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Railway Security: Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters
This book provides an overview and assessment of the security risks, both manmade and natural, facing the railways and rail networks. Railroads face significant threats from disasters, but with situational awareness and coordinated effort these can often be substantially minimized. Transportation as... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism
This handbook explores contemporary Mormonism within a global context. The authors provide a nuanced picture of a historically American religion in the throes of the same kinds of global change that virtually every conservative faith tradition faces today. They explain where and how the Church ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Sports Playbook: Building Teams that Outperform, Year after Year
Why do so many sports teams have losing records, year after year? Why do others win big, but only every 20 or 30 years? And why is it that so few teams enjoy sustained, continual success? This book gives the answer. Providing a blueprint or "playbook" for success in sports at every level, it lays ou... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Biblical Perspectives on Aging: God and the Elderly, Second Edition
As the population of older Americans grows, meaningful perspectives on aging are needed by both the young and the old. Biblical Perspectives on Aging: God and the Elderly takes a detailed look at the views of aging presented in the Old and New Testaments. This wide ranging and insightful survey enco... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Loss Models: From Data to Decisions (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, Fifth Edition continues to supply actuaries with a practical approach to the key concepts and techniques needed on the job. With updated material and extensive examples, the book successfully provides the essential methods for using available data to construct mo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Loss Models: From Data to Decisions (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics #977)
A guide that provides in-depth coverage of modeling techniques used throughout many branches of actuarial science, revised and updated Now in its fifth edition, Loss Models: From Data to Decisions puts the focus on material tested in the Society of Actuaries (SOA) newly revised Exams STAM (Short-Ter... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Loss Models: Further Topics (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics #977)
An essential resource for constructing and analyzing advanced actuarial models Loss Models: Further Topics presents extended coverage of modeling through the use of tools related to risk theory, loss distributions, and survival models. The book uses these methods to construct and evaluate actuari... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Loss Models
Praise for the Third Edition"This book provides in-depth coverage of modelling techniques used throughout many branches of actuarial science. . . . The exceptional high standard of this book has made it a pleasure to read." --Annals of Actuarial ScienceNewly organized to focus exclusively on materia... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Encyclopedia of African American Religions (Religious Information Systems)
Preceded by three introductory essays and a chronology of major events in black religious history from 1618 to 1991, this A-Z encyclopedia includes three types of entries: * Biographical sketches of 773 African American religious leaders* 341 entries on African American denominations and religious o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1993 -
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field. The volume s contributors... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is the authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. The classic edition includes a new preface from the lead editors discussing advances in the field since the book’s initial publication. The book’s chapters synthesiz... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is an authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. Its chapters synthesize the best of research-based conceptualization and clinical wisdom across 30 of the most important topics in the field. The volume's contributors c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Algebra 1
by Gilbert J. Cuevas • Winters • Gordon Staff • Collins Publishers Staff • Russell J. Foster • Moore-Harris • Rath • William L. SwartWhy do I need to study algebra? When am I ever going to have to use algebra in the real world? Many people, not just algebra students, wonder why mathematics is important. Algebra 1 is designed to answer those questions through integration, applications, and connections. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Positive Results
