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""Records of Big Game"" is a comprehensive guidebook that provides detailed information about various species of big game animals. Written by Rowland Ward and published in 1903, the book includes distribution maps, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and measurements of the horn and tusk of different...

Author: David KarcherISBN-10: 1436361710ISBN-13: 9781436361712Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2008Pages: 292Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

More than a poignant story of the homefront during World War II, Dona Schmit's life saga is bracketed by her childhood in the years of the Great Depression and her challenges during the crisis in America's farm economy in the l980s. Though her journey...

While there is no substitute for personal, faithful, and careful Bible reading and prayer, the Bible's vast size and diversity can make distilling its truth a daunting task. Thus most Christians benefit from supplemental resources to help learn and apply what Scripture teaches.Renowned theologian,...

The formative role played by digital communication in knowledge-based societies is widely acknowledged. Not least, young people's rapid adoption of a variety of social software applications serves to challenge existing forms of communication for learning, since these innovations allow and assume users' own creation,...

Information communication technologies (ICT) permeate almost every facet of our daily business and have become an important priority for formal and informal education. This places an enormous responsibility to achieve equitable deployment of ICT on governments, education systems, and communities. Important equity issues examined...

The forces of uncertainty, globalization, the networked enterprise, Web 2.0, privacy, "big data," and shifting demographics have dramatically transformed corporate communication strategy and practice. Now more than ever, it is more complex, strategic, and essential to the organization's survival. Corporate Communication: Transformation of Strategy...

This book brings together a group of internationally-reputed authors in the field of digital literacy. Their essays explore a diverse range of the concepts, policies and practices of digital literacy, and discuss how digital literacy is related to similar ideas: information literacy, computer literacy,...

Hebraic Literature: Translations from The Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala is a book written by Maurice H. Harris. The book is a collection of translations of different texts from the Hebrew literature, including The Talmud, Midrashim, and Kabbala. The Talmud is a collection of Jewish...

Pow! This small book packs a big punch! Every paragraph is full of energy. The inventions range from a machine to stop a hurricane to better sex to living through a heart attack! Some inventions are methods. You can use these inventions immediately since...

This beautifully designed travel journal is the perfect companion for your next trip. Inspiring quotes and Scripture will encourage you to make the most of your journey. Lightly ruled pages on high quality paper give you plenty of space to express your thoughts about...

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.Author: C. Tsehloane KetoISBN-10: 1422374920ISBN-13: 9781422374924Publisher: American Philosophical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1980Pages: 110Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.25d

OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE for THE UNLIKELY CONFEDERACY OF HOGGY, FROGGY AND ERNIE is March 22, 2013. When a pig, a frog, and a woodpecker set out from Swami's Beach in Southern California on a three wheeled Harley bound for the ancient redwood forests of...

Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence. Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly...

This volume has been compiled chiefly for the benefit of opium-eaters. Its subject is one indeed which might be made alike attractive to medical men who have a fancy for books that are professional only in an accidental way; to general readers who would...

At the date of our introduction to him, Philip Hadden was a transport-rider and trader in "the Zulu." Still on the right side of forty, in appearance he was singularly handsome; tall, dark, upright, with keen eyes, short-pointed beard, curling hair and clear-cut features....

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I am inclined to think- said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I...

A little math, a bit of history, and a dose of storytelling combine to reveal the importance of equations in everyday life.With this fun romp through the world of equations we encounter in our everyday lives, you'll find yourself flipping through the stories of...

Biomaterials have had a major impact on the practice of contemporary medicine and patient care. Growing into a major interdisciplinary effort involving chemists, biologists, engineers, and physicians, biomaterials development has enabled the creation of high-quality devices, implants, and drug carriers with greater biocompatibility and...

Whether you are an experienced Security or System Administrator or a Newbie to the industry, you will learn how to use native, "out-of-the-box", operating system capabilities to secure your UNIX environment. No need for third-party software or freeware tools to be and stay secure!...

Shaped by Quantum Theory, Technology, and the Genomics RevolutionThe integration of photonics, electronics, biomaterials, and nanotechnology holds great promise for the future of medicine. This topic has recently experienced an explosive growth due to the noninvasive or minimally invasive nature and the cost-effectiveness of...

Some might think that the 27 thousand tons of material launched by earthlings into outer space is nothing more than floating piles of debris. However, when looking at these artifacts through the eyes of historians and anthropologists, instead of celestial pollution, they are seen...

In an easy-to-understand, nontechnical yet mathematically elegant manner, An Introduction to Exotic Option Pricing shows how to price exotic options, including complex ones, without performing complicated integrations or formally solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The author incorporates much of his own unpublished work, including...

A comprehensive textbook on mechanical measurement, this book covers the material in five modules. Module I deals with the basics of measurements without reference to any particular field and hence is to be dealt with at the beginning. Chapters 4, 6 and 13 deal...

As markets become more dynamic and competitive, companies must reconsider how they view inventory and make changes to their production and inventory systems. They must begin to think outside the classical box and develop a new paradigm of inventory management. Exploring the trend away...

Avoiding heavy mathematics and lengthy programming details, Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Approach with MATLAB(R) presents an easy methodology for learning the fundamentals of image processing. The book applies the algorithms using MATLAB(R), without bogging down students with syntactical and debugging issues.One chapter can...

