Alex P: 53 books

The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...

This book describes and provides many detailed examples of implementing Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) using R. The work adheres to Digital Soil Mapping theory, and presents a strong focus on how to apply it. DSM exercises are also included and cover procedures for handling and manipulating soil and...

Fresh from their victory over the great orc hordes, Rand and Mort are sent across the sea as their "reward" for their services to the king. The days are not idle, however, as the pair must now face a new challenge: each other in the narrow confines of a ship. Watch as Rand wrestles with his budding...

With the terrors of the sea dealt with and their ship thrice blessed, Rand and Mort turn to the horizon to shoulder their newest adventure. Their destination: Ecrovaun, a human settlement besieged by bloodthirsty orcs. Rand and Mort must navigate a siege, political negotiations, and cunning machinations...

Poeresia: poesia e heresia Venha cá, não tenha medo. Coloque para fora o que guarda aí há tanto tempo. Um dia te disseram para esconder isso aí, que era piegas, tosco, não digno de ser revelado. Ficou armazenado nas mais doces e amargas memórias. Com o tempo, pareceram sem gosto, neutras, desprovidas...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...

Presents a detailed study of the major design components that constitute a top-down decision-tree induction algorithm, including aspects such as split criteria, stopping criteria, pruning and the approaches for dealing with missing values. Whereas the strategy still employed nowadays is to use a 'generic'...

In Louisiana, every bite of food and each turn of phrase is an expression of cultural literacy. Correctly pronouncing "Tchoupitoulas" or "Atchafalaya," knowing the difference between the first Governor Long and the second one, being able to spot the artwork of Caroline Durieux,...

This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants.  The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in...

This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age 10-19, the ages when criminal behavior...

Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age is a timely volume by leading researchers in Life Course Criminology, which reports new findings from The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey of 411 South London males first studied at age 8 in 1961. The main aim...