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Company Organization (RLE: Organizations)
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This summary of theory and practice is inspired by the belief that cut and dried solutions to management problems are inappropriate and that every set of circumstances requires a unique synthesis of experience and relevant theories. In this book the authors have reviewed the main texts and theories...
Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems
An Anisotropy-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems takes an anisotropy-based approach to the explanation of random input disturbance with an information-theoretic representation. It describes the random input signal more precisely, and the anisotropic norm minimization included in the book enables readers...
by Rex Barnes, Joel Bordeaux, Albion M. Butters
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious traditions grounding such images...
Fostering Innovation in Community and Institutional Corrections
Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for the U.S. Corrections Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Given the challenges posed to the U.S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or approaches could improve performance. In this report, RAND researchers, with the...
by A.G. Pascovicci
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
OBSCURITY
before morning indeed
there's been a night deprived of animals what could I think?
and neither did I want to be alone
but the mounts and the sky out of them
star-abundant
told me that very near right at my feet
lies crouched...
by A.G. Noorani, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The civil rights of Indian citizens are guaranteed both in the Indian Constitution and through the State's international commitments. Despite these guarantees, the civil rights framework encounters numerous challenges from the State—problematic counter-terrorism laws, continuation of the death penalty,...
Teacher, Scholar, Mother
Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Teacher, Scholar, Mother advances a more productive conversation across disciplines on motherhood through its discussion on intersecting axes of power and privilege. This multi- and trans-disciplinary book features mother scholars who bring their theoretical and disciplinary lenses to bear on questions...
One God in Three Persons
Unity of Essence, Distinction of Persons, Implications for Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
How do the three persons of the Trinity relate to each other? Evangelicals continue to wrestle with this complex issue and its implications for our understanding of men's and women’s roles in both the home and the church.
Challenging feminist theologies that view the Trinity as a model for...
Organic Electro-Optics and Photonics
Molecules, Polymers, and Crystals
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This definitive guide to modern organic electro-optic and photonic technologies provides critical insight into recent advances in organic electro-optic materials, from the underlying quantum and statistical concepts through to the practical application of materials in modern devices and systems. •...
Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century
Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors...
The Last Ottomans
The Muslim Minority of Greece 1940-1949
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
A new study of the international and local politics surrounding the Muslim minority of Western Thrace (Greece) in the 1940s, based on previously unseen archival material. Addresses the minority's complex identity, its relations with other communities in the area, the international diplomacy of WWII and strategic considerations of the Cold War.
by Nicholas Wolterstorff, David G. Myers PhD, Malcolm A. Jeeves
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Identifies the major ideas that college and university students will encounter in a basic psychology course and explores connections with Christian belief.
The Juan Pardo Expeditions
Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.
This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians,...
by Robert G. Webster, Arnold S. Monto, Thomas J. Braciale
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
The Textbook of Influenza is a comprehensive resource covering all aspects of influenza, from the genetic and molecular biology of the virus through to clinical aspects of the disease and the latest drug developments and treatments. This new edition has been completely revised and reflects the integration...