Roland Nelson's Books

The School on 103rd Street

By: Roland S. Jefferson

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When Dr. Elwin Carter is confronted in his Watts clinic by two boys terrified by the brutal murder of their friend, his investigations lead him far beyond the usual suspicions of drugs or gang violence. This 1976 first and only novel (potentially an upcoming movie) of forensic psychiatrist Roland Jefferson presents a frighteningly prophetic picture of the subterranean war between the races in America.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393316629

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Hms Colossus

By: Roland Morris

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Hms Colossus

By: Roland Morris

Talks about the discovery of HMS Colossus and the subsequent salvage of the Hamilton treasures, as told by the project founder and leader.

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Periscope Publishing Ltd.

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1904381383

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9781904381389

Gifts from the Thunder Beings

Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670-1870

By: Roland Bohr

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Gifts from the Thunder Beings

Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670-1870

By: Roland Bohr

Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures. This gradual transition took place from the beginning of the fur trade in the Hudson’s Bay Company trading territory to the treaty and reserve period that began in Canada in the 1870s. Technological change and the effects of European contact were not uniform throughout North America, as Roland Bohr illustrates by comparing the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic—two adjacent but environmentally different regions of North America—and their respective Indigenous cultures. Beginning with a brief survey of the subarctic and Northern Plains environments and the most common subsistence strategies in these regions around the time of contact, Bohr provides the context for a detailed examination of social, spiritual, and cultural aspects of bows, arrows, quivers, and firearms. His detailed analysis of the shifting usage of bows and arrows and firearms in the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic makes Gifts from the Thunder Beings an important addition to the canon of North American ethnology.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803254377

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War and Technology

A Very Short Introduction

By: Alex Roland

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War and Technology

A Very Short Introduction

By: Alex Roland

A Very Short Introduction on war and technology throughout human history

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Oxford University Press

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0190605383

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9780190605384

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

By: Roland Betancourt

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Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

By: Roland Betancourt

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and perception. Revisiting scholarly assumptions about the tactility of sight in the Byzantine world, it demonstrates how the haptic language associated with vision referred to the cognitive actions of the viewer as they grasped sensory data in the mind in order to comprehend and produce working imaginations of objects for thought and memory. At stake is how the affordances and limitations of the senses came to delineate and cultivate the manner in which art and rhetoric was understood as mediating the realities they wished to convey. This would similarly come to contour how Byzantine religious culture could also go about accessing the sacred, the image serving as a site of desire for the mediated representation of the Divine.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108657273

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At War's End

Building Peace After Civil Conflict

By: Roland Paris

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At War's End

Building Peace After Civil Conflict

By: Roland Paris

All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization and marketization. Transforming war-shattered states into market democracies is basically sound, but pushing this process too quickly can have damaging and destabilizing effects. The process of liberalization is inherently tumultuous, and can undermine the prospects for stable peace. A more sensible approach to post-conflict peacebuilding would seek, first, to establish a system of domestic institutions that are capable of managing the destabilizing effects of democratization and marketization within peaceful bounds and only then phase in political and economic reforms slowly, as conditions warrant. Peacebuilders should establish the foundations of effective governmental institutions prior to launching wholesale liberalization programs. Avoiding the problems that marred many peacebuilding operations in the 1990s will require longer-lasting and, ultimately, more intrusive forms of intervention in the domestic affairs of these states. This book was first published in 2004.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521541972

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Cage Metal Complexes

Clathrochelates Revisited

By: Yan Voloshin,Irina Belaya,Roland Krämer

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Cage Metal Complexes

Clathrochelates Revisited

By: Yan Voloshin,Irina Belaya,Roland Krämer

This fundamental book presents the most comprehensive summary of the current state in chemistry of cage metal complexes. After their previous book “The Encapsulation Phenomenon” (www.springer.com/978-3-319-27737-0) the authors in this book focus on the encapsulation of metal ions by different types of three-dimensional mono- and polynucleating caging ligands. Within these cage metal complexes, (metal) ions can be isolated from external factors. The book provides both a classification of the cage compounds and summaries of synthetic approaches. On that basis the authors then describe the unique chemical and physical properties and the resulting reactivity of the cage compounds, as well as practical and potential applications as potent topological drugs and prodrugs, antifibrillogenic agents, radiodiagnostic and radiotherapeutic compounds, paramagnetic probes, single-molecule magnets, electrocatalysts for hydrogen production, (photo)electronic devices, and many more. Readers will find a well-structured and concise overview, with particular emphasis on a review of synthesis and reactivity of various cage metal complexes, summarizing over 400 literature references, clearly presented in over 300 color schemes and figures.

