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View book details for The Modern Stephen King Canon
Beyond Horror
Lexington Books
The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror is a collection of essays focused on the more recent writings of Stephen King, including Revival, 11/22/63, and a selection of short stories by the Master of the Macabre. The authors write about …
Lexington Books
The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema responds to the renewed interest in class within and outside academia by examining the aesthetics and politics of class in a representative selection of films from the contemporary cinemas of Venezuela, …
This collection introduces readers to the philosophical interpretation of Scripture, specifically within American Philosophy. The purpose of the collection concerns starting a conversation about the practice and task of the philosophical interpretation of Scripture. Reflections on the philosophical interpretation of …
View book details for Eric Amblers Novels
Critiquing Modernity
Eric Ambler's first six novels released between 1936 and 1940 quickly established his reputation as a master craftsman of intrigue and espionage narratives. Far less often discussed are the twelve Cold War novels he published, after an eleven-year hiatus as …
View book details for The Kremlin Playbook 2
The Enablers
Center for Strategic & International Studies
In The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers, the CSIS Europe Program and the Center for the Study of Democracy explored whether some of these jurisdictions and companies could be enabling forces that amplify Russian malign economic influence in some countries …
View book details for Education for Liberation
The Politics of Promise and Reform Inside and Beyond Americas Prisons
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Almost 650,000 men and women, approximately the size of the city of Memphis, TN, return home from prison every year. Oftentimes with some pocket change and a bus ticket, they reenter society and struggle to find work, housing, a supportive …
View book details for The Labyrinths of Love
On Psyche, Soul, and Self-Becoming
Labyrinths of Love is an interdisciplinary examination of the self, psyche, and soul, providing a comparative analysis from religious, paranormal research and transpersonal theory perspectives. The book addresses ontological questions regarding the nature of the self in relationship to both …
View book details for Rotator Cuff Tear
Pathogenesis, Evaluation and Treatment
This handbook provides detailed, state of the art information on simple and complex rotator cuff tears that will be of value in daily clinical practice. It covers all relevant aspects, including basic science, pathogenesis, clinical and instrumental evaluation, and treatment …
View book details for Private Schools and Student Media
Supporting Mission, Students, and Community
Private Schools and Student Media: Support Mission, Students, and Community explores the activities of student media outlets, content creators and advisers in K12 private schools in the United States. The unique nature of private schools, separate from government funding but …
View book details for Big Data in Context
Legal, Social and Technological Insights
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book sheds new light on a selection of big data scenarios from an interdisciplinary perspective. It features legal, sociological and economic approaches to fundamental big data topics such as …
View book details for Culinary Arts
A Practical Career Guide
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Welcome to the culinary arts field! If youre interested in a career in culinary arts, youve come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills …
Woody Allen has accomplished that which no American filmmaker in the modern era has or perhaps ever will: directing to date 49 films (47 full-length theatrical releases, 1 short film in an anthology, and 1 television film), writing 42 of …
View book details for Modeling and Control of a Large Nuclear Reactor
A Three-Time-Scale Approach
Control analysis and design of large nuclear reactors requires a suitable mathematical model representing the steady state and dynamic behavior of the reactor with reasonable accuracy. This task is, however, quite challenging because of several complex dynamic phenomena existing in …
View book details for VOB/A 2012 - Textausgabe/Text Edition
Vergabe- und Vertragsordnung fur Bauleistungen, Teil A/German Construction Contract Procedures, Part A
Das Interesse auslandischer Bauherren und Investoren an den Inhalten der Vergabe- und Vertragsordnung fur Bauleistungen, Teil A: Allgemeine Bestimmungen fur die Vergabe von Bauleistungen (VOB/A) ist gro. In den meisten Landern gibt es keine vergleichbare Verordnung, um Auftrage zu vergeben, …
View book details for Stochastic Recursive Algorithms for Optimization
Simultaneous Perturbation Methods
Stochastic Recursive Algorithms for Optimization presents algorithms for constrained and unconstrained optimization and for reinforcement learning. Efficient perturbation approaches form a thread unifying all the algorithms considered. Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation and smooth fractional estimators for gradient- and Hessian-based methods …
View book details for Talar Osteochondral Defects
Diagnosis, Planning, Treatment, and Rehabilitation
This book addresses hot topics relating to talar osteochondritis dissecans: improvements in the accuracy of diagnosis, sound preoperative planning, optimal treatment and procedure-specific rehabilitation protocols. The technical difficulties in each of these areas are identified and evidence-based guidelines are presented. …
View book details for Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP)
Biliary and Pancreatic Ducts
This book, based on the experience of a single large referral center, presents the characteristic findings obtained when using MR imaging and MR cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) to image the biliary tree and pancreatic ducts in a variety of disease settings. An …
Dieses Fachbuch behandelt den Aufbau und die Funktion von Schwingungs-Messsystemen, wie diese in Betrieb genommen und Messungen interpretiert werden. Es wird die Funktionsweise der gesamten Messkette vom Aufnehmer bis zur Auswertung beschrieben, und das Zusammenwirken der Elemente sowie die praktisch …
Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement analyzes the psychological, social, and academic phenomena comprising engagement, framing it as critical to learning and development. Drawing on positive psychology, flow studies, and theories of motivation, the book conceptualizes engagement as a …
View book details for Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery
Operative Procedures Based on the Embryological Anatomy of the Fascial Composition
This unique guide describes colorectal surgery procedures using medical terminology and anatomical terms originating from embryology. In the last decade, laparoscopic procedures in gastrointestinal surgery have been enhanced and their safety has significantly improved. With the number of cases of …
View book details for Digital Watermarking
Techniques and Trends
This book presents the state-of-the-arts application of digital watermarking in audio, speech, image, video, 3D mesh graph, text, software, natural language, ontology, network stream, relational database, XML, and hardware IPs. It also presents new and recent algorithms in digital watermarking …
This book fills an information gap on cognitive radios, since the discussion focuses on the implementation issues that are unique to cognitive radios and how to solve them at both the architecture and circuit levels. This is the first book …
This new edition provides a description of current developments relating to grid methods, grid codes, and their applications to actual problems. Grid generation methods are indispensable for the numerical solution of differential equations. Adaptive grid-mapping techniques, in particular, are the …
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful technique with which to probe the properties of matter, equally applicable to the solid, liquid and gas phases. Semiconductors are arguably our most technologically-relevant group of materials given they form the basis of …
View book details for A Sustainable Theatre
Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow
Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created …
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