M Michael: 940 books
Associate Training Manual
“Culturally Responsive Practice” a Prerequisite for Working with the Inmate Population
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Your knowledge of police ethics or lack thereof determines your experience! Every sworn officer knows, or at least should know by now, that they live in a glass jar. Friends, relatives, neighbors, and strangers watch every move that law enforcement officers make both on and off duty. The fact is that...
by Alyce M. Ujihara, Michael Gough
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Originally published in 1989, this report deals with issues surrounding ash residues produced by municipal waste combustors. Spurred by huge disagreements over the environmental risks that these ash residues posed; Managing Ash from Municipal Waste Incinerators attempts to shed light on the debates...
Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies
The Bloomington School and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
The work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom represents a distinctive contribution to the study of political economy, public policy and administration, collective action, and governance theory. Efforts to present a comprehensive overview of the Bloomington School that grew around the Workshop in Political...
Early Evolution of Human Memory
Great Apes, Tool-making, and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process. It synthesizes research from comparative cognition, neuroscience, primatology as well as lithic archaeology, reviewing findings on the cognitive...
Drug Abuse and Antisocial Behavior
A Biosocial Life Course Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book is rooted in the conviction that human biology plays a critical role in understanding drug abuse and antisocial behavior. In the same breath, however, it fundamentally affirms the importance of the many social and environmental factors that influence our behavior across the life course....
Applied Tribology
Bearing Design and Lubrication
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Insightful working knowledge of friction, lubrication, and wear in machines
Applications of tribology are widespread in industries ranging from aerospace, marine and automotive to power, process, petrochemical and construction. With world-renowned expert co-authors from academia and industry,...
by Dennis R. Moss, Michael M. Basic
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Pressure vessels are closed containers designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure. They have a variety of applications in industry, including in oil refineries, nuclear reactors, vehicle airbrake reservoirs, and more. The pressure differential...
Translating Systems Thinking into Practice
A Guide to Developing Incident Reporting Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Systems thinking tells us that human error, violations and technology failures result from poorly designed and managed work systems. To help us understand and prevent injuries and incidents, incident reporting systems must be capable of collecting data on contributory factors from across the overall...
Distributed Situation Awareness in Road Transport
Theory, Measurement, and Application to Intersection Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors theory and methods can be used to understand how situation awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists,...
Electrical Diseases of the Heart
Volume 2: Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Electrical Disease of the Heart, 2nd Edition, volume 2, covers the diagnostic and treatment options available in the management of electrical diseases and with its companion volume provides the latest developments in the field of experimental and clinical cardiac electrophysiology, genetics, pharmacology...
Electrical Diseases of the Heart
Volume 1: Basic Foundations and Primary Electrical Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Electrical Disease of the Heart, 2nd Edition, volume 1, provides a valuable insight to the latest developments in the field of cardiac electrophysiology and clinical electrocardiology. Each chapter includes up-to-date results of studies aimed at providing an understanding of the electrical function...
by Robert H. Freilich, Michael M. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
A major revision of a classic planning text. This book contains a complete model subdivision ordinance for city and county governments as well as more than 100 pages of legal commentary. The model regulations are generally compatible with all state statutes and work in urban, suburban, and rural settings....
by Richard G.M. Morris, Lionel Tarassenko, Michael Kenward
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Cognitive Systems - Information Processing Meets Brain Science presents an overview of the exciting, truly multidisciplinary research by neuroscientists and systems engineers in the emerging field of cognitive systems, providing a cross-disciplinary examination of this cutting-edge area of scientific...
by Julie Zigo, Marcia Lajoie, Felicity Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
There is a rapidly emerging and developing area of music therapy practice that uses electronic music technologies in a range of therapeutic and clinical settings to help clients with complex needs. This edited volume explains cutting edge technologies and how to apply these tools in practice.
With...