This text provides a solid introduction to the foundations of research methods, with the goal of enabling students and professionals in the various fields of education to not simply become casual consumers of research who passively read bits and pieces of research articles, but discerning consumers [...]
Laisser les loups vivre en libert? dans le Mercantour, c'?tait une belle id?e, dans l'air du temps. Mais ce n'?tait pas celle des bergers et, quelques mois plus tard, la r?volte gronde. Mais est-ce bien un loup qui tue les brebis autour du village de Saint-Victor ? Les superstitions resurgissent, un[...]
Newly updated and revised, this popular text provides a solid introduction to the foundations of research methods, with the goal of enabling students and professionals in the field of applied linguistics to become not just casual consumers of research who passively read bits and pieces of a research[...]
An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s, "Christ in Concrete" is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's untimely death.
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Even the most knowledgeable World War II buff will appreciate this treasury of unusual and intriguing information about the battles, backgrounds, and players in the Allied and Axis powers.[...]
While it is often acknowledged that we live in a 'postindustrial' age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis by presenting a bold, sweeping reconceptual[...]
What is it about free-market ideas that give them staying power despite such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend the work of the politi[...]
This exploration of empirical inference in science presents a formal description of the process by which scientific measurements support convincing explanations of the world around us.[...]
Now in its second edition, this book describes tools that are commonly used in transportation data analysis. The first part of the text provides statistical fundamentals while the second part presents continuous dependent variable models. With a focus on count and discrete dependent variable models,[...]
A passionate, critically incisive biography of one of the most influential rappers of all time, Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), examining how he rose from abject poverty to dominate the rap music world of the 1990s, the multiple theories surrounding his untimely death, and his impact on the history of hip[...]
This manual is a printed edition of the official Python tutorial from the Python 3.2 distribution. It provides an introduction to Python, an easy to learn object-oriented programming language. This revised edition describes Python 3. Python has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level data typ[...]
This is a printed edition of the official Python language reference manual from the Python 3.2 distribution. It describes the syntax of Python 3 and its built-in datatypes and operators. Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, suitable for rapid application development and sc[...]
"Victor, mauvais sort, que fais-tu dehors?" Depuis quatre mois, cette phrase accompagne des cercles bleus qui surgissent la nuit, trac?s ? la craie sur les trottoirs de Paris. Au centre de ces cercles, prisonniers, un d?bris, un d?chet, un objet perdu: trombone, bougie, pince ? ?piler, patte de pige[...]
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Att få ett piano över sig är aldrig roligt. Just sådan otur har pianisten Aldo. Han blir platt som en pannkaka, och kan inte längre spela. Han måste hitta ett nytt jobb. Det visar sig vara svårt. Han är för tunn f[...]
A medical guide for cyclists, Andy Pruitt's "Complete Medical Guide for Cyclists" will help cyclists of all ability levels to prevent, diagnose, treat, and recover from injuries. Injury prevention begins with a proper bike fit that accounts for a cyclist's riding style and physical quirks and kinks.[...]
With today's pressures to pursue style over substance, keep up with latest fads, assume superficial and disposable identities (e.g., on-line personas), and compromise one's values to "make the numbers", the challenge to know, show, and remain true to one's real self has never been greater. Facing su[...]