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The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation

By: Ann Crabb,Pieter Leroy

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The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation

By: Ann Crabb,Pieter Leroy

Policy evaluation is an important and well-established part of the policy process, facilitating and feeding back to promote the ongoing effectiveness of policies that have been implemented or anticipating policies in the making. Environmental policy is a special case, presenting new complexities uncommon to other areas, which standard evaluation tools are ill-equipped to grapple with. It is also an area that is experiencing rapid growth throughout the world and knowledge is now needed at all levels of government and in NGOs, businesses and other organizations, all of whom are required to assess the effectiveness of their policies.This handbook is the first guide to environmental policy evaluation in practice. Beginning with an introduction to the general principles of evaluation, it explains the particular complexities native to the environmental sphere and provides a comprehensive toolkit of evaluation methods and techniques which the practitioner can employ and refer to again and again. The authors also consider design issues which may face the policy evaluator, including involvement of stakeholders, the sensitivities between them, the a priori assessment of the evaluability of a field, the maximization of the utilization of the evaluations outcomes, and much more. Throughout, the theory is illustrated with practical examples from around the world, making this the essential companion guide for anyone tasked with ensuring that environmental policy fulfils its aims and achieves its potential.

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1849773076

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A Part Hate, A Part Love

The Legend of Evita Bezuidenhout

By: Pieter-Dirk Uys

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A Part Hate, A Part Love

The Legend of Evita Bezuidenhout

By: Pieter-Dirk Uys

Evita Bezuidenhout, still regarded as the most famous white woman in South Africa, was born Evangelie Poggenpoel of humble Boer origins in the dusty Orange Free State town of Bethlehem on 28 September 1935. Illegitimate, imaginative, pretty and ambitious, she dreamt of Hollywood fame and fortune, tasting stardom in such 50s Afrikaner film classics as 'Boggel en die Akkedis' (Hunchback and the Lizard), 'Meisie van my Drome' (Girl of my Dreams) and 'Duiwelsvallei' (Devil's Valley). She married into the political Bezuidenhout Dynasty and became the demure wife of NP Member of Parliament Dr J.J. De V. Bezuidenhout and the proud mother of De Kock, Izan and Billie-Jeanne. Power became her addiction. She wielded it in the boardroom, the kitchen and round the dinner table, becoming confidante to the flawed gods on the Boer Olympus and so shaping the course of history with her close and often unbelievable relationships with the grim-faced leaders of the day: Dr H.F. Verwoerd, B.J. Vorster, P.W. Botha and F.W. de Klerk. Hand in hand with the glamorous Evita of Pretoria was the Tallyrand of Africa, Pik Botha, her ageing Romeo and constant friend, while watching her from afar as she watched him, Nelson R. Mandela, alive today thanks to her timely interventions. Satirical, provocative, radical and humorous, A Part Hate A Part Love will have you rolling on the floor one minute and weeping the next.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1770225145

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Economic Capital

How It Works, and What Every Manager Needs to Know

By: Pieter Klaassen,Idzard van Eeghen

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Economic Capital

How It Works, and What Every Manager Needs to Know

By: Pieter Klaassen,Idzard van Eeghen

Managers can deploy and manage economic capital more effectively when they understand how their decisions add value to their organizations. Economic Capital: How It Works and What Every Manager Needs to Know presents new ways to define, measure, and implement management strategies by using recent examples, many from the sub-prime crisis. The authors also discuss the role of economic capital within the broader context of management responsibilities and activities as well as its relation to other risk management tools that are available to the modern risk manager. - Explains ways to use economic capital in balancing risk and return - Evaluates solutions to problems encountered in establishing an economic capital framework - Emphasizes intuition - Draws special attention to embedding risk modelling approaches within economic capital frameworks

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Elsevier

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0080956807

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Semantic Syntax

Second Revised Edition

By: Pieter Seuren

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Semantic Syntax

Second Revised Edition

By: Pieter Seuren

This book is the first and so far only formally precise machinery converting well-motivated semantic sentence representations into actual sentences of English, French, German and Dutch. It focuses on the auxiliary and complementation systems of the languages concerned.

