Offers strategies for recognising and treating cases of sport concussion, provides a review of the literature on the subject of sport concussion, and directs the reader to appropriate research resources. This text is a reference for physiotherapists, rehabilitation professionals, coaches and athlete[...]
Almost entirely rewritten and reformatted with many more learning tools, this classic text now has even greater appeal to today's students. This edition features much more discussion of how research methods are relevant for practitioners, and many examples are based on field research and service del[...]
"Places of Power: Political Economies of Landscape Change" asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit. This volume explores the connections between political economy and landscape change through a series of conceptual essays and case studies. In so doing, it speaks to a broa[...]
* Leading polar scientists present a synthesis of the latest research on the biological systems in Antarctica, covering organisms from microbes to vertebrate higher predators. * Integrates studies across scales of organization and complexity.[...]
The text (with the exception of a few bracketed passages) is derived entirely from Napoleon's own words, written and spoken. What truth this book conveys is not to be sought according to those rules for the treatment of historical documents which it avowedly contravenes, but in such psychological il[...]
What is it about old tractors that is so fascinating and entrancing? The sounds and smells of these old relics? The hunt to find the rarest of models? Or simply the memories such machines evoke? The Magic of Old Tractors explores this intriguing world and is essential reading for anyone with a passi[...]
Science Fiction Film develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions. It explores how this increasingly influential genre has been constructed from disparate elements into a hybrid genre. Science Fiction Film goes beyond[...]
A student overview of one of the most popular film genres.
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages t[...]
By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself "the chro[...]
Feminism has re-shaped the way we think about equality, power relations and social change. Recent feminist scholarship has provided new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and empirical analyses of how gender and feminism are situated within the development process. Global Perspectives on Gender a[...]
With detailed, full-color coverage of surgical procedures, "Veterinary Surgery: Small Animal" is an authoritative, two-volume reference on the art and science of small animal surgery. Expert contributors discuss surgical principles, neurosurgery, and orthopedic surgery, along with soft tissue surger[...]
Tears and Saints focuses not on martyrs or heroes but on the mystics - primarily female - famous for their keening spirituality and intimate knowledge of God. Their Christianity was anti-theological, anti-institutional, and based on intuition and sentiment. Many, such as Catherine of Siena, Teresa o[...]
This new ADVANTAGE SERIES of C. L. Johnston, Alden T. Willis, and Gale M. Hughes' DEVELOPMENTAL MATHEMATICS is a traditional, straight-forward, extremely popular book which is noted for its one-step, one-concept-at-a-time approach. All major topics are divided into small sections, each with its own [...]
Tackles an issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. This book examines the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.[...]
An artist for "Playboy" magazine since the early 1960s, Doug Sneyd's scintillating cartoon works are now collected in this stunning art book. Featuring the most lush, sumptuous, striking, and hilarious of Doug's full-page cartoons, readers will be charmed with the lovely scantily (and even non-) cla[...]
The role of religion in foreign policy debates, while never absent, has often been sidelined by popular prejudices and secular demands. The religious resurgence in America and the threat of extremist terrorism abroad have paved the way for a renewed recognition of the necessity of careful and candid[...]
With this volume, The Complete Peanuts ventures into the lesser-known 1980s, and Peanuts fans are sure to find plenty of surprises.In Snoopy-family news, Spike is drafted into the Infantry (don t worry, it s only Snoopy s imaginary World War I army), and a brand new brother, Marbles (with the spotty[...]