Joseph J: 463 books

Written as a textbook with an online laboratory manual for students and adopting faculties, this work is intended for non-science majors / liberal studies science courses and will cover a range of scientific principles of food, cooking and the science of taste and smell. Chapters include: The Science...

A practical, reliable reference that helps audiologists and teachers achieve acoustic accessibility in the classroom Written and edited by renowned leaders in the field, Handbook of Acoustic Accessibility focuses on the acoustic conditions, therapies, and technologies that assist audiologists...

This important book demonstrates why geography matters in the modern-day world through its examination of 100 moments throughout history that had a significant impact on the study of geography—literally, "writing about the earth." • Provides readers with an understanding of why...

Forty-year-old Louise Berman has been wallowing in self-pity ever since her husband left her for a woman half her age and twice her brassiere size. Her English literature professor daughter, Laurie, has been living with her, all while attempting to keep a relationship with her father and his new wife....

For decades the Cheyennes endured abuses from the white settlers without spilling a single drop of white blood in well-merited reprisal. Finally goaded beyond human endurance, they turned on their tormentors with pent-up ferocity. They fought with desperate courage, but also with a high sense of honor,...

A 3D user interface (3DUI) is an interface in which the user performs tasks in three dimensions. For example, interactions using hand/body gestures, interaction using a motion controller (e.g. Sony PlayStation Move), interaction with virtual reality devices using tracked motion controllers, etc. All...

EARLY in December, 1906, I first visited Jamaica, where I planned staying a couple of months. On January 14th, the day of the disastrous earthquake, I was returning from the north side of the island, driving by way of Mount Diabolo, and I arrived at the Ewarton Railway Station about an hour before the...

The War Between the States is finished. In the wake of the bloodiest military conflict in American history, Malcolm Jefferson, a former Confederate officer, created an international shipping fleet that was suddenly catapulted into the most successful merchant house in the world when luck, cunning,...

Quantitative Human Physiology: An Introduction, winner of a 2018 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty), is the first text to meet the needs of the undergraduate bioengineering student who is being exposed to physiology for the first time, but requires a more analytical/quantitative approach. This book...

Suburban Sprawl combines historical, political, economic, geographic, and urban planning analysis to provide the most comprehensive overview of why and how urban sprawl occurs. It shows that all previous attempts to pin the blame on one or two causes - "highway building" or "consumer...

 This book contains a collection of hard hitting, short essays on topics of national interest. Joe Launie combines the knowledge and understanding of a university research scholar with the investigative skills of a forensic examiner in these unique essays. The essays are easy to read. Joe Launie's...

Family Forever features a murder trial, a legal dispute taken to the international court of justice in The Hague, a holdup of a Whitman restaurant by a gang of thieves, the brutal murder of the gangs leader, a traditional Jewish wedding, a noted philatelists hunt for a stolen stamp, and the production of a movie starring a Whitman.

In 1893 Baltimore, Cornelius Maximilian, a rugged ships master who has been summarily dismissed from the merchant navy as a result of the conniving of an avaricious trader, meets strong-willed, independent Vanessa Tompkins. Over everyones objections, Vanessa accompanies him to the Shelbourne coal...

Guardians of the Dream is a sequel to Gates of Horn and Ivory, continuing the story of Cornelius and Vanessa Maximilian and the unique town they built on the site of a restored coal mine in 1893. The years carry the town and the family through the destructive machinations of their son, the Great War,...