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Applied Science

By: Ken Gadd

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A brand new full colour student resource that precisely matches the new GCSE Double Award specifications and encapsulates the distinctive teaching and learning styles of this new qualification. Highly accessible text design allows students to 'dip in and out' for information, as and when they need it, and to progress with ease through the course.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748770445

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GCSE Applied Science Double Award

By: Ken Gadd

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GCSE Applied Science Double Award

By: Ken Gadd

Board-specific Teacher Support Packs provide advice and assistance on how to approach this new qualification. This Pack is appropriate for AQA and includes information on how to prepare students for external assessment and how to assist them in preparing their portfolios.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748771999

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9780748771998

Texturing and Modeling

A Procedural Approach

By: David S. Ebert,F. Kenton Musgrave,Darwyn Peachey,Ken Perlin,Steve Worley

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Texturing and Modeling

A Procedural Approach

By: David S. Ebert,F. Kenton Musgrave,Darwyn Peachey,Ken Perlin,Steve Worley

The third edition of this classic tutorial and reference on procedural texturing and modeling is thoroughly updated to meet the needs of today's 3D graphics professionals and students. New for this edition are chapters devoted to real-time issues, cellular texturing, geometric instancing, hardware acceleration, futuristic environments, and virtual universes. In addition, the familiar authoritative chapters on which readers have come to rely contain all-new material covering L-systems, particle systems, scene graphs, spot geometry, bump mapping, cloud modeling, and noise improvements. There are many new spectacular color images to enjoy, especially in this edition's full-color format. As in the previous editions, the authors, who are the creators of the methods they discuss, provide extensive, practical explanations of widely accepted techniques as well as insights into designing new ones. New to the third edition are chapters by two well-known contributors: Bill Mark of NVIDIA and John Hart of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on state-of-the-art topics not covered in former editions. An accompanying Web site (www.texturingandmodeling.com) contains all of the book's sample code in C code segments (all updated to the ANSI C Standard) or in RenderMan shading language, plus files of many magnificent full-color illustrations. No other book on the market contains the breadth of theoretical and practical information necessary for applying procedural methods. More than ever, Texturing & Modeling remains the chosen resource for professionals and advanced students in computer graphics and animation. *New chapters on: procedural real-time shading by Bill Mark, procedural geometric instancing and real-time solid texturing by John Hart, hardware acceleration strategies by David Ebert, cellular texturing by Steven Worley, and procedural planets and virtual universes by Ken Musgrave. *New material on Perlin Noise by Ken Perlin. *Printed in full color throughout. *Companion Web site contains revised sample code and dozens of images.

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Elsevier

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0080518753

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9780080518756

Beyond Donkey Kong

A History of Nintendo Arcade Games

By: Ken Horowitz

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Beyond Donkey Kong

A History of Nintendo Arcade Games

By: Ken Horowitz

Before the enormously successful NES console changed the video game landscape in the 1980s, Nintendo became famous for producing legendary arcade machines like Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. Drawing on original interviews, news reports and other documents, this book traces Nintendo's rise from a small business that made playing cards to the top name in the arcade industry. Twenty-eight game titles are examined in-depth, along with the people and events that defined the company for more than four decades.

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McFarland

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1476641765

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Education for All

The Future of Education and Training for 14-19 Year-Olds

By: Richard Pring,Geoffrey Hayward,Ann Hodgson,Jill Johnson,Ewart Keep,Alis Oancea,Gareth Rees,Ken Spours,Stephanie Wilde

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Education for All

The Future of Education and Training for 14-19 Year-Olds

By: Richard Pring,Geoffrey Hayward,Ann Hodgson,Jill Johnson,Ewart Keep,Alis Oancea,Gareth Rees,Ken Spours,Stephanie Wilde

There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or attainment: What counts as an educated 19 year old today? Are the models of education we have inherited from the past sufficient to meet the needs of all young people, as well as the social and economic needs of the wider community? Education for All addresses these questions in the light of evidence collected over five years by the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training: the most rigorous investigation of every aspect of this key educational phase for decades. Written by the co-directors of the Nuffield Review, Education for All provides a critical, comprehensive and thoroughly readable overview of 14-19 education and training and makes suggestions for the kind of education and training that should be provided over the coming decade and beyond. The authors acknowledge that much has been achieved by the respective governments – massive investment in resources; closer collaboration between schools, colleges, training providers, voluntary agencies and employers; recognition and promotion of a wider range of qualifications. They are also optimistic about the good things that are going on in many secondary classrooms – enormous amounts of creativity; courageous efforts to meet problems; a deep concern and caring for many young people otherwise deprived of hope and opportunity. But they argue for a radical reshaping of the future in the light of a broader vision of education – a greater respect for more practical and active learning; a system of assessment which supports rather than impoverishes learning; respect for the professional expertise of the teacher; a more unified system of qualifications ensuring progression into higher education and employment; the creation of strongly collaborative and local learning systems; and a more reflective and participative approach to policy. Education for All should be read by everyone working in – or with an interest in – secondary-level education in England and Wales and beyond.

