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Asian Americans in Sport and Society
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. Asian Americans in Sport...
To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability
Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society
The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity....
Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Surviving Field Research
Working in Violent and Difficult Situations
In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other gross human rights violations. At the same time, there has been a vast increase in the number of academics and researchers seeking to analyze the causes of, and...
Published May 27th 2009 by Routledge
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Native Americans and Sport in North America
Other People's Games
Series: Sport in the Global Society
Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics; it explores Native American participation in and appropriation of...
Published October 14th 2008 by Routledge
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Design of Biomedical Devices and Systems, Second Edition
The design and functional complexity of medical devices and systems has increased during the past half century, evolving from the level of cardiac pacemakers to magnetic resonance imaging devices. Such life-saving advancements are monumentally advantageous, but with so much at stake, a step-by-step...
Published August 21st 2008 by CRC Press
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Design of Biomedical Devices and Systems
Analyzing product conception through to delivery in actual industry examples, Design of Biomedical Devices and Systems considers issues in the industrial design process exactly as they would arise in real-world applications, divulging valuable trade secrets within topics like materials selection,...
Published September 2nd 2002 by CRC Press
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The Psychology Of Consciousness
Published June 9th 1999 by Routledge