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BRILL

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9004354298

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9789004354296

Practical Methods in Molecular Biology

By: Robert F. Schleif,Pieter C. Wensink

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Practical Methods in Molecular Biology

By: Robert F. Schleif,Pieter C. Wensink

This volume has evolved from a laboratory methods book that one of us first compiled nearly fifteen years ago. Since that time the book has undergone many minor revisions in order to include new methods and updated versions of older methods. The result has been an increasingly useful and more widely circulated book. However, the recent series of technological explosions generally lumped together under the name of "recombinant DNA technology" has been a turning point in the evolution of this previously underground publication. Minor revisions will no longer do. To keep the book useful we have had to make major revi sions and additions. The result is a dramatically expanded book that should be more useful to more people. The larger size and wider usefulness of the book have made this more formal publication seem a reasonable step to take. One of the reasons that this volume should be useful to many people is that it includes only procedures that have been used repeatedly by us and that have proven highly reliable both to ourselves and to others in our laboratories.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461259568

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Manual of Cultivated Conifers

hardy in the cold- and warm-temperature zone

By: Pieter den Ouden,Boudewijn Karel Boom

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Manual of Cultivated Conifers

hardy in the cold- and warm-temperature zone

By: Pieter den Ouden,Boudewijn Karel Boom

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9024721482

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Antenatal Consults: a Guide for Neonatologists and Paediatricians

By: Mark Davies,Senior Lecturer Mark Davies, Dr,Garry Inglis,Luke Jardine,Pieter Koorts

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Antenatal Consults: a Guide for Neonatologists and Paediatricians

By: Mark Davies,Senior Lecturer Mark Davies, Dr,Garry Inglis,Luke Jardine,Pieter Koorts

2013 BMA Medical Book Awards Highly Commended in Paediatrics An essential resource, covering possible problems expected at birth and common facets of antenatal consultations. Antenatal Consults: A guide for neonatologists and paediatricians is a logically ordered and highly illustrated medical resource, essential for anyone involved in antenatal care. This important book informs the multidisciplinary team - from obstetricians and maternity staff through to materno-foetal medicine specialists and, of course, paediatric and OBGYN trainees. Featuring contributions from leading neonatal specialists in Australia, the book's authoritative contents help arm antenatal staff with advice, information and examples of how to best counsel parents expecting a foetus at risk. With over 50 informative, concise chapters, Antenatal Consults addresses numerous possible problems expected at birth - the most common reasons for an antenatal consultation - combined with advice on how to manage them. These include maternal disorders that may affect the foetus; babies delivering prematurely or with a severe growth restriction; babies with a significant abnormality such as congenital heart disease, spina bifida or gastroschisis; and babies with a skeletal issue, a cleft palate or renal tract problem. Antenatal Consults: A guide for neonatologists and paediatricians is also useful to midwifery, nursing and allied health staff that care for mothers and babies.

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Elsevier Australia

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0729541088

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The Legacy of Nazi Occupation

Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945–1965

By: Pieter Lagrou

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The Legacy of Nazi Occupation

Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945–1965

By: Pieter Lagrou

This volume, in Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series, examines how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the military collapse and humiliating Nazi occupation they suffered during the Second World War. Rather than traditional armed conflict, the human consequences of Nazi policies were resistance, genocide and labour migration to Germany. Pieter Lagrou offers a genuinely comparative approach to these issues, based on extensive archival research; he underlines the divergence between ambiguous experiences of occupation and the univocal post-war patriotic narratives which followed. His book reveals striking differences in political cultures as well as close convergence in the creation of a common Western European discourse, and uncovers disturbing aspects of the aftermath of the war, including post-war antisemitism and the marginalisation of resistance veterans. Brilliantly researched and fluently written, this book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139431471

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The Personalized Medicine Revolution

How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

By: Pieter Cullis

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The Personalized Medicine Revolution

How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever

By: Pieter Cullis

Cullis argues that personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is the biggest revolution of our time. By replacing the current one-size-fits-all approach to medicine with medical treatment based on a patient's unique molecular makeup, personalized medicine will radically change the role of doctors and patients and even the future of our species. Increasingly, instead of focusing on the treatment of chronic diseases, as they do today, doctors will focus on helping people prevent disease"--Amazon.com.