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256

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Routledge

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1135257892

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9781135257897

Criminology

A Sociological Introduction

By: Eamonn Carrabine,Pamela Cox,Nigel South,Maggy Lee,Ken Plummer,Jackie Turton

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Criminology

A Sociological Introduction

By: Eamonn Carrabine,Pamela Cox,Nigel South,Maggy Lee,Ken Plummer,Jackie Turton

The new edition of Criminology: A Sociological Introduction builds on the success of the first edition and now includes two new chapters: Crime, Place and Space, and Histories of Crime. More than a collection of orthodox thinking, this fully revised and updated textbook is also ground in original research, and offers a clear and insightful introduction to the key topics studied in undergraduate criminology courses, including crime trends, from historical overview to recent crime patterns criminal justice system, including policing and prisons ways of thinking about crime and control, from the origins of criminology to contemporary theories research methods used by criminologists new topics within criminology including terrorism, cybercrime, human rights, and emotion The book is packed with contemporary international case studies and has a lively 2 colour text design to aid student revision. Specially designed to be accessible and user-friendly, the new edition is also supported by a fully interactive companion website which offers exclusive access to British Crime Survey data, as well as other student and lecturer resources.

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Routledge

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1134040563

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9781134040568

Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism 2010-2011

By: Ken Siri,Tony Lyons

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Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism 2010-2011

By: Ken Siri,Tony Lyons

Collects the latest information on autism research, therapies, evaluations, and treatment centers.

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1616080256

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9781616080259

Unconditional Education

Supporting Schools to Serve All Students

By: Robin L. Detterman,Jenny A. Ventura,Lihi L. Rosenthal,Ken Berrick

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Unconditional Education

Supporting Schools to Serve All Students

By: Robin L. Detterman,Jenny A. Ventura,Lihi L. Rosenthal,Ken Berrick

Unconditional Education outlines an approach by which schools serve students through the integration of special education, general education, and mental health systems. In building the capacity of their communities, schools can meet the needs of their most marginalized students and create inclusive environments in which all students have the opportunity to thrive.

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019088651X

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Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism 2011-2012

By: Ken Siri,Tony Lyons

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Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism 2011-2012

By: Ken Siri,Tony Lyons

The parents of children with autism know that research is a full-time job. For parents with limited time, ability, or resources to do this, Ken Siri and Tony Lyons have compiled the latest in autism research and treatment. Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism contains contributions from more than eighty experts on a variety of therapies, models, and multifaceted evaluation and treatment centers. Each contributor provides readers with an easy-to-understand description of the topic, including its scientific rationale, development, risks, and benefits. Siri and Lyons include the therapies of the future, focusing on current clinical trials, ongoing research, and the researchers who are striving to better understand autism and find new treatments. Revised and updated to reflect the new developments in the last year, the 2011–2012 edition explains possible causes of autism, including food allergies and gastrointestinal diseases in children. An extensive variety of therapies is discussed, from dietary interventions that reduce sugars and remove gluten to animal assisted therapies that place a dog or cat in the care of the autistic individual to help enhance social and developmental skills. Filled with numerous case studies and more than seventy distinct subjects, Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism is a detailed and informative guide for anyone affected by autism.

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Simon and Schuster

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1626367825

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9781626367821

Private Warriors

By: Ken Silverstein,Daniel Burton-Rose

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Private Warriors

By: Ken Silverstein,Daniel Burton-Rose

Widely-researched and fast-paced, Private Warriors surveys the generals, gun-runners and national security staffers who were cast adrift at the end of the Cold War and who now operate in the private sector. In these pages we encounter Ernst Werner Glatt, a right-wing German who was for many years the Pentagon's preferred gun-runner; ex-Secretary of State Alexander Haig who now lobbies for China and assists in selling weapons to Turkey; and Frank Gaffney, an ex-Pentagon official who has grown rich by promoting the biggest boondoggle of them all, Star Wars. Today's private warriors have a direct financial interest in war and the connections to push for the maintenance of bloated military budgets.

