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Latin American Perspectives on Globalization
Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover...
China Inside Out
Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a...
Globalizing Chinese Migration
Trends in Europe and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. Globalizing Chinese Migration is the first volume to deal comprehensively with the most recent wave of the migration from the People's Republic of China to Europe and Asia. By analyzing the Chinese state’s role in this migration, the authors dismiss as fiction...
The American Military Tradition
From Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the...
by E. L. Houghton, P. W. Carpenter, Steven H. Collicott
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, Seventh Edition, is one of the world’s leading course texts on aerodynamics. It provides concise explanations of basic concepts, combined with an excellent introduction to aerodynamic theory. This updated edition has been revised with improved pedagogy and...
Linear Systems
A Measurement Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This brief presents recent results obtained on the analysis, synthesis and design of systems described by linear equations. It is well known that linear equations arise in most branches of science and engineering as well as social, biological and economic systems. The novelty of this approach is that...
Quad Rotorcraft Control
Vision-Based Hovering and Navigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Quad Rotorcraft Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging system and a combination of inertial and altitude sensors to localize and guide the movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle...
National Service and Volunteerism
Achieving Impact in Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national...
Not Just Getting By
The New Era of Flexible Workforce Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2005
Not Just Getting By chronicles groundbreaking thinking and research on new and innovative workforce development initiatives to create flexible and collaborative programs and policies. Author Mary Gatta builds on extensive interviews and focus groups with 128 women enrolled in a U.S. Department of...
Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
by Emanuël A.P. Habets, Jingdong Chen, Jacob Benesty
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This work addresses this problem in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. We divide the general problem into five basic categories depending on the number of microphones being used and whether the interframe or interband correlation is considered. The first category deals with the single-channel...
The Entrepreneurial Engineer
How to Create Value from Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Authors, educators and successful entrepreneurs wrote this textbook with the primary goal of maximising your chance of entrepreneurial success. It is designed to encourage those wanting to start a business and those who have already begun. It includes guidance, instruction and practical lessons for...
by P. L. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Henry met Margaret during the gap between the Great Depression and World War II, Henry was a sailor with a “girl in every port” attitude, a gunner’s mate on the USS Saratoga. Margaret had gone through a painful divorce a year earlier and promised herself never again to let a man mistreat her....
by Scott L. McLean, Sean D. Foreman, Donna R. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The 2020 United States presidential race is arguably already over except for about 12 states and 20 counties. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2020, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their...