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Revolutionizing Global Higher Education Policy

Innovation and the Bologna Process

By: Joseph M. Piro

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Revolutionizing Global Higher Education Policy

Innovation and the Bologna Process

By: Joseph M. Piro

The ‘traditional’ university model has been transformed globally, fueled by disruptive technologies, new learning platforms, increasing fiscal austerity, and the rise of knowledge economies. The Bologna Process, a European initiative intended to streamline higher education standards and qualifications, offers modernized, innovative pathways to learning including shortened degree timetables and a three-cycle system. Now comprised of 48 participating countries, the initiative has had a significant impact across global higher education. This volume examines the issues central to the Process as told from the viewpoints and experiences of stakeholders who have been involved with it at various stages of progression. This volume explores the significant successes and challenges the Bologna Process has faced over the last decade, where it is now, and where it is headed. It presents data on countries and individuals involved with the Process as well as students’ growing connections and concerns about Bologna reforms. It also looks ahead to the Europe 2020 goals and what these may represent to differential policy actors, not only for the group of original signatories, but for those countries newer to the Process.

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1317535332

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Practical Advice to Beginners in Bee-Keeping

By: Joseph Tinsley

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Practical Advice to Beginners in Bee-Keeping

By: Joseph Tinsley

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to bee-keeping, with chapters on natural history, hive society, acquiring bees, diseases, marketing, and much more. "Practical Advice to Beginners in Bee-Keeping" will be of considerable utility to modern keepers both old and new, and it would make for a useful addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Natural History", "Queen", "Worker", "Drone", "Hives", "Appliances", "Purchasing Bees", "Placing the Swarm into the Hive", "Handling and Manipulating Bees", "Preliminary Report on the Isle of Wight Bee Disease", "Causes of the Disease", "Spread of the Disease", "Symptoms of the Disease", etc. Many Vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Bee-keeping.

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147334252X

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Prediction and Discovery

AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, Machine and Statistical Learning : Prediction and Discovery, June 25-29, 2006, Snowbird, Utah

By: Joseph S. Verducci,Xiaotong Shen,John Lafferty

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Prediction and Discovery

AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, Machine and Statistical Learning : Prediction and Discovery, June 25-29, 2006, Snowbird, Utah

By: Joseph S. Verducci,Xiaotong Shen,John Lafferty

These proceedings feature some of the latest important results about machine learning based on methods originated in Computer Science and Statistics. In addition to papers discussing theoretical analysis of the performance of procedures for classification and prediction, the papers in this book cover novel versions of Support Vector Machines (SVM), Principal Component methods, Lasso prediction models, and Boosting and Clustering. Also included are applications such as multi-level spatial models for diagnosis of eye disease, hyperclique methods for identifying protein interactions, robust SVM models for detection of fraudulent banking transactions, etc. This book should be of interest to researchers who want to learn about the various new directions that the field is taking, to graduate students who want to find a useful and exciting topic for their research or learn the latest techniques for conducting comparative studies, and to engineers and scientists who want to see examples of how to modify the basic high-dimensional methods to apply to real world applications with special conditions and constraints.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821841955

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Essay on Bee Keeping - Or an Easy Method of Managing Bees in the Most Profitable Manner to Their Owner, with Infallible Rules to Prevent Their Destruction by the Moth, or Otherwise

By: Joseph Bradt

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Essay on Bee Keeping - Or an Easy Method of Managing Bees in the Most Profitable Manner to Their Owner, with Infallible Rules to Prevent Their Destruction by the Moth, or Otherwise

By: Joseph Bradt

This is a vintage treatise on bee-keeping for profit. Although old, much of the information contained within this essay is timeless and will be of considerable utility to modern readers with a practical interest in the subject. Contents include: "On Hiving, and the General Management of Bees", "On Hiving Bees", "On Supplying Swarms with a Young Queen", "A Little More on Transferring Bees", "On Providing Hives with Suitable Drawers", "On Wintering Bees", "Why Bees do not Fill the Drawers", and "A Little More on the Use of my Patent Hive". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Bee-keeping.

