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IQ of 63, So What

Going Beyond Everybody Else's Expectations

By: Ben D. Anderson

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Going Beyond Everybody Else's Expectations

By: Ben D. Anderson

Autobiographical journey of Ben D. Anderson who was born with cerebral palsy in the early 1950's .His three dreams of going to college, writing a book, and founding a non-profit organization came true along with getting married.

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Ben D. Anderson

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0615152570

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Introduction to Maintenance Engineering

Modelling, Optimization and Management

By: Mohamed Ben-Daya,Uday Kumar,D. N. Prabhakar Murthy

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Introduction to Maintenance Engineering

Modelling, Optimization and Management

By: Mohamed Ben-Daya,Uday Kumar,D. N. Prabhakar Murthy

This introductory textbook links theory with practice using real illustrative cases involving products, plants and infrastructures and exposes the student to the evolutionary trends in maintenance. Provides an interdisciplinary approach which links, engineering, science, technology, mathematical modelling, data collection and analysis, economics and management Blends theory with practice illustrated through examples relating to products, plants and infrastructures Focuses on concepts, tools and techniques Identifies the special management requirements of various engineered objects (products, plants, and infrastructures)

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118926420

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9781118926420

Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

By: Ari Ben-Menahem

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Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

By: Ari Ben-Menahem

This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering more than 2,000 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark on the history of science and technology. This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540688315

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9783540688310

Politics: An Introduction

By: Barrie Axford,Gary K. Browning,Richard Huggins,Ben Rosamond,John Turner

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Politics: An Introduction

By: Barrie Axford,Gary K. Browning,Richard Huggins,Ben Rosamond,John Turner

This textbook has been carefully designed to meet the needs of students taking introductory courses in Politics. It is accessible and exciting, and by taking the widest possible definition of what is political it offers unrivalled coverage of the subject. Specially designed as an interactive text, it includes think points, exercises and extracts as well as a range of illustrative material to stimulate responses from the reader. The authors emphasise the role of the individual in politics, and the interplay between the personal, the national and the global. They introduce topical issues and examples to bring the subject to life. Features and benefits of Politics: An Introduction: * Comprehensive: includes chapters on political sociology, political institutions, the state, political parties and associations, political thought and a whole section on international and global politics * User-friendly : includes marginal comments, key words and definitions, extensive cross-referencing and a glossary * Clearly written: by a team who are all actively involved in teaching undergraduates and whose enthusiasm for teaching and engaging with students and issues is manifest * Encourages further study : through imaginative and annotated further reading sections at the ends of chapters and a consolidated bibliography.

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678

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Routledge

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1134835558

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9781134835553

Representing Texas

By: Ben R. Guttery

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Representing Texas

By: Ben R. Guttery

Representing Texas is a compendium of biographies of the men and women who have represented the state in the United States and Confederate Congresses. These biographies include information about the representative's birth, education, marriages, family, experiences, profession, elections, congressional record, and death records including burial site. In addition to the biographies there are lists of U.S. Senators by succession, U.S. Representatives by district, Representatives and Senators to the Confederate Congresses, Confederate Congressional Districts by county, Confederate Congress session dates, U.S. Congress session dates, and U.S. Congressional Districts by county. A complete set of U.S. Senator election returns and U.S. Representative election returns from Texas completes the work. Also included is a bibliography. The work was completed following interviews with living ex-members of Congress and current, sitting members of Congress from Texas. The work is the only one to address the topic specific to Texas and is a valuable reference for any Texas library and any history or political researcher.

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Ben Guttery

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1419678841

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9781419678844

American Geographers, 1784-1812

A Bio-Bibliographical Guide

By: Ben A. Smith,James W. Vining

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American Geographers, 1784-1812

A Bio-Bibliographical Guide

By: Ben A. Smith,James W. Vining

The first major work to identify the original generation of American geographers—teachers, writers, surveyors, cartographers, engravers, and others—who made significant contributions to the field of geography during the early years of the republic. As such, it represents a powerful research tool for scholars interested in learning about this group and the products of their labors. A comprehensive and inclusive reference work, this book depicts the individuals who engaged in the establishment and description of the United States. It includes information on people who were involved in activities that led to a remarkable body of information, maps, and literature of a geographic nature about the country.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031305293X

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9780313052934

Scalable Parallel Programming Applied to H.264/AVC Decoding

By: Ben Juurlink,Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa,Chi Ching Chi,Arnaldo Azevedo,Cor Meenderinck,Alex Ramirez

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Scalable Parallel Programming Applied to H.264/AVC Decoding

By: Ben Juurlink,Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa,Chi Ching Chi,Arnaldo Azevedo,Cor Meenderinck,Alex Ramirez

