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Coyotes Go to Heaven

A Biographical Account of F. Robert Henderson and Karen Lee Henderson 1933 – 2016

By: F. Robert Henderson

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Coyotes Go to Heaven

A Biographical Account of F. Robert Henderson and Karen Lee Henderson 1933 – 2016

By: F. Robert Henderson

This book has several subjects. The main one is about the long history of man's efforts to reduce livestock losses involving coyotes. The evolution of thinking and the influence of a educational program in Kansas brought about changes and resulted in the work of one man that helped change the thinking nation wide. The book also is about the lives of Karen Lee (Hollinger) and F. Robert Henderson. Their marriage has spanned more than 58 years. The book contains stories of happenings along the way. Our storied past in South Dakota, includes historical details of the most endangered mammal species in North America; the Black-footed Ferret. The book, also, contains a Kansas historical information about 4-H and other youth eduction programs about ecology and the environment. First of their kind in the Great Plains.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514425637

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9781514425633

On Social Structure and Science

By: Robert K. Merton

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On Social Structure and Science

By: Robert K. Merton

Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field, Merton is best known for introducing such concepts and procedures as unanticipated consequences, self-fulfilling prophecies, focused group interviews, middle-range theory, opportunity structure, and analytic paradigms. This definitive compilation encompasses the breadth and brilliance of his works, from the earliest to the most recent. Merton's foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge, and on the discipline and trajectory of sociology itself are all powerfully represented, as are his autobiographical insights in a fascinating coda. Anchored by Piotr Sztompka's contextualizing introduction, Merton's vast oeuvre emerges as a dynamic and profoundly coherent system of thought, a constant source of vitality and renewal for present and future sociology.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226520714

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9780226520711

Stand, Columbia

A History of Columbia University

By: Robert McCaughey

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Stand, Columbia

A History of Columbia University

By: Robert McCaughey

Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide. "Stand, Columbia!" by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904) Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's oldest and most formidable educational institutions, this comprehensive history of Columbia University extends from the earliest discussions in 1704 about New York City being "a fit Place for a colledge" to the recent inauguration of president Lee Bollinger, the nineteenth, on Morningside Heights. One of the original "Colonial Nine" schools, Columbia's distinctive history has been intertwined with the history of New York City. Located first in lower Manhattan, then in midtown, and now in Morningside Heights, Columbia's national and international stature have been inextricably identified with its urban setting. Columbia was the first of America's "multiversities," moving beyond its original character as a college dedicated to undergraduate instruction to offer a comprehensive program in professional and graduate studies. Medicine, law, architecture, and journalism have all looked to the graduates and faculty of Columbia's schools to provide for their ongoing leadership and vitality. In 2003, a sampling of Columbia alumni include one member of the United States Supreme Court, three United States senators, three congressmen, three governors (New York, New Jersey, and California), a chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals, and a president of the New York City Board of Education. But it is perhaps as a contributor of ideas and voices to the broad discourse of American intellectual life that Columbia has most distinguished itself. From The Federalist Papers, written by Columbians John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, to Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution and Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Edward Said's Orientalism, Columbia and its graduates have greatly influenced American intellectual and public life. Stand, Columbia also examines the experiences of immigrants, women, Jews, African Americans, and other groups as it takes critical measure of the University's efforts to become more inclusive and more reflective of the diverse city that it calls home.

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Columbia University Press

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0231503555

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A Lever Long Enough

A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864

By: Robert McCaughey

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A Lever Long Enough

A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864

By: Robert McCaughey

In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build both a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS’s engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. He compares the historical struggles and achievements of the school’s engineers with their present-day battles and accomplishments, and he contrasts their teaching and research approaches to those of their peers at other free-standing and Ivy league engineering schools. What begins as a localized history of a school striving to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences becomes a wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.

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Columbia University Press

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0231166885

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9780231166881

The Oxford Handbook of Sports History

By: Robert Edelman,Wayne Wilson

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The Oxford Handbook of Sports History

By: Robert Edelman,Wayne Wilson

Practiced and watched by billions, sport is a global phenomenon. Sport history is a burgeoning sub-field that explores sport in all forms to help answer fundamental questions that scholars examine. This volume provides a reference for sport scholars and an accessible introduction to those who are new to the sub-field.

