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Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major...
Digital Signal Processing
An Introduction with MATLAB and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
In three parts, this book contributes to the advancement of engineering education and that serves as a general reference on digital signal processing. Part I presents the basics of analog and digital signals and systems in the time and frequency domain. It covers the core topics: convolution, transforms,...
by Marlan O. Scully, M. Suhail Zubairy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1997
The field of quantum optics has witnessed significant theoretical and experimental developments in recent years. This book provides an in-depth and wide-ranging introduction to the subject, emphasising throughout the basic principles and their applications. The book begins by developing the basic...
Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice
Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of...
Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century
Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The sixteen chapters of Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century are papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on American and European Values / International Conference on Josiah Royce, held at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Opole, Poland in June 2008. The presentation of diverse perspectives,...
The Kundalini Yoga Experience
Bringing Body, Mind, and Spirit Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Unleash your potential to live the life you’ve always wanted.
Kundalini yoga engages your unique sources of energy—those that empower your spirit as well as your body. Drawing from the riches of ancient yogic tradition, The Kundalini Yoga Experience offers a system of physical poses, breathing...
Gay Indians in Brazil
Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This book unveils an ignored aspect of the Brazilian history: how the colonization of the country shaped the sexuality of its indigenous population. Based on textual research, the authors show how the government and religious institutions gradually imposed the family model considered as "normal"...
by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., James O. Farlow
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is “a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts” (Science).
What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various...
by Stephen H. Balch, Patrick J. Deneen, Anthony M. Esolen
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when there is indifference or even antipathy toward the study of the West at most institutions of higher learning. Alternative narratives—including multiculturalism,...
by Charles O. Uzoaru M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Why do some marriages last while others break up? What can a couple do to keep their marital bond alive and well? How does one make the right choice and avoid getting entrapped into a miserable relationship? Marriage is like a journey up the hill made by two consenting partners. For that journey to...
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
Occupational Health Services
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations.
Designed...
Mindfulness and Critical Friendship
A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Mindfulness and Critical Friendship: A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators assembles an international community of scholar-practitioners from multiple disciplines who utilize different methodologies and ideological perspectives to reflect on and interrogate contexts that situate...
German Phonetics and Phonology
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The first course book designed to engage students in the pronunciation of modern German by grounding practice in theory An essential introduction to the pronunciation of modern German, this unique classroom text is designed to help mid- to upper-level undergraduate students of German produce more accurate...