The premise I have worked with for the last few years has been documenting African Americans who live in housing projects that either can’t or aren’t trying to improve their situation. I aim to focus on people and things that tend to be overlooked and of no importance in the eyes of the majority. While home for spring break, I photographed my family. My background is “the projects”; my parents still struggle with an aspect of life created by them. This was a complex situation and could be ...

Discover the beauty of reading the New Testament in Greek. Authored by experienced Greek scholars Benjamin Merkle and Robert Plummer, 1 John: A New Testament Greek Reader is perfect for beginner and intermediate students. Each of the book's 14 units begins with a vocabulary list and is followed by the assigned text. Merkle and Plummer provide lexical and grammatical help, while also taking students deeper into syntax. 1 John: A New Testament Greek Reader is a useful tool ...

This edited collection brings together enterprising pieces of new research on the many forms of organization in East and Southeast Asia that are sponsored or mandated by government, but engage widespread participation at the grassroots level. Straddling the state-society divide, these organizations play important roles in society and politics, yet remain only dimly understood. This book shines a spotlight on this phenomenon, which speaks to fundamental questions about how such societies ch...

This fully revised 4th edition has been restructured into two complementary volumes, with this book dedicated exclusively to the pathophysiology of the blood vessels and blood. Key topics include the vascular endothelium, atherosclerosis, restenosis, aneurysm biology, platelets, haemostasis and haemodynamics of implanted devices.Many of the topics are not addressed or are inadequately addressed in clinical textbooks.The book is pitched at trainees in vascular s...

For centuries, opium has been a source of both profit and peril, its legacy entangled with addiction, imperialism, and the complex interplay of global trade and national development. While the illicit opium trade is infamous, the history of licit opium has remained largely untold.Markets of Pain traces the global arc of licit opium from poppy fields and processing plants to the clinics and laboratories of modern medicine. It shows how both the Ottoman Empire and the Turkis...

This edited volume presents the latest findings from the 5th International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Social Inequality module, a widely recognized dataset comprising responses from over 30 countries. It explores global perspectives on social inequality, including topics such as public views on taxation, government redistribution, personal experiences of inequality, and related themes. The chapters provide valuable insights into how attitudes toward inequality have evolved since they w...

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Students, residents, and instructors swear by Andreoli and Carpenter's Cecil Essentials of Medicine because it presents just the right amount of information, just the right way. This updated edition has been revised to provide the most current, easy-to-digest review of internal medicine. Comprehensive yet concise, it focuses on the high-yield core knowledge important to those established in or just entering the field. - Excellent images and photographs vividly illustrate the appearance and...

Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin’s contribution to the study of empire and its endings. Written by his former students and colleagues, the book’s chapters discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.While each author has contributed according to their expertise, they also reflect on ho...

The captivating story of the religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth— and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO.2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies AssociationIn March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. This act was the culmination...

The premier “cheat sheet” for Greek Syntax and Exegesis. Keyed to the best-selling Going Deeper with New Testament Greek (by Kostenberger, Merkle, and Plummer), this set of folding laminated pages covers all traditional syntactical categories (for example, uses of the genitive, rules about the Greek article, possible translations of the imperfect tense), as well as information about New Testament textual criticism, current summaries on Verbal Aspect debates, and steps on doing Gre...

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination. This brief and affordable study aid begins with a discussion of the ways that state and local governments, in providing services and allocating funds, affect our daily lives. Subsequent chapters are devoted to- the development of our fed...