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The Mummy's Curse

The True History of a Dark Fantasy

By: Roger Luckhurst

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The Mummy's Curse

The True History of a Dark Fantasy

By: Roger Luckhurst

A quirky history that offers a new way of understanding the myth of the mummy's curse. Roger Luckhurst provides a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.

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Oxford University Press

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0199698716

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The Poisoned Well

Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East

By: Roger Hardy

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The Poisoned Well

Empire and Its Legacy in the Middle East

By: Roger Hardy

In The Poisoned Well, veteran BBC journalist Roger Hardy presents a realist's history of the Middle East, by weaving together stories of political strife and vivid firsthand accounts, to illustrate that the current conflicts and crises of the Middle East are borne out of the troubled legacy of Western imperialism in the region.

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Oxford University Press

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0190056339

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College Calculus

A One-Term Course for Students with Previous Calculus Experience

By: Michael E. Boardman,Roger B. Nelsen

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College Calculus

A One-Term Course for Students with Previous Calculus Experience

By: Michael E. Boardman,Roger B. Nelsen

College Calculus: A One-Term Course for Students with Previous Calculus Experience is a textbook for students who have successfully experienced an introductory calculus course in high school. College Calculus begins with a brief review of some of the content of the high school calculus course, and proceeds to give students a thorough grounding in the remaining topics in single variable calculus, including integration techniques, applications of the definite integral, separable and linear differential equations, hyperbolic functions, parametric equations and polar coordinates, L’Hôpital’s rule and improper integrals, continuous probability models, and infinite series. Each chapter concludes with several “Explorations,” extended discovery investigations to supplement that chapter’s material. The text is ideal as the basis of a course focused on the needs of prospective majors in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). A one-term course based on this text provides students with a solid foundation in single variable calculus and prepares them for the next course in college level mathematics, be it multivariable calculus, linear algebra, a course in discrete mathematics, statistics, etc.

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The Mathematical Association of America

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1939512069

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9781939512062

For the Love of the Royal Family

A Companion

By: Roger Bryan

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For the Love of the Royal Family

A Companion

By: Roger Bryan

This rich miscellany celebrates the fascinating history of the British Royal Family, from the reign of Egbert, King of Wessex, to the monarchy of the present day, with titillating trivia, little-known facts, bite-size biographies and memorable quotations.

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Summersdale

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178372949X

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9781783729494

Torpedo

The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon

By: Roger Branfill-Cook

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Torpedo

The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon

By: Roger Branfill-Cook

An encyclopedic study of the ship-killer par excellence—from its development to post-World War II usage. “A well-written book, lavishly illustrated.” —International Journal of Maritime History The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed a small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel—and by extension a small, minor navy—to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat.The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets of expensive capital ships, required radical rethinking because of this important naval weapon. This book is a broad-ranging international history of the weapon, tracing not only its origins and technical progress down to the present day, but also its massive impact on all subsequent naval wars. Torpedo contains much new technical information that has come to light over the past thirty years and covers all of the improved capabilities of the weapon. Heavily illustrated with photos and technical drawings this is a book no enthusiast or historian can afford to miss. “The torpedo—one of the most fearsome weapons ever created by man—is well worth its own history.” —Forum Navale

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Seaforth Publishing

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1473842700

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A Medium Seen Otherwise

Photography in Documentary Film

By: Roger Hallas

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A Medium Seen Otherwise

Photography in Documentary Film

By: Roger Hallas

Having undergone profound material, aesthetic, and institutional transformations since the arrival of digital technologies, photography and film frequently intersect in the processes of convergence (the shared technological basis of diverse media in digital code) and remediation (the mutual reshaping of old and new media). However, the foundational relations between film and photography have a long history extending well back into the nineteenth century. This history includes many acclaimed practitioners who have worked in both media, such as Albert Kahn, Helen Levitt, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Robert Frank, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, and Fiona Tan, but it also involves a range of intermedial forms that combine elements of both media, such as the film still, the film photonovel, and the photofilm. These hybrid forms were long neglected critically because they were considered marginal forms of paratextuality or deviations from medium specificity-the idea that a medium must be deployed according to its own specific capacities compared to other media"--

