Search Results
Search results: 23
-
Dance of War: The Story of the Battle of Egypt
by Peter BatesBased on research in England, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, this is a detailed account and analysis of Rommel's attempt in July 1942 to break through to Cairo and Alexandria, and the 8th Army's successful defence and unsuccessful attempts to destroy the Panzerarmee. The author, a particip... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy: The Invisible Hand In The U. S. Marketplace Of Ideas
This book analyzes why we believe what we believe about politics, and how the answer affects the way democracy functions. It does so by applying social evolution theory to the relationship between the news media and politics, using the United States as its primary example. This includes a critical r... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Great Minds in Regional Science: Volume 1 (Footprints of Regional Science)
by Peter Batey • David PlaneThis is the first volume in a new series on 'Great Minds in Regional Science,' which seeks to present a contemporary view on the scientific relevance of the work done by great thinkers in regional science. It presents, among others, Walter Isard, Martin Beckmann and Gunnar Myrdal. Each contribution ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Great Minds in Regional Science, Vol. 2 (Footprints of Regional Science)
by Peter Batey • David PlaneThis book is the second volume in a new series on 'Great Minds in Regional Science,' which seeks to present a contemporary view on the scientific relevance of the work done by great thinkers in regional science. This volume presents, among others, Adam Smith, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, and Alan Wil... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Cuyahoga: A Novel
by Pete BeattyOne of The Millions and BuzzFeed&’s Most Anticipated Books A spectacularly inventive debut novel that reinvents the tall tale for our times—&“Cuyahoga defies all modest description…[it] is ten feet tall if it&’s an inch, and it&’s a ramshackle joy from start to finish&” (Brian Phillips, author of Im... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Art Therapy with Veterans
by Erin Partridge • Gioia Chilton • Deborah Murphy • Jashley Boatwright • Kevin D’Augustine • Courtney Bennett • Raquel Farrell-Kirk • Peter Buotte • Meredith McMackinWith both personal and professional insight from a range of contributors, this informative guide highlights the use of art therapy in a range of settings to support military veterans. Offering a wealth of knowledge on this approach and the variety of current programs available, this is an invaluable... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Spirituality, Values and Mental Health: Jewels for the Journey
by David Mitchell • Andrew Powell • Brian Thorne • John Swinton • Neil Thompson • Sarah Carr • Peter Gilbert • Nigel Mills • Azim Kidwai • John Foskett • Suman Fernando • Fozia Sarwar • Premila Trevedi • Choman Hardi • Vicky Nicholls • Peter Bates • Fatima Kassam • Arthur Hawes • Cameron Langlands • Veronica Dewan • Ju Blencowe • Julia Head • Tom Gordon • Frances Basset • B Spalek • Anne Roberts • Paul Grey • Mark Bones • Ali Jan Haider • Barbara Pointon • Mary Ellen Coyte • Kim Woodbridge • Wendy Edwards • Christopher Newell • Chris Mackenna • Abina Parshad-Griffin • Thurstine Basset • Sarajane Aris • Luftha Meah • Paul Chapple • Bill K. W. M. FulfordSpirituality, religious belief and inclusive faith communities are important for mental well being but mental health practitioners have few guidelines for acknowledging these issues when working with service users. Spirituality, Values and Mental Health gathers together personal and professional co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Complete Guide To Tutoring Struggling Readers: Mapping Interventions To Purpose And CCSS
This authoritative, easy-to-use guide will help educators plan and implement intervention lessons for struggling readers that align with the English Language Common Core State Standards. All three authors run successful summer reading programs and supervise tutors who are becoming reading specialis... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Heroic Defeats: The Politics Of Job Loss
by Helen V. Milner • Robert H. Bates • Ellen Comisso • Peter Lange • Miriam A. Golden • Joel Samuel MigdalHeroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory to generate testable propositions about when these situations will result in industrial conflict, Professor Golden illustrates the theory... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
A New Century for Natural Resources Management
by Robert Costanza • Sarah F. Bates • Vawter Parker • Richard L. Knight • Steward Pickett • Peter BerckThis book explores the changes that are leading to a new century of natural resources management. It places the current situation in historical perspective, analyzes the forces that are propelling change, and describes and examines the specific changes in goals, policy, and practice that are transfo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995 -
Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony
Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Peter Taylor: Complete Stories 1938-1959
by Ann Beattie • Peter TaylorFor the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South.Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally compli... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Peter Taylor: Complete Stories 1960-1992
