Martin Rijks's Books

Migration and Health in the European Union

By: Bernd Rechel,Philipa Mladovsky,Walter Devillé,Barbara Rijks,Roumyana Petrova-Benedict,Martin McKee

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Migration and Health in the European Union

By: Bernd Rechel,Philipa Mladovsky,Walter Devillé,Barbara Rijks,Roumyana Petrova-Benedict,Martin McKee

This book can be read by anyone with an interest in migration and health, whether as an advocate for migrants´ health, as a student in a health profession, researcher or policy maker. It provides an ample orientation to the field in the European context. Among other important raised issues, it underlines an all too often neglected fact; health is a human right. By involving broad issues and problem areas from a variety of perspectives, the volume illustrates that migration and health is a field that can not be allocated to a single discipline." Carin Björngren Cuadra, Senior Lecturer, Malmö University, Sweden Migrants make up a growing share of European populations. However, all too often their situation is compounded by problems with accessing health and other basic services. There is a need for tailored health policies, but robust data on the health needs of migrants and how best these needs can be met are scarce. Written by a collaboration of authors from three key international organisations (the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the EUPHA Section on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health, and the International Organization for Migration), as well as leading researchers from across Europe, the book thoroughly explores the different aspects of migration and health in the EU and how they can be addressed by health systems. Structured into five easy-to-follow sections, the volume includes: Contributions from experts from across Europe Key topics such as: access to human rights and health care; health issues faced by migrants; and the national and European policy response so far Conclusions drawn from the latest available evidence Comprehensive information on different aspects of health and migration and how they can best be addressed by health systems is still not easy to find. This book addresses this shortfall and will be of major value to researchers, students, policy-makers and practitioners concerned with migration and health in an increasingly diverse Europe.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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The Lotus Transcendent

Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Martin Lerner,Steven Kossak

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The Lotus Transcendent

Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Martin Lerner,Steven Kossak

Authoritative commentaries on 187 Indonesian bronzes, ranging from devotional icons, to jewelry, to items created for domestic use. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870996134

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How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters)

By: Martin Gayford

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How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters)

By: Martin Gayford

Drawing on decades of conversations with practicing artists, Martin Gayford offers intimate insight into the practice, meaning, and potential of painting. Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that remains vigorously alive in the twenty-first century. Every successful painting creates a new world, which we inhabit for as long as we care to look at it. Paintings can incorporate profound ideas and paradoxes that can be grasped without words. For those who dedicate themselves to it, the art of painting can become an all-consuming, lifelong obsession. It is a subject on which painters themselves are often the most incisive commentators. Martin Gayford’s riveting and richly illustrated book deftly brings together numerous artists’ voices, past and present. It draws on a trove of conversations conducted over more than three decades with artists including Frank Auerbach, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Lucian Freud, Katharina Fritsch, David Hockney, Claudette Johnson, R. B. Kitaj, Lee Ufan, Paula Rego, Gerhard Richter, Bridget Riley, Jenny Saville, Frank Stella, Luc Tuymans, Zeng Fanzhi, and many more. Here too is Vincent van Gogh on Rembrandt, John Constable on Titian, Francis Bacon on Velázquez, Lee Krasner on Pollock, and Jean-Michel Basquiat on Picasso. We hear the personal reflections of these artists on their chosen medium; how and why they paint; how they came to the practice; the influence of fellow painters; and how they find creative sustenance and inspirationin their art. How Painting Happens crosses the centuries to give us a wealth of insights into the endlessly compelling phenomenon of painters and painting.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500779457

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The Game Maker's Companion

By: Jacob Habgood,Nana Nielsen,Kevin Crossley,Martin Rijks

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The Game Maker's Companion

By: Jacob Habgood,Nana Nielsen,Kevin Crossley,Martin Rijks

The Game Maker's Companion is the long-awaited sequel to The Game Maker's Apprentice. This book picks up where the last book left off, advancing your game development journey with some seriously impressive gaming projects. This time you'll learn how to make professional-quality platform games with solid collision detection and slick control mechanisms and you'll get acquainted with a long-lost icon of platform gaming history on the way. You'll go on to discover techniques to add depth and believability to the characters and stories in your games, including The Monomyth, cut scene storyboarding, and character archetypes. This culminates in the creation of an original atmospheric platform-adventure which will take your GML programming skills to new heights. There's even a handy reference section at the back of the book which will be invaluable for adding common features to your own games. With contributions from four games industry professionals and a highly respected member of the Game Maker community, The Game Maker's Companion is another labor of love that will give you even more hours of enjoyment than the original. If you already own Game Maker, then you really must own this book as well.

