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John E. Ettlie
The second edition of Innovation Renaissance builds around the narrative of the development of the vaccines to combat hospitalization for COVID-19, showing innovation in a crucial real-life scenario. It will…
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Roy E. Jones
The Functional Analysis of Politics (1967) discusses the feasibility of looking at political activities as constituting a 'system' and of the concepts of 'structures' and 'functions' as general categories of…
Nuclear Deterrence (1968) examines the issue of nuclear-armed powers deterring attacks upon themselves with the threats of devastating retaliatory responses. It looks at the number of assumptions and conditions associated…
H. E. Bracey
Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s…
This title, first published in 1952, addresses an urgent rural problem, whether our ancient market centres and administrative boundaries were still the effective centres and boundaries of everyday rural life…
Craig E Johnson
We are constantly faced with ethical decisions, no matter what organizations we join. The ethical choices we make determine the health of our businesses, schools, government agencies, religious congregations, charities…
Catherine E Johnson
Effective social policy-making has been debated for decades by policy-makers, scholars, as well as the general public. Many of our elected officials have lost sight of their purpose in a…
E. J. Clery
This Very Short Introduction will examine the conditions for Mary Wollstonecraft's formation as a feminist, and will go on to look at Wollstonecraft as an educator, a political thinker, and…
James E. Kelly
James E. Kelly traces the Catholic Reformation from its beginnings in the first half of the sixteenth century, through the years of unrest in Europe, to its global expansion in…
Jonathan E. Calvillo
Jonathan E. Calvillo explores the rise of Hip Hop on the West Coast and the integral role the Los Angeles Latine community had on the movement - and in turn…
E L Calloway
He believes love is a distraction. She says love has failed her. Will they risk their own hearts to prove each other wrong?
Darrell Washington saw more than his fair…
M E Purfield
Welcome to a world where the line between human and alien is blurred.
The electrical apocalypse that destroyed Earth was caused by beings who may look like us on the…
Kathryn E. Goldfarb
"Tracks the Japanese social experiments in kinship undertaken by foster and adoptive parents, alums of state care, and caregivers in child welfare institutions, along with the visceral ways people perceive…
Angela E. Douglas
Near the Forest, By the Lake is a personal exploration of the wonders of the natural world close to home. In this collection of essays, Angela E. Douglas reflects on…
Lawrence E Rothstein
Marko Korb is a fat, egotistical, and brilliant detective, Bosnian Jew, and a veteran of the war with Serbia. His associate, Kelan Su, is a Chinese-American woman who does most…
Jennifer E. Smith
A breathtaking, joy-filled novel about the people we love, the secrets we keep, and the enduring power of family, from the bestselling author of The Unsinkable Greta James.
L E Fox
An incendiary anti-capitalist response to climate change rooted in hope for the future, this book is a tool or a weapon, depending on how you use it
Despite the naysayers…
E M Forster
A stunning edition of this classic queer novel by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth-century, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin, bestselling author of Long Island
Steven E Woodworth
Winner: Fletcher Pratt Award
Steven Woodworth's previous book, the critically acclaimed Jefferson Davis and His Generals, won the prestigious Fletcher Pratt Award and was a main selection of the History…
A gorgeous new edition of Forster's first novel, published when he was only twenty-six, with all the mastery of dialogue, humour and character displayed in his later work. With a…
A stunning edition of a classic novel by one of the twentieth-century's greatest novelists, with a new introduction by David Nicholls, bestselling author of You Are Here and One Day
Jeffery E Doherty
Belonging! That would be nice. Olivia's guardian days are over. Turns out, not sneaking out at night to fight monsters has left her isolated. As the magic turning her to…
James E. House
Inorganic Chemistry Fourth Edition provides essential information for students of inorganic chemistry and is updated throughout. The presentation of topics is made with an effort to be clear and concise…
Mark E. Blum
The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an…
Meredith E. Gansner
This realistic, reassuring guide from adolescent psychiatrist and parent Meredith E. Gansner gives parents the latest information about depression in teens, with a special focus on digital media use.
Julian E Kunnie
With climate collapse looming and chemical geo-engineering poisoning the Earth's air and water, humanity faces a battery of lethal crises: undermined food production, ecocide, accelerated desertification and drought, industrialist pillaging…
Fans across the globe are familiar with Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander series and the Starz television series that adapts it. Combining science fiction time travel and historical romance, the Outlanderuniverse…
Kenneth E Burchett
On May 10, 1861, Captain Nathaniel Lyon marched out of the federal arsenal at St. Louis at the head of 7,000 Union Regulars and pro-Union volunteers to break up a…
Tiffany E. Barber
How Black women's visual work functions in an era of new racial and gender meaning
In the wake of contemporary art's post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and…
Bruce E. Larson
Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching…
M. E. Thomas
A compelling, extraordinary memoir by a diagnosed sociopath.
Karen E. Bender
National Book Award finalist Karen E. Bender returns with a story collection that uses both a realistic and a speculative lens to explore a universal situation-the ways parents and children…
Dennis E. Staples
A darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web
A darkly humorous thriller about…
Megan E. Freeman
In a compelling follow-up to Aladdin's sleeper hit ALONE--now a New York Times bestseller--this powerful and dramatic novel in verse addresses the question "what threat?" and explores the events and…
Robert E. Hampson
After the end of the world, a tropical paradise might just be the hardest place to survive.
The virus robbed humans of their higher thought processes, turning them into uncontrollable…
Richard E. Farley
NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1970S WAS A CULTURE OF OPEN CORRUPTION.
EVERYONE WHO WAS ANYONE WAS IN ON THE GRIFT.
Ford to City: Drop Dead It's the most famous…
E L Oakes
When a new cafe opens in San Amoro, Kami's favorite haunt, Reese's Coffee and More is in danger. She teams up with her friends Mallory, Morri, and Reese to make…
Katarina E. Tonks
Death Is My Ride or Die, the second book in Katarina E. Tonks's thrilling Death Chronicles series, picks up immediately after the events of Death is My BFF. Faith and…
Rachel E. Walker
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America.
Between…
Belle E Lahfs
From the wildly funny mind of Belle E. Lahfs, "Laugh It Off!" delivers a riot of jokes that will have you chuckling from start to finish. What do you call…
Doris E Wright
"Cabbagehead" is the story of Bradley Peterson and his friendship with a wise, philosophical plant. Abandoned by his alcoholic father and thwarted by a domineering mother, Bradley is reclusive. At…
William E. Burns
This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world.
Rhian E. Jones
In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other. Burdened by punishing tolls and desperate for their livelihoods, protestors dramatically cross-dressed in carnivalesque costumes to attack the tollbooths. Inspired…
Ruth E. Iskin
The first comprehensive study of Cassatt's life, work, and legacy through the prism of a transatlantic framework.
This book re-envisions Mary Cassatt in the context of her transatlantic network, friendships…
Grant E. Tietjen
Since the 1990s, the community of scholar-activists who have had contact with the criminal legal system has grown rapidly, solidifying into an international movement. Drawing on in-depth conversations with system-affected…
