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  • The Crisis of Our Time

    by John Carvalho ...
    Dr. John Carvalho, former Harvard academician and winner of the United States National Research Service Award, is no stranger to the word crisis. As a scientist, scholar and statesman he has spent decades working on the front lines of biomedical and theoretical exploration, global health, and the worldwide, human rights movement. The Crisis of Our Time is the astonishing, partial memoir and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Frick*

    Baseball's Third Commissioner

    by John P. Carvalho ...
    Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the "asterisk" next to Roger Maris's record. But his tenure as commissioner carried the game through pivotal changes--television, continued integration, West Coast expansion and labor unrest. During those 14 years, and 17 more as National League president, he witnessed baseball history from the perspective of a man who began as a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Thinking with Images

    An Enactivist Aesthetics

    by John M. Carvalho ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know what to think about them. John M. Carvalho presents detailed analyses a four artworks that share this unique characteristic: Francis Bacon’s Study After Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), the photographs of Duane Michals, based on a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Digital Agriculture

    Edited by Daniel Marçal de Queiroz, Domingos Sárvio M. Valente, Francisco de Assis de Carvalho Pinto, Aluízio Borém, John K. Schueller ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This textbook addresses the most recent advances and main digital technologies used in farming. The reader will be able to understand the main concepts and techniques currently used to efficiently manage agricultural production systems. The book covers topics in a general and intuitive way, with examples and good illustrations. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Four Point Bending

    Edited by Jorge Carvalho Pais, John Harvey ...
    Cracking is recognized as one of the main causes of pavement deterioration, and is the primary cause of the need for maintenance and rehabilitation. Researchers around the world are working on the problem of cracking in asphalt pavements, with the goal of developing better understanding of the mechanics of cracking, creating test methods for assess ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

  • Sports Media History

    Culture, Technology, Identity

    Edited by John Carvalho ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    This research collection explores the ongoing interaction between sports, media, and society throughout important periods in history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. It examines both historical moments and broader trends in sports, with an emphasis on the media’s role.Encompassing a variety of research approaches and perspectives, the book looks at the individuals, mass media ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies

    by Howard Good, Berrin A. Beasley, Sandra L. Borden, Robert Brown, John Carvalho, Michael Dillon, Matthew C. Ehrlich, Joseph C. Harry, Lee Anne Peck, Bill Reader, S Holly Stocking, Joe Saltzman ...
    How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions-and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and the public alike worry that journalism has lost its way, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies is ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Fear of De Sade

    by Bernardo Carvalho ...
    Translated by John Gledson ...
    From the award-winning Brazilian author of Nine Nights comes a twisting psychological novel of literary intrigue, sexual desire, and murder.In the pitch-black cell of an asylum—possibly in nineteenth-century France—a "baron" carries on an extended dialogue with a disembodied "voice." Arrested for a crime that he has no memory of, the baron swears to his innocence throughout.In contemporary France, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Philosophy, Politics, and Policy

    by John A. Duerk, Emilia Barreto Carvalho, Alan C. Clune, Jennifer Epley Sanders, Shelby Hockaday, Elizabeth Koebele, Scott A. Lukas, Markie McBrayer, Joe McBride, Kerri Jean Ormerod0, Camila Pombo1, Suzanne Roberts2, Juneko J. Robinson3, Loretta Singletary4, Mark Thorsby5 ...
    As an issue, the environment is complicated. First, it is layered. Secondly, it is multifaceted. As a result, political scientist John A. Duerk has assembled an interdisciplinary anthology composed of accessible studies to generate conversations that will yield greater understanding of the many environmental challenges that we face. The layers explored herein are philosophy, politics, and policy. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Scripture and Social Justice

    Catholic and Ecumenical Essays

    by Gina Hens-Piazza, Anathea E. Portier-Young, Gregory E. Sterling, Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, John J. Collins, Julia D. E. Prinz, Harold W. Attridge, Corrine Carvalho, Adela Yarbro Collins0, John R. Donahue1, John Endres2 ...
    The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands. Individual essays treat ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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  • Factfulness

    Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

    by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” ... Read more

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  • Designing with Geosynthetics - 6Th Edition Vol. 1

    by Robert M. Koerner ...
    Following the structure of previous editions, Volume 1 of this Sixth Edition proceeds through four individual chapters on geosynthetics, geotextiles, geogrids and geonets. Volume 2 continues with geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners, geofoam and geocomposites. The two volumes must accompany one another. All are polymeric materials used for myriad applications in geotechnical, geoenvironmental, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD