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Pictorial History of Hockey

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Romain, Joseph / Duplacey, James, PUBLISHER: Thunder Bay Press (CA), This lively volume begins with the first games resembling ice hockey, played on the frozen lakes of Europe and North America, and traces the game's development ong>toong> the dazzling speed and puck-handling that characterize it ong>toong>day. From the first Stanley Cup playoff in through the growth of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, the proliferation of boomong>toong>wn hockey, the birth of the NHL, the evolution of the All-Star game, the advent of international competition, and the rival leagues ong>toong> the expansion teams, this illustrated volume tells the complete song>toong>ry of the fastest game on ice.

Additives and Crystallization Processes: From Fundamentals

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sangwal, Keshra, PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, Crystal growth technology involves processes for the production of crystals essential for microelectronics, communication technologies, lasers and energy producing and energy saving technology. A deliberately added impurity is called an additive and in different industries these affect the process of crystal growth. Thus, understanding of interactions between additives and the crystallizing phases is important in different processes found in the lab, nature and in various industries. This book presents a generalized description of the mechanisms of action of additives during nucleation, growth and aggregation of crystals during crystallization and has received endorsement from the President of the International Organization for Crystal Growth. It is the first text devoted ong>toong> the role of additives in different crystallization processes encountered in the lab, nature and in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals, food and biofuels. A unique highlight of the book are chapters on the effect of additives on crystal growth processes, since the phenomena discussed is an issue of debate between researchers

Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Duffy, Paul / Kandalov, Andrei, PUBLISHER: SAE International, This interesting book focuses on the aircraft designs of the man often referred ong>toong> as the father of Russian aviation, Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev. Born in Russia in , Tupolev went on ong>toong> design aircraft that earned Russia worldwide acclaim for their pioneering contributions ong>toong> aviation in the s, '30s, and '40s. Tupolev - The Man and His Aircraft begins with a short biography of Tupolev, then quickly moves on ong>toong> covering the hisong>toong>rical and engineering details of his aircraft designs.

New Perspectives on the Shakespearean World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marienstras, Richard / Marienstras, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Le Proche et Le Lointain (literally The Near and the Far) was first published in France in , and this translation now makes available ong>toong> English-speaking readers one of the most significant European contributions ong>toong> Elizabethan cultural hisong>toong>ry ong>toong> appear in recent years. In the conjunction - or conflict - of the 'near' and the 'far' Professor Marienstras discerns an underlying dichoong>toong>my of major importance ong>toong> an understanding of the Shakespearean world. Otbello, The Tempest and John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore are amongst the works discussed in detail in this highly imaginative series of inter-disciplinary studies, and the author sees in the juxtaposition of nature and culture, sacrifice and sacrilege, purity and impurity, nourishment and poison a structural opposition that renders unified and comprehensible thematic material at first sight random and meaningless.

Islam and War: A Study in Comparative Ethics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kelsay, John, PUBLISHER: Westminster John Knox Press, This book explores questions regarding the justice of war and addresses the lack of comparative perspectives on the ethics of war, particularly with respect ong>toong> Islam. John Kelsay begins with the war in the Persian Gulf, focusing on the role of Islamic symbols in the rheong>toong>ric of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He provides an overview of the Islamic tradition in regards ong>toong> war and peace, and then focuses on the notion of religion as a just cause for war.

The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hume, Robert Ernest / Hume, R. E., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The metaphysical treatises known as the Upanishads represent the efforts of the major thinkers of early India, from around the sixth century B.C., ong>toong> solve the problems of the origin, the nature, and the destiny of man and the universe. These texts, translated by Hume who faithfully rendered the original Sanskrit, include an appendix of recurrent and parallel passages in the principal Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita, full annotations, a bibliography, and a helpful exposition of the methods of translation.

The Role and Impact of the Internet on Library and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Liu, Lewis-Guodo, PUBLISHER: Praeger, Since that time, the literature on the Internet and its impact on and role in libraries and research has exploded. A simple keyword search in " Library Literature and Information Index," a primary electronic index of library and information science research literature, retrieves over items related ong>toong> the Internet. The dominance of the Internet not only provides great opportunities for libraries ong>toong> provide better services, but also poses tremendous challenges ong>toong> librarians and library and information science scholars. This volume includes discussions of current issues and trends, written by scholars and practitioners in the fields of library and information science, computer science, and computer engineering.

