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Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems Second Edition

Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems Second Edition

This is a book about the development of dependable embedded software. It is for systems designers implementers and verifiers who are experienced in general embedded software development but who are now facing the prospect of delivering a software-based system for a safety-critical application. It is aimed at those creating a product that must satisfy one or more of the international standards relating to safety-critical applications including IEC 61508 ISO 26262 EN 50128 EN 50657 IEC 62304 or related standards. Of the first edition Stephen Thomas PE Founder and Editor of FunctionalSafetyEngineer. com said I highly recommend Mr. Hobbs' book. | Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems Second Edition

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The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) Proceedings of the First In

The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) Proceedings of the First In

This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as Tudor literature? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the question of whether there is a sense of continuity in the literature of the Tudor century. The volume begins by looking at early Tudor writers such as Thomas More and then moves on to look at Elizabethan poetry and prose ending by covering the late Tudor dramas and Shakespeare. | The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) Proceedings of the First In

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The Critical Point A Historical Introduction To The Modern Theory Of Critical Phenomena

The Critical Point A Historical Introduction To The Modern Theory Of Critical Phenomena

The relationship between liquids and gases engaged the attention of a number of distinguished scientists in the mid 19th Century. In a definitive paper published in 1869 Thomas Andrews described experiments he performed on carbon dioxide and from which he concluded that a critical temperature exists below which liquids and gases are distinct phases of matter but above which they merge into a single fluid phase. During the years which followed other natural phenomena were discovered to which the same critical point description can be applied - such as ferromagnetism and solutions. This book provides an historical account of theoretical explanations of critical phenomena which ultimately led to a major triumph of statistical mechanics in the 20th Century - with the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics | The Critical Point A Historical Introduction To The Modern Theory Of Critical Phenomena

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Group-Theoretic Methods in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

Group-Theoretic Methods in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

Group analysis of differential equations has applications to various problems in nonlinear mechanics and physics. For the first time this book gives the systematic group analysis of main postulates of classical and relativistic mechanics. The consistent presentation of Lie group theory is illustrated by plentiful examples. Symmetries and conservation laws of differential equations are studied. Specific equations and problems of mechanics and physics are considered and exact solutions are given for the following equations: dynamics of rigid body heat transfer wave hydrodynamics Thomas-Fermi and more. The author pays particular attention to the application of group analysis to developing asymptotic methods of applied mathematics in problems with small parameter. The methods are used to solve basic equations (Van Der Pol's equation Duffing equation etc. ) encountered in the theory of nonlinear oscillations. This book is intended for a wide range of scientists engineers and students in the fields of applied mathematics mechanics and physics. | Group-Theoretic Methods in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

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An Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics

An Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics

An Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics presents techniques for statistical analysis in the absence of strong assumptions about the distributions generating the data. Rank-based and resampling techniques are heavily represented but robust techniques are considered as well. These techniques include one-sample testing and estimation multi-sample testing and estimation and regression. Attention is paid to the intellectual development of the field with a thorough review of bibliographical references. Computational tools in R and SAS are developed and illustrated via examples. Exercises designed to reinforce examples are included. Features Rank-based techniques including sign Kruskal-Wallis Friedman Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests are presented Tests are inverted to produce estimates and confidence intervals Multivariate tests are explored Techniques reflecting the dependence of a response variable on explanatory variables are presented Density estimation is explored The bootstrap and jackknife are discussed This text is intended for a graduate student in applied statistics. The course is best taken after an introductory course in statistical methodology elementary probability and regression. Mathematical prerequisites include calculus through multivariate differentiation and integration and ideally a course in matrix algebra.

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The Economics of Population Key Classic Writings

The Economics of Population Key Classic Writings

The economics of population has a long and controversial history as well as an exciting present. Vociferous popular debate public policy and population economics have unduly influenced one another: public debate and policy affect the erection of economists' conclusions just as the results of economists' studies influence debate and popular thought. The words and theories of John Maynard Keynes Thomas R. Malthus John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Engels come to mind immediately. However many writings on population economics had little or no influence on public thought at the time they were written although they may be seen as correct in light of modern developments. In fact many of the ideas contained in these writings were publicly debated but then ignored for a long time reappearing much later or reinvented independently. The Economics of Population edited by Julian L. Simon traces the history of population economics. This is a century-spanning collection of essays from foremost influential economic theorists arranged to illustrate thought development and its numerous reversals. The first section includes essays from Joseph J. Spengler John Graunt William Petty Thomas R. Malthus William Godwin and David Ricardo. Theorists such as Alexander Everett William Peterson Simon Gray Henry C. Carey John Stuart Mill Friedrich Engels Henry George and Charles Fourier are the subject of the volume's second section. Finally Simon covers the effect of population density and cities on productivity and the effect of density on agricultural practices and natural resources. Essays from this section include John Maynard Keynes' Is Britain Overpopulated? and The Economic Consequences of Peace as well as selections from Lionel Robbins George Simmel and Alvin H. Hansen. Simon's long-term focus reflects the evolution of population movements. He does not restrict himself to writings that have been important in the historical chain of intellectual influence. Rather he guides us to key works which shed light on the intellectual history of population economics. Simon includes some essays that while greatly influential can also be seen as fundamentally wrong in light of later work. As such The Economics of Population will be of great value to political economists sociologists of knowledge and historians of ideas. | The Economics of Population Key Classic Writings