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331956420X

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Long Night's Journey Into Day

Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945

By: Charles G. Roland

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Long Night's Journey Into Day

Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945

By: Charles G. Roland

Based largely on hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as material culled from archives around the world, Professor Roland details the extremes the prisoners endured - from having to eat fattened maggots in order to live to choosing starvation by trading away their skimpy rations for cigarettes."--BOOK JACKET.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889203628

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Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

By: Roland V. Anglin

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Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

By: Roland V. Anglin

Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits — you can achieve all these benefits and more with a comprehensive and strategic revitalization plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization as organizers move from trial and error to effective revitalization strategies, Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development documents the current transformation in community revitalization from market-based incentives to mixed strategies of public sector learning, partnerships, and community capacity. Knowledge about the field and what works is growing, but not always publicized and readily accessible. This reference surveys the breadth of innovative place and people development practices, presenting lessons and examples at a general and textured level, putting information about innovative ways to change, influence, and improve the economic development process within easy reach. Roland Anglin brings his unique vantage point to the topic; his experience as a practitioner and applied academic allowed him to see how community economic development practices grow over time in size, scale, and impact. He highlights the difference between what is now termed community economic development (CED) and traditional local economic development practice, specifically the priority placed on community involvement in economic development partnerships between the private sector and government. The book includes case studies that demonstrate what has and has not worked in revitalization efforts, as well as how active public and private sector partnerships have been the most effective in revitalization efforts. A Resource Guide is included at the end of the book for readers who may want a more expansive understanding of community economic development.

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CRC Press

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1420088114

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Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

By: Nicholas Keefauver Roland

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Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

By: Nicholas Keefauver Roland

In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.

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University of Texas Press

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1477321772

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The Real Jim Hawkins

Ships Boys in the Georgian Navy

By: Roland Pietsch

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The Real Jim Hawkins

Ships Boys in the Georgian Navy

By: Roland Pietsch

Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian navy, not of the upper-class children training to become officers, but of the orphaned, delinquent or just plain adventurous youths whose prospects on land were bleak and miserable. Many had no adult at all taking care of them; others were failed apprentices; many were troublesome youths for whom communities could not provide so that the Navy represented a form of floating workhouse. Some, with restless and roving minds, like Defoes Robinson Crusoe, saw deep sea life as one of adventure, interspersed with raucous periods ashore drinking, singing and womanizing. The author explains how they were recruited; describes the distinctive subculture of the young sailor the dress, hair, tattoos and language and their life and training as servants of captains and officers. More than 5,000 boys were recruited during the Seven Years War alone and without them the Royal Navy could not have fought its wars. This is a fascinating tribute to a forgotten band of sailors.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1848320361

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9781848320369

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

By: Roland McHugh

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Annotations to Finnegans Wake

By: Roland McHugh

The essential guide to Joyce’s famously difficult book. Roland McHugh’s classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly to a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer, enabling readers to look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. McHugh’s richly detailed annotations distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English connotations and colloquial expressions, place names, historical events, song titles and quotations, parodies of other texts, and Joyce’s diverse literary and popular sources. This thoroughly updated fourth edition draws heavily on Internet resources and keyword searches. For the first time, McHugh provides readers with a synopsis of the action of Finnegans Wake. He also expands his examination of possible textual corruption and adds hundreds of new glosses to help scholars, students, and general readers untangle the dense thicket of allusions that crowds every sentence of Joyce’s nearly inscrutable masterpiece.

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JHU Press

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1421419084

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9781421419084

Time Transfer

By: Mark Roland Langdale

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Time Transfer

By: Mark Roland Langdale

Time Transfer is an enchanting story about football– a game which lost its magic, and follows the trials and tribulations of Manchester United and Accrington Stanley FC.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1838599843

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John Wayne Was Here

The Film Locations and Favorite Places of an American Icon

By: Roland Schaefli

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John Wayne Was Here

The Film Locations and Favorite Places of an American Icon

By: Roland Schaefli

John Wayne worked on film sets around the globe. This book follows the trail, from his beginnings on the Fox backlot to his final filming in Lone Pine, California. Locations in Mexico, Normandy, Rome, Madrid, London, Ireland, Libya and Africa are covered, along with his favorite vacation spots in Hawaii, Acapulco, Greece, Monaco, and the Hollywood hot-spots he frequented. Anecdotes revisit his most famous scenes, including Rooster Cogburn's charge in True Grit (1969) and Davy Crockett's last stand in The Alamo (1960). Production details describe how San Diego stood in for Iwo Jima, how Old Tucson was turned into El Dorado, and how Genghis Kahn ruled over the deserts of Utah. Never before published photos present then-and-now views in this first of its kind guided tour for film location hunters and Wayne aficionados.

