In 1968, Georges Charpak’s revolutionary invention—the Multiwire Proportional Chamber—transformed how physicists explore the subatomic world. This book traces the journey of that breakthrough, a tribute to human ingenuity and a call to future innovators.
Unlock the power of SPSS for sports science with this practical guide. Master techniques from basic tools to advanced predictive modeling with step-by-step instructions. Turn complex sports data into meaningful insights that drive performance and innovation.
America’s Oldest Birth Certificate
Washington’s famous Waldseemüller map is dethroned. A watershed reappraisal of an older world map proves that descriptions by Amerigo Vespucci prompted the name America. For all interested in the discovery and naming of America, this historic milestone is an eyeopener.
Word-Formation in Context
This fascinating book treats the use of words from a new perspective. Words emerge from an interaction between morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic components. The book draws from a vast spectrum of texts and provides a key to help readers check their answers.
Kozak’s text encompasses all scholarly journals published in Turkey in all fields of science and other disciplines. The reference questions within are grouped under three main categories: the contact and publication information, article evaluation, and publishing information.
As a result of the recent serious academic interest in tourism as a complex aspect of investigation into humans and their environment, this volume brings together case studies from different parts of the world, focusing on tourism and its interactions with the environment.
With the growing complexity of digital systems, solving Boolean problems is a major challenge. This volume explores powerful techniques to solve them, from hardware acceleration to the synthesis of digital and reversible circuits, extending the basis for future quantum computers.
A Statistical Biography of George Udny Yule
Mills responds to the limited work on Udny Yule by embarking on the first major study of his statistical research and legacy. He explains how Yule was more than an expositor, in that he published important research, such as providing mathematical models of evolutionary behaviour.
Fashion through History
This collection analyses fashion as a key indicator of social change. It offers a comprehensive analysis of clothes across history, cultures, and disciplines, from ancient costumes and craft traditions to modern media and the styles of marginalized groups.
Bringing together papers from recent conferences of the Canadian Peace Research Association, this volume examines world peace in its foundational, descriptive, conceptual, and prescriptive aspects, and as a social and human concept in positive and negative contexts.
Emblems and Impact Volume II
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
Binicewicz analyses issues associated with the contemporary and memory in the Polish-German borderlands, showing it to be a complex, multidimensional cultural and geographic area.
A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.
Scientific Programming
Calvo offers an introduction to computer programming, numerical analysis, and other mathematical ideas that extend the basic topics learned in calculus. He illustrates how mathematicians and scientists write computer programs.
Varian Studies Volume One
The Roman emperor misnamed Elagabalus is a mythic monster of depravity or an anarchist saint. This volume explores the historical individual, Varius, behind the legend: a boy-priest made emperor at fourteen and murdered before eighteen. It rescues him from centuries of fantasy.
Medical Education in Western India
“Medical knowledge is not communicable to the natives.” Despite this 1832 declaration, Governor Sir Robert Grant, Dr Charles Morehead, and philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy created a medical college in Bombay that went on to rival those in Europe and America.
This collection explores the vital role of modern university language centres. Covering technology, creativity, methodologies and plurilingualism, its chapters show how to integrate theory with the best practices from real contexts for effective and successful language teaching.
This monograph considers the status of the verse novel as a genre and traces its mainly English-language history from its beginnings. The discussion will be of interest to genre theorists, prosodists, narratologists and literary historians.
The Skill Approach in Education
This book is a guide to teaching essential skills for a changing world. It covers language, science, math, psycho-social, and visual arts skills, explaining how to prepare and implement activities to help students succeed in school and beyond.
Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania
This title discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies.
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