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Living on the Edge

The Realities of Welfare in America

By: Mark R. Rank

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Living on the Edge

The Realities of Welfare in America

By: Mark R. Rank

Based on ten years of research, the book follows individuals and families as they apply for and live on public aid and eventually leave the system. Rank's chronicle of their day-to-day experiences reveals the many sacrifices and crises that tax ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Beginning with a history of welfare from Roosevelt to Clinton, he focuses on AFDC and the Food Stamp program. He then describes the backgrounds of the recipients, their hopes for the future and attitudes toward welfare, their daily routines and problems, their work behavior, and the effect of welfare on family dynamics. Living on the Edge reveals the experiences of female-headed families, married couples, single men and women, and the elderly.

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Columbia University Press

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0231084242

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9780231084246

Toward a Livable Life

A 21st Century Agenda for Social Work

By: Mark R. Rank

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Toward a Livable Life

A 21st Century Agenda for Social Work

By: Mark R. Rank

Toward a Livable Life explores many of today's most critical issues facing both the United States and the profession of social work (i.e., poverty, inequality, disparities in health, discrimination, and several other areas). The volume enlists the insights of leading social work scholars in order to assess the causes behind these problems and identify innovative solutions.

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0190691050

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Chasing the American Dream

Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes

By: Mark R. Rank,Thomas A. Hirschl,Kirk A. Foster

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Chasing the American Dream

Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes

By: Mark R. Rank,Thomas A. Hirschl,Kirk A. Foster

In this book the authors show that the risk of economic vulnerability has been increasing substantially over the past four decades, and argue that while not unattainable, the American Dream - as we currently define it - is becoming harder to reach and harder still to keep.

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Oxford University Press

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0195377915

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Finite-Dimensional Linear Algebra

By: Mark S. Gockenbach

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Finite-Dimensional Linear Algebra

By: Mark S. Gockenbach

Linear algebra forms the basis for much of modern mathematics—theoretical, applied, and computational. Finite-Dimensional Linear Algebra provides a solid foundation for the study of advanced mathematics and discusses applications of linear algebra to such diverse areas as combinatorics, differential equations, optimization, and approximation. The author begins with an overview of the essential themes of the book: linear equations, best approximation, and diagonalization. He then takes students through an axiomatic development of vector spaces, linear operators, eigenvalues, norms, and inner products. In addition to discussing the special properties of symmetric matrices, he covers the Jordan canonical form, an important theoretical tool, and the singular value decomposition, a powerful tool for computation. The final chapters present introductions to numerical linear algebra and analysis in vector spaces, including a brief introduction to functional analysis (infinite-dimensional linear algebra). Drawing on material from the author’s own course, this textbook gives students a strong theoretical understanding of linear algebra. It offers many illustrations of how linear algebra is used throughout mathematics.

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CRC Press

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143981564X

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Confronting Poverty

Economic Hardship in the United States

By: Mark Robert Rank

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Confronting Poverty

Economic Hardship in the United States

By: Mark Robert Rank

Confronting Poverty is a text that introduces students to the dynamics of poverty and economic hardship in the U.S. It address four fundamental question: 1) What is the nature, prevalence, and characteristics of poverty; 2) Why does poverty exist; 3) What are the effects and consequences of poverty upon individuals and the wider society; and 4) How can poverty be reduced and alleviated? In clear and engaging writing, Confronting Poverty provides students with the most up-to-date research and thinking regarding American poverty and inequality. It includes the many insights of the author’s 30 years of writing and teaching on the subject. It is designed to be used as either a primary or secondary text in a wide range of courses across academic disciplines. In addition, Confronting Poverty makes use of an innovative companion website developed by the author. The focal point of the website is an interactive tool, called the Poverty Risk Calculator, that has been constructed with hundreds of thousands of case records extracted from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data set. The website also includes a discussion guide on various aspects of poverty along with many other interactive links and activities (short documentary films, video interviews and lectures, interactive data sources, research briefs, magazine and newspaper articles). Each chapter includes an on-line activity from the companion website for students to engage in, resulting in a dynamic learning experience.

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SAGE Publications

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1544358881

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Mumford-Tate Groups and Domains

Their Geometry and Arithmetic (AM-183)

By: Mark Green,Phillip A. Griffiths,Matt Kerr

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Mumford-Tate Groups and Domains

Their Geometry and Arithmetic (AM-183)

By: Mark Green,Phillip A. Griffiths,Matt Kerr

Mumford-Tate groups are the fundamental symmetry groups of Hodge theory, a subject which rests at the center of contemporary complex algebraic geometry. This book is the first comprehensive exploration of Mumford-Tate groups and domains. Containing basic theory and a wealth of new views and results, it will become an essential resource for graduate students and researchers. Although Mumford-Tate groups can be defined for general structures, their theory and use to date has mainly been in the classical case of abelian varieties. While the book does examine this area, it focuses on the nonclassical case. The general theory turns out to be very rich, such as in the unexpected connections of finite dimensional and infinite dimensional representation theory of real, semisimple Lie groups. The authors give the complete classification of Hodge representations, a topic that should become a standard in the finite-dimensional representation theory of noncompact, real, semisimple Lie groups. They also indicate that in the future, a connection seems ready to be made between Lie groups that admit discrete series representations and the study of automorphic cohomology on quotients of Mumford-Tate domains by arithmetic groups. Bringing together complex geometry, representation theory, and arithmetic, this book opens up a fresh perspective on an important subject.

