David S : 885 books
Bird Feathers
A Guide to North American Species
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Over 400 photos of representative feathers from 379 species.
by Wallace K. Ewing Ph.D., David H. Seibold D.D.S., Tri-Cities Historical Museum
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
By the start of the 20th century, the Grand Haven area had begun to establish itself as a desirable vacation spot, as well as the center of a vigorous manufacturing base. Trains, stately steamers, and private automobiles brought visitors to the resorts of their choice, while many new companies joined...
Blending Families Successfully
Helping Parents and Kids Navigate the Challenges So That Everyone Ends Up Happy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, less than half of the people who get married in the United States remain with their first spouse, and less than 50 percent of children grow up with both biological parents. In short, we live in a society of blended families. Everyone who survives...
Teatros nacionales republicanos
La Segunda República y el teatro clásico español
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Este libro analiza el proceso de formación de una tradición teatral republicana en el periodo 1931-1936. En estos años asistimos a una apreciación simbólica de las obras teatrales del Siglo de Oro en su circulación impresa y en las políticas culturales que fundaron los dos proyectos estrella...
Rampage
The Social Roots of School Shootings
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
A distinguished sociologist reveals the warning signs of a school shooter--and why we so often miss them
Parkland. Sandy Hook. Columbine. The list of school shootings gets longer by the day, and it often seems like no school is safe. Over the last decades, school shootings have decimated communities...
Manufacturing Outsourcing
A Knowledge Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
All companies which reach a critical size are faced with outsourcing decisions that can increase the value of their products and services primarily through lower costs, greater reliability and improved efficiency. Successful outsourcing decisions have an important knowledge dimension, where the outsourcing...
Evaluation in Decision Making
The case of school administration
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about the practice of decision making by school principals and about ways to improve this practice by capitalizing on evaluation dimensions. Much has been written on decision making but surprisingly little on decision making in the school principalship. Much has been also written on evaluation...
by Paul J.J. Welfens, S. Jungbluth, John T. Addison
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In the new global economy, more countries have opened up to international competition and rapid capital flows. However, in the triad the process of globalization is rather asymmetric. With a rising role of multinational companies there are favorable prospects for higher global growth and economic...
A Primer on Complex Systems
With Applications to Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas. In this sense, it is a...
Nonlinear Circuit Simulation and Modeling
Fundamentals for Microwave Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Discover the nonlinear methods and tools needed to design real-world microwave circuits with this tutorial guide. Balancing theoretical background with practical tools and applications, it covers everything from the basic properties of nonlinear systems such as gain compression, intermodulation and...
The Family Emotional System
An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The Family Emotional System: An Integrative Concept for Theory, Science, and Practice presents an ongoing dialogue among scientists, family investigators, and clinicians related to a natural systems view of the family and human behavior that has been occurring over several decades. The concept of...
The Why of Consumption
Contemporary Perspectives on Consumer Motives, Goals and Desires
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book brings together an international collection of authors from a variety of disciplines who offer new and critical perspectives, summarize key findings and provide important theoretical frameworks to guide the reader through the ‘why?’ of consumption. The book answers questions such as:
What...
by Paul Adams, Natasha Affolder, Andrea C. Akelaitis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...
by Michele Kennerly, Damien Smith Pfister, Scott Haden Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communication
What can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we...