A A Alexander: 173 books
Thin Films on Silicon
Electronic and Photonic Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This volume provides a broad overview of the fundamental materials science of thin films that use silicon as an active substrate or passive template, with an emphasis on opportunities and challenges for practical applications in electronics and photonics. It covers three materials classes on silicon:...
by Alexander A. Borovoi
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, occurred on April 26, 1986. On April 29, Alexander A. Borovoi, an atomic physicist with the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, was ordered to Chernobyl to help measure and control the release of lethal...
Dictators Without Borders
Power and Money in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated...
Dental Herbalism
Natural Therapies for the Mouth
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
A comprehensive practical reference to herbal dental care for all ages
• Details the use of 41 safe and effective herbs for the mouth
• Explores 47 common conditions that affect the mouth, such as gingivitis, periodontitis, acid reflux, and tooth loss
• Provides recipes...
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or the public sector--many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.
Ron Heifetz...
Human Subjects Research Regulation
Perspectives on the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials,...
by Alexander A. Stepanov, Daniel E. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In this substantive yet accessible book, pioneering software designer Alexander Stepanov and his colleague Daniel Rose illuminate the principles of generic programming and the mathematical concept of abstraction on which it is based, helping you write code that is both simpler and more powerful.
If...
The Complete Book of Wills, Estates & Trusts
Advice that Can Save You Thousands of Dollars in Legal Fees and Taxes
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
The best legal guide to wills and estates—with more than 80,000 copies sold—now updated to cover the current asset protection options and estate laws
Whether grappling with modest or extensive assets, The Complete Book of Wills, Estates, and Trusts has long been the indispensable guide...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 24
Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction September/October 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The September/October 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Our Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue! Guest edited by Dominik Parisen and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Nicolette Barischoff, S. Qioyi Lu, and Judith Tarr. Featuring new fiction by William Alexander, Rachel...
Harlequin Kimani Romance June 2017 Box Set
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual African American and multicultural heroes and heroines? Harlequin Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new full‐length books for one great price!
LOVING THE PRINCESS
The...
Hidden Genocides
Power, Knowledge, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained...
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
by Neil Clarke, Xia Jia, A.T. Greenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our May 2019 issue (#152) contains:
Original fiction by Xia Jia ("Tick-Tock"), A. T. Greenblatt...