Evan: 602 books
by Evan Lavender-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
From Old Notebooks begins as simply a writer’s list of ideas-ideas for stories, films, novels, essays-but soon the writer’s attention turns toward meditations on family, fear of death, literary fame, drug use, teaching, terrorism, pornography, and the weather. The book’s seemingly disparate...
Addressing Climate Change in Local Water Agency Plans
Demonstrating a Simplified Robust Decision Making Approach in the California Sierra Foothills
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This report describes an approach for planning under deep uncertainty, Robust Decision Making (RDM), and demonstrates its use by the El Dorado Irrigation District (EID). Using RDM, the authors and EID tested the robustness of current long-term water management plans and more robust alternatives across...
Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
From Evolving Threats and Responses to Integrated, Adaptive Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Evolving Threats and Responses to Integrated, Adaptive Solutions provides a comprehensive overview of and introduction to transnational organized crime in Latin America for the student and practitioner. It addresses the geography...
Becoming a Published Author
Agony and Ecstasy of Writing a Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Becoming a published author is a daunting experience. Bringing and keeping a book before potential readers is a challenging and taxing undertaking. Almost everyone has dreamed about writing a book—but few there are that have what it takes to do it. Becoming a Published Author is a book written by...
by Chris Martin, Evan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Cameron Beaubier, Josh Hayes, Roger Hayden, and the rest of the superstars of the MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Motorcycle Road Racing Championship are put under the microscope in this NFL-style scouting guide. Inside SCOUT'S GUIDE TO MOTOAMERICA 2016, the styles, strengths, and weaknesses...
by Ivor H Evan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Published in 1968, "Negritos of Malaya" is an important contribution to the History Field.
Education Reform in the Obama Era
The Second Term and the 2016 Election
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama’s education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades. The authors argue that the Obama education agenda, though more ambitious, is broadly in line with those...
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
100 Key Points and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers:
The history and background to solution focused...
by Evan Francis Keane
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
The high time-resolution radio sky represents unexplored astronomical territory. This thesis presents a study of the transient radio sky, focussing on millisecond scales. As such, the work is concerned primarily with neutron stars. In particular this research concentrates on a recently identified...
by Evan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Featuring translations of several works as well as original poems, this poetry compilation explores Greek mythology in addition to Roman and Byzantine history, art, and travel. The myth of Actaeon is re-imagined in three ways throughout the book and concludes with a retelling of the Byzantine folk...
Homer Simpson Ponders Politics
Popular Culture as Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
It is often said that the poet Homer "educated" ancient Greece. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale have assembled a team of notable scholars who argue, quite persuasively, that Homer Simpson and his ilk are educating America and offering insights into the social order and the human condition.
Following...
A Military Government in Exile
The Polish Government in Exile 1939-1945, A Study of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Before 1939 there had been little contact between Poland...
by Marco Fontana, Evan Houston, Thomas Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This volume provides a wide-ranging survey of, and many new results on, various important types of ideal factorization actively investigated by several authors in recent years. Examples of domains studied include (1) those with weak factorization, in which each nonzero, nondivisorial ideal can be...
China's International Behavior
Activism, Opportunism, and Diversification
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
China is now a global actor of significant and growing importance. It is involved in regions and on issues that were once only peripheral to its interests, and it is effectively using tools previously unavailable. China's international behavior is clearly altering the dynamics of the current international...