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  • MAKE: MATH TEACHER'S SUPPLEMENT
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    MAKE: MATH TEACHER'S SUPPLEMENT
    JOAN HORVATH / RICH CAMERON
    Make: Math Teacher's Supplement is the essential guide for teachers, parents, and other educators wanting to supplement their curriculum with Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron's Make: Geometry, Make: Trigonometry, and Make: Calculus books. This book is a companion to the three math books, and does not duplicate the content in them. Drawing on the authors' experience guiding both st...

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  • MAGIC AND THE WILL TO SCIENCE
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    MAGIC AND THE WILL TO SCIENCE
    AGNES HORVATH
    This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology. Its central idea, departing from the works of Frances Yates and the Gnosticism thesis of Eric Voegelin, is that far from being the radical opposite of magic, modern science effectively grew o...

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  • MAKE: TRIGONOMETRY
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    MAKE: TRIGONOMETRY
    JOAN HORVATH / RICH CAMERON
    Trigonometry has 2000-year-old roots in everyday useful endeavors, like finding the size of an object too big or far away to measure directly, or navigating from Point A to Point B. However, it is often taught very theoretically, with an emphasis on abstractions. Make: Trigonometry uses 3D printable models and readily-available physical objects like wire and cardboard tubes to ...

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  • TRANSFORMATIONS OF PELOPS
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    TRANSFORMATIONS OF PELOPS
    ANDRÁS PATAY-HORVÁTH
    This volume is the first monograph in English dedicated to the study of the Greek mythical hero Pelops. While popular in antiquity, Pelops’ popularity has since faded; this book presents a comprehensive treatment of his character and legacy. Ancient tradition held that Pelops was the son of Tantalus and the ancestor of the Atreids, Agamemnon and Menelaos, who appear in the Home...

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  • RAPE
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    RAPE
    MIRANDA A. H. HORVATH
    Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking – 10 Years On takes stock of current thinking and research about rape and the way it is handled in practice within the criminal justice system, as well as challenging some of the widely held but inaccurate beliefs about rape. The second edition of Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking – 10 Years On is not a traditional new edition, alth...

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  • MAKE: CALCULUS
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    MAKE: CALCULUS
    JOAN HORVATH / RICH CAMERON
    When Isaac Newton developed calculus in the 1600s, he was trying to tie together math and physics in an intuitive, geometrical way. But over time math and physics teaching became heavily weighted toward algebra, and less toward geometrical problem solving. However, many practicing mathematicians and physicists will get their intuition geometrically first and do the algebra late...

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  • A HISTORY OF SLOVAK ECONOMIC THOUGHT
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    A HISTORY OF SLOVAK ECONOMIC THOUGHT
    JULIUS HORVÁTH
    Slovakia has a rich and complex history, but until now there has not been a comprehensive analysis of the nation’s economic thought. This volume expertly fills this gap and traces the development of Slovak economic thought from the sixteenth century to the present day. Identifying key themes, moments, and thinkers, the chapters in this work consider the evolution of Slovak econ...

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  • THE MISOGYNISTIC BACKLASH AGAINST WOMEN-STRONG FILMS
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    THE MISOGYNISTIC BACKLASH AGAINST WOMEN-STRONG FILMS
    DANA SCHOWALTER / SHANNON STEVENS / DANIEL L. HORVATH
    This book is an exploration of the political struggle for visibility engendered by the growing number of women-centered popular films and a critical analysis of the intensifying misogynistic backlash that have accompanied such advances in the depiction of women on screen. The book draws from a variety of theoretical and methodological tools to provide critical cultural analysis...

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  • MAKE: GEOMETRY
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    MAKE: GEOMETRY
    JOAN HORVATH / RICH CAMERON
    Geometry, of all the branches of mathematics, is the one that is most easily visualized by making something. However, it is all too easy to reduce it to reams of formulas to memorize and proofs to replicate. This book aims to take geometry back to its practical roots with 3D printed models and puzzles as well as demonstrations with household objects like flashlights and paper t...

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  • POLITICAL ALCHEMY: TECHNOLOGY UNBOUNDED
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    POLITICAL ALCHEMY: TECHNOLOGY UNBOUNDED
    AGNES HORVATH
    This book explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author demonstrates not only the widespread presence of alchemical techniques in politics, bu...

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  • PUTIN'S FASCISTS
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    PUTIN'S FASCISTS
    ROBERT HORVATH
    The Putin regime and its propagandists have long claimed to be fighting the heirs of Nazi Germany. From its crackdown on domestic dissent to its aggression on the international stage, the Kremlin has regularly smeared its adversaries as fascists and fascist collaborators. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Putin claimed would achieve its 'denazification', brought this propagan...

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  • HALOGENATED HYDROCARBONS
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    HALOGENATED HYDROCARBONS
    A.L. HORVATH
    This book promotes a basic understanding of the concept of solubility and miscibility between halogenated hydrocarbons and water. It points out the regularities existing between solubility and physical properties of solute and solvent. The book is valuable to chemists and chemical engineers. ...

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  • MODERN LEADERS: BETWEEN CHARISMA AND TRICKERY
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    MODERN LEADERS: BETWEEN CHARISMA AND TRICKERY
    ÁRPÁD SZAKOLCZAI / MANUSSOS MARANGUDAKIS / ÁGNES HORVÁTH
    This book considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. Arguing that such leaders can be better understood with the help of the anthropologically based concept of ‘the trickster’, it offers studies of contemporary political figures from the world stage – including Presidents Macron, Tsipras...