Existing software applications should be redesigned if programmers want to benefit from the performance offered by multi- and many-core architectures. Performance scalability now depends on the possibility of finding and exploiting enough Thread-Level Parallelism (TLP) in applications for using the increasing numbers of cores on a chip. Video decoding is an example of an application domain with increasing computational requirements every new generation. This is due, on the one hand, to the trend towards high quality video systems (high definition and frame rate, 3D displays, etc) that results in a continuous increase in the amount of data that has to be processed in real-time. On the other hand, there is the requirement to maintain high compression efficiency which is only possible with video codes like H.264/AVC that use advanced coding techniques. In this book, the parallelization of H.264/AVC decoding is presented as a case study of parallel programming. H.264/AVC decoding is an example of a complex application with many levels of dependencies, different kernels, and irregular data structures. The book presents a detailed methodology for parallelization of this type of applications. It begins with a description of the algorithm, an analysis of the data dependencies and an evaluation of the different parallelization strategies. Then the design and implementation of a novel parallelization approach is presented that is scalable to many core architectures. Experimental results on different parallel architectures are discussed in detail. Finally, an outlook is given on parallelization opportunities in the upcoming HEVC standard.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461422302

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9781461422303

Bearing Arms for His Majesty

The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico

By: Ben Vinson

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Bearing Arms for His Majesty

The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico

By: Ben Vinson

This study uses the participation of free colored men, whether mulatos, pardos, or morenos (i.e., Afro-Spaniards, Afro-Indians, or "pure blacks"), in New Spain's militias as a prism for examining race relations, racial identity, racial categorization, and issues of social mobility for racially stigmatized groups in colonial Mexico. By 1793, nearly 10 percent of New Spain's population was made up of people who could trace some African ancestrypeople subject to more legal disabilities and social discrimination than mestizos, who in turn fell below white creoles, who in turn fell below the Spanish-born, in the stratified and caste-like society of colonial Spanish America. The originality of this study lies in approaching race via a single, important institution, the military, rather than via abstractions or examples taken from particular regions or single runs of legal documents. By exploring the lives of tens of thousands of part-time and full-time free colored soldiers, who served the colony as volunteers or conscripts, and by adopting a multi-regional approach, the author is able not only to show how military institutions evolved with reference to race and vice versa, but to do so in a manner that reveals discontinuities and regional differences as well as historical trends. He also is able to examine black lives beyond the institution of slavery and to achieve a more nuanced impression of the meaning of freedom in colonial times. From the 1550s on, free colored forces figured prominently in the colony's military forces, and units of free colored soldiers evolved with increasing autonomy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author concludes, however, that the Bourbon reforms of the 1760swhich clearly expanded the military establishment and the role of Spanish soldiers born in the New Worldcame at the expense of free colored companies, which experienced a reduction in both numbers and institutional privileges.

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Stanford University Press

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0804750246

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9780804750240

Global Policing

By: Ben Bowling,James Sheptycki

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Global Policing

By: Ben Bowling,James Sheptycki

In the transitional networked society, police power is no longer constrained by the borders of the nation state. It has globalised. Global Policing shows how security threats have been constructed by powerful actors to justify the creation of a new global policing architecture and how the subculture of policing shapes the world system. Demonstrating how a theory of global policing is central to understanding global governance, the text explores: - the ′new security agenda′ focused on serious organised crime and terrorism and how this is transforming policing - the creation of global organisations such as Interpol, regional entities such as Europol, and national policing agencies with a transnational reach - the subculture of the ′global cops′, blurring boundaries between police, private security, military and secret intelligence agencies - the reality of transnational policing on the ground, its effectiveness, legitimacy, accountability and future development. Written by two leading international experts who bring cutting-edge theoretical debates to life with case studies and examples, Global Policing will prove captivating reading for students and scholars in criminology, criminal justice, international relations, law and sociology.

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SAGE

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1446254313

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The United States and Israel

The Limits of the Special Relationship

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

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The United States and Israel

The Limits of the Special Relationship

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

Ben-Zvi also shows how former Prime Minister Shamir's decision to build settlements in the occupied territories aggravated an already tense situation between the U.S. and Israel, and he concludes with comments on the Gulf War and the return to power of the Labor Party in 1992.

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Columbia University Press

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0231081847

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9780231081849

The Historiography of Genocide

By: Anton Weiss-Wendt,Robert Krieken,Alfred A. Cave,Ben Kiernan,Doris Bergen,David Moshman,Victoria Sanford,John Docker,Robert Hitchcock

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The Historiography of Genocide

By: Anton Weiss-Wendt,Robert Krieken,Alfred A. Cave,Ben Kiernan,Doris Bergen,David Moshman,Victoria Sanford,John Docker,Robert Hitchcock

The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.

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Springer

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0230297781

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IQ of 63, So What

Going Beyond Everybody Else's Expectations

By: Ben D. Anderson

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Going Beyond Everybody Else's Expectations

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IQ of 63, So What

IQ of 63, So What

Introduction to Maintenance Engineering

Introduction to Maintenance Engineering

Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Politics: An Introduction

Politics: An Introduction

Representing Texas

Representing Texas

American Geographers, 1784-1812

American Geographers, 1784-1812

Scalable Parallel Programming Applied to H.264/AVC Decoding

Scalable Parallel Programming Applied to H.264/AVC Decoding

Bearing Arms for His Majesty

Bearing Arms for His Majesty

Global Policing

Global Policing

The United States and Israel

The United States and Israel

The Historiography of Genocide

The Historiography of Genocide

IQ of 63, So What

IQ of 63, So What

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