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This unique volume investigates the relationships of primates at the ordinal and higher classificatory levels from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. Individual chapters examine the origin and evolution of gliding in early Cenozoic Dermoptera, the ontogeny of the tympanic floor in Archontans... More

Demonstrates how MRS offers a useful tool for the noninvasive biochemical analysis of the brain. The book covers over 70 clinical cases and more than 100 spectra that enhance skills at interpreting MRS, including minimizing errors, highlighting artifacts, and expanding the clinical usefulness of thi... More

This book examines an important and growing issue among ecologists, conservation biologists, and archaeologists, namely recent extinction of species, and will focus on treatments of losses thought to have been caused by humans in some way over the past 40,000 years when Homo sapiens spread worldwide... More

The New World History is a unique collection designed to help instructors prepare for the challenge of teaching world history. The editor, a leading voice for advancing the world history curriculum, has organized 50 articles into 11 pedagogically oriented chapters on topics such as arguments for and... More

Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three de... More

This book and accompanying documentary illustrates despite mounds of derogatory statistics regarding Black men in their roles as fathers, there is a strong legacy of Black men (from slavery to the present) who were/are very proactive fathers. Filmmaker/Author Dana Ross utilizes her own family histor... More

The secret of meditation is that one does not have to force his or her entry into Gods Word. God delights to speak to all who will listen. He only requires that one listens, by opening to Him as He speaks, by focusing on the written words in the Bible, and by allowing His Spirit to plant those words... More

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Ellenhorn offers a very different approach to assisting parasuicidal patients with their problems--one that avoids medicalized interactions while enhancing authentic encounters with patients. He makes extensive use of vignettes to demonstrate various types of scenari... More

Exploding root beer bottles? Flooding rains and lovesick cowboys? What could these things possibly have in common? They are all problems Ross the Reader and his trusty horse, Scout, encounter as they ride across the prairie with a saddlebag full of books. Though reading has brought Ross great joy si... More