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In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...

Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking book that offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and a four-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking, prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instruction workload. Based on surveys and interviews with...

Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the developing world. It has been estimated that maize yields need to increase by 60% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such...

This book provides an account of the use of computational tactical metrics in improving sports analysis, in particular the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) data in soccer. As well as offering a practical perspective on collective behavioural analysis, it introduces the computational metrics...

The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident. During the last decade, science, especial­ ly medical practice, has become an increasingly complex undertak­ ing. Recent dramatic developments in medicine have given rise to both theoretical controversies...

D’aussi loin qu’il se souvienne, New York City a toujours été la destination de rêve de Miles Hunter, mais il est certain que les monstres imaginaires qu’il invente dans ses histoires sont les seules aventures qu’il aura jamais l’occasion de vivre... jusqu’à ce qu’une tentative d’agression...

This reference is dedicated to the problem of time-temperature stability of amorphous (non-crystalline) metal alloys with strongly nonequilibrium structure and unique physical and mechanical properties that are obtained by quenching from the melt at a rate that exceeds one millions of degrees c.o.s....

Carcinoma of the urinary bladder is a common (in the USA it is the fifth most common form of cancer in males and tenth most common form of cancer in females) malignan­ cy and one in which noninvasive staging by imaging plays such an important role. This book presents a complete approach to MR imaging...

Serie Piccole cose, Libro 1 “Papà” non era un titolo che Rue Morraway desiderasse, ma non aveva neppure mai pensato di fare sesso con una donna. Adesso è il padre involontario di una neonata di nome Alice. Tra il suo lavoro come barista e la scuola per parrucchieri, Rue non ha il tempo...

Serie Rock Bay, Libro 1 Tallis Carrington regnava su Rock Bay con la sua banda di gorilla usando il pugno di ferro, fino a quando uno scandalo non distrusse il nome della sua famiglia. Dieci anni dopo, Tally è rimasto al verde, senza casa, a percorrere il peggiore dei viali della vergogna....

Zack Parker a rencontré son meilleur ami Noah pendant ses vacances au chalet du lac, alors qu’ils n’avaient que cinq ans. Un soir fatidique lors de leur dix-septième été, Zack n’a plus eu la force de se retenir. Poussé par l’amour et le désir, il a embrassé son ami d’enfance comme...

August O'Leary ist der begehrteste Hochzeitsplaner Londons und dadurch natürlich die erste Anlaufstelle von Libby und Edward, die sich eine Hochzeit wünschen, die die Stadt so schnell nicht vergessen soll. Da Edward durch seine Arbeit wenig Zeit für die Planung hat, übernimmt Libbys bester Freund...

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life...