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The Little Owl

Population Dynamics, Behavior and Management of Athene Noctua

By: Dries Van Nieuwenhuyse,Ronald van Harxen,David H. Johnson

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The Little Owl

Population Dynamics, Behavior and Management of Athene Noctua

By: Dries Van Nieuwenhuyse,Ronald van Harxen,David H. Johnson

Exceptionally illustrated second edition featuring long-term behavioral observations, discoveries and breeding biology of the Little Owl.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009100157

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9781009100151

DeGarmo's Materials and Processes in Manufacturing

By: J. T. Black,Ronald A. Kohser

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DeGarmo's Materials and Processes in Manufacturing

By: J. T. Black,Ronald A. Kohser

Guiding engineering and technology students for over five decades, DeGarmo's Materials and Processes in Manufacturing provides a comprehensive introduction to manufacturing materials, systems, and processes. Coverage of materials focuses on properties and behavior, favoring a practical approach over complex mathematics; analytical equations and mathematical models are only presented when they strengthen comprehension and provide clarity. Material production processes are examined in the context of practical application to promote efficient understanding of basic principles, and broad coverage of manufacturing processes illustrates the mechanisms of each while exploring their respective advantages and limitations. Aiming for both accessibility and completeness, this text offers introductory students a comprehensive guide to material behavior and selection, measurement and inspection, machining, fabrication, molding, fastening, and other important processes using plastics, ceramics, composites, and ferrous and nonferrous metals and alloys. This extensive overview of the field gives students a solid foundation for advanced study in any area of engineering, manufacturing, and technology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119723299

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9781119723295

Enjoying Ornithology

A Celebration of 50 Years of the British Trust for Ornithology 1933-1983

By: Ronald Hickling

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Enjoying Ornithology

A Celebration of 50 Years of the British Trust for Ornithology 1933-1983

By: Ronald Hickling

In the year 1983, the British Trust for Ornithology celebrated its first 50 years. This volume records much of the history of birdwatching and ornithology since the early 1930s. The book is not a history of the BTO, but many of the Trust's achievements helped fashion the development and direction of ornithology over the decades, and major aspects of the Trust's work rightly have detailed treatment. The book ranges widely, it looks at the changing bird as well as the changing bird watcher and records the work of related conservation bodies, it considers the future and the past and includes an extensive section of useful facts and figures, whilst never losing sight of the central theme which is the book's title.

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A&C Black

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1408138433

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9781408138434

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program

Background and Issues for Congress

By: Ronald O'Rourke

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F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program

Background and Issues for Congress

By: Ronald O'Rourke

Contents: (1) Intro.: Alternate Engine Program; (2) Background: The F-35 In Brief; Three Versions; Alternate Engine Program; Program Origin and Milestones; Procurement Quantities; Program Mgmt.; Internat. Participation; Cost and Funding; Mfg. Locations; Proposed FY 2010 Budget; Proposed Termination of Alternate Engine; (3) Issues for Congress: Alternate Engine Program; Summary of Arguments; Admin. Perspective; Studies on F-35 Alternate Engine; Recent Developments; Development Status and Readiness for Production; Admin. Perspective; Affordability and Projected Fighter Shortfalls; Implications for Industrial Base; (4) Legislative Activity for FY 2010; Summary of Quantities and Funding; FY 2010 Defense Author. Bill. Illus.

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DIANE Publishing

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1437924263

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9781437924268

Money Is The Devil

By: Ronald Raptor

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Money Is The Devil

By: Ronald Raptor

Money is the Devil is a novel about the life experiences of an orthopedic surgeon named “Falcon.” He seems to lead a charmed life, traveling the world to lecture at medical conferences, running marathons, and flying airplanes. His life is disrupted, however, when he receives a demand letter from an attorney saying her two disabled clients have been sexually assaulted in the course of knee examinations. The “women of the Board” believe the two women and end up persuading the Board of Medicine to revoke his medical license even though no evidence was ever presented to back up the false accusations. He stands tall, however, and moves ahead to new adventures. This is a story of strength and resilience.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465356185

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9781465356185

PC Week Intranet and Internet Firewall Strategies

By: Edward G. Amoroso,Ronald Sharp

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PC Week Intranet and Internet Firewall Strategies

By: Edward G. Amoroso,Ronald Sharp

This complete guide shows why you need firewalls and how they work. Master the essential basics of firewalls: configurations, protocol issues, administration and more. By identifying the real threats to your network, you can establish packet filters or application-level gateways before security is breached.