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McFarland

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1476641277

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Revere Beach Elegy

A Memoir of Home and Beyond

By: Roland Merullo

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Revere Beach Elegy

A Memoir of Home and Beyond

By: Roland Merullo

The author recalls his childhood growing up in Revere, Massachusetts, which greatly influenced his life.

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Beacon Press

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0807072451

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Annotations to Finnegans Wake

By: Roland McHugh

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Annotations to Finnegans Wake

By: Roland McHugh

Long considered the essential guide to Joyce's famously difficult work, Roland McHugh's Annotations to "Finnegans Wake" provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly with a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer. The reader can thus look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings. McHugh's richly detailed notes distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English connotations and colloquial expressions, place names, historical events, song titles and quotations, parodies of other texts, and Joyce's diverse literary and popular sources. The third edition has added material reflecting fifteen years of research, including significant new insights from Joyce's compositional notebooks (the "Buffalo Notebooks"), now being edited for the first time.

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JHU Press

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0801883822

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The Art of War Puzzle Book

Challenges of Strategy, Intelligence, and Surprise

By: Roland Hall

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The Art of War Puzzle Book

Challenges of Strategy, Intelligence, and Surprise

By: Roland Hall

Put your logical thinking to the test with this brain-boosting puzzle book, inspired by Sun Tzu's classic treatise of military strategy, The Art of War. Written by bestselling puzzle author Roland Hall, this collection includes over 100 narrative puzzles which bring the tactics and strategic thinking of The Art of War to life. Prove you can outsmart the enemy on the battlefield or in the boardroom as you pit your wits against all manner of riddles, dilemmas and conundrums. You'll need to sharpen your strategic skills and use every bit of cunning to solve them all. Each of the puzzles within takes a quote from The Art of War, as its starting point. You need to take heed of the lessons they offer if you're to come out on top! ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Classic Puzzles bring together mind-bending puzzles inspired by classic themes and figures from history and literature, from ancient antiquity to modern greats.

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Arcturus Publishing

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1398846112

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9781398846111

Knights of Avari

By: C. Gene Roland

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Knights of Avari

By: C. Gene Roland

Orphaned before they were a year old, Simon, Eddi and Adam are raised by in a small mountain town. They have the same problems as any other kids, including dealing with homework and bullies. Each night they're told a story about the magical Land of Avari. Then one day, they travel to Avari and find out just how important they really are.An exciting blend of fantasy, adventure, and multi-cultural mythologies written for readers aged 10-16 and those young at heart.Book I of the Living Cities Trilogy.

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Lulu.com

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0557392217

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9780557392216

Psychological Well-Being and Health Practices

By: Orok Afor Betek Mary (PhD), Duncans Mugumya, Dr. Angu Roland Nji, Dr. Chinonye O. Aloku, Dr. Sadia Aleem, Egbe Gwendoline Arrika, Elizabeth Amongi

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Psychological Well-Being and Health Practices

By: Orok Afor Betek Mary (PhD), Duncans Mugumya, Dr. Angu Roland Nji, Dr. Chinonye O. Aloku, Dr. Sadia Aleem, Egbe Gwendoline Arrika, Elizabeth Amongi

TOPICS IN THE BOOK Eradicating Violence Provoked by Narcissism and Others Factors in Secondary Schools: Case Study of Fako Division South West Region of Cameroon Parental Engagement as a Predictor of Academic Performance among Secondary School Learners in Sheema District, Uganda An Appraisal of Students’ Metacognitive Strategies and Learning: The Case of Undergraduate Educational Psychology Students of the University of Bamenda Assessing the Extent of Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder from Kidnapping Experience of 5 Victims and their Significant Others in Kaduna Metropolis, Kaduna State, Nigeria Experience of Childhood Bereavement and Current Attachment Style Parental Caregiving Strategies and Personality Development of Children (5-12 Years): The Case of Selected Regions in Cameroon Barriers to Accessing Community-Based Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Management in Post Conflict Acholi Sub-Region

