J I : 379 books
Motor Behavior
Programming, Control, and Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years there has been steadily increasing interest in motor behavior and a growing awareness that a person not only has to know what to do in a particular situation, but also how to do it. The question of how actions are performed is of central concern in the area of motor control. This volume...
Marxism and Alternatives
Towards the Conceptual Interaction Among Soviet Philosophy, Neo-Thomism, Pragmatism, and Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Contemporary philosophy is by its nature pluralistic, to a perhaps greater extent than at any moment of the preceding tradition, in that there are multiple forms of thought competing for a position on the center of the philosophic stage. The reasons for this conceptual proliferation are numerous....
by T.G. Ashwort, E.M. Andersen, R.C. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The continuous and rapid improvement of tourism around the whole world and the increasing emigration of peoples from the developing countries to the "old continents" have changed the classical image of tropical diseases, which are now seen more frequently in temperate and highly developed...
by R.D. de Abreu, G. van den Berghe, G. Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One person in four in the industrialized countries suffers from hyperuricemia and is therefore at risk of developing gouty arthritis, nephrolithiasis, or any of the other consequences of urate deposition. At present, far too little is known about urate deposition and the mechanisms by which it occurs,...
Stained
The Secret Shame of a Teenage Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Having been raised in a religious and socially isolated home, nothing prepared me for the dangerous world I would encounter. Stained is the true story of an innocent girl, and her fight for survival. While growing up, I heard my mother whispering about my uncle. At age 11, I found out the dark secret...
by I. Chorkendorff, J. W. Niemantsverdriet
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In the past 12 years since its publication, Concepts of Modern Catalysis and Kinetics has become a standard textbook for graduate students at universities worldwide. Emphasizing fundamentals from thermodynamics, physical chemistry, spectroscopy, solid state chemistry and quantum chemistry, it introduces...
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
Distinctive Features
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
How can I supercharge the therapy I currently use?
This volume distils the core principles, methods, and vision of the approach. Each Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) principle is presented in terms of its intended purpose and is clearly linked to the underlying theory, thus providing...
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.
The...
The Assassin's Daughter
Akitada Mysteries, #15
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Fifteen years after the brutal murder of an imperial prince, the crime casts its shadow on Akitada’s family. The case is cold and the assassin dead, but his young wife’s brother wants to marry the assassin’s daughter, and Akitada is expected to clear his name. Worse, in doing so he must either...
The Fires of the Gods
Akitada Mysteries, #7
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
The capital is plagued by unexplained fires, and panic threatens to break out, but Akitada has his own problems to worry about. His ailing wife expects a child and he loses his job to a political appointee. When he tries to confront the nobleman who is responsible for his dismissal, he ends up suspected...
The Masuda Affair
Akitada Mysteries, #6
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Still grieving the death of his small son, Akitada risks career, freedom, and family to rescue an abused child from a life of misery. The search for the boy’s family leads to a harrowing story of love, murder, and abandonment. Meanwhile, his faithful servant Tora loses his new wife to a powerful...
The Shrine Virgin
Akitada Mysteries, #14
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
When an imperial princess disappears from the Ise shrine, Akitada, new governor of Mikawa Province, has barely had time to settle there with his family before he is dispatched by imperial order on a secret assignment to find her.The world Akitada finds at Ise turns out to be anything but spiritual....
The Island of the Gods
Akitada Mysteries, #16
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
From the Shamus Award winning author comes a new mystery set in Imperial Japan.In the autumn of 1033, Sugawara Akitada spends his last year as governor of Mikawa Province amidst reports of piracy and concerns about an uprising. He grieves over his troubled marriage and worries about the murder...
Ikiryo: Vengeance and Justice
Akitada mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Deeply distressed by his wife's adultery, Akitada returns to the capital to patch up his marriage and to help Superintendent Kobe with a case of poisoning. But before he can deal with either, the prime minister orders Akitada to save his dyinbg brother who is plagued by a vengeful spirit from his...