The Metropolitan Academic Medical Center provides a careful reexamination of developments of the past decade, offers insights for improving medical education, biomedical research, and health care services, and examines the fate of the medical academy.

This text seeks to examine the factors that cause teenage violence, risky sexual behaviour (including risk of AIDS), and alcohol and drug abuse. It also addresses the guidelines that should be followed by those who seek to reduce societal costs resulting from the disfunctional behaviour of young people unable to make the transition from adolescence to young adulthood without special assistance and support.

Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, captures an eclectic collection of new studies from accomplished scholars in t...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What happens when the world leader of the Church has a problem with one of its most famous pastors? James and Paul could not have been more different; one was urban, academic and recently converted while the other was a carpenter from the country who'd known Jesus all his life. The Bible is big enough to hold both of their perspectives and this short study sets out to do the same, tracing James' issues with Paul's ministry as part of a ...

This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method—that is, a mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply explicitly dialectical tools to a classical liberal / libertarian analysis of social and cultural issues. In ...

Originally featured as articles in the ESV Study Bible, these eighteen essays have been repurposed and republished in a convenient format. Covering a diverse range of essential subjects, including how to read the Bible well and why it is reliable, the essays delve into specific topics such as world religions, canon, and archaeology.Useful as both a general overview of the Bible and as a tool for more specific reference and training, readers of this book will grow in their ...

The fifth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides the first comprehensive study that covers the major core subjects of chemical oceanography in the Gulf. It synthesizes a tremendous amount of established research, together with the most recent information emerging from studies conducted during and after the Macondo Well oil spill that resulted from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. Situated within the bounda...

“I joined because I was bored.”With those words, David Rogers Jr. goes on a true-life journey from U.S. Navy bootcamp in 2004, through the farces of the military life, and into the GI anti-war movement. Working to end the Forever War, he follows in the tradition of the Vietnam-era anti-war GIs, powered by the absurdities of Catch-22.Whether surviving insane cab drivers on shore leave or sobering encounters with Somali pirates, Rogers portrays dealing with military bureaucra...

This collection of poetry is an eclectic mix of sonnets, rondeaus, villanelles, cinquains, nonets, free verse, and much more. This is poetry that speaks to the mind as well as the heart. Like a treasure trove, there is a little something for everyone here...

Strange things happen at the Hotel Delphi under the supervision of Cleo, muse of history and surviving member of the ancient Greek family of deities.

Immerse yourself in an epic adventure. CHOMP! Charlie Carter and the Monster Pike is a funny, thrilling creature-feature for kids of all ages...Swimmers and anglers are disappearing one by one in the Thames, but nobody believes Charlie Carter when he warns them that a huge man-eating fish is on the loose. He decides to prove them all wrong and catch the monster himself - with dire consequences!Why are secret agents from the evil FIZZ and a big game...

Delve into the life of David Rogers, an Empath, Clairvoyant and Telepath. Discover why people with abilities hide among us. Their trials, what is at stake and more importantly, the true difficulty they face in an ever growing toxic society. Names and places have been changed; real life events have not been altered. David lays out the issues simply and effectively. No more vague half-truths. This is the hard stuff most of us have been waiting to learn.