Derek: 1655 books
by John N. Bray, Derek F. Holt, Colva M. Roney-Dougal
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
This book classifies the maximal subgroups of the almost simple finite classical groups in dimension up to 12; it also describes the maximal subgroups of the almost simple finite exceptional groups with socle one of Sz(q), G2(q), 2G2(q) or 3D4(q). Theoretical and computational tools are used throughout,...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...
by Derek McGhee
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices. Each chapter explores the power of discourse in law in relation to homosexualities, while simultaneously examining how homosexuals resist and disrupt these legal...
Suspect Citizens
What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies...
Agents of Neoliberal Globalization
Corporate Networks, State Structures, and Trade Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Depictions of globalization commonly recite a story of a market unleashed, bringing Big Macs and iPhones to all corners of the world. Human society appears as a passive observer to a busy revolution of an invisible global market, paradoxically unfolding by its own energy. Sometimes, this market is...
Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care
Professional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
There will always be a need for professionals to work collaboratively if they are to provide the highest standard of care. Interprofessional working encourages practitioners to understand the roles of other professionals and to learn from each other, as well as from service users and carers, to ensure...
Managing Built Heritage
The Role of Cultural Values and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This new edition examines management of built heritage through the use of values-led decision making, based on an understanding of the significance of the cultural asset. It considers how significance is assessed and used as an effective focus and driver for management strategies and processes.
The...
Delivering social welfare
Governance and service provision in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
As the system of governance and delivery of social welfare in the UK radically changes, this important new book argues that the extent of this change is such that it could be considered a fundamental transformation or even a revolution. It shows how a new public governance perspective has replaced...
Environments at Risk
Case Histories of Impact Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Environments at Risk is designed as an introductory text and uses case histories of environmental impact assessment to raise issues important in controlling environmental problems. This approach is novel as is the concentration on assessment procedures. In his twenty years of involvement with such...
The Seductive Computer
Why IT Systems Always Fail
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
IT systems explode budget estimates, bust production deadlines by years, and then fail to work properly. Why this IT-system crisis? Poor programmers? Inadequate project management? No.
The Seductive Computer argues that the fundamental nature of programming technology itself is the real culprit;...
by Derek Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
God wants you to live long and strong. His promise is in Psalm 91:16: “With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.” Jesus says in John 10:10: “I have come that they may have life in abundance.”However, God also says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”...
A Life Map
How to Attract the Life You Want and Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book has the potential to change your life and awaken in you the potential that already exists there. Using simple terms and writing, the author gives a step-by-step explanation of how you can use the law of attraction in your life for the better. The book explains how the writer tested and used...
by I. Pop, Derek B Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1998
Research into thermal convection in porous media has substantially increased during recent years due to its numerous practical applications. These problems have attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from many very diversified disciplines, such as applied mathematics,...
by Derek F. Holt, Sarah Rees, Claas E. Röver
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Fascinating connections exist between group theory and automata theory, and a wide variety of them are discussed in this text. Automata can be used in group theory to encode complexity, to represent aspects of underlying geometry on a space on which a group acts, and to provide efficient algorithms...