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Research Handbook on Post-Conflict State Building
Milena Sterio and Paul R. Williams 2020
As a conflict ends and the parties begin working towards a durable peace, practitioners and peace-builders are faced with the thrilling possibilities and challenges of building new or reformed political, security, judicial, social, and economic structures. This Handbook analyzes... (read more)
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The Cape Town Convention: Its Application to Space Assets and Relation to the Law of Outer Space
Mark J. Sundahl 2013
The UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment created a new international regime of secured finance applicable to aircraft and rolling stock that facilitates the financing of this equipment by, among other things, enabling lenders to create a... (read more)
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A New Working Bibliography of Ancient Greek Law
Mark J. Sundahl, Ēlias Arnautoglu, and David C. Mirhady 2011
The book contains a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on ancient Greek law during the archaic and classical periods from the 7th to the 4th century B.C. The purpose of the project was to bring together, in one place, the... (read more)
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New Perspectives on Space Law Proceedings of the 53rd IISL Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, Young Scholars Sessions
Mark J. Sundahl and V. Gopalakrishnan 2011
Contains the papers of the participants in the Young Scholars Session of the 53rd Annual Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space held in 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic, edited by Mark J. Sundahl and V. Gopalakrishnan. Papers include:
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California Secured Transactions Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code: Forms and Practice Manual
Mark J. Sundahl, George P. Haley, Robert J. Spjut, and Thomas Klaus Gump 2003
Everything the practicioner needs for UCC Article 9 Secured Transactions in California. Forms are included.
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Ohio Commercial and Consumer Law
William Tabac 1989
From the Ohio Practice Series by West, this treatise focuses on commercial and consumer protection law
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The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights: Examining the Trial of Mariann Colby
William Tabac 2018
They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby—an attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife—bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. A lack of witnesses was not... (read more)
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The Rise & Fall of Nashville Lawyer Tommy Osborn: Kennedy Convictions
William Tabac 2018
Tommy Osborn's star was rising. The young Nashville lawyer led a band of Tennessee reformers to victory in a landmark Supreme Court case. Hailed by Chief Justice Earl Warren as the most important of his career, Baker v. Carr's... (read more)
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Village Elections in China: Democratizing the Countryside
Qingshan Forrest Tan 2006
This study considers the institutional evolution and progress of village elections in China. China’s dramatic economic growth in less than 30 years is the result of economic reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s, and thus has... (read more)
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Dimensions of Faith: A Mormon Studies Reader
Stephen Taysom 2011
In the brief time between when the alarm clock rings and the start of the day, we usually cherish those few extra moments of warmth in the sheets. However, soon enough we’re happy to be up and about, exploring... (read more)
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Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds: Conflicting Visions, Contested Boundaries
Stephen Taysom 2010
Among America's more interesting new religious movements, the Shakers and the Mormons came to be thought of as separate and distinct from mainstream Protestantism. Using archives and historical materials from the 19th century, Stephen C. Taysom shows how these... (read more)
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Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950
Mark Tebeau 2003
During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the... (read more)
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Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival
J. Rosie Tighe and Stephanie Ryberg Webster 2019
Legacy cities, also commonly referred to as shrinking, or post-industrial cities, are places that have experienced sustained population loss and economic contraction. In the United States, legacy cities are those that are largely within the Rust Belt that thrived... (read more)
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Engineering Problems: Uncertainties, Constraints and Optimization Techniques
Marcos S.G. Tsuzuki, Rogério Y. Takimoto, Andre Sato, T. Saka, A. Barari, ROA Rahman, and Yung-Tse Hung 2022
This book is based on the concept that optimization, as the core engineering practice, is a bridge to relate the given problem constraints to an acceptable level of uncertainties for the corresponding solution. Over two sections, this book addresses... (read more)
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A Designer's Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What They Really Need
Jennifer Visocky O'Grady and Ken Visocky O'Grady 2006
Doing research can make all the difference between a great design and a good design. Most experienced designers would quantify this "legwork" with the term research. By engaging in competitive intelligence, customer profiling, color and trend forecasting, etc., designers... (read more)
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Design Currency : Understand, Define, and Promote the Value of Your Design Work
Jennifer Visocky O'Grady and Ken Visocky O'Grady 2013
The world needs beautiful design. But aesthetics are inherently subjective. In Design Currency, authors Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady show you how to frame the value of your design work in terms that your business partners will both understand... (read more)
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The Information Design Handbook
Jennifer Visocky O'Grady and Ken Visocky O'Grady 2008
The best information design often goes "unnoticed" by the viewer because it conveys information so quickly and effectively. The Information Design Handbook celebrates graphics that are exemplars of communication and esthetics, and reveals the thought processes and design skills... (read more)
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Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education : Preparing Stewards of the Discipline, Carnegie Essays on the Doctorate
George E. Walker 2006
Envisioning the Future of Doctoral Education is a collection of essays commissioned for the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. The question posed to the essayists in this volume was "If you could start de novo, what would be the... (read more)
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The Formation of Scholars : Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-first Century
George E. Walker 2008
This book distills the lessons learned from a five-year action and research project with more than 80 doctoral programs committed to better preparing graduates. Six disciplines were included: Chemistry, education, English, history, mathematics and neuroscience.
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Fundamentals of Physics Extended, 9th ed.
Jearl D. Walker 2010
This book arms engineers with the tools to apply key physics concepts in the field. A number of the key figures in the new edition are revised to provide a more inviting and informative treatment. The figures are broken... (read more)
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The Flying Circus of Physics, 2nd ed.
Jearl D. Walker 2006
Hurry! Hurry! Come one, come all. Meet a man who can pull two railroad passenger cars with his teeth and a real-life human cannon ball. Come face to face with a dead rattlesnake that still bites. And unlock the... (read more)
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Industrial Waste Engineering
Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Yung-Tse Hung 2024
- Discusses recent advancements in industrial and hazardous waste treatment
- Covers innovative environmental technologies and decontamination operations
- Details the management of acid mines, laboratories, nano pollutants and plant effluents
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Solid Waste Engineering and Management. Volume 1
Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Yung-Tse Hung 2021
This book is the first volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management. It provides an introduction to the topic, and focuses on legislation, transportation, transfer station, characterization, mechanical volume reduction, measurement, combustion, incineration, composting, landfilling,... (read more)
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Solid Waste Engineering and Management. Volume 2
Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Yung-Tse Hung 2022
This book is the second volume in a three-volume set on Solid Waste Engineering and Management. It focuses on sustainability, single waste stream processing, material recovery, plastic waste, marine litter, sludge disposal, restaurant waste recycling, sanitary landfills, landfill leachate... (read more)
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Waste Treatment in the Biotechnology, Agricultural and Food Industries Volume 1
Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Yung-Tse Hung 2022
Focuses on waste treatment and minimization using green environmental technologies
Discusses bio-environmental processes, climate change, biodiesel production, and livestock
Provides insight into waste treatment in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural and food industries
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