This unique and important guidebook is a single, comprehensive source of information and advice to help women (and some men) at high risk for breast and for ovarian cancer because of family history and genetic profile. One part memoir, three parts "how to" manual, Positive Results explains in a clea... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Issues for Case Managers and Other Professionals
by Eric Emerson • David Green • Gordon Grant • Susan Balandin • Jim Mansell • Kelley Johnson • Christine M Bigby • Phillip Graves • Gwynnyth Llewellyn • Chris Fyffe • David Sykes • Marie Knox • Janet Robertson • Colin Hiscoe • Brenda Burgen • Tim Stainton • Margaret Spencer • Lesley Gough • Estelle Fyffe • Paul Ramcharan • Margaret Flynn • Peter Flynn • Susana Gavidia-Payne • Gary W. Lavigna • Elizabeth Ozanne • Thomas J. Willis'Thought-provoking, well-written, and offering a range of fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives, Planning and Support should be essential reading for people working in the field of learning disabilities. Highly recommended.' - Involve Magazine The authors outline the skills needed and commo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham
by David Hopkins • Antjie Krog • Harry Thomas • Margaret Williams • John Richetti • Philip Smallwood • Adam Rounce • Kate Parker • Elaine Wood • Clement Hawes • James Rice • Daniel Little • Gordon Turnbull • Adam Walker • Kevin L. Cope • Anthony W Lee • Cedric D. • Bärbel Czennia • Robert G. Walker • Aaron R. Hanlon • Martine Brownley • Dominic Jermey • Caroline Fassett • Joseph McNicholas • Erin Labbie • Patrick Thomas Henry • Kang Tchou • Gary Sojka • Nina Forsberg • John Rickard • Kieron Winn • Emily GrosholzSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Gre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Islam and Christianity on the Edge: Talking Points in Christian-Muslim Relations into the 21st Century
by John Marks • Caroline Cox • John Azumah • Bernie Power • Michael Nazir-Ali • Peter Cotterell • Derek Tidball • Peter Riddell • Tony Lane • Gordon Nickel • Anthony O’mahony • Sean Oliver-Dee • Gerry Redman • Keith Small • Charlotte ThorneycroftThe relationship between Christianity and Islam is complex. This collection of essays by scholars and human rights activists engages with some of the most pressing issues in Christian-Muslim relations, addressing matters of theology, the encounter between civilisations and inter-religious affairs. S... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Bovine Tuberculosis
by B. Coleman • Y. Wu • R. Reid • A. Arunachalam • H. A. Bahamonde • L. Borrelli • S. Briggs • G. Caballé • C. Carrasco • S. X. Chang • C. Concha • S. K. Dhyani • F. Dube • C. Dupraz • M. E. Fernández • C. Figueroa • V. Gargaglione • H. E. Garrett • M. A. Gold • Professor Andrew Gordon • J. Gyenge • A. K. Handa • N. E. Hansen • M. F. Hawke • S. Jose • P. D. Kemp • R. L. Knowles • B. M. Kumar • N. Lamersdorf • G. J. Lawson • M. V. Lencinas • C. E. Lloyd • G. Martínez Pastur • R. Moore • B. Müller-Using • P. Neira • S. M. Newman • S. Ormaechea • V. P. Papanastasis • X. Peng • P. L. Peri • D. J. Pilbeam • A. Rosati • J. Ruiz-Mirazo • V. Rusch • M. Sarasola • J. M. Schwenke • V. Schwenke • R. Soler • N. B. Stolpe • L. E. Tejera • N. V. Thevathasan • A.R. von Müller • W. Wang • T. Ward • L. Zabek • E. Zagal • Z. ZhuThis book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in som... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Fig: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by Mohammad Abdolahipour • Fateh Aljane • Azam Amiri • Maria L Amodio • Francisco C Balas • Patrick Brown • Zeinab Bolboli • Anshul Chawla • Pasqualina Colasuonno • Giancarlo Colelli • Neda Dalir • Naser Davatgar • Birgül Ertan • Engin Ertan • Louise Ferguson • Giuseppe Ferrara • Badii Gaaliche • Ana I Galván • A. J Galán • Carlos A. Garza • Jan H. Giliomee • Phoebe Gordon • Matthew J. Grieshop • G Dalkiliç Günver • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Akihiro Hosomi • Hidetoshi Ikegami • Ali Akbar Kamgar-Haghighi • Finn Kjellberg • Moslem Jafari • Zhihong Li • Margarita López Corrales • Mahshad Maghoumi • Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza • Chabane Mazri • Andrea Mazzeo • Themis J. Michailides • Reza Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa • Diganta Narzary • Mohamed H Neily • Hitoshi Nogata • Professor A Aytekin Polat • Asghar Ramezanian • Jean-Yves Rasplus • Maria G.F. Rodrigues • Sead Sabanadzovic • Rajwinder K. Sandhu • Manuel Joaquín Serradilla Sánchez • Zeinab Shokoohi • Federica Spagnoli • Vassilio Stournaras • Mohammad H. Tarazkar • Ioannis Tzanetakis • Simon Van Noort • Alimohammad Yavari • Hiroshi Yakushiji • Yue Zhang • Megan Crivelli • Tatjana K Kokaj • Souhila Mahmoudi • Ilaria MarcotuliThe common fig Ficus carica L. is an ancient fruit native to the Mediterranean. Dried figs have been successfully produced and processed in arid regions with little sophisticated infrastructure for centuries. Figs are rich in fibre, trace minerals, polyphenols and vitamins, with higher nutrient leve... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Spirituality, Values and Mental Health: Jewels for the Journey
