A Thomas: 872 books
by Hank Savitch, James C. Clinger, Michael W. Hail
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The cornerstone of the American republic is an educated, active, and engaged citizenry; however, the multifaceted inner workings of government and the political forces that shape it are incredibly complex. Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy is the first book in nearly three decades to...
by A.J. Thomas
Language: French
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Après une confuse nuit de beuverie, Patrick Connelly devient père. Déterminé à être présent pour son fils, Patrick abandonne l’un de ses sports favoris et décide de cacher sa sexualité à jamais.
Suite à un divorce brutal et à un violent crime de haine, son fils Jay développe...
by Thomas A Bass
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The Eudaemonic Pie is the bizarre true story of how a band of physicists and computer wizards took on Las Vegas.
Advances in Heat Transfer
Cumulative Subject and Author Indexes and Tables of Contents for Volumes 1-31
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Advances in Heat Transfer is designed to fill the information gap between regularly scheduled journals and university level textbooks by providing in-depth review articles over a broader scope than is allowable in either journals or texts.
Stream Hydrology
An Introduction for Ecologists
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Since the publication of the first edition (1994) there have been rapid developments in the application of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology to stream management. In particular, growth has occurred in the areas of stream rehabilitation and the evaluation of environmental flow needs. The concept...
Youth Soccer
From Science to Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2004
As the adult game has increased in popularity, youth soccer has also seen significant expansion in recent years. The popularity of the youth game is set to continue. Young boy and girl players wish to emulate professional soccer stars and the professional game, often with long-term financial rewards...
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life...
by Thomas M. Chen, Jafar A. Alzubi, Omar A. Alzubi
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This book covers the design, construction, and implementation of algebraic-geometric codes from Hermitian curves. Matlab simulations of algebraic-geometric codes and Reed-Solomon codes compare their bit error rate using different modulation schemes over additive white Gaussian noise channel model....
White on Arrival
Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late 19th century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and a diverse array of primary sources in English and Italian, Guglielmo focuses on how perceptions of Italians' race and color were shaped in one of America's great centers of...
by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group...
The Joke Is on Us
Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet...
Buildings and Power
Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building types during the Century of...
by Thomas B. Mafrici, Elizabeth A. August
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
One of the fastest-growing suburbs of Syracuse, Cicero lies on the shores of Oneida Lake, the largest lake entirely enclosed within New York. The Cicero area was home to the Iroquois and Owasco Indian tribes. The trails they created through Cicero were transformed into the first plank road laid in the...
by Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Joe Thomas A., Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility, to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in societies, whatever their morals or cultural references. This work assembles one thousand images of erotic art, from all times and all continents, to...