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Mathematical Modelling with Differential Equations

Mathematical Modelling with Differential Equations

Mathematical Modelling with Differential Equations aims to introduce various strategies for modelling systems using differential equations. Some of these methodologies are elementary and quite direct to comprehend and apply while others are complex in nature and require thoughtful deep contemplation. Many topics discussed in the chapter do not appear in any of the standard textbooks and this provides users an opportunity to consider a more general set of interesting systems that can be modelled. For example the book investigates the evolution of a toy universe discusses why alternate futures exists in classical physics constructs approximate solutions to the famous Thomas—Fermi equation using only algebra and elementary calculus and examines the importance of truly nonlinear and oscillating systems. Features Introduces defines and illustrates the concept of dynamic consistency as the foundation of modelling. Can be used as the basis of an upper-level undergraduate course on general procedures for mathematical modelling using differential equations. Discusses the issue of dimensional analysis and continually demonstrates its value for both the construction and analysis of mathematical modelling.

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The Media and the Public Sphere A Deliberative Model of Democracy

The Media and the Public Sphere A Deliberative Model of Democracy

At the heart of modern democracy lies the public sphere which is most centrally shaped by those actors that integrate it discursively: the mass media. The media draw together the different strands of political debates; they grant access to some actors and arguments while excluding others and thus decisively mould the political process. In this book Thomas Häussler examines how the media reflect and react to the wider context in which they are embedded. More specifically he focuses on whether their discourse demonstrates systematic differences with regard to the two main public sphere types that they co-constitute according to deliberative theory focussing in particular on the work of Jürgen Habermas. The Media and the Public Sphere promotes a deeper and more detailed understanding of the political process by foregrounding the complex relationships between the media and the public discourse they constitute. It examines how the media co-create relationships of power analyses the structure of these discursive networks and illuminates the effects that different deliberative coalition types have on political debates. | The Media and the Public Sphere A Deliberative Model of Democracy

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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Scholars have tended to portray T. H. Huxley John Tyndall and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley the physicist John Tyndall and the philosopher of evolution Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour the novelist Samuel Butler and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century. | Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

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The American Civil War in the Shaping of British Democracy

The American Civil War in the Shaping of British Democracy

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861 a central question for British intellectuals was whether or not the American conflict was proof of the viability of democracy as a foundation for modern governance. The lessons of the American Civil War for Britain would remain a focal point in the debate on democracy throughout the war up to the suffrage reform of 1867 and after. Brent E. Kinser considers four figures connected by Woodrow Wilson's concept of the Literary Politician a person who while possessing a profound knowledge of politics combined with an equally acute literary ability to express that knowledge escapes the practical drudgeries of policy making. Kinser argues that the animosity of Thomas Carlyle towards democracy the rhetorical strategy of Anthony Trollope's North America the centrality of the American war in Walter Bagehot's vision of British governance and the political philosophy of John Stuart Mill illustrate the American conflict's vital presence in the debates leading up to the 1867 reform a legislative event that helped to secure democracy's place in the British political system. | The American Civil War in the Shaping of British Democracy

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Metaphysics A Contemporary Introduction

Metaphysics A Contemporary Introduction

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and includes two new chapters on (1) Parts and Wholes and (2) Metaphysical Indeterminacy or vagueness. This new edition also keeps the user-friendly format the chapter overviews summarizing the main topics concrete examples to clarify difficult concepts annotated further reading at the end of each chapter endnotes and a full bibliography. Topics addressed include: the problem of universals the nature of abstract entities the problem of individuation the nature of modality identity through time the nature of time the nature of parts and wholes the problem of metaphysical indeterminacy the Realism/anti-Realism debate. Wherever possible Michael J. Loux and Thomas M. Crisp relate contemporary views to their classical sources in the history of philosophy. As experienced teachers of philosophy and important contributors to recent debates Loux and Crisp are uniquely qualified to write this book. | Metaphysics A Contemporary Introduction

