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Contemporary Challenges in Medical Education: From Theory to Practice

While medical schools usually emphasize the teaching of advanced scientific fundamentals through a carefully planned, formal curriculum, few focus on the equally crucial “hidden curriculum” of professional attitudes, skills, and behaviors. This concise and practical guide helps teachers effectively prepare students for seldom-taught issues that arise daily in the practice of clinical medicine.

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Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting

This interdisciplinary volume--melding anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and archival studies--explores such diverse arenas as archaeological objects, human remains, colonial landscapes, public protests, national memorials, art installations, testimonies, and even digital space as places of memory.

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Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited

This volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Contributors expand the scope of the field regionally, methodically, and theoretically, moving behind the previous focus on single aspects of identity by demonstrating multi-scalar approaches and by explicitly addressing intersectionality in the archaeological record.

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Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and <i>Troilus and Criseyde</i>

This book corrects the traditional interpretations of Geoffrey Chaucer's early poems, providing new readings of the three "dream visions" and Troilus and Criseyde. <br />

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Corals of Florida and the Caribbean

A handy guide to some of the most beautiful creatures in the sea.

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The Nature of Value: Axiological Investigations

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The Life and Crimes of Railroad Bill: Legendary African American Desperado

Ride, ride, ride--The true story of Americas most infamous black outlaw

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Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America

This dual biography looks at the lives of two icons of Black resistance, comparing their goals, visions, and legacies and illuminating their surprising similarities.

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The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane

Depicts the dramatic fate of the expeditions that attempted to plant a permanent French presence on North America's eastern seaboard during the 1560s. This campaign became one of the most stunning defeats in the history of European colonialism when

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Government and Politics in Florida, Third Edition

For more than fifteen years, Government and Politics in Florida has been the only book to offer authoritative information on the operations of government and nuances of politics in the Sunshine State.