Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins, Second Edition





More than just a dictionary, Medical Meanings explores the history of medical terms. Written with bracing wit and a refreshing lack of pretense, this new edition has been completely revised and sharpened, and nearly 300 new words and phrases have been added. Whether you are a student, physician, or word connoisseur, a delightful reading experience awaits.









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Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Professional (Expert Consult - Online and Print) (Breastfeeding (Lawrence))

Breastfeeding is a comprehensive reference that provides basic science information as well as practical applications. Dr. Ruth Lawrence-a pioneer in the field of human lactation-covers the uses of certain drugs in lactating women, infectious diseases related to lactation, the latest Australian research on anatomy and physiology, and much more.in print and online.

• Provide thoughtful guidance to the breastfeeding mother according to her circumstances, problems, and lifestyle from integrated coverage of evidence-based data and practical experience.
• Make appropriate drug recommendations, including approved medications, over-the-counter medications, and herbal remedies.

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Coaching the Spread Bone Offense: Spread the Field





Coaching the Spread Bone Offense: Spread the Field provides coaches at all competitive levels with all the tools they need to run an effective spread offense. The book outlines the plays, philosophy, and coaching attitude needed to implement the most versatile, most powerful, and most aggressive offense ever conce ived. Covers the toolbox, the running game, the passing game, the rocket/laser and ram/lion series, and more. Includes more than 75 clear images and diagrams.









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Christianity and Paganism, 350-750: The Conversion of Western Europe (The Middle Ages Series)

Using sermons, exorcisms, letters, biographies of the saints, inscriptions, autobiographical and legal documentsâ€"some of which are translated nowhere elseâ€"J. N. Hillgarth shows how the Christian church went about the formidable task of converting western Europe. The book covers such topics as the relationship between the Church and the Roman state, Christian attitu des toward the barbarians, and the missions to northern Europe. It documents as well the cult of relics in popular Christianity and the emergence of consciously Christian monarchies.

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Teaching Christianity (On Christian Doctrine) (Works of Saint Augustine)





Teaching Christianity is the most original book Augustine ever wrote. It is not so much a treatise or scholarly work but an instruction manual on how to teach Christianity. He wrote this how to book for those who would be preaching and explaining Christianity. It is entirely based on the bible and helps the reader express its truths of faith with soundproof methodology. It is a book that will help readers to communicate their message in a clear and effective way.

`Edmund Hills new translation of Augustines treatise On Christian Doctrine is superb. His early and mature thought on how to understand scripture and how to communicate that understanding to others is set forth clearly and attractively. The translator has shown great discernment in his choice of words an d in their placement. This makes for a smooth reading. Extremely valuable are the scholarly endnotes provided after each of the four books. The new title chosen by Edmund Hill, namely, Teaching Christianity indicates that Augustine is here instructing the African clergy, probably the bishops, how to preach effectively to their congregations. The treatise is not focused on doctrine.'

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Understanding Fiction (3rd Edition)

Ample collection of short stories, with essays, notes and questions for each.

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United States History





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Question by Last2Fall: What field of engineering is most demanded these days?

My preference are biomedical, chemical, or nuclear. If you are a professional in one of these fields, can you give me some advice and description of your career. Just a thought what field of engineering has the best salary?




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The bio craze is still going, but right now environmental engineering is huge. If you can put green in front of it, or talk about "sustainability", then everyone and their dog will throw money at you. I'm a research chemical engineer at a national lab, finishing my PhD in chemical engineering.< a href='http://Inspirational.booksharecentral.net'> My topic is ionic liquid delignification of biomass for green auto composites. I started in the solar energy industry as a semiconductor engineer, but got bored with process engineering and went back to get my master's. I've worked on fuel cells, combustors, microchannel devices, and a zillion other things. That's what research is like. But almost every call for proposals I see wants a focus on the environment in some way. If you go chemical with an environmental engineering focus then you'll have to beat recruiters off of you with a stick come graduation. Trust me.

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IT raids Visa Steel in Chhattisgarh

Raipur, Nov 11 : Income Tax (IT) department sleuths carried out raids Thursday at different premises of Visa Steel in Chhattisgarh's industrial town of Raigarh, officials said.

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Wild Laws

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In a frantic chase unsanctioned by both his chief and by Japanese authorities, Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry hunts the streets of Tokyo for a unstoppable killer whose wake of terror has cut across three continents and is now entering Japan. As Coventry desperately tries to stop the next kill before it ha ppens, he and a young Tokyo woman find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into a deadly world.









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From Welfare to Childcare: What Happens to Young Children When Mothers Exchange Welfare for Work





Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program serves as a step-by-step manual for implementing a cost-effective tobacco cessation program for hospitalized patients. Based on the Staying Free program, which has evidenced among the highest cessation rates reported in the s cientific literature, this book is the result of decades of research by the authors. Although the book reviews a tobacco cessation program, the process is applicable to most behavioral interventions in acute- or long-term care settings.

The book details the administrative responsibilities involved in designing, implementing, delivering, evaluating, and maintaining an inpatient tobacco cessation program. Its how-to approach focuses on the skills needed to: determine the work that needs to be done, select the appropriate interventions and providers, pay for and market the program, and create systems to keep the program alive. It provides algorithms for forecasting program enrollment and information on how to budget the program. Readers can then use this information as a blueprint for implementing their own program. A chapter on workflow provides a "virtual tour" of w hat to expect from the first 48 hours through the first year.

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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development





The concept of user stories has its roots as one of the main tenets of Extreme Programming. In simple terms, user stories represent an effective means of gathering requirements from the customer (roughly akin to use cases). This book describes user stories and demonstrates how they can be used to properly plan, manage, and test software development projects. The book highlights both successful and unsuccessful implementations of the concept, and provides sets of quest ions and exercises that drive home its main points. After absorbing the lessons in this book, readers will be able to introduce user stories in their organizations as an effective means of determining precisely what is required of a software application.









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NIV Giant Print Reference Bible

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If you need or prefer to read large-print books, NIV Giant Print Reference Bible is the Bible you've been looking for. With a generous 14-point typeface, reading God's Word is more enjoyable than ever because it's so easy on the eyes. And, with so many features, The NIV Giant Print Reference Bible literally and spiritually helps bring the Word of God in focus. NIV Giant Print Reference Bible features include: * 14-point typeface for superior legibility and ease of reading * End-of-paragraph reference system unlocks the riches of the Bible * 'Bible Verses for daily Life' help you apply God's Word to everyday situations * 'Promises and Perspectives from the Bible' * Introductions to books of the Bible put sections of Scripture into context * Dictionary-concordance helps you find key verses * Words of Christ in red * 16-page color map section helps you locate dozens of biblical places * Presentation page * Double-column format * Most read, most trusted NIV translation









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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

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A World War II chronicles of Jan Baalsrud's escape from Nazi-occupied arctic Norway.

 

We Die Alone is an astonishing true story of heroism and endurance. Like Slavomi r Rawicz's The Long Walk, it is also an unforgettable portrait of the determination of the human spirit.

If this story of espionage and survival were a novel, readers might dismiss the Shackleton-like exploits of its hero as too fantastic to be taken seriously. But respected historian David Howarth confirmed the details of Jan Baalsrud's riveting tale. It begins in the spring of 1943, with Norway occupied by the Nazis and the Allies desperate to open the northern sea lanes to Russia. Baalsrud and three compatriots plan to smuggle themselves into their homeland by boat, spend the summer recruiting and training resistance fighters, and launch a surprise attack on a German air base. But he's betrayed shortly after landfall, and a quick fight leaves Baalsrud alone and trapped on a freezing island above the Arctic Circle. He's poorly clothed (one foot is entirely bare), has a head start of only a few hundred yards on his Nazi pursuers, and leaves a trail of blood as he crosses the snow. How he avoids capture and ultimately escapes--revealing that much spoils nothing in this white-knuckle narrative--is astonishing stuff. Baalsrud's feats make the travails in Jon Krakauer's Mt. Everest classic Into Thin Air look like child's play. In an introduction, Stephen Ambrose calls We Die Alone a rare reading experience: "a book that I absolutely cannot put down until I've finished it and one that I can never forget." This amazing book will disappoint no one. --John J. Miller









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A few nice United images I found:

Rockefeller Plaza, exhibit [for] United Nations by OWI, New York, N.Y. Between photographic displays is [the] Atlantic charter in frame with transmitters at each end and where voices of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek are heard each half hour; su




Image by The Library of Congress

Collins, Marjory,, 1912-1985,, photographer.

