Steven J : 501 books
Appalachian State Silences the Big House
Behind the Greatest Upset in College Football History
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
They are known as “cupcake games”—lower division teams get paid to travel to college football Meccas where the hosts make a nice profit from an extra game. On September 1, 2007, the University of Michigan Wolverines, with more wins than any team in history, hosted the Appalachian State Mountaineers...
Superfreakonomics
Enfriamiento global, prostitutas patrióticas y por qué los terroristas suicidas deberían contratar un seguro de vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2010
La explosiva segunda parte de Freakonomics.
La economía trata sobre la inflación, los tipos de interés y la bolsa. Superfreakonomics habla de prostitutas, traficantes de droga y luchadores de sumo fracasados. Han sido cuatro años buscando no solo las preguntas más difíciles, sino las...
by Barry J. Epstein, Ralph Nach, Steven M. Bragg
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Your single, authoritative source to GAAP under the new Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) system
By mid-2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is expected to release its Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), a new, clearer indexing system that is much easier to access...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
McGraw-Hill's Conversational American English
The Illustrated Guide to Everyday Expressions of American English
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Learn more than 3,000 English expressions and speak and understand the language easily
As a new speaker of English, you may hear some expressions in your daily conversations that you do not understand--yet. McGraw-Hill's Conversational American English will help you learn these expressions,...
by John P. Bartkowski, Gary C. Bryner, John J. Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
In their introduction, the editors of New Ways of Doing Business assert that in retrospect, it will be apparent that today's government, that of the early years of the 21st century, "was undergoing its most significant transformation since the decade of the 1930's when direct government-delivered...
by Alexander Kossiakoff, William N. Sweet, Samuel J. Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The first edition of this unique interdisciplinary guide has become the foundational systems engineering textbook for colleges and universities worldwide. It has helped countless readers learn to think like systems engineers, giving them the knowledge, skills, and leadership qualities they need to...
by Steven E. Kraft, Christopher L. Lant, J. B. Ruhl
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geographic, economic, social, and...
by J. Steven Perry
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Log4j has been around for a while now, and it seems like so many applications use it. I've used it in my applications for years now, and I'll bet you have too. But every time I need to do something with log4j I've never done before I find myself searching for examples of how to do whatever that is,...
Competency-Based Education in Aviation
Exploring Alternate Training Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Whether a trainee is studying air traffic control, piloting, maintenance engineering, or cabin crew, they must complete a set number of training 'hours' before being licensed or certified. The aviation industry is moving away from an hours-based to a competency-based training system. Within this approach,...
America's Healthcare Transformation
Strategies and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together...
Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities
Technical Report for the U.S. Departmof Energy in Support of the National Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Hurricane Irene ruptured a Baltimore sewer main, resulting in 100 million gallons of raw sewage flooding the local watershed. Levee failures during Hurricane Katrina resulted in massive flooding which did not recede for months. With temperatures becoming more extreme, and storms increasing in magnitude,...
by Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The American Congress provides the most current treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress: parties and committee systems, leadership,...
by J. Steven York
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
THE SECOND "PANORAMA BEACH" MYSTERY!
Deputy "Mustang" Sawtell knows there's something wrong with the scene when he responds to a prowler call at the Aquarama aquarium and underwater-show, and finds a dead mermaid laying on the shore of the Mermaid Grotto.
But he's...