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The Sydney Wars

Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817

By: Stephen Gapps

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The Sydney Wars

Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817

By: Stephen Gapps

The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians – described as ‘this constant sort of war’ by one early colonist – around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 1817. The Sydney Wars sheds new light on how British and Aboriginal forces developed military tactics and how the violence played out. Analysing the paramilitary roles of settlers and convicts and the militia defensive systems that were deployed, it shows that white settlers lived in fear, while Indigenous people fought back as their land and resources were taken away. Stephen Gapps details the violent conflict that formed part of a long period of colonial strategic efforts to secure the Sydney basin and, in time, the rest of the continent. ‘A powerful and cogent contribution to one of the most contentious aspects of Australian history: the war between British settlers and the First Nations. The fine detailed research will mean that we will have to radically reassess our understanding of the history of the first thirty years of settlement.’ —Henry Reynolds

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NewSouth

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1742244246

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Year Book of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 2013

By: Stephen S. Raab

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Year Book of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 2013

By: Stephen S. Raab

The Year Book of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in pathology and laboratory medicine, carefully selected from more than 300 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article and discuss its application to your practice. There's no faster or easier way to stay informed! Chapters in this annual cover the most current information on all aspects of pathology and laboratory medicine including: molecular diagnostics, dermatopathology, anatomic pathology techniques, outcomes analysis, cytopathology, clinical immunology, clinical microbiology, neuropathology and hematology.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455773093

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9781455773091

Applying Earned Value Management to Design-Bid-Build Projects to Assess Productivity Disruption

A System Dynamics Approach

By: Stephen P. Warhoe

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Applying Earned Value Management to Design-Bid-Build Projects to Assess Productivity Disruption

A System Dynamics Approach

By: Stephen P. Warhoe

One of the most important jobs of a project manager is to manage a project's budget and schedule. These tasks can easily be very difficult to accomplish on projects that are complex, especially since successful project execution relies heavily on people who are expected to perform their roles individually and as a team. One of the most difficult aspects of managing projects is estimating how fast and effectively humans will perform a task; that is, determining how productive workers collectively will be each day, each week, or within any time period during the life of a project. Because projects are unique and are typically one-off endeavors, there is usually little previous empirical data to rely upon for the project manager to forecast productivity before or during the project's execution. The crux of the problem lies with adequately identifying not only the labor work flow process, but also the influences that affect the work flow process. When scope changes are introduced into the work flow of a project, the types and number of influences and their cause and effect relationships can significantly increase in numbers. This phenomenon often turns complicated projects into extremely complex ones and the final outcome can be greater than the sum of the individual inputs. For project managers who are unable to get their arms around this very real situation, forecasting the outcome of a project often becomes out of control, especially for projects that are large and heavily labor intensive. This study takes a post-positivist approach to design and builds a system dynamic model with which construction projects that are delivered using the design-bid-build methodology can be simulated to show generically how the influences that affect construction projects can affect worker productivity. No other studies are known to exist that design or build such a model for construction projects that use the design-bid-build delivery method. The model that was designed in the study is based on the works of several academics' works as well as the input of several experts in the construction field, including this study's author. As opposed to attempting to create a simulation model based on the uniqueness of a single project, a "mosaic" approach was used in creating the model in that elements of the model were identified and taken from studies found through the literature review as well as interviews with construction industry experts. The stock and flow structure of the study's model is intended to be a composite of many construction projects and can be used for any project delivered using the design-bid-build methodology. From the research, the model was created and tested using good modeling practice in that the model testing phase followed the process created by one of the pre-eminent system dynamic modelers in the world (refer to Sterman, 2000). The result is a model that simulates the work flow of labor hours in a design-bid-build construction project which can be affected by an immeasurable number of influences that can and do occur on construction projects.

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Universal-Publishers

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1612334164

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Ancient & Modern

Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy

By: Stephen Muecke

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Ancient & Modern

Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy

By: Stephen Muecke

How might we think and talk about indigenous philosophy? Why has Aboriginal knowledge not been given the status of philosophical knowledge? There's a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia's modernity.

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UNSW Press

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0868407860

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9780868407869

Dynamic Models in Biology

By: Stephen P. Ellner,John Guckenheimer

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Dynamic Models in Biology

By: Stephen P. Ellner,John Guckenheimer

From controlling disease outbreaks to predicting heart attacks, dynamic models are increasingly crucial for understanding biological processes. Many universities are starting undergraduate programs in computational biology to introduce students to this rapidly growing field. In Dynamic Models in Biology, the first text on dynamic models specifically written for undergraduate students in the biological sciences, ecologist Stephen Ellner and mathematician John Guckenheimer teach students how to understand, build, and use dynamic models in biology. Developed from a course taught by Ellner and Guckenheimer at Cornell University, the book is organized around biological applications, with mathematics and computing developed through case studies at the molecular, cellular, and population levels. The authors cover both simple analytic models--the sort usually found in mathematical biology texts--and the complex computational models now used by both biologists and mathematicians. Linked to a Web site with computer-lab materials and exercises, Dynamic Models in Biology is a major new introduction to dynamic models for students in the biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering.

