R J Roger: 34 books
L'huile d'olive en Méditerranée
Histoire, anthropologie, économie de l'Antiquité à nos jours
Language: French
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Après le café en Méditerranée, l’huile d’olive... Il nous est particulièrement agréable de présenter cette publication, dernier fruit de la coopération étroite qui unit le Groupement d’intérêt scientifique « Sciences humaines » sur l’aire méditerranéenne, d’Aix-en-Provence,...
by J. R. Ubejd Mujagic, J. Daniel Dolan, Chukwuma G. Ekwueme
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
A concise guide to the structural design of low-rise buildings in cold-formed steel, reinforced masonry, and structural timber
This practical reference discusses the types of low-rise building structural systems, outlines the design process, and explains how to determine structural loadings and load...
Pastoral Bearings
Lived Religion and Pastoral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
The study of lived religion is an enterprise which attempts to elucidate how 'ordinary' men and women in all times and places draw on religious behavior, media, and meanings to make sense of themselves and their world. Through the influence of liberation theology and postmodernism, pastoral theologians_like...
Iatrogenicity
Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Iatrogenesis is the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors. This is a huge...
by Alain Roger, Jérôme Rive
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Les nombreuses expériences et études de terrain menées par Hall le conduisent à observer que les personnes qui sont confrontées à un nouveau contexte culturel éprouvent au départ le sentiment désagréable d’être perdues. Les touristes qui restent peu de temps ont tendance à se protéger...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
The Schrödinger-Virasoro Algebra
Mathematical structure and dynamical Schrödinger symmetries
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
This monograph provides the first up-to-date and self-contained presentation of a recently discovered mathematical structure—the Schrödinger-Virasoro algebra. Just as Poincaré invariance or conformal (Virasoro) invariance play a key rôle in understanding, respectively, elementary particles and...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
Ready for Takeoff
China's Advancing Aerospace Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
An assessment of China's aerospace manufacturing capabilities and how China's participation in commercial markets and supply chains contributes to their improvement. It examines China's aviation and space manufacturing capabilities, government efforts to encourage foreign participation, transfers...
by Jeffrey J. Schaider, Adam Z. Barkin, Roger M. Barkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This best-selling emergency department reference is now in its thoroughly updated Fifth Edition. The foremost authorities provide practical information on over 600 clinical problems in a fast-access two-page outline format that's perfect for on-the-spot consultation during care in the emergency department....
Regional Economic Development
Analysis and Planning Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels....
Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies
Essays on Religious Markets and Religious Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Can individual decisions concerning whether or where to attend church, to contribute time or money to religious organizations, or to forgo certain activities be explained as a special case of economic theory? In Sacred Markets, Sacred Canopies, Ted G. Jelen brings together the leading scholars in...
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
by Arthur N. Popper, Anthony D. Hawkins, Soraya Bartol
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This Technical Report presents the outcome of a Working Group that was established to determine broadly applicable sound exposure guidelines for fishes and sea turtles. After consideration of the diversity of fish and sea turtles, guidelines were developed for broad groups of animals, defined by the...