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Inference on the Hurst Parameter and the Variance of Diffusions Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion
Inference on the Hurst Parameter and the Variance of Diffusions Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This book is devoted to a number of stochastic models that display scale invariance. It primarily focuses on three issues: probabilistic properties, statistical estimation and simulation of the processes considered.
It will be of interest to probability specialists, who will find here an uncomplicated...
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima
Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors...
Dialogues across Diasporas
Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration...
by Dr N R Curry, N. Curry
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
In this book, Nigel Curry gives a full critical appraisal of policies and plans for countryside recreation, and proposes, in the context of rural restructuring as a whole, a range of new directions for policy that will better serve the needs of both the public and the countryside to the turn of the century.
From Lending to Learning
The Development and Extension of Public Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
From Lending to Learning provides a theoretical overview and practical guide to the functional area of delivering learning services within public libraries. It traces the development of public library service delivery and critically appraises the inherent tension between offering an educational-focused...
The Book of Havana
A City in Short Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him…
A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics...
by M.A.S. McMenamin, L. Margulis, Vladimir I. Vernadsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Vladimir Vernadsky was a brilliant and prescient scholar-a true scientific visionary who saw the deep connections between life on Earth and the rest of the planet and understood the profound implications for life as a cosmic phenomenon." -DAVID H. GRINSPOON, AUTHOR OF VENUS REVEALED
"The...
Secrets of Gorgeous
Hundreds of Ways to Live Well While Living It Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Hot on the heels of Esther Blum's deliciously successful Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous, comes this little bijou of a book. Offering up over 200 quick tips, it shows women how to eat and drink what they love yet maintain their youthful beauty. No diets, no gimmicks, just real solutions for gorgeous girls...
by N.C. Andreasen, J. Angst, F.M. Benes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the most important questions of our previous common volumes about affective, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic disorders was the question of what connects and what separates psychotic disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizo affective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986; Marneros and Tsuang Affective...
by Matthew Liebmann, Greg Borgstede, Craig N. Cipolla
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if colonialism on culture and society—with repect to both the colonizers...
by N.D. Barnes, N.R.C. Roberton
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When asked by students of medicine to name a reliable, readable and adequately comprehensive text book of clinical paediatrics we have, in the past, been forced to recommend the least unsatisfactory among the large number of not quite good enough books on the market. Those available always seemed...
Arkham
Relatos de horror cósmico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Envuelta en un ambiente onírico mezclado con humedad fluvial, entre grumos de un oscuro pasado de brujería y veneración a abominables entes ultraterrenos, Arkham muestra sus centenarias entrañas en un viaje temporal donde se van sucediendo destinos inexorables e inevitables encuentros, libros...
CALL "M" FOR MURDER: Ultimate Collection - 885 Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels & Detective Stories in One Edition
880+ True Crime Stories, Action Thrillers, Whodunit Mysteries & Supernatural Mysteries: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Thorndyke Cases, Bulldog Drummond, Detective Standish, Martin Hewitt, Max Carrados…
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited thriller collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt from Content: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men P.-C. Lee The Angel of Terror…...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...