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Oxford University Press

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0190057769

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

By: Roger L. Emerson

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

By: Roger L. Emerson

The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress, in a country previously considered to be marginal to the European intellectual scene. Yet the enlightenment was not about politeness or civic humanism, but something more basic - the making of an improved society which could compete in every way in a rapidly changing world. David Hume, writing in 1752, commented that 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain'. Collectively this volume of essays embraces many of the topics which Hume included under 'industry, knowledge and humanity': from the European Enlightenment and the Scots relation to it, to Scottish social history and its relation to religion, science and medicine. Overarching themes of what it meant to be enlightened in the eighteenth century are considered alongside more specific studies of notable figures of the period, such as Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, and David Hume, and the training and number of Scottish medical students. Together, the volume provides an opportunity to step back and reconsider the Scottish Enlightenment in its broader context and to consider what new directions this field of study might take.

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Routledge

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1317141644

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A History of the Pacific Islands

By: Steven Roger Fischer

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A History of the Pacific Islands

By: Steven Roger Fischer

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet – Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia – the narrative follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the creation of the modern Pacific states. Thoroughly revised and updated in light of the most recent scholarship, the second edition includes: • an overview of the events and developments in the Pacific Islands over the last decade • coverage of the latest archaeological discoveries • several new maps • an updated and expanded bibliography Steven Roger Fischer's unique text provides a highly accessible and invaluable introduction to the history of an area which is currently emerging as pivotal in international affairs. A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with work in archaeology and anthropology as well as in history enriches the text, making this a book with wide appeal for students and general readers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135030672X

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Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728

By: Roger North

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Roger North's The Musicall Grammarian 1728

By: Roger North

A treatise on musical eloquence in all its branches, first published in 1990.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521024919

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Searching for the True Church

Brethren and Evangelicals in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

By: Roger N. Shuff

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Searching for the True Church

Brethren and Evangelicals in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

By: Roger N. Shuff

Roger Shuff holds that the influence of the Brethren movement on wider evangelical life in England in the twentieth century is often underrated. This book records and accounts for the fact that Brethren reached the peak of their strength at the time when evangelicalism was at its lowest ebb, immediately before World War II. However, the movement then moved into persistent decline as evangelicalism regained ground in the postwar period. Accompanying this downward trend has been a sharp accentuation of the contrast between Brethren congregations who engage constructively with the non-Brethren scene and, at the other end of the spectrum, the isolationist group commonly referred to as Exclusive Brethren. Besides being the first scholarly study of Brethrenism in England for nearly forty years, the book will find a wider audience among present and former adherents of the Brethren movement in its various guises. It also offers useful insights for Christian leaders and other professionals who find themselves with pastoral care for people upon whom their encounter with the Brethren has had a profound psychological impact.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597527947

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9781597527941

Analysis I

Convergence, Elementary functions

By: Roger Godement

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Analysis I

Convergence, Elementary functions

By: Roger Godement

Functions in R and C, including the theory of Fourier series, Fourier integrals and part of that of holomorphic functions, form the focal topic of these two volumes. Based on a course given by the author to large audiences at Paris VII University for many years, the exposition proceeds somewhat nonlinearly, blending rigorous mathematics skilfully with didactical and historical considerations. It sets out to illustrate the variety of possible approaches to the main results, in order to initiate the reader to methods, the underlying reasoning, and fundamental ideas. It is suitable for both teaching and self-study. In his familiar, personal style, the author emphasizes ideas over calculations and, avoiding the condensed style frequently found in textbooks, explains these ideas without parsimony of words. The French edition in four volumes, published from 1998, has met with resounding success: the first two volumes are now available in English.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364218491X

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Behavior and Ecology of the Northern Fur Seal

By: Roger L. Gentry

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Behavior and Ecology of the Northern Fur Seal