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Verso

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1859843255

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9781859843253

Death and the Maiden

Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology

By: Ken Dowden

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Death and the Maiden

Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology

By: Ken Dowden

A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins – slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees, and punished in Hades. Death and the Maiden, first published in 1989, contextualises this mythology in terms of geography, history and culture, and offers a comprehensive theory firmly grounded in an ubiquitous ritual: pubescent girls’ rites of passage. By means of comparative anthropology, it is argued that many local ceremonies are echoed throughout the whole range of myths, both famous and obscure. Further, Professor Dowden examines boys’ rites, as well as the renewal of entire communities at regular intervals. The first full-length work in English devoted to passage-rites in Greek myth, Death and the Maiden is an important contribution to the exciting developments in the study of the interrelation between myth and ritual: from it an innovative view on the origination of many Greek myths emerges.

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Routledge

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1317745450

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Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism

Fully Updated Edition

By: Tony Lyons,Ken Siri

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Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism

Fully Updated Edition

By: Tony Lyons,Ken Siri

Collects the latest information on autism research, therapies, evaluations, and treatment centers.

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1616085088

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Starting Over

The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy

By: Ken Sharp

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Starting Over

The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy

By: Ken Sharp

Oral history of the making of Double Fantasy and account of Lennon's last days.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439103011

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9781439103012

Soil Ecology

By: Ken Killham

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Soil Ecology

By: Ken Killham

Soil Ecology is an exciting textbook for all those concerned with the environment. The author meets the increasing challenge faced by environmental scientists, ecologists, agriculturalists and biotechnologists for an integrated approach to soil ecology. Intellectually enticing and yet eminently readable, the book sets out both fundamental theory and principle to give the reader a thorough grounding in soil ecology. The author emphasises the interrelations between plants, animals and microbes. The fundamental physical and chemical properties of the soil habitat are clearly set out, enabling the reader to explore and understand the processes of soil nutrient cycling and the ecology of extreme soil environments. The book will appeal to advanced undergraduates and graduates in environmental science, plant science, ecology, microbiology and agriculture.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521435218

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9780521435215

The Peel Sessions

A story of teenage dreams and one man's love of new music

By: Ken Garner

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The Peel Sessions

A story of teenage dreams and one man's love of new music

By: Ken Garner

This is a story of teenage dreams, which, as any Peel fan knows, are hard to beat. Between 1967 and 2004 John Peel picked over 2000 bands to come and record over 4000 sessions to be played on his radio show. Many were young and had never been in a recording studio before, for some it was the start of an illustrious career, for others it was the only recognition their musical talent ever got. For over 35 years the cream of British musical talent made the journey to the BBC's studio in Maida Vale, from Pink Floyd to Pulp, the Small Faces to the Smiths. And because John Peel was so respected his sessions took on a legendary status - they were a rite of passage that every new band wanted to go through. Unfettered by commerical pressure the Peel Sessions were a unique British institution - an archive of music that reflects one man's passion for finding and encouraging new music. Includes a full sessionography listing songs, band members and broadcast dates. Jarvis Cocker writing about his first Peel Session aged 18 (Wayne the drummer was 15): 'We travelled down to Maida Vale in a van driven by a very strange man we'd contacted via a card pinned to the Virgin record shop noticeboard. We'd had to borrow lots of equipment from a band called The Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor 'cause we didn't have enough stuff of our own. The session was to be produced by Dale Griffin, who used to be the drummer in Mott the Hoople; I seem to remember that he was wearing cowboy boots. I think the crisis point came when Wayne was attempting to get a home-made synth-drum to work that a friend of his at school had made out of a rubber burglar-alarm mat and an old electronic calculator - Dale Griffin looked at this 15-year-old kid crouching on the floor bashing what looked like a doormat with some wires coming out of it and just put his head in his hands. But to his credit, the session did get finished and after it, everything else started for me...

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Random House

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1409074838

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9781409074830

Bloody Roar

Primal Fury Official Strategy Guide

By: Ken Schmidt

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Bloody Roar

Primal Fury Official Strategy Guide

By: Ken Schmidt

BradyGames Bloody Roar: Primal Fury Official Strategy Guide features advanced strategies for all characters, including the two unlockable fighters, and each alternate hyper-beast. Comprehensive lists of attack moves and combos for each character are also provided. Single player and multiplayer coverage for all modes of play, including hidden modes. Game secrets revealed!

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074400165X

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9780744001655

Chemistry

By: Ken Gadd,Steve Gurr

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Chemistry

By: Ken Gadd,Steve Gurr

This text takes an applications approach to A-level Chemistry, placing the subject firmly in its economic and social contexts. The syllabus is delivered from the point of view of chemists working in society today.

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