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Greystone Books Ltd

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1771640383

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Environmental Policy in an International Context

Prospects for Environmental Change

By: Andrew Blowers,Pieter Glasbergen

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Environmental Policy in an International Context

Prospects for Environmental Change

By: Andrew Blowers,Pieter Glasbergen

This volume examines the environmental issues currently under debate in the international arena. The text approaches the topic at a conceptual level, and from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. It analyses the roles of key players in environmental policy, the nation state, non-governmental organizations and the business community. It continues with an examination of the importance of international relations (trade, east, west, north, south), and goes on to consider the prospects for sustainable development and social changes required for sustainable development to become a reality.

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0080531156

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Lambda Calculus with Types

By: Hendrik Pieter Barendregt,Wil Dekkers,Richard Statman

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Lambda Calculus with Types

By: Hendrik Pieter Barendregt,Wil Dekkers,Richard Statman

This handbook with exercises reveals the mathematical beauty of formalisms hitherto mostly used for software and hardware design and verification.

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0521766141

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Silent Women

Pioneers of Cinema

By: Kevin Brownlow,Shelley Stamp,Bryony Dixon,Karen Day,Maria Giese,Tania Field,Francesca Stephens,Ellen Cheshire,K. Charlie Oughton,Patricia di Risio,Pieter Aquilia,Julie K Allen,Aimee Dixon Anthony

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Silent Women

Pioneers of Cinema

By: Kevin Brownlow,Shelley Stamp,Bryony Dixon,Karen Day,Maria Giese,Tania Field,Francesca Stephens,Ellen Cheshire,K. Charlie Oughton,Patricia di Risio,Pieter Aquilia,Julie K Allen,Aimee Dixon Anthony

The first ever overview of women's contributions to the dawn of cinema looking at a variety of roles from writers and directors to film editors and critics. Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working behind the scenes in film been rendered invisible and silent for so long? Silent Women, pioneers of cinema explores the incredible contribution of women at the dawn of cinema when, surprisingly, more women were employed across the board in the film industry than they are now. It also looks at how women helped to shape the content, style of acting and development of the movie business in their roles as actors, writers, editors, cinematographers, directors and producers. In addition, we describe how women engaged with and influenced the development of cinema in their roles as audience, critics, fans, reviewers, journalists and the arbiters of morality in films. And finally, we ask when the current discrimination and male domination of the industry will give way to allow more women access to the top jobs. In addition to its historical focus on women working in film during the silent film era, the term silent also refers to the silencing and eradication of the enormous contribution that women have made to the development of the motion picture industry. “The surprise of the essays collected here is their sheer volume in every corner of a business apparently better able to accommodate female talent then than now..” Danny Leigh, Financial Times, July 2016 “ It's a fascinating journey into the untold history of a largely lost era of film..” Greg Jameson, Entertainment Focus, March 2016 "This book shows how women's voices were heard and helped create the golden age of silent cinema, how those voices were almost eradicated by the male-dominated film industry, and perhaps points the way to an all-inclusive future for global cinema..” Paul Duncan, Film Historian “Inspirational and informative, Silent Women will challenge many people's ideas about the beginnings of film history. This fascinating book roams widely across the era and the diverse achievements and voices of women in the film industry. These are the stories of pioneers, trailblazers and collaborators - hugely enjoyable to read and vitally important to publish.” Pamela Hutchinson, Silent London “Every page begs the question - how on earth did these amazing women vanish from history in the first place? I defy anyone interested in cinema history not to find this valuable compendium a must-read. It's also a call to arms for more research into women's contribution and an affirmation of just how rewarding the detective work can be.” Laraine Porter, Co-Artistic Director of British Silent Film Festival “An authoritative and illuminating work, it also lends a pervasive voice to the argument that discrimination and not talent is the barrier to so few women occupying the most prominent roles within the industry." Jason Wood, Author and Visiting Professor at MMU “I was amazed to discover just how crucially they were involved from not just in front of the camera but in producing, directing, editing and much, much more. An essential read.” Neil McGlone. The Criterion Collection

