experiments and observations on different kinds of air vol

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.

Small Groups in the Church: A Handbook for Creating

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kirkpatrick, Thomas G., PUBLISHER: Alban Institute, This planning ong>andong> leader training hong>andong>book offers a distinctive broad-based, small-group approach to building community. From the Jewish havurot to Christian koinonia, you will gain a thorough understong>andong>ing of community, learn how to plan an effective small-group ministry, how to select ong>andong> train leaders for all kinds of small groups, ong>andong> how to start small groups that are a part of ong>andong> not apart from their congregations. Appendices provide an overview of the sociological, psychological, ong>andong> biblical theological literature on community ong>andong> a wealth of presentation ong>andong> leader training resources.

Structural Concrete Structural Concrete: Theory and Design

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hassoun, Nadim M. / Hassoun, M. Nadim, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, Revised to adhere to the latest American Concrete Institute (ACI) Code requirements for the design of structural concrete. Presenting the analysis ong>andong> design of both reinforced ong>andong> prestressed concrete elements, Structural Concrete is exceptionally logical ong>andong> easy to read. Accuracy of calculations (Section 1.11) helps readers understong>andong> the accuracy of calculations in engineering design. Additional examples elaborate on the behavior of reinforced concrete beams at failure ong>andong> combine structural analysis with concrete design. Section on Coulomb theory for soil pressure provides an alternative approach to calculate the soil pressure considering the friction of soil on retaining walls. Section on partially prestressed concrete explains the range of partial prestressing between a lower limit of reinforced concrete ong>andong> an upper limit of full prestressing. In-depth treatment of the ultimate strength concept of reinforced concrete explains the concept of concrete beams behavior up to failure with mathematical analysis of forces developed in concrete ong>andong> steel. Discusses the design of different types of stairs ong>andong> the design of curved beams.

Forms of Power

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Poggi, Gianfranco, PUBLISHER: Polity Press, Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself in different forms ong>andong> institutional spheres. This new book by Gianfranco Poggi suggests that the three principal forms of social power - the economic, the normative/ideological ong>andong> the political - are based on a group's privileged access to ong>andong> control over different resources. Against this general background, Poggi shows how various embodiments of normative/ideological ong>andong> economic power have both made claims on political power (considered chiefly as it is embodied in the state) ong>andong> responded in turn to the latter's attempt to control or to instrumentalize them. The embodiment of ideological power in religion ong>andong> in modern intellectual elites is examined in the context of their relations to the state. Poggi also explores both the demong>andong>s laid upon the state by the business elite ong>andong> the impact of the state's fiscal policies on the economic sphere. The final chapter considers the relationship between a state's political class ong>andong> its military elite, which tends to use the resource of organized coercion for its own ends. Forms of Power will be of interest to students ong>andong> scholars of sociology ong>andong> politics.

Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bridge, Paul Dennis / Clarkson, John / Couteaudier, Yvonne, PUBLISHER: CABI Publishing, This volume collects important current research on molecular variability in fungal pathogens. The first section reviews the major mechanisms involved. This is followed by a series of specific studies on variability in populations of different fungal pathogens. The book concludes with chapters on methods for interpreting such variability. The volume brings together research on a wide range of fungal pathogens, ong>andong> case studies include pathogens of insects, nematodes, plants, ong>andong> humans. Combining mechanisms, characterization, ong>andong> interpretation across a wide range of applied mycology, this volume is a significant general text for those working on molecular characterization. Its broad spectrum of topics provides a multidisciplinary reference source within mycology, ong>andong> the book will be suitable for postgraduate students ong>andong> research scientists in applied mycology, including plant pathology, medical mycology ong>andong> biological control.

Organizing and Organizations: An Introduction

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sims, David / Fineman, Stephen / Gabriel, Yiannis, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), This major textbook in organizational behaviour does what most other textbooks in the field do not: it captures ong>andong> conveys the lived experience' of being ong>andong> working in organizations while also introducing students to key concepts, research ong>andong> literature in organizational analysis. The book is in two main parts. The first explores the processes of organizing through a series of chapters each based on a different facet of organizational life. Theoretical concepts ong>andong> practical implications are woven into an engrossing ong>andong> accessible narrative which draws on a large number of first-hong>andong> accounts by members of organizations. The second part of the book, comprising a substantial thesaurus//dictionary, define

The edge of darkness

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Chase, Mary Ellen, PUBLISHER: Norton, How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood.In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah's Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world's flood stories ong>andong>--drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, ong>andong> scientists--discovered the counterintuitive role Noah's Flood played in the development of both geology ong>andong> creationism. Steno, the grong>andong>father of geology, even invoked the Flood in laying geology's founding principles based on his ong>observationsong> of northern Italian long>andong>scapes. Centuries later, the founders of modern creationism based their irrational view of a global flood on a perceptive critique of geology. With an explorer's eye ong>andong> a refreshing approach to both faith ong>andong> science, Montgomery takes readers on a journey across long>andong>scapes ong>andong> cultures. In the process we discover the illusive nature of truth, whether viewed through the lens of science or religion, ong>andong> how it changed through history ong>andong> continues changing, even today.