by Ann Beattie • Peter TaylorFor the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South.Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally compli... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
New Contributions to Transportation Analysis in Europe (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1999, this volume responded to the drastic fluctuations in policy changes within the European Union and explored the potential for the various transportation framework programmes financed by the European Commission. The contributors offer an array of recent advances in transportat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
'ReCapricorning' the Atlantic: Special Issue of Luso-Brazilian Review 45:1
This special issue of Luso-Brazilian Review includes articles on the Lusophone South Atlantic by historians of Africa and Brazil originally presented in May of 2006 at the Michigan State University and University of Michigan’s Atlantic History Workshop “ReCapricorning the Atlantic: Luso-Brazilian an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America's largest nation. Tracing the army's reliance on coercive r... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Unorthodox Freud: The View from the Couch
Offering a fresh new look at how Freud practiced psychoanalysis, this book draws upon the five existing full-length accounts of Freud's analyses written by the patients themselves. <p><p> Focusing upon Freud's definition of the primary task of treatment and the division of labor between himself an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Realization and Model Reduction of Dynamical Systems: A Festschrift in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Thanos Antoulas
This book celebrates Professor Thanos Antoulas's 70th birthday, marking his fundamental contributions to systems and control theory, especially model reduction and, more recently, data-driven modeling and system identification. Model reduction is a prominent research topic with wide ranging scientif... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
R: Data Analysis and Visualization
by Brett Lantz • Edina Berlinger • Gergely Daroczi • Jaynal Abedin • Hrishi V. Mittal • Bater Makhabel • Tony Fischetti • Ferenc Illes • Adam Banai • Milan Badics • Balázs Árpád Szucs • Dániel Havran • Julia Molnár • Péter Juhász • István Margitai • Tamás Vadász • Barbara Dömötör • Kata Váradi • Ágnes Tuza • Ágnes Vidovics-Dancs • Balázs Márkus • Péter Medvegyev • Gergely GablerMaster the art of building analytical models using R About This Book * Load, wrangle, and analyze your data using the world's most powerful statistical programming language * Build and customize publication-quality visualizations of powerful and stunning R graphs * Develop key skills and technique... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Arctic Tourism Experiences: Production, Consumption and Sustainability
by Carl Cater • Line Mathisen • Peter Fischer • Isabelle Guissard • Arild Røkenes • Sara Davoudi • Claes Högström • Bård Tronvoll • Johan Edelheim • Kjell Olsen • Laura J Lawton • Stein R Mathisen • Hans Anton Stubberud • Carsten Blom Ruud • Ming-Feng Huang • Chuanzhong Tang • Raija Komppula • Beate Bursta • Giovanna Bertella • Sølvi Lyngnes • Margaret E. Johnston • Elsa De Souza • R. Harvey Lemelin • Sergey Ilkevich • Per Strömberg • Peter Haugseth • Urban WråkbergAn exploration of Arctic tourism, focusing on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences; this is the first compilation to concentrate on the fundamental essence of the Arctic as being a geographical periphery, but also an experiential core that offers peak tourism experiences. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Genetics and Genomics of the Rabbit
by Domenico Spina • Cristiano Boiti • Bernd Fischer • Jianglin Fan • Zsuzsanna Bosze • Joana Abrantes • Marielle Afanassieff • Daniel Allain • Andre Almeida • Susana S. Araújo • Manuel Baselga • Agustin Blasco • Paul Boettcher • Gerard Bolet • Darko Bosnakovski • Samuel Boucher • Samuele Bovo • Gudrun A. Brockmann • Luca Buttazzoni • Cesare Castellini • Pascale Chavatte-Palmer • Peter Chrenek • Veronique Duranthon • Pedro José Esteves • María-Luz García • Hervé Garreau • Elen Gócza • Mélanie Gunia • Pilar Hernández • László Hiripi • Arata Honda • Adriana Kolesárová • Ana Lemos de Matos • Rose Mage • Manolis Matzapetakis • István Nagy • Clive Page • Mariana Palma • Miriam Piles • Andrea Rau • Andreas Ritsch • Claire Rogel-Gaillard • Jun Pablo Sanchez • Maria Antonia Santacreu • Pierre Savatier • Giuseppina Schiavo • Ina Sternstein • Zsolt Szendro • Valerio Joe UtzeriRabbits have many uses - as well as being cherished pets, they are bred for their meat and fur, and as laboratory animals. Understanding their genetics and genomics is key to their production and, equally, to their care, welfare and health. Beginning with an introduction to the rabbit, including key... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
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 -
Fracking - Die neue Produktionsgeografie
Die Energieversorgung der Welt steht vor einer radikalen Wende: Mit Fracking erschließt eine neue Technik bislang unerreichbare Öl- und Gasquellen in der Tiefe. Das verändert die Spielregeln im globalen Energiemarkt. Durch die Ausbeutung dieser sogenannten unkonventionellen Lagerstätten können ein... More
Language: GERCopyright: 2015