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The Nikola Tesla Treasury

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tesla, Nikola, PUBLISHER: Wilder Publications, Here's the Tesla collection you've been waiting for: 214 figures; 668 pages; ong>andong> 107 articles, letters to editors, ong>andong> lectures. All the famous lectures ong>andong> articles that you'd expect are here, such as A New System of Alternating Current Motors ong>andong> Transformers; ong>Experimentsong> with Alternating Currents of High Frequency; ong>Experimentsong> with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency ong>andong> Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination; ong>Experimentsong> with Alternate Currents of High Potential ong>andong> High Frequency; On Light ong>andong> Other High Frequency Phenomena; The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy; ong>andong> My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla You'll also get his many letters to editors, commenting on Marconi, Edison, ong>andong> many issues of the day. ong>Andong> if that wasn't enough you'll also get other articles that you've heard about but probably never seen, such as Famous Scientific Illusions; High Frequency Oscillators for Electro-Therapeutic ong>andong> Other Purposes; The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy; The Wonder World to Be Created by Electricity; A Speech Delivered Before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; ong>andong> Electrical Oscillators. This is an amazing collection that will give you the most complete look into the mind of Nikola Tesla, who has been called the most important man of the 20th Century. Without Tesla's ground-breaking work we'd all be sitting in the dark without even a radio to listen to.

Working with Children in the Early Years

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Devereux, Jane / Miller, Linda / Devereux Jane, PUBLISHER: David Fulton Publishers, By offering practitioners working in a variety of early years settings the opportunity to develop their knowledge, understong>andong>ing ong>andong> skills for working with young children, this book builds on the increased government interest in ong>andong> support for early years provision. The book looks at four key areas: the range of practitioners ong>andong> the diversity of roles; the different perspectives on early years provision across the UK; the development of children aged 0 to 8; ong>andong> the importance of play ong>andong> learning in a young child's care ong>andong> education. This book pays particular attention to the range of provision available ong>andong> to the diversity of good practice. The strongly practical approach that underpins the writing provides a clear structure for practitioners to apply to their own contexts, ong>andong> these different perspectives will help individuals to develop a firm understong>andong>ing of the issues surrounding how children learn ong>andong> develop.

Modern Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Study Guide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Althouse, ong>Andong>rew Daniel / Turnquist, C. H. / Bracciano, A. F., PUBLISHER: Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher, Modern Refrigeration ong>andong> Air Conditioning provides an excellent blend of theory with job-qualifying skills, making it a leader in the refrigeration ong>andong> air conditioning field This comprehensive text teaches both fundamental principles ong>andong> the service techniques needed to diagnose ong>andong> remedy HVAC problems. Modern Refrigeration ong>andong> Air Conditioning contains the most recent information ong>andong> advances in the field needed to prepare the technician for success in today's world. This edition includes up-to-date material on EPA rules ong>andong> regulations covering refrigerant recovery, recycling, ong>andong> reclaiming. Both students ong>andong> practicing technicians will benefit from the comprehensive approach of this text, which provides a solid ong>andong> thorough knowledge of all aspects of refrigeration ong>andong> air conditioning.

Triage X, Vol. 2

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sato, Shouji, PUBLISHER: Yen Press, Mochizuki General Hospital boasts some of the most well-trained (ong>andong> well-endowed) nurses in town. But though these ladies spend much of their day battling disease, their after-hours are spent fighting a very different sort of disease...Under the leadership of the hospital chairman, a hong>andong>ful of staff members ong>andong> local teenagers form a group of mercenary assassins, targeting the "cancers" of society ong>andong> excising those individuals before their wickedness spreads.

Fiscal Stress and Public Policy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Levine, Charles H., PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Provides some of the most current thinking on various aspects of fiscal stress in the public sector ong>andong> its implications for public management. It lays out the background of financial stress at the federal, state, ong>andong> local levels, suggesting how various public bodies have responded or might respond to fiscal stress. 'Fiscal Stress ong>andong> Public Policy is an excellent collection of articles. They are provocative, readable, ong>andong> of enduring value of academicians, scholars ong>andong> students of public policy. Indeed, individual contributions are overshadowed only by the overall quality of the volume.' -- Quality ong>andong> Quantity, Vol 'This is an excellent collection of essays. They coalesce around an extremely important theme, ong>andong> offer a good variety of approaches ong>andong> applications. All are well written. The volume is a useful addition to a much needed literature on the processes ong>andong> consequences of "negative" changes.' -- Evaluation ong>andong> Program Planning, Vol

White Star: A Dog on the Titanic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marty Crisp, PUBLISHER: Scholastic Inc, Sam Harris is on the trip of a lifetime. He's traveling from Englong>andong> to New York on the first voyage of the greatest ocean liner in history--the Titanic. Here is a story of cowardice ong>andong> courage, of despair ong>andong> determination, ong>andong> of an unbreakable bond between a boy ong>andong> a dog on one terrifying night.

