Authors starting with Q from Gulls Nest Books

World Scientific, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. These proceedings of the September 2007 conference includes papers for theoretical physicists working in such fields as solid state physics, relativistic physics, and the physics of mesoscopic systems as well as mathematicians working in such fields as operator theory, pseudodifferential operators, and partial differential equations. The contributors addressrecent advances in some of the most active areas of research in quantum mathematical physics, i... more information

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BRILL, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Qafisheh (law, Birzeit U., Palestine) has three main objectives for this study of the international legal status of Palestinian nationality under the British mandate (1920-1948). First is simply to fill the academic gap in the literature. Secondly, he seeks to identify the international legal status for Palestinian nationality and how it stood at the end of the mandate, as he argues that any serious juridical consideration of the question of Palestinian national... more information

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Shalhoub (management information services, American U. of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) and Qasimi (Minister of Economy, United Arab Emirates) look at emerging economy experiences with e-commerce and e- government adoption and implementation in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. The experiences are analyzed from the perspectives of resource-based and institutional theories that address organizational and envi... more information

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Idea Group Publishing, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Qiu (information science, Pennsylvania State U.) compiles 15 chapters for students and professionals working in the field of enterprise service computing. The volume is organized into sections covering the life cycle of enterprise service computing's development: business aspects; requirements; modeling, design methods, and methodologies; technologies; formal modeling, verification and validation; and best practices and deployment. Chapters d... more information

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The papers presented here originated at a conference held at Salt Lake City in 2007. Editors Boss (music theory, U. of Oregon) and Quaglia (music theory, U. of Utah) are pleased that many of the new generation of music scholars have contributed to the volume. The ghost of Schoenberg wanders through all the texts, with his theories of tone and meter. But the topics cover periods from the seventeenth through the early twenty-first century. ... more information

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HarperCollins, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. New lobby designs of a variety of high-end venues are the focus of this oversized volume of color photos (9.75x11.75"). The examples are organized into style themes and include the offices of pediatricians, dentists, and surgeons; hotels; lounges; and other businesses worldwide. A short description of the venue and lobby design accompanies each series of interior photos, with details of lighting and furniture. Some ground plans are included. Not ind... more information

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Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Corwin Press Inc., 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Queen (educational leadership, U. of North Carolina, Charlotte) has served as a consultant to school districts, schools, and other interested groups throughout the U.S. and abroad over the past 25 years. He offers K-12 administrators and teachers an updated, practical guide to block scheduling. Coverage includes the current status of block scheduling, using block scheduling for the senior high school, developmental aspects of growth and behavior, bui... more information

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1999. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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Penn State U. Press, 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Two historians offer a detailed account of professional minor league baseball in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, sometimes called the "birthplace of Little League baseball," from the earliest days of the Pennsylvania State Association in the 19th century to the present. Draws on local newspapers; oral histories of former players, baseball administrators, boosters, and fans; primary source material from the Baseball Hall of Fame Library and Ar... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Reprints an August 2008 Congressional Budget Office paper on contractors' support of U.S. operations in Iraq, Congressional research report RL32419 on private security contractors in Iraq, a July 2008 GAO report on private security contractors, and a 2007 memorandum to members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the mission and performance of Blackwater USA and its affiliated companies in Iraq and Afghanistan. All of the ... more information

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ABC-CLIO, 1999. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This annotated bibliography of materials relating to Syria considers a wide array of documents addressing the country's prehistory, archaeology, people, geology, flora and fauna, society, politics, foreign relations, economy, statistics, literature, education, architecture, and a dozen other features. Includes an introductory essay by the compiler, a researcher at King Abdul Aziz U., Saudi Arabia. While most references are written in English, a few are in... more information

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The Lyons Press, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. On tour in Yemen in December of 1998, the author's group was kidnapped by the Al Qaeda affiliated Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, experiencing a shootout between her captors and Yemeni troops and later escaping into the desert. This work describes her captivity and her return trip to Yemen in which she investigated the group that held her, in the process meeting with the Yemeni Prime Minister, the British embassy, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, a... more information

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Skipstone, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Academica Press, LLC, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Millions of Irish came to America in the second half of the nineteenth century. Quinn, who teaches at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, wondered how much traditional Irish folklore and customs remained in the second and third generations of Irish in America. To find out, she interviewed a number of people of Irish ancestry in New England. She begins with the Irish language, long suppressed by the British in Ireland, but a first language f... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Following a very brief introduction to the history of the modern medicinal use of willow tree bark, international contributors to six chapters treat aspirin's more recently recognized roles and challenges in its prescription. These include individuals who are aspirin-resistant to its use as an anti-platelet agent in the prevention of vascular disease, alternative anti-inflammatory drugs for the aspirin intolerant, and preliminary evidence f... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Following a very brief introduction to the history of the modern medicinal use of willow tree bark, international contributors to six chapters treat aspirin's more recently recognized roles and challenges in its prescription. These include individuals who are aspirin-resistant to its use as an anti-platelet agent in the prevention of vascular disease, alternative anti-inflammatory drugs for the aspirin intolerant, and preliminary evidence f... more information

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Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Quinn (English emeritus, City College of New York) provides a wide-ranging collection of over 1,000 literary terms and themes. His entries are both concise and accessible and handle the elementary along with the more technical terms even professionals tend to skim over and try to figure out through context. Quinn includes examples from literature and, in the case of highly complex terms or ideas, recommended reading for the entry, and has no fear i... more information

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U. College of Dublin Press, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Quinn, executive editor of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, offers a new biography of Mitchel (1815-75), whose harsh views of the British empire affected later Irish nationalists, but whose support of slavery after he escaped from prison to the US has led to his neglect by scholars in recent years. He places Mitchel's anglophobia in the context of the times. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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OECD, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This OECD report on improving the job performance among UK youths in the labor market is derived from a seminar that explored how the development of a highly skilled workforce may also exclude these individuals and raise the unemployment rates. Written for policymakers within OECD member countries, this report focuses on the transition from school to work and how recent reforms have tried to address retention rates in post-compulsory education and training, incre... more information

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