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I Guess I Just Wasn't Thinking: Part One
Instead of Skipping Stones
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Based on their daring, dubious and disjointed nature, one could easily conclude a complete lack of forethought was responsible for Roger’s head-shaking array of adult activities. These included a proud beginning as a USMC carrier-based pilot, being hired by the CIA, flying missions for foreign governments,...
A World-Systems Reader
New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language...
by Erik Dahlman, Claude Oestges, Alan C. Bovik
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
A one-stop Desk Reference, for R&D engineers involved in communications engineering; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. Material covers a wide scope of topics...
Calvin and Servetus
The Reformers Share in the Trial of Michael Servetus
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Perhaps no criminal trial ever gave occasion to such acrimonious censures as that of Michael Servetus. Men of every rank, and every variety of opinion, have long united in condemning the transaction; and perhaps more has been argued or declaimed upon this single topic than upon all the hecatombs of...
Calvin and Servetus: The Reformers Share in the Trial of Michael Servetus
Historically Ascertained from the French: with notes and additions
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Perhaps no criminal trial ever gave occasion to such acrimonious censures as that of Michael Servetus. Men of every rank, and every variety of opinion, have long united in condemning the transaction; and perhaps more has been argued or declaimed upon this single topic than upon all the hecatombs of...
Nonlinear Digital Filters
Analysis and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Nonlinear Digital Filters provides an easy to understand overview of nonlinear behavior in digital filters, showing how it can be utilized or avoided when operating nonlinear digital filters.
It gives techniques for analyzing discrete-time systems with discontinuous linearity, enabling the...
The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest
Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform...
The Collapse of China's Later Han Dynasty, 25-220 CE
The Northwest Borderlands and the Edge of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
In the Later Han period the region covering the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their Central Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first...
Tunnel Vision
(Thru the Eyes of <Br>A Transit Cop)
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
For an African-American, the police department seemed to be an enemy; something to be feared not embraced.
Brown's decision to join the ranks of New York's finest would be one of the toughest decisions he would ever have to make, a decision he would have to live with for the rest of his life.
Tunnel...
by W. K. C. Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1977
The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts...
Philanthropy in England, 1480 - 1660
A study of the Changing Patterns of English Social Aspirations
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This study documents a momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author has examined gifts and bequests left for charitable causes over a period of nearly two centuries. in ten English counties, in order to assess...
Vectors, Pure and Applied
A General Introduction to Linear Algebra
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Many books in linear algebra focus purely on getting students through exams, but this text explains both the how and the why of linear algebra and enables students to begin thinking like mathematicians. The author demonstrates how different topics (geometry, abstract algebra, numerical analysis, physics)...
by Tanya Chan-ard, Jarujin Nabhitabhata, John W. K. Parr
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Thailand is home to over 350 species of reptiles, consisting of many kinds of turtles and tortoises, lizards, snakes and crocodiles. With its extensive network of protected areas, Thailand is one of the richest and most ecologically diverse countries in the world. However, many of these species are...
by W.K.R. Bedford
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Chios Classics brings literature’s greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.
The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem is a history of the Hospitallers.