Richard P : 304 books
Underwater Acoustics
Analysis, Design and Performance of Sonar
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Offering complete and comprehensive coverage of modern sonar spectrum system analysis, Underwater Acoustics: Analysis, Design and Performance of Sonar provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the subject and has been carefully structured to offer a much-needed update to the classic text by Urick....
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...
HR's Greatest Challenge
Driving the C-Suite to Improve Employee Engagement and Retention
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Nothing HR does contributes more to productivity than improving engagement and retention. Employees stay or leave – and engage or disengage – primarily based on their relationship with their manager. And that means their direct supervisor, the one they connect with – or don’t connect with...
A Proverb in Mind
The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies, and analyses. To accommodate the assorted possible audiences, this volume outlines seven views of the proverb -- personal, formal, religious,...
Ask the Pharmacist
Drug & Health Information for the Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Useful Answers To Your Everyday Questions
This book contains useful and easy to understand answers to your questions about medications by one of America's most trusted professionals, the pharmacist. Dr. Hoffmann provides timely answers to commonly asked questions about a wide variety of medication...
by Richard P. Usatine, Gary Ferenchick, Mindy Ann Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
2,000 illustrations enable fast and accurate visual diagnosis of more than 200 internal medicine conditions
This beautiful full-color resource delivers everything practicing internists want and need in an atlas. The book features a strong visual approach, the use of introductory cases in all chapters,...
by Richard P. Wasowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
The CliffsNotes study guide on Hosseini's The Kite Runner supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as...
by William John Davey, Richard P. MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape Breton pork pie is filled with dates, not pork.
The first regional dictionary devoted...
by Richard P. Pohanish
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
This reference handbook provides fully updated chemical, regulatory, health, and safety information on nearly 800 pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. The clear, consistent and comprehensive presentation of information makes Sittig's an essential reference for a wide audience including first...
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Financial And Economic Appraisal Using Spreadsheets
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
A social cost-benefit analysis of a proposed publicly funded project, or public policy change, may be commissioned by a municipal, state or federal government, by a government aid agency, or by an international. Proponents of a private project which has significant social impacts may also commission...
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by Richard P. Hallion
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 20 Illustrations
In 1942 the Allied powers faced the most serious challenge to their control of the seas encountered in the Second World War: the menace of the U-boat. Fast, well- armed, and long-ranged, Hitler’s submarines attacked shipping throughout the North Atlantic, often within...
The FRBR Family of Conceptual Models
Toward a Linked Bibliographic Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Since 1998 when FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) was first published by IFLA, the effort to develop and apply FRBR has been extended in many innovative and experimental directions. Papers in this volume explain and expand upon the extended family of FRBR models including Functional...
Wind Energy Essentials
Societal, Economic, and Environmental Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Examines the possible societal impacts of wind energy projects and explains the potential issues faced when siting, constructing, and operating a wind energy project.
This book begins with a history of wind power and the social impacts of both electricity and wind power from a historical perspective,...