This book provides practicing engineers with water-based environment engineering from theory to practice by presenting the principles of water treatment, wastewater treatment, water reuse, water quality, and overviews of regulations regarding pollution control and drinking water quality. The Eighth Edition features new and updated coverage of GIS, climate change, alternative water supply development, hydraulics, stormwater treatment techniques, water quality regulations, filter design, and more. Recognizing that all waters are potential sources of supply, the authors present treatment processes in the context of what they can do, rather than dividing them along clean water or waste water lines. For practicing engineers who need a good reference book and for those preparing to take the examination for licensing as a professional engineer.

Water Supply and Pollution Control

Science & Math

Pérez, Elizabeth

Viessman Jr., Warren

Hammer Sr., Mark

Chadick, Paul

Nature & Ecology

Pearson

If the head is religion, the gut is magic. Taking up this provocation, this Element delves into the digestive system within transnational Afro-Diasporic religions such as Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, and Cuban Lucumí (also called Santería). It draws from the ethnographic and archival record to probe the abdomen as a vital zone of sensory perception, amplified in countless divination verses, myths, rituals, and recipes for ethnomedical remedies. Provincializing the brain as only one locus of reason, it seeks to expand the notion of 'mind' and expose the anti-Blackness that still prevents Black Atlantic knowledges from being accepted as such. The Element examines gut feelings, knowledge, and beings in the belly; African precedents for the Afro-Diasporic gut-brain axis; post-sacrificial offerings in racist fantasy and everyday reality; and the strong stomachs and intestinal fortitude of religious ancestors. It concludes with a reflection on kinship and the spilling of guts in kitchenspaces.

The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract (Elements in Magic)

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions (North American Religions)

Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association
Winner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological Association Finalist, 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions
An examination of the religious importance of food among Caribbean and Latin American communities
Before honey can be offered to the Afro-Cuban deity Ochún, it must be tasted, to prove to her that it is good. In African-inspired religions throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, such gestures instill the attitudes that turn participants into practitioners. Acquiring deep knowledge of the diets of the gods and ancestors constructs adherents’ identities; to learn to fix the gods’ favorite dishes is to be “seasoned” into their service.
In this innovative work, Elizabeth Pérez reveals how seemingly trivial "micropractices" such as the preparation of sacred foods, are complex rituals in their own right. Drawing on years of ethnographic research in Chicago among practitioners of Lucumí, the transnational tradition popularly known as Santería, Pérez focuses on the behind-the-scenes work of the primarily women and gay men responsible for feeding the gods. She reveals how cooking and talking around the kitchen table have played vital socializing roles in Black Atlantic religions.
Entering the world of divine desires and the varied flavors that speak to them, this volume takes a fresh approach to the anthropology of religion. Its richly textured portrait of a predominantly African-American Lucumí community reconceptualizes race, gender, sexuality, and affect in the formation of religious identity, proposing that every religion coalesces and sustains itself through its own secret recipe of micropractices.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

NYU Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

In the book, Dear younger me, Elizabeth describes the years of child abuse by that of friends, family and people in authority. It's not a book of despair but one of triumph and victory that she hopes can help others dealing with similar traumas. In this book she talks about what her younger self needed to hear at the time she was experiencing so much chaos. It's a documentary she wrote that compelled her to heal and extending her life as depicted in this book to hopefully encourage others to do the same. Elizabeth Perez was born in San Diego, CA. She is a wife and a mother of 2 toddlers. She began writing just before the covid 19 virus struck the world and was inspired to share her life with you to show the power of God and help those who want to experience freedom in a world where freedoms are being gradually taken away. She shares childhood tragedies and eventually triumph to compel readers to find triumphs in their own growth, where ever that may be in their current life. She pours out her heart time and time again as she shares childhood traumas and writes them out in a way that compels the reader to share or document what their younger self should have heard their older self say to excite renovation of life, soul and spirit within them. It is a passion of hers to see and hear the broken hearts mended and pain or grief stricken healed. She hopes to help someone, even if it's just the one.

Dear Younger Me: From Ashes to Beauty

Christian Books & Bibles

Xulon Press

The central figure and focus of this book is God. He has given me overwhelming victory in a garment of praise (see Isaiah 61:3). It's my desire to share some of the many special blessings that I have experienced in my journey with God. Through this journey, I discovered, as you too will discover, that though we are frail and weak, He gives us the strength and understanding to dwell in Him. In Philippians 4:13, Paul says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." We are victorious because He knows each one of us by name and is aware of our life's struggles.\nThis book is my story, the story of a woman who believed the timeless truth that God could, and still can, do anything! Without a doubt, this belief carried me through many difficult circumstances of rejection, illnesses, pain, and sorrow. Through my dependency and trust on God's Holy Word, He made me an overcomer. Today more than ever, I believe Luke 1:37, "For with God nothing shall be impossible." I still believe in God's purpose for my life. All my accomplishments have been due to His provision, love, mercy, grace, patience, and forgiveness. God loves you! He will never forsake you. Trust Him, and you shall have peace and joy!

A Cry of Victory and a Garment of Praise

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Covenant Books

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