List 17 of books by George John

Introduction to Nature-Inspired Optimization

by George Lindfield, John Penny
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

Introduction to Nature-Inspired Optimization brings together many of the innovative mathematical methods for non-linear optimization that have their origins in the way various species behave in order to optimize their chances of survival. The book describes each method, examines their strengths and...

Numerical Methods

Using MATLAB

by George Lindfield, John Penny
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018

The fourth edition of Numerical Methods Using MATLAB® provides a clear and rigorous introduction to a wide range of numerical methods that have practical applications. The authors’ approach is to integrate MATLAB® with numerical analysis in a way which adds clarity to the numerical analysis and...

Place Matters

Criminology for the Twenty-First Century

by David Weisburd, John E. Eck, Anthony A. Braga
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016

Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes...

Creative Intelligence [Halls of Wisdom]

by John Dewey, Addison Moore, Harold Chapman-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016

The Essays which follow represent an attempt at intellectual coöperation. No effort has been made, however, to attain unanimity of belief nor to proffer a platform of "planks" on which there is agreement. The consensus represented lies primarily in outlook, in conviction of what is most...

A Handbook of Techniques for Formative Evaluation

Mapping the Students' Learning Experience

by Cowan, John (formerly Director, The Open University
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

This handbook provides all those teaching in higher and further education with a reference on how to develop and use a "toolkit" which is capable of exploring and assessing all the relevant aspects of their students' learning. It discusses how readers can assess their own teaching quality.

Teaching Peace

Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts

by Denny J. Weaver, Gerald Biesecker-Mast, Glen H. Stassen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003

This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...

Centralisation, Devolution and the Future of Local Government in England

by Steve Leach, John Stewart, George Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

English local government is in a state of decline after 40 years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central government. This book is the first to directly address this trend's impact upon the institution of local government, a crucial element in the democratic viability of a unitary...

Warring over Valor

How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

by Simon Wendt, George Lewis, Ellen D. Wu
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

By focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers...

Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century

The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept

by Recep Alpyagil, Stephanie N. Arel, John Arthos
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018

This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis...

Transforming the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Contact with the Natural World

Fresh Air on My Face

by Lorraine Robertson, Marie-José Enders-Slegers, Johanna M. Wigg
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different ways...

The Coldstream Guards, 1914-1918 Vol. I [Illustrated Edition]

by Lt. Col. Sir John Foster George Ross-of-Bladensburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes 27 maps “History of the four active service battalions in the Great War with details of officers’ services during the war. The Coldstream Guards had three battalions in August 1914, all three committed to the BEF: the 1st Battalion was in the 1st (Guards) Brigade, 1st Division;...

The Search for Mabila

The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa

by Neal G. Lineback, Alan Knight, Linda Derry
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009

One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...

Forging Southeastern Identities

Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South

by Robin A. Beck, Ian W. Brown, Penelope Ballard Drooker
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017

Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent...

The Coldstream Guards, 1914-1918 Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]