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1562764225

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9781562764227

Project

Side Car

By: Ronald L. Kirk Sr.

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Project

Side Car

By: Ronald L. Kirk Sr.

An entity has appeared on this planet creating controversy and difficulties for most of the governments of earth. One person was identified as the catalyst and the United States Government turned to him for assistance.

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1453509488

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9781453509487

Tomorrow's Table

Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

By: Pamela C. Ronald,R. W. Adamchak

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Tomorrow's Table

Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

By: Pamela C. Ronald,R. W. Adamchak

By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of environmental degradation. Clearly, there must be a better way to meet the need for increased food production. Written as part memoir, part instruction, and part contemplation, Tomorrow's Table argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over their shoulders so that we can see what geneticists and organic farmers actually do. The reader sees the problems that farmers face, trying to provide larger yields without resorting to expensive or environmentally hazardous chemicals, a problem that will loom larger and larger as the century progresses. They learn how organic farmers and geneticists address these problems. This book is for consumers, farmers, and policy decision makers who want to make food choices and policy that will support ecologically responsible farming practices. It is also for anyone who wants accurate information about organic farming, genetic engineering, and their potential impacts on human health and the environment.

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Oxford University Press

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0199742421

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9780199742424

Drug-device Combinations for Chronic Diseases

By: SuPing Lyu,Ronald Siegel

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Drug-device Combinations for Chronic Diseases

By: SuPing Lyu,Ronald Siegel

This book covers two areas, the first detailing the concepts and technologies of drug-device combination products. The second area includes case studies of important products that either significantly shape our technologies and thinking, or contribute to current healthcare practice. The book: Discusses where drugs and devices work, where they fail, and when they need to work with each other Reviews interactions between human bodies and the drug-device combination products the measurements of these interactions Covers how a drug-device combination product is developed, tested, and regulated Includes case studies of steroid releasing leads, AOA treated tissue heart valves, intrathecal drug delivery pumps, infuse bone grafts, drug eluting stents, and antimicrobial meshes

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119003008

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9781119003007

The End of Doom

Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century

By: Ronald Bailey

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The End of Doom

Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century

By: Ronald Bailey

A science-backed, fact-based refutation of many prevailing environmental theories; proving that most current global environmental trends are, in fact, positive.

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Macmillan

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1250057671

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9781250057679

Living Beyond the Danger Zone

A Diary of Angelic Interventions

By: Ronald D. Rogers

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Living Beyond the Danger Zone

A Diary of Angelic Interventions

By: Ronald D. Rogers

Meet Ron Rogers, adventurer, naturalist and extraordinaire. His guardian angel and conversations with God have accompanied him as he found continual excitement, whether deliberately pursued in foreign lands or encountered in his own backyard. Come along on remarkable escapades as Ron houses and handles venomous snakes, fights off lurking sea creatures intent on taking his life, deals with bandits and bands of machete-wielding natives. Follow him as he recounts astonishing and often harrowing incidents as he flirts with death in abyssal mine shafts, defies glaciers, experiences starvation, and flees from the jaws and claws of Komodo Dragons in Indonesia, and finds himself crying out to God in desperation and in gratitude. Ron's many photos further document the selected miraculous episodes described within this volume. If you weren't a believer before reading this book, reliving the life-threatening and life-changing incidents with Ron surely will compel you to ponder the occurrence of miracles in your own life, and thereby ultimately inspire you to seriously consider God's existence. The author's undying thirst for adventure is so much a part of Ronald D. Rogers that he cannot imagine leading the mundane life that most people do. At the same time, spiritual enlightment, development and appreciation for the power of God through intervention, has guided his journey for life. Now in his mid-sixties, though still plagued with health problems, Ron teaches young people how to appreciate God's creations in the natural world that he so enjoys. He now searches to perpetuate his stead upon his retirement from earthly existence. Presently, Ron and his wife reside in the mountains of northern California glorifying God with his personal natural history museum.

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TEACH Services, Inc.

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1572582715

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9781572582712

Ghalghaai-ingalsii, Ingalsii-ghalghaai Lughat

By: Johanna Nichols,Ronald L. Sprouse

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Ghalghaai-ingalsii, Ingalsii-ghalghaai Lughat

By: Johanna Nichols,Ronald L. Sprouse

This bilingual dictionary is the very first of its kind and contains about 6,000 words of essential vocabulary for Ingush.

