Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A contribution to the popular international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory within a Scandinavian context, this reference presents a number of case studies-from the Middle Age to the present time-that discuss how people look to the past for identity and meaning. Acknowledging that...
by Robert K. Poole
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Advances in Microbial Physiology is one of the most successful and prestigious series from Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier. It publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting physiology to include all material that contributes to our understanding of how microorganisms and their component...
Magneto-Resistive and Spin Valve Heads
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
This book is aims to be a comprehensive source on the physics and engineering of magneto-resistive heads. Most of the material is presented in a nonmathematical manner to make it more digestible for researchers, students, developers, and engineers.
In addition to revising and updating material...
The Science of Management
Fighting Fads and Fallacies with Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
To enhance the performance of their employees, managers need to reach an extraordinary number of decisions every day based on information and training as well as on their experience and instinct for what is right. But are the assumptions and beliefs behind theses decisions always based on real evidence ...
Writing Reports for Court
An International Guide for Psychologists Who Work in the Criminal Jurisdiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Psychologists are increasingly being asked to give evidence in court as expert witnesses, yet for some it can be a harrowing experience. Writing Reports for Court provides essential support for psychologists when preparing a court report and giving evidence. A well prepared report underpins an effective...
Extended Finite Element Method
Tsinghua University Press Computational Mechanics Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Extended Finite Element Method provides an introduction to the extended finite element method (XFEM), a novel computational method which has been proposed to solve complex crack propagation problems. The book helps readers understand the method and make effective use of the XFEM code and software...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Renewable fuel research and process development requires interdisciplinary approaches involving chemists and physicists from both scientific and engineering backgrounds. Here is an important volume that emphasizes green chemistry and green engineering principles for sustainable process development...
Learn to Dance on a Moving Carpet
How to create a balanced and meaningful life
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Kick start yourself into action and achieve balance and resilience in your life. In today’s busy fast-changing world many people feel they have lost their way and struggle with the aspects of everyday life. In this quick ‘go to’ self-help guide psychologist Jacky Dakin packages up key concepts...
by Martin Aberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
An in-depth analysis of political organization and democratization during the crucial 18601920 period in Sweden and Germany, this book centers on the formation of liberalism. It argues that despite ideology’s individualistic traits-which made liberals less susceptible to political organization...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Focusing on the profound transformation in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain, this record analyzes complex cultural dimensions, such as lifestyles, habits, value markers, and identity. Written by a group of experts, it presents case studies from the former communist countries...
Tourism Marketing
A Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Tourism Marketing: A Strategic Approach presents a variety of practical application tools, skills, practices, models, approaches, and strategies that are proving themselves effective in tourism marketing. The volume considers overall infrastructure, socioeconomic conditions, and modern tourism business...
The Dublin Lockout, 1913
New Perspectives on Class War & its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Putting Ireland on trial, Jim Larkin’s verdict was damning and resolute. His words resound, shuddering towards the present day where class division and workers’ rights disputes make headlines with swelling frequency. In this pioneering collection, an exemplary list of contributors registers the...
by Mats Burstrom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army's advance; most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be short-lived and they would soon be able to return home. A comprehensive study of a common yet neglected phenomenon, this book tells the stories of the...
by Evelyn M. Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
No one goes to work to be humiliated, abused, ostracised, subjected to rumours, or assaulted. Yet this is the reality of a working day for many employees. Now you can do something about it. From the author of the highly successful introduction to workplace bullying “Bully Blocking at Work”, comes...