This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end of the eighteenth century, a heated controversy over the rights of man coincided with the final enclosure of c...

What is evidence-based nursing? Simply, it is the application of valid, relevant, and research-based information in nurse decision-making. Used effectively, evidence-based nursing methods can be used to dramatically enhance patient care and improve outcomes.Evidence-based Nursing is a practical guide to evidence-based nursing for students and practitioners. Proceeding step-by-step, it enables nurses to understand and evaluate the different types of evidence that are availa...

Tiny changes, monumental results. Do you suffer from a lack of sleep? Are you constantly tired and dragging throughout the day? Not having a significant amount of quality sleep each night, can hinder your quality of life in great measures. In this relaxing guided meditation for deep sleep, the author takes you through a tranquil step-by-step guide to gaining a deep sleep and new you. In this self-help guided meditation recording you will: Gather energy to use in a positive manner. Clear yo...

The present work contains 150 papers that were presented during ISEC-03, the 3rd International Conference on Structural and Construction Engineering, that was held in Tokuyama College of Technology, Shunan, Japan, from September 20 to 23, 2005. The theme of the conference was Collaboration and Harmony of Creative Systems. The conference was to encourage and assist the collaboration of any and all kinds of structural, system, and construction engineering using information technology in an e...

Get more out of watching aquatics with this easy-to-follow guide to the rules and aims of major aquatics events, including swimming, diving, water polo and synchronized swimming.

“The First Fairy Tale Book I: The Adventure Begins by Susan Highsmith combines elegant beauty with magical words that inspire and inform us of the mystery and reality of conception. The beautiful artwork of Mark Sean Wilson adds a transcendent aura to every page. The shapes and colors of his illustrations combined with Susan’s enlightening text bring us the wonder of the natural, yet miraculous, ancient journey taken by each of us.”

The First Fairy Tale: Book IV: Welcome to the LightThis is the fourth fairy tale in the series of stories designed to be read to babies while in mothers' wombs. Each of these tales is a metaphor for a part of the journey a new baby is undertaking to come into mother's arms. Reading these stories enhances the bond, the tie between mommy and baby, between parent and child. This is falling in love with your baby.What greater gift can you give to your child while s/he is in you...

The autobiographical sonnet "On his blindness" is one of the best known of the poems of John Milton in which he expresses his feelings as a blind person.

Explores ecological crises and extinctions that have shaped US historyA multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created and perpetuated untenable and unequal interspecies relationships. The collection's authors explore how people misunderstood or ignored animal crises precipitated by habitat destruction and ...

A lyrical celebration of the fascinating ways birds move through the air.This collection of captivating poems celebrates the distinctive movements of twelve birds in flight and the special words associated with those movements, from geese that skein and puffins that wheel, to crows that mob and starlings that murmurate. The evocative language conveys the beauty of these animals and describes how each one makes its own unmistakable way in the world. An informational sidebar compleme...

The Supreme Court grew out of a unique opportunity to interview all nine sitting Supreme Court Justices plus retired Justice O'Connor for a documentary on the Supreme Court. Through Brian Lamb and Susan Swain's interviews with our country's most influential judges, the book offers portraits of the Justices that introduces readers to the closed world of the Supreme Court, and what's it's really like to serve on the nation's highest Court.Accompanying the Justices around the...

Design practice in offshore geotechnical engineering has grown out of onshore practice, but the two application areas have tended to diverge over the last thirty years, driven partly by the scale of the foundation and anchoring elements used offshore, and partly by fundamental differences in construction and installation techniques. As a consequence offshore geotechnical engineering has grown as a speciality.The structure of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering follow...