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Oxford University Press

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0199858918

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9780199858910

Exploring the Nervous System

With Electronic Tools, an Institutional Base, a Network of Scientists

By: Robert Schoenfeld

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Exploring the Nervous System

With Electronic Tools, an Institutional Base, a Network of Scientists

By: Robert Schoenfeld

A study of outstanding research in neuroscience and of the researchers during the 20th century with emphasis on the English, Americans, particularly the Rockefeller University students and professors.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581124619

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Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape

Using GAMLSS in R

By: Robert A. Rigby,Mikis D. Stasinopoulos,Gillian Z. Heller,Fernanda De Bastiani

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Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape

Using GAMLSS in R

By: Robert A. Rigby,Mikis D. Stasinopoulos,Gillian Z. Heller,Fernanda De Bastiani

This is a book about statistical distributions, their properties, and their application to modelling the dependence of the location, scale, and shape of the distribution of a response variable on explanatory variables. It will be especially useful to applied statisticians and data scientists in a wide range of application areas, and also to those interested in the theoretical properties of distributions. This book follows the earlier book ‘Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R’, [Stasinopoulos et al., 2017], which focused on the GAMLSS model and software. GAMLSS (the Generalized Additive Model for Location, Scale, and Shape, [Rigby and Stasinopoulos, 2005]), is a regression framework in which the response variable can have any parametric distribution and all the distribution parameters can be modelled as linear or smooth functions of explanatory variables. The current book focuses on distributions and their application. Key features: Describes over 100 distributions, (implemented in the GAMLSS packages in R), including continuous, discrete and mixed distributions. Comprehensive summary tables of the properties of the distributions. Discusses properties of distributions, including skewness, kurtosis, robustness and an important classification of tail heaviness. Includes mixed distributions which are continuous distributions with additional specific values with point probabilities. Includes many real data examples, with R code integrated in the text for ease of understanding and replication. Supplemented by the gamlss website. This book will be useful for applied statisticians and data scientists in selecting a distribution for a univariate response variable and modelling its dependence on explanatory variables, and to those interested in the properties of distributions.

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CRC Press

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100069996X

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9781000699968

Creative Development

Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention

By: Robert Kelly

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Creative Development

Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention

By: Robert Kelly

Spark continual creative growth for both learners and educators. Creativity is a key ingredient for success in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, where skills such as collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are central. Most educators agree that encouraging creativity must become a central goal in the classroom, but they face an ongoing struggle to build and maintain an environment that promotes their students’ creative development. In Creative Development: Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention, Robert Kelly equips educators with the theory, strategies, and tactics that allow creativity to flourish. Creative Development features voices from the field to showcase practical, real-life examples of successfully fostering creative development in education. Topics include: How to create an educational culture conducive to creative development. Effective instructional design and assessment as creativity. Bridging the gap between design thinking and design doing. Teacher education and training for creative classrooms. Key vocabulary and theory in the field of creativity.

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Brush Education

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1550596683

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9781550596687

Song of Aenon

By: Robert K. Stevenson

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Song of Aenon

By: Robert K. Stevenson

When one of the most significant events of human history occurs, the response is not unlike the first. There will be predictable bewilderment and confusion followed by outright unbelief and dismissal. This time the lone planet will be left to the children of confusion, an Ichabod generation whose self-righteous, self-inflected vision has walked them to the brink of eternity. However, there will always be a remnant that catches a glimpse of the glory, longs for the breath of grace, and searches for truth in the Word. Such is Gordon Munroe, left alone on a mountain top in the final chapters of Seed of My Heart. The descent from the summit has led him into a new wilderness. Confused, bewildered, and in shaking disbelief, his choices now seem destined to send him on a path where normal life has been stolen away, and he is now caught between grace and judgment. Something precious is gone in a moment, and he is there on the summit when it leaves. Covered for an instant by the light of lights, he hears a pulsing river of voices as his brother and friends step off the mountain. Those that vanished have answered the call with open hearts, are made righteous by faith, and are now given His glory. What was spoken, written, and promised has now been delivered. Gordon now wallows in a new misery from the old life he left behind. Despite the descending darkness, he is about to learn that Gods Spirit is eternal, that His promises spoken and written are unchangeable, and that some remaining hope and healing may rest with a teenage boy whose spirit is stamped with an ancient promise and sealed with a song.

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WestBow Press

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1512719196

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9781512719192

Selected Works of Ellis Kolchin with Commentary

By: Ellis Robert Kolchin,Alexandru Buium,Phyllis Joan Cassidy

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Selected Works of Ellis Kolchin with Commentary

