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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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"The Copley Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" presents the the first 1886 edition of this famous fable with several enrichments for students and teachers. A substantial and lively critical-historical introduction situates the novel in the cultural fe...

Social Problems in the Age of Discontent: A Manual for Sociological Thinking

Author(s): PETER MARINA

Tired of boring rubrics that turn the university education into a “rubrication” trapping you into a mass produced education? Tired of uncritical “critical” lectures of predictability. Weary of professors stating the obvious, or assigning books that state the obvious? Skeptical of other professors...

Communicating About Childhood Immunization: New Insights from Aotearoa/New Zealand

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Sample This chapter discusses an ongoing research project to explore communicative phenomena in the childhood immunization context in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Childhood immunization rates in New Zealand offer a complex and perturbing research problem—to the extent that, in 2010, a parliamentary inqu...

History of Western Civilization

Author(s): Matthew A. Schownir

History of Western Civilization features a readable, student-friendly introduction to the basics of a college history course. From prehistory to the early modern period, this ebook is designed to provide instructors brief, easily digestible lessons that progressively challenge students in the analys...

Social Influence in Decision-Making Groups

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Abstract Sue Blue and Joe Schmo are planning on celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary with their best friends, Phil and Jill Thrill. Joe and Phil were college roommates and the best of friends, and through that connection Sue became very close with Jill, Phil’s sister. The four always comme...

Social Change and Religious Faith

Author(s): Cynthia A Hawkinson, Alden L Weight

Social Change and Religious Faith is a thorough discussion of religious faith as a motivator (the “why”: trigger, driver or force) of social change within the hearts and minds of the change agents (the “who”: individuals, groups of people, or organizations). Why do people such as Dr. Martin Luthe...

Risk Communication: Community Relations Efficacy or Calamity?

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Sample Risk communication is as old as human society. It, along with its partner, risk management, is qualitatively fundamental to the human condition. By that reasoning, society can be defined as the collective management of risk. Societies, communities, small groups, and even individuals that m...

How Different Religions View Death and Afterlife, 3rd ed

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"The first edition of How Different Religions View Death and Afterlife earned widespread acclaim for its objective, thoughtful and practical explanation of the often confusing and troublesome subjects of death and afterlife. In the same tradition as the first, this new third edition presents a clear...