W P: 568 books
by Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Jennie W. Wenger, Jennifer Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This study for the U.S. Marine Corps presents a historical overview of the integration of women into the U.S. military and explores the importance of cohesion and what influences it. The gender integration experiences of foreign militaries, as well as the gender integration efforts of domestic police...
Driving to L and Back
God Bless Our Learner Drivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Are you mad? Have you got nerves of steel? Are you hoping to die soon? If the answers to all the above questions are yes, then you have what it takes to be a driving instructor. Twenty years as a driving instructor has made me appreciate the simple things in life. I spent ten years in the army, serving...
Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in Manufacturing
with Research and Applications in Thermal Laser Processing
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Solid Freeform Fabrication is a set of manufacturing processes that are capable of producing complex freeform solid objects directly from a computer model of an object without part-specific tooling or knowledge. In essence, these methods are miniature manufacturing plants which come complete with...
Understanding Traffic Systems
Data Analysis and Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Road traffic and its impacts affect all aspects of modern life, leisure and industry, with safety, congestion and pollution being of greatest public concern. Transport planning increasingly emphasises travel demand management (TDM) and traffic calming - aided by dynamic, lower cost data from Intelligent...
by T. Kelleghan, George F. Madaus, P.W. Airasian
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish...
Biomass for Energy in the Developing Countries
Current Role, Potential, Problems, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Biomass for Energy in the Developing Countries: Current Role, Potential, Problems, Prospects focuses on biomass energy and its importance to developing countries. This book outlines the reality that supply can no longer meet the demand of this form of energy. This fact is particularly observed in...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 1
Advances in breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varieties
Coverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storage
Discusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management
by T.D. Lekkas, J.B. Jahnel, C.J. Nokes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Drinking water quality has been a matter of concern for several decades. Disinfection of drinking water improves its microbiological quality and prevents disease outbreaks. However, continuously increasing scientific research concerns the presence of organic and inorganic contaminants in water. Many...
Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe?
New Production Concepts and Spatial Restructuring
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception, all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE - the exception being that commissioned...
Crossing Jordan
North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Jordan is a key area of migration within the Levantine corridor that links the continents of Africa and Asia. 'Crossing Jordan' examines the peoples and cultures that have travelled across Jordan from antiquity to the present. The book offers a critical analysis of recent discoveries and archaeological...
Motor Behavior
Programming, Control, and Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years there has been steadily increasing interest in motor behavior and a growing awareness that a person not only has to know what to do in a particular situation, but also how to do it. The question of how actions are performed is of central concern in the area of motor control. This volume...
by P.C. Stubbs, W.J. Tyson, M.Q. Dalvi
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transport. This book, first published in 1980 and revised in 1984, presents a synthesis of theoretical and empirical material to explain the elements of transport...
by Paul Whitney, John M. Hinson, Michael W. L. Chee
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Sleep Deprivation and Cognition, Volume 247, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, covers the effects of sleep deprivation, with this new release featuring sections on the Impact of sleep deprivation on long-term memory, Adolescent sleep restriction effects on cognition and...
by P W Muncaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1991
Comprehensive advice on applications, techniques and the best available equipment is given in clear, straightforward language.