Rockefeller Plaza, exhibit [for] United Nations by OWI, New York, N.Y. Between photographic displays is [the] Atlantic charter in frame with transmitters at each end and where voices of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek are heard each half hour; surrounded by statues of the four freedoms

1943 March

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
United States.--Mission to the United Nations
United States.--Office of War Inform aiton
Rockefeller Center
World War, 1939-1945
Exhibitions
Plazas
United States--New York (State)--New York

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-65 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc. pnp/fsac.1a34586

Call Number: LC-USW36-793



I AM BURJ KHALIFA : 828m TALL : ICON : The world's highest ever building! I AM PROUD! : WORLD : SENSE : ACHIEVEMENT : I AM FROM Dubai, The United Arab Emirates : INSPIRE : ENJOY : LOOK UP! :)




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BURJ KHALIFA DUBAI

Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎ "Khalifa Tower"), known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft). Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 Octob er 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010, and is part of the new 2 km2 (490-acre) flagship development called Downtown Dubai at the 'First Interchange' along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai's main business district.

The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith (now at his own firm) as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer. The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea. In June 2010, Burj Khalifa was the recipient of the 2010 Best Tall Building Middle East & Africa award by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

The total cost for the project was about US.5 billion; and for the entire "Downtown Dubai" development, US billion. In March 2009, Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of the project's developer, Emaar Properties, said office space pricing at Burj Khalifa reached US,000 per sq ft (over US,000 per m2) and the Arm ani Residences, also in Burj Khalifa, sold for US,500 per sq ft (over US,500 per m2).

The project's completion coincided with the global financial crisis of 2007â€"2010, and with vast overbuilding in the country, led to high vacancies and foreclosures. With Dubai mired in debt from its huge ambitions, the government was forced to seek multi-billion dollar bailouts from its oil-rich neighbor Abu Dhabi. Subsequently, in a surprise move at its opening ceremony, the tower was renamed Burj Khalifa, said to honor the UAE President, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his crucial support.

CURRENT RECORDS BURJ KHALIFA HOLDS:

* Tallest skyscraper to top of spire: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously Taipei 101 â€" 509.2 m/1,671 ft)
* Tallest structure ever buil t: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast â€" 646.38 m/2,121 ft)
* Tallest extant structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast â€" 628.8 m/2,063 ft)
* Tallest freestanding structure: 828 m (2,717 ft) (previously CN Tower â€" 553.3 m/1,815 ft)
* Building with most floors: 160 (previously Willis Tower â€" 108)
* Building with highest occupied floor in the world: 160th floor
* World's highest elevator installation, situated inside a rod at the very top of the building
* World's fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s) (previously Taipei 101 â€" 16.83 m/s)
* Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m (1,988 ft)[23] (previously Taipei 101 â€" 449.2 m/1,474 ft)
* Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 606 m (1,988 ft)[23] (previously Riva del Garda Hydroelectric Power Plant â€" 532 m/1,745 ft)
* The first world's tallest structure in history to include residential space
< /a> * Highest outdoor observation deck in the world (124th floor) at 442 m (1,483 ft)
* World's highest mosque (located on the 158th floor)
* World's highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade, at a height of 512 m (1,680 ft)
* World's highest swimming pool (76th floor)

I AM BURJ KHALIFA:

No building in modern history has aroused so much curiosity and intrigue as has Burj Khalifa. Your At The Top, Burj Khalifa visit will answer all your questions. From your vantage point on level 124 of the world’s tallest building, you will experience first-hand this modern architectural and engineering marvel and know at last what it is like to see the world from such a lofty height.

