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Kafka's Creatures
Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating...
by Walter S. Tower, H. M. Kingery
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
"The project for a deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf has been dreamed about and discussed intermittently for half a century, but nothing definite ever came of it until a little over a year ago, when, from a conference held at St. Louis, there was born the permanent organization called...
by Tony Xhudo M.S., H.N.
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Chronic stress can make life miserable and it kills, the leading cause of illness in America today, with over three quarters of the population experiencing or suffering from symptoms related to stress. Don't be a victim to this syndrome, learn how to prevent, and recover from this debilitating illness.
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by Nelson H. Lawry, Glen M. Williford, Leo K. Polaski
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Including more than two hundred vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbor�s Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua River�s naval shipyard and harbor defenses. Long before it became home to one of the U.S. Navy�s first federal shipyards, the harbor at...
Far East, Down South
Asians in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant,...
Teaching Mathematics Meaningfully, 2e
Solutions for Reaching Struggling Learners, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Unlock math concepts for struggling learners with the expanded new edition of this bestselling text, ideal for both preservice and in-service educators. Filled with invaluable tips, tools, and research-based strategies for Grades K-12, this comprehensive resource fully prepares teachers to demystify...
Corporate Governance and Investment Management
The Promises and Limitations of the New Financial Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Shareholder engagement with publicly listed companies is often seen as a key means to monitor corporate malpractices. In this book, the authors examine the corporate governance roles of key institutional investors in UK corporate equity, including pension funds, insurance companies, collective investment...
Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major...
by H M Alden
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
A brief look at the development of the railroad in Great Briton during the early part of the nineteenth century, highlighting the roles of George and Robert Sephenson in the earliest stages of Railroading.
by H. Kriesi, D. Bochsler, J. Matthes
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the models of contemporary democracy; its social, cultural, economic and political prerequisites; its empirically existing varieties and its two major challenges - globalization and mediatization. The book also covers the global spread of democracy and its spread into supranational democracies.
by Wei Shyy, H. S. Udaykumar, Madhukar M. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This text describes several computational techniques that can be applied to a variety of problems in thermo-fluid physics, multi-phase flow, and applied mechanics involving moving flow boundaries. Step-by-step discussions of numerical procedures include multiple examples that employ algorithms in problem-solving.In...
The DelFly
Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands.
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Power System Dynamics and Stability
With Synchrophasor Measurement and Power System Toolbox
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Classic power system dynamics text now with phasor measurement and simulation toolbox
This new edition addresses the needs of dynamic modeling and simulation relevant to power system planning, design, and operation, including a systematic derivation of synchronous machine dynamic models together...
The State and Healthcare
Comparing OECD Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain, Germany and the USA, this volume is a thorough examination of the convergence toward hybrid forms of healthcare systems.