P Manning: 11 books

Non-Euclidean Geometry is now recognized as an important branch of Mathematics. Those who teach Geometry should have some knowledge of this subject, and all who are interested in Mathematics will find much to stimulate them and much for them to enjoy in the novel results and views that...

Two-hundred years before they were born six siblings were made heir to highly coveted powers of magic. They will inherit these gifts when the eldest child, Retta, turns twelve-years-old. However, before midnight of the twelfth year Fea-Rhombus, the diamond demon of the Un-Sacred Rhealm will do whatever...

To remove the contents of an egg without puncturing its shell or to drink the liquor in a bottle without removing the cork is clearly unthinkable — or is it? Understanding the world of Einstein and curved space requires a logical conception of the fourth dimension. This readable, informative volume...

Big Data in History introduces the project to create a world-historical archive, tracing the last four centuries of historical dynamics and change. Chapters address the archive's overall plan, how to interpret the past through a global archive, the missions of gathering records, linking local data into global patterns, and exploring the results.

The coastal ocean comprises the semi-enclosed seas on the continental shelf, including estuaries and extending to the shelf break. This region is the focus of many serious concerns, including coastal inundation by tides, storm surges or sea level change; fisheries and aquaculture management; water...

An important question we asked ourselves before writing this book was – Do CBT books for panic that are already available accurately represent what CBT has to offer right now? The answer we arrived at was quite simply NO. Current clinical practice of CBT has developed so rapidly that it has now...

Game Trails of Northern Rhodesia is a selection of all the Northern Rhodesia Journal game articles: the hunting, the maneaters, the science of wildlife, the characters who lived out in the blue, the people in their villages whom we freed from the slave trade, many of their chiefs complicit in the...

Reviews the Los Angeles Fire Department’s hiring practices as of June 2014 and outlines a recommended new firefighter hiring process that is intended to increase efficiency of the hiring process, bolster the evidence supporting the validity of it, and make it more transparent and inclusive.

A history of Zambia from British South Africa Chartered Company rule to the present. I concentrate on wildlife conservation and management, and from 1966, on my conservation efforts, for two years attempting to save the Zambian black rhino (1987-88), but, in particular, on my attempts to implement...

A comprehensive overview of the current state of development in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). After an initial outline of the basic principles of the technique and a general description of flow phenomena, the individual chapters are devoted to a full range of technical considerations. Practical...

Examine the social and cultural impact of basketball on America at the amateur and professional levels! Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan’s Game and Beyond is a pioneering analysis of the history of basketball and its effect on popular culture from the 1970s to today....