EXPLORE SOAR MORE:
UP UP UP......
BURJ KHALIFA = WEBPAGE = TO THE WORLD AND HIGHER


Thoughts about skysrapers.....

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

- Roland Barthes, 1915 - 1980


and about BURJ KHALIFA:



Towering high at 828 metres, the world's tallest building also has the worlds first Armani Hotel and At the Top, Burj Khalifa, the highest observation deck with an outdoor terrace located on level 124.

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United Neon 3 of 3 - "The sky's the limit"




Image by Today is a good day

I flew into United’s terminal at O’Hare this afternoon.

I’ve long been impressed by the light sculpture in here (see the blurb below) â€" but this is the first time I’ve stopped to try and capture it “on film”. Quite tricky. Not sure which of the three I’ve posted I like best!

What do you think?
See them side by side here


And the blurb is:
The passenger corridor features a 744 foot neon sculpture by California artist Michael Hayden. The sculpture, entitled "Sky's the Limit" is the largest light sculpture in the world. It is composed o 466 colored neon tubes of 14 foot and 8 foot 8 inch lengths. They run the length of the ceiling above the two moving sidewalks. The first and last sections of the three-section sculpture beg in with white neon tubes. The center section starts with indigo and proceeds through the spectrum from shades of blue to green to yellow to orange to bright red. The light sculpture is computer generated. The pattern of light pulses never repeats itself

Better Single Than Sorry: A No-Regrets Guide to Loving Yourself and Never Settling

Advice, insight, and inspiration for relishing the single life!

We live in a country that places an unhealthy emphasis on relationships, yet nearly 50 percent of all American women are single. But does being alone mean you have to be lonely and miserable? Absolutely not.

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Better Single Than Sorry is an indispensable guide to thriving as a solo in a couples-obsessed culture. In this warm, compassionate, down-to-earth, and empowering book, Jen Schefft has a positive message to impart to millions of sensational single women: Love yourself . . . and never settle for anything less than everything you deserve.

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Composer-pianist Michael Hersch and cellist Daniel Gaisford are a well-matched pair. They both revel in the big picture and don't pay a lot of attention to detail. There's little room in the emotional urgency of their idiom for reflection or repose, but the color and the energy that characterize...

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Before Your Pregnancy: A 90 Day Guide for Couples on How to Prepare for a Healthy Conception

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Before Your Pregnancy is a breakthrough book for prospective parentsâ€"a completely detailed resource that prepares mothers and fathers-to-be to conceive the healthiest baby possible, to make pregnancy and delivery easier, and to foster the mental and physical well-being of their infant child. Created by two experienced health-care professionals, this unique handbook not only discusses virtually every aspect of preconception that affects a healthy baby, it tells you how to handle each one. The authors spell out what each parent needs to do, starting at least ninety days before conception (the minimum time needed for sperm to mature). The hundreds of topics coveredâ€"many for the first time in any bookâ€"include

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• Becoming an Informed Patient: Choosing a doctor, what a complete preconception exam includes, important questions and how to ask them, insurance coverage
• Nutrition: Improving the health of future generations, preconception meal makeovers, ethnic Food Guide Pyramids, avoiding food-borne illnesses, vitamin and mineral facts, pre-pregnancy body weight
• Fitness: Preconception fitness evaluation and exercise prescription, safety tips and motivational anecdotes, preconception strength and flexibility workout
• Medications/Herbs: Baby-friendly ones and ones to avoid
• Personal Readiness: Emotional, financial, and environmental issues
• Romancing the Egg: Tips for success when ready to “start trying”
Plus: Separate questionnaires for the prospective parents to fill out in preparation for their preconception medical visit.

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How to Solve Physics Problems (College Course)





275,000 students in noncalculus physics; Required pre-med course; Super-accessible, straightforward help; Student-grabbing graphics and style; Icons for important concepts; 1-2-3 help with problems.