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Apress

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143022827X

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Spectacular Bodies

The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now

By: Martin Kemp,Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Martin Kemp,Marina Wallace

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Spectacular Bodies

The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now

By: Martin Kemp,Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Martin Kemp,Marina Wallace

Illustrated and with essays by Martin Kemp, Spectacular Bodies reveals a new way of seeing ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ of California Press

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European Child Health Services And Systems: Lessons Without Borders

By: Wolfe, Ingrid,McKee, Martin

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European Child Health Services And Systems: Lessons Without Borders

By: Wolfe, Ingrid,McKee, Martin

The book focuses on three key aspects of delivery of child health services: service integration and coordination, public health measures, and enhancing the quality of care for children.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335264662

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9780335264667

The Rough Guide to the Netherlands

By: Martin Dunford,Phil Lee,Suzanne Morton-Taylor

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The Rough Guide to the Netherlands

By: Martin Dunford,Phil Lee,Suzanne Morton-Taylor

The Rough Guide to the Netherlands is the definitive guide to one of Europe's most intriguing countries. You'll find insider tips on where the locals spend their time, as well as advice on how to make your money go further. This 6th edition features all-new colour photography on every region, full-colour maps as well as extended sections on van Gogh and Rembrandt, cycling and beer. The chapter on Amsterdam now makes it easier than ever to visit this buzzing, style-conscious capital while we also have detailed coverage on whiling away your hours on the blustery beaches of the country's northern islands. At every step, The Rough Guide to the Netherlands picks out the best hotels, cafés and restaurants across every price range,giving you clear, balanced reviews and honest, first-hand opinions. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to the Netherlands. Now available in ePub format.

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Health Systems, Health, Wealth And Societal Well-Being: Assessing The Case For Investing In Health Systems

Assessing the case for investing in health systems

By: McKee , Martin,Figueras , Josep,Saltman , Richard B.

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Health Systems, Health, Wealth And Societal Well-Being: Assessing The Case For Investing In Health Systems

Assessing the case for investing in health systems

By: McKee , Martin,Figueras , Josep,Saltman , Richard B.

This book argues that health systems are not, as is often believed, simply a drag on resources, but rather part and parcel of improving health and achieving better economic growth.

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0335244300

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Facets Of Public Health In Europe

By: Rechel, Bernd,McKee , Martin

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Facets Of Public Health In Europe

By: Rechel, Bernd,McKee , Martin

This book takes a broad but detailed approach to public health in Europe and offers the most comprehensive analysis of this region currently available.

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Successes And Failures Of Health Policy In Europe: Four Decades Of Divergent Trends And Converging Challenges

Four decades of divergent trends and converging challenges

By: Mackenbach, Johan,McKee, Martin

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Successes And Failures Of Health Policy In Europe: Four Decades Of Divergent Trends And Converging Challenges

Four decades of divergent trends and converging challenges

By: Mackenbach, Johan,McKee, Martin

This book will help those involved in health policy making to understand the various successes and failures of health policies around Europe and the complex choices that confront the health systems of Europe.

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Escaping Soldiers and Airmen of World War I

By: Martin W. Bowman

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Escaping Soldiers and Airmen of World War I

By: Martin W. Bowman

This thrilling new volume from Martin Bowman focusses on British, Canadian, Australian and German soldiers and airmen who were captured during the First World War. Determined that they wouldnt spend the rest of the conflict incarcerated uselessly behind bars, they endeavored to escape. These are their stories.All aspects of prison life are covered here, and the author examines the various escape tactics that were employed by British soldiers and airmen held in PoW camps all over Germany and Turkey. In order to provide a balanced account, the author has also uncovered stories of German navy and army escapees who attempted to flee from England.Each chapter is preceded by an account which explains the types of camps used in Britain and Germany, the numbers involved, the food, the camp money system for worker prisoners and a general appreciation of the conditions and chronology. Firsthand accounts from the prisoners themselves are then woven into the picture, creating an authentic sense of the PoW experience.The emphasis of this unique book is placed on the human story of the main characters, the unparalleled action on the Western Front and the interaction and camaraderie experienced between soldiers and airmen held in prison camps in England, Germany and Turkey during the Second World War.