A practical resource, this book covers sampling and storage, description of analytical methodology, and guidelines and procedures for quality assurance. It presents analytical methods with step-by-step procedures to help practitioners implement these methods in the laboratory, making them instantly applicable without consulting further literature....

During the course of any sporting event, critical cognitive and physical tasks are performed within a dynamic, complex, collaborative system comprising multiple humans and artifacts, under pressurized, complex, and rapidly changing conditions. Highly skilled, well-trained individuals walk a fine line between task success and...

This Second Edition examines the mechanisms and means to establish regulatory compliance for pharmaceutical products and company practices. It focuses on major legislative revisions that impact requirements for drug safety reviews, product regulatory approvals, and marketing practices. Written by top industry professionals, practicing attorneys,...

Since publication of the first edition of Sensor Array Signal Processing in 2000, the field it heralded has come of age. Sensor arrays helped usher in the age of wireless communication by meeting the increasing capacity requirements of ever growing wireless networks, but that...

The hydrogen car has been proposed as the solution to our oil problems, but how would it work, and what potential problems associated with it? This book addresses these questions and provides specifics about current developments toward a hydrogen-based energy infrastructure. It offers the...

With almost 100 papers and six keynote contributions, this volume details the state of the art with regard to numerous aspects of advanced micro technologies dealing with metals, polymers, ceramics, and the development of new production platforms for micro systems-based products. The contributions of...

Written by a renowned expert, Geoinformation: Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Geographic Information Systems, Second Edition gives you an overarching view of how remote sensing, photogrammetry, and geographic information systems work together in an interdisciplinary manner. The book presents the required basic background of the...

Cellulose is the world's most common biopolymer, and as such will play a growing role as our society confronts the problems of climate change and declining stocks of fossil fuels. Here, the reader will discover a comprehensive overview of the biology, chemistry and physics...

Providing an interface between dry-bench bioinformaticians and wet-lab biologists, DNA Methylation Microarrays: Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis presents the statistical methods and tools to analyze high-throughput epigenomic data, in particular, DNA methylation microarray data. Since these microarrays share the same underlying principles as gene...

Completely revised text that reflects to emergent trends and cutting-edge advances in pharmaceutical biotechnology, this Third Edition provides a well-balanced framework for understanding every major aspect of pharmaceutical biotechnology, including drug development, production, dosage forms, administration, and therapeutic developments. New chapters cover evolving areas...

Classical FORTRAN: Programming for Engineering and Scientific Applications, Second Edition teaches how to write programs in the Classical dialect of FORTRAN, the original and still most widely recognized language for numerical computing. This edition retains the conversational style of the original, along with its...

A How-to Guide for Implementing Algorithms and ProtocolsAddressing real-world implementation issues, Understanding and Applying Cryptography and Data Security emphasizes cryptographic algorithm and protocol implementation in hardware, software, and embedded systems. Derived from the author's teaching notes and research publications, the text is designed for...

Mobile computing technology has come a long way in recent years--providing anytime, anywhere communication and access to information. Bringing students up to date on important technological and industry developments, Principles of Mobile Computing and Communications examines mobile networks and relevant standards, highlighting issues unique...

Author: Tom CoughlinISBN-10: 1419707248ISBN-13: 9781419707247Publisher: Skybox Press/AbramsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2012Pages: 128Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.10lbsSize: 8.70h x 11.10w x 0.90d

THE BURIED TREASURE OF MT. GRETNA tells how a treasure, stolen from a survivor of the Titanic and dropped by an escaping thief into young Minnie's lap, affects her family-and far beyond. Minnie buries the treasure behind a stone-covered spring in Mt. Gretna Park...

Author: William G. (William Guy) PeckISBN-10: 1418120898ISBN-13: 9781418120894Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1899Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

If there is anything to be learned from the history of American architecture it is that it reflects the American adventure in creativity and inventiveness, and the desire to be unique and expressive. In The Groundbreakers, Charles E. Dagit, Jr. examines pioneering American architects...

The controversies and dilemmas in contemporary psychiatry are so numerous and serious that they, to a great extent, define psychiatry. Yet most psychiatrists pay little attention to the field's controversies, maintaining that talking about controversies tarnishes psychiatry's reputation and them along with it. Critics...

Every science, including the study of insects, may have circumscribed limits, but its deeper principles open up new worlds of possibility. Milward uncovers these hidden principles by examining the daily lives and habits of insects. His studies lead him to fascinating speculations, taking the...

The evolution of city planning theory and practice in the first half of the twentieth century was captured and driven by a range of exhibitionary practices in a variety of settings globally, from international expos to local public halls. The agendas of the promoters...

Author: Irving Louis HorowitzISBN-10: 1412808057ISBN-13: 9781412808057Publisher: Transaction PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2008Pages: 599Format: Hardcover

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Davies's book plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with educational authority. Examining novels, fiction for children, conduct literature and educative and political tracts...

The explosive finale to Marie Lu's "New York Time"s bestselling LEGEND trilogy--perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT! He is a Legend. She is a Prodigy. Who will be Champion? June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the...