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  • LIFE SKILLS FOR ALL LEARNERS
    ANTARINA S. F. AMIR / THOMAS R. GUSKEY
    The clearest guide yet to preparing today's students to succeed in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world.Information societies—and life in general—require a host of skills beyond those found in the traditional school curriculum. Yet nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, educators are still looking for clarity on what these skills are and ...

    $656.00

  • LIFE SKILLS FOR ALL LEARNERS
    ANTARINA S. F. AMIR / THOMAS R. GUSKEY
    The clearest guide yet to preparing today's students to succeed in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world.Information societies—and life in general—require a host of skills beyond those found in the traditional school curriculum. Yet nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, educators are still looking for clarity on what these skills are and ...

    $656.00

  • CEREAL CROPS
    TARIQ SHAH, LIXIAO NIE, MARCELO CARVALHO MINHOTO TEXEIRA FILHO, AND RABIA AMIR
    Cereal Crops: Genetic Resources and Breeding Techniques provides the reader practical tools for understanding relationships and challenges of successful farming; improvements to genetic modifications; and environmentally sound methods of production of bulk and quality cereals including wheat, maize, rice, barley, and millets. It explores the trait mapping, cropping systems, gen...

    $1,339.00

  • CRAFTING ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK
    AMIR B. MARVASTI
    Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions. Demonstrating that ethnography is best viewed as a series of site-specific challenges, it showcases ethnographic fieldwork as ongoing analytic engagement with concrete social worlds. From engagem...

    $979.00

  • ESSENTIALS OF MECHANICAL STRESS ANALYSIS
    AMIR JAVIDINEJAD
    Essentials of Mechanical Stress Analysis, updated for the second edition, covers stress analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective. Discussing techniques and theories essential to analysing structures, the book covers both analytical and numerical approaches. The second edition adds new topics and updates research to follow current advances in the field. New sections on mat...

    $2,400.00

  • TRANSLATING RUMI INTO THE WEST
    AMIR SEDAGHAT
    Focusing on Rumi, the best-selling Persian mystical poet of the 13th century, this book investigates the reception of his work and thought in North America and Europe – and the phenomenon of ‘Rumimania’ – to elucidate the complexities of intercultural communication between the West and the Iranian and Islamic worlds. Presenting tens of examples from the original and translated ...

    $1,099.00

  • SPARK IGNITION ENGINE MODELING AND CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN
    AMIR-MOHAMMAD SHAMEKHI / AMIR HOSSEIN SHAMEKHI
    This book presents a step-by-step guide to the engine control system design, providing case studies and a thorough analysis of the modeling process using machine learning, and model predictive control (MPC). Covering advanced processes alongside the theoretical foundation, MPC enables engineers to improve performance in both hybrid and non-hybrid vehicles. Control system improv...

    $1,939.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN STEM EDUCATION
    FAN OUYANG, PENGCHENG JIAO, BRUCE M. MCLAREN AND AMIR H. ALAVI
    Artificial intelligence (AI) opens new opportunities for STEM education in K-12, higher education, and professional education contexts. This book summarizes AI in education (AIED) with a particular focus on the research, practice, and technological paradigmatic shifts of AIED in recent years. The 23 chapters in this edited collection track the paradigmatic shifts of AIED in STE...

    $4,600.00

  • HANDBOOK OF PLUM FRUIT
    AMIR GULL
    In the last ten years there has been an exponential increase in the adoption of high-density farming, which leads to better yield and higher-quality fruits, thus improving the economic return. Handbook of Plum Fruit: Production, Postharvest Science, and Processing Technology covers all the recent advances in plum production, harvesting, handling and processing. Divided into two...

    $4,600.00

  • GRAPHENE FROM NATURAL SOURCES
    AMIR AL-AHMED
    This book examines the synthesis of graphene obtained from different natural raw materials and waste products as a low-cost, environmentally friendly alternative that delivers a quality final product. Expert researchers review potential sources of natural raw materials and waste products, methods or characterization, graphene synthesis considerations, and important applications...

