John R: 1297 books
Presidential Swing States
Why Only Ten Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The 2016 presidential race is arguably already over in 40 states and the District of Columbia. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2016, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their votes will matter...
by Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Statisticians and philosophers of science have many common interests but restricted communication with each other. This volume aims to remedy these shortcomings. It provides state-of-the-art research in the area of philosophy of statistics by encouraging numerous experts to communicate with one another...
How Science Works: Evolution
A Student Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science...
by Alfred R. Wallace, John W. Lindt
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book presents the History of New Guinea and its ihabitants. “Immediately north of Australia, and separated from it at Torres Straits by less than a hundred miles of sea, is the largest island on the globe — New Guinea, a country of surpassing interest, whether as regards its natural productions...
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this...
by Honoré de Balzac, Samuel R. Delany, Robert Silverberg
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Escritores do século 18 ao 20, entre escritores clássicos e renovadores da Ficção Científica, criam contos em que o amor e o sexo vencem os limites do tempo e da morte e onde máquinas estendem para além do imaginável as paixões e os prazeres.
The Role of Religion in Peacebuilding
Crossing the Boundaries of Prejudice and Distrust
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The question 'who is my neighbour?' challenges the way we see ourselves as well as the way we see others. Especially in situations where we feel conflicted between our own self-identity and common identity within a wider society.
Historically, religion has contributed to this inner conflict...
by R. Paul Evans, Steve Waugh, John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Exam Board: WJEC
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: June 2019
Endorsed by WJEC
Confidently tackle curriculum change with the market-leading series for WJEC GCSE History; relaunched to cover the new content and assessment requirements, this book helps...
by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
These counterexamples, arranged according to difficulty or sophistication, deal mostly with the part of analysis known as "real variables," starting at the level of calculus. The first half of the book concerns functions of a real variable; topics include the real number system, functions and limits,...
by R. Henry Thurston, John Hawkshaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The progress of engineering works has already in our time been prodigious.
As to the future, we know we cannot create a force; we can, and no doubt shall, greatly improve the application of those with which we are acquainted. What we called inventions can do no more than this, yet how much every day...
Diplomatic Games
Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often facilitate diplomacy, revealing common interests across borders and uniting groups of people who are otherwise...
by R. John Rath
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Liberalism, in the nineteenth-century sense of the term, came to Austria much later than it came to western Europe, for it was not until the 1840s that the industrial revolution reached the Hapsburg Empire, bringing in its train miserable working conditions and economic upheaval, which created bitter...
by John C. Doyle, Bruce A. Francis, Allen R. Tannenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
An excellent introduction to feedback control system design, this book offers a theoretical approach that captures the essential issues and can be applied to a wide range of practical problems. Its explorations of recent developments in the field emphasize the relationship of new procedures to classical control theory. 1992 edition.
by R. N. Morris, John Mogey
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.