After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear stories of misery from Haiti. Why have NGOs failed at their mission? Set in Haiti during the 2004 coup and aftermath and enhanced by resea[...]

"Multigrid" presents both an elementary introduction to multigrid methods for solving partial differential equations and a contemporary survey of advanced multigrid techniques and real-life applications. Multigrid methods are invaluable to researchers in scientific disciplines including physics, che[...]

Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, B[...]

Taking up where the volume "Early Jazz" left off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller's history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of swing and its effects on American musical and social life, he assesses the distinctive sounds of great b[...]

Many seek happiness in wealth, fame, relationships, even drugs-and, of course, they fail. How CAN we be happy? In his most inspirational best-selling book to date, Dr. Robert H. Schuller, the spiritual host of the weekly telecast "The Hour of Power," probes the Beatitudes for the answer-and di[...]

Tum every obstacle into a step on the road to greater faith, hope, and happiness. There's no doubting that life can be tough and sometimes even seems downright unfair. But Dr. Robert H. Schuller, the world's premier positive thinker, has great news. Even when life is toughest, even when you're bat[...]

This book is a guide through the contemporary field of automatically detecting speaker states/traits in speech via acoustic and linguistic properties.[...]

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Cancer is an enemy that must be fought. When you read this book, you will discover that you have more power than you think to defeat cancer. You and your loved ones are not powerless over cancer. Dr. Francisco Contreras has dedicated twenty-two years sharing this m[...]

The "how-to" book for every laboratory using PCR! Complete information aboutPCR procedures, combined with the discussion of contemporary opinions, givesa good overview of this multifaceted method and its applications. Even experienced laboratories will welcome the clear presentation of demanding pr[...]