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Princeton University Press

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0691125899

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9780691125893

The Sydney Wars

Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817

By: Stephen Gapps

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Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817

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Gudyarra

The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance -- the Bathurst War, 1822-1824

By: Stephen Gapps

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Gudyarra

The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance -- the Bathurst War, 1822-1824

By: Stephen Gapps

In May 1824, what can only be described as a period of all-out, total gudyarra ('war' in the Wiradyuri language) had begun west of the Blue Mountains. Relations between Wiradyuri people and the colonists in the country around Bathurst had completely broken down, and the number of raids and killings occurring across isolated stock stations in the district had intensified.' In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps - award-winning author of The Sydney Wars - unearths what led to this furious and bloody war, beginning with the occupation of Wiradyuri lands by Europeans following Governor Macquarie's push to expand the colony west over the Blue Mountains to generate wealth from sheep and cattle. Gudyarra traces the co-ordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradyuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the drastic counterattacks by the colonists and the punitive expeditions led by armed parties of colonists and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradyuri women and children, Gapps provides an important new historical account of the fierce Wiradyuri resistance. 'This isn't just a war for Wiradjuri country, this is a war for Australia: the country we are still to be. Our nation begins here.' -- Stan Grant 'The untold story of the Wiradyuri War of resistance against a World Empire' -- Uncle Bill Allen Junior, Wiradyuri Elder 'In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps plots in meticulous detail the brutal war between the British and the Wiradyuri for possession of the Western Plains of New South Wales. A masterly account of both sides of the conflict, Gudyarra offers new understandings of the complexity of frontier history and the need for all Australians to reconcile with the past.' -- Lyndall Ryan 'This is an important book, indeed essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the new direction in the history of the frontier wars.' -- Henry Reynolds

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NewSouth

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1742236715

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Cabrogal to Fairfield City

A History of a Multicultural Community

By: Stephen Gapps

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Cabrogal to Fairfield City

A History of a Multicultural Community

By: Stephen Gapps

CABROGAL TO FAIRFIELD CITY allows us to dig deeply into the rich details of everyday life in the past and in the present. This meticulous look at the Fairfield area gives us the satisfying experience of recognising our everyday surroundings and hearing the pepople we know speak to us from the book's pages. To create this rich form of local history, we need to learn about all the people of Fairfield.

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1876629932

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The Random Book Of-- Stephen

By: Stephen Grant

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The Random Book Of-- Stephen

By: Stephen Grant

This title features facts, figures, stats and trivia on legions of record-breakers, record losers, actors, singers, sportsmen, historical figures, the famous and infamous, felons, inventors, rulers, heartthrobs, politicians and scientists called Stephen.

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Stripe

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1907158138

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9781907158131

Stephen King goes to the movies

By: Stephen King

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Stephen King goes to the movies

By: Stephen King

I racconti di Stephen King prendono vita sul grande schermo! Una vera chicca per gli appassionati del Re del brivido.

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SPERLING & KUPFER

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8820090120

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9788820090128

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

Dr. Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, and inspired millions more by defying a terrifying early prognosis of ALS, which originally gave him only two years to live. In later life he could communicate only by using a few facial muscles, but he continued to advance his field and serve as a revered voice on social and humanitarian issues. Hawking not only unraveled some of the universe's greatest mysteries but also believed science plays a critical role in fixing problems here on Earth. Now he turns his attention to the most urgent issues facing us. Will humanity survive? Should we colonize space? Does God exist? These are just a few of the questions Hawking addresses in this wide-ranging, passionately argued final book from one of the greatest minds in history. Featuring a foreword by Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar playing Stephen Hawking, an introduction by Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne, and an afterword from Hawking's daughter, Lucy." --

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1984817728

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9781984817723

Stephen Fry in America

By: Stephen Fry

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Stephen Fry in America

By: Stephen Fry

In his chariot of Englishness - a black London cab - Stephen starts his journey on the east coast and zig-zags across America, stopping in every state from Maine to Hawaii. ---Cover.

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HarperCollins UK

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0007266340

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Book's by Stephen Gapps

The Sydney Wars

The Sydney Wars

Year Book of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 2013

Year Book of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 2013

Applying Earned Value Management to Design-Bid-Build Projects to Assess Productivity Disruption

Applying Earned Value Management to Design-Bid-Build Projects to Assess Productivity Disruption

Ancient & Modern

Ancient & Modern

Dynamic Models in Biology

Dynamic Models in Biology

The Sydney Wars

The Sydney Wars

Gudyarra

Gudyarra

Cabrogal to Fairfield City

Cabrogal to Fairfield City

The Random Book Of-- Stephen

The Random Book Of-- Stephen

Stephen King goes to the movies

Stephen King goes to the movies

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Stephen Fry in America

Stephen Fry in America

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