Michael David: 725 books
Automotive Engineering
Powertrain, Chassis System and Vehicle Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This one-stop Mega Reference eBook brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the automotive field.
An expansion the Automotive Engineering print edition, this fully searchable electronic reference book of 2500 pages delivers content...
Behold, I Show You a Mystery!
From Earth to Orion, on the Wings of Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
SOME FOURTEEN BILLION YEARS AGO SOMETHING WONDERFUL HAPPENED, EXACTLY WHERE WHO KNOWS?,SOME SAY THAT IT WAS EVERYWHERE AT ONCE,BUT NEVERTHELESS A MIRACULOUS EVENT WAS TAKING PLACE. IT WAS MINUTE IN SIZE, BUT IMMENSE IN ENERGY! IT WAS THE BIG BANG, OR AND GOD SAID,...LET THERE BE...AND THE UNIVERSE...
by Michael P. Berman, David Brubaker, Gerald Cipriani
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical...
The Third Century
U.S.–Latin American Relations since 1889
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This text focuses on U.S. relations with Latin America from the advent of the New Diplomacy late in the nineteenth century to the present. Providing a balanced perspective, it presents both the United States’ view that the Western Hemisphere needed to unite under a common democratic, capitalistic...
by David M. Young, Michael Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Young and Strickland analyze the four largest discourses of Jesus in Mark in the context of Greco-Roman rhetoric in an attempt to hear them as a first-century audience would have heard them. Their analysis uncovers how the discourses are constructed; what issues each discourse seeks to treat; how...
by Bernard S. Bachrach, David S. Bachrach, Michael Leese
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
First commissioned by Bishop Gerard I of Cambrai (1012-1051) in 1023 or 1024, the Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium was the work of two authors, the second of whom completed the text shortly after the death of Bishop Gerard. The three books of the Gesta shed considerable light on the policies and actions...
Writing for Engagement
Responsive Practice for Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...
Student Activism as a Vehicle for Change on College Campuses
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Civic engagement initiatives and activities are crucial to the progression of modern society. By raising awareness of social issues and problems, citizens can make a greater impact and have their voices be heard. Student Activism as a Vehicle for Change on College Campuses: Emerging Research and Opportunities...
Decision Science for Housing and Community Development
Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving in community-based organizations using decision models and operations research applications
A comprehensive treatment of public-sector operations research and management science, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized...
Economics of Wildfire Management
The Development and Application of Suppression Expenditure Models
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
In this age of climatic and financial uncertainty, it becomes increasingly important to balance the cost, benefits and risk of wildfire management. In the United States, increased wildland fire activity over the last 15 years has resulted in drastic damage and loss of life. An associated rapid increase...
Risks and Returns
Managing Financial Trade-Offs for Inclusive Growth in Europe and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
During the 1990s, Emerging Europe and Central Asia (ECA) opted for a model of rapid financial development focused on bank credit expansion often funded by foreign capital. This model helped boost the financial inclusion of firms and households, but was also accompanied by lower financial efficiency...
by David Bogle, Michael Fairweather
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Computer aided process engineering (CAPE) plays a key design and operations role in the process industries. This conference features presentations by CAPE specialists and addresses strategic planning, supply chain issues and the increasingly important area of sustainability audits.
Experts...
by Dale E Johnson, Noffisat Oki, David Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The network approaches of systems pharmacology and toxicology serve as early predictors of the most relevant screening approach to pursue both in drug discovery and development and ecotoxicological assessments. Computational approaches have the potential to improve toxicological experimental design,...
The Marketing Pathfinder
Key Concepts and Cases for Marketing Strategy and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Dozens of lively international case studies that help readers put core marketing principles in a real-world context
From market research to positioning and brand management to customer relations, marketing is the engine that drives innovation and growth in the modern business organization....