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1473863244

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Arnhem 1944

The Airborne Battle

By: Martin Middlebrook

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Arnhem 1944

The Airborne Battle

By: Martin Middlebrook

Arnhem - it was the last major battle lost by the British Army, lost not by the men who fought there but by the overconfidence of generals, faulty planning and the failure of a relieving force given too great a task. If the operation of which Arnhem formed a part had been successful, the outcome of the war and the history of post-war Europe would have been greatly altered. Yet is it worth another book? I had fulfilled all my literary ambitions by researching and writing thirteen full-length books and was ready to retire from that laborious craft when Peter van Gorsel, head of Penguin's Dutch office, asked me to write a book on Arnhem for the fiftieth anniversary in 1994. It was the first time that my publishers had requested a book; all previous subjects had been my choice. I eventually agreed for several reasons. I had not previously researched and written about the British Army in the Second World War and had not previously done any work in Holland; so two fresh fields were opened up to me. I also felt that the fighting in and around Arnhem had still not been described in the detail that it merited.

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0429720769

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The Fine Art of Success

How Learning Great Art Can Create Great Business

By: Jamie Anderson,Jörg Reckhenrich,Martin Kupp

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The Fine Art of Success

How Learning Great Art Can Create Great Business

By: Jamie Anderson,Jörg Reckhenrich,Martin Kupp

You've read about Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner and Steve Jobs - but what can you learn about business from van Gogh and Picasso? The Fine Art of Success shows why you should look to pop-stars like Madonna or artists like Damian Hirst for guidance on innovation, competitive advantage, leadership, and a host of other business issues. Managers, marketing professionals, and students will see how these creative artists can help their organizations. Chapters include Madonna - Strategy at the dance floor; Damian Hirst - The shark is dead/How to build yourself a new market; Beuys – Understanding creativity, is every manager an artist; Picasso – Art lessons for global managers; Koons – Made in Heaven produced on eart; and Paik – Global Groove, innovation through juxtaposition. With controversial ideas, fascinating facts and memorable examples, The Fine Art of Success delivers business lessons that you'll be eager to apply.

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0470661062

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King Edward II

His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330

By: Roy Martin Haines

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King Edward II

His Life, His Reign, and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330

By: Roy Martin Haines

Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home, and constitutional wrangling, ultimately brought to an end by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron. Roy Martin Haines examines Edward II's eventful life and the more salient periods of his reign, situating the monarch in the context of the "empire" he inherited and the aftermath of his unregretted death"--Publisher's description.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773524320

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The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self

An Intellectual History of Personal Identity

By: Raymond Martin,John Barresi

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The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self

An Intellectual History of Personal Identity

By: Raymond Martin,John Barresi

This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. Paul, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne. In their coverage of the emergence of a new mechanistic conception of nature in the seventeenth century, Martin and Barresi note a shift away from religious and purely philosophical notions of self and personal identity to more scientific and social conceptions, a trend that has continued to the present day. They explore modern philosophy and psychology, including the origins of different traditions within each discipline, and explain both the theoretical relevance of feminism and gender and ethnic studies and also the ways that Derrida and other recent thinkers have challenged the very idea that a unified self or personal identity even exists. Martin and Barresi cover a number of issues broached by philosophers and psychologists, such as the existence of a fixed and unchanging self and whether the concept of the soul has a use outside of religious contexts. They address the question of whether notions of the soul and the self are still viable in today's world. Together, they reveal the fascinating ways in which great thinkers have grappled with these and other questions and the astounding impact their ideas have had on the development of self-understanding in the west.

