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Exploring the spiritualities of the world religions the quest for personal, spiritual and social transformation / by Ferguson, Duncan S. (Duncan Sheldon), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…The spiritual quest -- The spiritual pathways rooted in nature and culture -- Indigenous wisdom tradtions -- Classical expressions of culture-based religions -- Current expressions of nature/culture religion -- The spiritual pathways of transcendent monism -- Spiritual pathways within hinduism -- Spiritual pathways within buddhism -- Spiritual pathways within confucianism and taoism -- The spiritual pathways of the abrahamic monotheistic religions -- Spiritual pathways within judaism -- Spiritual pathways within christianity -- Spiritual pathways within islam -- The common elements of life-giving spiritualities -- Finding a spiritual pathway.…”
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Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / by Bryson, Michael A., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.…”
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Spirituality & health research methods, measurements, statistics, and resources / by Koenig, Harold G. (Harold George), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the research -- Strengths, weaknesses, and challenges -- A research agenda for the field -- Identifying a research question -- Choosing a research design -- Selecting the sample -- Qualitative research -- Observational studies -- Clinical trials -- Clinical trials with religious interventions -- Definitions -- Measurement I : general considerations -- Measurement II : commonly used scales -- Statistics I : general considerations -- Statistics II : statistical tests and approaches -- Confounders, mediators, and moderators -- Models and mechanisms -- Statistical modeling -- Publishing results -- Funding for research -- Grant writing.…”
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Adolescent medicine : a handbook for primary care /

Table of Contents: “…Adolescent growth and development -- The office visit -- Headache -- Seizures -- Syncope -- Common respiratory infections -- Asthma -- Acne -- Infectious mononucleosis -- Chronic fatigue -- Hepatitis -- Abdominal pain -- Musculoskeletal problems -- Urinary tract infections -- Diabetes mellitus -- Thyroid disease -- Hypertension -- Obesity -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Substance abuse -- Adolescent tobacco use -- Eating disorders -- Mood and anxiety disorders -- Psychosomatic problems in adolescence -- Adolescent violence and suicide -- Adolescent sexuality and reproductive health -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Sports medicine -- Legal issues.…”
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Health physics and radiological health /

Table of Contents: “…Estimates of radiation doses from various sources of exposure -- Commonly used units, signs, symbols, conversion factors, and constants -- Rules-of-thumb as useful equations -- Standards and guidances for limiting ionizing radiation exposure -- Interaction of radiation with matter -- Exposure and shielding from external radiation -- Neutron production, shielding, and activation -- Radionuclide data -- Radiation measurement instruments -- Patient doses in the healing arts -- Operational health physics -- Bioassay and radiobiological data -- Radiation dosimetry -- Ionizing radiation bioeffects and risks -- Non-ionizing radiation.…”
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Logged on : smart government solutions from South Asia / by Bhatti, Zubair K., Kusek, Jody Zall, 1952-, Verheijen, Antony

Table of Contents: “…-- Learning what makes government work -- Why trust in government is so low -- Leaping over reforms that don't work -- Undeniable improvements in South Asia -- Digital reforms are not without risks -- Solutions -- A model for change -- Proactive smart government -- Proactive smart government innovations use five common tools -- Afterward: Dr. Pamela Johnson, founder Voxiva -- Annex: "Under the hood".…”
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Planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs : a primer / by McKenzie, James F, 1948-, Neiger, Brad L, Thackeray, Rosemary

Table of Contents: “…Health education, health promotion, health education specialists, and program planning -- Starting the planning process -- Models for program planning in health promotion -- Assessing needs -- Measurement, measures, measurement instruments and sampling -- Mission statement, goals, and objectives -- Theories and models commonly used for health promotion interventions -- Interventions -- Community organizing and community building -- Identification and allocation of resources -- Marketing : developing programs that respond to the wants and needs of the priority population -- Implementation : strategies and associated concerns -- Evaluation : an overview -- Evaluation approaches and designs -- Data analysis and reporting.…”

War & genocide a concise history of the Holocaust / by Bergen, Doris L.

Table of Contents: “…Preconditions: antisemitism, racism, and common prejudices in early twentieth century Europe -- Leadership and will: Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Nazi Ideology -- From revolution to routine: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 -- Open aggression: in search of war, 1938-1939 -- Experiments in brutality, 1939-1940: war against Poland and the so-called euthanasia program -- Expansion and systematization: exporting war and terror, 1940-1941 -- The peak years of killing: 1942 and 1943 -- Death throes and killing frenzies, 1944-1945.…”
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A commonwealth of the people popular politics and England's long social revolution, 1066-1649 / by Rollison, David, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…What came before: antecedent structures and emergent themes -- The formation of a constitutional landscape, c. 1159-1327 -- The power of a common language -- Discords, quarrels and factions of the commonalty: an ensemble of popular demands, 1328-1381 -- The spectre of commonalty: popular rebellion and the commonweal, 1381-1549 -- How trade became an affair of state: the politics of industry, 1381-1640 -- Touching the wires: industry and empire -- 'The first pace that is sick': the revolution of politics in Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- 'Boiling hot with questions': the English Revolution and the parting of the ways.…”
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Exploring the spiritualities of the world religions the quest for personal, spiritual and social transformation / by Ferguson, Duncan S. (Duncan Sheldon), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…The spiritual quest -- The spiritual pathways rooted in nature and culture -- Indigenous wisdom tradtions -- Classical expressions of culture-based religions -- Current expressions of nature/culture religion -- The spiritual pathways of transcendent monism -- Spiritual pathways within hinduism -- Spiritual pathways within buddhism -- Spiritual pathways within confucianism and taoism -- The spiritual pathways of the abrahamic monotheistic religions -- Spiritual pathways within judaism -- Spiritual pathways within christianity -- Spiritual pathways within islam -- The common elements of life-giving spiritualities -- Finding a spiritual pathway.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / by Bryson, Michael A., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Spirituality & health research methods, measurements, statistics, and resources / by Koenig, Harold G. (Harold George), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the research -- Strengths, weaknesses, and challenges -- A research agenda for the field -- Identifying a research question -- Choosing a research design -- Selecting the sample -- Qualitative research -- Observational studies -- Clinical trials -- Clinical trials with religious interventions -- Definitions -- Measurement I : general considerations -- Measurement II : commonly used scales -- Statistics I : general considerations -- Statistics II : statistical tests and approaches -- Confounders, mediators, and moderators -- Models and mechanisms -- Statistical modeling -- Publishing results -- Funding for research -- Grant writing.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