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American Catholicism Transformed

From the Cold War Through the Council

By: Joseph P. Chinnici

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American Catholicism Transformed

From the Cold War Through the Council

By: Joseph P. Chinnici

Situating the church within the context of post-World War II globalization and the Cold War, American Catholicism Transformed draws on previously untapped archival sources to provide deep background to developments within the American Catholic Church in relationship to American society at large. Shaped by anti-communist sentiment and responsive to American cultural trends, the Catholic community adopted "strategies of domestic containment," stressing the close unity between the Church and the "American way of life." A focus on the unchanging character of God's law as expressed in social hierarchies of authority, race, and gender provided a public visage of unity and uniformity. However, the emphasis on American values mainstreamed into the community the political values of personal rights, equality, acceptance of the arms race, and muted the Church's inherited social vision. The result was a deep ambivalence over the forces of secularization. The Catholic community entered a transitional stage in which "those on the right" and "those on the left" battled for control of the Church's vision. International networking, reform of religious life among women, international congresses of the laity, the institutionalization of the liturgical movement, and the burgeoning civil right movement positioned the community to receive the Vatican Council in a distinctly American way. During the Second Vatican Council, the American bishops and theological experts gradually adopted the reforming currents of the world-wide Church. This convergence of international and national forces of renewal -- and resistance to them -- says Joseph Chinnici, will continue to shape the American Catholic community's identity in the twenty-first century.

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Oxford University Press

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0197573029

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Black Mixed-Race Men

Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience

By: Remi Joseph-Salisbury

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Black Mixed-Race Men

Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience

By: Remi Joseph-Salisbury

This book offers a corrective to pathological and stereotypical representations of mixedness generally, and Black mixed-race men specifically. By introducing the concept of ‘post-racial’ resilience the book shows that Black mixed-race men are active and agentic as they resist the fragmentation and erasure of multiplicitous identities.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787565327

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Harry Dean Stanton

Hollywood's Zen Rebel

By: Joseph B. Atkins

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Harry Dean Stanton

Hollywood's Zen Rebel

By: Joseph B. Atkins

The first biography of the man Vanity Fair described as “the philosopher poet of character acting.” After a series of minor parts in forgettable westerns, Harry Dean Stanton gradually began to get film roles that showcased his laid-back acting style, appearing in Cool Hand Luke, Kelly’s Heroes, The Godfather: Part II, and Alien. He became a headliner in the eighties?starring in Wim Wenders’s moving Paris, Texas and Alex Cox’s Repo Man?but it was his extraordinary skill as a character actor that established him as a revered cult figure and kept him in demand throughout his career. Here, Joseph B. Atkins unwinds Stanton’s enigmatic persona, shedding light on his early life in West Irvine, Kentucky, and exploring his difficult relationship with his Baptist parents, his service in the Navy, and the events that inspired him to drop out of college and pursue acting. Atkins also chronicles Stanton’s early years in California, describing how he honed his craft at the renowned Pasadena Playhouse before breaking into television and movies. In addition to examining his acclaimed body of work, Atkins explores Harry Dean Stanton as a Hollywood legend, following his years rooming with Jack Nicholson, partying with David Crosby and Mama Cass, jogging with Bob Dylan, and playing poker with John Huston. Stanton is often remembered for his crowd-pleasing roles in movies like Pretty in Pink or Escape from New York, but this impassioned biography illuminates the entirety of his incredible sixty-year career, drawing on interviews with the actor’s friends, family, and colleagues.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813180139

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Testing Statistical Hypotheses

By: Erich L. Lehmann,Joseph P. Romano

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Testing Statistical Hypotheses

By: Erich L. Lehmann,Joseph P. Romano

The third edition of Testing Statistical Hypotheses updates and expands upon the classic graduate text, emphasizing optimality theory for hypothesis testing and confidence sets. The principal additions include a rigorous treatment of large sample optimality, together with the requisite tools. In addition, an introduction to the theory of resampling methods such as the bootstrap is developed. The sections on multiple testing and goodness of fit testing are expanded. The text is suitable for Ph.D. students in statistics and includes over 300 new problems out of a total of more than 760.