Empirically Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Achenbach, Thomas M. / McConaughy, Stephanie H., PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), The authors present an empirically based assessment approach that provides concrete guidelines for clinical work. Using ratings, direct ong>observationsong> ong>andong> interviews, they discuss methods for assessing childhood dysfunction based on a comprehensive integration of information from parents, teachers ong>andong> children. The material is presented with clinical illustrations that convey the use of specific assessment techniques for intake, case evaluation, decisions about treatment, management ong>andong> follow-up.

Buzon del Tiempo (Mailbox of Time)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Benedetti, Mario, PUBLISHER: Santillana S.A. (Alfaguara), "Buzon de tiempo" covers various kinds of relationships ong>andong> self-knowledge: lost loves; hints of other times; unrequited love; coming to terms with failure, again, ong>andong> death; inside jokes; ong>andong> others. Benedetti evokes emotion using his best resources: intelligent wit, cutting irony, ong>andong> moving tenderness.

Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Warlick, M. E. / Rosemont, Franklin, PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press, Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst ong>andong> alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound ong>andong> abiding interest in alchemical philosophy ong>andong> often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career. A revival of interest in alchemy swept the artistic, psychoanalytic, historical, ong>andong> scientific circles of the late nineteenth ong>andong> early twentieth centuries, ong>andong> Warlick sets Ernst's work squarely within this movement. Looking at both his art (many of the works she discusses are reproduced in the book) ong>andong> his writings, she reveals how thoroughly alchemical philosophy ong>andong> symbolism pervade his early Dadaist ong>experimentsong>, his foundational work in surrealism, ong>andong> his many collages ong>andong> paintings of women ong>andong> long>andong>scapes, whose images exemplify the alchemical fusing of opposites. This pioneering research adds an essential key to understong>andong>ing the multilayered complexity of Ernst's works, as it affirms his stong>andong>ing as one of Germany's most significant artists of the twentieth century.

Cauldron of Transformation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sabrina, Lady / Sabrina, PUBLISHER: Llewellyn Publications, Explains the finer points of Paganism ong>andong> how to blend ong>andong> combine the wisdom of different traditions into a living spiritual system of your own. Explore the origins, customs ong>andong> beliefs of five religious traditions: Celtic Druidism, Buddhism, Christianity, Santeria ong>andong> Shamanism. This book also provides new ong>andong> dynamic tools to help extend ong>andong> expong>andong> personal spiritual awareness.

Using Divorce Mediation: Save Your Money & Your Sanity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stoner, Katherine E., PUBLISHER: NOLO, Mediation is the quick, fair ong>andong> low stress way to resolve all kinds of disputes, including divorce. In Using Divorce Mediation, Attorney-Mediator Katherine Stoner sheds light on the role of mediation in divorce, ong>andong> then explains how to: -- find a mediator -- prepare for mediation -- conduct oneself in the mediation -- get an agreement in writing -- find ong>andong> use legal ong>andong> other types of advisors -- research state divorce laws Using Divorce Mediation includes worksheets ong>andong> checklists.

Green Households: Domestic Consumers, the Environment and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Noorman, Klaas J. / Uiterkamp, Ton S., PUBLISHER: Earthscan Publications, Households are one of the main sources of waste ong>andong> of other environmental impacts. Yet most attention to date has focused on the effects of business ong>andong> industry, rather than on domestic consumption of goods, energy ong>andong> resources ong>andong> their resulting outputs.Green Households? is the first book to concentrate on this vital but neglected sector. Drawing on empirical research largely from The Netherlong>andong>s, it takes households as consumer units ong>andong> examines the entire household metabolism. This includes the way domestic demong>andong> can influence where ong>andong> how goods ong>andong> services are produced, resource flows through households, ong>andong> the differential environmental impacts of different lifestyles.It shows both what would constitute sustainable domestic consumption ong>andong> how far there is to go to achieve this in industrialised ong>andong> affluent Western society. Those involved in planning ong>andong> policy as it affects households ong>andong> urban development, as well as students ong>andong> researchers in social science ong>andong> environmental studies will find it an invaluable source of information.

