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Achieving Health and Safety in the Building and Repair of Ships and Boats
William C. Murphy, Jim Nicholson, Valerie J. Carter, and Jane Crouch
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Activity-based Tutorials. Volume I: Introductory Physics
Michael J. Wittmann, Richard N. Steinberg, and Edward F. Redish
The Activity-Based Tutorials are designed to accompany and enhance lecture instruction. They have been developed using a cycle of physics education research, including investigations into student learning on a given topic, development of materials, and revision of the materials based on evaluation after use in the classroom. Activity-Based Tutorials, Volume 1: Introductory Physics presents tutorials for topics in kinematics dynamics, oscillations, waves, heat and temperature, electrostatics, and circuits.
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GIS, a Computing Perspective
Mike Worboys and Matt Duckham
GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of GIS, both Geographic Information Systems and the study of Geographic Information Science. Analyzing the subject from a computing perspective, the second edition explores conceptual and formal models needed to understand spatial information, and examines the representations and data structures needed to support adequate system performance. This volume also covers the special-purpose interfaces and architectures required to interact with and share spatial information, and explains the importance of uncertainty and time. The material on GIS architectures and interfaces as well as spatiotemporal information systems is almost entirely new.
The second edition contains substantial new information, and has been completely reformatted to improve accessibility. Changes include:* A new chapter on spatial uncertainty
* Complete revisions of the bibliography, index, and supporting diagrams
* Supplemental material is offset at the top of the page, as are references and links for further study
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Capturing the Commons: Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry
James Acheson
One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-first century is learning to create the conditions under which people will erect effective and workable rules to conserve those resources.
James M. Acheson, author of the best-selling Lobster Gangs of Maine (the seminal work on the culture and economics of lobster fishing), here turns his attention to the management of the lobster industry. In this illuminating new book, he shows that resource degradation is not inevitable. Indeed, the Maine lobster fishery is one of the most successful fisheries in the world. Catches have been stable since World War II, and record highs have been achieved since the late 1980s. According to Acheson, these high catches are due, in part, to the institutions generated by the lobster-fishing industry to control fishing practices. These rules are effective.
Rational choice theory frames Acheson’s down-to-earth study. Rational choice theorists believe that the overexploitation of marine resources stems from their common-pool nature, which results in collective action problems. In fisheries, what is rational for the individual fishermen can lead to disaster for the society. The progressive Maine lobster industry, lobster fishermen, and local groups have solved a series of such problems by creating three different sets of regulations: informal territorial rules; rules to control the number of traps; and formal conservation legislation. In recent years, the industry has successfully influenced new regulations at the federal level and has developed a strong co-management system with the Maine government. The process of developing these rules has been quite acrimonious; factions of fishermen have disagreed over lobster rules designed to give commercial advantage to one group or another. Although fishermen and scientists have come to share a conservation ethic, they often disagree over how to best conserve the lobster and even the quality of science.
The importance of Capturing the Commons is twofold: it provides a case study of the management of one highly successful fishery, which can serve as a management model for policy makers, politicians, and local communities; and it adds to the body of theory concerning the conditions under which people will and will not devise institutions to manage natural resources. -
Discovering Sociology: Using MicroCase ExplorIt
Steven E. Barkan
This best selling software-based workbook lets students explore dozens of sociological topics and issues, using data from the United States and around the world. With the workbook and accompanying ExplorIt software and data sets, students won't just read about what other sociologists have done, they will discover sociology for themselves.
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Relevant No More?: The Catholic/Protestant Divide in American Electoral Politics
Mark D. Brewer
Relevant No More? The Catholic/Protestant Divide in American Electoral Politics re-examines current prevailing views on the political affiliations of religious voters. Analysing both the history of religious voting behavior and current trends, author Mark Brewer argues that the supposedly drastic shift of the allegiance of American Catholics from the Democratic party to the Republican party has been greatly exaggerated. He then provides a fascinating exploration of the views and outlooks which divide Catholic and Protestant voting behavior, making a convincing case that many of these differences originate in the religions' world views. Highly empirical and creative,Relevant No More? provides new insight into interactions between religious values and voting behavior in America.
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Gerontological Social Work in Small Towns and Rural Communities
Sandra S. Butler and Lenard W. Kaye
Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the specific practice concerns for social workers assisting older adults in rural areas, including the aging experience, social worker skills, professional functions, working with special populations, and health and long-term care concerns. This valuable resource will benefit social workers, gerontologists, allied health professionals in rural areas, health and human services administrators and managers.
Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities explores the challenges social workers need to overcome when working with the elder community in rural areas. This book’s significance to social workers will only increase as more adults choose to live and grow old away from the cities. Experts in the field suggest strategies to overcome barriers in planning and providing services such as:* a longer distance for the elderly to travel to use social service centers
* a narrower range of available services in the local area
* increased poverty levels for the elderly
* a stronger dependency by elderly on family rather than public assistanceThis book is divided into five sections:
Rurality and Aging—introduces the concept of rurality and examines the demographics of aging from a rural perspective.
