Cambridge University Press: 13178 books
Hydrology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
Water in its different forms has always been a source of wonder, curiosity and practical concern for humans everywhere. Hydrology: An Introduction presents a coherent introduction to the fundamental principles of hydrology, based on the course that Wilfried Brutsaert has taught at Cornell University...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This book, edited by two innovative leaders in the field, focuses on the new discipline of translational medicine as it pertains to drug development within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Translational medicine seeks to translate biological and molecular knowledge of disease and how...
Consequential Courts
Judicial Roles in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented during a year-long...
Effective Teaching and Successful Learning
Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The overall aim of this reader-friendly book is to enable current and prospective teachers as well as other education professionals to improve practice, leading to more successful learning for all students. Drawing on her extensive experience as both a high school teacher and a university professor,...
Salt Tectonics
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Salt tectonics is the study of how and why salt structures evolve and the three-dimensional forms that result. A fascinating branch of geology in itself, salt tectonics is also vitally important to the petroleum industry. Covering the entire scale from the microscopic to the continental, this textbook...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Centered on three themes, this book explores the latest research in plasticity in sensory systems, focusing on visual and auditory systems. It covers a breadth of recent scientific study within the field including research on healthy systems and diseased models of sensory processing. Topics include...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
This volume contains nine survey articles based on the invited lectures given at the 24th British Combinatorial Conference, held at Royal Holloway, University of London in July 2013. This biennial conference is a well-established international event, with speakers from around the world. The volume...
Human Tooth Crown and Root Morphology
The Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions substantially builds on a seminal 1991 work by Turner, Nichol, and Scott. It provides detailed descriptions and multiple illustrations of each crown and root trait to help guide researchers to make consistent observations on trait expression,...
Quantum Computer Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
In the 1990's it was realized that quantum physics has some spectacular applications in computer science. This book is a concise introduction to quantum computation, developing the basic elements of this new branch of computational theory without assuming any background in physics. It begins with...
Pedagogy in Higher Education
A Cultural Historical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
What can Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) contribute to the solution of the problems facing higher education today? This edited volume brings together the work of an international group of scholars and researchers to address this important question. Drawing on contemporary interpretations...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The success of Assisted Reproductive Technology is critically dependent upon the use of well optimized protocols, based upon sound scientific reasoning, empirical observations and evidence of clinical efficacy. Recently, the treatment of infertility has experienced a revolution, with the routine adoption...
Judging Faith, Punishing Sin
Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Judging Faith, Punishing Sin breaks new ground by offering the first comparative treatment of Catholic inquisitions and Calvinist consistories, offering scholars a new framework for analysing religious reform and social discipline in the great Christian age of reformation. Global in scope, both institutions...
Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa
Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In this innovative and engaging study, Mire Koikari recasts the US occupation of Okinawa as a startling example of Cold War cultural interaction in which women's grassroots activities involving homes and homemaking played a pivotal role in reshaping the contours of US and Japanese imperialisms. Drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
What are the risks of terrorism and what are their consequences and economic impacts? Are we safer from terrorism today than before 9/11? Does the government spend our homeland security funds well? These questions motivated a twelve-year research program of the National Center for Risk and Economic...