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Introducing Multilevel Modeling

By: Ita G G Kreft,Jan de Leeuw

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Introducing Multilevel Modeling

By: Ita G G Kreft,Jan de Leeuw

This is the first practical guide to using multilevel models in social research. The authors' approach is user-oriented, with formal mathematics and statistics kept to the minimum and worked examples using real data sets.

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0761951415

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9780761951414

Correspondence Analysis and West Mexico Archaeology

Ceramics from the Long-Glassow Collection

By: C. Roger Nance,Jan de Leeuw,Phil C. Weigand,Kathleen Prado,David S. Verity

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Correspondence Analysis and West Mexico Archaeology

Ceramics from the Long-Glassow Collection

By: C. Roger Nance,Jan de Leeuw,Phil C. Weigand,Kathleen Prado,David S. Verity

Because the archaeology of West Mexico has received little attention from researchers, large segments of the region’s prehistoric ceramic sequences have long remained incomplete. This book goes far toward filling that gap by analyzing a collection of potsherds excavated in the 1960s and housed since then, though heretofore unanalyzed, at UCLA. The authors employ the rarely used statistical technique known as correspondence analysis to sequence the Long-Glassow collection of artifacts. The book explains how correspondence analysis works and how it can be applied in archaeology. In addition to describing the archaeological sites in north central Jalisco where the collection comes from, the authors provide an ethnohistorical overview including information on the earliest Spanish explorers to reach the sites. They sequence more than seventy ceramic types and derive a master sequence from more than ten thousand potsherds. In addition to Mesoamerican archaeologists, the audience will also include other archaeologists concerned with ceramic analysis or the application of statistics to archaeology.

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UNM Press

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0826353940

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9780826353948

House of Memories

Uncovering the Past of a Dutch Jewish Family

By: Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld

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House of Memories

Uncovering the Past of a Dutch Jewish Family

By: Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld

Accompanying videodisc contains: Here was Bertram : search for a lost life = Kan hayah Berṭram : ḥipuś aḥar ḥayim avudim / a film by Carine Van Vugt and Jeroen Neus (Verhalis Production Co., 2012.).

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Uitgeverij Verloren

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9087046049

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Survey Research and Sampling

By: Jan Eichhorn

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Survey Research and Sampling

By: Jan Eichhorn

This book is an ideal companion for students looking to undertake survey research. Anchored by lots of case studies of real research and expert interviews to strengthen your understanding, it provides guidance on: Selecting the best sampling method for your research Designing questionnaires to ensure you gather valuable data Collecting your data to represent populations well Piloting questionnaires to ensure quality research Part of The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit, this book will give you the know-how and confidence needed to succeed on your quantitative research journey

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152971088X

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The Asymptotic Behaviour of Semigroups of Linear Operators

By: Jan van Neerven

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The Asymptotic Behaviour of Semigroups of Linear Operators

By: Jan van Neerven

This book presents a systematic account of the theory of asymptotic behaviour of semigroups of linear operators acting in a Banach space. The focus is on the relationship between asymptotic behaviour of the semigroup and spectral properties of its infinitesimal generator. The most recent developments in the field are included, such as the Arendt-Batty-Lyubich-Vu theorem, the spectral mapp- ing theorem of Latushkin and Montgomery-Smith, Weis's theorem on stability of positive semigroup in Lp-spaces, the stability theorem for semigroups whose resolvent is bounded in a half-plane, and a systematic theory of individual stability. Addressed to researchers and graduate students with interest in the fields of operator semigroups and evolution equations, this book is self-contained and provides complete proofs.

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Birkhäuser

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3034892063

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Cognitive Load Theory

By: Jan L. Plass,Roxana Moreno,Roland Brünken

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Cognitive Load Theory

By: Jan L. Plass,Roxana Moreno,Roland Brünken

A comprehensive review of all issues related to cognitive load theory, written by prolific researchers from around the world.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521860237

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9780521860239

From Biomolecules to Chemofossils

By: Jan Schwarzbauer,Branimir Jovančićević

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From Biomolecules to Chemofossils

By: Jan Schwarzbauer,Branimir Jovančićević

This second volume in the series 'Fundamentals in Organic Geochemistry' focusses on molecular chemical aspects introducing the structural diversity of natural products, their fate in the sedimentary systems and the consequences of the corresponding alterations for geoscientific questions. Organic Geochemistry is a modern scientific subject characterized by a high transdisciplinarity and located at the edge of chemistry, environmental sciences, geology and biology. Therefore, there is a need for a flexible offer of appropriate academic teaching material on an undergraduate level addressed to the variety of students coming originally from different study disciplines. For such a flexible usage this textbook series consists of different volumes with clear defined aspects and with manageable length.