International law frameworks / by Bederman, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Nature and history of international law -- General principles and customary international law -- Treaties -- Other sources and evidences -- States : identity, recognition and succession -- International organizations -- Individuals in international law -- State responsibility and diplomatic protection -- Human rights -- State territory and common areas -- Law of the sea -- International environmental law -- International economic law -- International law and domestic law -- International agreements in U.S. law -- Jurisdiction -- Jurisdictional immunities -- Counter measures -- Control of armed conflict -- Laws of war -- Peaceful settlement of disputes.…”

Adolescent medicine : a handbook for primary care /

Table of Contents: “…Adolescent growth and development -- The office visit -- Headache -- Seizures -- Syncope -- Common respiratory infections -- Asthma -- Acne -- Infectious mononucleosis -- Chronic fatigue -- Hepatitis -- Abdominal pain -- Musculoskeletal problems -- Urinary tract infections -- Diabetes mellitus -- Thyroid disease -- Hypertension -- Obesity -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Substance abuse -- Adolescent tobacco use -- Eating disorders -- Mood and anxiety disorders -- Psychosomatic problems in adolescence -- Adolescent violence and suicide -- Adolescent sexuality and reproductive health -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Sports medicine -- Legal issues.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Health physics and radiological health /

Table of Contents: “…Estimates of radiation doses from various sources of exposure -- Commonly used units, signs, symbols, conversion factors, and constants -- Rules-of-thumb as useful equations -- Standards and guidances for limiting ionizing radiation exposure -- Interaction of radiation with matter -- Exposure and shielding from external radiation -- Neutron production, shielding, and activation -- Radionuclide data -- Radiation measurement instruments -- Patient doses in the healing arts -- Operational health physics -- Bioassay and radiobiological data -- Radiation dosimetry -- Ionizing radiation bioeffects and risks -- Non-ionizing radiation.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Logged on : smart government solutions from South Asia / by Bhatti, Zubair K., Kusek, Jody Zall, 1952-, Verheijen, Antony

Table of Contents: “…-- Learning what makes government work -- Why trust in government is so low -- Leaping over reforms that don't work -- Undeniable improvements in South Asia -- Digital reforms are not without risks -- Solutions -- A model for change -- Proactive smart government -- Proactive smart government innovations use five common tools -- Afterward: Dr. Pamela Johnson, founder Voxiva -- Annex: "Under the hood".…”
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Community forestry local values, conflict and forest governance / by Bullock, Ryan C. L.

Table of Contents: “…Defining concepts and spaces for the re-emergence of community forestry -- Putting community forestry into place: implementation and conflict -- Keeping New England's forests common -- Experiments and false starts: Ontario's community forestry experience -- A watershed case for community forestry in British Columbia's interior: the Creston Valley Forest Corporation -- Contested forests and transition in two Gulf Island communities -- The south western United States: community forestry as governance -- Community access and the culture of stewardship in Finland and Sweden -- Community forestry: a way forward.…”
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International law frameworks / by Bederman, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Nature and history of international law -- General principles and customary international law -- Treaties -- Other sources and evidences -- States : identity, recognition and succession -- International organizations -- Individuals in international law -- State responsibility and diplomatic protection -- Human rights -- State territory and common areas -- Law of the sea -- International environmental law -- International economic law -- International law and domestic law -- International agreements in U.S. law -- Jurisdiction -- Jurisdictional immunities -- Counter measures -- Control of armed conflict -- Laws of war -- Peaceful settlement of disputes.…”

Planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs : a primer / by McKenzie, James F, 1948-, Neiger, Brad L, Thackeray, Rosemary

Table of Contents: “…Health education, health promotion, health education specialists, and program planning -- Starting the planning process -- Models for program planning in health promotion -- Assessing needs -- Measurement, measures, measurement instruments and sampling -- Mission statement, goals, and objectives -- Theories and models commonly used for health promotion interventions -- Interventions -- Community organizing and community building -- Identification and allocation of resources -- Marketing : developing programs that respond to the wants and needs of the priority population -- Implementation : strategies and associated concerns -- Evaluation : an overview -- Evaluation approaches and designs -- Data analysis and reporting.…”

Uncommon measures equivalence and linkage among educational tests /

Table of Contents: “…Drawing inferences from linked tests -- Technical aspects of links. Constructing links. Common problems in links. Evaluating links. One final caution? …”
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