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Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.

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0993220703

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9780993220708

Between the Devil and the Deep

A Memoir of Acting and Reacting

By: Pieter-Dirk Uys

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Between the Devil and the Deep

A Memoir of Acting and Reacting

By: Pieter-Dirk Uys

‘”Adapt or die!” PW Botha spat out at us from the television news. And so the new show was called Adapt or Dye.’ The comedy of Pieter-Dirk Uys has been with us for as long as we can remember. In this funny, witty and poignant memoir, he takes us on a journey through his life in the theatre - and the theatre in his life. We follow him from his early years as a stage manager and actor at The Space Theatre, via his ridiculous brushes with censorship, to the political satires that made him famous. Uys explains how his alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, came into being, as well as the other members of her extraordinary family. He takes us onto the film shoot of Skating on Thin Uys, into an interview with Nelson Mandela, and onto the stages of the world. We journey from the fictitious fun of Bapetikosweti, to the seriousness of his AIDS-awareness presentations at schools, to the quirky comfort of Evita se Perron in Darling. Illustrated with scenes from his plays and revues, the book will leave you feeling as if you’ve just seen a Pieter-Dirk Uys show: with lots of laughter, a bit of anger, and utter amazement at how this man (or woman) just keeps doing it.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1770221956

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Chomsky's Minimalism

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

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Chomsky's Minimalism

By: Pieter A. M. Seuren

Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement. Minimalism has spawned in linguistics an entire research program, despite being fundamentally misguided, according to distinguished linguist and philosopher of language Pieter Seuren. Seuren's accessible and spirited attack argues that the Minimalist Program is deeply flawed. Seuren points to the original acrimonious split in the 1960s and 1970s between Chomsky's generative grammar and the alternative generative semantics proposed by his followers, and argues that the latter theory was sounder and unfairly suppressed. Seuren maintains that this suppression, and the cult surrounding Chomsky and Minimalism more generally, has done great damage to linguistics by impairing open discussion of empirical issues and excluding valid alternatives.

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Oxford University Press

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0195173066

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Jews and Christians in Their Graeco-Roman Context

Selected Essays on Early Judaism, Samaritanism, Hellenism, and Christianity

By: Pieter Willem van der Horst

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Jews and Christians in Their Graeco-Roman Context

Selected Essays on Early Judaism, Samaritanism, Hellenism, and Christianity

By: Pieter Willem van der Horst

A collection of essays, most of which were published previously. Partial contents:

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161488512

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Types for Proofs and Programs

International Workshop TYPES '93, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 24 - 28, 1993. Selected Papers

By: Hendrik Pieter Barendregt,Tobias Nipkow

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Types for Proofs and Programs

International Workshop TYPES '93, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 24 - 28, 1993. Selected Papers

By: Hendrik Pieter Barendregt,Tobias Nipkow

This volume contains thoroughly refereed and revised full papers selected from the presentations at the first workshop held under the auspices of the ESPRIT Basic Research Action 6453 Types for Proofs and Programs in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in May 1993. As the whole ESPRIT BRA 6453, this volume is devoted to the theoretical foundations, design and applications of systems for theory development. Such systems help in designing mathematical axiomatisation, performing computer-aided logical reasoning, and managing databases of mathematical facts; they are also known as proof assistants or proof checkers.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540580859

