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Book cover of Plasma Engineering
by Isak Beilis, Michael Keidar, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018

*Plasma Engineering, Second Edition,*applies the unique properties of plasmas (ionized gases) to improve processes and performance over many fields, such as materials processing, spacecraft propulsion and nanofabrication. The book considers this rapidly expanding discipline from a unified standpoint,...
Book cover of The Mother's Day Protest and Other Fictocritical Essays
by Stephen Muecke, Professor of Ethnography, University of New South Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016

As a genre that confounds the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, fictocriticism continues to gain currency. It solves a problem for researchers and writers who do not wish to be held to that somewhat artificial division, and who consider their research methods necessarily to include the...
Book cover of Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century
by William Hammrick, Walter Bo Eberle, J. R. Hustwit
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019

This book examines how the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, a speculative philosopher from the first half of the twentieth century, converses and entangles itself with continental philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries around the question of a sustainable civilization in the...
Book cover of Mistake in Identity

Mistake in Identity

A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery

by Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State University
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005

A murder, just four hours before the Royal Duchess is scheduled to sail for Alaska, and inspector Solomon Hunter and his assistant, Talcott Weems, are summoned to investigate this latest mystery. This delightful whodunit textbook by Arthur Asa Berger is the perfect tool to introduce students to cultural...
Book cover of Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

by Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

The book studies the cultural texts—fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports—produced around the world’s worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape...
Book cover of Biblical Bethsaida

Biblical Bethsaida

A Study of the First Century CE in the Galilee

by Carl E. Savage, Associate Professor of Biblical Archaeology, Drew University
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011

In his illuminating, well-researched book examining the site of Et-Tell, also known as Bethsaida, Carl E. Savage explores archaeological evidence to offer readers a portrait of the religious beliefs and practices of the community living near the north shore of the Sea of Galilee during the first century...
Book cover of Developments And Dilemmas In Science Education
by Peter Fensham Monash University, Australia.
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

A summary of the strengths and weaknesses in present practices of science education in schools, and of research in science education. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Book cover of Computational Finance

Computational Finance

Numerical Methods for Pricing Financial Instruments

by George Levy, DPhil, University of Oxford
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003

Computational Finance presents a modern computational approach to mathematical finance within the Windows environment, and contains financial algorithms, mathematical proofs and computer code in C/C++. The author illustrates how numeric components can be developed which allow financial routines to...
Book cover of An Introduction to MATLAB® Programming and Numerical Methods for Engineers
by Timmy Siauw, Alexandre Bayen, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014

Assuming no prior background in linear algebra or real analysis, An Introduction to MATLAB® Programming and Numerical Methods for Engineers enables you to develop good computational problem solving techniques through the use of numerical methods and the MATLAB® programming environment. Part One...
Book cover of When Your Gay or Lesbian Child Marries
by Deborah M. Merrill, Clark University
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016

Massachusetts became the first state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004, and after the landmark decision of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, same-sex marriage is legal in all fifty states. More than 70,000 same-sex couples have married in the U.S. Although these couples have the right...
Book cover of UCL Hospitals Injectable Medicines Administration Guide
by University College London Hospitals
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

"I would definitely recommend this book to all staff with an interest and involvement in intravenous drug therapy." —The Pharmaceutical Journal "There is no doubt that nurses will find this small book useful. It should be available for consultation in any clinical area where drugs are administered...
Book cover of Historical Dictionary of United States-Japan Relations
by Yoneyuki Sugita, John Van Sant, Peter Mauch
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2007

The most important bilateral relationship in Asia since the end of World War II is assuredly between the United States and Japan. Despite the geographical and cultural differences between these two nations, as well as the bitterness leftover from the war, an amicable and prosperous relationship has...
Book cover of Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath

Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath

Ethics and Intimacy in Fieldwork

by Harry F. Wolcott, University of Oregon; (d. 2012)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002

Brad—a schizophrenic school dropout and 'sneaky kid'—first appeared as a squatter near Harry Wolcott's forest home. He becomes Wolcott's subject in a long-term life history on how the educational system can fail students. Wolcott's trilogy of articles based on their years of interviews were well-received...until...
Book cover of A Prehistory of Polymer Science
by Gary Patterson Carnegie Mellon University
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011

Polymer science is now an active and thriving community of scientists, engineers and technologists, but there was a time, not so long ago, when there was no such community. The prehistory of polymer science helps to provide key insights into current issues and historical problems. The story will be...
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