By: Roger L. Gentry

Covering the behavior and ecology of the northern fur seal, this book is a model long-term study of marine mammals, one that tests theory through both observation of undisturbed behavior and manipulative experiments on individuals. Here Roger Gentry draws on nearly two decades of research on three different islands to show how behavior among these seals changes with population size, sex ratio, and environment, to explain the behavior of the population beginning with individuals, and to generalize the results to other members of the eared seal family. In so doing, he offers one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind on any marine mammal species to date. Gentry shows that the species is driven by very different behavioral traits than have been assumed for it in the past. His book analyzes behavior on scales of hours to lifetimes, investigates the mating system, considers processes that underlie the mating system (site fidelity, behavioral estrus, and the development of territoriality), and addresses specific aspects of maternal strategy (female attendance behavior, pup growth, seasonal influences, and the effects of continental shelf width). Gentry contributes to knowledge about marine mammals by providing a very specific basis for interspecies comparisons, and he suggests a link between population trend and environmental regime shifts. He also guides the debate over seal mating systems from an interpretive to an empirical or experimental basis. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400864720

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How to Think Seriously about the Planet

The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

By: Roger Scruton

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How to Think Seriously about the Planet

The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

By: Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton here makes a plea to rescue environmental politics from the activist movements and to return them to the people. The book defends the legacy of home-building and practical reasoning with which ordinary human beings solve their environmental problems, and attacks the alarmism and hysteria that are being used to uproot these resources, while putting nothing coherent in their place.

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Oxford University Press

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0199371245

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The Million Death Quake

The Science of Predicting Earth's Deadliest Natural Disaster

By: Roger Musson

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The Million Death Quake

The Science of Predicting Earth's Deadliest Natural Disaster

By: Roger Musson

For centuries, Californians and the Japanese have known that they were at risk of catastrophic earthquakes, and prepared accordingly. But when a violent 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti in 2010, hardly anyone knew the island nation was even at risk for disaster, and, tragically, no one was prepared. Over 300,000 people died as buildings that had never been designed to withstand such intense shaking toppled over and crushed their inhabitants. Now, scientists warn that it won't be long before a single, catastrophic quake kills one million people - and that it is going to strike right where we least expect it. In this groundbreaking book, renowned seismologist with the British Geological Survey Roger Musson takes us on an exhilarating journey to explore what scientists and engineers are doing to prepare us for the worst. With riveting tales of the scientists who first cracked the mystery of what causes the ground to violently shake, Musson makes plain the powerful geological forces driving earthquakes and tsunamis, and shows how amazing feats of engineering are making our cities earthquake-proof. Highlighting hotspots around the world from Mexico City to New York this is a compelling scientific adventure into nature at its fiercest.

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St. Martin's Press

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1137106999

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9781137106995

Erotic Vagrancy

Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

By: Roger Lewis

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Erotic Vagrancy

Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

By: Roger Lewis

One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE 'Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG BROWN 'Unputdownable' TONY PALMER 'A genius writer' LYNN BARBER Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other.

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riverrun

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0857382772

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Complete Land Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Barbara Bogusz,Roger Sexton

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Complete Land Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Barbara Bogusz,Roger Sexton

Titles in the Complete series offer students a carefully blended combination of the subject's concepts, cases, and commentary. A combination which encourages critical thinking, stimulates analysis, and promotes a complete understanding.

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Oxford University Press

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0198793251

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9780198793250

What's Who?

A Dictionary of Things Named After People and the People They are Named After

By: Roger Jones

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What's Who?

A Dictionary of Things Named After People and the People They are Named After

By: Roger Jones

This book is an enjoyable reference book, which looks at eponymy, the naming of things after people.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848760477

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Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment

Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities

By: Roger L. Emerson

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Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment

Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities

By: Roger L. Emerson

This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews, exploring the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by political factions and their leaders. This comprehensive study explores the improving agenda of political patrons and of those they served and relates this to the Scottish Enlightenment. Emerson argues that what was happening in Scotland was also occurring in other parts of Europe where, in relatively autonomous localities, elite patrons also shaped things as they wished them to be. The role of patronage in the Enlightenment is essential to any understanding of its origins and course.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748631291

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9780748631292

Reformed and Always Reforming

The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology

By: Roger E. Olson

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Reformed and Always Reforming

The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology

By: Roger E. Olson

Well-known theologian Roger Olson defines and traces the history of postconservative evangelical theology.

