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Generation Oxy: From High School Wrestlers to Pain Pill Kingpins
by Douglas Dodd • Matthew CoxGeneration Oxy is the story of a group of friends—clean cut, all-American high school kids—who stumbled into the Sunshine State’s murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors. This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems: 22nd IFIP WG 1.5 International Workshop, AUTOMATA 2016, Zurich, Switzerland, June 15-17, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9664)
This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 1. 5 International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems, AUTOMATA 2016, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in June 2016. This volume contains 3 invited talks in full-paper length and 12 regular papers, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Key Theoretical Frameworks: Teaching Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century
by Gerald Savage • Cruz Medina • J. Blake Scott • Godwin Y. Agboka • Matthew Cox • Kristen R. Moore • Rebecca Walton • Jessica Edwards • Erin A. Frost • Marcos Del Hierro • Elise Verzosa Hurley • Natasha N. Jones • Marie E. Moeller • Donnie Johnson Sackey • Barbi Smyser-Fauble • Kenneth WalkerDrawing on social justice methodologies and cultural studies scholarship, Key Theoretical Frameworks offers new curricular and pedagogical approaches to teaching technical communication. Including original essays by emerging and established scholars, the volume educates students, teachers, and pract... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Invasive Alien Plants: Impacts on Development and Options for Management
by Abraham Verghese • Kavita Gupta • Hem Sagar Baral • Bhaskar Adhikari • V. Anitha • Matthew Cock • Kavya Dasora • Usha Dev • Ding Jianqing • Carol A Ellison • Ravi Khetarpal • Jyotsna Krishnakumar • Sean T Murphy • Warea Orapa • R. J. Rabindra • P. S. Ramakrishnan • K Sankaran • K. V. Santheep • Soekisman Tjitrosemito • Soetikno S. Sastroutomo • P. Sreerama KumarInvasive alien plants pose a major threat to agriculture, the natural environment and livelihoods worldwide and create challenges for development. This is especially the case for those who live and work in rural areas. This book, for the first time, brings together a wide range of invasive plant spe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage (CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series)
by Stephen Newton • Angela Carr • Nigel Bond • Matthew Cook • Luke Howie • Alissa Burger • Brian J. Hill • Alexandra Coghlan • Dane Munro • Nitasha Sharma • Müjde Bidec • Geraldine Anne Tan • Danielle Johannesen • Boža Grafenauer • Lea Kužnik • Katheryn Wright • Nuša Basle • Donna Comtesse • Janna R. Caspersen • Scott K. Esplin • Julie Hartley-Moore • Jennifer Hayes • Jacie L. Jones • Kathy Knox • Sonja Sibila Lebe • Cecelia R. Lewis • Sonia Mileva • Lidija Pliberšek • Jodi M. Thesing-Ritter • Nicholas J. Walkowiak • Peter J. Ward • Yachen Zhang • Joseph DonicaIn recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
CIM Coursebook: Project Management In Marketing
Butterworth-Heinemann’s CIM Coursebooks have been designed to match the syllabus and learning outcomes of our new qualifications and should be useful aids in helping students understand the complexities of marketing. The discussion and practical application of theories and concepts, with relevant ex... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
The American South and the Great War, 1914-1924
by James Hall • M. Ryan Floyd • Lee Sartain • Matthew L. Downs • Annette Cox • Fritz Hamer • Angela Jill Cooley • Kathelene McCarty Smith • Keith Phelan Gorman • Janet G. HudsonEdited by Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd, The American South and the Great War, 1914–1924 investigates how American participation in World War I further strained the region’s relationship with the federal government, how wartime hardships altered the South’s traditional social structure, and how... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Introduction to Signals and Systems
by Don Johnson • Melissa Selik • Michael Haag • Stephen Kruzick • Dan Calderon • Thanos Antoulas • John Slavinsky • Dante Soares • Justin Romberg • Ricardo Radaelli-Sanchez • Benjamin Fite • Roy Ha • C. Burrus • Catherine Elder • Steven Cox • Matthew HutchinsonThis course deals with signals, systems, and transforms, from their theoretical mathematical foundations to practical implementation in circuits and computer algorithms. At the conclusion of ELEC 301, you should have a deep understanding of the mathematics and practical issues of signals in continuo... More
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Nutritional Supplements in Sports and Exercise
This new text presents the most up-to-date research based information regarding popular sport/performance nutrient dense diets and nutritional supplements and their constituents that directly or indirectly utilize them. Previous chapters have been fully revised and new chapters have been added to c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Fungal Plant Pathogens
by Charles Lane • David Cooke • Kelvin Hughes • Jenny Tomlinson • David Galsworthy • Christopher Thornton • Belinda Phillipson • Paul Beales • Matthew RyanCovering the key techniques used when working with fungal plant pathogens, this practical manual deals with recognition of disease symptoms, detection and identification of fungi and methods to characterise them well as curation, quarantine and quality assurance. The book is unique in its practical ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Richard Bell • Jonathan W. White • Robert J. Cook • Frank J. Williams • Thomas G. Clemens • Brian Matthew Jordan • Frank Towers • Timothy J. Orr • Martha Jones • Sharita Jacobs-Thompson • Jessica Millward • Rob SchoeberleinCONTENTS:Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
30 Years of Social Change
by Tony Attwood • Stephen Jones • Priscilla Alderson • Gwen Adshead • Barbara Kelly • Paul Cooper • Nisha Dogra • Joyce Lishman • Carola Beresford-Cooke • Peter Beresford • Nick Luxmoore • Harriet Ward • Michael Mandelstam • Christiane Sanderson • Vanessa Rogers • Sarah Carr • Luke Beardon • Kim Golding • Marian Liebmann • Grace Watts • Sally Donovan • Belinda Hopkins • Lorraine Nicolle • Jennifer Peace Rhind • Charles Buck • Matthew J. Taylor • Nigel Ching • Dawn Brooker • Winnie Dunn • Cj Atkinson • Rex Haigh • Martin Barrow • Jan Lees • Jessica KingsleyWhat social change has been achieved over the past 30 years? What have been the main barriers to progress? What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today? Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together ov... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018