    $4,600.00

  • DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF SMART SURGICAL ASSISTANT TECHNOLOGIES
    JEFF J.H. KIM / RICHARD UM / RAJIV R. IYER / NICHOLAS THEODORE / AMIR MANBACHI
    Are Amazon Alexa and Google Home limited to our bedrooms, or can they be used in hospitals? Do you envision a future where physicians work hand-in-hand with voice AI to revolutionize healthcare delivery? In the near future, clinical smart assistants will be able to automate many manual hospital tasks—and this will be only the beginning of the changes to come. Voice AI is the fu...

    $539.00

  • ARCHITECTURE, AESTHETICS, AND THE PREDICAMENTS OF THEORY
    AMIR H AMERI
    Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for the delimitation of architecture. This book analyzes the unceasing critical role ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE LEGACY OF NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHY OF LAUGHTER
    LYDIA AMIR
    This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche’s reception in France, and she explains why and how he came to be considered a "philosopher of laughter" in the Fre...

    $1,099.00

  • BREXIT AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
    AMIR ALI
    This book analyses Brexit in the larger context of the crisis in liberal democracies and the continuing rise of 'nationalism'. With electoral verdicts favouring right-wing populists across the world, the volume argues that Brexit has become a key event in understanding global political currents, as well as emerging as a watershed moment in the current political climate. The aut...

    $999.00

  • BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
    IMAN RAHIMI, AMIR H. GANDOMI, SIMON JAMES FONG, M. ALI ÜLKÜ
    In a world of soaring digitization, social media, financial transactions, and production and logistics processes constantly produce massive data. Employing analytical tools to extract insights and foresights from data improves the quality, speed, and reliability of solutions to highly intertwined issues faced in supply chain operations. From procurement in Industry 4.0 to susta...

    $1,339.00

  • ACCOUNTING FOR M&A
    AMIR AMELZADEH / GEOFF MEEKS
    Spending on M&A has, in aggregate, grown so fast that it has even overtaken capital expenditure on increasing and maintaining physical assets. Yet McKinsey, the leading management consultancy, reports that "Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly 70% fail". The idea that businesses might be using huge and increasing sums of shareholders’ money for an a...

    $1,099.00

  • SMART GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN CITIES
    AMIR SHAKIBAMANESH / MAHSHID GHORBANIAN / SEYED NAVID MASHHADI MOGHADAM
    This book delves into the urban planning theory of “smart growth” to encourage the creation of smart cities, where compact urban spaces are optimized to create transit-oriented, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly areas, with a clear focus on developing a sustainable, humanistic transport system. Over the last century, increased demographic changes and use of motor vehicles in the...

    $1,039.00

  • THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF DRUG PRODUCTION ON THE PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN BORDER
    AMIR ZADA ASAD / ROBERT HARRIS
    This title was first published in 2003. This important study contains a detailed socio-economic and political description of a region where opium and heroin are both produced and consumed. By carefully relating drug production, trade and consumption to a relatively inaccessible area on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the book teaches us not only about the area - itself fascina...

    $1,299.00

  • ANALYSIS OF BIPOLAR AND CMOS AMPLIFIERS
    AMIR M. SODAGAR
    The classical approach to analog circuit analysis is a daunting prospect to many students, requiring tedious enumeration of contributing factors and lengthy calculations. Most textbooks apply this cumbersome approach to small-signal amplifiers, which becomes even more difficult as the number of components increases. Analysis of Bipolar and CMOS Amplifiers offers students an alt...

    $3,000.00

  • MULTILAYER CORPUS STUDIES
    AMIR ZELDES
    This volume explores the opportunities afforded by the construction and evaluation of multilayer corpora, an emerging methodology within corpus linguistics that brings about multiple independent parallel analyses of the same linguistic phenomena, and how the interplay of these concurrent analyses can help to push the field into new frontiers. The first part of the book surveys ...