European Yearbook of International Economic Law

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Herrmann, Christoph / Terhechte, Jorg Philipp, PUBLISHER: Springer, The first volume of the new Yearbook tries to catch the broadness of contemporary International Economic Law. In part I, it brings together articles on a variety of subjects, reaching from exchange rate manipulation ong>andong> financial market supervision over international investment law including the growing investment protectionism to recent developments of the external economic constitution of the European Union ong>andong> the relationship between climate change ong>andong> International Economic Law. Part II tries to cover the major regional economic integration developments around the globe, analysed in different articles covering the different regions. Part III informs about recent activities in some of the major global economic institutions.

Have You Seen Bunny?

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Berg, Michelle, PUBLISHER: Orchard, The Have You Seen books, part of the Go, Baby series, are colorful, lively, interactive books for babies. With touch ong>andong> feel elements on the covers, a different die-cut shaped flap on each page, ong>andong> touch ong>andong> feel elements under all the flaps, these books invite babies to discover ong>andong> enjoy. Straighforward storylines allow babies to experience the delight of looking for the missing character, along with the thrill of finding it. Something is peeking out from under the flap on each spread--what can it be?

Indoor Air Pollution

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Leslie, G. B. / Lunau, F. W., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, ndoor Air Pollution addresses the problems arising from pollutants that all too commonly contaminate the indoor environment, including biological sources such as bacteria, fungi ong>andong> molds, common combustion products, radon ong>andong> other sources of radiation, solvents used in industry ong>andong> the home, asbestos ong>andong> dust pollution. The aim is to provide a balanced account of the health risks associated with these major pollutants ong>andong> to quantify the scale of the problem on a pollution-by-pollution basis. Each chapter covers exposure levels, sources of pollution, ong>andong> routes of uptake, health effects, control measures, ong>andong> regulatory guidelines.

The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: West, Elliott, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, Elliott West's careful analysis of the role ong>andong> development of the saloon as an institution on the mining frontier provides unique insights into the social ong>andong> economic history of the American West. Drawing on contemporaneous newspapers ong>andong> many unpublished firsthong>andong> accounts, West shows that the physical evolution of the saloon, from crude tents ong>andong> shanties into elegant establishments for drinking ong>andong> gaming, reflected the growth ong>andong> maturity of the surrounding community.

The Newspapers Handbook

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Keeble, Richard, PUBLISHER: Routledge, The Newspapers Hong>andong>book is the first comprehensive guide to the job of the newspaper reporter. It offers advice on a range of different types of newspaper writing, looks at how newspapers cover events ong>andong> shows how reporting styles can differ in mainstream ong>andong> non-mainstream newspapers. In this new edition, Richard Keeble explores the theoretical, moral ong>andong> political dimensions of a journalist's job ong>andong> examines changing newspaper ownership structures ong>andong> recent ethical controversies.

The Poetry of Ibn Khafajah: A Literary Analysis

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Al-Nowaihi, Magda M., PUBLISHER: Brill Academic Publishers, This study is an attempt to identify ong>andong> describe the distinctive features of the poetic style of the acclaimed medieval ong>Andong>alusian poet Ibn Khafa?jah, who has been credited with starting a new school of poetry, in ong>Andong>alus ong>andong> elsewhere. It offers a close reading of his poetry, concentrating on the three basic elements of style - imagery, rhetorical devices, ong>andong> structural patterns. It shows how Ibn Khaf?jah creatively uses the poetic tradition available to him to form new images ong>andong> scenes, create multi-layered poems, ong>andong> bestow different levels of unity ong>andong> coherence on his poems. The study demonstrates some of the ways by which the various elements of style are combined ong>andong> interrelated, to produce original, meaningful, ong>andong> highly moving poems in the Khafajian style.

Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kumashiro, Kevin K. / Chan, Kayla, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, By combining autobiographical accounts with qualitative ong>andong> quantitative research on queer students of different racial backgrounds, the essays collected here not only trouble the ways we think about the intersections of race ong>andong> sexuality, they also offer theoretical insights ong>andong> educational strategies to educators committed to bringing about change. Visit our website for sample chapters

Biofuel Power of the Future: New Ways of Turning Organic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hayhurst, Chris, PUBLISHER: Rosen Publishing Group, Easy-to-understong>andong> Resources Provide Information on Sustainable Energy for Our Future Many scientists believe that the fossil fuels that make us comfortable also make us sick. This important new series helps kids understong>andong> what can be done to create healthy, sustainable energy for the future. Each of the eight titles explains a different type of energy, how it works, ong>andong> how government ong>andong> industry are developing new methods to use it so that it is affordable ong>andong> clean. For readers of these fascinating, easy-to-understong>andong> books, turning on the TV or booting up the computer will never be quite the same. Biofuel can be made from many organic materials. Open wood fires like campfires are terribly inefficient ong>andong> unhealthy, but producing bioenergy from corn, animal waste, ong>andong> other kinds of natural materials is far safer, more ecological, ong>andong> great for the economy. Kids will learn in this book why many scientists believe biofuel will provide important energy in the future.

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