Whether you're giving a business presentation, accepting an award, or making an impromptu speech at a birthday party, this unique guide offers advice plus a wide variety of words and phrases that will help make your moment in the spotlight engaging and effective. Covering 39 different speech-giving occasions, How to Say It Best enables you to:• Create the perfect speech from example phrases, sentences, and paragraphs• Capture an audience's att...
Fear and Trembling? Shock and Awe? Which set of statements best describes the emotions surrounding the assessment of writing ability in educational settings? This book - the first historical study of its kind - begins with Harvard University's 1874 requirement that first-year student applicants submit a short composition as part of the admissions process, the book concludes with the College Board's 2005 requirement for an essay to be submitted...
Samuel Manning's classic work is indispensable for anyone interested in the history of Egyptology. Arranged in the form of a journey proceeding through Alexandria, Cairo, Assouan and Abu-Simbel, the book contains a wealth of archaeological and historical information. Manning's prose pulses with the excitement familiar to anyone who has ventured into unexplored territory, whether physically or in his imagination.
This is an attempt to construct an ordered synthesis of the evolution of labor in Christian Europe during the Middle Ages. Its aim is not only to analyze the variations in the legal status of persons and of lands, but above all to set the working classes in the historical framework in which they lived, to trace the reciprocal action of political and social institutions, of exchange, of industrial and agricultural production, of the colonizatio...
This carefully compiled work marked an important contribution to the history of medieval travel. It will appeal to the scholar and to the general reader. It covers such areas as the conception of the world in the Middle Ages, Christian pilgrimages, the Vikings, Arab travellers, traveller's tales of the East and Prester John.
The field of control theory in PDEs has broadened considerably as more realistic models have been introduced and investigated. This book presents a broad range of recent developments, new discoveries, and mathematical tools in the field. The authors discuss topics such as elasticity, thermo-elasticity, aero-elasticity, interactions between fluids and elastic structures, and fluid dynamics and the new challenges that they present. Other control...
This is a fascinating account of a little known ethnic minority in Iraq. Although the Assyrians, like many minorities in Iraq, lived across many modern national boundaries, they were an unusually well-off group. After the end of the British mandate in Iraq in 1932, however, it was revealed that Moslems were persecuting them. The survivors of the Assyrian people and the remnants of a once great Christian Church lived in the mountains by and lar...
Supply Chain for Liquids: Out of the Box Approaches to Liquid Logistics provides a thorough analysis of liquid logistics, a crucial but often overlooked business issue. It covers a broad range of topics including the business, operational, and technical aspects of the Supply Chain for LiquidsA[ model, allowing readers to leverage the inherent properties of liquids toward business success. This volume details an approach that is justified based...
During the last twenty years statistical methodology has become of central importance in research studies in medicine and also in day-to-day clinical practice.
The structure, function, and composition of many of the complex carbohydrates found in nature have been described by analytical chemistry and the composition of biosynthetic machinery used to build them has been revealed by advances in genome sequencing. This has set the stage for the active manipulation of carbohydrate structure and intervention in the glycosylation process. The Handbook of Carbohydrate Engineering provides an overview of the...
Offers an introduction to three related subjects: differential geometry, differential topology, and dynamical systems. This book addresses topics such as Brouwer's fixed point theorem, Morse Theory, and the geodesic flow. It also discuss the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and its implications in non-Euclidean geometry models.
Focuses on effective ways to combine improved mechanical and physical properties in polymers in order to form new, performance-enhanced composite materials. This book reflects the study of mechanisms elucidating the structure-function relationship of nanostructured polymers and nanocomposites.
This monumental volume in the History of Civilization Series has done a great service to learning in giving a very good outline of the earliest civilization of Europe. It covers the Orient, Crete, the Aegean, Maritime Civilization, Greece, the Balkans, the Danube, Eurasia, Northern Cultures, Forest Cultures, Islands of the Western Mediterranean, Iberia, Alpine Culture, and the British Isles.