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Springer

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3319250752

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Robust Design of Digital Circuits on Foil

By: Kris Myny,Jan Genoe,Wim Dehaene

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Robust Design of Digital Circuits on Foil

By: Kris Myny,Jan Genoe,Wim Dehaene

A practical guide to the theory and applications of TFT technologies and circuit designs for those in academia and in industry.

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1107127017

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Mixed-Mode Official Surveys

Design and Analysis

By: Barry Schouten,Jan van den Brakel,Bart Buelens,Deirdre Giesen,Annemieke Luiten,Vivian Meertens

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Mixed-Mode Official Surveys

Design and Analysis

By: Barry Schouten,Jan van den Brakel,Bart Buelens,Deirdre Giesen,Annemieke Luiten,Vivian Meertens

Mixed-mode surveys have become a standard at many statistical institutes. However, the introduction of multiple modes in one design goes with challenges to both methodology and logistics. Mode-specific representation and measurement differences become explicit and demand for solutions in data collection design, questionnaire design, and estimation. This is especially true when surveys are repeated and are input to long time series of official statistics. So how can statistical institutes deal with such changes? What are the origins of mode-specific error? And how can they be dealt with? In this book, the authors provide answers to these questions, and much more. Features Concise introduction to all the key elements of mixed-mode survey design and analysis Realistic official statistics examples from three general population surveys Suitable for survey managers and survey statisticians alike An overview of mode-specific representation and measurement errors and how to avoid, reduce and adjust them

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CRC Press

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0429865864

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9780429865862

Integral Representation Theory

Applications to Convexity, Banach Spaces and Potential Theory

By: Jaroslav Lukeš,Jan Malý,Ivan Netuka,Jirí Spurný

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Integral Representation Theory

Applications to Convexity, Banach Spaces and Potential Theory

By: Jaroslav Lukeš,Jan Malý,Ivan Netuka,Jirí Spurný

This monograph presents the state of the art of convexity, with an emphasis to integral representation. The exposition is focused on Choquet’s theory of function spaces with a link to compact convex sets. An important feature of the book is an interplay between various mathematical subjects, such as functional analysis, measure theory, descriptive set theory, Banach spaces theory and potential theory. A substantial part of the material is of fairly recent origin and many results appear in the book form for the first time. The text is self-contained and covers a wide range of applications. From the contents: Geometry of convex sets Choquet theory of function spaces Affine functions on compact convex sets Perfect classes of functions and representation of affine functions Simplicial function spaces Choquet's theory of function cones Topologies on boundaries Several results on function spaces and compact convex sets Continuous and measurable selectors Construction of function spaces Function spaces in potential theory and Dirichlet problem Applications

