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IOS Press, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Invited speakers discuss how to provide guidance to judges in fundamental rights cases, and technology mediated dispute resolution. Another 20 papers consider such topics as building an ontological support for multi-lingual legislative drafting, sentence relations in the automatic detection of argumentation in legal cases, explaining the relevance of court decisions to laymen, and representing deadlines in a rental agreement. Only the authors are indexed. (&... more information

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IOS Press, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. These proceedings include a collection of papers from the December 2006 conference, which bridges the gap between the needs of the legal profession and the current capabilities of technology. The topics here include applications and issues such as representations of persuasive argument, anchored narratives in reasoning about evidence, presumptions about the burden of proof, modeling state intervention in cases of conflicting interest, automated detection of ... more information

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IOS Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The editors (of the Institute of Legal Theory and Techniques--Italian National Research Council and the European U. Institute) present the proceeding of the 2008 conference of JURIX, the Foundation for Legal Knowledge Based Systems, a forum for researchers in the field of law and computer science. The proceedings consist of 19 full and 4 short papers that were presented in sessions on case-based reasoning, document management, information retrieval, knowledg... more information

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U. of British Columbia Press, 2002. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Focusing on Canada as a case study, researchers from the Energy and Materials Research Group (resource and environmental management, Simon Fraser U.) synthesize their findings from 16 years of investigation both as independent scholars and as consultants to government and industry. In looking at how much reducing greenhouse gases would cost, they bridge two approaches that most studies choose between: modelling technology, and preferences ... more information

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Gibbs Smith, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Jacksier, an editor and writer for design and living magazines, describes the interior characteristics of coastal cottages and showcases 13 dwellings, including cottages, bungalows, and a boathouse, through color photos by photographer Dan Mayers. She details their casual design approaches, color choices, and use of patterns, simple motifs, and sea themes and materials and vintage pieces, with descriptions by owners about their decorating choices. (©2... more information

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Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume presents the work of 16 young architects and firms from Australia, illustrating how they represent the new wave of the field. Jackson (architecture, U. of New South Wales, Australia) discusses their similarities and differences in the introduction, then provides many color photos and drawings and brief discussions of 59 projects by those such as Clinton Murray, Minifie Nixon, Richard Kirk, David Boyle, BKK, and Neil and Idle. ... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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Humana Press Inc., 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This work presents cutting-edge applications for the rapid assessment of fetal aneuploidies and Mendelian disorders on fetal material gained by invasive approaches, as well as procedures being validated for routine, noninvasive clinical analysis of cell free fetal DNA. Following the series format, chapters feature step-by-step laboratory protocols, lists of necessary materials, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. The book is of i... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This introduction to the words and vocabulary (lexicology) of English is aimed at students of English language/linguistics (possibly with little prior knowledge of linguistics) taking courses in the analysis and description of the English language. Coverage includes lexicology as a level of language analysis and the origin and development of English. Chapter exercises and answers are included. This second edition provides chapter-opening sum... more information

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Liverpool University Pr., 1999. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In this memoir, Jackson notes that he does not want to share with his readers a list of his "failures and wrongdoings" but rather hopes to describe his "struggle to find [his] little niche in the world." He clearly found his niche in film-making, where he achieved his greatest work: writing, directing, casting and editing the British classic Western Approaches, a documentary about the Battle of the Atlantic. Jackson also de... more information

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Oxbow Books, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. With help from colleagues, Jackson reports on excavations between 1989 and 1995 of the Benedictine priory of St. James, which was established just outside the medieval city of Bristol about 1129. They also include information from observing landscaping of parish burial grounds in 1997. The buildings, the burials, and the artefacts found are described and often illustrated with photographs or drawings. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co... more information

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Texas Tech U. Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Jackson recalls her childhood as the fourth of five siblings in the family of playwright Gordone (1925-95), the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The family was multi-racial, and had some trouble about it in America before the Civil Rights movement. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Texas Tech U. Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Jackson recalls her childhood as the fourth of five siblings in the family of playwright Gordone (1925-95), the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The family was multi-racial, and had some trouble about it in America before the Civil Rights movement. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Arguing that among literary genera the novel is the most alphabetized written story, Jackson (English, U. of North Carolina-Charlotte) takes it both as his model and as his source of evidence to examine the fundamental mechanism that distinguishes literature from speech. Among his topics are writing, reading, and disembodiment in Pride and Prejudice; letters and spirits in Bleak House; the de-composition of writing in A Passage to India; the wri... more information

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IBM - Int'l Tech Support Org, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Intended for IBM clients, business partners and field personnel who need to implement Change and Configuration Management processes through the Tivoli CCMDB, this guide covers the separate components of the product as well as step-by-step instructions on planning and installation. A team of 10 IBM and Tivoli specialists from the International Technical Support Organization have contributed to this manual, offering an insider's look... more information

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The Lyons Press, 2004. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In May 1945, with the war nearly over, the British Royal Air Force attacked a fleet of ships in the Baltic Sea carrying more than seven thousand survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp to Sweden. Jacobs, then 25, was one of the 350 survivors, and tells his story. The Air Force thought the ships contained escaping SS officers, but there is evidence that British intelligence knew better, which is why the records were sealed until 2045. Contributin... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The ten papers in this collection present recent research from the sub-discipline of ecology and geography that examines how spatial variation in the landscape affects ecological processes, particularly the distribution and flow of energy, materials, and individuals in the environment. A rank-based algorithm for aggregating land cover data to coarser resolutions with minimal change of information opens the volume, followed by an assessment of c... more information

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Ashgate Publishing Co., 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Explores relationships between interculturalism and social policy and related issues of race and racism, immigration, nationalism, and citizenship, and shows how all of these issues are linked to the development of social policies. Covers both social and public policies in member states of the European Union, looking at gender, poverty, youth, trade unions, housing, and the spread of racist violence. Also examines ancient conflicts such as anti-... more information

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Purdue University Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This tribute to Zev Garber (Jewish studies, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California) on the occasion of his 65th birthday begins with a poem by his wife and concludes with a bibliography of his writings. Jacobs (religious studies, U. of Alabama) prefaces this collection of 42 essays by introducing this major figure in post- Holocaust Jewish and Christian thought and relations who "remains the 'quintessential' child of the ... more information

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Syracuse U. Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. What explains the electoral successes of the General Jewish Workers' Bund in 1930s Poland? Although varied answers have been suggested in the past, Jacobs (political science, City U. of New York) argues that any attempt to understand the successes of the Bund must take into account the wider constellation of movement organizations associated with the Bundist counterculture, including the Bundist youth movement, the Bundist children's movement... more information

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