Category: Non Fiction

Drug users are usually portrayed as useless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—morally, culturally, and economically. By contrast, , The Social Value of Drug Addicts, (PDF) argues that the social construction of some people as impractical is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists J.

A key goal of environmental research is to inform policy and decision-making. Though, environmental experts working at the interface between policy, science, and society face complex challenges, including how to recognize sources of disagreement over environmental issues, communicate uncertainties and limitations of knowledge, and handle controversial topics like genetic modification

Anthropology of Infectious Disease, (PDF) synthesizes the thriving field of anthropology of infectious disease in a biocultural, critical framework. Expert medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically combines the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, presenting how we exist with pathogenic agents of disease in a complicated process

A clear and student-friendly way to teach the fundamentals of C++ – For 2-semester courses in the C++ programming sequence, or an accelerated 1-semester course. Gaddis’ Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through Objects 9th edition (PDF) covers control structures, arrays, functions, and pointers before objects and classes in Tony

Measuring exergy losses in the energy supply system of buildings shows the potential for energy improvement, which cannot be exposed using conventional energy analysis. Thermoeconomics integrates economic and thermodynamic analysis by implementing the concept of cost (an economic concept) to exergy, as exergy is a thermodynamic property suitable for this