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110203219

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Beginning Anew

A Study in Memory and History

By: Jan de Vries

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Beginning Anew

A Study in Memory and History

By: Jan de Vries

Beginning Anew is a work of memory and history, a distinguished historian’s account of his family’s immigration to the United States in the aftermath of World War II and of his coming of age and education in a new land. The author, Jan de Vries, raised in Minnesota, is Professor Emeritus of History and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also served as a dean and vice provost. In Beginning Anew he reconstructs the world of his Dutch parents and ponders the factors pushing them to leave Holland and pulling them toward the United States. From a distance it seems almost inevitable; up close it was anything but. Chance factors resulted in the family landing as farm laborers on a Minnesota farm in the cold, snowy January of 1948. What resources were available to them as they made their way in their adopted land? What makes the difference between success and failure? Their community, church, and personal resources all played a role. As did chance, or was it Providence? The author uses memory and history to delve in to the process of his becoming American – or perhaps Minnesotan – while finding that certain influences held him back from a full conversion. He considers the spirit of the communities in which he lived, the ethos that pervaded the public schools in which he was educated, the influence of the Dutch Calvinist church in which he was raised – but also the radio stations to which he listened and his many years of summer work as a construction laborer, working side by side with his father. All these elements formed a world now lost but brought to life in this book in an evocative work of historical reconstruction that is respectful of the past but unsentimentally direct in its assessments. All the while, Holland, the country left behind, continued to make its presence felt: Letters and old magazine sent by relatives, stories told and retold of Dutch life’s pleasures and problems, and finally an important trip to visit relatives after years of absence. If the parents began anew with their decision to emigrate, the son begins anew in a different way, when he rejects more cautious paths and pursues higher education in New York City, at Columbia University. The first of his family to enter higher education, the author has his own take on the academic and social life he experienced in the 1960s and this is revealed in candid accounts of his encounters with teachers and fellow students. College life was transformative in many respects, but not in all ways. Beginning Anew essays the limits of transformation by education as De Vries is alternately exposed to luminaries of mid twentieth century American society and immersed every summer in construction labor with his father. College led De Vries to an interest in history and economics. The book’s final section is an account of graduate study at Yale and the revolution then underway in the study of economic history. Studying both history and economics, De Vries is introduced to two distinct academic worlds and learns to appreciate and to critique them both. His interests lead him back to the Netherlands, where he encounters a very different academic environment and a circle of new colleagues who simultaneously influence his scholarship and his sense of identity. All the while, the Vietnam War, social upheaval, and marriage are intertwined with the launching of an academic career as the 1960s reach a point of climax and exhaustion.

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Outskirts Press

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1977274110

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Plural Medical Systems In The Horn Of Africa: The Legacy Of Sheikh Hippocrates

By: Leendert Jan Slikkerveer

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Plural Medical Systems In The Horn Of Africa: The Legacy Of Sheikh Hippocrates

By: Leendert Jan Slikkerveer

First Published in 1990. This study is an important landmark in our understanding of the complexities of pluralistic medical systems. It is an unusual study as it provides an overview of the indigenous Oromo and Amhara, the regional Greaco-Arabic, and the cosmopolitan health systems in the Horn of Africa, using a variety of approaches and methodologies.

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Routledge

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1136143300

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Latent Variable Path Modeling with Partial Least Squares

By: Jan-Bernd Lohmöller

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Latent Variable Path Modeling with Partial Least Squares

By: Jan-Bernd Lohmöller

Partial Least Squares (PLS) is an estimation method and an algorithm for latent variable path (LVP) models. PLS is a component technique and estimates the latent variables as weighted aggregates. The implications of this choice are considered and compared to covariance structure techniques like LISREL, COSAN and EQS. The properties of special cases of PLS (regression, factor scores, structural equations, principal components, canonical correlation, hierarchical components, correspondence analysis, three-mode path and component analysis) are examined step by step and contribute to the understanding of the general PLS technique. The proof of the convergence of the PLS algorithm is extended beyond two-block models. Some 10 computer programs and 100 applications of PLS are referenced. The book gives the statistical underpinning for the computer programs PLS 1.8, which is in use in some 100 university computer centers, and for PLS/PC. It is intended to be the background reference for the users of PLS 1.8, not as textbook or program manual.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642525121

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9783642525124

Delphi Complete Works of Jan van Eyck (Illustrated)

By: Jan van Eyck,Peter Russell

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Delphi Complete Works of Jan van Eyck (Illustrated)