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Princeton University Press

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1400842735

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Poorly Understood

What America Gets Wrong about Poverty

By: Mark Robert Rank,Lawrence M. Eppard,Heather E. Bullock

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Poorly Understood

What America Gets Wrong about Poverty

By: Mark Robert Rank,Lawrence M. Eppard,Heather E. Bullock

Work hard to get ahead; the poor are mostly minorities in inner cities living lazily off of welfare fraud; the government spends more on welfare than anywhere else in the world; America is a land of equal opportunity with easy social mobility for all. These are but a handful of the many myths about poverty in America, some of which have persisted for decades, with significant and harmful consequences on our social policy, our social compacts, and ourselves.Poorly Understood seeks to challenge and debunk these myths, along the way asking tough questions about how and why they have persisted and what it would take to replace them with true stories.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190881380

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9780190881382

Miller's Review of Orthopaedics E-Book

By: Mark D. Miller,Stephen R. Thompson

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Miller's Review of Orthopaedics E-Book

By: Mark D. Miller,Stephen R. Thompson

Miller's Review of Orthopaedics has long been considered the go-to certification and recertification review guide for every orthopaedic resident, fellow, and surgeon – and the 8th Edition has been fully revised to efficiently and effectively prepare you for exam success. Drs. Mark D. Miller and Stephen R. Thompson, along with expert contributors in the field, ensure that this bestselling review tool provides you with maximum knowledge in the least amount of time, keeping you up to date with the latest medical advances and helping you improve the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of your practice. - Contains content current in scope and emphasis for the ABOS (American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery) and OITE (Orthopaedic In-Service Training Exam), using detailed illustrations, surgical photos, and a succinct outline format. - Ensures that you spend time studying only high-yield, testable material presented in a concise, readable format, including key points, multiple-choice review questions, quick-reference tables, pathology slides, bulleted text, "testable facts" in every chapter, and more. - Includes over 750 new, detailed figures that show multiple key concepts in one figure to provide you with a full visual understanding of complex topics. Additional new figures cover important concepts such as tendinopathies, compression syndromes, wrist pathologies, rheumatoid arthritis syndromes of the hand and wrist, motor and sensory inner action of the upper extremity, and much more. - Provides video clips and short-answer questions online for easy access. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323609805

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9780323609807

The Poverty Paradox

Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity

By: Mark Robert (Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work Rank, Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in St. Louis)

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The Poverty Paradox

Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity

This book has been quite some time in the making. Across a number of years I have researched, taught, and written about poverty. In my opinion, there are few topics of greater importance. It is a dominant and disturbing feature of the American landscape. Yet despite the hundreds of books, articles, reports, and programs addressing the issue, the United States continues to have the highest rates of poverty among the wealthy countries"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190212632

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The Lover's Tongue

A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex

By: Mark Morton

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The Lover's Tongue

A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex

By: Mark Morton

This delightful book includes over 100 mini-essays explaining the origins and historical development of words in our language that pertain to love and sex. Do you know, for example, what a 78 is? Here's a hint: like the old 78 rpm records, the term refers to a man who is ... well, on the fast side! Diligently researched, The Lover's Tongue is written in a light-hearted style. A dictionary of a different kind, this book is the perfect gift for that special someone, or for the connoisseur of language and history in your life

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Insomniac Press

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1897414498

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Introduction To Matrix Theory: With Applications In Economics And Engineering (Second Edition)

By: Ferenc Szidarovszky,Sandor Molnar,Mark Molnar

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Introduction To Matrix Theory: With Applications In Economics And Engineering (Second Edition)

By: Ferenc Szidarovszky,Sandor Molnar,Mark Molnar

Linear algebra and matrix theory are among the most important and most frequently applied branches of mathematics. They are especially important in solving engineering and economic models, where either the model is assumed linear, or the nonlinear model is approximated by a linear model, and the resulting linear model is examined.This book is mainly a textbook, that covers a one semester upper division course or a two semester lower division course on the subject.The second edition will be an extended and modernized version of the first edition. We added some new theoretical topics and some new applications from fields other than economics. We also added more difficult exercises at the end of each chapter which require deep understanding of the theoretical issues. We also modernized some proofs in the theoretical discussions which give better overview of the study material. In preparing the manuscript we also corrected the typos and errors, so the second edition will be a corrected, extended and modernized new version of the first edition.