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0231510675

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The End of Empires and a World Remade

A Global History of Decolonization

By: Martin Thomas

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The End of Empires and a World Remade

A Global History of Decolonization

By: Martin Thomas

A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalization Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became internationalized and transnational, as much global campaigns of moral disarmament against colonial injustice as local contests of arms. In this expansive history, Martin Thomas tells the story of decolonization and its intrinsic link to globalization. He traces the connections between these two transformative processes: the end of formal empire and the acceleration of global integration, market reorganization, cultural exchange, and migration. The End of Empires and a World Remade shows how profoundly decolonization shaped the process of globalization in the wake of empire collapse. In the second half of the twentieth century, decolonization catalyzed new international coalitions; it triggered partitions and wars; and it reshaped North-South dynamics. Globalization promised the decolonized greater access to essential resources, to wider networks of influence, and to worldwide audiences, but its neoliberal variant has reinforced economic inequalities and imperial forms of political and cultural influences. In surveying these two codependent histories across the world, from Latin America to Asia, Thomas explains why the deck was so heavily stacked against newly independent nations. Decolonization stands alongside the great world wars as the most transformative event of twentieth-century history. In The End of Empires and a World Remade, Thomas offers a masterful analysis of the greatest process of state-making (and empire-unmaking) in modern history.

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Princeton University Press

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0691254443

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A spin- and momentum-resolved photoemission study of strong electron correlation in Co/Cu(001)

By: Martin Ellguth

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A spin- and momentum-resolved photoemission study of strong electron correlation in Co/Cu(001)

By: Martin Ellguth

Electron correlation is an important phenomenon of solid-state physics, which is actively studied both by experimentalists for the rich material properties which result from it and by theoreticians which face a lot of open questions on the way to a succesful many-body description of electron systems where the Coulomb interaction plays an important role. Ferromagnetic cobalt is an interesting candidate for the study of electron correlation, since the exchange interaction splits the band structure into majority-spin and minority-spin bands, which differ considerably in the strength of the electron-electron interaction.Using a revolutionary, parallelized approach to spin-resolved photoemission with an efficiency 3 to 4 orders of magnitude higher than previously possible, the spin-dependent manifestations of the electron correlation are revealed in unprecedented detail, allowing for a characterization of the self energy. As an additional phenomenon of the electron correlation, unusual waterfall features, previously only observed in superconductors, occur in the photoemission spectra of cobalt. Further subjects include a comprehensive mapping of the fcc cobalt Fermi surface and an investigation of unoccupied quantum well states in ultrathin cobalt films on copper accessed by spin-resolved, non-linear photoemission. The principle of the imaging spin filter and the data analysis routine are discussed in-depth in a dedicated chapter.

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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

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3832540024

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The Rough Guide to Amsterdam

By: Martin Dunford,Jack Holland,Phil Lee

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The Rough Guide to Amsterdam

By: Martin Dunford,Jack Holland,Phil Lee

This guide features a full listing of Amsterdam's bars, brown cafes, restaurants and nightclubs, as well as accommodation to suit any traveller. There are accounts giving insight into well-known sights such as Anne Frank's house and lesser-known attractions, from Indonesian restaurants to Art-Deco hotels. There are critical listings on the best places to stay, from hostels, to houseboats to upmarket hotels. The final section of the guide includes articles on Amsterdam's history, arts and literature.

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1858288983

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Risk Analysis and Decision Processes

The Siting of Liquefied Energy Gas Facilities in Four Countries

By: H.C. Kunreuther,J. Linnerooth,J. Lathrop,H. Atz,S. Macgill,C. Mandl,Martin Schwarz,M. Thompson

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Risk Analysis and Decision Processes

The Siting of Liquefied Energy Gas Facilities in Four Countries

By: H.C. Kunreuther,J. Linnerooth,J. Lathrop,H. Atz,S. Macgill,C. Mandl,Martin Schwarz,M. Thompson

For old and new studies in decision making and risk analysis, this book should stand at tlle watershed. Studies of conflict resolution and public policy will surely now have to take account of the model investigation provided by the IIASA team, and many things will not be the same again. This is a report of inquiries into the siting of liquefied energy gas (LEG) facilities in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The risks of transporting this highly combustible stuff, and the economic benefits of being able to bring a natural energy source from one side of the globe to the other, holding it, and piping it out as needed, make LEG a model case for studying the public response to dangerous technology. The dangers of LEG are differ ent from those of nuclear power, for instance, where the response too often becomes entangled with the fear of nuclear war. The dangers of LEG include unco~trollable explosions, rather than insidious contami nation. But the degree of dangerousness is very much of the same order as that of nuclear power, and is at least as difficult to assess. In four different countries the constitutional procedures involved in obtaining approval of nuclear or LEG facilities are on record. The four case histories here are a model for comparative study of conflict resolu tion. The period over which the negotiations developed is much the same.