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  • THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF EVIL: TRICKSTEROLOGY
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    THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF EVIL: TRICKSTEROLOGY
    AGNES HORVATH / ARPAD SZAKOLCZAI
    This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the ‘trickster’. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil, the authors use the trickster to facilitate a greater understanding of the return of evil in the modern era. Instead of simply opposing ‘good’ and ‘evil’, the figure of the trickster is used to pursue...

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  • WALLING, BOUNDARIES AND LIMINALITY
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    WALLING, BOUNDARIES AND LIMINALITY
    AGNES HORVATH, MARIUS ION BENŢA AND JOAN DAVISON
    Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of the long durée by locating the social practice of walling and encirclement in the broadest context of human history, integrating...

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  • WALKING INTO THE VOID
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    WALKING INTO THE VOID
    ARPAD SZAKOLCZAI / AGNES HORVATH
    The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of long-distance ‘pilgrimages’, implying a descent into such c...

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  • THEATRE, MAGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
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    THEATRE, MAGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
    GABRIELA DRAGNEA HORVATH
    Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history. In an inter...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK TO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
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    THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK TO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
    GÁBOR LUX AND GYULA HORVÁTH
    Twenty-five years into transformation, Central and Eastern European regions have undergone substantial socio-economic restructuring, integrating into European and global networks and producing new patterns of regional differentiation and development. Yet post-socialist modernisation has not been without its contradictions, manifesting in increasing social and territorial inequa...

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  • FROM THE LABORATORY TO THE CLASSROOM
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    FROM THE LABORATORY TO THE CLASSROOM
    JARED COONEY HORVATH
    Over recent years the field of Science of Learning has increased dramatically. Unfortunately, despite claims that this work will greatly impact education, very little research makes it into teacher practice. Although the reasons for this are varied, a primary concern is the lack of a proper translation framework. From the Laboratory to the Classroom aims to consolidate informat...

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  • EDUCATING YOUNG CHILDREN THROUGH NATURAL WATER
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    EDUCATING YOUNG CHILDREN THROUGH NATURAL WATER
    JUDIT HORVATH
    Coastlines, rivers and natural waters have a huge amount to offer young children, providing a unique environment for their learning and development. The environment and its almost daunting size touches something deep within the children and – surprisingly – the large space brings them closer together. This book provides a comprehensive guide to Natural Water School provision by...

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  • SPACES AND PLACES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
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    SPACES AND PLACES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
    GYULA HORVÁTH
    Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), was defined by these countries differences, rather than their common ideological roots. These disparities altered over time and were marked by changing social s...

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  • MODELLING IN THE TECHNOLOGY OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT
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    MODELLING IN THE TECHNOLOGY OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT
    IMRE HORVÁTH
    Modeling in the Technology of Wastewater Treatment discusses the application of scale-up methods, similarity theory approaches, and dimensional analysis to problems of wastewater treatment. The book first introduces the formulation of the problems, and then proceeds to reviewing literatures that tackle the subject matter. In the third chapter, the text discusses the applicatio...

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  • WOMEN AND DEPRESSION
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    WOMEN AND DEPRESSION
    PETER HORVATH
    The purpose of this book is to present a spectrum of women's experiences with depression. The book is unique in presenting both qualitative and quantitative studies on various stages of women's experiences with depression including its psychological and social antecedents, its adverse consequences, and the impact of psychological and community interventions. Our aim has been to...

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  • THE LEGACY OF SOVIET DISSENT
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    THE LEGACY OF SOVIET DISSENT
    ROBERT HORVATH
    During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat and published sources, it shows how ideas formulated in the dissident milieu clashe...

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  • PUTIN'S PREVENTIVE COUNTER-REVOLUTION
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    PUTIN'S PREVENTIVE COUNTER-REVOLUTION
    ROBERT HORVATH
    This book examines the 'preventive counter-revolution,' a programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin's second term as president. Kremlin propagandists hailed this programme as a defence of national sovereignty against Western attempts to foment a 'velvet revolution' in Russia. But this book shows that the Putin regime...

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  • MOLECULAR DESIGN
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    MOLECULAR DESIGN
    A.L. HORVATH
    This book is a systematic presentation of the methods that have been developed for the interpretation of molecular modeling to the design of new chemicals. The main feature of the compilation is the co-ordination of the various scientific disciplines required for the generation of new compounds. The five chapters deal with such areas as structure and properties of organic compo...

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  • MODELING AND PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUES FOR ENGINEERS
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    MODELING AND PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUES FOR ENGINEERS
    HORVATH, LASZLO / RUDAS, IMRE
    This book offers a comprehensive survey of computer methods for engineers that know the importance of the future applications of these techniques but can not understand them. Typically, design and production engineers can find books for specialists but they need one that helps them to understand the mystic world of advanced computer aided engineering activitites. This book is i...

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  • PROGRESS IN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
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    PROGRESS IN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
    BIERSTEDT, K.D. / BONET, J. / HORVÁTH, J. / MAESTRE, M.
    This volume includes a collection of research articles inFunctional Analysis, celebrating the occasion of Manuel Valdivia'ssixtieth birthday. The papers included in the volume are basedon the main lectures presented during the internationalfunctional analysis meeting held in Peñíscola(Valencia, Spain) in October 1990.During his career, Valdiviahas made contributio...

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  • GNOSTIC FOOLS
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    GNOSTIC FOOLS
    AGNES HORVATH
    This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics. It does so through an exploration of the ‘fool’ or ‘Gnostic fool’ as a type, drawing on ideas about the modality of the anthropological trickster figure and the mentalities ...

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  • THE CANNING SEASON
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    THE CANNING SEASON
    POLLY HORVATH
    National Book Award Winner: "[A] hilarious, heartrending tale of two unwanted children left with a pair of eccentric old ladies." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother announces that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment immediately to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her twin gre...

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