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038727605X

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Coronary Artery Disease and the Myocardial Ischemic Cascade, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

By: U. Joseph Schoepf

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Coronary Artery Disease and the Myocardial Ischemic Cascade, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

By: U. Joseph Schoepf

State of the Art CT and MR Imaging of Coronary Artery Disease and the Myocardial Ischemic Cascade is covered extensively in this issue of Radiologic Clinics. Articles will include: Imaging Coronary Artery Disease and the Myocardial Ischemic Cascade; CT Imaging of Coronary Artery Plaque; Coronary CT Angiography in Clinical Practice; Beyond Stenosis Detection: CT Approaches for Determining the Functional Relevance of Coronary Artery Disease; CT Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease; Cardiac CT for the Evaluation of the Acute Chest Pain Syndrome; Current State of the Art Cardiovascular MRI Techniques for Assessment of Ischemic Heart Disease; Global and Regional Functional Assessment of Ischemic Heart Disease with Cardiac MRI; MRI of the Coronary Vasculature: Imaging the Lumen, Wall and Beyond; Delayed Enhanced Viability Imaging: Techniques and Clinical Applications; Tissue Characterization of the Left Ventricular Myocardium: State of the Art Techniques and Emerging Clinical Utility; Stress Cardiac MRI: the Role of Stress Functional Assessment and Perfusion Imaging in the Evaluation of Ischemic Heart Disease, and much more!

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323356885

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The Fungal Kingdom

By: Joseph Heitman,Barbara J. Howlett,Pedro W. Crous,Eva H. Stukenbrock,Timothy Yong James,Neil A. R. Gow

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The Fungal Kingdom

By: Joseph Heitman,Barbara J. Howlett,Pedro W. Crous,Eva H. Stukenbrock,Timothy Yong James,Neil A. R. Gow

Fungi research and knowledge grew rapidly following recent advances in genetics and genomics. This book synthesizes new knowledge with existing information to stimulate new scientific questions and propel fungal scientists on to the next stages of research. This book is a comprehensive guide on fungi, environmental sensing, genetics, genomics, interactions with microbes, plants, insects, and humans, technological applications, and natural product development.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1555819583

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Typographical Antiquities

By: Joseph Ames

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Typographical Antiquities

By: Joseph Ames

A four-volume work on the early history of printing, based on earlier books, and published between 1810 and 1819.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108077137

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

By: Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

By: Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin

The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).

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052108573X

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Reporting African Elections

Towards a Peace Journalism Approach

By: Joseph Adebayo

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Reporting African Elections

Towards a Peace Journalism Approach

By: Joseph Adebayo

The ability to be divided along ethnic and religious lines is inherent to much of Africa’s media. Such potentially divisive reporting has the ability to incite violence through prejudiced information, particularly during election processes.Reporting African Elections examines the impact of media messages on society, focusing on these electoral processes in Africa. Drawing upon the Peace Journalism approach to political reporting, this book offers a unifying conceptual framework for analysing the role journalists play in ensuring peaceful elections. Joseph Adebayo also looks at the impact training can have on election reportage, studying recent elections in Kenya and Nigeria in order to present a 17-point plan for reporting elections in Africa. Reporting African Elections will be of interest to scholars and students of journalism, peace and conflict studies, and politics.

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Routledge

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0429764413

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The Freedom of Science

By: Joseph Donat

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The Freedom of Science

By: Joseph Donat

Reproduction of the original: The Freedom of Science by Joseph Donat

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3752332883

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The Crisis in Sociology

The Need for Darwin

By: Joseph Lopreato,Timothy Alan Crippen

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The Crisis in Sociology

The Need for Darwin

By: Joseph Lopreato,Timothy Alan Crippen

Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a remedy that is likely to inspire controversy. In the authors' view sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Lopreato and Crippen argue that the most disabling flaw is the failure to discover even a single general law or principle necessary to systematically organize empirical observations, guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses, and form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Crisis in Sociology invites sociologists to consider that participation in the "new social science," exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology, may help to build a vigorous, scientific sociology.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412820693

