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The Earth Through Time
The Earth Through Time, 11th Edition, by Harold L. Levin and David T. King chronicles the Earth's story from the time the Sun began to radiate its light, to the beginning of civilization. <p><p> The goal of The Earth Through Time is to present the history of the Earth, and the science behind that ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Digital Cameras and Equipment For Dummies, Pocket Edition
How to choose, use, equip, and maintain your digital camera Which digital camera best suits your needs? How many megapixels do you really need? How do you store and protect your photos? Which features areessential and which are expensive frills? Find the answers for buying, using, and caring for you... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Subduction Dynamics: From Mantle Flow to Mega Disasters
Subduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments. <P><P>Understanding the dynamics of the subducting slab is critical to a better understanding of the primary societally relevant natural hazards emerging from our planetary in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Hip and Pelvis in Sports Medicine and Primary Care
by Jimmy D. Bowen • Peter H. Seidenberg • Faafp • Facsm • Rmsk • Faapmr • Caqsm • Cscs • David J. KingNow in a revised and updated second edition, this practical guide remains an invaluable resource for improving the management of hip and pelvis injuries and presents a spectrum of treatment options for children, adolescents, adults and special populations. Opening with valuable clinical pearls for ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability (State of the World)
by David W. Orr • The Worldwatch Institute • Michael Renner • Tom Prugh • Conor Seyle • Matthew Wilburn KingCitizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.'s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments' progress has been lackluster. That's not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1984 -
Competency-Based Human Resource Management: Discover a New System for Unleashing the Productive Power of Exemplary Performers
Force-fitting employees into a "job box" shortchanges both the employees and the organization, according to David Dubois and William Rothwell. The more effective method is to fit employee talents to the work that must be accomplished. Competency-Based Human Resource Management describes how to reinv... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1765 -
Systems Thinking Analyses for Health Policy and Systems Development: A Malaysian Case Study
Health systems are fluid and their components are interdependent in complex ways. Policymakers, academics and students continually endeavour to understand how to manage health systems to improve the health of populations. However, previous scholarship has often failed to engage with the intersection... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Residential Building Codes Illustrated
An easy-to-use illustrated guide to building codes for residential structuresAs the construction industry moves to a single set of international building codes, architects and construction professionals need an interpretive guide to understand how the building code affects the early design of specif... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
by Deborah Tannen • Alison Mackey • Deborah Schiffrin • Natalie Schilling • Ralph Fasold • Jeff Connor-Linton • Ralph Fasold Elizabeth Zsiga Donna Lardiere Ruth Kramer David Lightfoot Paul Portner Deborah Schiffrin Deborah Tannen Alison Mackey Natalie Schilling Michael T. Ullman Shaligram Shukla Kendall A. King • Jeff Connor-Linton Inderjeet Mani • Elizabeth Zsiga • Donna Lardiere • Ruth Kramer • David Lightfoot • Paul Portner • Michael T. Ullman • Shaligram Shukla • Kendall A. King • Inderjeet ManiThis accessible textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who teaches courses on that topic, ensuring balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of the full range of modern linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge the text offers a clear introduct... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures
by Michelle Levy • Beth Fowkes Tobin • Rachael Scarborough King • Philip S. Palmer • Leith Davis • Brian Rejack • Margaret J. M. Ezell • Emily C. Friedman • Collin Jennings • Kathryn R. King • Marissa Nicosia • Colin T. Ramsey • Andrew O. WincklesThe eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. After Print, however, reveals that the story isn’t so simple. Manuscript remained a vital, effective, and even preferred forum fo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Critical Issues in Sport and Society)
by David Andrews • Samantha Frost • Simone Fullagar • Mary Louise Adams • Samantha King • Pirkko Markula • Michael D. Giardina • Matthew G. Hawzen • Oliver Rick • Jacob J. Bustad • Richard Pringle • Mary G. McDonald • Kiri Baxter • Douglas Booth • Kyle S Bunds • Mariana Clark • Simon C Darnell • Jennifer Sterling • Christopher McLeod • Shannon Leigh Jette • Katelyn Esmonde • Carolyn Pluim • Gavin WeedonThe moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Hoosier Philanthropy: A State History of Giving