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AJPO Journals USA LLC

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9914745237

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9789914745238

Urbanization And Urban Policies In Pacific Asia

By: Roland J Fuchs

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Urbanization And Urban Policies In Pacific Asia

By: Roland J Fuchs

This book is the outcome of the Conference on Population Growth, Urbanization, and Urban Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region, held in Honolulu during 8-12 April 1985. It provides wide attention among development planners, urban managers, and scholars in the field of urban and development planning.

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Routledge

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1000003493

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9781000003499

Golf by the Numbers

How Stats, Math, and Physics Affect Your Game

By: Roland Minton

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Golf by the Numbers

How Stats, Math, and Physics Affect Your Game

By: Roland Minton

How do the world’s greatest golfers improve their game? Practice, sure, but Roland Minton says mathematics and statistics are also key to their success. Golf by the Numbers analyzes the mathematical strategies behind the sport, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at how numbers drive the game. Computers, GPS trackers, swing simulators, and high-speed cameras have introduced new and exciting ways of seeing and understanding the complicated and endlessly fascinating game of golf. Players like Phil Mickelson are so good because they review the results of every swing they take. Minton’s comprehensive analysis of statistics taken from the PGA Tour’s ShotLink system walks readers through the mountains of data that pros use to inform and refine their play. The result is an insider’s perspective of how the world’s greatest golfers apply mathematics to the sport. Minton discusses randomness in golf (especially how much luck is involved in putting) as well as aggressive and cautious strategies both on and off the greens, and he explains, by the numbers, just how Tiger Woods was so dominant from 2004 to 2009. Here is a book that tells some truly engaging stories of modern golf, featuring famous players and memorable tournaments, all through the lens of elementary probability theory. Minton’s informal style and clear and direct explanations make even the most detailed discussions accessible to all curious-minded golfers. His mathematical morsels are not only enjoyable to read—they may even help you improve your game.

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JHU Press

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1421404524

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A Field Guide to Birds of the Big Bend

By: Roland H. Wauer

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A Field Guide to Birds of the Big Bend

By: Roland H. Wauer

This current revision, reflecting the extensive amount of birding activites that occurs year-round at Big Bend National Park.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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From Journey's End to The Dam Busters

The Life of R.C. Sherriff, Playwright of the Trenches

By: Roland Wales

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From Journey's End to The Dam Busters

The Life of R.C. Sherriff, Playwright of the Trenches

By: Roland Wales

Kingston playwright R.C. Sherriff came to fame with his First World War drama Journeys End, which was based on his own experiences as a young officer on the Western Front. Its success made him a household name and opened the door to a highly lucrative career as a novelist, playwright and screenwriter in Hollywood and in Britain. Many of his movies The Invisible Man, Goodbye Mr Chips, The Four Feathers Odd Man Out, Quartet, and, of course, The Dam Busters are still well known, but the man behind them much less so. This book rediscovers Sherriff using his own words his letters, diaries, published and unpublished manuscripts to shed light on a man who ironically gained his greatest success from the trench warfare he found so difficult to bear.

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Casemate Publishers

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1473860717

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

By: Roland Betancourt

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

By: Roland Betancourt

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108870872

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The (Phantasmagorical) Astrarium Compendium

By: Mark Roland Langdale

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The (Phantasmagorical) Astrarium Compendium

By: Mark Roland Langdale

One day, in an attempt to save Beagle, his pet Labrador, Gulliver finds himself swept away into the sea. On waking up, he discovers he has fallen back in time, into the miniature world of one of his antique globes...