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Enter a Samurai: Full text and illustrations

By: Joseph L. Anderson

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Enter a Samurai: Full text and illustrations

By: Joseph L. Anderson

Looking back to the last years of the nineteenth century, veteran producer-director Joseph L. Anderson draws upon a monumental body of research gleaned from libraries and archives in seven countries to introduce the Japanese theatrical impresario Kawakami Otojirō. In 1899, Kawakami, his wife--the inspired dancer and actress Sadayakko--and his troupe went on epochal performance tours of the U.S. and Europe, introducing audiences to new forms of dramatic art and dance previously unseen in the West. Possessed of boundless energy and limitless imagination, Kawakami was a pioneer who quite literally viewed the world as his stage. In the closing decade of an all-too-brief life, Kawakami introduced major reforms of Japanese performance and the theatre business. Scholarly, witty, and filled with fascinating insights into the culture and conventions of fin de siècle America, Europe, and Japan, Enter a Samurai opens a door into a little-known, yet vitally important era of modern theatrical history. -- Back cover of volume 1

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160494367X

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The Geology of Erie and Crawford Counties

By: Israel Charles White,Joseph William Spencer

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The Geology of Erie and Crawford Counties

By: Israel Charles White,Joseph William Spencer

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385441838

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Nazi International

The Nazis’ Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space

By: Joseph P. Farrell

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Nazi International

The Nazis’ Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space

By: Joseph P. Farrell

Physicist and Oxford educated historian Joseph P. Farrell continues his best-selling series of exposÃ©s on secret Nazi technology, Nazi survival, and post-war Nazi manipulation of various manufacturing technologies, economies and whole countries. Beginning with pre-War corporate partnerships in the USA, including the Bush family, he moves on to the surrender of Nazi Germany, and evacuation plans of the Germans. He then covers the vast, and still-little-known recreation of Nazi Germany in South America with help of Juan Peron, I.G. Farben and Martin Bormann. Farrell then covers Nazi Germany’s Penetration of the Muslim World including Wilhelm Voss and Otto Skorzeny in Gamel Abdul Nasser’s Egypt before moving onto the development and control of New Energy Technologies including the Bariloche Fusion Project, Dr. Philo Farnsworth’s Plasmator, and the Work of Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev. Finally, Farrell discusses the Nazi desire to control space, and examines their connection with NASA, the esoteric meaning of NASA Mission Patches, plus final chapters on: Alchemy, Esotericism, The SS and the Unified Field Theory Craze; 1943-1945: Strange Events from the end of World War II and other “Postwar Shenanigans.” This book is literally packed with information.

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SCB Distributors

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1935487590

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Eco-Teen Films

By: Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann

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Eco-Teen Films

By: Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann

Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-disasters and issues in films of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on teen activism, international settings and filmmakers, and marginalized perspectives, this book showcases teens on film that are struggling with present and future everyday eco-disasters amplified by climate change. By highlighting and interrogating diverse genres of teen films in which young adults encounter, address, and battle environmental issues and calamities while also struggling with adolescent development, this book acknowledges the young adult point of view missing from most critical ecocinema research and underlines connections between the more complex ‘coming-of-age’ themes found in teen films with ecocinema themes and approaches. The films examined navigate increasingly realistic conditions, even in fantastical settings, as they showcase teens’ relationships with and responses to environmental issues and eco-disasters. Emphasizing teen activism and under-represented intersectional perspectives outside Hollywood, it establishes the eco-teen film as a notable subgenre. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of films.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040127819

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Spann's Guide to Gibson 1902-1941

By: Joseph E. Spann

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Spann's Guide to Gibson 1902-1941

By: Joseph E. Spann

(Reference). Centerstream presents this detailed look at the inner workings of the famous musical instrument manufacturer of Kalamazoo, Michigan before World War II. For the first time, Gibson fans can learn about the employees who built the instruments, exactly where the raw materials came from, the identity of parts vendors, and how the production was carried out. The book explains Gibson's pre-World War II factory order number and serial number systems, and corrects longstanding chronological errors. Previously unknown information about every aspect of the operation is covered in-depth. Noted historian Joe Spann gathered firsthand info from pre-war employees, and had access to major Gibson document collections around the world. Long time Gibson experts, as well as casual collectors, will find this volume an indispensable addition to their reference shelf.

