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Dietetic Intern Guidebook

Subtitle
An Uncomplicated and Practical Guide to Nutrition Intervention

Felicia Hendricks

The Dietetic Intern Guidebook provides an uncomplicated and practical guide to nutrition intervention for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease. The structure of this…

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Cutting the Stems

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By Virginie Lalucq

Translated by Claire McQuerry

Translated from the French, "Cutting the Stems" is a playful, long poem in sections that contains a pastiche of various unlikely influences: manuals on gardening and plant propagation,…

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Survival Strategies

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Poems

Tennison S. Black

"Survival Strategies" is a love story wrapped in a reckoning. Arranged in three parts, this collection of poems follows a narrative arc.The speaker, who is returning to the Sonoran of…

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Blake Edwards

Subtitle
Film Director as Multitalented Auteur

Peter Lehman

"Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur" is the first critical analysis to focus on the dramatic works of Blake Edwards. Best known for successful comedies such as The Pink…

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Tenure At A Crossroads, Again?

Subtitle
An Examination of the Devolution of Higher Education in the Age of Corporatization

Edited by G.L.A. Harris and Dwight Vick

While many books have been written about the American higher education system and its K-12 public school counterpart, this edited volume is the first of its kind to draw a nexus between…

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Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain

Eugene Schneller

Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain provides students, faculty, managers, and researchers with a clear understanding of the health care supply chain and its role in…

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The Nature of Supply Networks

Thomas Y. Choi

Supply chains are networks. The concept of the supply chain is an oversimplification of the complex dynamics involved between the individuals, organizations, and resources required to…

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Practicing Rights

Subtitle
Human rights-based approaches to social work practice

David Androff

Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having ‘rights’ that social workers need to respect and advocate for. However,…

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Refugee solutions in the age of global crisis

Subtitle
Human rights, integration, and sustainable development

David Androff

Refugee Solutions in the Age of Global Crisis: Human Rights, Integration, and Sustainable Development" addresses the question of what to do about the global refugee crisis. One in every…

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Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain

Subtitle
Human Evolution and the Seven Fundamental Motives

Douglas Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick

Sharing stories and advice rooted in the science of evolutionary psychology, father and son authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick pinpoint the dangers of stone-age problem…