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9783540580850

Applied Multiway Data Analysis

By: Pieter M. Kroonenberg

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Applied Multiway Data Analysis

By: Pieter M. Kroonenberg

From a preeminent authority—a modern and applied treatment of multiway data analysis This groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to present methods for analyzing multiway data by applying multiway component techniques. Multiway analysis is a specialized branch of the larger field of multivariate statistics that extends the standard methods for two-way data, such as component analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, correspondence analysis, and multidimensional scaling to multiway data. Applied Multiway Data Analysis presents a unique, thorough, and authoritative treatment of this relatively new and emerging approach to data analysis that is applicable across a range of fields, from the social and behavioral sciences to agriculture, environmental sciences, and chemistry. General introductions to multiway data types, methods, and estimation procedures are provided in addition to detailed explanations and advice for readers who would like to learn more about applying multiway methods. Using carefully laid out examples and engaging applications, the book begins with an introductory chapter that serves as a general overview of multiway analysis, including the types of problems it can address. Next, the process of setting up, carrying out, and evaluating multiway analyses is discussed along with commonly encountered issues, such as preprocessing, missing data, model and dimensionality selection, postprocessing, and transformation, as well as robustness and stability issues. Extensive examples are presented within a unified framework consisting of a five-step structure: objectives; data description and design; model and dimensionality selection; results and their interpretation; and validation. Procedures featured in the book are conducted using 3WayPack, which is software developed by the author, and analyses can also be carried out within the R and MATLAB systems. Several data sets and 3WayPack can be downloaded via the book's related Web site. The author presents the material in a clear, accessible style without unnecessary or complex formalism, assuring a smooth transition from well-known standard two-analysis to multiway analysis for readers from a wide range of backgrounds. An understanding of linear algebra, statistics, and principal component analyses and related techniques is assumed, though the author makes an effort to keep the presentation at a conceptual, rather than mathematical, level wherever possible. Applied Multiway Data Analysis is an excellent supplement for component analysis and statistical multivariate analysis courses at the upper-undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. The book can also serve as a primary reference for statisticians, data analysts, methodologists, applied mathematicians, and social science researchers working in academia or industry. Visit the Related Website: http://three-mode.leidenuniv.nl/, to view data from the book.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470237996

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9780470237991

Human Osteology

By: Tim D. White,Michael T. Black,Pieter A. Folkens

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Human Osteology

By: Tim D. White,Michael T. Black,Pieter A. Folkens

A classic in its field, Human Osteology has been used by students and professionals through nearly two decades. Now revised and updated for a third edition, the book continues to build on its foundation of detailed photographs and practical real-world application of science. New information, expanded coverage of existing chapters, and additional supportive photographs keep this book current and valuable for both classroom and field work. Osteologists, archaeologists, anatomists, forensic scientists and paleontologists will all find practical information on accurately identifying, recovering, and analyzing and reporting on human skeletal remains and on making correct deductions from those remains. - From the world renowned and bestselling team of osteologist Tim D. White, Michael T. Black and photographer Pieter A. Folkens - Includes hundreds of exceptional photographs in exquisite detail showing the maximum amount of anatomical information - Features updated and expanded coverage including forensic damage to bone and updated case study examples - Presents life sized images of skeletal parts for ease of study and reference

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Academic Press

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0080920853

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9780080920856

The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation

By: Ann Crabb,Pieter Leroy

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The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation

By: Ann Crabb,Pieter Leroy

The broadening field of environmental policy is in great need of evaluation and this handbook will be a most welcome timely and useful tool for this mission. Evert Vedung professor emeritus of political science Uppsala University Policy evaluation is an important and well-established part of the policy process facilitating and feeding back to promote the ongoing effectiveness of policies that have been implemented or anticipating policies in the making. Environmental policy is a special case presenting new complexities uncommon to other areas which standard evaluation tools are ill-equipped.

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