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Basic Structural Dynamics

by James C. C. Anderson & Farzad Naeim

A concise introduction to structural dynamics and earthquake engineering

Basic Structural Dynamics serves as a fundamental introduction to the topic of structural dynamics. Covering single and multiple-degree-of-freedom...

Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force

by Joan McArthur-Blair, Jeanie Cockell & Marjorie Schiller

Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force provides practical guidance on how Appreciative Inquiry, long known as a valuable approach and process for change management and group development,...

Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 9 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning

by Ram Charan

The coauthor of the international bestseller Execution has created the how-to guide for solving today’s toughest business challenge: creating profitable growth that is organic, differentiated, and sustainable....

Continuing to Engage the Online Learner: More Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction

by Rita-Marie Conrad & J. Ana Ana Donaldson

This book includes a definitive model for engaged learning that can be applied in a wide range of on-line learning environments and across age levels.  It also addresses current topics such as engaging in...

The Family Office Book: Investing Capital for the Ultra-Affluent

by Richard C. C. Wilson

Key strategies for running a family office for fund managers

Understanding the basics of the family office industry is essential if you want to succeed in establishing a successful fund for a wealthy family....

The Arab World Unbound: Tapping Into the Power of 350 Million Consumers

by Vijay Mahajan

An expert's guide to exploring business opportunities in the burgeoning Arab marketplace

This groundbreaking book reveals the myriad opportunities presented by the Arab World's market of 350 million consumers,...

Privatizing China: Inside China's Stock Markets

by Fraser J. T. J. T. Howie & Carl E. E. Walter

PRIVATIZING CHINA

INSIDE CHINA'S STOCK MARKETS

In more depth than any other, this highly readable book lays bare why China's capital markets have fallen so far short of their promise. It is required reading for...

Present Knowledge in Nutrition

by John W. , Jr. Erdman, Ian A. A. MacDonald & Steven H. H. Zeisel

Present Knowledge in Nutrition, 10^th Edition provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human nutrition, including micronutrients, systems biology, immunity, public health, international nutrition, and...

American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home 1945-2000

by Joshua Freeman

A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominance

In this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized...

More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889

by Stephen Kantrowitz

A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction,...

Finding Your True Life Purpose: Knowing Yourself

by Raymond Desmarais

Before You or any person can find True Happiness in their lives; all must know what their True Life Purpose really is for themselves. This book has undergone an extensive revision, to include the missing piece,...

Archbishop Fisher, 1945-1961: Church, State and World

by Andrew Chandler & David Hein

This book explores Archbishop Fisher's influence on major contemporary issues and events, including divorce-law reform and capital punishment at home and the end of Empire and the most dangerous years of the...

Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground

by Pete Dale

The punk underground has repeatedly insisted that 'anyone can do it', grounding itself in a politics of empowerment that claims to be anarchistic in character. How valid is punk's faith in anarchistic empowerment?...

Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture

by Casey Charles

Critical Queer Studies examines contemporary films and documentaries that dramatize the intersection of law and queer life, analyzing the effects of legal doctrines-jury selection, unwanted sexual advance, negligence,...

Patrons of History: Nobility, Capital and Political Transitions in Poland

by Longina Jakubowska

Drawing on rich interview material spanning fifteen years, Patrons of History sheds light not only on communism as it existed and the stratification that persisted under such regimes, but also on the functioning...

The Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulatory Landscape in Less Developed Countries

by Norman Mugarura

Examining the challenges of using the global anti-money laundering (AML) framework in an uneven global regulatory landscape, this book discusses the difficulties of relating de-regulation, liberalization and...

Architect Knows Best: Environmental Determinism in Architecture Culture from 1956 to the Present

by Simon Richards

The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modern' movement in architecture and planning. However, as these approaches came under attack from...

Turkish Metal: Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society

by Pierre Hecker

Turkish Metal uncovers the emergence, evolution, and especially the social implications of this controversial musical genre in a Muslim society. Above all, the book investigates the Turkish metal scene's potential...

Archbishop Anselm 1093-1109: Bec Missionary, Canterbury Primate, Patriarch of Another World

by Sally N. Vaughn

Exploring Anselm's thirty years as Prior and Abbot of the large, rich, Norman monastery of Bec, and teacher in its school, this book notes the wealth of experiences which prepared Anselm for his archiepiscopal...

Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England

by Jennifer C. Vaught

Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festival materials appropriated by Renaissance writers in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Jennifer Vaught focuses...