Despite all that scholars have learned about voting behavior, significant questions persist. Controversies in Voting Behavior brings together the best scholarship and organizes it around five important debates that drive research in the field. This new edition features fifteen new selections, with many of these containing new or updated evidence added by the authors just for this volume. Section introductions establish useful context while gui...
What decides elections? Is it the national economic condition, voters' partisan attachments, or the campaigns that candidates run? How much do campaigns matter?
Scholars and political consultants will give you different answers. Stephen C. Craig and David B. Hill bring together the voices of both in this engaging volume, now updated to include the volatile and groundbreaking 2008 campaigns and elections. Each chapter features an essay from a...
Emphasizing that learning to read proficiently is a long-term developmental process involving many interventions of various kinds, all keyed to individual developmental needs, this title addresses traditional questions but from multiple or alternative perspectives.
Scholarly but accessible, The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio provides an unrivaled guide to the voices behind radio for students and general readers alike.
An introductory text for engineering hydrology students who go on to be practitioners in consultancies, the Environment Agency and elsewhere. It is suitable for second and final year undergraduates (and MSc) students of hydrology in Engineering, Environmental Science and Geography Departments across the globe.
A guide to managing a cloud project, this book illustrates how to take advantage of cloud computing and align it with business and IT strategies. It assesses cloud computing technologies and demonstrates how to determine requirements and implement cloud to meet the goals and objectives of IT and business.
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V" offers clinicians, academicians, and nosologists an in-depth look at how obsessive-compulsive phenomena are represented in the current diagnostic system and how DSM-V might better address the needs of patients with these disorders.
Emphasizing that learning to read proficiently is a long-term developmental process involving many interventions of various kinds, all keyed to individual developmental needs, this title addresses traditional questions but from multiple or alternative perspectives.
This undergraduate textbook on the theory of functions of a complex variable explains the standard introductory material, clearly but in depth, with many examples and applications, and also introduces more advanced topics. Primarily an introductory text, it will be useful at a more advanced level and as a reference.
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is a book presented as a true account, which describes the adventures of Olaf Jansen, a sailor who sailed with his father through an entrance to the Earth's interior at the North Pole. For two years Jansen lived with the inhabitants of an underground network of colonies who, Emerson writes, were 12 feet tall and whose world was lit by a "smoky" central sun.
The study was conducted in Raichow village of Comilla Sadar upazila of Bangladesh in order to analyze the overall situation of the village and the structural and operational management of the society and determine the nature of services delivered for socio-economic development of the members and investigate the impact of society interventions on the member households. It was found from all case studies that all the interviewees had been immens...
Stunning and occasionally unsettling, this unique portfolio reveals addiction art as a powerful complement to addiction science. Many pieces are stark representations of life on the edge, and each creation is emblematic of the destructive power of addiction and the regenerative power of recovery.
Police and corrections personnel must always be mindful of the possibility that those in their custody may attempt suicide or commit an act of self-mutilation. Persons housed in prisons, jails, and police lockups tend to be at a higher risk for such destructive behavior than members of the general population. Reasons for this can be found by examining the mental health, substance abuse, and physical/sexual abuse histories of inmates in additio...