Practice Dimensions of Social Work with Rural Elders—includes clinical practice models, intervention and advocacy techniques, program planning, and marketing approaches.
Special Populations—gives attention to four special population groups: indigenous elders, African-American older adults, elderly Latinos, and disabled elders.
Special Issues Pertaining to Rural Elders—covers five essential issues for rural gerontological social workers: health promotion, older workers and retirement preparation, aging in place, specialized housing, and ethical practice.
Training and Policy Recommendations—future training and education recommendations for social workers are explored, as well as service capacity building, the aging network, and the future of long-term care.
While a variety of theoretical perspectives are explored in Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities, the book’s empowerment orientation and strengths-based approach will enhance your abilities to improve quality of life for elderly individuals in rural communities. Each chapter contains a comprehensive review of the literature on the subject it addresses, and several chapters include tables and graphs to further establish their revealing empirical findings. An appendix provides additional sources to turn to for more information.
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Sex Matters for College Students: FAQs in Human Sexuality
Sandra L. Caron
Using a convenient question/answer format, this brief, easy-to-read, affordable paperback is designed specifically for today's young adults to answer basic sexual questions in a friendly, nonthreatening, age-appropriate way. Featuring questions that come from young adults themselves,it helps readers wade through the barrage of information/misinformation overload they encounter everyday as they struggle to become aware of and understand their sexual feelings and responses, to accept these feelings in themselves, and to enhance their lives. Sexual Organs. Sexual Health. Body Image. Birth Control. Pregnancy Testing. Abortion. Sexual Thoughts and Behaviors. Sexual Self-Pleasuring. Orgasm. Virginity. First Experience with Sexual Intercourse. Sexual Decision-Making. Loving Relationships. Sexual Communication. Dating Dilemmas. Long Distance Dating. Relationship in Crisis/Breaking Up. Sex Under the Influence: Alcohol and Other Drugs. Sexual Function And Dysfunction. Sexually Transmitted Disease. Smart Sex. Gender/Sex Role. Sexual Orientation. Gender Identity. Sexual Assault. Sexual Abuse. Sexual Harassment.
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A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation
Patricia A. Champ Editor, Kevin J. Boyle Editor, and Thomas C. Brown Editor
A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation is unique in its clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket valuation techniques and their implementation. Individuals working for government agencies, attorneys involved with natural resource damage assessments, graduate students, and others will appreciate the non-technical and practical tone of this book.
The first section of the book provides the context and theoretical foundation of nonmarket valuation, along with practical data issues.
The middle two sections of the Primer describe the major stated and revealed nonmarket valuation techniques. For each technique, the steps involved in implementation are laid out and described. Both practitioners of nonmarket valuation and those who are new to the field will come away from these methods chapters with a thorough understanding of how to design, implement, and analyze a nonmarket valuation study.
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Discovering the Universe
Neil F. Comins and William J. Kaufmann III
Discovering the Universe is the best-selling brief text for descriptive one-term astronomy courses (especially those with no mathematics prerequisites). Carried along by the book's vibrant main theme--the process of scientific discovery--readers will encounter spectacular sights, landmark experiments, and recent discoveries, while learning to avoid the pitfalls created by common misconceptions about astronomy.
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Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
Margaret Cruikshank
What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is 'successful aging' our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to 'grow old gracefully'? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. This book helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Feminist scholar Margaret Cruikshank looks at a variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging, including fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.
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Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Exercise Epidemiology
Nellie M. Cyr
This book explores the physiological mechanisms and consequences of an under active society as well as the concept of prevention in the form of health promotion programs.
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Permanence Through Change: the Variable Media Approach
Alain Depocas Editor, Jon Ippolito Editor, and Caitlin Jones Editor
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Evaluation Practice: Thinking and Action Principles for Social Work Practice
Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson
This text presents both the quantitative and qualitative methods and focuses on teaching students how to skillfully apply the full range of research designs, methods and strategies to evaluation of social work in all domains of social work practice. The book provides a framework for the integration of systematic inquiry with practice that can be used by all social workers. The authors have created a model called, "evaluation practice" that provides the evidence-based structure within which diverse social work theories and skills can be organized, examined and verified.
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Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Matt Duckham Editor, Michael F. Goodchild Editor, and Mike Worboys Editor
As the use of geographical information systems develops apace, a significant strand of research activity is being directed to the fundamental nature of geographic information. This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions on this theme.
What is geographic information? What fundamental principles are associated with it? How can it be represented? How does it represent the world? How can geographic information be quantified? How can it be communicated and related to the other information sciences? How does HCI tie in with it? A number of other more specific but relevant issues are considered, such as Spatio-temporal relationships, boundaries, granularity and taxonomy. -
Wood Deterioration and Preservation: Advances in Our Changing World
Barry Goodell Editor, Darrel D. Nicholas Editor, and Tor P. Schultz Editor
In recent years considerable progress has been made in elucidating wood decay mechanisms. This basic knowledge not only has the potential to develop alternative environmentally-benign wood preservatives, but may also impact other areas such as bioremediation and pulp and paper. This book will summarize the latest knowledge of the developments, potential impacts, and applications from some of the world's leading experts.
