David E : 1072 books
by David B. Audretsch, Max C. Keilbach, Erik E. Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge...
Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems
Applications to Fossil Fuel and Groundwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Nonrenewable energy resources, comprising fossil fuels and uranium, are not ran domly distributed within the Earth's crust. They formed in response to a complex array of geologic controls, notably the genesis of the sedimentary rocks that host most commercial energy resources. It is this genetic...
The Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Drug discovery is a constantly developing and expanding area of research. Developed to provide a comprehensive guide, the Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry covers the past, present and future of the entire drug development process. Highlighting the recent successes and failures in drug discovery, the book...
by Keith Crane, Jill E. Luoto, Scott Warren Harold
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This report assesses the effectiveness of China’s industrial policies, using China’s commercial aviation manufacturing industry as a case study. It evaluates China’s efforts to create a national champion in this industry, and analyzes foreign manufacturers’ efforts to protect key technologies...
Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age
The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of 'small...
Church Wake-Up Call
A Ministries Management Approach That is Purpose-Oriented and Inter-Generational in Outreach
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Is your church viable in the changing marketplace of today--and tomorrow?
Today's church market is comprised of four cultural paradigms--Youth, Baby Busters (Generation X), Baby Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Each has unique characteristics in terms of attitudes, spiritual orientation, values, emotional...
Near-Term Opportunities for Integrating Biomass into the U.S. Electricity Supply
Technical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. One near-term option for using biomass to generate electricity is to cofire biomass in coal-fired electricity plants. This report focuses on two aspects of biomass use: plant-site modifications, changes in operations,...
Alternative Food Networks
Knowledge, Practice, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Farmers’ markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods – how have these once novel, "alternative" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of "alternative worlds"...
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism. Music and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity...
Citizen Planners
Shaping Communities with Spatial Tools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Citizen Planners: Shaping Communities with Spatial Tools describes how geographic information systems can be made accessible to ordinary citizens with little or no professional training to help plan and shape their local communities. The book focuses on the efforts of a group of Wisconsin citizens...
by James H. Alphen, Christopher Anderson, John Rev. Beal
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The Church is not a business, but it does have a stewardship responsibility to ensure that all of its resources are used as effectively as possible to carry out God's work on earth. In the case of human resource assets, good stewardship involves assisting those engaged in ministry (whether clerical...
by Joseph I. Goldstein, Dale E. Newbury, Joseph R. Michael
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of a time-honored text provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) for elemental microanalysis, electron backscatter diffraction analysis (EBSD)...
The Classic Rock and Roll Reader
Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s is chock full of entertaining essays to inform and delight you about an era that shaped our culture and future musical trends. This unique book will surprise and enchant even the most zealous music buff with facts and...
Improvement by Design
The Promise of Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation’s notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. Various programs have tried to do that, but...