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As research in the geosciences and social sciences becomes increasingly dependent on computers, applications such as geographical information systems are becoming indispensable tools. But the digital representations of phenomena that these systems require are often of poor quality, leading to inaccurate results, uncertainty, error propagation, and potentially legal liability. Spatial data quality has become an essential research topic within g...

The first complete translation into English of this Tibetan text, together with the informative commentary by the 8th century master Buddhaguhya. This text is of seminal importance for the history of Buddhist Tantra, especially as very little has been published concerning the origins of Tantra in India.

This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M.R. James. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales.

The classic insider's account of the Rolling Stones' legendary 1972 STP tour: "The best book ever written about the Stones, if not music in general."-Independent.

In this classic book on the informal economy of Peru and the reasons why poverty can be a breeding ground for terrorists, de Soto describes the forces that keep people dependent on underground economies.

The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook" is the be-all and end-all book for the rotisserie oven, with 300 recipes for every possible way to use the machine, including what readers expect and lots of surprises, plus a slew of sauces, rubs, marinades, and side dishes. 10 illustrations.

Originally part of the Bergen County area known as Godwinville and then Ridgewood, Glen Rock voted to become a borough in 1894. The rock from which the borough took its name was deposited at the end of the last ice age by a retreating glacier. Local folklore tells of Native Americans, the Lenni Lenape, holding meetings on the rock. Early settlers used the rock as a landmark in deeds for the farms they created out of the heavily wooded land. Lo...

Year 7 is an engaging Class Book that meet the needs of both teachers and pupils for the pre-2008 Science Strategy and Framework for Key Stage 3. The differentiated questions build thinking skills and Scientific Enquiry is intergrated throughout.

The Open Book is a provocative study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. Jensen reimagines the links between text and context as she endeavors to historicize literary influence, by taking Bloomian 'anxiety' and Kristevan 'intertextuality' into fields of actual history and biography. Jensen both borrows from and deconstructs the ideas of these theorists as she reads the texts of Hardy, Stephen, Woolf, Mansfield...

Civil Society and Japan's Foreign Aid examines the changing relations between the Japanese state and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in promoting effective aid policies and analyzes the changing nature of policy making and governance in Japan. It is based on extensive research in Southeast Asia and Japan, investigating the role of Japanese aid in fields such as education, health care, environmental protection, and economic development. I...

The Columbia Basin was dusted only with sagebrush and bunchgrass before settlers harnessed the power of the mighty Columbia River. With irrigation came the small town of Richland, and its sister towns of White Bluffs and Hanford. On the advent of U.S. involvement in the Second World War, Richland was discovered by government scientists. Breaking ground in March of 1943, through one of the fastest-built government operations ever, the first nuc...

Beginning with a small girl in West Kirby obsessed with Comics, Shirley Hughes' story takes us through World War II, and to a career which began with Art School in a blitzed Liverpool, led to Oxford and then to London, illustrated with her own art work.

To reach points of commerce for gold assaying or buying supplies, miners from the gold mining boom town of Auburn followed the Oregon Trail east or north. Where the pioneers entered Baker Valley from the gold fields, Baker City sprang up as the county seat of Baker County, named after Colonel Edward Baker, a senator from Oregon. For many years following its birth in 1864, Baker City was the largest town between Salt Lake City and Portland. It ...

In 1904, from a plot of land that would soon become University City, eccentric publisher Edwin Gardner Lewis shone the beam of what he claimed was the world's largest searchlight over the World's Fair in nearby St. Louis. Several years later, he claimed an even greater possession: a city, created around his publishing complex, complete with his own mayoral office, wide boulevards, and beautiful residences. The story of University City is one o...

This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the middle ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam controversy, which revolved around the publication of Joseph Swetnam's The arraignment of lewd, forward, and inconstant women and the pamphlets which...

A detailed study examining The German Requiem, Brahms's controversial, and his largest, masterpiece.

Das Lehrbuch bietet eine kompakte und prägnante Darstellung der Mechanik elastischer Körper und Strukturen. Es beschränkt die Stofffülle auf das Wesentliche, schlägt aber auch Brücken zu Spezialdisziplinen Struktur- und Festkörpermechanik und zur immer wichtiger werdenden Computer-orientierten Mechanik. Nach einer Einführung in die Grundlagen werden ebene Probleme, räumliche Probleme, Variations- und Energieprinzipien behandelt. Weitere Kapite...

Dieses Buch soll in erster Linie Studenten der Ingenieurwissenschaften und Physik, aber auch Informatik- und Mathematikstudenten (vor allem fürs Lehramt) helfen, das Grundstudium zu überstehen, es ist kein Geheimnis, dass für viele Ingenieur-und Informatikstudenten die Mathematik der Stol­ perstein ist! Das Buch setzt den regelmäßigen Besuch von Vorlesungen (bzw. das Studium der Fernkurse), die aktive Mitarbeit in den Übungsgruppen und das Stu...

Der verständlich aufbereitete Stoff behandelt Fließkurven und Fließortkurven, die Ermittlung von Verfahrenswerten durch Messen, die Grundlagen der Werkzeugmaschinen zum Umformen sowie die Arbeitsgenauigkeit. Die Informationen sind ausführlich genug für die selbständige Lösung nicht zu spezieller Probleme. Umfassende Literaturangaben erleichtern die Einarbeitung in Spezialgebiete.

Electrochemical Microsystem Technologies examines the technological advances made in the development of microsystem technologies using electrochemical techniques. It covers electrochemical microsystem technologies for microelectronics, sensors, materials science, microbiology, neurobiology and applications of microtechnologies and microsystems in medicine and provides an overview of the technological status and development of micropatternings ...