Succulents

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Loves, June, PUBLISHER: Chelsea Clubhouse, Topics covered include: - Where the plant grows - "Kinds of" (different species) - "Parts of" (labeled photos) - How the plant grows from seed to flower - Tips for gardeners - Uses of the plant

Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bernstein, Henry, PUBLISHER: Kumarian Press, Development processes are never neutral. They impact various groups ong>andong> classes of people differently. A high food price may benefit some rich peasants who produce ong>andong> sell food surplus, but it may disadvantage long>andong>less rural laborers. A project on irrigation may benefit those who own the long>andong>, but not the long>andong>less tenants. Nowadays, official documents by governments ong>andong> development agencies tend to lump different groups of people into vague categories like 'rural poor'. This might be useful in some cases, but in large part this thinking can harm the poorest of the poor. "Agrarian Change Today" demonstrates the continuing relevance of class analysis in understong>andong>ing development processes ong>andong> outcomes. It shows clearly ong>andong> accessibly how the argument for 'bringing class back in' provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question on one hong>andong>, ong>andong> to widespread notions of 'people of the long>andong>', 're-peasantization', ong>andong> so on, on the other. It illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics ong>andong> the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world.

Panzerjager: Tank Hunter

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Averbeck, Bernhard / Folkestad, William B., PUBLISHER: Burd Street Press, Panzerjager: Tank Hunter follows young Bernhard Averbeck as he leaves home to fight on the Eastern ong>andong> Western Fronts in World War II. The public ong>andong> specialist alike will recognize that Averbeck's story of frustration ong>andong> fear, along with the tenacity to survive three years of nonstop combat, are without parallel. Few books have recorded the experiences of the common German soldier on the Eastern Front. No book in English concerns German World War II antitank warfare, ong>andong> none would compare with this true account of a German soldier fighting with various Panzerjager units between ong>andong> on the Eastern Front ong>andong> from to on the Western Front. German antitank units were the bane of Allied tankers. Averbeck supplies the reader with details of Panzerjager training, equipment, Panzerjager battle tactics, ong>andong> personal ong>observationsong> of humor ong>andong> sorrow that reveal in great detail one young man's life on the Third Reich's two fronts.

Production and Exchange of Stone Tools: Prehistoric Obsidian

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Torrence, Robin, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Originally published in , the aim of this important study was to develop methods for reconstructing the processes of prehistoric exchange. Previous archaeological work had concentrated on mapping obsidian finds relative to source areas using trace-element analysis ong>andong> on investigating the effect of trade on particular cultural groups. Dr Torrence, in contrast, drew extensively on ethnographic analogy to develop an approach that uses differences in the level of efficiency for the acquisition of raw materials ong>andong> the production of goods to infer the type of exchange. Regional patterns of tool manufacture, specialist craft production at central places ong>andong> quarrying are analysed in detail in the context of the prehistoric Aegean ong>andong> previous ideas about the importance of trade in the growth of civilisations are re-assessed. The methodology developed will be applicable to a wide range of artefact types ong>andong> the book will therefore be of value to archaeologists working in many different places ong>andong> periods.

The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Murison, Justine S., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies ong>andong> exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind ong>andong> body related to each other. By the s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, ong>andong> for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne ong>andong> Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social ong>andong> religious tumults, including debates about slavery ong>andong> the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system ong>andong> its cultural impact thoughtfully ong>andong>, at times, critically, the fictional ong>experimentsong> of this century helped construct ong>andong> explore a neurological vision of the body ong>andong> mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature ong>andong> culture. Acquista Ora

E-Learning Theory and Practice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Haythornthwaite, Caroline / ong>Andong>rews, Richard, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), In" "E-learning Theory ong>andong> Practice the authors set out different perspectives on e-learning. The book deals with the social implications of e-learning, its transformative effects, ong>andong> the social ong>andong> technical interplay that supports ong>andong> directs e-learning. The authors present new perspectives on the subject by exploring the way teaching ong>andong> learning are changing with the presence of the Internet ong>andong> participatory media; providing a theoretical grounding in new learning practices from education, communication ong>andong> information science; addressing e-learning in terms of existing learning theories, emerging online learning theories, new literacies, social networks, social worlds, community ong>andong> virtual communities, ong>andong> online resources; ong>andong> emphasizing the impact of everyday electronic practices on learning, literacy ong>andong> the classroom, locally ong>andong> globally.This book is for everyone involved in e-learning including teachers, educators, graduate students ong>andong> researchers.

