are created by grafting tissue from...

Epistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief; but in 1963 Edmund Gettier blew a huge hole in this supposedly traditional account. Six decades later, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426294Author Kate SherrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Ancient South America, 2nd edition features the full panorama of the South American past from the first inhabitants to the European invasions Isolated for all of prehistory and much of history, the continent witnessed the rise of cultures and advanced...

Women, Business and the Law is a World Bank Group project which measures the laws and regulations restricting women's economic opportunities. WBL informs research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment and emphasizes the...

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever—a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture. Some of the...

Canada has been known as a hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this approach has...

International Relations and History were once academic fields sharing a common concern with the affairs of empires, states, and nations. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, they drifted apart. International Relations largely retained the...

Constitutions are meant to endure, providing both stability and adaptability. Their public legitimacy depends on the ability of the courts and other interpreters to get this balance right. Why, then, has Canada’s constitution – only four decades old –...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487811822Author Kevin ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Royal Collins Publishing CompanyPublisher Royal Collins Publishing Company

Millions of people arrive in North America each year, including highly skilled immigrants and temporary workers, refugees, and international students. Migration, border control, and asylum are ongoing flashpoints in Canadian, American, and Mexican...

Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa. Through ethnographic exploration of queer and trans activist work in both places, Jessica Scott paints a vibrant picture of...

What makes terrorism a unique form of political violence is its underground nature. According to the conceptualization of the phenomenon offered in this book, terrorism is the kind of violence carried out when the perpetrators lack territorial control...

The evolutionary objective of both sexes is to optimize the number of genes they contribute to following generations. Invariably the most efficient way to achieve this is to have many high quality offspring. However, males and females can be influenced...

Get started raising your own ducks with this approachable guide by duck-fluencer Kristine Ellis (@dunkin.ducks). Raising ducks may seem like all fun and games thanks to the adorable and silly birds, but what most people don’t realize is just how much...

Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included in this collection take an expansive view of "videogame literature," with essays that consider written...

Lower Limb and Leg Ulcer Assessment and Management Lower Limb and Leg Ulcer Assessment and Management is an indispensable resource for practitioners in primary and secondary care, offering a practical and accessible guide to treating and managing leg...

In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Hoover Institution began a historic twelve-year effort to microfilm and publish the records of the Soviet Communist Party and State— ten million pages of newly opened archives documenting the history...

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed,...

The concept of a reason is now central to many areas of contemporary philosophy. Key theses in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of the emotions, among others, have come to be framed in terms of reasons...

Arts in Healthy Aging examines public policies and professional practices that effectively use the arts to support health and well-being outcomes in older adults. It offers a comprehensive study of why and how purposefully-designed programs that engage...

The Rule-Out Method of Criminal Defense brings defense advocacy back to its intended strengths, teaching readers how to find and show plentiful reasonable doubts that counsel most often misses. This book showcases how to avoid common practices that cause...

Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian cultureThis volume highlights how women were powerful farmers, economic decision-makers, spiritual leaders, and agents of social integration in the diverse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871544995Author Ernesto Casta�edaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage FoundationWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553181Author Adrian S.Z. ChaseFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 966g

Bonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corresponding increases in salinity. Moving from the foundational organisms to brine shrimp, flies, and ten...

Originally published in Polish in 2019 by The Lethe Foundation, this book demonstrates the relevance and importance of Paul Elmer More (1864–1937) and Irving Babbitt (1865–1933). Their collective legacy is one of responsible and truly thoughtful living...

This study adopts a spatial lens to shed light on weaknesses in competitiveness that have left Latin America unprepared to fully realize the potential of its mostly urban workforce and take advantage of opportunities in a post-pandemic economy reshaped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553433Author Kristin Elizabeth YarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

This thought-provoking collection brings together academics from a range of disciplines to examine modern slavery. It illustrates how different disciplinary positions, methodologies and perspectives form and clash together through a kaleidoscopic view to...

The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This book challenges the common understanding of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976600241Author James LattisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

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Kantian Commitments comprises ten essays that represent a series of efforts to rethink many of the fundamentals of Kant's ethics and to draw out some implications for moral theory and practice. In Part One, Herman revisits and revises central pieces of...

A provocative look at the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the end of the Cold War Since 2016, many commentators have expressed shock at the so-called rise of the far right in America at the...

Is logic a good tool for making decisions? Can it make us better listeners and help us find coherence in views that we disagree with? Is Sherlock Holmes actually good at logic?Patrick Girard addresses these and other questions by presenting logic as the...

MARINE BIOLOGY Marine Biology: Comparative Ecology of Planet Ocean provides a learning tool to those who love the ocean to help them understand and learn about the life that populates it, the extraordinary adaptations of marine organisms to their...

OʼSullivan & Hilliard's The Law of Contract is the perfect student companion, providing a concise, clear overview of the fundamental principles of contract law. The 11th edition has been rigorously updated by Cambridge academic and teacher, Janet...

A whole host of fears may motivate calls to restrict First Amendment rights, prioritizing one fear over another. Fear and the First Amendment unveils these negotiations of various fears and related protections as they appear in the contemporary Supreme...

'The People' and 'New India' are terms that are being invoked freely to both understand and govern India as she enters her 75th year of post-colonial nationhood. Yet, there is little clarity on who these people of India really are, what they do, their...