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After the Palace Burns
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
After the Palace Burns is the stunning debut of Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei and is the year 2002 winner of the Paris Review Prize in Poetry. Each line in this extraordinary collection articulates entrance into a world of intense clarity and deep surprise, nuanced by questions about the limits of the possible and knowable.
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Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe
Alexander I. Grab
The book explores the impact of Napoleon's domination throughout his empire and the response of the Europeans to his rule. This important book focuses on the developments and the events in the ten states that comprised the Grand Empire: France itself, Belgium, Germany, The Illyrian Provinces, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Grab discusses Napoleon's exploitation of occupied Europe and particularly his reform policies, and assesses their success in transforming Europe.
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Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor Design
Duane C. Hanselman
Written for electrical, electronics and mechanical engineers responsible for designing and specifying motors, as well as motor topologies, this guide covers topics ranging from the fundamentals of generic motor design to concepts for designing brushless permanent-magnet motors. In addition, the author explains techniques for magnetic modelling and circuit analysis, shows how magnetic circuit analysis applies to motor design, describes major aspects of motor operation and design in simple mathematical terms, develops design equations for radial flux and axial flux motors, and illustrates basic motor drive schemes. The text aims to clearly define all common motor design terms.
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Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern Mexico and the Southwestern USA
Scott E. Johnson Editor, Scott R. Paterson Editor, John M. Fletcher Editor, Gary H. Girty Editor, David L. Kimbrough Editor, and Arturo Martin-Barajas Editor
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Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation
Richard W. Judd and Christopher Beach
Richard Judd and Christopher Beach define the environmental imagination as the attempt to secure 'a sense of freedom, permanence, and authenticity through communion with nature.' The desire for this connection is based on ideals about nature, wilderness, and the livable landscape that are personal, variable, and often contradictory. Judd and Beach are interested in the public expression of these ideals in post-World War II environmental politics. Arguing that the best way to study the relationship between popular values and politics is through local and regional records, they focus on Maine and Oregon, states both rich in natural beauty and environmentalist traditions, but distinct in their postwar economic growth. Natural States reconstructs the environmental imagination from public commentary, legislative records, and other documents. Judd and Beach trace important divisions within the environmental movement, noting that they were balanced by a consistent, civic-minded vision of environmental goods shared by all. They demonstrate how tensions from competing ideals sustained the movement, contributed to its successes, but also limited its achievements. In the process, they offer insight into the character of the broader environmental movement as it emerged from the interplay of local, state, and national politics. The study ends in the 1970s when spectacular legislative achievements at the national level were masking a decline in mainstream civic engagement in state politics. The authors note the rise of the private ecotopia and the increasing complexity in the way Americans viewed their connections with the natural world. Yet, today, despite wide variations in beliefs and lifestyles, a majority of Americans still consider themselves to be environmentalists. In Natural States, environmental politics emerges less as a conflict between people who do and do not value nature, and more as a debate about the way people define and then chose to live with nature. In their attempt to place the passion for nature within a changing political and cultural context, Judd and Beach shed light on the ways that ideals unify and divide the environmental movement and act as the source of its enduring popularity.
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Making Facts Come Alive: Choosing & Using Quality Nonfiction Literature K-8
Janice V. Kristo and Rosemary A. Bamford
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Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science International Conference, COSIT 2003
Werner Kuhn Editor, Mike Worboys Editor, and Sabine Timpf Editor
Conference proceedings.
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International Workshop on Semantic Processing of Spatial Data
Sergei Levashkin Editor, Jean Serra Editor, and Max J. Egenhofer Editor
Semantic processing of spatial data is an emerging area of Geomatics that focuses on representation and use of knowledge to support (semi) automatic Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Due to the growing demand for both interactive an d automatic intelligent GIS, the field of semantic processing of spatial dat a has an exciting and promising future. The GEOPRO workshop is relatively small bu t unique Geomatics forum that exclusively concerns with this topic in the fields o f raster to vector conversion, map generalization, image interpretation, spatial databases, and GIS applications.
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Function of Newspapers in Society: A Global Perspective
Shannon E. Martin Editor and David A. Copeland Editor
The demise of the newspaper has long been predicted. Yet newspapers continue to survive globally despite competition from radio, television, and now the Internet, because they serve core social functions in successful cultures. Initial chapters of this book provide an overview of the development of modern newspapers. Subsequent chapters examine particular societies and geographic regions to see what common traits exist among the uses and forms of newspapers and those artifacts that carry the name newspaper but do not meet the commonly accepted definition. The conclusion suggests that newspapers are of such core value to a successful society that a timely and easily accessible news product will succeed despite, or perhaps because of, changes in reading habits and technology.
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