John J : 1441 books
Essential Partial Differential Equations
Analytical and Computational Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This volume provides an introduction to the analytical and numerical aspects of partial differential equations (PDEs). It unifies an analytical and computational approach for these; the qualitative behaviour of solutions being established using classical concepts: maximum principles and energy methods....
by John C. Graser, Daniel Blum, Kevin Brancato
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
The Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) currently runs three in-theater hospitals for severely injured or wounded personnel. Part of the practioners' preparation was treating DoD beneficiaries for a broad range of injuries and illnesses. Opportunities for this preparation are not as numerous "in house"...
Women Want More
How to Capture Your Share of the World's Largest, Fastest-Growing Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In Women Want More, Michael Silverstein and Kate Sayre, two of the world’s leading authorities on the retail business, argue that women are the key to fixing the economy. Based on a groundbreaking study and offering tremendous insight into the purchasing habits and power of women, Women Want More...
Turkey as a Mediator
Stories of Success and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book provides an overview of successes and failures of Turkey’s mediation initiatives in different fragile and post-conflict societies. It is the first of its kind to run a systematic analysis of Turkey’s peacemaking. This edited collection treats its readers with a variety of analyses on...
Policy, Professionalization, Privatization, and Performance Assessment
Affordances and Constraints for Teacher Education Programs
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization. The authors discuss the potential impact of mandated teacher performance assessments on teacher education in the content areas of mathematics, English,...
by Henri J. A. Charmasson, John Buchaca
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
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Want to secure and exploit the intellectual property rights due you or your company? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how — helping you to evaluate your...
by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory...
Understanding Classical Sociology
Marx, Weber, Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Praise for the First Edition:
`Totally reliable… the authors have produced a book urgently needed by all those charged with introducing students to the classics… quite indispensable' - Times Higher Education Supplement
This is a fully updated and expanded new edition of the successful...
Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens
Counterstories and Counterspaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal...
Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.
Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...
by Chris J. Dolan, John Frendreis, Raymond Tatalovich
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
The health of the American economy is a topic of discussion among undergraduate students in public policy and the American presidency. Policymakers and citizens also are concerned with economic prosperity and the problems associated with unemployment, taxation, health care, trade, and inflation as...
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
by Arleen J Hoag, John H Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
This carefully constructed textbook empowers the reader with an understanding of fundamental economic concepts. There are 31 “one-concept” chapters. Each short chapter highlights one economic principle. The student can study one concept and be reinforced by the learning process before proceeding...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...