Architektur In Deutschland/Architecture In Germany

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Prestel Publishing, PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing, This volume focuses on the topic of reconstruction as it examines three recently completed projects in Berlin, Munich, ong>andong> Potsdam, ong>andong> three different approaches to the task of rebuilding. The pros ong>andong> cons of this ardently debated theme are explored ong>andong> questioned from various perspectives in essays written by leading critics. The comprehensive section on projects presents fifteen new building projects in Germany by Barkow Leibinger, Meck Architects, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, ong>andong> others. More than two hundred color photographs ong>andong> drawings illustrate the newest edition of the DAM Yearbook.

Austria and Other Margins: Reading Culture

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Arens, Katherine, PUBLISHER: Camden House (NY), In this book Katherine Arens offers a series of case studies that redefine what 'reading culture' can mean in literary ong>andong> cultural studies. The first part traces the ways in which authors borrow ong>andong> rewrite literary traditions across national lines, in order to address problems in their own cultures' histories. In the second set of essays, Professor Arens illustrates how literature can cross other kinds of cultural boundaries, especially those between disciplines; for example, plotting a story as if it were on a stage allows Grillparzer to tell two simultaneous stories at odds with each other; ong>andong> two artists interested in large-group art (Christo ong>andong> Judy Chicago) manipulate their images as modernists to achieve different careers.

The Design of Animal Communication

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hauser, Marc D. / Konishi, Mark, PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), When animals, including humans, communicate, they convey information ong>andong> express their perceptions of the world. Because different organisms are able to produce ong>andong> perceive different signals, the animal world contains a diversity of communication systems. Based on the approach laid out in the s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen, this book looks at animal communication from the four perspectives of mechanisms, ontogeny, function, ong>andong> phylogeny. The book's great strength is its broad comparative perspective, which enables the reader to appreciate the diversity of solutions to particular problems of signal design ong>andong> perception. For example, although the neural circuitry underlying the production of acoustic signals is different in frogs, songbirds, bats, ong>andong> humans, each involves a set of dedicated pathways designed to solve particular problems of communicative efficiency. Such comparative findings form the basis of a conceptual framework for understong>andong>ing the mechanisms underlying communication systems ong>andong> their evolution.

The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reddy, William M., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The Navigation of Feeling critiques recent psychological ong>andong> anthropological research on emotions. William M. Reddy offers a new theory of emotions ong>andong> historical change, drawing on research from many academic disciplines. This new theory makes it possible to see how emotions change over time, how emotions have a very important impact on the shape of history, ong>andong> how different social orders either facilitate emotional life or make it more difficult. This theory is fully explored in a case study of the French Revolution.

Coglab 2.0 [With CDROM]

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Francis, Greg / Neath, Ian / VanHorn, Daniel, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, CogLab gives both students ong>andong> instructors the chance to participate as subjects in classic ong>experimentsong> of cognitive psychology. CogLab on CD-ROM gives students access to complete the ong>experimentsong> without an Internet connection or a web browser, while CogLab online allows instructors to combine data across all of their students, to have class averages automatically calculated, ong>andong> to make those averages available to students. Instructors who choose the CD-ROM version can download a program that will allow them to combine ong>andong> calculate class averages of data generated by their students. (For a complete description of the online ong>andong> CD-ROM versions, visit the CogLab Web site at http://coglab.wadsworth.com/).

Between Faith and Doubt: Dialogues on Religion and Reason

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hick, John, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer ong>andong> a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good ong>andong> bad in religion, religious experience ong>andong> neuroscience, pain ong>andong> suffering, death ong>andong> life after death, ong>andong> includes interesting autobiographical revelations.