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1784628921

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English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education

By: Roland Sussex

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English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education

By: Roland Sussex

Noting ASEAN's adoption of English as its sole workng language, this book analyzes the language education policies of Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Sri Lanka and China, and traces the influence of globalization on English language education in Asia.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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940074577X

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Parties and Parliaments in Southeast Asia

Non-Partisan Chambers in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand

By: Roland Rich

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Parties and Parliaments in Southeast Asia

Non-Partisan Chambers in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand

By: Roland Rich

Political parties are an essential ingredient in a modern democracy. They are also seen as the least trusted and most problematic institution in most democratic systems. While there have been attempts to strengthen parties through institutional design and capacity building, a new strategy has been to quarantine them from parts of parliament. Within the space of a few years the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia implemented designs for parliamentary representation that proscribed the established political parties from a parliamentary chamber or part thereof. Using these three countries as case studies, this book traces the historical context for institutional designs, the intentions behind them and their implementation through at least one full parliamentary term. It investigates the conceptual architecture of the non-partisan designs, identifying corporatism as one (discredited) alternative and "championship" as another. While there is a yearning for exemplary people as representatives, the designers have struggled to find a successful means of having these champions elected to office. The book concludes that non-partisan chambers, based on the evidence to date, are not viable. This book is of interest to scholars of Southeast Asian Politics, Party Politics, Governance Institutions and Democracy.

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1317605535

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The Way of the Ship

America's Maritime History Reenvisoned, 1600-2000

By: Alex Roland,W. Jeffrey Bolster,Alexander Keyssar

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The Way of the Ship

America's Maritime History Reenvisoned, 1600-2000

By: Alex Roland,W. Jeffrey Bolster,Alexander Keyssar

The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestics shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.

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0470136006

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The Encapsulation Phenomenon

Synthesis, Reactivity and Applications of Caged Ions and Molecules

By: Yan Voloshin,Irina Belaya,Roland Krämer

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The Encapsulation Phenomenon

Synthesis, Reactivity and Applications of Caged Ions and Molecules

By: Yan Voloshin,Irina Belaya,Roland Krämer

This fundamental book presents the most comprehensive summary of the current state of the art in the chemistry of cage compounds. It introduces different ways of how ions and molecules can be encapsulated by three-dimensional caging ligands to form molecular and polymeric species: covalent, supramolecular, and coordination capsules. The authors introduce their classification, reactivity, and selected practical applications. Because encapsulation can isolate caged ions and molecules from external factors, the encapsulated species can exhibit unique physical and chemical properties. The resulting specific reactivity and selectivity can open up a range of applications, including chemical separation, recognition, chiral separation, catalysis, applications as sensors or probes, as molecular or supramolecular devices, or molecular carriers (cargo).A particularly strong emphasis in this book is on the summary and review of the synthesis of various types of cage compounds. Readers will find over 850 literature references summarized and clearly represented in over 600 schemes and illustrations. The book is structured by the types of caging ligands (covalent, supramolecular, or coordination capsules). The authors further arranged the chapters by ligand classes and types of encapsulated species (neutral molecules, anions, or cations). Readers will hence find an exhaustive reference resource and summary of the current state of research into encapsulated species, nowadays almost a separated realm of modern chemistry.

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The Rough Guide to Sweden

By: James Proctor,Neil Roland

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The Rough Guide to Sweden

By: James Proctor,Neil Roland

The Rough Guide to Sweden is the definitive travel guide with clear maps and coverage of the biggest and best known of all the Scandinavian countries, Sweden. Discover the vibrant regions of Sweden with expert tips on exploring all of the best Swedish attractions; from the wilds of Swedish Lapland to the most popular bars and restaurants in Sweden's cosmopolitan capital, Stockholm. Packed with the all the essential insider tips every traveller to Sweden needs; you'll find an authoritative background on Sweden's history and culture, detailed practical advice on what to see and do in Sweden whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels in Sweden, bars in Sweden, Swedish restaurants, shopping and entertainment for all budgets. Fully updated and expanded, The Rough Guide to Sweden covers everything from visiting the Hanseatic town of Visby, a former Viking site, to tips to seeing the country's latest attraction, ABBA The Museum, opening shortly in Stockholm. Explore all corners of Sweden with improved and enlarged maps of Gothenburg, Sweden's second city, and new maps of Halmstad and Umeå. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Sweden.

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Stockholm (Rough Guides Snapshot Sweden)

By: James Proctor,Neil Roland

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Stockholm (Rough Guides Snapshot Sweden)

By: James Proctor,Neil Roland

The Rough Guide Snapshot Stockholm is the ultimate travel guide to Sweden's breathtaking capital. It guides you through the city with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the cobbled streets of Gamla Stan to the beaches of Långholmen. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Sweden, with all the practical information you need on transport, accommodation, food and drink, costs, outdoor activities and festivals. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Sweden. (Equivalent printed page extent 52 pages)

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