S Thomas: 567 books
What Do Unions Do?
A Twenty-year Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and...
Selves, Societies, and Emotions
Understanding the Pathways of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Building on contributions from sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, and neuroscience, Henricks develops a more general account of how people discover and reproduce the "meanings" of their involvements with others. Among its many themes are treatments of selves as...
How Did You Get Here?
Students with Disabilities and Their Journeys to Harvard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
When their children were young, several parents interviewed in this book were told “you can’t expect much from your child.” As they got older, the kids themselves often heard the same thing: that as children with disabilities, academic success would be elusive, if not impossible, for them.
How...
by Thomas S. Bianchi, Elizabeth A. Canuel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This textbook provides a unique and thorough look at the application of chemical biomarkers to aquatic ecosystems. Defining a chemical biomarker as a compound that can be linked to particular sources of organic matter identified in the sediment record, the book indicates that the application of these...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 1
Cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Originating in South America, cassava is now grown in over 100 countries around the world. It is the third most important source of calories in the tropics after rice and maize. Its caloric value, as well as its ability to tolerate dry conditions and poor soils, makes it a key food security crop in...
by Thomas J. Sauer, Neal S. Eash, Deb O'Dell
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Already renowned as a user-friendly beginners’ guide to soil science, Soil Science Simplified, 6th Edition is an updated version of the beloved textbook that includes even more thorough applications of soil science to interdisciplinary fields. It includes the most recent research concerning uses...
Epidemiologic Methods
Studying the Occurrence of Illness
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
This is a rigorous introduction to the concepts and tools of epidemiologic research. It offers clear descriptions of key concepts, rich examples, and instructive exercises (with answers). The book is well-suited for use in graduate-level courses on epidemiologic methods.
Formed From This Soil
An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days.
Organized chronologically starting with the earliest Europeans searching for new routes to Asia, through...
Creating Effective Transitions
Moving from the Elementary Grades to Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book focuses primarily on elementary to middle school transitions. This book was developed with a two-fold premise: one, that educators and parents understand the role they play in meeting the basic developmental needs of individual students during times of transition; and two, that school leaders...
The Process for the Product
Enduring the Season of Spiritual Maturity
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
In preparation to become a finished product one must undergo a process which is designed to build you by way of a series of experiences. It is through these experiences that our identity is ultimately defined. Identity is who God calls and the process is what reveals over the course of time. Process...
Il Battesimo nello Spirito Santo
Verità e obiezioni
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In questo breve trattato sul battesimo nello Spirito Santo l’autore esamina l’argomento con grande dovizia, considerando anche una serie di osservazioni sollevate da chi obietta la sua esposizione: sempre senza spunti critici che servirebbero soltanto a sollevare sterili polemiche.
Modelling Population Dynamics
Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
IPSAS Explained
A Summary of International Public Sector Accounting Standards
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Global diversity in the practice of public sector accounting continues to impede the reduction of bureaucracy and the creation of comparable standards in terms of accountability and transparency. The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) continues to engage in the ongoing...
by Zhaowen Wang, Jianchao Yang, Haichao Zhang;Zhangyang Wang;Yingzhen Yang;Ding Liu;Thomas S Huang
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
This book provides a broader introduction to the theories and applications of sparse coding techniques in computer vision research. It introduces sparse coding in the context of representation learning, illustrates the fundamental concepts, and summarizes the most active research directions. A variety...