R Marcus: 44 books
Pneumatic Conveying of Solids
A theoretical and practical approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Pneumatic conveying is one of the most popular methods of handling bulk powdered and granular materials in mining, chemical and agricultural industries. This 3rd edition of this successful book covers both theoretical and practical aspects of the subject. It is unique in its blending of academic materials...
by Rita Charon, Sayantani DasGupta, Nellie Hermann
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field....
by Richard R. Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Madagascar’s constitution of August 19, 1992 brought hope to a population exhausted by economic failures associated with a failed experiment in scientific socialism and years of mismanagement. The repetition of transparent elections and the promulgation of “good governance” in the years that...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
Atlan - Der Dunkelstern-Zyklus (Sammelband)
E-Book-Paket: alle 12 Romane in einem Band
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Wir schreiben das Jahr 1225 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung. Atlan, der unsterbliche Arkonide, ergründet mit der Varganin Kythara das größte Geheimnis der Galaxis Dwingeloo: eine planetenlose blauweiße Riesensonne, die weit ins All vordringt, während hyperenergetische Entladungen die Ausläufer...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Boys in Bed
Gay anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Twenty tales of hot man-on-man action showcasing the very best in erotic writing and the raunchiest gay encounters around, from wild one-night stands to the lasting connections made by long-term lovers.
Dominant masters and their willing submissives, musclebound hunks and shy, geeky guys, curious...
Progress and Confusion
The State of Macroeconomic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”?
What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...
Atlan - Intrawelt-Zyklus (Sammelband)
E-Book-Paket: alle 12 Romane in einem Band
Language: German
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Auf den von Menschen besiedelten Welten der Milchstraße schreibt man das Jahr 1225 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung, das dem Jahr 4812 alter Zeit entspricht. Die Bevölkerung der Galaxis Dwingeloo leidet unter der Schreckensherrschaft der Lordrichter, die mit Hilfe ihrer Truppen finstere Pläne verfolgen....
Second Round
A Return to the Ur-Bar
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
For thousands of years the immortal Gilgamesh has presided over the legendary Ur-Bar, witnessing history unfold from within its walls. Some days it is a rural tavern, others a fashionable wine shop. It may appear as a hidden speakeasy or take on the form of your neighborhood local. For most patrons...
Entryways to Criminal Justice
Accusation and Criminalization in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
How do societies decide whom to criminalize? What does it mean to accuse someone of being an offender? Entryways to Criminal Justice analyzes the thresholds that distinguish law-abiding individuals from those who may be criminalized. Contributors to the volume adopt social, historical, cultural, and...
by Jaakko Stenros, Torill Elvira Mortensen, Victor Navarro-Remesal
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions.
Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players....
Frontiers of Capital
Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that...
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these...