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The biography of a woman from rural eastern Idaho who left home to marry a sailor and found herself living in the middle of the Cold War.

This edited book contains selected papers presented at the Louisiana Conference on Mathematical Control Theory (MCT'03), which brought together over 35 prominent world experts in mathematical control theory and its applications. The book forms a well-integrated exploration of those areas of mathematical control theory in which nonsmooth analysis is having a major impact. These include necessary and sufficient conditions in optimal control, Lya...

Der Band beleuchtet die Thematik aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Wer ist Amtsträger, d.h. tauglicher Täter der Bestechungsdelikte? Was bedeutet Vorteilsannahme? Welche Konsequenzen haben die häufig veralteten oder nicht vorhandenen Drittmittelrichtlinien der Länder? Wohin führt die anhaltende Verunsicherung bei Forschern und Industrie? Vertreter aus Wirtschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft antworten, diskutieren und unterbreiten konkrete Lösun...

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A pack which has place for creating personal dictionaries. Each page features high-frequency words to start children off with their word collections. It contains ruled lines that guide children's handwriting strokes whilst adding to their dictionary pages.

A critical introduction to the theory of risk, reviewing the contribution of leading sociologist, Ulrich Beck.

In this new and expanding area, Tony Lancaster's text is the first comprehensive introduction to the Bayesian way of doing applied economics. Uses clear explanations and practical illustrations and problems to present innovative, computer-intensive ways for applied economists to use the Bayesian method, Emphasizes computation and the study of probability distributions by computer sampling, Covers all the standard econometric models, including ...

This book is aimed at the busy practitioner, who is faced with a flow measurement problem and requires enough information to assess the advice received from manufacturers and to contribute to discussions with experts. The previous editions of this book have been widely used for over 13 years. In this new edition, the author retains the succinctness of the earlier books, by removing material which was of marginal value, and by referring readers...

The only authoritative reference source on the propagator concept, now thoroughly revised and updated Much has changed in the study of quantum and theoretical chemistry since the publication of the first edition of Propagators in Quantum Chemistry. Advances in computer power and software packages now make it possible to calculate molecular structure, properties, spectra, and reactivity with greater predictive power. Chemical processes, especi...

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From planning and design and architect-client interaction to construction, the evolution of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT is documented through color illustrations.

I don't know why my daughter is so angry. She yells at me all the time!" "Our daughter comes home, goes straight to her room, turns on her CD player and won't talk to anyone- especially me." "The emotional ups and downs of our daughter's life make us all feel like we're on a roller coaster." Navigating an adolescent daughter's emotional life is one of a mom's toughest challenges. A teenage girl's volatile emotions can seemingly toss her-and yo...

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BASED ON A TRUE STORYIn a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by confusion and conflict, a mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that will not tear.Their Lives Were Woven by Wars and Wilderness Places, and Tied by the Peace of Family and Faith.As the 1840s bring conflict to the Pacific Northwest's rugged Columbia Country, new challenges face Marie Dorion Venier Toupin: the wife, mother, and Ioway Indian woman who cro...

Are you tired of the earnest advice in conventional parenting books? Do you want to know what's really in your future as a new parent? Scott Feschuk and Paul Mather both know, all too well, and are happy to tell you with their trademark irreverence what it's really like to be a new parent. For instance, they tell you that by nine months your baby will inevitably have missed several milestones, sending you into a complete panic. And sooner or l...

An indispensable guide to the full potential of the DNA-based transformation of medicine." -- "Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics

In the seventeenth century, Salem Massachusetts had a terrible secret. Now, over three hundred years later in upstate New York, BRAD BANNING, a new and inexperienced filmmaker unwittingly discovers that secret. It had escaped the tyranny of the witch hunters and made its home in Spook Rock, a tiny backwoods commune, its throat held in a death grip by an evil force more powerful than time itself. When Banning intrudes too far into the lives of ...

Josh Lehman and Luke Sanders enter Texas Northwestern University on football scholarships and excel as winning players, Josh as a quarterback and Luke as a wide receiver. Luke's disabling knee injury terminates his football career but lucrative offers from professional teams tempt Josh away from his ambition to go to medical school. After soul-searching decisions, Josh turns his back on the offers so he and Luke can attend medical school toget...

In the last third of the nineteenth century the American city grew from a crowded merchant town, in which neatly everybody walked to work, to the modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuters' suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.