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World Scientific

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9811256667

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9789811256660

Linear Algebra

By: Elizabeth S. Meckes,Mark W. Meckes

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Linear Algebra

By: Elizabeth S. Meckes,Mark W. Meckes

Rigorous yet engaging, Linear Algebra offers a unified treatment of both matrix-oriented and theoretical approaches to the course.

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1107177901

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Stratified Morse Theory

By: Mark Goresky,Robert MacPherson

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Stratified Morse Theory

By: Mark Goresky,Robert MacPherson

Due to the lack of proper bibliographical sources stratification theory seems to be a "mysterious" subject in contemporary mathematics. This book contains a complete and elementary survey - including an extended bibliography - on stratification theory, including its historical development. Some further important topics in the book are: Morse theory, singularities, transversality theory, complex analytic varieties, Lefschetz theorems, connectivity theorems, intersection homology, complements of affine subspaces and combinatorics. The book is designed for all interested students or professionals in this area.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642717144

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9783642717147

Algebraic Shift Register Sequences

By: Mark Goresky,Andrew Klapper

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Algebraic Shift Register Sequences

By: Mark Goresky,Andrew Klapper

Describes the design, mathematical analysis and implementation of pseudo-random sequences for applications in communications, cryptography and simulations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107014999

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9781107014992

Geometry of Group Representations

Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference Held July 5-11, 1987 with Support from the National Science Foundation

By: William Mark Goldman,Andy R. Magid,American Mathematical Society

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Geometry of Group Representations

Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference Held July 5-11, 1987 with Support from the National Science Foundation

By: William Mark Goldman,Andy R. Magid,American Mathematical Society

Contains papers based on talks delivered at the AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference on the Geometry of Group Representations, held at the University of Colorado in Boulder in July 1987. This work offers an understanding of the state of research in the geometry of group representations and their applications.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821850822

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9780821850824

Digital Image Processing

An Algorithmic Introduction

By: Wilhelm Burger,Mark J. Burge

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Digital Image Processing

An Algorithmic Introduction

By: Wilhelm Burger,Mark J. Burge

This modern, self-contained textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field from the perspective of a practicing programmer, supporting a detailed presentation of the fundamental concepts and techniques with practical exercises and fully worked out implementation examples. This much-anticipated 3rd edition of the definitive textbook on Digital Image Processing has been completely revised and expanded with new content, improved illustrations and teaching material. Topics and features: Contains new chapters on fitting of geometric primitives, randomized feature detection (RANSAC), and maximally stable extremal regions (MSER). Includes exercises for most chapters and provides additional supplementary materials and software implementations at an associated website. Uses ImageJ for all examples, a widely used open source imaging environment that can run on all major platforms. Describes each solution in a stepwise manner in mathematical form, as abstract pseudocode algorithms, and as complete Java programs that can be easily ported to other programming languages. Presents suggested outlines for a one- or two-semester course in the preface. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students will find this comprehensive and example-rich textbook will serve as the ideal introduction to digital image processing. It will also prove invaluable to researchers and professionals seeking a practically focused self-study primer.

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Springer Nature

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3031057449

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9783031057441

Code Generation with Templates

By: Jeroen Arnoldus,Mark van den Brand,A. Serebrenik,J.J. Brunekreef

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Code Generation with Templates

By: Jeroen Arnoldus,Mark van den Brand,A. Serebrenik,J.J. Brunekreef

Templates are used to generate all kinds of text, including computer code. The last decade, the use of templates gained a lot of popularity due to the increase of dynamic web applications. Templates are a tool for programmers, and implementations of template engines are most times based on practical experience rather than based on a theoretical background. This book reveals the mathematical background of templates and shows interesting findings for improving the practical use of templates. First, a framework to determine the necessary computational power for the template metalanguage is presented. The template metalanguage does not need to be Turing-complete to be useful. A non-Turing-complete metalanguage enforces separation of concerns between the view and model. Second, syntactical correctness of all languages of the templates and generated code is ensured. This includes the syntactical correctness of the template metalanguage and the output language. Third, case studies show that the achieved goals are applicable in practice. It is even shown that syntactical correctness helps to prevent cross-site scripting attacks in web applications. The target audience of this book is twofold. The first group exists of researcher interested in the mathematical background of templates. The second group exists of users of templates. This includes designers of template engines on one side and programmers and web designers using templates on the other side

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9491216562

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9789491216565

The Random Factor

How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us

By: Prof. Mark Robert Rank

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The Random Factor

How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us

By: Prof. Mark Robert Rank

Upending notions of predictability and rugged individualism to reveal how truly random the world is. It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies. The Random Factor traverses luck from macro to micro, from events like the Cuban Missile Crisis to our personal encounters and relationships. From his perspective as a scholar of poverty, Rank also delves into the class and race dynamics of chance, emphasizing the stark disparities it brings to light. This transformative book prompts a new understanding of the twists and turns in our daily lives and encourages readers to fully appreciate the surprising world of randomness in which we live.

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Univ of California Press

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0520390970

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9780520390973

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