I Scott: 31 books
Human-Computer Interaction
An Empirical Research Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to empirical research in HCI. The book begins with foundational topics including historical context, the human factor, interaction elements, and the fundamentals of science and research. From there, you'll progress...
From Pinewood to Hollywood
British Filmmakers in American Cinema, 1910-1969
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
This book is about the emigration, film careers and socio-cultural influence of British filmmakers moving to Hollywood in the studio era. It deals with some of the unknown and neglected émigrés, as well as the leading lights who founded, initiated and ensured that American film became the leading national cinema of the twentieth century.
Text Entry Systems
Mobility, Accessibility, Universality
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Text Entry Systems covers different aspects of text entry systems and offers prospective researchers and developers global guidelines for conducting research on text entry, in terms of design strategy, evaluation methodology, and requirements; a discussion of the history and current state of the art...
by David G. I. Scott, Chetan Mukhtyar, Richard A. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
This book focuses on clinical presentation, diagnostic processes and current management of systematic vasculitis, and for this second edition the Editors have updated the treatment approach and nomenclature in line with current practice. Systemic vasculitides are a group of disorders which are of...
Interpretation of the Ultraviolet Spectra of Natural Products
International Series of Monographs on Organic Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Interpretation of the Ultraviolet Spectra of Natural Products focuses on the ultraviolet spectrum of chromophores.
The book first discusses single chromophores, including absorption due to electron lone pairs in saturated systems and absorption of olefins, alkynes, carbonyl compounds, and thiocarbonyl...
by James R. Griesemer, Joan Roughgarden, Ofer Feinerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.
Many researchers and scholars in the life sciences have become increasingly critical of the traditional methodological focus on the...
by Jasper Bark, William Meikle, Gary McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The Dark is coming! Call your friends over. You don't want to go through this alone. You will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and...
State of Horror: New Jersey
State of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
WHAT IS YOUR STATE OF HORROR?The birth of a devil in the 18th century resonates in today’s world. A storm hits a small mountain town and the resident must evacuate, where will they go? Visit a zoo unlike any you have experienced. The sins of the past haunt the present in a once thriving industrial...
by Melodie Romeo, Mariesa Inez, Rachel Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Death is just the beginning...Death. Just the word can trigger gut-wrenching fear. The kind of fear causing the heart to pound, cold sweat to run down and burn the eyes, and fingers to tremble with a loss of strength. Is our fear the realization that from the moment of conception, the clock starts...
Investing in Junk Bonds
Inside the High Yield Debt Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning, new high-yield debt or ``junk bond'' market. Edward Altman and Scott Nammacher, leading experts on debt financing and co-developers of the Zeta model for predicting business failure, offer sophisticated investors a complete analysis of the high-yield...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2
Sorghum utilization around the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
Oil Sparks in the Amazon
Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions’ hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vasquez writes...
Arab Spring
Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsive authoritarian rule. These previously unpublished, country-specific case studies of the uprisings...
by Scott I. Zucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
In Chain of Custody, Matt Taggart is a hard working young associate attorney at a prestigious Washington, D.C. litigation firm. He is married with a one year old daughter. Matts day to day life is unremarkable until his father, a U.S. Senator, is killed in a small plane crash. Was his death a suicide...