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Quantum Physics For Dummies

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Quantum Physics For Dummies helps make quantum physics understandable and accessible. From what quantum phys ics can do for the world to understanding hydrogen atoms, readers will get complete coverage of the subject, along with numerous examples to help them tackle the tough equations. Compatible with classroom text books and courses, Quantum Physics For Dummies lets students study at their own paces and helps them prepare for graduate or professional exams. Coverage includes:

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This field guide features detailed descriptions of 455 species of trees native to eastern North America, including the Midwest and the South. The 48 color plates, 11 black-and-white plates, and 26 text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 266 color range maps accompany the species descriptions.







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Rich Dad\'s Advisors: The Advanced Guide to Real Estate Investing: How to Identify the Hottest Markets and Secure the Best Deals





If you\'re interested in real estate investing, you may have noticed notice the lack of coverage it gets in mainstream financial media, while stocks, bonds, and mutual funds are consistently touted as the safest and most profitable ways to invest. According to real estate guru Ken McElroy, that\'s because financial publications, tv and radio programs make the bulk of their money from advertising paid for by the very companies who provide such mainstream financial services. On the other hand, real estate investment is something you can do on your own--without a large amount of money up front! Picking up where left off in the bestselling The ABC\'s of Real Estate Investing, McElroy reveals the next essential lessons and information that no serious investor can afford to miss. Building on the foundation of real estate investment 101, McElroy tells readers:

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My Movie Business: A Memoir





After two producers, four directors, thirteen years, and uncounted rewrites, the movie version of John Irving\'s acclaimed novel, The Cider House Rules, at last made it to the big screen. Here is the author\'s account of the novel-to-film process. Anecdotal, affectionate, and delightfully candid, My Movie Business dazzles with Irving\'s incomparable wit and style.John Irving\'s novels pose tantalizing challenges to filmmakers: at his best, Irving has proven both popular and ambitious, crafting rich, picaresque fiction that juggles Big Themes and antic comedy, braiding his central narratives with intriguing subplots and discursive back stories driven by vivid characters. Irving\'s accessibility teases the would-be director or producer with the prospect of commercial acceptance even as the scope and intricacy of his work raises crucial risks for the scriptwriter. With two early novels that made it to the screen, The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving\'s box office impact thus far evenly translates to hit and miss.

This slender memoir offers a perceptive, if hardly objective, critique of the inherent differences between novels and screenplays, with the writer sharing his own experiences creating both. Irving focuses principally on his crusade to bring The Cider House Rules to the screen, tracing its gestation through four successive directors; with Irving himself attached as scriptwriter, we see the novelist struggling to reconcile the demands of concision against his paternal instincts toward the original book. Written before the final cut of The Cider House Rules, My Movie Business often verges on self-justification. Irving\'s respect for the movie\'s ultimate caretaker, Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom, is evident, as is his hopeful enthusiasm for the project\'s casting (which includes Michael Caine, Tobey McGuire, Jane Alexander, and Charlize Theron). Yet Irving can\'t repress the wariness prompted by his earlier disappointments with both this and other novels.

Ultimately, such< a href='http://Criminal.booksharecentral.net'> candor doesn\'t diminish the account\'s value as a post mortem of the creative process behind serious filmmaking, nor does it overpower the reliable grace of Irving\'s prose. Fans will also find My Movie Business revealing in its exploration of the inspiration behind The Cider House Rules and its eloquent stance against the antiabortion movement--Irving\'s own grandfather, a leading doctor, administrator, and Harvard professor of obstetrics and gynecology. But moviegoers, as well as those who haven\'t read Irving\'s original novel, should be forewarned that this memoir does reveal key plot elements of both. --Sam Sutherland







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"Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People" by Amy Sedaris, Grand Central Publishing, .99

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Seasonal crafts: Daly Mansion plays host to Holly Jolly craft show

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Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research, and Practice (Routledge Communication Series)





Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of entertainment-education, its applications in the United States and throughout the world, the multiple communication theories that bear on E-E, and a range of research methods for studying the effects of E-E interventions. The editors include commentary and insights from prominent E-E theoreticians, practitioners, activists, and researchers, representing a wide range of nationalities and theoretical orientations.


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