Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
by Gerald Litwack
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology, and enzyme mechanisms.
Under the capable and qualified editorial...
Academic Press Library in Signal Processing
Image and Video Compression and Multimedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This fifth volume, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in image and video compression and multimedia.
With this reference source you will:
Quickly grasp a new...
Academic Press Library in Signal Processing
Image, Video Processing and Analysis, Hardware, Audio, Acoustic and Speech Processing
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This fourth volume, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in Image, Video Processing and Analysis, Hardware, Audio, Acoustic and Speech Processing.
With this reference...
by Gerald Litwack
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology, and enzyme mechanisms.
Under the capable and qualified editorial...
by Gerald Litwack
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology, and enzyme mechanisms.
Under the capable and qualified editorial...
by Peter Snyder, Linda C. Mayes, William E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The Management of Scientific Integrity within Academic Medical Centers discusses the impact scientific misconduct has in eight complex case studies. Authors look at multifaceted mixtures of improper behavior, poor communication, cultural issues, adverse medical/health issues, interpersonal problems...
Schism
The Battle That Forged Freemasonry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book examines the creation of the Antients Grand Lodge and traces the influence of Ireland and the London Irish, especially that of Laurence Dermott, the Antients’ Grand Secretary, in the development of freemasonry in the second half of the 18th century. It demonstrates the relative accessibility...
The Middle Eastern Founders of Religion
Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Zoroaster, and Baha'u'llah
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book presents an academic introduction to the life and teachings of five Middle Eastern founders of religion –- five individuals whose systems of faith, thought, and action have won the allegiance of millions. All believed to have experienced a personal encounter with the divine - a “voice”...
A. E. Housman
A Single Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a professional poet, always making quite clear that his 'proper job' was as a Professor of Latin. Housman's fame as a poet has often obscured the fact that...
by David Ohana
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Professor David Ohana teaches European history at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He was a visiting fellow at The Sorbonne, Harvard, and Berkeley as well as the first academic director of the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His many books include:...
Deconstruction After All
Reflections and Conversations by Christopher Norris
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris’s vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. Alongside Norris’s uncompromising...
Wicca
History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The past century has borne witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a new religious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. Wicca was first presented as the survival...
by Jeff Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Parenting teenagers today is a tough challenge. It takes purpose, creativity, determination and patience - and some practical advice from people who know what they are talking about. Award winning specialist teacher, researcher, mentor and speaker, Dr Jeff Kemp, has spent 30 years helping parents...
Hype
Bestsellers and Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In the world of books and literature, "hype" is associated with bestsellerism—the books that sell the most, are read by vast numbers, and constantly talked about in media and staff rooms. Often, it is the success in itself that generates an interest because popularity begets popularity....