J J Gregory: 190 books
Weather
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
From a world-renowned team at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, Weather: A Concise Introduction is an accessible and beautifully illustrated text covering the foundations of meteorology in a concise, clear, and engaging manner. Designed to provide students...
The American Civil War on Film and TV
Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes...
Van Gogh among the Philosophers
Painting, Thinking, Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
by Jeffrey J. Schaider, Allan B. Wolfson, Carlo L. Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine presents a clinically focused and evidence-based summary of emergency medicine. Chapters are templated to include the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, evaluation, management and disposition, with highlighted critical interventions...
Healthy and Sustainable Fundraising Activities
Mobilizing Your Community Toward Social Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
For most schools and organizations, fundraisers bridge the gap between budgets and the money they need in order to operate. Despite the continued rise in childhood and adult obesity and increased attention to humankind’s ecological impact, many fundraisers still rely on the sale of high-calorie,...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
Montesinos' Legacy
Defining and Defending Human Rights for Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Montesinos’ Legacy brings scholars together in honor of the 500th anniversary of Dominican Antonio de Montesinos’ famous sermon in defense of the rights of the indigenous Amerindians. The collection addresses the historical context for this sermon, but also the continued relevance of Montesinos...
by Gregory J. Healey MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Humor and entertainment, reflection and inspiration, information and advice are all to be found in the column titled Healey on Health as published in the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. In his weekly column, Dr. Greg Healey has served up a mlange of medical news, health information, personal experience,...
Cybersecurity for Executives
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Practical guide that can be used by executives to make well-informed decisions on cybersecurity issues to better protect their business
Emphasizes, in a direct and uncomplicated way, how executives can identify, understand, assess, and mitigate risks associated with cybersecurity issues
Covers...
Genetics
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional...
Working with Text
Tools, Techniques and Approaches for Text Mining
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
What is text mining, and how can it be used? What relevance do these methods have to everyday work in information science and the digital humanities? How does one develop competences in text mining? Working with Text provides a series of cross-disciplinary perspectives on text mining and its applications....
by Gregory J. Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Cities have evolved from small urban systems designed to withstand attack from without. The demands of the modern city have shifted the focus to the dangers of internal violence. War and the City analyses the role of cities in war and the effects of war on cities.
by Professor Gregory J. Tolhurst
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book explains the existence, meaning and application of the rules governing the assignment of contractual rights. The second edition is updated and retains the structure of the first edition, focusing on what is meant by 'assignment', the distinction between legal and equitable assignments, how...
Poorly Soluble Drugs
Dissolution and Drug Release
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This book is the first text to provide a comprehensive assessment of the application of fundamental principles of dissolution and drug release testing to poorly soluble compounds and formulations. Such drug products are, vis-à-vis their physical and chemical properties, inherently incompatible with...