Erik: 1534 books
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines...
SpaceX
Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This first account of commercial spaceflight’s most successful venture describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry and made it the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars. Since its inception...
Reimagining Graduate Supervision in Developing Contexts
A Focus on Regional Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Exploring graduate supervision from a constructivist standpoint, this book offers an original look at the graduate supervisory practices and pedagogies at The University of the West Indies and The University of the South Pacific. Highlighting the ad hoc nature of graduate research supervision and...
Supply Chain Finance and Blockchain Technology
The Case of Reverse Securitisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book investigates how the Blockchain Technology (BCT) for Supply Chain Finance (SCF) programs allows businesses to come together in partnerships and accelerate cash flows throughout the supply chain. BCT promises to change the way individuals and corporations exchange value and information over...
Vegan
The New Ethics of Eating
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
In this book, you will find the latest information about how what you eat affects your health, the environment, and the existence of the animals who share this planet, along with in-depth discussions of ground-breaking work by these internationally respected experts: Heart specialist, Dean Ornish,...
Youth Tourism to Israel
Educational Experiences of the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
This book is a cumulative analysis of an international, longitudinal study of a tour program which brings Jewish youth from around the world to Israel. It is a case study of the longest running and most thoroughly documented, intentionally organized heritage tour program in existence, including a...
by Brian Knight, Erik Veerman, Grant Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
The new edition of the successful previous version is 25 percent revised and packed with more than 200 pages of new material on the 2008 release of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Renowned author Brian Knight and his expert coauthors show developers how to master the 2008 release of SSIS, which...
Neural Data Science
A Primer with MATLAB® and Python™
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A Primer with MATLAB® and Python™ present important information on the emergence of the use of Python, a more general purpose option to MATLAB, the preferred computation language for scientific computing and analysis in neuroscience.
This book addresses the snake in the room by providing...
Manufacturing and Design
Understanding the Principles of How Things Are Made
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Manufacturing and Design presents a fresh view on the world of industrial production: thinking in terms of both abstraction levels and trade-offs. The book invites its readers to distinguish between what is possible in principle for a certain process (as determined by physical law); what is possible...
by Erik C. Ness
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as whether or...
Resilience Engineering Perspectives, Volume 2
Preparation and Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Preparation and Restoration is the second volume of Resilience Engineering Perspectives within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series. In four sections, it broadens participation of the field to include policy and organization studies, and articulates aspects of resilience beyond initial...
The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition)
Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects."A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active...
by Erik Seedhouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This brief presents a concise description of the existing spaceport market, the technologies being tested and developed at them, and the private companies that are making them possible. While NASA has its own plan for the future of space exploration, one that includes a new shuttle, an interplanetary...
Safety-II in Practice
Developing the Resilience Potentials
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this ‘freedom’. But as socio-technical systems steadily have become larger and less tractable, this has become harder to do. Resilience engineering pointed...