J Martin: 509 books
by Martin C. Libicki, Howard J. Shatz, Julie E. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
What is the impact of demographics on the prospective production of military power and the causes of war? This monograph analyzes this issue by projecting working-age populations through 2050; assessing the influence of demographics on manpower, national income and expenditures, and human capital;...
Narrow Gauge in the Arras Sector
Before, During & After the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Arras sector of the Western Front in World War I (WW1) was held partly by the British and Dominions 1st Army from September 1915, and almost wholly by the 1st and 3rd Armies from March 1916. No less than in the Ypres sector to the north and the Somme sector to the south, the struggles of the French...
Individual Positive Behavior Supports
A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...
Multiphase Flow in Permeable Media
A Pore-Scale Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Hydrocarbon production, gas recovery from shale, CO2 storage and water management have a common scientific underpinning: multiphase flow in porous media. This book provides a fundamental description of multiphase flow through porous rock, with emphasis on the understanding of displacement processes...
A World Ignited
How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
War. Torture. Humiliation. Exploitation. Fear. Futility. The daily news is bleak. And it's not reserved to just one corner of the globe. World wide we are bombarded with graphic, emotionally-laden examples of inhumanity. These challenges to peace and freedom have become so commonplace that public...
Highway Infrastructure and the Economy
Implications for Federal Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
To inform debate on a new transportation bill being considered, the authors review the literature on the economic outcomes of highway infrastructure spending, which constitutes the largest share of federal spending on transportation infrastructure. They highlight the connections between highway spending...
Relationship Split
A Helping Hand Towards Your Recovery from a Relationship Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Are you suffering from the effects of a Relationship Breakdown?
Finding it difficult to discover your way back to happiness?
Fed up with yet another relationship that has resulted in a dead end?
In months rather than years this book can help you repair the damage caused by a Relationship Breakdown.
Using...
The Archaeology of Slavery
A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun...
Caring For Kids
A Critical Study Of Urban School Leavers
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The official school drop-out figure in the US in recent years has been 25 per cent of the cohort. Estimates from large cities are often double these rates, and in some areas 60 per cent or worse. This text focuses on this problem in US schools, but from an unusual perspective. It is a study gained...
African Americans in Central Texas History
From Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship...
by Martin J. A. Schütz
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This thesis offers a comprehensive introduction to surface acoustic waves in the quantum regime. It addresses two of the most significant technological challenges in developing a scalable quantum information processor based on spins in quantum dots: (i) decoherence of the electronic spin qubit due...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
by Nathaniel Cadle, Jody Cardinal, Laura Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers an obscured...
Reconsidering Confederation
Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated...