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Sexual practices and drug use among the young are examined in
this book, calling into question mainstream assumptions about a
~adolescencea (TM).
Bringing together a range of cross-cultural and cross-national
contributions, the book reveals both similarities and important
differences that mark sexuality and drug use among young in
different social and cultural settings. In doing so, it allows the
reader to build up a clearer understanding of the challenges that
must be faced in public health and education if we are to develop
programs and interventions that really serve the needs of young
people.
The book will be of interest to professionals working with young
people and is suitable for a wide range of multidisciplinary
courses covering areas such as human sexuality, sex education,
public health and social work.
This book provides a concise but broad overview of the engineering,
science and flight history of planetary landers and atmospheric
entry probes designed to explore the atmospheres and surfaces of
other planets. It covers engineering aspects specific to such
vehicles which are not usually treated in traditional spacecraft
engineering texts. Examples are drawn from over thirty different
lander and entry probe designs that have been used for lunar and
planetary missions since the early 1960s. The authors provide
detailed illustrations of many vehicle designs from different
international space programs, and give basic information on their
missions and payloads, irrespective of the mission's success or
failure. Several missions are discussed in more detail to
demonstrate the broad range of the challenges involved and the
solutions implemented. This will form an important reference for
professionals, academic researchers and graduate students involved
in planetary science, aerospace engineering and space mission
development.
There are over a million different species of insects, and
individually they 8 outnumber humans by more than 10 to 1.
Moreover, some insects live in close association with both plants
and higher animals and naturally exchange viruses with them. It has
even been speculated that viruses in general may have radiated
through the plant and animal kingdoms from common insect origins.
Be that as it may, since insects play pivotal roles in the
biosphere, both to the benefit and detriment of mankind, they and
the viruses that infect them are important subjects for study.
Insects are infected by a diverse medley of viruses, and this
volume focuses on those insect virus families that are found
primarily or exclusively in insects. All major families of
insect-selective viruses are covered except for the baculo viruses,
which were described in a separate volume of The Viruses series.
Included in this volume are the established families of insect
viruses, the newly recognized ascovirus family, and the
nudiviruses, which probably represent a separate family but
currently remain unclassified. The coverage of arboviruses is
limited to a single chapter that focuses on their potential utility
as vectors and in insect control. Omitted for practical reasons are
several individual insect viruses that have been described
sporadically in the literature and probably represent novel virus
families.
This book provides a concise but broad overview of the engineering,
science and flight history of planetary landers and atmospheric
entry probes designed to explore the atmospheres and surfaces of
other planets. It covers engineering aspects specific to such
vehicles which are not usually treated in traditional spacecraft
engineering texts. Examples are drawn from over thirty different
lander and entry probe designs that have been used for lunar and
planetary missions since the early 1960s. The authors provide
detailed illustrations of many vehicle designs from different
international space programs, and give basic information on their
missions and payloads, irrespective of the mission's success or
failure. Several missions are discussed in more detail to
demonstrate the broad range of the challenges involved and the
solutions implemented. This will form an important reference for
professionals, academic researchers and graduate students involved
in planetary science, aerospace engineering and space mission
development.
Sexual practices and drug use among the young are examined in
this book, calling into question mainstream assumptions about a
~adolescencea (TM).
Bringing together a range of cross-cultural and cross-national
contributions, the book reveals both similarities and important
differences that mark sexuality and drug use among young in
different social and cultural settings. In doing so, it allows the
reader to build up a clearer understanding of the challenges that
must be faced in public health and education if we are to develop
programs and interventions that really serve the needs of young
people.
The book will be of interest to professionals working with young
people and is suitable for a wide range of multidisciplinary
courses covering areas such as human sexuality, sex education,
public health and social work.
Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way
literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough
reassessment of modern American culture. Focusing on the period
1840-1940, the author shows how the development of capitalism
reshaped American Protestantism and addresses the necessary role of
literature in that process. Arguing that the “spirit of
capitalism” was not fostered by traditional Puritanism, Ball
explores the ways that Christianity was transformed by the market
and industrial revolutions. This book refutes the long-held
secularization thesis by showing that modernity was a time when new
forms of the sacred proliferated, and that this religious
flourishing was essential to the production of American culture.
Ball draws from the work of Émile Durkheim and cultural sociology
to interpret modern social upheavals like religious awakenings,
revivalism, and the labor movement. Examining work from writers
like Rebecca Harding Davis, Jack London, and Countee Cullen, he
shows how concepts of salvation fundamentally intersect with
matters of race, gender, and class, and proposes a theory that
explains the enchantment of modern American society.
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