Teaching and Its Predicaments

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Burbules, Nicholas C. / Hansen, David T. / *, Editor, PUBLISHER: Westview Press, Teaching is a complex ong>andong> challenging endeavor. Teachers are continually faced with difficult choices in which competing values are set in tension with one another. The interests of all students, ong>andong> of other groups ong>andong> constituencies, can rarely be served at the same time. Different educational goals, each desirable in ong>andong> of itself, often place incompatible demong>andong>s on teachers, especially in light of the limited resources ong>andong> time available to most of them. Of course, teaching does have its satisfactions ong>andong> fulfillments, but increasingly those rewards must be sought in the context of challenges that reflect the competing expectations society places upon educators.These essays tackle important aspects of the complex, often conflicted contexts of teaching. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of teaching, offering cong>andong>id analysis of the difficulties ong>andong> trade-offs inherent in teaching practice, while suggesting ways to productively address a given conflict. Together, the chapters speak honestly to the realities ong>andong> challenges of teaching, without downplaying the ideals that draw teachers into education in the first place.

Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Allaby, Michael / Garratt, Richard, PUBLISHER: Facts on File, From the Introduction: The weather we experience today is different from that of the Little Ice Age of the 17th century ong>andong> of the Middle Ages...Today, though, there are fears that the climate may be changing faster than it has done for thousong>andong>s of years ong>andong> that the gases we release into the air, from our cars, factories, domestic fires, power stations, farming, ong>andong> forest clearance may be accelerating that change...If we are to make informed decisions about climate change ong>andong> the possibility that our activities may be partly responsible for it, we need to know something of the way the atmosphere works, of how our weather is produced.-Michael Allaby For most of history

Subverting America: Vol. 2

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stich, Rodney, PUBLISHER: Silverpeak Publishing, Subverting America, in two volums, is a detailed ong>andong> documented book on corruption within the United States, in ong>andong> out of government. It covers a 50 year period as discovered ong>andong> documented by a former government agent ong>andong> his dozens of sources in ong>andong> out of government.

Slobodan Milosevic-CL

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sell, Louis / Louis Sell / Sell, PUBLISHER: Duke University Press, In "Slobodan Milosevic ong>andong> the Destruction of Yugoslavia" former U.S. foreign service officer Louis Sell fills a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav conflicts by covering both the domestic Yugoslav side of the collapse ong>andong> the history ong>andong> consequences of international interventions in the wars in Slovenia ong>andong> Croatia in , Bosnia in , ong>andong> Kosovo from . Sell focuses on the life ong>andong> career of Milosevic, from the perspective of both a diplomatic insider intimately familiar with the region ong>andong> a scholar who has researched all the available English ong>andong> Serbo-Croatian sources. Sell spent much of his diplomatic career in Eastern Europe ong>andong> Russia, including eight years in Yugoslavia between ong>andong> , ong>andong> witnessed the events that contributed to the dissolution ong>andong> ultimate destruction of Yugoslavia. In "Slobodan Milosevic ong>andong> the Destruction of Yugoslavia "he provides first-hong>andong> ong>observationsong> of Milosevic from the heady days of his rise to power ong>andong>, later, in the endgame of the Bosnian war, including the Dayton Peace Conference. Drawing on a wide range of published material as well as interviews with Yugoslav ong>andong> foreign participants, Sell covers such areas as Milosevic's relationship to the military, his responsibility for war crimes, his methods of persuasion ong>andong> negotiation, ong>andong> his notoriously explosive personality.

Coming of Age

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ross, Mong>andong>y, PUBLISHER: Heinemann Library, This series explores the origin, historical practice, ong>andong> significance of rites of passage that are still celebrated today. Each book presents the differences ong>andong> similarities of how the rite of passage is acknowledged within different religious ong>andong> cultural groups around the world, including food, clothing, tools, rituals, ong>andong> celebrations.

Stories Out of School: Memories and Reflections on Care and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Paul, James L. / Smith, Terry Jo / Paul, James L., PUBLISHER: Ablex Publishing Corporation, The changes in how we understong>andong> ong>andong> study teaching ong>andong> learning are uneven. Strongly held beliefs support the changes ong>andong> equally strongly held beliefs challenge them. However, the discourse about teaching ong>andong> learning ong>andong> our understong>andong>ings of the nature of educational research have changed rather dramatically in the last two decades. These changes form the context for the work described in this book on stories out of school-adult memories of their teachers. The authors have been guided by the work of Jackson (), Noddings (), Eisner (), Palmer (), Coles (), ong>andong> Lindley (), among others, who have focused on the qualities of life experienced by children, particularly in the classroom. Interests have centered on memory, meaning, ong>andong> the self in relationship. Using a database of letters written by adults (most of whom are teachers or are preparing to be teachers) to their former teachers, the authors examine the interpersonal spaces shared by teachers ong>andong> students ong>andong> the kinds of unacknowledged pedagogies created in those spaces. They are interested in the ethics of experienced pedagogies ong>andong> the implications of those pedagogies for educating teachers.

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