Derek: 1655 books

Book cover of The Maximal Subgroups of the Low-Dimensional Finite Classical Groups
by John N. Bray, Derek F. Holt, Colva M. Roney-Dougal
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,...
Book cover of Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence

by Petra Banks, Eric J. Bartelink, Derek A. Boyd
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...
Book cover of Homosexuality, Law and Resistance
by Derek McGhee
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...
Book cover of Suspect Citizens

Suspect Citizens

What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race

by Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, Kelsey Shoub
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...
Book cover of Agents of Neoliberal Globalization

Agents of Neoliberal Globalization

Corporate Networks, State Structures, and Trade Policy

by Michael C. Dreiling, Derek Y. Darves
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...
Book cover of Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care
by Derek Sellman, Katherine Pollard, Judith Thomas
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...
Book cover of Managing Built Heritage

Managing Built Heritage

The Role of Cultural Values and Significance

by Stephen Bond, Derek Worthing
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...
Book cover of Delivering social welfare

Delivering social welfare

Governance and service provision in the UK

by Birrell, Derek, Gray
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...
Book cover of Environments at Risk

Environments at Risk

Case Histories of Impact Assessment

by Derek Ellis
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...
Book cover of The Seductive Computer

The Seductive Computer

Why IT Systems Always Fail

by Derek Partridge
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;...
Book cover of Live Long and Strong!
by Derek Walker
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”...
Book cover of A Life Map

A Life Map

How to Attract the Life You Want and Deserve

by Derek Fox
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...
Book cover of Transport Phenomena in Porous Media
by I. Pop, Derek B Ingham
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,...
Book cover of Groups, Languages and Automata
by Derek F. Holt, Sarah Rees, Claas E. Röver
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...
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