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Now thoroughly revised and up-dated, this volume describes techniques for handling and analyzing data obtained from high-energy and nuclear physics experiments. Beginning with a chapter on real-time data triggering and filtering, the book describes methods of selecting the relevant events from a large background. The use of pattern recognition techniques to group the huge number of measurements into physically meaningful objects such as partic...

Chamone Adams is not just a walking inspiration, but she is a young lady who managed to beat the odds and the weight of the world. Challenged with the realities of life. Judgment.She was spoiled, materialistic, and of course, loud. I figured she wasn't going anywhere. She was spoiled. As a little girl, she wanted what she wanted and would get mad if she could not get the things that she wanted. Sex.He turned me over and put his face between my...

Examines the contemporary political geography of the West Bank and Gaza strip. This book covers issues including demography, Jewish settlements, water and natural resources, transport infrastructure, planning, partition plans for Jerusalem, settlement policy and the Separation Fence.

Presents a selection of Psychologist Jerome Bruner's important writings about education from 1957 to 1978. The articles and chapters reveal the thinking, the concepts, and the empirical research of that time.

Presents a selection of Psychologist Jerome Bruner's important writings about education from 1979-2006. The articles and chapters reveal the thinking, the concepts, and the empirical research of that time.

This second edition of The Child as Thinker has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide an informed and accessible overview of the varied and extensive literature on children's cognition. Both theory and research data are critically examined and educational implications are discussed.

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This greatly expanded second edition of this popular and handy reference book includes over 100 new pages, including extensive coverage of Section VIII of the ASME Pressure Vessel Code. Divided into 22 sections, this pocket-sized volume is an exhaustive "quick reference" of up-to-date engineering data and rules. It includes: essential mathematics, units, engineering design processes and principles, basic mechanical design, motion, mechanics of...

Aggression is a part of human nature that energizes our relationships, acts as an impetus for psychic development, and enables us to master our world. More often, we focus on its more destructive aspects, such as the violence individuals inflict on themselves or others and overlook the positive functions of aggression. In "Aggression and Destructiveness "Celia Harding brings together contributions from experienced psychoanalysts and psychoanal...

Lyme Regis past and present

Till now, little research has investigated the extent or mechanisms by which globalization and self-determination movements are threatening the nation-state. This book brings together the best current research to address this issue.

Damage Incorporated: Metallica and the Production of Musical Identity" offers an interdisciplinary study investigating a range of topics that intersect in the music and cultural influence of Metallica. As part of a collection of heavy metal bands -- among them Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth -- grouped together under the rubric "speed metal, " Metallica's music presents a number of avenues for investigation. Specifically, "Damage Incorporated" f...

Bringing together a diverse group of researchers, this volume presents a comprehensive review of global youth cultures, practices and identities. It is aimed at students and researchers of youth studies and sociology.

The strategic triangle is used as an organizing principle for the study of the security relationships among the United States, the EU and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.

Brings together 200 photographs, which illustrate the history of Shire Green, the much-changed district of Sheffield. This book aims to attract a readership - in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and further afield.

Winner of the 2007 E.B. Burwell, Jr. Award of the Geological Society of America Mining activity has left a legacy of hazards to the environment, such as waste, unstable ground and contamination, which can be problematic when redeveloping land. This book highlights the effects of past mining and provides information on the types of problems it may cause in both urban and rural areas. By way of example, the book also demonstrates how such proble...

Offers a collection of cartoons meticulously recorded when and where they appeared. Arranged chronologically, this book combines 150 individual cartoons with the entry from the author's diary written on the day the drawing was published. It covers the infamous drugs bust, the day a Bristol hotel refused to serve the Rolling Stones lunch, and more.

The first of its kind, this book is unique in examining the influence and power of beliefs in medicine. Beliefs are one of the key factors considered to underpin and validate the biopsychosocial model of medicine, which considers factors outside the biological process of illness when trying to understand health and disease. In this approach, a person's social context and psychological well-being are key factors in their illness and recovery, a...

This book probes the deep-rooted links between the land, the people and the religious culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the nineteenth century. The responses of the clergy to the social crisis which enveloped the region have often been characterised as a mixture of indifference, deference or fatalistic passivity. Seeking to lay bare the existing myths by a wide-ranging analysis of all the denominational, theological and social f...

Moral philosophy has long been dominated by the aim of understanding morality and the virtues in terms of principles. However, the underlying assumption that this is the best approach has received almost no defence, and has been attacked by particularists, who argue that the traditional link between morality and principles is little more than an unwarranted prejudice. In Principled Ethics, Michael Ridge and Sean McKeever meet the particularist...