A Martin: 352 books
The Science of Crime Measurement
Issues for Spatially-Referenced Crime Data
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society – but how accurate are they? This book investigates the science of crime measurement focussing on four main questions: how do we count crime? How do we calculate crime rates? Are there other measurements of crime? What are the issues surrounding...
The Melanocytic Proliferations
A Comprehensive Textbook of Pigmented Lesions
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
A thorough updating of the best-selling, vital reference and textbook on melanocytic proliferations
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:
“Well-written and entertaining”
—Modern Pathology
“An extremely helpful guide for the practicing dermatopathologist or general pathologist”
—Archives...
by James A. Crank, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Understanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America’s most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. During his nearly fifty-year career as a writer, actor, director, and producer, Shepard has consistently...
Homeplanet Defense
Synergizing the Global Populace to Subdue a Brutal Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Constructing a global currency based on the generation of knowledge can better tap abundant energy sources and the productive power of the human spirit. By exploring new worlds, nations can finally achieve an active peace on Earth. Homeplanet Defense calls for preempting multiple threats to the human...
Private Equity
History, Governance, and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Praise for Private Equity
"Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations is an invaluable guide to understanding the world of private equity investing. Harry Cendrowski and his colleagues have drawn on their extensive experience and expertise to produce a book that is remarkably...
by Dr Martin A. Ruehl
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset of a heroic modernity:...
by Philip D. Marsh, BSc, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Now expanded and in full colour throughout, ORAL MICROBIOLOGY retains its unique ecological approach to the subject which helps the reader determine whether an organism will have a pathogenic or commensal relationship at a given site. In the new edition, greater emphasis is placed on the role of current...
Southern Journeys
Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics.
Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows...
Green Chemistry and Engineering
A Pathway to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Promotes a green approach to chemistry and chemical engineering for a sustainable planet
With this text as their guide, students will gain a new outlook on chemistry and engineering. The text fully covers introductory concepts in general, organic, inorganic, and analytical chemistry as well...
by James A. Crank, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a nominee for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and named a New York Times...
by Carolyn A. Durham, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Understanding Diane Johnson is a biographical and critical study of a quintessential American novelist who has devoted forty-five years to writing about French and American culture. Johnson, who was nominated for the National Book Award three times and the Pulitzer Prize twice, has been a regular...
A Dialogue on the Law of Kingship among the Scots
A Critical Edition and Translation of George Buchanan's De Iure Regni apud Scotos Dialogus
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
George Buchanan (1506-82) was one of the most distinguished humanists of the Northern European Renaissance. Hailed by his contemporaries as the greatest Latin poet of his age, he is chiefly remembered today as a radical political theorist whose Dialogus, first published in Edinburgh in 1579, justified...
Dharma and Halacha
Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
In recent decades there has been a rising interest among scholars of Hinduism and Judaism in engaging in the comparative studies of these ancient traditions. Academic interests have also been inspired by the rise of interreligious dialogue by the respective religious leaders. Dharma and Halacha: Comparative...
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...