Science and Medicine

Feminism and the Mastery of Women

Author: 

Nall, Jeffery

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Comparative Studies—Feminism,Gender and Sexuality

Dr Nall's monograph uses a title that may seem familiar since it is a tribute to Val Plumwood’s classic ecofeminist work ,Feminism and the Mastery of Nature(Routledge). Nall, like Plumwood, explores the dominant Western discourse around gender and childbirth. The research examines the connections between the understanding of women and nature and the construction of pervasive conceptualizations and practices of childbirth. It also examines the relationship between conceptualizations of men and masculinity, culture and nature, and childbirth.

Market: 
Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Sexuality,Ecofeminism, Mother and Child,Ethics and Practice of Childbirth/Delivery, Medical Ethics, Cultural Studies
Release Date: 
December 15, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-78-3
Price: 
$84.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
212
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Evolution by Affirming the Consequent: Scientific Challenges to Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Author: 

Rask, Dr. Bart

Credentials: 

M.D., researcher in immunology and genetics

Foreword: Professor Steven Gimbel, Chair,D/Philosophy,Gettysburg College

Market: 
Human Evolution,Evolutionary Biology,Genetics, Origin of the Species/Darwinism, Paleobiology, Molecular Science, History of Science,Wallace
Release Date: 
02/05/2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-60-8
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Psychophysiological Medicine: A Measurable Metamorphosis of Type A Executive Stress

Author: 

Browne, Thomas G.

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Psychology; Board certified EEG/Biofeedback Institute; Trinity College, Dublin B.Sc.

This research study,one of the first of its kind is a controlled comparison of the effectiveness of two established psycho- physiological treatments on the reduction of stress and behavior-related clinical cardiac symptoms in Type A Executives utilizing a brain-based Neurofeedback or electro- encephalography (EEG) treatment for one randomly selected and assigned group and a Heart Rate Variability treatment for a second group. A third non-treatment group was also measured as a control factor, in order to be able to make a statement regarding potential generalizeability of the outcome possible.

Market: 
Psychology, psycho-physiology, Neuro-Science, Heart Studies, Executive Studies, Type A behavior/measurement
Release Date: 
7/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-88-1
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Technology, Action Research and Workplace Learning

Author: 

Farren, Margaret and Crotty, Yvonne, co-editors

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds; senior faculty School of Education, Dublin City University (Ireland)

This is the first serious attempt to meld the use of technology, action research and workplace learning. The book will focus on practitioner-research accounts from a range of workplace settings e.g. education, nursing, community, industry and training. This is a scholarly monograph informed by mediation on practical applications and theoretical discussion. The authors articulate their values as they creatively engage in the use of technology to improve workplace practice.

Market: 
Action Research, methodology, Technology and educational research, Workplace learning, Educational outreach services, Adult Education
Release Date: 
03/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-36-3
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Action Research for College Community Health Work: Getting Out, Going Into and Giving Back

Author: 

Schmuck, Richard A. and Stevenson, Joseph M.

Credentials: 

A social psychologist of education, Richard Schmuck is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon. He has a Ph.D from University of Michigan and is the author of 22 books and 194 articles. Joseph Stevenson is Senior Vice-President and University Provost at Mississippi Valley State University and is a graduate of the University of Oregon(he was the first African-American male Ph.D in Educational Policy & Management at Oregon) and Harvard University (Institute for Educational Management). He is the author of several monographs including the well received Modernizing the College Curriculum (Academica Press).

Foreword by Aaron Shirley,MD and Robert Smith,MD

Market: 
Action Research, Educational Sociology, Community Health Programs, Health Planning and Programing, Poverty Studies, Educational Management, Community Studies, Public Health
Release Date: 
12/07/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-29-5
Price: 
$54.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Sea Slugs of the Red Sea

Author: 

Moscow, Sofia- in cooperation with Bethesda Scientific

Illustrated in full color by nearly 500 marvelous
photos of living animals, species accounts, taxonomy, distribution, ecology, complete reference list, index.

This book brings together, for the first time, all known information on the species of sea slugs of the Red Sea, belonging to 130 genera and 52 families. The contents include discussions on taxonomy, distribution, bionomics, habitats, and ecology. An introductory chapter describes in

Market: 
Marine biology, ecology, oceanography, Middle East research studies
ISBN: 
978-954-642-327-6
Price: 
$139.95
Pages: 
306
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

William Harvey’s De Motu Cordis: A New Translation and Latin Edition

Author: 

McMullen, Emerson Thomas (editor and translator)

Credentials: 

PhD; D/History and Classics, Georgia Southern University

This work is an historical discussion and new translation of one of the key works of medicine of the English renaissance. The only two available translations are between one and three and a half centuries old. Because so many errors have crept into translations of Harvey’s seminal work a new edition has been called for and a new translation as well. McMullen’s work on this topic has been called “Groundbreaking and excellent” by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Discussion of Italian philosophical, ethical and medical objections to the circulation theory (Padua).

Market: 
History of Medicine, Medicine, History of Science, Hematology
Release Date: 
08/2005
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-02-8
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Semiconductor Design and Implementation Issues in Integrated Vehicle Electronics

Author: 

Hall, John

Credentials: 

Ph.D. (MIT)

This major research study provides a fresh, critical look at the way automobile electronics are and should be built. Written by Silicon Valley pioneer John Hall, this book is based on his nearly 40 years of experience in developing and producing semiconductors for the automobile industry and other customers.

Market: 
Electronic Engineering, Electromagnetics, Computer Science, Automobile Design Engineering
Release Date: 
12/2004
ISBN: 
1933146-01-X / 9781933146010
Price: 
$34.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
164
Illustrations: 
Yes - Statistical and informational armature: tables and graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Evolution Reader

Author: 

Harper, Lila, Editor

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Program on Writing, MIT

This work examines text as cultural force. It specifically discusses the thematic potency of Evolution as the evolutionary topics of the Darwin and the post Darwin generation increasingly found their way into popular discourse and popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Both Britain and America were (and to an interesting degree, still are)the center of a series of debates about evolutionary development of life. Unlike Appleman’s critical edition of Darwin (now in 3/E) this collection emphasizes literary and popular responses using original material and debates.

Market: 
Science and Culture, Evolution and the literature of Biology, popular culture 19th-20th century and Science., Darwin and Darwinism
Release Date: 
10/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-18-4
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
268
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Path to Posthumanity: Aspects of Near-Future Science and Technology

Author: 

Goertzel, Ben

Credentials: 

Ph.D MIT; AGIRI leader Ben Goertzel is a well known Silicon Valley entrepreneur (Webmind.com) as well as a university researcher and professor

This work describes the near future technologies and scientific changes that will effect human life in the next 25 years. Artifical intelligence is a major theme of this book as is computing and biotech. The author argues we are in a transitional period in which the major changes of the next quarter century are only barely developed: genome research, human enhancement, computer to computer research, bioinformatics to mention only a few.

Market: 
Artificial Intelligence, Theory, computing, biotech research, product planning and research
Release Date: 
2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-95-7
Price: 
$54.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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