    $1,099.00

  • CLEFT TONGUE
    DANA AMIR
    This book is an attempt to analyse psychic language and its diverse modes of expression, both within psychic structure and in the interpersonal realm. It begins by looking at two basic forms of delay in the development of psychic language: concrete language, which is based on flattening, and pseudo-language, which is rooted in concealment. The next chapter focuses on the split ...

    $779.00

  • WHAT IS SHI'I ISLAM?
    MOHAMMAD ALI AMIR-MOEZZI / CHRISTIAN JAMBET
    For the public at large Shi’ism often implies a host of confused representations, suggesting more often than not obscurantism, intolerance, political violence and other ignominies running hot or cold in response to world events. In fact for many people, Shi’ism stands for "radical Islam", or – worse – "Islamic terrorism". In some respects, nothing is more familiar than Shi’ism,...

    $999.00

  • EQUITY-LINKED LIFE INSURANCE
    ALEXANDER MELNIKOV / AMIR NOSRATI
    This book focuses on the application of the partial hedging approach from modern math finance to equity-linked life insurance contracts. It provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to quantifying financial and insurance risks. The book also explains how to price innovative financial and insurance products from partial hedging perspectives. Each chapter presents the probl...

    $1,239.00

  • SPORT, RACISM AND SOCIAL MEDIA
    NEIL FARRINGTON / LEE HALL / DANIEL KILVINGTON / JOHN PRICE / AMIR SAEED
    Racist abuse may at one time have been hurled across the sports stadium or scrawled on a wall. But in today’s social media world it can be published to millions, from almost anywhere, in an instant. Sport, Racism and Social Media provides the first significant, academic account of how social media is shaping the nature of racisms in sport. Among the questions it addresses are: ...

    $1,179.00

  • PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
    ROGER A. MESSENGER / AMIR ABTAHI
    The primary purpose of PV Systems Engineering is to provide a comprehensive set of PV knowledge and understanding tools for the design, installation, commissioning, inspection, and operation of PV systems. During recent years in the United States, more PV capacity was installed than any other electrical generation source. In addition to practical system information, this new ed...

    $1,399.00

  • HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT USING NANOFLUID FLOW IN MICROCHANNELS
    DAVOOD DOMAIRRY GANJI / AMIR MALVANDI
    Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Nanofluid Flow in Microchannels: Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer focuses on the numerical simulation of passive techniques, and also covers the applications of external forces on heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids in microchannels. Economic and environmental incentives have increased efforts to reduce energy consumption. Heat transfer ...

    $2,393.00

  • SOUTH ASIAN ISLAM AND BRITISH MULTICULTURALISM
    AMIR ALI
    This book analyses South Asian Islam’s engagement with the West, and Britain in particular. It traces the roots of British multiculturalism to South Asia and the Deobandi school of Islam. The work shows how the pattern of interaction that initially emerged between the Deobandi Muslims and the colonial British state in late-19th century replicated itself in the British society i...

    $1,139.00

  • DERMATOPATHOLOGY PRIMER OF CUTANEOUS TUMORS
    OMAR P. SANGUEZA, SARA MORADI TUCHAYI, PARISA MANSOORI, SALEHA A. ALDAWSARI, AMIR AL-DABAGH, AMANY A
    Dermatopathology Primer of Cutaneous Tumors presents a detailed overview of the most common skin neoplasms. For each neoplasm, the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, clinical variants, and special studies are presented in a succinct, bulleted form. Extensive illustrations demonstrate each neoplasm's characteristic features, as well a ...

    $1,499.00

  • THE DAĒVA CULT IN THE GĀTHĀS
    AMIR AHMADI
    Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism: cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the soul after death and its passage to the other world). The daēva cult as it appear...

    $1,099.00

  • ELEMENTS OF LINEAR SPACE
    A. R. AMIR-MOEZ / A. L. FASS
    Elements of Linear Space is a detailed treatment of the elements of linear spaces, including real spaces with no more than three dimensions and complex n-dimensional spaces. The geometry of conic sections and quadric surfaces is considered, along with algebraic structures, especially vector spaces and transformations. Problems drawn from various branches of geometry are given. ...

    $425.00


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