By: Ellis Robert Kolchin,Alexandru Buium,Phyllis Joan Cassidy

The work of Joseph Fels Ritt and Ellis Kolchin in differential algebra paved the way for exciting new applications in constructive symbolic computation, differential Galois theory, the model theory of fields, and Diophantine geometry. This volume assembles Kolchin's mathematical papers, contributing solidly to the archive on construction of modern differential algebra. This collection of Kolchin's clear and comprehensive papers--in themselves constituting a history of the subject--is an invaluable aid to the student of differential algebra. In 1910, Ritt created a theory of algebraic differential equations modeled not on the existing transcendental methods of Lie, but rather on the new algebra being developed by E. Noether and B. van der Waerden. Building on Ritt's foundation, and deeply influenced by Weil and Chevalley, Kolchin opened up Ritt theory to modern algebraic geometry. In so doing, he led differential geometry in a new direction. By creating differential algebraic geometry and the theory of differential algebraic groups, Kolchin provided the foundation for a "new geometry" that has led to both a striking and an original approach to arithmetic algebraic geometry. Intriguing possibilities were introduced for a new language for nonlinear differential equations theory. The volume includes commentary by A. Borel, M. Singer, and B. Poizat. Also Buium and Cassidy trace the development of Kolchin's ideas, from his important early work on the differential Galois theory to his later groundbreaking results on the theory of differential algebraic geometry and differential algebraic groups. Commentaries are self-contained with numerous examples of various aspects of differential algebra and its applications. Central topics of Kolchin's work are discussed, presenting the history of differential algebra and exploring how his work grew from and transformed the work of Ritt. New directions of differential algebra are illustrated, outlining important current advances. Prerequisite to understanding the text is a background at the beginning graduate level in algebra, specifically commutative algebra, the theory of field extensions, and Galois theory.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821805428

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9780821805428

Elements of Bibliography

A Guide to Information Sources and Practical Applications

By: Robert Bartlett Harmon

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Elements of Bibliography

A Guide to Information Sources and Practical Applications

By: Robert Bartlett Harmon

Contains information on the compilation of enumerative and analytical bibliographies, the use of electronic help to search out bibliographic material, career opportunities in the fields related to bibliographic study, the future of bibliography, and the history of the creation of bibliographies. This new edition has been revised to take into account the impact of computer technology and new media practices. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Scarecrow Press

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0810835401

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9780810835405

The Poet and the Gilded Age

Social Themes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Verse

By: Robert Harris Walker

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The Poet and the Gilded Age

Social Themes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Verse

By: Robert Harris Walker

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512819182

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Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia L. Verduin

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Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

By: Robert Boland,Marcia L. Verduin

The gold standard reference for all those who work with people with mental illness, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, edited by Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume eleventh edition offers the expertise of more than 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975175743

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9781975175740

Silk and Steel

Women at Arms

By: Robert L Wilson

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Silk and Steel

Women at Arms

By: Robert L Wilson

Silk and Steel: Women at Arms is the first comprehensive presentation on the subject of women and firearms. No object has had a greater impact on world history over the past 650 years than the firearm, and Wilson shows how women have played a vital role in its development. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510709274

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9781510709270

Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World

By: Robert Keohane

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Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World

By: Robert Keohane

As one of the most innovative and influential thinkers in international relations for more than three decades, Robert O. Keohane's groundbreaking work in institutional theory has redefined our understanding of international political economy. Consisting of a selection of his most recent essays, this absorbing book address such core issues as interdependence, institutions, the development of international law, globalization and global governance. The essays are placed in historical and intellectual context by a substantial new introduction outlining the developments in Keohane's thought, and in an original afterword, the author offers a challenging interpretation of the September 11th attacks and their aftermath. Undoubtedly, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in international relations.

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Routledge

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1134443064

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9781134443062

Live!

Why We Go Out

By: Robert Elms

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Live!

Why We Go Out

By: Robert Elms

ABC', as perfect as anything I've ever witnessed up until that point in my tiny little life. Three minutes of divine delirium. In 1972, when Robert Elms was thirteen years old, he saw the Jackson 5 play live at the Empire Pool. At some point during the performance, he found himself in a state of otherworldly perfect synchronicity with everything happening around him. This single event would set him off on an endless pursuit for that same height of pleasure. Since then, Robert has lived his life through live music, from pub rock to jazz funk, punk to country, and everything in between. Each gig is memorable in its own way, and his snapshots of musicians past and present are both evocative and startlingly concise: Tom Waits showboating with an umbrella, Grace Jones vogueing with a mannequin, Amy shimmying shamelessly like a little girl at a wedding, Gil Scott-Heron rapping with a conga drum. While in our changed times, Robert notes that we have found new ways of listening – of being part of something special by uniting fans with their favourite performers online – there is not, nor can there ever be, anything quite like the live experience. Live!: Why We Go Out is a memoir and a musing on why experiencing live music really matters.

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Unbound Publishing

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180018283X

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Book's by Robert Adrain

Coyotes Go to Heaven

Coyotes Go to Heaven

On Social Structure and Science

On Social Structure and Science

Stand, Columbia

Stand, Columbia

A Lever Long Enough

A Lever Long Enough

The Oxford Handbook of Sports History

The Oxford Handbook of Sports History

Exploring the Nervous System

Exploring the Nervous System

Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape

Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape

Creative Development

Creative Development

Song of Aenon

Song of Aenon

Selected Works of Ellis Kolchin with Commentary

Selected Works of Ellis Kolchin with Commentary

Elements of Bibliography

Elements of Bibliography

The Poet and the Gilded Age

The Poet and the Gilded Age

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

Silk and Steel

Silk and Steel

Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World

Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World

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