By: Jan van Eyck,Peter Russell

Jan van Eyck was a fifteenth century Netherlandish painter of altarpieces, single-panel religious figures and commissioned portraits, who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting. Panel paintings like the ‘Arnolfini Portrait’ and ‘The Ghent Altarpiece’ are celebrated for their unprecedented use of naturalism, complex iconography and geometric perspective. Although only 22 paintings are confidently attributed to Van Eyck, his virtuosity and pioneering developments would have a lasting impact on the course of Western art. This eBook presents van Eyck’s complete works in stunning detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of Jan van Eyck – over 350 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological order * Features concise introductions for all 22 extant paintings, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore van Eyck’s works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smartphones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Easily locate the artworks you wish to view * Special glossary of the artist’s paintings * Includes van Eyck's drawings, disputed works and workshop paintings – explore the artist’s varied works * Features three bonus biographies – discover van Eyck's world Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books CONTENTS: The Paintings Ghent Altarpiece Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata Crucifixion and Last Judgement Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati Léal Souvenir Portrait of a Man in a Turban (Self Portrait) Arnolfini Portrait Annunciation (Washington) Annunciation (Madrid) Portrait of Baudouin de Lannoy Madonna of Chancellor Rolin Portrait of Jan de Leeuw Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele Dresden Triptych Lucca Madonna Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini Madonna in the Church Portrait of Margaret van Eyck Madonna at the Fountain Madonna of Jan Vos Glossary of the Paintings Other Artworks List of Drawings, Lost, Disputed and Workshop Works The Biographies Extract from ‘Life of Antonello Da Messina’ (1550) by Giorgio Vasari Van Eyck (1905) by J. Cyril M. Weale Jan van Eyck (1911) by Joseph Archer Crowe Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set

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1913487288

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Animal (De)liberation

Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned?

By: Jan Deckers

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Animal (De)liberation

Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned?

By: Jan Deckers

In this book, Jan Deckers addresses the most crucial question that people must deliberate in relation to how we should treat other animals: whether we should eat animal products. Many people object to the consumption of animal products from the conviction that it inflicts pain, suffering, and death upon animals. This book argues that a convincing ethical theory cannot be based on these important concerns: rather, it must focus on our interest in human health. Tending to this interest demands not only that we extend speciesism—the attribution of special significance to members of our own species merely because they belong to the same species as ourself—towards nonhuman animals, but also that we safeguard the integrity of nature. In this light, projects that aim to engineer the genetic material of animals to reduce their capacities to feel pain and to suffer are morally suspect. The same applies to projects that aim to develop in-vitro flesh, even if the production of such flesh should be welcomed on other grounds. The theory proposed in this book is accompanied by a political goal, the ‘vegan project’, which strives for a qualified ban on the consumption of animal products. Deckers also provides empirical evidence that some support for this goal exists already, and his analysis of the views of others—including those of slaughterhouse workers—reveals that the vegan project stands firm in spite of public opposition. Many charges have been pressed against vegan diets, including: that they alienate human beings from nature; that they increase human food security concerns; and that they are unsustainable. Deckers argues that these charges are legitimate in some cases, but that, in many situations, vegan diets are actually superior. For those who remain doubtful, the book also contains an appendix that considers whether vegan diets might actually be nutritionally adequate.

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Ubiquity Press

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1909188859

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9781909188853

Evolutionary Integral Equations and Applications

By: Jan Prüss

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Evolutionary Integral Equations and Applications

By: Jan Prüss

This book deals with evolutionary systems whose equation of state can be formulated as a linear Volterra equation in a Banach space. The main feature of the kernels involved is that they consist of unbounded linear operators. The aim is a coherent presentation of the state of art of the theory including detailed proofs and its applications to problems from mathematical physics, such as viscoelasticity, heat conduction, and electrodynamics with memory. The importance of evolutionary integral equations ‒ which form a larger class than do evolution equations ‒ stems from such applications and therefore special emphasis is placed on these. A number of models are derived and, by means of the developed theory, discussed thoroughly. An annotated bibliography containing 450 entries increases the book’s value as an incisive reference text. --- This excellent book presents a general approach to linear evolutionary systems, with an emphasis on infinite-dimensional systems with time delays, such as those occurring in linear viscoelasticity with or without thermal effects. It gives a very natural and mature extension of the usual semigroup approach to a more general class of infinite-dimensional evolutionary systems. This is the first appearance in the form of a monograph of this recently developed theory. A substantial part of the results are due to the author, or are even new. (...) It is not a book that one reads in a few days. Rather, it should be considered as an investment with lasting value. (Zentralblatt MATH) In this book, the author, who has been at the forefront of research on these problems for the last decade, has collected, and in many places extended, the known theory for these equations. In addition, he has provided a framework that allows one to relate and evaluate diverse results in the literature. (Mathematical Reviews) This book constitutes a highly valuable addition to the existing literature on the theory of Volterra (evolutionary) integral equations and their applications in physics and engineering. (...) and for the first time the stress is on the infinite-dimensional case. (SIAM Reviews)

