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View book details for CP Violation in {B_s}^0 -> J/psi.phi Decays

Measured with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
Sabato Leo
This thesis reports on the final measurement of the flavor-mixing phase in decays of strange-bottom mesons (B_s) into J/psi and phi mesons performed in high-energy proton-antiproton collisions recorded by the Collider Experiment at Fermilab. Interference occurs between direct decays and …

View book details for Raising the Alarm

An Examination of Innovation and Philosophical Denial
Robert Andrew Este
As the foundation of our modern world, innovation has generated a seemingly endless ocean of new products, new processes, new thoughts, and new ways of doing things. Every day, we enhance our innovation and its effects and we advance, accomplish …
G. Barton
Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the …
Valeriy Astapenko
The book is devoted to the modern theory and experimental manifestation of Polarization Bremsstrahlung (PB) which arises due to scattering of charged particles from various targets: atoms, nanostructures (including atomic clusters, nanoparticle in dielectric matrix, fullerens, graphene-like two-dimensional atomic structure) …

View book details for Fruhe Hilfen in der Padiatrie

Bedarf erkennen intervenieren vernetzen
Volker Mall, Anna Friedmann
Dieser Leitfaden richtet sich speziell an den niedergelassenen Kinder- und Jugendarzt als Lotse fur Familien, die aufgrund hoher psychosozialer Belastungen Fruher Hilfen bedurfen. Das praxisnah konzipierte Buch beschreibt die Dynamik fruhkindlicher Regulationsstorungen, elterlicher Psychopathologie und weiterer psychosozialer Belastungen. Aus der …

View book details for Fission Neutrons

Experiments, Evaluation, Modeling and Open Problems
Nikolay Kornilov
Although the fission of heavy nuclei was discovered over 75 years ago, many problems and questions still remain to be addressed and answered. The reader will be presented with an old, but persistent problem of this field: The contradiction between …

View book details for 101 Answers for New Teachers and Their Mentors

Effective Teaching Tips for Daily Classroom Use
Annette Breaux
Now in its third edition, this bestseller has remained popular, relevant, and a must-read for new teachers, mentors, administrators, and staff development professionals. Appropriate for individual or collaborative study, this book provides simple, practical solutions to the challenges experienced by …
Seth Ashley
News Literacy and Democracy invites readers to go beyond surface-level fact checking and to examine the structures, institutions, practices, and routines that comprise news media systems.This introductory text underscores the importance of news literacy to democratic life and advances an …
Jos Delbeke, Peter Vis
This book explains the EUs climate policies in an accessible way, to demonstrate the step-by-step approach that has been used to develop these policies, and the ways in which they have been tested and further improved in the light of …

View book details for Sensing the Everyday

Dialogues from Austerity Greece
C. Nadia Seremetakis
Taylor and Francis
Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical analyses with original ethnographic data, C. Nadia Seremetakis journeys from Greece to Vienna, Edinburgh, Albania, Ireland, …

View book details for Lyrics

Writing Better Words for Your Songs
Rikky Rooksby
Lyrics sheds light on all aspects of lyric writing for music and will make songwriters feel more confident and creative when they tackle lyrics. It's perfect for all songwriters: those who don't like their own lyrics and find them difficult …

View book details for Chord Master

How to Choose and Play the Right Guitar Chords
Rikky Rooksby
Unlike a traditional chord dictionary, Chord Master takes the time to discuss each of the chord types and patterns a guitarist is likely to come across. Rooksby looks at how and why different shapes sound the way they do, helping …
John H. McClendon III
Lexington Books
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal constitutes a philosophical inquiry on Black Theology and its attendant Black Christology. Explicitly, the philosophical examination of Black Theology conceptually maps its quest for establishing Black Christology as an authentic …

View book details for 100 Turning Points in Military History

The Critical Decisions, Key Events, and Breakthrough Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped Warfare Around the World
Alan Axelrod
The typical military history presents a chronicle of battles and wars and the commanders and troops who fought them. This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects. …

View book details for Lights, Camera, Execution!

Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment
Helen J. Knowles-Gardner, Bruce E. Altschuler, Jaclyn Schildkraut
Lights, Camera, Execution!: Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment fills a prominent void in the existing film studies and death penalty literature. Each chapter focuses on a particular cinematic portrayal of the death penalty in the United States. Some of the …
Kerry J. Kennedy, John Chi-Kin Lee
Taylor and Francis
This comprehensive handbook is the ultimate reference work, providing authoritative and international overviews of all aspects of schools and schooling in Asia. Split into 19 sections it covers curriculum, learning and assessment, private supplementary tutoring, special education, gender issues, ethnic …
Clara Fernández-Vara
Taylor and Francis
Game analysis allows us to understand games better, providing insight into the player-game relationship, the construction of the game, and its sociocultural relevance. As the field of game studies grows, videogame writing is evolving from the mere evaluation of gameplay, …

View book details for If You Like Metallica...

Here Are Over 200 Bands, CDs, Movies and Other Oddities That You Will Love
Mike McPadden
In hard rock history, there is the time before Metallica and there is everything that has come since: metal, punk, industrial, grunge, alternative all of it absorbed, transformed, and reinvented by the band that, for decades, has ruled as both …
Peter Reich
'"Cloudbusting"...was inspired by a book that I first found on a shelf... It was just calling me from the shelf, and when I read it I was very moved by the magic of it. It's about a special relationship between …

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The Inside Story of the Shuberts, the Shows and the Stars
Gerald Schoenfeld
Mr. Broadway was completed just one month before Gerald Schoenfeld's death in 2008 at the age of 84. Bringing the reader backstage, the long-term chairman of the Shubert Organization shares his triumphs and failures, sings praise, and settles scores. He …

View book details for The Home Recording Handbook

Use What You've Got to Make Great Music
Dave Hunter
Gone are the days when home recording was limited to four tracks of tape hiss on a cassette porta-studio. Now, limitless digital multitrack recording and a vast array of outboard effects and processors are available to anyone with a computer. …

View book details for Rickenbacker Electric 12-String

The Story of the Guitars, the Music, and the Great Players
Tony Bacon
When the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man they popularized a new sound in pop music: the electric 12-string guitar. Rickenbacker is the guitar maker that brought the electric 12-string to market and has since been …
Loreen N. Olson, Jenni M. Simon
An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America: Disciplining the Maternal Body analyzes the discourses involved in the pro-breastfeeding, breast is best paradigm, highlighting how such politically charged rhetoric restrains womens ability to make the choices that are best for …
Ernie Rideout
From its roots in 1970s New York disco and '80s Detroit techno to today's international, mainstream explosion of such genres as house, trance & dubstep, electronic dance music has reshaped the popular musical landscape. This book digs deep through the …

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Gilda Radner: A Sort of Love Story
Alan Zweibel
In a series of funny, tender, and touching dialogues, former Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel recalls his buddy-and-almost-lover friendship with SNL actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. Zweibel claims he merely scribbled the dialogues playing in my head …
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