by David Mitchell • Andrew Powell • Brian Thorne • John Swinton • Neil Thompson • Sarah Carr • Peter Gilbert • Nigel Mills • Azim Kidwai • John Foskett • Suman Fernando • Fozia Sarwar • Premila Trevedi • Choman Hardi • Vicky Nicholls • Peter Bates • Fatima Kassam • Arthur Hawes • Cameron Langlands • Veronica Dewan • Ju Blencowe • Julia Head • Tom Gordon • Frances Basset • B Spalek • Anne Roberts • Paul Grey • Mark Bones • Ali Jan Haider • Barbara Pointon • Mary Ellen Coyte • Kim Woodbridge • Wendy Edwards • Christopher Newell • Chris Mackenna • Abina Parshad-Griffin • Thurstine Basset • Sarajane Aris • Luftha Meah • Paul Chapple • Bill K. W. M. FulfordSpirituality, religious belief and inclusive faith communities are important for mental well being but mental health practitioners have few guidelines for acknowledging these issues when working with service users. Spirituality, Values and Mental Health gathers together personal and professional co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Art Therapy in Response to Natural Disasters, Mass Violence, and Crises
by Cynthia Wilson • Gaelynn P. Bordonaro • Eduardo Torres • Maria Regina Alfonso • Ronald Lay • Raquel Farrell-Kirk • Amanda Sanders • Maria Rollins • Jill Charney • Elia Khalaf • Alicia Ballestas • Devora Weinapple • Jess Linton • Geri Hurlbut • Daniela Gloger • Katrina Bobo • Robin Valicenti • Carla Van Laar • Maricel Ocasio-Figueroa • Anais Lugo Axtmann • Stephanie Wray • Mercedes B. ter Maat • Soraya Obeid • Natacha Pirotte • Laurence De Vandenborre • Dianne Tennyson Vincent • Barbara Naderi • Leigh Ann Lichty • Jessica Asch • Lisa Tricomi • Bree Gordon • Kelvin A. Ramirez • Mitchell Kossak • Joseph Mageary • Maria Johanna Ortiz-LuisWith contributions from a range of expert voices within the field, this book explores the use of art therapy as a response to traumatic events. Offering rare insight into ways in which art therapists have responded to recent crises, this is a unique resource for art therapists looking to coordinate ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches
by Barbara Jones • Paul Coleman • Anna Dean • David Waltner-Toews • Michael Clarke • Iain J. Gordon • Rea Tschopp • Susan Cork • Susan C Welburn • Karin Hediger • Mahamat Bechir • Hung Nguyen-Viet • Marcel Tanner • Solveig Danielsen • Professor Craig Stephen • Esther Schelling • Angela Cassidy • Martin Bunch • Maxine Whittaker • Dennis C Turner • Abigail Woods • Michael Bresalier • Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky • Wiku Adisasmito • Cécile Aenishaenslin • Seid Mohamed Ali • Ian Allen • Silvia Alonso • Vilda Amir • Maurizio Aragrande • Sara Babo Martins • Zolzaya Baljinnyam • William Bazeyo • Andrea Beetz • Jeffrey Bender • Mónica Berger-González • Benjamin Blair • Barry Blakley • Massimo Canali • Nakul Chitnis • Guéladio Cissé • Kathryn C. Conlon • Lisa Crump • Soledad Cuevas • Paula Dominguez-Salas • Colleen Duncan • Kaylee Errecaborde • Patricia Farnese • Thomas Fries • Samuel Fuhrimann • Christa A. Gallagher • Ratna B. Gurung • Felix Hafner • Barbara Häsler • Jan Hattendorf • Joldoshbek Kasymbekov • Julia S. Lankton • Huong Le Thi • Henrik Lerner • Michael Mahero • Stephanie Mauti • Céline Mbilo • Hélène Meier • Mary Elizabeth Miranda • Vi Nguyen-Viet • Brigit Obrist • Peter Odermatt • Anna Okello • Christopher A.L. Oura • Katharine Pelican • Kristina Pelikan • Phuc Pham-Duc • Sue Pollock • Sangay Rinchen • Karma Rinzin • Felix Roth • Johanne Saint-Charles • Alexandra Shaw • Jonathan M. Sleeman • Woutrina Smith • Keira Spinner • Katharina D. Stärk • Arlette C. Szelecsenyi • Tenzin Tenzin • Jimmy Tickel • Karin Tschanz-Cooke • Hoang Van Minh • Alain Vandermissen • Tu Vu-Van • Daniel P. Walsh • Sylvia Wanzala • Lenke Wettlaufer • C. LeAnn White • Andreas F. Widmer • Hind Yahyaoui • Christian ZurbrüggOne Health, the concept of combined veterinary and human health, has now expanded beyond emerging infectious diseases and zoonoses to incorporate a wider suite of health issues. Retaining its interdisciplinary focus which combines theory with practice, this new edition illustrates the contribution ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023