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3034804997

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Stepfamilies

A Global Perspective on Research, Policy, and Practice

By: Jan Pryor

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Stepfamilies

A Global Perspective on Research, Policy, and Practice

By: Jan Pryor

This new book reviews the most current global research and highlights the challenges, possibilities, and dynamics of stepfamily households. It describes their formation, their experiences, and the factors that help them thrive. International and cultural differences are highlighted throughout along with issues of class, gender, and religion. Nontraditional stepfamilies such as those headed by same-sex families are also explored along with clinical and legal issues. Engagingly written with numerous vignettes and examples, each chapter features objectives, an introduction, boldfaced key terms, summary, list of key terms, discussion questions, exercises, and additional text and web resources. The book concludes with a glossary. Highlights of coverage include: The history, diversity, and demography of stepfamilies (ch. 1). Frameworks for thinking about stepfamilies (ch. 2). The impact of race and culture on stepfamily dynamics (ch. 3). Stepfamily formation including the role of cohabitation and lone parenting (ch.4). The wellbeing of adults in stepfamilies including resident and nonresident parents (ch.5). Relationships in stepfamilies including those between adults, between adults and children, and between siblings (chs. 6 & 7). Children’s wellbeing in stepfamilies, and factors that help explain outcomes (ch. 8). The importance of intergenerational relationships (ch.9). Stepfamilies headed by sex couples; wellbeing, stigma and legal issues (ch. 10). Factors that promote wellbeing in stepfamilies such as communication patterns, rituals, and flexibility (ch.11). Interventions and therapy, and recent legal and policy issues (chs. 12 & 13). New ways of thinking about stepfamily living (ch. 14). Intended as a core advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate text for courses on stepfamilies or as a supplement for courses on divorce, family studies, introduction to the family, and/or marriage and the family taught in human development and family studies, psychology, sociology, and social work, the book also appeals to those who work with stepfamilies in a counseling or legal setting.

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Routledge

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1000082911

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The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife

By: Jan N. Bremmer

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The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife

By: Jan N. Bremmer

Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.

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1134768214

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The TRB West Group

Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefstich Pottery

By: Jan Albert Bakker

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The TRB West Group

Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefstich Pottery

By: Jan Albert Bakker

A classic study of the pottery of the TRB West group, originally published in 1979. Bakker deals with the research history and typochronology of the TRB pottery. Also he gives a detailed account of the other TRB finds such as flint and stone artefacts and of course the most important TRB sites. Over the years this book has become a standard-work for anyone who is interested in hunebeds and their makers. The author has written a new introduction to this reprint in which he describes how the book of 1979 came together and the research that has been carried out since then.

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Sidestone Press

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908890023X

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Mammals of Africa

By: Jonathan Kingdon,David Happold,Thomas Butynski,Michael Hoffmann,Meredith Happold,Jan Kalina

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Mammals of Africa

By: Jonathan Kingdon,David Happold,Thomas Butynski,Michael Hoffmann,Meredith Happold,Jan Kalina

Mammals of Africa (MoA) is a series of six volumes which describes, in detail, every currently recognized species of African land mammal. This is the first time that such extensive coverage has ever been attempted, and the volumes incorporate the very latest information and detailed discussion of the morphology, distribution, biology and evolution (including reference to fossil and molecular data) of Africa's mammals. With 1,160 species and 16 orders, Africa has the greatest diversity and abundance of mammals in the world. The reasons for this and the mechanisms behind their evolution are given special attention in the series. Each volume follows the same format, with detailed profiles of every species and higher taxa. The series includes some 660 colour illustrations by Jonathan Kingdon and his many drawings highlight details of morphology and behaviour of the species concerned. Diagrams, schematic details and line drawings of skulls and jaws are by Jonathan Kingdon and Meredith Happold. Every species also includes a detailed distribution map. Extensive references alert readers to more detailed information. Volume I: Introductory Chapters and Afrotheria (352 pages) Volume II: Primates (560 pages) Volume III: Rodents, Hares and Rabbits (784 pages) Volume IV: Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats (800 pages) Volume V: Carnivores, Pangolins, Equids and Rhinoceroses (560 pages) Volume VI: Pigs, Hippopotamuses, Chevrotain, Giraffes, Deer and Bovids (704 pages)

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1408189968

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