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Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Looks at twelve instances of contested insanity in Victorian England, examining cases in which doubtfully mentally ill patients were committed to asylums according to new "scientific" standards by relatives who stood to benefit from their being put away.
2405) The forever prisoner: the full and searing account of the CIA's most controversial covert program
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Six months after 9/11, CIA and FBI agents captured Abu Zubaydah, mistakenly believed to be number three in the Al Qaeda hierarchy. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second attack, the U.S. rendered him to a black site in Thailand. There he collided with Air Force psychologist James Mitchell. Believing that Abu Zubaydah had been trained to resist interrogation, Mitchell and others were authorized to use brutal interrogation techniques that would have...
Author
Publisher
American Library Association
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Covering the basics of planning, collecting, and evaluating, each of the 50 standards-based exercises in this book address one or more of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and promote conceptual and applied skills via active learning, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"This reader's companion to the casework of Sherlock Holmes explores the methodology of the world's most famous consulting detective. From analyzing fingerprints and decoding ciphers to creating disguises and faking one's own death, readers will learn how Holmes solved his most celebrated cases - plus an arsenal of modern techniques available to today's armchair sleuths. Along the way, readers will discover a host of trivia about the master detective...
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"These lucid, information-packed lectures convey the excitement of scientific discovery and trace the connections between discoveries over time. In this course, veteran science educator Robert Hazen renders the most complex ideas simple and memorable, without ever being simplistic"--www.teach12.com
2412) The intellectual foundations of Christian and Jewish discourse: the philosophy of religious argument
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae volume 103
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
2417) Rewriting Roman history in the Middle Ages: the 'Historia Romana' and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist.3
Author
Series
Mittellateinische Studien und Texte volume Bd. 36
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and...