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Baker Academic

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0801031699

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9780801031694

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013

Every Single New Ebert Review

By: Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013

Every Single New Ebert Review

By: Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert’s “criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range. . . .” —New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 600 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, tributes, and journal entries inside Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2013. It includes every movie review Ebert has written from January 2010 to July 2012. Also included in the Yearbook: In-depth interviews with newsmakers and celebrities Tributes to those in the film industry who have passed away recently Essays on the Oscars, reports from the Toronto Film Festival, and entries into Ebert's Little Movie Glossary

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1449423116

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9781449423117

Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe

Revised Edition

By: Roger East,Jolyon Pontin

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Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe

Revised Edition

By: Roger East,Jolyon Pontin

This comprehensive reference, an expanded edition of Revolutions in Eastern Europe, provides a general introduction and broad historical background of Eastern and Central European countries from the First World War onwards, focusing on the development of independent countries and the establishment of Soviet-backed dictatorships, as well as their subsequent experience of political pluralism and external relations and alignments in post 1989 Europe. Each country is covered in an individual chapter, giving a factual account of their revolutions and upheavals and an assessment of their underlying causes.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474287484

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9781474287487

Quantile Regression

By: Roger Koenker

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Quantile Regression

By: Roger Koenker

Quantile regression is gradually emerging as a unified statistical methodology for estimating models of conditional quantile functions. By complementing the exclusive focus of classical least squares regression on the conditional mean, quantile regression offers a systematic strategy for examining how covariates influence the location, scale and shape of the entire response distribution. This monograph is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, encompassing models that are linear and nonlinear, parametric and nonparametric. The author has devoted more than 25 years of research to this topic. The methods in the analysis are illustrated with a variety of applications from economics, biology, ecology and finance. The treatment will find its core audiences in econometrics, statistics, and applied mathematics in addition to the disciplines cited above.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139444719

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9781139444712

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology

By: Roger G. Barry,Andrew M. Carleton

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Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology

By: Roger G. Barry,Andrew M. Carleton

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extratropics, and of the methods and applications of synoptic climate classification. It is unrivalled in the scope and detail of its contents. The work is thoroughly up to date, with extensive bibliographies by chapter. It is illustrated with nearly 300 figures and plates. *Part 1 provides an introduction to the global climate system and the space-time scales of weather and climate processes, followed by a chapter on climate data and their analysis *Part 2 describes and explains the characteristics of the general circulation of the global atmosphere and includes the nature and causes of global teleconnection patterns *Part 3 discusses synoptic weather systems in the extratropics and tropics and satellite-based climatologies of synoptic features. It also describes the applications of synoptic climatology and summarises current climatic research and its directions.

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Taylor & Francis

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1134969759

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9781134969753

Canonical Medicine

Gentile da Foligno and Scholasticism

By: Roger French

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Canonical Medicine

Gentile da Foligno and Scholasticism

By: Roger French

This book deals with the work of one of the most famous medical scholars of the middle ages, renowned to his contemporaries as being able to see more deeply into the theory of medicine than anyone else. It is based in particular on an analysis of his huge commentary on Avicenna's Canon, the biggest and most important single medical text of the Middle Ages. This is the first modern analysis of the commentary, and while the size and elaborate scholastic structure of it has deterred historians, it remained an important text for two centuries. This book explains the nature and purposes of medical scholasticism, which reached its height in the half century before the Black Death, in which Gentile died.

