J David Smith: 76 books

Book cover of Ensuring safety and quality in the production of beef Volume 2
by Prof. Mick Price, Dr Matt Spangler, Annie Vénien
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017

Reviews advances in understanding how breeding and growth affects the development of quality attributes such as fat content and tenderness;  Summarises recent research on how management of cattle and carcass handling affects sensory properties;  Discusses current research on measuring and optimising quality traits such as color, flavor and tenderness
Book cover of Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
by Michele Kennerly, Damien Smith Pfister, Scott Haden Church
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...
Book cover of All These Shiny Worlds II

All These Shiny Worlds II

All These Shiny Worlds, #2

by Jefferson Smith, Bryce Anderson, Christopher Ruz
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

Each year we hand-pick 50 of today's top indie authors and ask them to submit a story. Then we ask a team of ruthless judges to scour that ore and pick out the gems. The result is All These Shiny Worlds II: * a world of today where cosplay and stagecraft are bright lights hiding dark shadows *...
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The People's Victory

Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality

by Jamila Tharp, Brian Maschka, Will Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...
Book cover of Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

by Lauren Bratslavsky, Elizabeth L. Cohen, Mary Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...
Book cover of Fiction River: Pulse Pounders

Fiction River: Pulse Pounders

Kobo Special Edition

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kevin J. Anderson, Fiction River
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015

Starts with a bang. Ends with a bang. And a lot of bang in between. Pulse Pounders. Ranging from straight thriller to science fiction, fantasy to pulp adventure, these stories make your heart race. Share the excitement as a woman held hostage in a chair has only a few minutes...
Book cover of The Technology of Property Rights
by Bruce Yandle, Clay J. Landry, Robert B. Naeser
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2001

The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality,...
Book cover of From the Yenisei to the Yukon

From the Yenisei to the Yukon

Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia

by Norman A. Easton, Dr. Robert E. Ackerman, Jacob Baus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Book cover of Authentic Movement

Authentic Movement

Essays by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler and Joan Chodorow

by Suzanne Lovell, David Mars, Sandy Dibbell-Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this...
Book cover of The Conservative Revolution of Antonin Scalia
by Howard Schweber, David A Schultz, Henry L. Chambers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018

Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though...
Book cover of Connecting Teaching and Learning

Connecting Teaching and Learning

History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology

by Ronald A. Beghetto, Karen S. Buchanan, Barbara Chesler Buckner
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011

As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning. Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
Book cover of Automotive Engineering

Automotive Engineering

Powertrain, Chassis System and Vehicle Body

by William Ribbens, Heinz Heisler, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

This one-stop Mega Reference eBook brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the automotive field. An expansion the Automotive Engineering print edition, this fully searchable electronic reference book of 2500 pages delivers content...
Book cover of Safety Critical Systems Handbook

Safety Critical Systems Handbook

A Straight forward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 EDITION) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 and ISO 13849

by David J. Smith, Kenneth G. L. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010

Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightfoward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 Edition) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 AND ISO 13849, Third Edition, offers a practical guide to the functional safety standard IEC 61508. The book is organized...
Book cover of Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary

by David J. Smith, Rachelle Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips...
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