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Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Engineering Libraries
Building Collections and Delivering Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Provide top-flight services in this highly specialized field!
This groundbreaking book provides state-of-the-art information on one of the most useful library specialties. Engineering Libraries: Building Collections and Delivering Services is designed for information professionals at all levels...
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century
Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after...
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
The DelFly
Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands.
How...
MWH's Water Treatment
Principles and Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
the definitive guide to the theory and practice of water treatment engineering
THIS NEWLY REVISED EDITION of the classic reference provides complete, up-to-date coverage of both theory and practice of water treatment system design. The Third Edition brings the field up to date, addressing new...
by Richard W. Healy, Bridget R. Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Understanding groundwater recharge is essential for successful management of water resources and modeling fluid and contaminant transport within the subsurface. This book provides a critical evaluation of the theory and assumptions that underlie methods for estimating rates of groundwater recharge....
by Kerry J. Howe, David W. Hand, John C. Crittenden
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Principles of Water Treatment has been developed from the best selling reference work Water Treatment, 3rd edition by the same author team. It maintains the same quality writing, illustrations, and worked examples as the larger book, but in a smaller format which focuses on the treatment processes and not on the design of the facilities.
by Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres, Ingrid Råde
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development requires better information about the consequences of proposed actions. Partial information accounts for many failed efforts in the past. The financial implications for the proponent of the projects have often been more thoroughly analyzed...
Orogenesis
The Making of Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide – either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic mountain chains such as the Andes. Integrating...
by R. E. Smallman, PhD, A.H.W. Ngan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Modern Physical Metallurgy describes, in a very readable form, the fundamental principles of physical metallurgy and the basic techniques for assessing microstructure. This book enables you to understand the properties and applications of metals and alloys at a deeper level than that provided in an...
Beer Culture in Theory and Practice
Understanding Craft Beer Culture in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, which legalized homebrewing for personal and household use, to the potential hop shortage that all brewers are facing today. This expansion of the culture,...
by R.W. Thomas, Mark Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
This book confronts the difficult problems that arise in claim situations. There is extensive reference to UK and international case law, and a systematic approach to various types of claims, assisted by helpful explanatory diagrams. Suitable for construction professionals and contractors, and undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The Craft of Governing
The contribution of Patrick Weller to Australian political science
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
'Bargaining and puzzling; power and thought; dealing and agonising; compromise and commitment. These are two sides of political practitioners whether politician, public servant or campaigner. Understand the interplay and we can, just sometimes, make sense of the real world we seek to interpret.'
Patrick...