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Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century
A Multidimensional Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible...
Curveballs & Changeups
Bleeding Blue and Seeing Red
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Robert Campbell, a businessman from St. Louis, heads to Chicago in 1867 and meets William Hulbert, a mysterious man who tells him he plans to build a baseball field. Hulbert claims that baseball in America will be a grand new pastime and a grand new business opportunity.
In 2006, Scott Banks...
by P.N. Shivakumar, Yang Zhang, K.C. Sivakumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This monograph covers the theory of finite and infinite matrices over the fields of real numbers, complex numbers and over quaternions. Emphasizing topics such as sections or truncations and their relationship to the linear operator theory on certain specific separable and sequence spaces, the authors...
Modelling Population Dynamics
Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
Models for Practical Routing Problems in Logistics
Design and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book deals with complex variants of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) within the manufacturing and service industries. The objective is to develop heuristics for these supply chain problems in order to offer practical solutions to improve operational efficiency....
The Child Welfare Challenge
Policy, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded...
by K.P. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Beth Sherman and her best friend Elaine Ellison decide to form a women’s networking group they half-jokingly call the Power & Money sisters, or PMS for short. It’s 1998, and business is booming in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C. Beth is a banker with a commitment-phobic boyfriend...
by Robert B. Fisher, Toby P. Breckon, Kenneth Dawson-Howe
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Written by leading researchers, the 2nd Edition of the Dictionary of Computer Vision & Image Processing is a comprehensive and reliable resource which now provides explanations of over 3500 of the most commonly used terms across image processing, computer vision and related fields including machine...
by Richard Lucius, Brigitte Loos-Frank, Richard P. Lane
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
This heavily illustrated text teaches parasitology from a biological perspective. It combines classical descriptive biology of parasites with modern cell and molecular biology approaches, and also addresses parasite evolution and ecology.
Parasites found in mammals, non-mammalian vertebrates,...
MRI of the Liver
Imaging Techniques Contrast Enhancement Differential Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Recent technological developments have broadened considerably the role of magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of liver pathology. Today, MR imaging is not looked upon merely as a problem-solving technique but is widely considered the principal imaging modality for both the detection and accurate...
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 9
The Roman Pottery Kilns at Rossington Bridge Excavations 1956-1961
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Report on the excavations of eight Roman pottery kilns at Rossington Bridge, Lincolnshire
Volume Nine of Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, published by Oxbow Books for the Study Group for Romano- British Pottery contains the long-awaited Rossington Bridge report. Rossington Bridge lies next...
by R.P Shellis, Barry K. B. Berkovitz, BDS
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The Teeth of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the teeth and dentitions of living fishes, amphibians and reptiles. The book presents a comprehensive survey of the amazing variety of tooth forms among non-mammalian vertebrates, based on descriptions of approximately...
Urban Growth and Development in Asia
Volume I: Making the Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
First published in 1999, this volume begins with a panoramic survey by Nigel Harris of the drama of Asian Urbanization, based on the inaugural plenary lecture he gave to the 5th Asian Urbanization Conference held in London. In the following chapters many experts and practitioners from different countries...
Zero
A Landmark Discovery, the Dreadful Void, and the Ultimate Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Zero indicates the absence of a quantity or a magnitude. It is so deeply rooted in our psyche today that nobody will possibly ask "What is zero?" From the beginning of the very creation of life, the feeling of lack of something or the vision of emptiness/void has been embedded by the creator...