"Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues,…
by EBSCO Publishing (Firm), Aschoff, Nicole
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Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship…
A comprehensive and balanced biography of Martin Luther from one of Germany's leading social and political historians. It paints Luther not as a lone hero, but as a soldier in a mighty struggle for religion and its role in the world; a difficult, contradictory character, who cha…
As the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation approaches, the world's foremost Reformation scholar revisits one of the most momentous episodes in history.
by Pansini, Anthony J., Smalling, Kenneth D.
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Engineers Pansini and Smalling survey how electricity is generated in industrial societies, covering the basic science and the various types of technology used. Written for non-technical readers, the volume discusses fuel handling, boilers, prime movers, generators, and operatio…
How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that journalist Elizabeth Woyke answers in this muckraking expose.
"The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The au…
"The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The au…
Filled with Dr. Frank Netter's world-class illustrations and all the essential information on anatomy and physiology relevant to SLH, Netter's Atlas of Anatomy for Speech, Swallowing, and Hearing, 2nd Edition uses a unique "read-it, see-it" approach to help you easily connect an…