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Psychology Press

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0415315956

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9780415315951

A Manual of Mammalogy

with Keys to Families of the World, Third Edition

By: Robert E. Martin,Ronald H. Pine,Anthony F. DeBlase

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A Manual of Mammalogy

with Keys to Families of the World, Third Edition

By: Robert E. Martin,Ronald H. Pine,Anthony F. DeBlase

Refined in detail through three editions, the manuals outstanding features include: an explanation of keys and how to use them; the inclusion of keys designed to identify by order or family extant mammals of the world; special sections containing comments and suggestions on identification; information on working with map coordinates and global positioning receivers; coverage of the use of computer programs to get estimates of home-range size and characteristics; and ideas for locating reliable, authoritative literature on mammals. A section on techniques for studying mammals in the field and in the laboratory rounds out this student-friendly learning tool. Beautifully wrought illustrations and diagrams accurately portray visual details of mammal groups or characteristics that are unavailable to study in person. Moreover, well-designed laboratory exercises provide opportunities to apply knowledge and master understanding.

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Waveland Press

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1478609532

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9781478609537

Introduction to California Chaparral

By: Ronald D. Quinn,Sterling C. Keeley

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Introduction to California Chaparral

By: Ronald D. Quinn,Sterling C. Keeley

This book will introduce general readers to the plants and animals associated with chaparral and review for biologists and land managers its natural history, ecology, and management challenges.

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Univ of California Press

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0520245660

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9780520245662

Extinction

By: Ronald C. Meyer

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Extinction

By: Ronald C. Meyer

Extinction, brings together the leading edges of both science and spirituality in an engaging thriller. It is the first biotech spiritual thriller, and is designed so that the reader experiences his own spiritual journey as he follows the protagonist Dr. Kira Taylor's fictional one. Forces of good and evil race to find the Terminator gene. Can Kira develop a higher level of consciousness in time to save humankind from extinction?

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John Hunt Publishing

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1846948657

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9781846948657

Caroline and Papa

Growing Up and Growing Older: A 365 Day Storybook of Growing Love

By: Ronald B. Schram

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Caroline and Papa

Growing Up and Growing Older: A 365 Day Storybook of Growing Love

By: Ronald B. Schram

I had the career of a lifetime. I was a teacher. I began my teaching career believing that one person could make a difference, and throughout the years, I never lost sight of that conviction. Teaching connected me to my students in ways quite humorous, as well as heart breaking. I hope the reader laughs a lot and cries only a little, while walking in my footsteps as an educator. Laugh with me as you read about Fred, the crusty cockroach we set free to find his wife and eighty-seven children. In addition, there is always my favorite story about the scary monster under the bed holding a student's homework hostage. I fed a rooster and his hens bread crumbs for breakfast each morning, until they tried to follow me, in single file, into the school board building one day. Some difficult students in summer school mistakenly believed my black patent leather belt to be a black belt in Karate. Who was I to tell them differently? Coming right on top of the laughs were the times I went home to cry. I remember the student, new to our school, who went home one evening and hung himself, his cries for help coming too late. I remember with equal sadness, the foster child we sponsored in Kenya who died because help did not reach him in time. Closer to home was the overage student who was shot and killed while he participated in a home invasion, just days after he finished summer school. Outside factors reached inside our classroom as well, reeking havoc with the emotions of both the children and me. The disastrous space shuttle, with the teacher on board, happened before our very eyes; while the greatest tragedy of all was the destruction of the twin towers on 9/11. These stories and many more comprise my educational career, and although there was no easy button, I would do it all over again. I was a teacher.

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AuthorHouse

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1438914288

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9781438914282

The Mantle Site

An Archaeological History of an Ancestral Wendat Community

By: Jennifer Birch,Ronald F. Williamson

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The Mantle Site

An Archaeological History of an Ancestral Wendat Community

By: Jennifer Birch,Ronald F. Williamson

This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from the coalescence of multiple small villages into one well-planned and well-integrated community. Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson frame the development of this community in the context of a historical sequence of site relocations. The social processes that led to its formation, the political and economic lives of its inhabitants, and their relationships to other populations in northeastern North America are explored using multiple scales of analysis. This book is key for those interested in the history and archaeology of eastern North America, the social, political, and economic organization of Iroquoian societies, the archaeology of communities, and processes of settlement aggregation.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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075912101X

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9780759121010

Pharmacokinetic Principles of Dosing Adjustments

Understanding the Basics

By: Ronald D. Schoenwald

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Pharmacokinetic Principles of Dosing Adjustments