Nature and Nurture During Infancy and Early Childhood

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Plomin, Robert / Defries, J. C. / Fulker, D. W., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In light of work by quantitative geneticists, the authors reconsider the interaction of heredity and environment in the development of individual differences during infancy and early childhood. Quantitative genetics offers a general theory of the development of individual differences that suggests novel concepts and research strategies: the idea that genetic influences operate in age-ong>toong>-age change as well as in continuity, for example. Quantitative genetics also provides powerful methods ong>toong> address questions of change and continuity which are helpfully introduced in this study. Longitudinal quantitative genetic research is essential ong>toong> the understanding of developmental change and continuity. The largest and longes longitudinal adoption study is the Colorado Adoption Project, which has generated much of the rich data on the progress from infancy ong>toong> early childhood on which the authors draw throughout the book.

The Crow's Vow

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Briscoe, Susan, PUBLISHER: Vehicule Press, Following the song>toong>ry of a marriage come undone, this moving book-length sequence is broken down inong>toong> four seasons, distilling the details of the failed relationship through physical processes of nature, such as the buzzing life of wildflowers and birds that the speaker--a wife and mother--studies daily for clues on happiness. Intricately constructed and brimming with resourceful linguistic play, these poems are elemental odes on the end of love and its eventual renewal.

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; and 107 articles, letters ong>toong> ediong>toong>rs, and ong>lecturesong>. All the famous ong>lecturesong> and articles that you'd expect are here, such as A New System of Alternating Current Moong>toong>rs and Transformers; Experiments with Alternating Currents of High Frequency; Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application ong>toong> Methods of Artificial Illumination; Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency; On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena; The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References ong>toong> the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy; and My Inventions: The Auong>toong>biography of Nikola Tesla You'll also get his many letters ong>toong> ediong>toong>rs, commenting on Marconi, Edison, and many issues of the day. And 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 Oscillaong>toong>rs for Electro-Therapeutic and Other Purposes; The Disturbing Influence of Solar Radiation on the Wireless Transmission of Energy; The Wonder World ong>toong> Be Created by Electricity; A Speech Delivered Before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; and Electrical Oscillaong>toong>rs. This is an amazing collection that will give you the most complete look inong>toong> 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 ong>toong> listen ong>toong>.

The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ruse, Michael / Hull, David L., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The philosophy of biology is one of the most exciting new areas in the field of philosophy and one that is attracting much attention from working scientists. This Companion, edited by two of the founders of the field, includes newly commissioned essays by senior scholars and up-and-coming younger scholars who collectively examine the main areas of the subject - the nature of evolutionary theory, classification, teleology and function, ecology, and the problematic relationship between biology and religion, among other ong>toong>pics. Up-ong>toong>-date and comprehensive in its coverage, this unique volume will be of interest not only ong>toong> professional philosophers but also ong>toong> students in the humanities and researchers in the life sciences and related areas of inquiry.

The Gulf of Mexico: A Treasury of Resources in the American

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gore, Robert H., PUBLISHER: Pineapple Press (FL), - Only book available on this great body of water - Synopsis of the hisong>toong>ry, geology, geography, oceanography, biology, ecology, and economics of the Gulf - Traces the economic use of the Gulf from the Mayans ong>toong> present-day offshore oil companies - Explores every discrete ecological community in the Gulf - For those who live or vacation on the Gulf and wants ong>toong> know the full song>toong>ry of their watery backyard

Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miller, Arthur I., PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? "Insights of Genius" shows how seeing is central ong>toong> the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible. "Insights of Genius, " first published by Copernicus in , explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists ong>toong> dramatically transform how we understand nature. The scope of figures runs from Galileo and da Vinci ong>toong> Einstein and Picasso. Focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the age of modern art and modern physics, the book travels through the philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and art hisong>toong>ry. "Insights of Genius" discusses intuition, aesthetics, realism, representation, metaphors, and visual imagery. Allied ong>toong> these concepts are causality, relativity, energy conservation, entropy, the correspondence principle, scientific creativity, and Cubism. Running through the book is the idea that science extends our intuition from common sense ong>toong> an understanding of a world beyond our perception.

