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Defense Technological Innovation

Issues and Challenges in an Era of Converging Technologies

By: Bharat Rao,Adam J. Harrison,Bala Mulloth

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Defense Technological Innovation

Issues and Challenges in an Era of Converging Technologies

By: Bharat Rao,Adam J. Harrison,Bala Mulloth

Defense Technological Innovation describes the emerging paradigm for innovation at the US Department of Defense, and the consequent impacts on its stakeholders. Leveraging a combination of prior research, archival data, first-person observations and interviews, the authors identify practices and themes characterizing the key trends in defense innovation, describe current organizational approaches and practices, and develop a theoretical framework that elucidates the competencies required to underwrite defense innovation objectives. The findings therein are relevant to any large, technology-driven organization contending with the implications of rapid change in the high-tech landscape.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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178990210X

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9781789902105

Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans

Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian

By: Adam M. Kemezis

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Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans

Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian

By: Adam M. Kemezis

This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107062721

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9781107062726

An Agrarian Republic

Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era

By: Adam Wesley Dean

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An Agrarian Republic

Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era

By: Adam Wesley Dean

The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land's productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks. Spanning the long nineteenth century, Dean's study analyzes the changing debate over land development as it transitioned from focusing on the creation of a virtuous and orderly citizenry to being seen primarily as a "civilizing" mission. By showing Republicans as men and women with backgrounds in small farming, Dean unveils new connections between seemingly separate historical events, linking this era's views of natural and manmade environments with interpretations of slavery and land policy.

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UNC Press Books

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146961992X

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The Man Who Couldn't Stop

OCD and the true story of a life lost in thought

By: David Adam

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The Man Who Couldn't Stop

OCD and the true story of a life lost in thought

By: David Adam

A Sunday Times Bestseller Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind, and how they drive millions of us towards obsessions and compulsions. 'One of the best and most readable studies of a mental illness to have emerged in recent years . . . an honest and open and, yes, maybe life-changing work' – Matt Haig, Observer Told with fierce clarity, humour and urgent lyricism, this extraordinary book is both the haunting story of a personal nightmare, and a fascinating doorway into the darkest corners of our minds. David has suffered from obsessive compulsive disoder (OCD) for twenty years, and The Man Who Couldn't Stop is his unflinchingly honest attempt to understand the condition and his experiences. What might lead an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, piece by piece; or a pair of brothers to die beneath an avalanche of household junk that they had compulsively hoarded? At what point does a harmless idea, a snowflake in a clear summer sky, become a blinding blizzard of unwanted thoughts? Drawing on the latest research on the brain, as well as historical accounts of patients and their treatments, this is a book that will challenge the way you think about what is normal, and what is mental illness.

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Pan Macmillan

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144726178X

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9781447261780

John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health

Eighteenth-Century Sensibility in Practice

By: Adam Budd

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John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health

Eighteenth-Century Sensibility in Practice

By: Adam Budd

John Armstrong's 2000-line poem The Art of Preserving Health was among the most popular works of eighteenth-century literature and medicine. It was among the first to popularize Scottish medical ideas concerning emotional and anatomical sensibility to British readers, doing so through the then-fashionable georgic style. Within three years of its publication in 1744, it was in its third edition, and by 1795 it commanded fourteen editions printed in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Benjamin Franklin's shop in Philadelphia. Maintaining its place amongst more famous works of the Enlightenment, this poem was read well into the nineteenth century, remaining in print in English, French, and Italian. It remained a tribute to sustained interest in eighteenth-century sensibility, long after its medical advice had become obsolete and the nervous complaints it depicted became unfashionable. Adam Budd's critical edition includes a comprehensive biographical and textual introduction, and explanatory notes highlighting the contemporary significance of Armstrong's classical, medical, and social references. Included in his introduction are discussions of Armstrong's innovative medical training in charity hospitals and his close associations with the poet James Thomson and the bookseller Andrew Millar, evidence for the poem's wide appeal, and a compelling argument for the poem's anticipation of sensibility as a dominant literary mode. Budd also offers background on the 'new physiology' taught at Edinburgh, as well as an explanation for why a Scottish-trained physician newly arrived in London was forced to write poetry to supplement his medical income. This edition also includes annotated excerpts from the key literary and medical works of the period, including poetry, medical prose, and georgic theory. Readers will come away convinced of the poem's significance as a uniquely engaging perspective on the place of poetry, medicine, the body, and the book trade in the literary history of eighteenth-century sensibility.