Understanding the Basics

By: Ronald D. Schoenwald

This book has evolved over the last twenty years from a cumulative effort to develop a professional course in pharmacokinetics that would assist future practitioners in therapeutic decision making. As practicing pharmacists become more involved with patient advising, it becomes apparent that clinicians will be required to make dosing adjustments for certain drugs. This will become increasingly more likely as pharmacy practitioners have access to patient information that requires careful attention to dose and dosing interval, which in turn correlates to various pharmacokinetic parameters such as half-life and the volume of distribution of drugs. Although many handbooks are available on this subject, they do not devote more than a brief chapter to the concepts behind the dosing adjustment approach. Pharmacokinetic Principles of Dosing Adjustments provides the concepts used to formulate approaches. Equations that appear in various chapters are developed, not through lengthy derivations, but by more of an intuitive approach. The equations are presented in their conceptual form, rather than a separate convenient form applicable to each clinic situation. This method is used to demonstrate how you can apply the initial conditions to the properties of the drug, patient and/or route of administration, rather than memorizing each variation of the basic equation. The author defines pertinent pharmacokinetic terms as well as kinetic processes and classical modeling relevant to dosing adjustments. Examples are included within each chapter that emphasize an understanding of the concepts. Pharmacokinetic Principles of Dosing Adjustments was written for practitioners who operate in a setting that requires careful consideration to dosing parameters and, in particular, with patients that require constant monitoring of therapeutic outcomes including dosing adjustments. Based on the introductory course in pharmacokinetics taught by Dr. Schoenwald for the past twenty years, this book is intended as a review and resource for practicing pharmacists.

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CRC Press

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1482278960

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Handbook of Biopharma Industry Acronyms & Terms

By: Ronald Evens

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Handbook of Biopharma Industry Acronyms & Terms

By: Ronald Evens

The Handbook of BioPharma Industry Acronyms & Terms is a comprehensive reference listing all terms and abbreviations used in the development and marketing of drugs.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763752967

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9780763752965

The Impact of Chinese Naval Modernization on the Future of the United States Navy

By: Ronald O'Rourke

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The Impact of Chinese Naval Modernization on the Future of the United States Navy

By: Ronald O'Rourke

China's rapidly developing military capabilities have forced US policy makers to reconsider their own military infrastructure. The primary concern of this book is to examine how China's military modernisation will be factored into decisions about US Navy programs. Several elements of China's military modernisation have potential implications for future required US Navy capabilities. These include theatre-range ballistic missiles (TBMs), land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs), anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), land-based aircraft, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious ships, naval mines, nuclear weapons, and possibly high-power microwave (HPM) devices. This book will examine how these elements and others will influence the future of the United States Navy.

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Nova Publishers

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1600211496

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9781600211492

Principles of Composite Material Mechanics, Second Edition

By: Ronald F. Gibson

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Principles of Composite Material Mechanics, Second Edition

By: Ronald F. Gibson

Extensively updated and maintaining the high standard of the popular original, Principles of Composite Material Mechanics, Second Edition reflects many of the recent developments in the mechanics of composite materials. It draws on the decades of teaching and research experience of the author and the course material of the senior undergraduate and graduate level classes he has taught. New and up-to-date information throughout the text brings modern engineering students everything they need to advance their knowledge of the evermore common composite materials. The introduction strengthens the book’s emphasis on basic principles of mechanics by adding a review of the basic mechanics of materials equations. New appendices cover the derivations of stress equilibrium equations and the strain–displacement relations from elasticity theory. Additional sections address recent applications of composite mechanics to nanocomposites, composite grid structures, and composite sandwich structures. More detailed discussion of elasticity and finite element models have been included along with results from the recent World Wide Failure Exercise. The author takes a phenomenological approach to illustrate linear viscoelastic behavior of composites. Updated information on the nature of fracture and composite testing includes coverage of the finite element implementation of the Virtual Crack Closure technique and new and revised ASTM standard test methods. The author includes updated and expanded material property tables, many more example problems and homework exercises, as well as new reference citings throughout the text. Requiring a solid foundation in materials mechanics, engineering, linear algebra, and differential equations, Principles of Composite Materials Mechanics, Second Edition provides the advanced knowledge in composite materials needed by today’s materials scientists and engineers.

