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American teenagers hear mixed messages about sex and sexuality. Struggles over teen sexuality norms and their enforcement are a major cultural battleground. What are these norms, and what makes them effective or ineffective?

Provides an overview of the endocrine system of vertebrates by first emphasizing the mammalian system as the basis of most terminology and understanding of endocrine mechanisms and then applies that to non-mammals.

White Privilege: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) provides succinct, in-depth coverage on the essential components of white privilege, an emotive and polarizing part of the conversation on race and race relations in the US today.

Nathan Hale, the celebrated hero, and Moses Dunbar, an unknown loyalist executed for treason, died during the American Revolution for causes they regarded as honorable. The Martyr and the Traitor presents these men's stories for what they reveal about the Revolution's impact on ordinary lives and about the many factors involved in choosing sides in war.

Beginning with a brief overview of Aquinas' life and philosophical career, the authors introduce his overarching explanatory framework in order to provide the necessary background to his philosophical investigations across a wide range of areas: rational theology, metaphysics, philosophy of human nature, philosophy of mind, and ethical & political theory.

Argues that trans-historical, cross-cultural dialogues also reveal the global complexity of 18th-century cultural forms. This book reconsiders eighteenth-century literature, art, and drama. It also proposes that engagements with the British eighteenth century double as inquiries into whether the modern world has progressed since the 18th century.

The formation of new species ('speciation') creates new biological diversity. This book addresses the role of ecological differences between populations in driving speciation. It reviews this process of 'ecological speciation' from ecological, geographic, and genetic perspectives.

This text examines the questions that geneticists hoped to answer by studying protein variation. As an analysis of genetic structure and the evolution of populations, the literature on the subject is reviewed and the successes and failures of the research programme described and evaluated.

This basic introduction to American guitar styles covers old-time, bluegrass, country blues, bass fingerpicking and other styles. Each chapter contains exercises in tablature and standard notation. The book also comes with an audio CD.

Sardis was the capital of Lydia. In the mid-sixth century, it was conquered by the Persians, and Lydia was annexed into the expanding Achaemenid Persian Empire. This book uses textual, archaeological and art historical information to explore the physical and ideological effects of this political transformation on local social structures.

The author of this study contends that a state's ethnic composition, more than any other factor, directs its political processes and policies. He argues that social diversity is therefore central to any understanding of state political cultures and views American politics from this perspective.

The Year Book of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in pathology and laboratory medicine, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Chapters in this annual cover the most current information on all aspects of pathology and laboratory medicine, including molecular diagnostics, anatomic pathology techniques, outcomes analysis, cytopathology, and clinical immunology and hematology.

The Year Book of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in pathology and laboratory medicine, carefully selected from more than 300 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Chapters in this annual cover the most current information on all aspects of pathology and laboratory medicine including:  molecular diagnostics, dermatopathology, anatomic pathology techniques, outcomes analysis, cytopathology, clinical immunology, clinical microbiology, neuropathology and hematology.

Brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in pathology and laboratory medicine, carefully selected from more than 300 journals worldwide. This title covers the information on all aspects of pathology and laboratory medicine including: molecular diagnostics, dermatopathology, and outcomes analysis.