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The Browns of California
The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
"Miriam Pawel's fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation's politics in the last half of the 20th century."--New York Times Book Review
California Book Award Gold Medal Winner * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A Los Angeles Times Bestseller * San Francisco...
Is God Back?
Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion examines the shifting boundary between religion and the public sphere in Europe and the Middle East. Asking what the 'new visibility of religion' means and challenging simplistic notions of living in a 'post-secular' age, the chapters explore...
Fort Worth
A Texas Original!
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Fort Worth has been called "the City Where the West Begins," "Cowtown," and the silent partner in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. None of these descriptions quite tells the story of this city and its people. Since its founding in the mid-nineteenth century as a military outpost, Fort Worth has gone...
Law and Religion in the 21st Century
Relations between States and Religious Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book brings together leading international scholars of law and religion to provide an overview of current issues in State-religion relations. The first part of the collection offers a picture of recent developments in key countries and regions. The second part is focused on Europe and, in particular,...
by Vasyl Tomashyk
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
III-V semiconductors have attracted considerable attention due to their applications in the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices as light-emitting diodes and solar cells. Because of their wide applications in a variety of devices, the search for new semiconductor materials and the...
Christianity in the Modern World
Changes and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
What is the state of Christianity today, and what might it look like in the future? In the West, the story for a long time has revolved around decline and the loss of monopoly status, but how are these shifts changing the practice of Christianity or individual belief? Similarly, the rapid growth of...
by Henry J. Pratt, Ronald Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Beginning in the 1890s, the social gospel movement and its secular counterpart, the Progressive movement, set the stage for powerful church and city governance connections. What followed during the next 100 years was the emergence of religious bodies as an important instrument for influencing City Hall...
It Happened in Ohio
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Thirty episodes from the history of the Buckeye State, including memorable events such as the Kent State Riots, but also featuring lesser-known tales.
by Tran Quoc Khanh, Peter Bodrogi, Trinh Quang Vinh
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Meeting the need for a reliable publication on the topic and reflecting recent breakthroughs in the field, this is a comprehensive overview of color quality of solid-state light sources (LED-OLED and laser) and conventional lamps, providing academic researchers with an in-depth review of the current...
Topological Structures in Ferroic Materials
Domain Walls, Vortices and Skyrmions
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book provides a state-of-the art overview of a highly interesting emerging research field in solid state physics/nanomaterials science, topological structures in ferroic materials. Topological structures in ferroic materials have received strongly increasing attention in the last few years....
Molecular Dynamics of Glass-Forming Systems
Effects of Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Pressure is one of the essential thermodynamic variables that, due to some former experimental difficulties, was long known as the “forgotten variable.” But this has changed over the last decade. This book includes the most essential first experiments from the 1960's and reviews the progress made...
Transport in Multilayered Nanostructures
The Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Over the last 25 years, dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) has emerged as one of the most powerful new developments in many-body physics. Written by one of the key researchers in the field, this book presents the first comprehensive treatment of this ever-developing topic.
Transport in Mutlilayered...
Laser Cooling
Fundamental Properties and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
In the recent decades, laser cooling or optical refrigeration—a physical process by which a system loses its thermal energy as a result of interaction with laser light—has garnered a great deal of scientific interest due to the importance of its applications. Optical solid-state coolers are one...
Localized Excitations in Nonlinear Complex Systems
Current State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The study of nonlinear localized excitations is a long-standing challenge for research in basic and applied science, as well as engineering, due to their importance in understanding and predicting phenomena arising in nonlinear and complex systems, but also due to their potential for the development...