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CRC Press

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1420014242

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9781420014242

Hiking New Jersey

A Guide to 50 of the Garden State's Greatest Hiking Adventures

By: Paul Decoste,Ronald Dupont

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Hiking New Jersey

A Guide to 50 of the Garden State's Greatest Hiking Adventures

By: Paul Decoste,Ronald Dupont

New Jersey's stereotype as overpopulated and industrial notwithstanding, there's another New Jersey worth seeing—and this guide goes there. This is the aptly nicknamed Garden State of preserved forests and farmland, of streams and waterfalls, of clean beaches and vast wetlands, of endless green mountains. This comprehensive, informative, user-friendly guide describes fifty hikes for all abilities.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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076275771X

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9780762757718

Those Roads All Travel

By: Ronald Kirkland

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Those Roads All Travel

By: Ronald Kirkland

In the past I've written of things that charm, that awed or inspired. There is much indeed to prompt a sense of wonder in our world. Yet real life does not abide in those comfortable places long. There is much encountered that is raw and bitter to the tongue. There are battles with comprehension and things that prick our conscience. Ugliness cannot be avoided in the end. While these things are acknowledged and examined they are not condoned or embraced. There is much to learn from all aspects of life. Within these pages I've woven a fabric of life's coarser textures; putting a face on curiosities, contrasts and pains, I trust they will illuminate our human condition in ways that engage.

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Lulu.com

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1304805190

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9781304805195

Ebook: Managerial Accounting - Global Edition

By: Ronald Hilton,David Platt

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Ebook: Managerial Accounting - Global Edition

By: Ronald Hilton,David Platt

We are pleased to present this Global Edition, which has been developed specifically to acquaint students of business with the fundamental tools of managerial accounting and to promote their understanding of the dramatic ways in which business is changing. The emphasis is on teaching students to use accounting information to best manage an organization. Each chapter is written around a realistic business or focus company that guides the reader through the topics of that chapter. There is significant coverage of contemporary topics such as activity-based costing, target costing, the value chain, customer profitability analysis, and throughput costing while also including traditional topics such as job-order costing, budgeting, and performance evaluation. Many of the real-world examples in the Management Accounting Practice boxes have been revised and updated to make them more current and several new examples have been added. This Global Edition has been adapted to meet the needs of courses outside the United States and does not align with the instructor and student resources available with the U.S. edition.

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McGraw Hill

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007717061X

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9780077170615

The Last Wanderer

By: Ronald W. Hull

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The Last Wanderer

By: Ronald W. Hull

The Last Wanderer. An unnamed young college professor goes on a summer adventure in northern Canada alone when the highly interdependent world comes apart and he is unable to return to find his sister and uncle after two years of fires and nuclear meltdown leading to nuclear winter and the death of almost all the inhabitants of the earth that he has known. The unnamed wanderer returns to the Indianhead country of Wisconsin and finds no trace of those who he has lost. While finding wildlife are making a comeback, he finds no one alive and begins salvaging supplies and vehicles to begin his search for a safe place to live and find other survivors of fire, starvation, radiation, and disease. Instead, he finds a new Peterbilt 579 tractor with a sleeper that provides not only a safe place to sleep at night, but a means of traveling the interstate highways in search of others, like him, who may have survived somehow, what had killed all of the others. The wanderer's lonely trip across country finds an unlikely old hermit, Charlie Weaver, and they bond in their effort to improve their lots and search for others, but Charlie is dying of lung cancer and there's nothing that the wanderer can do to save his life from ebbing to a close. The wanderer must go on alone. The wanderer's search for warm winter quarters takes him to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he happens on another survivor, a teenage girl named Lisa Adams who survived because her father took such care to save her that it cost him his own life. Lisa, immediately falls in love with the wanderer in her own, naïve way. It isn't long before they are expecting a child and have found another survivor, Oscar Bradley. But Oscar, like Charlie, is dying from radiation exposure cancer and meets the same fate. Lisa's fetus is also affected, resulting in a stillbirth. And the stillbirth of their daughter leads to Lisa's death from that ill-fated accident and hemorrhaging. Depressed and utterly alone, the wanderer is consoled by a capuchin monkey that the wanderer names Charlie after his friend and they travel the country looking for more survivors. Along the way, he saves a small German Shepherd mix puppy and names him, Rocky. Rocky and Charlie become helpful and loyal companions in the wanderer's travels. Twice, survivors are found, but they are hostile and the wanderer is unable to make contact. And then, like a miracle, the wanderer finds a commune with 47 people that have survived well, only to have them lost by a predictable, but tragic, natural disaster. Left alone without hope and with the southern United States becoming more tropical and uninhabitable, the wanderer retreats to northern Ontario where he stayed the first two winters and where he finally lives out his life to a surprising conclusion.

