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Interviews
University Press of Mississippi
Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together, for the first time, interviews made over a span of fifty years with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (19362005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (19272013). Beginning with their earliest work in India, and …
Cambridge University Press
Binding theory seeks to explain how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns have anaphoric relations amongst one another, and how they come to have reference to things in the world. This textbook provides a …
Cambridge University Press
This book conveys the breadth and interconnectedness of questions of justice - a rarity in contemporary moral and political philosophy. James P. Sterba argues that a minimal notion of rationality requires morality, and that a minimal libertarian morality requires the …
View book details for Data-Intensive Computing
Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications
Cambridge University Press
The world is awash with digital data from social networks, blogs, business, science and engineering. Data-intensive computing facilitates understanding of complex problems that must process massive amounts of data. Through the development of new classes of software, algorithms and hardware, …
Princeton University Press
Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok …
View book details for The DRCOG Revision Guide
Examination Preparation and Practice Questions
Cambridge University Press
The DRCOG Revision Guide has been written by examiners as a must-have guide for anyone preparing for this examination. The format is closely aligned to the DRCOG syllabus with a chapter covering each one of the seven syllabus sections. The …
Cambridge University Press
Protecting the reproductive potential of young patients undergoing cancer therapy is increasingly important. With modern treatment protocols, 80% of patients can be expected to survive. It has been estimated that up to one in 250 young adults will be a …
Cambridge University Press
In this ambitious study, Robertson explains how the US Constitution emerged from an intense battle between a bold vision for the nation's political future and the tenacious defense of its political present. Given a once-in-a-lifetime chance to alter America's destiny, …
Cambridge University Press
Geometric integrators are time-stepping methods, designed such that they exactly satisfy conservation laws, symmetries or symplectic properties of a system of differential equations. In this book the authors outline the principles of geometric integration and demonstrate how they can be …
View book details for The Discrepancy Method
Randomness and Complexity
Cambridge University Press
The discrepancy method is the glue that binds randomness and complexity. It is the bridge between randomized computation and discrepancy theory, the area of mathematics concerned with irregularities in distributions. The discrepancy method has played a major role in complexity …
View book details for Ecosystem Ecology
A New Synthesis
Cambridge University Press
What can ecological science contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of the natural systems that underpin human well-being? Bridging the natural, physical and social sciences, this book shows how ecosystem ecology can inform the ecosystem services approach to environmental …
Cambridge University Press
Latin American multinationals (multilatinas) have been central in the rise of emerging markets in the last few decades. Their development comprises part of the global shift of wealth and power between nations. The rise of firms in a broad range …
View book details for Measuring Efficiency in Health Care
Analytic Techniques and Health Policy
Cambridge University Press
With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least …
View book details for Transforming Military Power since the Cold War
Britain, France, and the United States, 19912012
Cambridge University Press
This book provides an authoritative account of how the US, British, and French armies have transformed since the end of the Cold War. All three armies have sought to respond to changes in their strategic and socio-technological environments by developing …
View book details for Ancient Egypt
A Social History
Cambridge University Press
The rich and extensive floodplain of the River Nile can claim to be the cradle of one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of antiquity. Ancient Egypt: A Social History, first published in 1983, presents an innovative perspective on …
View book details for What Was I Thinking?
The Dumb Things We Do and How to Avoid Them
Taylor Trade Publishing
In this in-depth exploration of the dumb things we all do and why, Helmreich sheds new light on the well-known foibles of Martha Stewart, Bill Clinton, Britney Spears, Don Imus, Eliot Spitzer, Tiger Woods and Bernie Madoff, as well as …
View book details for No Plan B
Most Valuable PeytonManning's Comeback with the Denver Broncos
Taylor Trade Publishing
Peyton Manning is Americas quarterback. And America loves a great comeback story. Less than two years after Manning was fired from the Indianapolis Colts, he led the Denver Broncos to the Super Bowl and won pro footballs Most Valuable Player …
M. Evans & Company
Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading.Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business success and failure, a …
View book details for It Happened in the Old South
Remarkable Events That Shaped History
Globe Pequot Press
This book tells thirty stories of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama,Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentuckyfrom early European exploration to the end of the Civil War. Readers will be introduced to well-known characters, little-known heroes, and events that …
Globe Pequot Press
These travel guides are written by parents with the whole family in mind, particularly parents with children between the ages of two and twelve. Features include interesting facts and sidebars as well as easy-to-read icons. These new releases have been …
View book details for How I Slept My Way to the Middle
Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs
Lyons Press
Kevin Pollak rose through the comedy club ranks at the feet of Don Rickles and Bill Cosby, Johnny Carson and George Carlin. Named one of Comedy Centrals Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time, hes a killer impressionistFalk, Shatner, Walken, …
View book details for That's Not in My Science Book
A Compilation of Little-Known Facts
Taylor Trade Publishing
The follow-on to the best-selling That's Not in My American History Book explains in everyday language both the ordinary and the bizarre technological marvels that we take for granted and the laws of nature that serve as the baseline for …
M. Evans & Company
The psychiatrist who broke into national prominence when it was revealed that Richard Nixon had consulted him, has written a book which history has demanded be written: an examination of the nature of the power drive and how it works …
View book details for America's First Ladies
Their Uncommon Wisdom, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush
Taylor Trade Publishing
Here are the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of such upstanding and quintessential Americans as Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Clinton. These women have been more than just wives …
View book details for Animal Wonder World
A Chronicle of the Unusual in Nature
M. Evans & Company
This is a charming series of essays on animal behavior, written in 1951 by the note British science writer Frank W. Lane, reveals obscure and fascinating oddities of animal behavior. The clear, logical explanation behind each bizarre happening grounds the …
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