Joseph L : 310 books

This accessible book explains the complexities of key environmental laws and how they can be used to protect our national parks. It includes discussions of successful and unsuccessful attempts to use the laws and how the courts have interpreted them.

Stochastic calculus provides a powerful description of a specific class of stochastic processes in physics and finance. However, many econophysicists struggle to understand it. This book presents the subject simply and systematically, giving graduate students and practitioners a better understanding...

The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Gettysburg on 1-3 July 1863 described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters and speeches. Their reminiscences provide a fascinating and harrowing account of the battle as they...

Use new knowledge of the LGBT culture to ably counsel same-sex couples! Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples provides psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors with an overview of the array of treatment issues they may face when working with couples from the LGBT community....

Of Truth and Righteousness will aid the believer of Christ Jesus, our Lord, to know the Word of God. The Holy Spirit of truth will bless the heart and soul of readers who seek to know the truth.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are revolutionizing the world in a way their original developers never envisaged.  From being military “war” tools, GNSS satellites are rapidly becoming “peace” tools that play a potentially critical role in enabling changing environmental phenomenon...

This vintage book contains an extensive collection of recipes for fancy mixed drinks with directions on when and how to serve them. With simple, step-by-step instructions and a wealth of useful tips, this volume is ideal for those with an interest in cocktail making, and would make for a worthy addition...

Imagine the surprise on teacher's faces when Hilby the Skinny German Juggle Boy unexpectedly took over the staff meeting from the principal. This and many other creative uses of humor became the norm in one upstate New York elementary school and changed it from ordinary to excellent.  Schools...

Through a act of love, a couple decides to adopt three more kids into there already large family of six. This act of love brings about a very long tenure of funny actions for stories that have been told throughout many a family reunion. None of these stories are made up, they are all true. This is what...

A companion volume to Taken at the Flood, this book identifies areas of research and in-depth source materials for studies of the Maryland campaign.

Ultrasonic guided waves in solid media have become a critically important subject in nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring, as new faster, more sensitive, and more economical ways of looking at materials and structures have become possible. This book will lead to fresh creative ideas...

There is no doubt that today, perhaps more than ever before, humanity faces a myriad of complex and demanding challenges. These include natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, diminishing biodiversity, increasing losses from natural disasters,...

Turn to the collective wisdom of the field's top experts to understand and solve even the most complex supply management issue For more than three decades, The Supply Management Handbook (formerly The Purchasing Handbook) has been vital for purchasing and supply professionals in every field...

In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atrocities were committed that led to hundreds of thousands of dead and displaced people. Explaining the origins and dynamics of such inhuman actions...