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1644385473

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9781644385470

Alien Vigilante Aircraft

A Frank Shannon Story

By: Ronald Dean Durbin

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Alien Vigilante Aircraft

A Frank Shannon Story

By: Ronald Dean Durbin

Frank Shannon was a fast rising star in the Air Force world. Then his F-22 shut down. He guided it away from the civilian population but when he ejected, his carage was too close to the ground. He would lose both legs and remain in a coma for more than one hundred days. The Air Force gave up on him waking up. They retired him at his newly selected rank of full colonel. His wife of twenty-five years couldn't stay there and watch him slowly die. So, Frank lost his career and wife with his accident. Beek, an alien from the planet Zuppo, had been watching Frank's life. Then it fell apart. Beek was being recalled to his planet and had wanted to leave his Startship with someone who could be trusted with it. This didn't change with Frank's accident. It actually helped get Frank released from the military. Now, Beek needed to get Frank released from the hospital.

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166980643X

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Crime, Deviance and Society

An Introduction to Sociological Criminology

By: Ana Rodas,Melanie Simpson,Paddy Rawlinson,Ronald Kramer,Emma Ryan,Reece Walters,Emmeline Taylor,Alan Beckley,Ashlee Gore,Chris Cunneen,Amanda Porter,Scott Poynting,Emma Russell

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Crime, Deviance and Society

An Introduction to Sociological Criminology

By: Ana Rodas,Melanie Simpson,Paddy Rawlinson,Ronald Kramer,Emma Ryan,Reece Walters,Emmeline Taylor,Alan Beckley,Ashlee Gore,Chris Cunneen,Amanda Porter,Scott Poynting,Emma Russell

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to criminological theory and examines how crime and deviance are constructed.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108430309

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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

Moving from Affluence to Generosity

By: Ronald J. Sider

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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

Moving from Affluence to Generosity

By: Ronald J. Sider

In an age obsessed with wealth, Christians seem to have forgotten that scripture encourages believers to give to the poor. Why do 1.3 billion people live in abject poverty? And what should Christians do about it? Despite a dramatic reduction in world hunger, 34,000 children still die daily of starvation and preventable disease, and 1.3 billion people around the world remain in abject poverty. Dr. Ron Sider, a professor of theology, examines the issues of poverty and hunger in modern society. While the Bible is full of instructions to care for the poor and warns against being seduced by riches, it’s been statistically proven that the richer countries become, the less they give. Finding that conservatives blame what they consider to be morally reprehensible individual choices, and liberals blame what they believe to be constrictive social and economic policy, Dr. Sider finds himself agreeing with both sides. First published in 1978, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger has had an enormous impact on how believers (and churches) view questions of poverty and hunger. Dr. Sider’s insights provide a compelling look at what it truly means to follow Christ. This edition of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger is: Newly revised, expanded and updated Listed as one of the 100 most influential books in religion in the 20th century A resource for Christians seeking to overcome poverty and change the economic structures of our world In this fresh look at an age-old problem, Dr. Sider offers a detailed explanation of the causes of poverty and hunger, as well as a comprehensive series of practical solutions for Christians who want to seriously pursue their faith and become better followers of Jesus.

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Thomas Nelson

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0718037197

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Best Easy Day Hikes Northeast New Jersey

By: Paul Decoste,Ronald Dupont

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Best Easy Day Hikes Northeast New Jersey

By: Paul Decoste,Ronald Dupont

Best Easy Day Hikes Northeast New Jersey includes concise descriptions of the best short hikes in the area, with detailed maps of the routes. The 20 hikes in this guide are generally short, easy to follow, and guaranteed to please.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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076276323X

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Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Why Giants Fall

By: Ronald R. Sims

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Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Why Giants Fall

By: Ronald R. Sims

Ethical failures are rooted in leadership failure, the lack of a corporate culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated, and unresponsiveness to key organizational stakeholders. This book seeks to enhance our understanding of the causes of ethical debacles in an era when ethical missteps can often lead to corporate bankruptcies or worse. Sims offers practical solutions for mitigating damage and preventing such problems from happening in the first place. He also explains how to institutionalize ethics throughout an organization. Sims asserts that organizations wishing to behave ethically must do more than harbor good intentions. Such companies must implement policies that inculcate the corporate culture with ethical values. They must also commit to ethical behavior in all interactions with internal and external stakeholders, including investors, customers, employees, and the community.

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