Finn: 319 books
Getting a PhD
An Action Plan to Help Manage Your Research, Your Supervisor and Your Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
This highly practical guide provides information that will help research students avoid needless mistakes. It informs and advises you about many of the important facets of postgraduate research, including:
what it means to conduct research at doctoral level
the requirements for independence,...
by Peter Finn, Petra Couvee
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2015
En confiant en 1956 à un éditeur italien son premier roman qu'il savait ne jamais pouvoir publier en Russie, le grand poète Boris Pasternak déclara : " Voici Le Docteur Jivago. Puisse-t-il faire son chemin dans le monde. "
Publié d'abord en Italie, puis en France et dans toute...
by David Horne, Jonathan Holmes, Finn Viehberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells. As methods...
Finding the Movement
Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and...
Christian Higher Education
Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused—a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.
Christian higher education involves a distinctive way of thinking about teaching, learning, scholarship, curriculum, student life,...
by Finn B. Jensen, William A. Kuperman, Michael B. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Senior level/graduate level text/reference presenting state-of-the- art numerical techniques to solve the wave equation in heterogeneous fluid-solid media. Numerical models have become standard research tools in acoustic laboratories, and thus computational acoustics is becoming an increasingly important...
Al-Qaeda and Sacrifice
Martyrdom, War and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This is a pioneering critical intervention into the study of terrorism, language and political thought. Challenging the commonly held idea that ‘suicide-bombings’ are motivated by a nihilistic hatred of life, this book argues that it is more helpful to examine such violent agency through the concept...
Prapañcasara Tantra
The Tantra on the Nature of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
The book is a translation of an ancient, previously untranslated Indian/Hindu Tantrik (religious) text. It is an important text in the field of Tantrik Hinduism and may have been written around the end of the first millennium. It is written in Sanskrit which is Indias classical (dead) language and...
The First Three Years and Beyond
Brain Development and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How much do children’s early experiences affect their cognitive and social development? How important is the parent’s role in child development? Is it possible to ameliorate or reverse the consequences of early developmental deficits? This vitally important book draws on the latest research from...
by Francis Finn
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In which Clarence Esmond places himself in the hands of the Bright-eyed Goddess of Adventure, and entrusted by that Deity to the care of a Butcher's Boy In which the Steamer St. Paul and a tramp lend their aid to the Bright-eyed Goddess In which Clarence and his companion, the Butcher's Boy, discourse,...
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population
Towards Universal Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design presents age-friendly design guidelines that are well-established, agreed-upon, research-based, actionable, and applicable across a variety of modern technology platforms.
The book offers guidance for product engineers,...
by Elias T. Krainski, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, Haakon Bakka
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Modeling spatial and spatio-temporal continuous processes is an important and challenging problem in spatial statistics. Advanced Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Using R and INLA describes in detail the stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) approach for modeling...
Women Veterans
Lifting the Veil of Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Women who fight in wars also have to fight for their right to do so. But what are the obstacles impeding their progress in achieving equal status as both active service members and as veterans? This book, written by a team of female veterans and military scholars, demonstrates the ways in which women...
by Esben Andreasen, Ian Reader, Finn Stefansson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Each of the eight chapters deals with a specific topic, such as Shinto, Buddhism, the new religions, and Christianity; there is an introduction that outlines the subject to be considered followed by a series of readings.