John Andrew: 269 books
by Andrew Prentice, John Knight, W.P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Newnes Building Services Pocket Book is a unique compendium of essential data, techniques and procedures, best practice, and underpinning knowledge. This makes it an essential tool for engineers involved in the design and day-to-day running of mechanical services in buildings, and a valuable reference...
Approaches for Community Decision Making and Collective Reasoning
Knowledge Technology Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Technology currently encourages the capture and storage of vast quantities of data and information and so thinkers, reasoners, and decision-makers have available large resources to support their tasks. At the same time, there is a need to engage with an enormous range of complex issues that require reasoning...
Philosophical Dialogues
Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999
The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy_the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly...
by Gary Miner, John Elder IV, Thomas Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications brings together all the information, tools and methods a professional will need to efficiently use text mining applications and statistical analysis.
Winner of a 2012 PROSE Award in Computing and Information...
Reconstructions of Secondary Education
Theory, Myth and Practice Since the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
British secondary education has changed in major ways since 1945. This book examines some consequences and implications of both change and stability, drawing on a unique series of national surveys of school leavers in Scotland. The authors provide an empirical and theoretical account of central problems...
Joint Attention
New Developments in Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and Social Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.
Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention—the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature—has increased rapidly over the past...
Rebellion and Riot
Popular Disorder in England During the Reign of Edward VI
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2000
The short reign of Edward VI was a turbulent one, even by Tudor standards. The kingdom was threatened by widespread unrest, riots, and rebellions among the common people. In this study, Beer looks at these dramatic events from the viewpoint of the rebellious commoners. Above the clamor of the streets...
After Prisons?
Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
As recently as five years ago mass incarceration was widely considered to be a central, permanent feature of the political and social landscape. The number of people in U.S. prisons is still without historic parallel anywhere in the world or in U.S. history. But in the last few years, the population...
by Lonely Planet, Brett Atkinson, Andrew Bender
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road withLonely Planet's **Pacific Coast Highway'sRoad Trips. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll...
by Maria Krysan, Howard Winant, John Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The book is divided into two major sections: (1) “Reclaiming Integration”; (2) “Reclaiming the Language of Race.” Both sections are located in the context of the “post-racial” era and analyzed by nationally renowned scholars in various dimensions. The purpose of this organization is to...
by Andrew E. Hill, John H. Walton
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This innovative textbook at long last provides an Old Testament survey for undergraduate students that goes beyond basic content. The book attempts to balance the literary, historical, and theological issues pertaining to each individual book and to the Old Testament as a whole. The main portion of...
by John N. Oswalt, J. Andrew Dearman, Iain M. Duguid
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This NIVAC Bundle includes the four books of the Bible that cover the major prophets found in the NIV Application Commentary series.
Chimpanzee Rights
The Philosophers’ Brief
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.
While...
by Douglas J.E. Nykolaishen, Andrew J. Schmutzer, Mark Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of...