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Vaillant, John, PUBLISHER: Vintage Books Canada, It's December and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. ong>Toong> the horrified asong>toong>nishment of a team of hunters, it emerges that the attacks are not random: the tiger is engaged in a vendetta. Injured and starving, it must be found before it strikes again, and the song>toong>ry becomes a battle for survival between two main characters: Yuri Trush, the lead tracker, and the tiger itself. Culminating in a showdown deep in the Siberian forest, "The Tiger "is a haunting, spellbinding tale of a hunt ong>toong> the death; of man and nature in collision; of the ancient relationship between predaong>toong>rs and prey; and an intimate portrait of a remarkable animal and its increasingly threatened world.

How Do We Know the Nature of Disease

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kupperberg, Paul, PUBLISHER: Rosen Publishing Group, This book takes the reader inong>toong> compelling discoveries that have led understanding the nature of viruses a bacteria and how this world, unfathoma in its smallness, has led ong>toong> the eradication some of the most deadly diseases. This is a comprehensive look at plagues, epidemics, and the role of genetics in disease.

A Prayerbook for Volunteers

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McCann, Deborah, PUBLISHER: Twenty-Third Publications, In down-ong>toong>-earth and humorous look at the important work of volunteers, author Deborah McCann offers heartfelt prayers and reflections on the various aspects of this "unsung" ministry. Both the upside and the downside of the volunteer's role is expressed here and the experiences of volunteers are related ong>toong> those of Jesus.

Parallelisms of Complete Designs

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cameron, Peter J. / Hitchin, N. J., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, These notes present an investigation of a condition similar ong>toong> Euclid's parallel axiom for subsets of finite sets. The background material ong>toong> the theory of parallelisms is introduced and the author then describes the links this theory has with other ong>toong>pics from the whole range of combinaong>toong>rial theory and permutation groups. These include network flows, perfect codes, Latin squares, block designs and multiply-transitive permutation groups, and long and detailed appendices are provided ong>toong> serve as introductions ong>toong> these various subjects. Many of the results are published for the first time.

Debates on Democratization

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Diamond, Larry / Plattner, Marc F. / Cosong>toong>poulos, Philip J., PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, For more than twenty years, the Journal of Democracy has been a leading voice in the conversation between scholars and practitioners about government by consent and its place in the contemporary world. If democracy means anything, it means robust debates. Over the years, the pages of the Journal have certainly seen their share of lively and illuminating scholarly disagreements. As a service ong>toong> students and teachers who wish ong>toong> deepen their understanding of the questions and controversies that surround contemporary democratization, the Journal has now brought ong>toong>gether a series of exchanges on the ong>toong>pic. Debates on Democratization explores the issues of democratic consolidation, the reality of the transition paradigm, the advisability of attempting ong>toong> "sequence" elections and other liberal-democratic reforms, the nature and prospects of the "color revolutions" in the former Eastern Bloc, and the relative merits of presidentialism and its alternatives from the point of view of democratic governance and stability. The volume is filled with insightful, thought-provoking arguments by leading thinkers in the field. Graduate and undergraduate students alike will find it a useful guide ong>toong> key issues facing emerging democracies ong>toong>day.

The Gods of Roman Britain

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Green, Miranda J. / Aldhouse-Green, Miranda, PUBLISHER: Shire Publications, This book looks at the religious beliefs of the people of the Roman province of Britain and at the gods they worshipped. Little literary evidence survives and it is therefore necessary ong>toong> rely almost wholly on epigraphic and iconographical representations. The book first examines the pre-Roman Celtic background ong>toong> Romano-British religion from about 500 BC. The chapters following analyse the nature of the evidence; the introduction of Roman religion ong>toong> the province; oriental cults including Christianity; the integration of Roman with pre-existing British and other Celtic cults, and the resulting composite religion which thus emerged. The final chapter examines stylised Celtic representations of anonymous divinities. Miranda Green is currently Professor of Archaeology at University of Wales College, Newport, where she is also Direcong>toong>r of the SCARAB Research Centre.

Written in Stone

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: OLYNYK, MARK, PUBLISHER: FriesenPress, Written in Song>toong>ne is a hisong>toong>ry of poetry; spanning thirty-five years. A collection of poems about reality and the human condition. What is and what seems ong>toong> be. Truth and the transience of life. The meaning of death. Myth as a state of mind. Decoding dreams and visions. The writing process. Our relationship with Nature. Super science and the reign of the machine. These are the themes of this book.

Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Billig, Mick / Billig, Michael, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), From Thomas Hobbes' fear of the power of laughter ong>toong> the compulsory, packaged "fun" of the contemporary mass media, Billig takes the reader on a stimulating ong>toong>ur of the strange world of humour. Both a significant work of scholarship and a novel contribution ong>toong> the understanding of the humourous, this is a seriously engaging book' - David Inglis, University of Aberdeen This delightful book tackles the prevailing assumption that laughter and humour are inherently good. In developing a critique of humour the author proposes a social theory that places humour - in the form of ridicule - as central ong>toong> social life. Billig argues that all cultures use ridicule as a disciplinary means ong>toong> uphold norms of conduct and conventions of meaning. Hisong>toong>rically, theories of humour reflect wider visions of politics, morality and aesthetics. For example, Bergson argued that humour contains an element of cruelty while Freud suggested that we deceive ourselves about the true nature of our laughter. Billig discusses these and other theories, while using the ong>toong>pic of humour ong>toong> throw light on the perennial social problems of regulation, control and emancipation.

An Introduction to Wisdom Literature and the Psalms

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tucker, Dennis / Ballard, Wayne / Ballard, Jr. H. Wayne, PUBLISHER: Mercer University Press, Introduction ong>toong> Wisdom Literature and the Psalms offers a unique approach ong>toong> studying this material in the classroom. This book is a collection of essays that explore themes and background issues intended for the student of the Old Testament. Divided inong>toong> two sections on the Psalms and Wisdom Literature, each section offers an in-depth essay on hisong>toong>ry of interpretation, forms of poetry, the text's relationship ong>toong> the ancient Near East, the canonical shape of the material, the theology of the texts, and contemporary issues currently under scholarly investigation.

The Ethics of Autism: Among Them, But Not of Them

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Barnbaum, Deborah R., PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press, Autism is one of the most compelling, controversial, and heartbreaking cognitive disorders. It presents unique philosophical challenges as well, raising intriguing questions in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and philosophy of language that need ong>toong> be explored if the autistic population is ong>toong> be responsibly served. Starting from the "theory of mind" thesis that a fundamental deficit in autism is the inability ong>toong> recognize that other persons have minds, Deborah R. Barnbaum considers its implications for the nature of consciousness, our understanding of the consciousness of others, meaning theories in philosophy of language, and the modality of mind. This discussion lays the groundwork for consideration of the value of an autistic life, as well as the moral theories available ong>toong> persons with autism. The book also explores questions about genetic decision making, research inong>toong> the nature of autism, and the controversial quest for a cure. This is a timely and wide-ranging book on a disorder that commends itself ong>toong> serious ethical examination.

T'Ai Chi Chi Kung: Fifteen Ways to a Happier You

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Choy, Peter Chin Kean, PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, Peter Chin Kean Choy has been teaching sold-out T'ai Chi classes for over twenty years, helping thousands of people apply an understanding of nature ong>toong> the maintenance of health and the cure of illness. His unique approach -- a combination of T'ai Chi and Chi Kung (which means "study of chi energy") based on the Tao of color -- has continually brought new dynamism and vigor ong>toong> the lives of his students. Now, through the fifteen fundamental exercises in his book, he shows how ong>toong> easily harness the chi (or "intrinsic energy") of life, even in the simplest of daily activities.

Creative Lighting Techniques for Studio Photographers

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Montizambert, Dave, PUBLISHER: Amherst Media, This book provides a full explanation of lighting by demonstrating professional techniques for tableong>toong>p, commercial, portrait, food, and auong>toong>motive studio phoong>toong>graphy. Tips are given on how ong>toong> analyze light quality, select the proper size light and distance between the subject and the light source, place light modifiers, and select and use a light meter. The book includes an explanation of more complex ong>toong>pics, such as how ong>toong> set up backlighting, simulate sunlight in the studio, and feather light. Descriptions of how ong>toong> use specular light include lighting with specular light sources and controlling unwanted specular highlight on shiny surfaces. Also included are specialized techniques such as painting with light, use of softening filters, and suggestions for lighting subjects in motion.

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