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  • Chemistry

    Energy, Matter, and Change

    by William B. Tucker ...
    Providing a holistic overview of general chemistry and its foundational principles, this textbook is an essential accompaniment to students entering the field. It is designed with the reader in mind, presenting the historical development of ideas to frame and center new concepts as well as providing primary and summative sources for all topics covered. These sources help to provide definitive ... Read more

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  • Organic Chemistry

    Structure, Function, and Practice

    by William B. Tucker ...
    With a focus on organic chemistry students at all levels, problems are incorporated into the body of the text in an effort to engage students more directly in chemistry. Arrowless mechanisms seek to help students develop their electron-pushing skills and intuition through repeated practice. By design this volume is more actively engaging than a traditional textbook. In addition, the historical ... Read more

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  • Terrestrial Energy

    How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America's Energy Odyssey

    by William Tucker ...
    This is quite possibly the most important book about energy in a generation. For over thirty years Americans have been fed a steady diet of half-truths, misinformation, urban legends and outright fabrications about energy. The small amount of accurate information that does reach us is often obscured by scientific terminology or one-sided political posturing. When faced with a dramatic increase in ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Opportunity

    by William Tucker ...
    Jack is a neuroscientist who loses all his money in a real estate scheme. He quits his job believing the scheme would make him rich. His wife leaves him and he is shunned by his family and the scientific community. He cannot find a job matching his credentials. He winds up in Vancouver, Canada to stay with a friend. His friend has to vacate the property. So, Jack the former neuroscientist is ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Energy, Matter, and Change

    An Introduction

    by William B. Tucker ...
    This textbook serves as an introduction to the field of chemistry, aimed at secondary school students, and it assumes no prior knowledge on the readers’ part. As an introductory text, the book emphasizes fundamental skills that are necessary for chemistry, and science generally. This includes an emphasis on good writing and a focus on problem solving, with problems incorporated throughout the text ... Read more

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  • Marriage and Civilization

    How Monogamy Made Us Human

    by William Tucker ...
    In his stunning new book, Marriage and Civilization, author William Tucker looks at the evidence from biology, evolution, anthropology, history, and culture to come to a remarkable conclusion: it was the monogamous pairing of male and female - unusual among mammals - that led to human evolution. Moreover, it is monogamous marriage that has shaped Western Civilization, giving us our sense of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • How People Change

    The Short Story as Case History

    by William Tucker M.D. ...
    A manual to show practicing physicians and medical students how to make use of short stories to help their patients adapt to their illnesses and participate in their treatment.For most people, the quickest route to wisdom, other than experience, is through stories. Stories speak across generational lines and cultures, emphasize the universality of human experience, and offer insight into the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Narratives of Recovery from Serious Mental Illness

    by William Tucker ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    In this informative and inspiring book the author narrates the stories of 12 patients whom he treated during their recovery from serious mental illness. These narratives reveal their common struggles: misdiagnosis, dual-diagnosis, impeded access to medication, medication-adherence issues, homelessness, employment/unemployment issues, and problems with governmental agencies. They also reveal some ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Princeton Radicals of the 1960s, Then and Now

    by William H. Tucker ...
    Part history, part biography, this book describes the issues that produced the passionate activism of the 1960s and the campaigns waged at Princeton University by Students for a Democratic Society, the most important radical organization on campuses at the time.The author traces the lives of nine leaders of the Princeton SDS chapter, examining the effect of their participation in the radical ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Economic Time Series

    Modeling and Seasonality

    Edited by William R. Bell, Scott H. Holan, Tucker S. McElroy ...
    Economic Time Series: Modeling and Seasonality is a focused resource on analysis of economic time series as pertains to modeling and seasonality, presenting cutting-edge research that would otherwise be scattered throughout diverse peer-reviewed journals. This compilation of 21 chapters showcases the cross-fertilization between the fields of time s ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • 'The Bell Curve' in Perspective

    Race, Meritocracy, Inequality and Politics

    by William H. Tucker ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the campaign to end affirmative action, Professor Tucker analyses Herrnstein’s concept of the “meritocracy” in relation to earlier 20th century eugenics and the dramatic increase in ... Read more

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  • The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925

    by Robert Olson ...
    The last quarter of the nineteenth century was crucial for the development of Kurdish nationalism. It coincided with the reign of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909), who emphasized Pan-Islamic policies in order to strengthen the Ottoman Empire against European and Russian imperialism, The Pan-Islamic doctrines of the Ottoman Empire enabled sheikhs (religious leaders) from Sheikh Ubaydallah of Nehri in the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD