Titles starting with R from Gulls Nest Books

IOS Press, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Filho (TuTech Innovation, Germany) and Gramatikov (Southwest U. "Neofit Rilsky," Bulgaria) present 17 papers from the eponymous NATO Advanced Workshop, held in Bulgaria in May 2004 and dedicated to exploring different dimensions of innovation and their relation to the growth and financing of research and development in Eastern and Central European countries. The papers address the sources of funding for research and development and assess its impac... more information

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O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Flanders specializes in training web developers on .NET frameworks, and he has written this guide on RESTful web services for programmers and developers who need use the WCF REST model over such alternatives as SOAP, SOA and WS-* stack. The author provides detailed instructions on how to program and host Read-Only (GET) services, READ/WRITE services and REST feeds and how to use HTTP and ADO.NET services as well. WCF 3.5 SP1, which was introdu... more information

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O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Flanders specializes in training web developers on .NET frameworks, and he has written this guide on RESTful web services for programmers and developers who need use the WCF REST model over such alternatives as SOAP, SOA and WS-* stack. The author provides detailed instructions on how to program and host Read-Only (GET) services, READ/WRITE services and REST feeds and how to use HTTP and ADO.NET services as well. WCF 3.5 SP1, which was introdu... more information

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PennWell Books, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This book describes the ways the radio frequency identification technologies can be applied to asset management at water, electric, and gas utilities. After laying out the basics of the technology, the necessary software support applications, and the necessary wireless infrastructure, the authors describe applications for materials management, tools and parts management, vehicle and fleet management, tagging of fixed assets, and transmission and distrib... more information

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Humana Press Inc., 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. RNA interference (RNAi) is a procedure for making RNA silence other RNA, either by destroying it or suppressing its translation. For newcomers to it, biochemists and other scientists who are not present bench protocols for using the procedure in everyday biological research. The applications they survey include its use as a genetic tool in trypanosomes, combating SARS in the rhesus Macaque model, and altering flower color in transgenic plants. (©... more information

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Astronomical Soc./Pacific, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The 1985 eruption of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi was the first to be followed over the entire electromagnetic spectrum, affording the opportunity to investigate the complex interaction between the material rejected in the nova explosion and the red giant wind. The 2006 eruption was similarly subject to a widespread campaign of observation, this time with superior observing facilities. This volume collects 56 papers from a June 2007 worksho... more information

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Manohar, 2002. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Kanungo (political science, U. of Delhi) traces the evolution of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from a marginal movement founded in 1925 by five individuals to an organization that has "spread its tentacles into every sphere of India's civil society." He argues that it has used a method that is political in content but cultural in form to advance its goal of remolding India into a "Hindu Rashtra" (or Hindu Nation). He contends th... more information

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Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In this scholarly volume, Rabbi Jacobs, a founder of the Masorti, or Conservative Jewish movement in England, presents his pioneering views on the structure and history of the Babylonian Talmud. He begins by examining it as a composite work, a literary work, a comprehensive work, and as a work requiring explication. In the second section Jacobs expounds on the Talmudic method through seven Sugyas, or lessons. The third section addresses topics such... more information

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Univ. Press of America, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Open University Press, 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This book explores the experiences of pregnancy and childbirth from the perspectives of two groups of South Asian women in Britain. It traces the progress of a group of Gujarati Hindu and Bangladeshi Muslim women from the third trimester of pregnancy to six weeks after birth. The women's personal accounts are used to examine the relationship between socio-economic, cultural, and religious factors and their childbirth experiences. Tensions bet... more information

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Philosophy Documentation Ctr., 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. All of the 17 papers were selected by peer referees from presentations at the International Social Philosophy Conference, in Millersville, Pennsylvania in July 2007. Among the topics are universal human rights and cultural diversity, fair equality of opportunity in global justice, group moral agency as environmental accountability, the ethics of scientific research utilizing race as a variable, the role of shame in the politics of differe... more information

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. From a number of specific texts from the 19th and 20th centuries, Xu (English, Beijing Normal U.) abstracts principles underlying African-American autobiography. Among the features she examines are temporal arrangement, political and personal perspective, present tense, and stylistic and rhetorical devices. (©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Michigan State U. Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Stokes (political philosophy and African American politics, Michigan State U.) introduces ten essays that examine the historical and intellectual context of the debate over human rights in the post-9/11/01 world. Contributors address the racial implications of the U.S. global war on terror (e.g., damning "The Patriot Act"), immigration policies, and affirmative action cases. Authors argue that dialog about human rights in the U.S. mus... more information

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The Independent Institute, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Complaining that academic booklists overemphasize the role of left-wing liberals and radicals in the history of civil rights struggles in the United States, Bean (history, Southern Illinois U.) presents a documentary anthology intended to demonstrate the contribution of classical liberalism to the American struggle for racial freedom through the themes of individual freedom, Christianity and Judaism, the Constitution, colorblindness, and capi... more information

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U. of British Columbia Press, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Comparatively examining Chinese-American and Chinese-Canadian communities in Los Angeles and Toronto, respectively, through the lens of critical race theory, Fernando (political science, York U., UK) concentrates on three major areas of concern: "the racialized nature of Canada and the United States and the institutions and processes within these countries that undermine racialized minority groups' full access to political partici... more information

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Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Spear (history, Simon Fraser U., Canada) reconstructs the history of race in New Orleans during the 18th and early 19th centuries through the lens of male-female intimate relations. She develops her narrative at two levels. First, using laws, official proclamations, and official and private correspondence, she examines how elites sought to write race into the social order. Second, she explores the everyday lived responses to the colonial racial ... more information

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In these 15 papers from the first conference held in May 1996 along with others, contributors examine the deliberate exclusion and exploitation of one group of people by another in the form of racial and ethnic inequality. Topics include the concept of "blakness" in Russia. Local global racism in Latin American, the culturalization of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, economic explanations, the psychology of affirmative action and... more information

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Ashgate Publishing Co., 1998. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Argues that a full understanding of racialized discourse must pay attention to both the particular local circumstances in which they appear and well established themes which have unfolded over time. The author looks at the Liverpool riots in June 1919, political disorder in 1930s Britain, Nottingham and Notting Hill in 1958 and 1959, and the disorders which occurred at the Broadwater Farm estate in October 1985. He concludes that the racializati... more information

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U. of British Columbia Press, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Nine contributions from Harrison (U. of British Columbia) and other scholars consider the ways in which public policies differ among the Canadian provinces. Applying insights from economics and political science, the authors examine the complexities of interprovincial competition and question whether or not they have resulted in a "race to the bottom." Some of the policy areas investigated include taxation, environmental regulati... more information

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Fernwood Publishing, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. If there is a guiding philosophical framework to these 14 essays on the issues of racism and justice in Canada and beyond (and how these issues are understood in academia), according to editors Hier (sociology, U. of Victoria, Canada), Lett (a doctoral candidate in political science at the U. of Victoria), and Bolaria (emeritus, U. of Saskatchewan, Canada), "it is an eschewal of either/or thinking--racism either exists or it does not, race eit... more information

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