L Mayer: 28 books

Book cover of SLAVERY: Hundreds of Documented Testimonies of Former Slaves, Influential Memoirs, Records on Living Conditions and Customs in the South & History of Abolitionist Movement
by Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

This unique collection of "SLAVERY: Hundreds of Documented Testimonies of Former Slaves, Influential Memoirs, Records on Living Conditions and Customs in the South & History of Abolitionist Movement" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Narrative...
Book cover of New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002

Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...
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The Times-Picayune in a Changing Media World

The Transformation of an American Newspaper

by S. L. Alexander, Frank D. Durham, Alfred Lawrence Lorenz
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

In 2012–2013, one of the largest U.S. newspaper chains, Advance Publications, determined its main product was no longer newspapers but news, and switched from daily print publication of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to three days a week, while upgrading its presence online (“Digital First”)....
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Widows' Words

Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between

by Alice Goode-Elman, Kelli Dunham, Penelope Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019

Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were...
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The State of the Parties

The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties

by Alan Abramowitz, Paul A. Beck, Michael John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014

The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
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Vicos and Beyond

A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru

by Clifford Barnett, Paul L. Doughty, Jorge Flores Ochoa
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010

In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social,...
Book cover of Statistical Methods for Ranking Data
by Mayer Alvo, Philip L.H. Yu
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

This book introduces advanced undergraduate, graduate students and practitioners to statistical methods for ranking data. An important aspect of nonparametric statistics is oriented towards the use of ranking data. Rank correlation is defined through the notion of distance functions and the notion...
Book cover of Exotic Pet Behavior E-Book

Exotic Pet Behavior E-Book

Birds, Reptiles, and Small Mammals

by Teresa Bradley Bays, DVM, Teresa L. Lightfoot
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006

In addition to coverage of all normal behavior patterns -- sensory, communication, social and antisocial, reproductive, eating, and elimination -- this resource helps you identify medical implications of abnormal behavior, pain-associated behaviors, and effects of captivity. Client education handouts...
Book cover of A Parametric Approach to Nonparametric Statistics
by Mayer Alvo, Philip L. H. Yu
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018

This book demonstrates that nonparametric statistics can be taught from a parametric point of view. As a result, one can exploit various parametric tools such as the use of the likelihood function, penalized likelihood and score functions to not only derive well-known tests but to also go beyond and...
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Creepypastas

Lendas da internet

by Graciele Ruiz, Raquel Pagno, Bruno Godoi
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 29, 2018

Os fóruns web estão repletos de histórias sobre casos misteriosos, investigações policiais não resolvidas, fotos sem explicação, descrições de rituais e manifestações demoníacas, versões bizarras e não oficiais de jogos eletrônicos, relatos de episódios macabros de desenhos infantis....
Book cover of Vögeln is dat Geilste von Welt!

Vögeln is dat Geilste von Welt!

99 erotische Kurzgeschichten

by Ina Stein, Lisa Cohen, Jenny Prinz
Language: German
Release Date: January 22, 2016

"HASTE BOCK AUF GEILEN SEX? KANNSTE HABEN! YO, LASS DICH VON DIESEM SCHARFEN SCHMÖKER ANTÖRNEN! ALLERFEINSTES KOPFKINO - GÖNN' DIR! EINE NUMMER HEISSER ALS DIE ANDERE, ECHT KRASS! HIER WIRD GEVÖGELT, WAS DAT ZEUG HÄLT. VOLLES ROHR. IMMER UND ÜBERALL. IN DEN SPEKTAKULÄRSTEN VARIATIONEN ... FAZIT DIESER 99 STORYS: VÖGELN IS DAT GEILSTE VON WELT!
Book cover of Der Einsatz von Aufstellungsarbeit in der Mediation

Der Einsatz von Aufstellungsarbeit in der Mediation

Eine qualitative Studie ueber Anwendungsbeispiele aus der Praxis

by Linda Brackwehr, Claude-Hélène Mayer
Language: German
Release Date: May 4, 2015

Aufstellungsarbeit birgt großes Potenzial für die Konfliktklärung und nimmt eine immer bedeutender werdende Rolle in der Mediation ein. Die Autorinnen gehen der Frage nach, wie Aufstellungsarbeit das Methodenwerkzeug der Mediation unterstützen und ergänzen kann. Für eine praktikable Umsetzung...
Book cover of Die Energiewende erfolgreich umsetzen

Die Energiewende erfolgreich umsetzen

Ein Leitfaden mit Handlungsempfehlungen und Praxishinweisen

by Thilo Blennemann, Harald Höflich, Till Jenssen
Language: German
Release Date: July 7, 2017

Bezahlbare Energieversorgung sichern Wie – insbesondere mit welchen Strategien – können die Städte, Gemeinden und Landkreise eine klimafreundliche und bezahlbare Energieversorgung für die Zukunft sicherstellen? Der Leitfaden enthält zuverlässige Antworten auf diese Frage. Er bietet • einen...
Book cover of Mediation auf Kuba

Mediation auf Kuba

Wie werden Konflikte im realsozialistischen Umfeld geloest?

by Lena Brode, Claude-Hélène Mayer
Language: German
Release Date: November 3, 2015

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit den Themen der Mediation und Konfliktlösung in kubanischen Kontexten und geht den Fragen nach, ob und wie Mediation auf Kuba praktiziert wird. Durch Einblicke in die praktische Anwendung des Mediationsverfahrens zeigen die Autorinnen, inwieweit das theoretische Konzept...
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