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The Elephantine Papyri in English

Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change

By: Porten,Farber,Martin,Vittman

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The Elephantine Papyri in English

Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change

By: Porten,Farber,Martin,Vittman

175 documents, spanning more than 3,000 years, from the ancient mounds on the island of Elephantine are translated into English here for the first time. A massive collection of papyri and ostraca, written in many scripts and tongues - including hieratic, demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Coptic and Arabic.

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9004669078

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The Rough Guide to Amsterdam Directions

By: Martin Dunford,Phil Lee

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The Rough Guide to Amsterdam Directions

By: Martin Dunford,Phil Lee

Amsterdam is one of Europe's great cities, and this guide includes the best that the Dutch city has to offer. It includes ideas such as where to go and what to see, as well as recommendations for hundreds of cafes, bars and restaurants.

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1843533065

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Northern Forested Wetlands Ecology and Management

By: Carl C. Trettin,Martin F. Jurgensen,David F. Grigal,Margaret R. Gale,John R. Jeglum

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Northern Forested Wetlands Ecology and Management

By: Carl C. Trettin,Martin F. Jurgensen,David F. Grigal,Margaret R. Gale,John R. Jeglum

Forested wetlands are a major component of northern landscapes, important both for their ecological functions and their socioeconomic values. Historically, these lands have been used for timber and fiber products, hunting, fishing, trapping, food gathering, and recreation. There are many questions about the use and management of these lands in the future, particularly with respect to forest products, hydrology and water quality, plant and wildlife ecology, landscape dynamics, and wetland restoration. Northern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management provides a synthesis of current research and literature. It examines the status, distribution, and use of these wetland resources. The book focuses on understanding the role of wetlands in the landscape and on how to manage these wetlands and sustain their important functions. This is a primary reference text for the study and management of northern forested wetlands, providing a forum for information discovered by researchers and managers from many nations.

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1566701775

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Racial Sensitivity and Multicultural Training

By: Martin Strous

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Racial Sensitivity and Multicultural Training

By: Martin Strous

Offering implications for democraticizing psychology on a global scale, this work illustrates how professional training for mental health practictioners is often inadequate on issues pertaining to race and racism. The author shows prime examples in his homeland South Africa, and focuses on how those practices reflect assumptions concerning racial superiority. Also addressed is how therapists may be influenced by prevailing ideologies, unaware of how prejudices translate into discriminatory work practices, and ignorant of the power of their own discriminatory discourses. The author also investigates how positive attitudes by counselors and therapists reflect positions related to racial sensitivity. He proposes a new model for multicultural and multiracial sensitivity training.

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031307321X

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Petrochemistry

Petrochemical Processing, Hydrocarbon Technology and Green Engineering

By: Martin Bajus

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Petrochemistry

Petrochemical Processing, Hydrocarbon Technology and Green Engineering

By: Martin Bajus

A comprehensive textbook on petrochemical conversion processes for petroleum and natural gas fractions as produced by refinery operations This innovative textbook provides essential links between the chemical sciences and chemical technology, between petrochemistry and hydrocarbon technology. The book brings alive key concepts forming the basis of chemical technology and presents a solid background for innovative process development. In all chapters, the processes described are accompanied by simplified flow schemes, encouraging students to think in terms of conceptual process designs. Petrochemistry: Petrochemical Processing, Hydrocarbon Technology and Green Engineering introduces students to a variety of topics related to the petrochemical industry, hydrocarbon processing, fossil fuel resources, as well as fuels and chemicals conversion. The first chapter covers the fundamentals and principals for designing several of the processes in the book, including discussions on thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, reactor calculations, and industrial catalysts. The following chapters address recent advances in hydrocarbon technology, energy technology, and sources of hydrocarbons. The book then goes on to discuss the petrochemical industry based on four basic pillars, all derived from petroleum and natural gas: Production of lower alkenes; other sources of lower alkenes; petrochemicals from C2-C3 alkenes Production of BTX aromatics; chemicals from BTX aromatics C1 technology Diversification of petrochemicals The growing importance of sustainable technology, process intensification and addressing greenhouse gas emissions is reflected throughout the book. Written for advanced students working in the areas of petrochemistry, hydrocarbon technology, natural gas, energy materials and technologies, alternative fuels, and recycling technologies the book is also a valuable reference for industrial practitioners in the oil and gas industry.

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1119647762

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