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BRILL

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9004476423

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9789004476424

Planning to Care

Regulation, procedure and practice under the Children Act 1989

By: Ruth Sinclair,Roger Grimshaw

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Planning to Care

Regulation, procedure and practice under the Children Act 1989

By: Ruth Sinclair,Roger Grimshaw

In England and Wales, the Children Act 1989 introduced a comprehensive regulatory framework for planning and reviewing the care of young people who are looked after by local authorities. Planning to Care examines how the quality and effectiveness of planning practice in both rural and urban settings was reshaped, drawing on the views of young people and their parents as well as practitioners. The book evaluates the outcomes of the Children Act's 'regulatory strategy' and makes recommendations for improvements. This ebook will an invaluable reference for social workers, teachers, health professionals and policy makers concerned with children, as well as anyone wishing to assess the effects of statutor regulation upon social care.

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JKP

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1907969020

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9781907969027

Late Innings

By: Roger Angell

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Late Innings

By: Roger Angell

The acclaimed New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977 to the summer of 1981. Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game’s finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties. Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson’s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players’ strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.

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Open Road Media

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1504081668

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9781504081665

Beyond Critique

Contemporary Art in Theory, Practice, and Instruction

By: Pamela Fraser,Roger Rothman

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Beyond Critique

Contemporary Art in Theory, Practice, and Instruction

By: Pamela Fraser,Roger Rothman

Outgrowth of a panel discussion at the 2013 conference of the College Art Association in New York.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501323466

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9781501323461

Acts of Faith

Explaining the Human Side of Religion

By: Rodney Stark,Roger Finke

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Acts of Faith

Explaining the Human Side of Religion

By: Rodney Stark,Roger Finke

Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion (and therefore should not claim to do so), Stark and Finke analyze the observable, human side of faith. In clear and engaging prose, the authors combine explicit theorizing with animated discussions as they move from considering the religiousness of individuals to the dynamics of religious groups and then to the religious workings of entire societies as religious groups contend for support. The result is a comprehensive new paradigm for the social-scientific study of religion.

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Univ of California Press

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0520924347

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9780520924345

Flow Measurement Handbook

Industrial Designs, Operating Principles, Performance, and Applications

By: Roger C. Baker

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Flow Measurement Handbook

Industrial Designs, Operating Principles, Performance, and Applications

By: Roger C. Baker

Flow Measurement Handbook is a reference for engineers on flow measurement techniques and instruments. It strikes a balance between laboratory ideas and the realities of field experience and provides practical advice on design, operation and performance of flowmeters. It begins with a review of essentials: accuracy, flow, selection and calibration methods. Each chapter is then devoted to a flowmeter class and includes information on design, application installation, calibration and operation. Among the flowmeters discussed are differential pressure devices such as orifice and Venturi, volumetric flowmeters such as positive displacement, turbine, vortex, electromagnetic, magnetic resonance, ultrasonic, acoustic, multiphase flowmeters and mass meters, such as thermal and Coriolis. There are also chapters on probes, verification and remote data access.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316483207

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9781316483206

XBRL for Interactive Data

Engineering the Information Value Chain

By: Roger Debreceny,Carsten Felden,Bartosz Ochocki,Maciej Piechocki,Michal Piechocki

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XBRL for Interactive Data

Engineering the Information Value Chain

By: Roger Debreceny,Carsten Felden,Bartosz Ochocki,Maciej Piechocki,Michal Piechocki

Interactive data supports organizations to communicate effectively with their stakeholders and partners on the Internet and the World Wide Web. XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a key enabling technology for interactive data. XBRL links organizations and knowledge consumers in a variety of information value chains. XBRL is now in use in many countries and important settings. This book provides, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of XBRL. Thorough and up-to-date, this book explains the most popular constructs in XML, on which XBRL builds, and XBRL. The book provides business and policy makers, technologists and information engineers with an essential toolkit to understand the complete implementation of XBRL. The book begins with an overview of the business case for interactive data and XBRL. There is an introduction to XML and XBRL and the design and construction of XBRL taxonomies including extensions and multi-dimensional XBRL implementations. It provides a detailed analysis of the interaction of instance documents and taxonomies. The book also provides a synopsis of the most current XBRL technologies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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ISBN 10

3642014372

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9783642014376

Book's by Roger Wallis

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