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SAE International, 2003. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Contains 13 papers from the sessions on 42 volt electrical components, soft magnetic materials, and powder metallurgy materials held during the March 2003 congress. Among the topics are modeling techniques for the simulation of a 42 volt ISG charging system, small brush DC motors using soft magnetic composites for 42 volt automotive applications, the effect of composition and processing technique on the properties of insulated iron materials, and the... more information

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SETAC, 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Ten papers suggest how to improve national regulations to require testing the impact on wild birds before pesticides and other chemicals are authorized for use. They offer a framework for testing and assessing the effects, case studies on assessment, and feedback to other groups that are responsible for revising avian test guidelines of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The conclusion makes 15 specific recommendations. (©2002... more information

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SIAM, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Papers from an April 2007 conference are presented here, showcasing current research in areas including statistical learning, data analytics for marketing and decision support, mining time-evolving data using tensors, dimensionality reduction for data mining, text mining, and biomedical informatics. Some specific subjects include prevention of information leaks in e-mail, attack-resilient geometric data perturbation, active learning of constraints for semi-superv... more information

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Springer-Verlag Italia, 2002. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Forty edited papers and lectures from the September 2000 conference begin with a tribute to Ruggiero de Ritis (1943-September, 2000), who contributed much to phenomenology in cosmology and to the study of gravitational lensing. Topics of the 21 lectures include the existence of general, asymptotically flat radiative spacetimes; instantons and scattering; a review (and extension) of a scenario for a primordial universe based on string theory; N&o... more information

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National Museum of Denmark, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Proceedings of a November 2005 international workshop held at the National Museum of Denmark to bring together young archaeologists who in their research employ the study of technology as a primary methodology; to discuss issues and problems concerning the methods, results and perspectives of this methodology; and to demonstrate that cultural, social and cognitive aspects today are important goals and perspectives of technological studies, a... more information

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World Scientific, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. CD-ROM included. For the third time, the symposium was held during the joint meeting of the International Conference of Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Physics and the International Symposia on High Energy Spin Physics. The nearly 200 papers, plenary talks, and workshop summaries discuss topics of relevance to spin physics in medium-low energy reactions and polarization phenomena in nuclear physics as well as in high-energy physics. Among the sessio... more information

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Frank Cass, 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Political scientists from throughout Europe, but mostly Germany and Britain, analyze the end of the 16 years of Christian-Liberal government under Helmut Kohl, and the red-green coalition that took the reins after the election. Among their perspectives are economic conditions, the East German vote, changing party organizations, and Kohl's luck and good management. The eight articles first appeared in German Politics vol. 8 no. 2 (August 1998). Distribut... more information

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UXL, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume is a separately-sold member of the four-volume Space Exploration reference intended for a middle school audience (a fifth volume--a slim comprehensive index--is also sold separately). It contains excerpts from 17 documents and speeches, beginning with a chapter from a Jules Verne book and ending with remarks made in early 2004 by George W. Bush on a new vision for space exploration. Each selection is introduced with material on the context, key points,... more information

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Univ. of Delaware Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. If "All reification is forgetting," as critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, then the task of critical theory, according to Ludovisi (John Cabot U., Italy), becomes the remembrance of the not-yet-existing or "nostalgia for a redeemed future." This project of the early critical theorists remains relevant today, or so Ludovisi and the other contributors seek to demonstrat... more information

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State U. of New York Pr., 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Sabar (education, Tel Aviv University) examines the lives of a group of Israeli emigrants living in Los Angeles in the 1980s and early 1990s. Through extensive interviews in which these "kibbutzniks" share their life stories, she uncovers what pushed them to leave the kibbutz in Israel and pulls them to remain in Los Angeles. An underlying theme is the search for identity under changing conditions. (©2000 Book News, Inc., Portla... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Nanotechnology is briefly introduced as a general term for activities at the level of atoms and molecules (about 1/80,000th of a human hair) in which there is now intense interest. International contributors to a dozen illustrated chapters elaborate on research progress involving a variety of nanomaterials and their applications in electronics, new materials development, and biomedicine: e.g., nanofluids that have unique thermal properties, nan... more information

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Wilfrid Laurier U. Press, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Exploring canonical and extracanonical novels and short stories from Anne of Green Gables to the writing of Terry Griggs, Sabatini (U. of Guelph, Canada) examines changing representations of the infant in English-language Canadian fiction. The figure of the infant moved over time, she argues, from a peripheral position reflecting the Victorian maxim that "children should be seen and not heard" to a place of centrality in Canadian fic... more information

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U. of Arizona Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Sabet (Georgetown U.) investigates how autonomous nonprofit organizations emerged and developed in northern Mexico to address water-related problems along the US border. Comparing the experience of civil society organizations in Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juárez, and Nuevo Laredo, he analyzes data from over 260 interviews with members of organizations and public officials, from surveys of neighborhood association leaders, and from observing pu... more information

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Equinox Publishing Limited, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In seeking to integrate non-classical Arabic into canonical Arabic literature and shed light on how languages develop and behave in comparative systems, Sabih (Middle Eastern studies, U. of Copenhagen) presents what is apparently the first critical edition of Japheth ben Ali's translation of the five manuscripts of the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah. Following historical context on medieval Judeo-Arabic as a scriptolect, i.e., a linguist... more information

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Sage Publications, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Employing a dialectical approach that acknowledges the role of a family's contradictions, this book addresses four types of family diversity: structural, cultural, developmental, and functional. It examines the dialectical process in the context of family relationships, looks at contemporary family structures, and examines issues such as alcoholism, divorce, and spirituality. Sabourin teaches communication at the University of Cincinnati. (©... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Sabri (commerce and economics, Birzeit U., Palestine) considers recent developments that created new conditions for financial markets and stock markets in particular, examining stability, efficiency, and liquidity issues in a global context. He discusses related laws, procedures, and practices in the world stock markets, including financial trading and legal aspects, in both developed and emerging economies in North and South America, Europe, S... more information

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Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Ever since 1991 when a former Miss America revealed her childhood sexual abuse by her father, it seems that such incest has reached epidemic proportions. In the context of debates over whether this trend reflects reality or "victim feminism," Sacco (history, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville) argues that attitudinal and policy shifts regarding incest and venereal disease have been historically influenced by interest groups including doctors a... more information

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In this well-referenced analysis of Jewish idealism and realities in post-World War I Europe as a barometer of social change, the author/ editor of numerous books on Jewish history focuses on the careers of such luminaries as Freud, Kafka, Proust, German activist Rosa Luxemburg, and French Socialist Léon Blum. Includes maps of the war's Ukrainian killing fields and the European Jewish population in 1933, but no photos. (©2002 Book News,... more information

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Apress, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Intended for SQL Server developers and administrators, this desk reference provides Transact-SQL solutions for modifying data, creating tables and indexes, performing calculations, executing stored procedures, enabling DML triggers, tuning performance, handling errors, grating permissions to principals, and queuing messages in the service broker. Each chapter begins with basic tasks and progressively works toward more advanced topics. (©2008 Book News, Inc... more information

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Grey House Pub., Inc., 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This second edition of a resource for professionals and general readers incorporates the latest legal news, advocacy research, technical innovations, and medical advancements affecting students, parents, and teachers in special education. Following an overview and a chronology, the book looks at special education curriculum issues, then discusses the development of special education programs based on laws passed to create educational opportunitie... more information

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