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  • THE PROFESSION OF LETTERS
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    THE PROFESSION OF LETTERS
    A.S. COLLINS
    Originally published in 1928, this is the companion volume which follows on from Authorship in the Days of Johnson. The book discusses the reading public and socio-economic effects on educational and recreational literacy from improved communications, the spread of radicalism and free-thinking and the industrial revolution. The advance of popular literature is considered and th...

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  • AUTHORSHIP IN THE DAYS OF JOHNSON
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    AUTHORSHIP IN THE DAYS OF JOHNSON
    A.S. COLLINS
    Originally published in 1928, this book discusses the complex relationships between authors, patrons and publishers in the 18th Century and the ideals and struggles for copyright. It examines the power of booksellers over authors and the effect on authors of copyright security and the lapse of patronage. ...

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  • MULTIMODAL METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
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    MULTIMODAL METHODS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
    SAMUEL GERALD COLLINS / MATTHEW S. DURINGTON
    Multimodal Methods in Anthropology develops several goals simultaneously. First, it is an introduction to the ways that multimodality might work for students and practitioners of anthropology, using multiple examples from the authors’ research and from the field. Second, the book carefully examines the ethics of a multimodal project, including the ways in which multimodality ch...

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  • SEX IN THE WESTERN WORLD
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    SEX IN THE WESTERN WORLD
    JEAN-LOUIS FLANDRIN / S. COLLINS
    First Published in 1991. In this book the author looks at the history of sexuality, discussing topics of love from the 15th century onwards, sexual morality and marriage, ancient and modern adages conernong procreation as a part of society and the sex lives of single people. ...

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  • SCIENCE AND THE QUESTION OF HUMAN EQUALITY
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    SCIENCE AND THE QUESTION OF HUMAN EQUALITY
    MARGARET S COLLINS / IRVING W WAINER / THEODORE A. BREMNER
    This book provides an interdisciplinary look at racism and science, investigating the biological and social realities of individual and group differences. The contributors examine race and racial distinctions, environmental versus genetic contributions to IQ and to cognitive skill level, the impact of biocultural interactions on behavior, and the problems of achieving an object...

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  • IMAGINING ARCADIA IN RENAISSANCE ROMANCE
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    IMAGINING ARCADIA IN RENAISSANCE ROMANCE
    MARSHA S. COLLINS
    From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic shift took place in imagining Arcadia. The traditional visions of Arcadia coll...

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  • RELIABILITY OF STRUCTURES
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    RELIABILITY OF STRUCTURES
    ANDRZEJ S. NOWAK / KEVIN R. COLLINS
    Reliability of Structures enables both students and practising engineers to appreciate how to value and handle reliability as an important dimension of structural design. It discusses the concepts of limit states and limit state functions, and presents methodologies for calculating reliability indices and calibrating partial safety factors. It also ...

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  • RELIABILITY OF STRUCTURES
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    RELIABILITY OF STRUCTURES
    ANDRZEJ S. NOWAK / KEVIN R. COLLINS
    Reliability of Structures enables both students and practising engineers to appreciate how to value and handle reliability as an important dimension of structural design. It discusses the concepts of limit states and limit state functions, and presents methodologies for calculating reliability indices and calibrating partial safety factors. It also ...

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  • THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE
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    THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE
    FRANCIS S. COLLINS
    "His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease." —Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one of the most important medical books of the year:  The Language of Life. With accessible, ...

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  • THE POWER OF WORDS
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    THE POWER OF WORDS
    DAVID S. KAUFER / SUGURU ISHIZAKI / BRIAN S. BUTLER / JEFF COLLINS
    In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and one who is "willing" even though the difference does not cross word-stems or parts of speech. We recog...

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  • COMMUNITY WRITING
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    COMMUNITY WRITING
    PAUL S. COLLINS
    Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition employs a series of assignments that guide students to research and write about issues confronting their individual communities. Students start by identifying a community to which they belong and focusing on problems in it, and then analyze possible solutions, construct arguments for them, decide which are likely ...

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  • A PASSION'S SCOURGE
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    A PASSION'S SCOURGE
    SARAH S. COLLINS
    The book narrates the life of Elena, a young woman who has her destiny stained by suffering upon getting involved with John. A mysterious unknown man. On the moment that she meets John, she falls in love. Convinced that he was the man of her life, she decides to marry him. Some time after the marriage John reveals himself aggressive, violent and tends to have a cold temperament...

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  • FLAGELO DE UNA PASIÓN
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    FLAGELO DE UNA PASIÓN
    SARAH S. COLLINS
    Este libro narra la vida de Elena, una joven que tiene su destino marcado por el sufrimiento al involucrarse con John. Un hombre misterioso y desconocido. En el momento en que conoce a John, ella se enamora.  Convencida de que era el hombre de su vida, decide casarse con él. Algún tiempo después del matrimonio, John se muestra agresivo, violento y tiende a tener un temperamento...

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  • NOVEL FRIENDSHIPS AND COMMUNITY IN CERVANTES’S “DON QUIXOTE”
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    NOVEL FRIENDSHIPS AND COMMUNITY IN CERVANTES’S “DON QUIXOTE”
    MARSHA S. COLLINS
    Novel Friendships and Community in Cervantes’s “Don Quixote” analyzes Don Quixote through the critical lens of friendship studies. Turning a critical spotlight on the friendship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, this book examines the formation, growth, and dynamics of their friendship as the nucleus of the first modern novel in the West and the source of the work’s endurin...

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  • LEVERAGING AI FOR HUMAN-CENTERED LEARNING
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    LEVERAGING AI FOR HUMAN-CENTERED LEARNING
    MARLEE S. BUNCH / BRITTANY R. COLLINS
    Leveraging AI for Human-Centered Learning provides intentional approaches to the integration of artificial intelligence tools into middle and high school classrooms, specifically to foster equity and social-emotional wellbeing. The overlap of AI with today’s schools poses pivotal questions about ethics, morality, inclusion, and human learning at a time when students are already...

    $860.00

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