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Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda
Britain and the Young Maritime Hero, 1745-1820
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Youth, Heroism and Naval Propaganda explores how the young maritime hero became a major new figure of war propaganda in the second half of the long eighteenth century. At that time, Britain was searching for a new national identity, and the young maritime hero and his exploits conjured images of...
Collective Plasmon-Modes in Gain Media
Quantum Emitters and Plasmonic Nanostructures
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
This book represents the first detailed description, including both theoretical aspects and experimental methods, of the interaction of rare-earth ions with surface plasmon polariton from the point of view of collective plasmon-photon interactions via resonance modes (metal nanoparticles or nanostructure...
Retirement and the Hidden Epidemic
The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse -- and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Evidence from both local and national surveys suggests that substance misuse and abuse among older adults in the United States is a "hidden epidemic" that poses a major threat to the welfare and quality of life of older drinkers and their families, and has significant public health implications. Based...
by V. B. Khristenko, A. G. Reus, A. P. Zinchenko
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
A comprehensive guide for business people, government administrators and specialists in management methodology, Methodological School of Management details the original and applied thinking, methods and approaches established by the school in the Soviet era and still operating successfully in modern...
by Ira A. Penn, Gail B. Pennix
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Records Management Handbook is a complete guide to the practice of records and information management. Written from a multi-media perspective and with a comprehensive systems design orientation, the authors present proven management strategies for developing, implementing and operating a ’21st century’...
by A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh, Mohammad Arashi, B. M. Golam Kibria
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A guide to the systematic analytical results for ridge, LASSO, preliminary test, and Stein-type estimators with applications
Theory of Ridge Regression Estimation with Applications offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and methods of estimation. Ridge regression and LASSO are at the center...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 1
From improved varieties to local applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the developing world. It has been estimated that maize yields need to increase by 60% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such...
Cosmopolitanism and Tourism
Rethinking Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Within tourism studies, the cosmopolitan potentials of tourism have often been situated within a broader conversation about globalization, an approach that implies that cosmopolitanism is a predictable by-product of globalization and becoming more cosmopolitan should be the goal of travel. And yet...
by Jonathan A. Myers, Steven D. Bines, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Study efficiently and effectively for high-stakes surgery exams with this superb review tool. Rush University Medical Center Review of Surgery, 6th Edition, has been thoroughly updated with new questions and answers in all chapters, and content has been revised to reflect what is most important on...
by D.C. Allen, A.J. Blackshaw, W.V. Bogomoletz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There have been many advances in the field of gastrointestinal pa thology which are of considerable clinical significance during the 13 years since the last publication of a volume of Current Topics in Pathology devoted to this subject. Many have arisen from the app lication of new techniques...
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...
by Jordan Hensley, Stanley N. Katz, Bruce A. Kimball
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students,...
by Arthur A. Meyerhoff, I. Taner, A.E.L. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
TECTONlCS AND PHYSICS Geology, although rooted in the laws of physics, rarely has been taught in a manner designed to stress the relations between the laws and theorems of physics and the postulates of geology. The same is true of geophysics, whose specialties (seismology, gravimetIy, magnetics, magnetotellurics)...
Union Ships of the Line
The Rescue of Tavnit and Dingir
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
The two lost Sisters Tavnit and Dingir are found by Saga in another galaxy half way across the Universe.
Ninlil mounts a rescue operation to retrieve her lost Sisters.
Ninlil realizes she must rewrite their software in order to save them because they are relics of the...