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1574242679

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General Thoracic Surgery

By: Thomas W. Shields,Joseph LoCicero,Carolyn E. Reed,Richard H. Feins

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General Thoracic Surgery

By: Thomas W. Shields,Joseph LoCicero,Carolyn E. Reed,Richard H. Feins

Long considered the bible of thoracic surgery, this comprehensive two-volume textbook guides you through virtually every open and endoscopic surgical technique with expert commentary by the leaders in thoracic surgery from around the world. Coverage includes extensive sections on lung cancer and other pulmonary tumors. All facets of thoracic disease are covered from anatomy and embryology to diagnostics, including extensive radiological sections. Multidisciplinary contributions on medical treatment, radiation oncology, and surgery and anesthesia are included. Highlights include new material on minimally invasive procedures and thoroughly updated diagnostic and treatment information. Operative checklists are included in procedural chapters, and procedures are presented as bulleted to-do lists wherever possible. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text with all images and video clips of selected procedures.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451152787

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Solid Wood

Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design

By: Joseph Mayo

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Solid Wood

Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design

By: Joseph Mayo

Over the past 10-15 years a renaissance in wood architecture has occurred with the development of new wood building systems and design strategies, elevating wood from a predominantly single-family residential idiom to a rival of concrete and steel construction for a variety of building types, including high rises. This new solid wood architecture offers unparalleled environmental as well as construction and aesthetic benefits, and is of growing importance for professionals and academics involved in green design. Solid Wood provides the first detailed book which allows readers to understand new mass timber/massive wood architecture. It provides: historical context in wood architecture from around the world a strong environmental rationale for the use of wood in buildings recent developments in contemporary fire safety and structural issues insights into building code challenges detailed case studies of new large-scale wood building systems on a country-by-country basis. Case studies from the UK, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Italy, Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia highlight design strategies, construction details and unique cultural attitudes in wood design. The case studies include the most ambitious academic, hospitality, industrial, multi-family, and wood office buildings in the world. With discussions from leading architectural, engineering, and material manufacturing firms in Europe, North America and the South Pacific, Solid Wood disrupts preconceived notions and serves as an indispensable guide to twenty-first century wood architecture and its environmental and cultural benefits.

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1317587480

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Healthy Democracies

Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea

By: Joseph Wong

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Healthy Democracies

Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea

By: Joseph Wong

Wong uses extensive field research and interviews to explore both similarities and subtle differences in the processes of political change and health care reform in Taiwan and South Korea."--Jacket.

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Cornell University Press

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0801473497

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Learning Data Science

By: Sam Lau,Joseph Gonzalez,Deborah Nolan

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Learning Data Science

By: Sam Lau,Joseph Gonzalez,Deborah Nolan

As an aspiring data scientist, you appreciate why organizations rely on data for important decisions--whether it's for companies designing websites, cities deciding how to improve services, or scientists discovering how to stop the spread of disease. And you want the skills required to distill a messy pile of data into actionable insights. We call this the data science lifecycle: the process of collecting, wrangling, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. Learning Data Science is the first book to cover foundational skills in both programming and statistics that encompass this entire lifecycle. It's aimed at those who wish to become data scientists or who already work with data scientists, and at data analysts who wish to cross the "technical/nontechnical" divide. If you have a basic knowledge of Python programming, you'll learn how to work with data using industry-standard tools like pandas. Refine a question of interest to one that can be studied with data Pursue data collection that may involve text processing, web scraping, etc. Glean valuable insights about data through data cleaning, exploration, and visualization Learn how to use modeling to describe the data Generalize findings beyond the data

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1098112954

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