by James H. Madison • Peter Weber • Nicole Etcheson • David P. King • Xiaoyun Wang • Tyrone McKinley Freeman • William H. Schneider • Katherine Badertscher • Clay Robbins • Ruth C. Crocker • James J. Connelly • Paul C. Pribbenow • Caitlin Crowley • Elizabeth J. Van Allen • Chen Ji • Amanda Koch • Ruth K. Hansen • Philip D. ByersThe first in-depth history of philanthropy in Indiana. Philanthropy has been central to the development of public life in Indiana over the past two centuries. Hoosier Philanthropy explores the role of philanthropy in the Hoosier state, showing how voluntary action within Indiana has created and supp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Bound by Mystery: Celebrating 20 Years of Poisoned Pen Press
by Ann Parker • Kerry Greenwood • James Sallis • Priscilla Royal • Frederick Ramsay • Carolyn Wall • Mark De Castrique • Vicki Delany • David Moss • Donis Casey • Jane Finnis • Charlotte Hinger • Ann Littlewood • Tim Maleeny • Mary Reed • Eric Mayer • Jeffrey Siger • Dennis Palumbo • Tina Whittle • Reavis Z Wortham • Janet Hubbard • Triss Stein • Zoe Burke • Steven Axelrod • Catherine Winn • Warren C Easley • J C Lane • J M Donellan • David P Wagner • Diane D. Dibiase • Kelly Garrett • Laurie R King • M Dobson • Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel • Vasudev MurthyIn celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados-Kerry Greenwood with her Phryne Fisher mysteries, now also a popular television pro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
by Evelyn J. Peters • Sarah Prout • David Turner • Rebecca Schiff • Julia Christensen • Paul Andrew • Tim Aubry • Yale Belanger • Cynthia Bird • Christina Birdsall-Jones • Marleny M. Bonnycastle • Deidre Brown • Rebecca Cherner • Patricia Franks • Susan Farrell • Joshua Freistadt • Charmaine Green • Kelly Greenop • Shiloh Groot • Darrin Hodgetts • Selena Kern • Pita Richard Wiremu King • Fran Klodawsky • Gabrielle Lindstrom • Paul Memmott • Daphne Nash • Julia Parrel • Mohi Rua • Annette Siddle • Maureen Simpkins • Barbara A. Smith • Wilfreda E. Thurston • Alina Turner • Jeanette Waegemakers Schiff • Tiniwai Chas Te Whetu • Rob WillettsBeing homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related att... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Dark Minds: A Charity Collection of Short Stories from Some of Your Favourite Authors
by David Evans • Alex Shaw • April Taylor • Louise Jensen • Stephen Edger • A. S. King • S. E. Lynes • Paul Gitsham • Lisa Hall • Alex Walters • Lucy V. Hay • Ross Greenwood • Betsy Reavley • Emma Pullar • Anita Waller • Tara Lyons • Mark L. Fowler • Jane E. James • Bernie Steadman • Nick Jackson • B. A. Morton • Richard T. Burke • Tony R. Cox • Jt Lawrence • Ron Nicholson • Ka Richardson • A. J. Sendall • Pete Adams • L J Ross • Paul D. Brazill • Joel Hames • Simon Maltman • Jim Ody • Steve Dunne • Peter Best • Tess Makovesky • M. A. Comley • Roz White • Charlie Flowers • Hannah Haq • Jenna-Leigh GoldingA collection of short stories from some of your favourite authors Do you think you know darkness? Think again. Bloodhound Books presents Dark Minds – a collection of stories by authors who have come together to produce an anthology that will lure, tantalise and shock its readers. What took place ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops
by Stephen Adkins • Nuria Alburquerque • Maria Luisa Badenes • Luciana Baldoni • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Pedro M. Barros • A. T. Basford • Muhammad Ajmal Bashir • Diego Silva Batista • Julianne Biddle • Manuel Blasco • J. R. Botella • Patrick Brown • Lorenzo Burgos • John E. Carlson • Luis A. Cañas • Elisabeth Carmona • David Chagné • Rekha Chaudhury • Elisabeth Chevreau • V. E. Chhatre • Yelda Özden Çiftçi • C. Claflin • Yuval Cohen • Elena Corredoira • Valerio Cristofori • Niccolò Cultrera • Abhaya Dandekar • Maurecilne Lemes da Silva • Sadanand A. Dhekney • Leo D’Souza • Ofere Francis Emeriewen • Kate Evans • M. Faize • Fábio Gelape Faleiro • Ana Paula Farinha • Vicente Vicente • Yolanda Ferradás • Antonio Figueira • Maureen M.M. Fitch • Henryk Flachowsky • M. Foale • Svetlana Y. Folimonova • María Victoria González • Isabel María González-Padilla • Julie Graham • Dennis J. Gray • Magda-Viola Hanke • Smitha Hegde • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Uma Jaiswal • Nikki Jennings • Hülya Akdemir Koç • Ossama Kodad • Nerea Larrañaga • Chuck Leslie • Z. J. Li • Amanda De Lopes • Carlos López-Encina • Rodolfo López-Gómez • Jorge Lora • Zheng-Rong Luo • S. K. Malik • Roberto Mariotti • Óscar Martínez • Pedro Martínez-Gómez • Antonio J. Matas • José Mercado • Scott Merkle • Sara Montanari • Gloria Moore • Soraya Mousavi • Isabel Narváez • María Del Naval • Q. T. Nguyen • Shashikiran Nivas • M. Margarida Oliveira • Ahmet Onay • Guillermo Padilla • Elena Palomo-Ríos • Andreas Peil • Leandro Pena • Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente • Cesar Petri • Paula M. Pijut • Marcos Vinícius Pinheiro • Clara Pliego • Fernando Pliego-Alfaro • Simon H.T. Raharjo • Manoj K Rai • Manuel Rey • Gabino Ríos • Alain Rival • Diego Ismael Rocha • M. B. Rosenberg • M. Rouard • Nicolas Roux • Eddo Rugini • D. Ruiz • J. Sardos • Danielle Camargo Scotton • Cristian Silvestri • Michael K Smith • Guo-Qing Song • Veysel Süzerer • Alicia Talavera • Ryutaro Tao • Takuya Tetsumura • Engin Tilkat • Pablo Ric Varas • Wagner Vendrame • Francisco Javier Viéitez • Hazel Wetzstein • Roxana Yockteng • Qing-Lin ZhangThis book covers the biotechnology of all the major perennial fruit and nut species. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, there has been significant progress in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation for many of these species. This book covers these biotechnolo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023