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It's not like I'm poor: how working families make ends meet in a post-welfare world
(University of California Press, 2015)The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time a combination of the earned income tax credit and other refunds. ... -
Italian Grammar Drills
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2018)Confident use of grammar is an essential foundation for learning Italian. Italian Grammar Drills will help you lay this foundation through clear explanations and rigorous practice. Your language skills will be strengthened ... -
Italy (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
(Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2010)Italy offers an extraordinary kaleidoscope of regions and experiences for all visitors. Packed with photographs, illustrations and maps the Eyewitness Travel to Italy has mapped out all of the remarkable flavors of Italy. ... -
Ivy + Bean: Secret Treasure Box
(Chronicle Books, 2011)The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn't be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to hide quickIvy comes to the rescue, proving that sometimes the best of friends are ... -
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood’s Cold War
(Cornell University Press, 2012)Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry to expose Hollywood's alleged subversion of "the American Way" through ... -
Japan and the Shackles of the Past
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not ... -
Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age
(University of Hawaii Press, 2012)This book deliberates on the role of the transnational in bringing to the mainstream what were formerly marginal Japanese B movie genres. -
Japan’s Dietary Transition and Its Impacts
(MIT Press, 2012)In a little more than a century, the Japanese diet has undergone a dramatic transformation. In 1900, a plant-based, near-subsistence diet was prevalent, with virtually no consumption of animal protein. By the beginning of ... -
Jawetz Melnick and Adelbergs Medical Microbiology 27 E
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)The twenty-seventh edition of Jawetz, Melnick and Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology delivers a concise, up-to-date overview of the roles microorganisms play in human health and illness. Linking fundamental principles with ... -
Jean Bodin, "this Pre-eminent Man of France": An Intellectual Biography
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Jean Bodin was a figure of great importance in European intellectual history, known as a jurist, associate of kings and courtiers in sixteenth-century France, and author of influential works in the fields of constitutional ... -
Jerusalem: City of Longing
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010)Jerusalem is the site of some of the most famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. Since the nineteenth century, the city has ... -
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Jesus' Emotions in the Gospels
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)Jesus' Emotions in the Gospels investigates richness and variety of the emotional life of Jesus as depicted in the four gospels. Attention is often paid to the events of Jesus' life, his teaching, and his ministry -- but ... -
Jesus, Gnosis and Dogma
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)In Jesus, Gnosis and Dogma Roukema investigates and assesses the various views of Jesus in early Christianity, basing his approach on a distinction between historical and theological statements about Jesus. Historical ... -
Jewish Leadership in Roman Palestine from 70 C.E. to 135 C.E.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)Reconstructing Jewish socio-political leadership of the late Second Temple and Talmudic periods, this book suggests that the period between two great revolts is the best period to study leadership dynamics. Prior to the ... -
Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)At the outset of this vast volume of studies we would like to take the opportunity and thank all those who have precipitated and assisted in the fruition of this massive project. First and foremost we extend our deepest ... -
Jihad in the Arabian Sea
(Hoover Institution Press, 2011)Camille Pecastaing looks at the twenty-first-century challenges facing the region around the Bab el Mandeb-the tiny strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean-from civil war, piracy, radical Islamism, terrorism ... -
Joint Attention: New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience
(MIT Press, 2012)Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention -- the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature -- has increased rapidly over the past two decades. Yet it isn't easy to spell out in detail what ... -
Jonah
(Chick Publications, 2012)The story of Jonah comes alive in this full-color comic. The biblical account of Jonah is one of the most incredible stories in the Bible. The artwork in this comic helps bring this amazing story to life. It begins with ... -
Jonathan Edwards' Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they ...