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Routledge

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131711079X

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9781317110798

Why Homer Matters

By: Adam Nicolson

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Why Homer Matters

By: Adam Nicolson

In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters--to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia and Extremadura, to the deserted, irradiated steppes of Chernobyl, where Homeric warriors still lie under the tumuli, unexcavated. This is a world of springs and drought, seas and cities, with not a tourist in sight. And all sewn together by the poems themselves and their great metaphors of life and suffering. Showing us the real roots of Homeric consciousness, the physical environment that fills the gaps between the words of the poems themselves, Nicholson's is itself a Homeric journey. A wandering meditation on lost worlds, our interconnectedness with our ancestors, and the surroundings we share. This is the original meeting of place and mind, our empathy with the past, our landscape as our drama. Following the acclaimed Gentry, which established him as one of the great landscape writers working today, Nicholson takes Homer's poems back to their source: beneath the distant, god-inhabited mountains, on the Trojan plains above the graves of the heroic dead, we find afresh the foundation level of human experience on Earth"--

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Macmillan

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1627791795

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Education and Democracy

The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964

By: Adam R. Nelson

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Education and Democracy

The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964

By: Adam R. Nelson

This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and Wisconsin’s “Experimental College” in the early twentieth century and his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era. The central question Meiklejohn asked throughout his life’s work remains essential today: How can education teach citizens to be free?

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299171442

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9780299171445

The Role of Anglo-Saxon Great Hall Complexes in Kingdom Formation, in Comparison and in Context AD 500-750

By: Adam McBride

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The Role of Anglo-Saxon Great Hall Complexes in Kingdom Formation, in Comparison and in Context AD 500-750

By: Adam McBride

This book explores the role of great hall complexes in kingdom formation through an expansive and ambitious study, incorporating new fieldwork, new quantitative methodologies and new theoretical models for the emergence of high-status settlements and the formation and consolidation of supra-regional socio-political units.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1789693888

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Emerging Updates of Radiation Oncology for Surgeons, An Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

By: Adam Raben

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Emerging Updates of Radiation Oncology for Surgeons, An Issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

By: Adam Raben

This issue of Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Adam Raben, is devoted to Radiation Oncology. Dr. Raben has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: Radiation Oncology Management of Stage I-III Cervix Cancer; Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Updates for Tumors of the Central Nervous System; Advances in Treatment of Anal Cancer with Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy; Management of Stage 1 Lung Cancer with SRS; Postoperative Radiation Management for Head and Neck Cancers; Changing Paradigm of Radiation Management of Breast Cancer; Changing Role of Radiation Therapy in Melanoma: In Situ Vaccine with PD-1 after Surgery for Stage II-IV; Brachytherapy in the Management of Prostate Cancer; Optimal Use of CMT in the Treatment of Esophagus Cancer; Updates in Radiotherapy after Postmastectomy; and more!

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323531571

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9780323531573

Comparing Notes

By: Adam Ockelford

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Comparing Notes

By: Adam Ockelford

A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music. Comparing Notes explores what music is, why all of us are musical, and how abstract patterns of sound that might not appear to mean anything can, in fact, be so meaningful. Taking the reader on a clear and compelling tour of major twentieth century musical theories, Professor Adam Ockelford arrives at his own important psychologically grounded theory of how music works. From pitch and rhythm to dynamics and timbre, he shows how all the elements of music cohere through the principle of imitation to create an abstract narrative in sound that we instinctively grasp, whether listening to Bach or the Beatles. Authoritative, engaging, and full of wonderful examples from across the musical spectrum, Comparing Notes is essential reading for anyone who’s ever loved a song, sonata, or symphony, and wondered why.

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Simon and Schuster

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1681778106

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9781681778105

Clay and lime renders, plasters and paints

A how-to guide to using natural finishes

By: Adam Weismann,Katy Bryce

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Clay and lime renders, plasters and paints

A how-to guide to using natural finishes

By: Adam Weismann,Katy Bryce

An in-depth guide with step-by-step instructions on how to select, mix and apply lime- and clay- based plasters, renders, paints and washes. With the increasing awareness of eco-building techniques alongside the desire to make our homes healthier, the historical benefits of using natural renders and paints are being rediscovered. Clay and Lime Renders, Plasters and Paints is a detailed guide to the selection, mixing and application of lime- and clay-based plasters, renders, paints and washes. It provides step-by-step instructions for applying lime- and clay-based plasters, renders and paints, and information on the benefits of natural finishes for personal health, the environment, and for buildings. The book draws on traditional methods & materials for using lime & clay finishes on new and historic buildings, and also includes a comprehensive and up-to-date online resource guide to suppliers, practitioners and courses. Easy to follow DIY projects guide the reader through all aspects of using these natural finishes, with beautiful photographs of techniques and examples from the UK and abroad.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857842714

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9780857842718

Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis

An Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians

By: Ronald Christensen,Wesley Johnson,Adam Branscum,Timothy E Hanson

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Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis

An Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians

By: Ronald Christensen,Wesley Johnson,Adam Branscum,Timothy E Hanson

Emphasizing the use of WinBUGS and R to analyze real data, Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis: An Introduction for Scientists and Statisticians presents statistical tools to address scientific questions. It highlights foundational issues in statistics, the importance of making accurate predictions, and the need for scientists and statisticians to collaborate in analyzing data. The WinBUGS code provided offers a convenient platform to model and analyze a wide range of data. The first five chapters of the book contain core material that spans basic Bayesian ideas, calculations, and inference, including modeling one and two sample data from traditional sampling models. The text then covers Monte Carlo methods, such as Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation. After discussing linear structures in regression, it presents binomial regression, normal regression, analysis of variance, and Poisson regression, before extending these methods to handle correlated data. The authors also examine survival analysis and binary diagnostic testing. A complementary chapter on diagnostic testing for continuous outcomes is available on the book’s website. The last chapter on nonparametric inference explores density estimation and flexible regression modeling of mean functions. The appropriate statistical analysis of data involves a collaborative effort between scientists and statisticians. Exemplifying this approach, Bayesian Ideas and Data Analysis focuses on the necessary tools and concepts for modeling and analyzing scientific data. Data sets and codes are provided on a supplemental website.

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CRC Press

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1439803552

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9781439803554

School Counseling and the Student Athlete

College, Careers, Identity, and Culture

By: Adam Zagelbaum

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School Counseling and the Student Athlete

College, Careers, Identity, and Culture

By: Adam Zagelbaum

School Counseling and the Student Athlete explores empirical, theoretical, and practice-based issues that demand consideration by school-based counseling and educational professionals working at the pre-collegiate level. In its pages clinicians and students will find insights into both why student athletes experience many of the issues they do as well as the steps that counselors can take to help these individuals and their families. Theories of motivation and theoretical approaches to counseling student athletes are covered in order to provide an orientation to working with this group, and the book also includes a thorough discussion of the most important elements of counseling the student athlete: the academic, career, personal, and social issues they face; consultations with coaches, teachers, and parents; commercialism and the student athlete’s identity; and gender, sexual identity, and culture issues. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and available resources for counselors. Grounded in research and pioneering in its analysis of sports psychology for students in grades K-12, School Counseling and the Student Athlete is a must-have for school counselors, clinicians, and other professionals who work with elementary and secondary students.

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Routledge

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1136279679

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9781136279676

Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancers

Indications and Techniques

By: K. Kian Ang,Adam S. Garden

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Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancers

Indications and Techniques

By: K. Kian Ang,Adam S. Garden

Long established as a staple reference for all radiation oncologists, Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancers: Indications and Techniques is now in its Third Edition. This completely updated edition presents the state-of-the-art protocols currently used at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and thoroughly explains the principles, nomenclature, and clinical use of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). New full-color illustrations have been added throughout the book. The first section discusses the practical aspects of external beam therapy, brachytherapy, and endocavitary beam therapy and offers guidelines on patient care before and during radiotherapy. The second section provides detailed coverage of site-specific indications and techniques.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0781760933

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9780781760935

Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States

By: Adam Hanieh

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Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States

By: Adam Hanieh

This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy.

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Springer

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0230119603

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9780230119604

Metal-Oxo and Metal-Peroxo Species in Catalytic Oxidations

By: Waldemar Adam

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Metal-Oxo and Metal-Peroxo Species in Catalytic Oxidations

By: Waldemar Adam

This volume is a description of the current knowledge on the different metal-oxo and metal-peroxo species involved in catalytic oxidations. The series contains critical reviews of the present position and future trends, and short and concise reports written by the world’s renowned experts.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540669434

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9783540669432

Music, Language and Autism

Exceptional Strategies for Exceptional Minds

By: Adam Ockelford

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Music, Language and Autism

Exceptional Strategies for Exceptional Minds

By: Adam Ockelford

Children with autism often have an intense natural musicality. This book explains how music and language 'work' as systems of communication, and why music holds such a fascination for many young people on the autism spectrum. There are strategies for showing how music can be used to support language development and even substitute for verbal communication. Exploring the progression from a young child's intuitive engagement with music, to using it as a scaffold for communication, socialisation and understanding, the book illustrates, through the use of detailed case studies, how music nurtures a sense of self and provides a positive outlet to express inner thoughts and feelings without resorting to challenging or even destructive behaviours. Presenting an innovative approach to the use of music with people on the autism spectrum, this book will be a fascinating resource for speech and language therapists, music therapists, occupational therapists, teachers, teaching assistants, educational psychologists, carers and parents of people with autism.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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085700428X

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9780857004284

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