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This book seeks to elucidate picture engineering as a new discipline for hand ling the entire scope of picture processing in a systematic manner. Picture engineering as a discipline has three...

Book XXX of Livy's great history of Rome describes the last fewyears (203-201 BC), of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage,including Hannibal's final defeat by Scipio at Zama, the...

Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes to themselves, among them his "Theory of Life,"...

Integration of disciplines, theories and research orientations has assumed a central role in criminological discourse yet it remains difficult to identify any concrete discoveries or significant...

Handbook of Latino/a Theologies explores the varied theological, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and cultural expressions associated with the term 'Latino/a or Hispanic theology.' There is no single...

Includes work by artists: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Maria Auxiliadora da Silva, Kofi Bailey, Edward Mitchell Bannister, James Richmond Barthae, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, John...

The purpose of this 2006 book is to present non-invasive methods of measuring the biological responses to psychosocial stress in humans, in non-laboratory (field) settings. Following the pathways of...

One of the academy’s leading legal historians, William E. Nelson is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. For more than four decades, Nelson has produced some of...

This alphabetically arranged handbook presents a series of concise and up-to-date accounts of the manuscript tradition and transmission of Latin texts. All authors and texts down to Apuleius which...

The study of behavioral decision making has recently expanded into the area of accounting and auditing. This branch of research seeks to understand the cognitive processes that govern such necessary...

Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentiveness--to others, to ourselves, to the world around us, to...

This book presents a full spectrum of views on current approaches to modeling cell mechanics. The authors of this book come from the biophysics, bioengineering, and physical chemistry communities and...

Based on the New Earnings Survey, one of the most detailed and comprehensive series of statistics on wage by any government, this volume will become a standard reference for anyone actively engaged...

Courts have emerged as a crucial battleground in efforts to regulate climate change. Over the past several years, tribunals at every level of government around the world have seen claims regarding...

From climate change to species extinction, humanity is confronted with an increasing array of societal and environmental challenges that defy simple quantifiable solutions. Complexity-based ecology...

During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but something of both, they contain notes on literary,...

This extravagantly illustrated catalogue--published in association with a major exhibition--evokes the romantic fascination with Italy that glimmers in the work of John Singer Sargent. Sargent,...

A scholarly edition of a work by Adam Smith. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted...

Part of the Oxford American Ophthamology Library, this book provides clear and detailed guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. Coverage spans the entire spectrum of glaucoma,...