V Alexander: 87 books
Finding Our Way
Love and Law in The United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Questions and conflict about homosexual practice and the church abound. We encounter media reports of same-gender unions and clergy trials. This leads to talk in congregations and district preacher's meetings, in the hallways at district, conference and general church gatherings, and in the deliberations...
Water and Environment in the Selenga-Baikal Basin
International Research Cooperation for an Ecoregion of Global Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the region. In this large-scale river and lake basin, there are strong contrasts between regions of relatively pristine nature and massive anthropogenic impacts...
Sociologia n.2/2017
Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2017
La società e la storia NICOLA ANTONETTI Prefazione. “Sociologia” una cultura per la democrazia ANDREA BIXIO Introduzione Sturzo e la tradizione storica LUIGI STURZO La Sociologia GABRIELE DE ROSA Il tempo e l'opera di Luigi Sturzo PIETRO SCOPPOLA Intellettuali in una società in trasformazione:...
by Alexander V
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The lands ache and the skies cry, yet the soldiers' will is unwavering. An honorable battle must take place.
Flexoelectricity in Solids
From Theory to Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This unique compendium is devoted to flexoelectricity — the response of polarization to a strain gradient. The effect is analogous to piezoelectricity which is the response of polarization to strain itself. In contrast to piezoelectricity, which appears only in non-centrosymmetric materials, flexoelectric...
Deng Xiaoping
A Revolutionary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms....
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...
by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
Penalty Strike
The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Extremely rare (possibly the only) book-length account of a Soviet penal unit in World War II
Gritty, intense style conveys the brutality of war on the Eastern Front
Composed of convicts--soldiers who conducted "unauthorized retreats," former Soviet POWs deemed untrustworthy,...
Heteromagnetic Microelectronics
Microsystems of Active Type
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Devoted to heteromagnetic microelectronics, this book is based on original material from the author’s programs of designing heteromagnetic microsystems of various types. It includes pioneering results of research on magnetoelectronics of millimetric waves.
by Ivan S. Gutzow, Oleg V. Mazurin, Snejana V. Todorova
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Written by renowned researchers in the field, this up-to-date treatise fills the gap for a high-level work discussing current materials and processes. It covers all the steps involved, from vitrification, relaxation and viscosity, right up to the prediction of glass properties, paving the way for...
by Vladimir S. Saakov, Valery Z. Drapkin, Alexander I. Krivchenko
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
This book provides a multidisciplinary overview to the application of high order derivative spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy in biology and ecology. The characteristics of the principle methods as well as the generation of reliable spectra are discussed in general terms...