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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Methodological advances in consumer behavior are increasing rapidly. We can characterize these advances by work in two logically separate but functionally related areas: (a) the philosophical underpinnings of our methods, and (b) the analytic strategies for examining the phenomena of interest in the...
Gender-based Violence and Depression in Women
A Feminist Group Work Response
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Social workers, in whatever capacity they work, can expect to come into contact with women who have experienced/are experiencing violence and with women who are experiencing depression. Therefore, a range of social work supports and interventions are required in order to meet the needs...
by Tim Howard
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Space weather has attracted a lot of attention in recent times. Severe space weather can disrupt spacecraft, and on Earth can be the cause of power outages and power station failure. It also presents a radiation hazard for airline passengers and astronauts. These “magnetic storms” are most commonly...
Extreme Explosions
Supernovae, Hypernovae, Magnetars, and Other Unusual Cosmic Blasts
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
What happens at the end of the life of massive stars? At one time we thought all these stars followed similar evolutionary paths. However, new discoveries have shown that things are not quite that simple.
This book focuses on the extreme –the most intense, brilliant and peculiar–...
by Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
This volume provides an important new synthesis of archaeological work carried out in Australia on the post-contact period. It draws on dozens of case studies from a wide geographical and temporal span to explore the daily life of Australians in settings such as convict stations, goldfields, whalers'...
AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas
A Companion to the Seventh Editions of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Significantly expanded, expertly and beautifully illustrated, The AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas, 2nd Edition, offers more than 600 illustrations created exclusively for this new edition and is fully updated to reflect the concepts discussed in the 7th Edition of both the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and...
Mentoring and Diversity
Tips for Students and Professionals for Developing and Maintaining a Diverse Scientific Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Mentoring has always been an important factor in life and particularly in academia. In fact, making choices about educational pursuits and subsequent careers without input from mentors can prove disastrous. Fortunately, many individuals have “na- ral” mentors and for them these choices are greatly...
by Daniel Mayton
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Recent trends and events worldwide have increased public interest in nonviolence, pacifism, and peace psychology as well as professional interest across the social sciences. Nonviolence and Peace Psychology assembles multiple perspectives to create a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of...
Shaping Space
Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This second edition is based off of the very popular Shaping Space: A Polyhedral Approach, first published twenty years ago. The book is expanded and updated to include new developments, including the revolutions in visualization and model-making that the computer has wrought.
Shaping Space...
by Rachel Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
This book is an amateur astronomer’s guide to the mythology and symbolism associated with the celestial bodies in the Solar System, and even includes some of the legendary tales of people who had or have a connection with these objects. It explores different cultures (for example, the Greco-Roman...
Solar System Maps
From Antiquity to the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In recent years, there has been increased interest in our Solar System. This has been prompted by the launching of giant orbiting telescopes and space probes, the discovery of new planetary moons and heavenly bodies that orbit the Sun, and the demotion of Pluto as a planet. In one generation, our...
by Stephen Tonkin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Binoculars have, for many, long been regarded as an “entry level” observational tool, and relatively few have used them as a serious observing instrument. This is changing! Many people appreciate the relative comfort of two-eyed observing, but those who use binoculars come to realize that they...
The Hatfield Lunar Atlas
Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
"The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" has become an amateur lunar observer's bible since it was first published in 1968.
A major update of the atlas was made in 1998, using the same wonderful photographs that Commander Henry Hatfield made with his purpose-built 12-inch (300 mm) telescope, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
We live in a complex and dynamically changing acoustic environment. To this end, the auditory cortex of humans has developed the ability to process a remarkable amount of diverse acoustic information with apparent ease. In fact, a phylogenetic comparison of auditory systems reveals that human auditory...