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Interior Design Masters

Interior Design Masters

Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people historical and contemporary that students and practitioners should know. Coverage starts in the late Renaissance with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has five sections with the entries alphabetical in each so it can serve as a history textbook and a reference guide. The seventeeth- and eighteenth-century section covers figures from Thomas Chippendale to Horace Walpole. The nineteenth-century section includes William Morris and Candace Wheeler. The early twentieth-century section presents modernism’s design heroes including Marcel Breuer Eileen Gray and Gilbert Rohde. The post-World War II designers range from Madeleine Castaing to Raymond Loewy. The final contemporary section includes Ron Arad and the Bouroullec brothers. These are the canonical figures who belong to any design history. The book also contains less well-known figures who deserve attention such as Betty Joel the British art deco furniture designer; Paul Veysseyre the Frenchman active in China in the 1930s; and more recently Lanzavecchia-Wai the Italian-Singaporean duo whose work ranges from health care to helicopters. Global in its coverage the book is richly illustrated with over 600 black-and-white and color photographs.

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The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht

The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht

The first in-depth study of the Utrecht artist to address questions beyond connoisseurship and attribution this book makes a significant contribution to Ter Brugghen and Northern Caravaggist studies. Focusing on the Dutch master's simultaneous use of Northern archaisms with Caravaggio's motifs and style Natasha Seaman nuances our understanding of Ter Brugghen's appropriations from the Italian painter. Her analysis centers on four paintings all depicting New Testament subjects. They include Ter Brugghen's largest and first known signed work (Crowning with Thorns) his most archaizing (the Crucifixion) and the two paintings most directly related to the works of Caravaggio (the Doubting Thomas and the Calling of Matthew). By examining the ways in which Ter Brugghen's paintings deliberately diverge from Caravaggio's Seaman sheds new light on the Utrecht artist and his work. For example she demonstrates that where Caravaggio's paintings are boldly illusionistic and mimetic thus de-emphasizing their materiality Ter Brugghen's works examined here create the opposite effect connecting their content to their made form. This study not only illuminates the complex meanings of the paintings addressed here but also offers insights into the image debates and the status of devotional art in Italy and Utrecht in the seventeenth century by examining one artist's response to them. | The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht

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Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

Todd Butler here proposes a new epistemology of early modern politics one that sees-as did writers of the period-human thought as a precursor to political action. By focusing not on reason or the will but on the imagination Butler uncovers a political culture in seventeenth-century England that is far more shifting and multi-polar than has been previously recognized. Pursuing the connection between individual thought and corporate political action he also charts the existence of a discourse that grounds modern scholarly interests in the representational nature of early modern politics - its images rituals and entertainment-within a language early moderns themselves used. Through analysis of a wide variety of seventeenth-century texts including the writings of Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes Caroline Court masques and the poetry and prose of John Milton he reveals a society deeply concerned with the fundamentally imaginative nature of politics. It is a strength of the study that Butler looks at unusual or slighted texts by these authors alongside their more canonical texts. The study also ranges widely across disciplines engaging literature alongside both natural and political philosophy. By emphasizing the human mind rather than human institutions as the primary site of the period's political struggles this study reframes critical understandings of seventeenth-century English politics and the texts that helped define them. | Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

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The Glycemic Index Applications in Practice

The Glycemic Index Applications in Practice

In 1981 David Jenkins Thomas Wolever and colleagues introduced the concept of the glycemic index (GI) to differentiate carbohydrates based on the rate of blood glucose rise following their consumption. Although GI was first used in diet therapy for diabetes research evidence has accumulated since then to thousands of publications from all over the world with applications for prevention and/or management of many diseases as well as effects on physiological states and exercise. The Glycemic Index: Applications in Practice has gathered together in an unbiased and critical way all the evidence and research on GI including diabetes cardiovascular disease cancer obesity polycystic ovary syndrome pregnancy outcomes sports performance eye health and cognitive functioning. It provides a detailed explanation on how to correctly measure a food’s GI how the GI of food products can be altered as well as the use and misuse of GI labelling around the globe. The contributors are either pioneers or experts in the area of GI from all around the globe including Australia Canada Europe and the United States. The book is a valuable source of information for healthcare professionals of various disciplines nutritionists dietitians food scientists medical doctors sports scientists psychologists public health (nutrition) policy makers and students in these fields as well as an important addition to university libraries. | The Glycemic Index Applications in Practice

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Educational Neuroscience Development Across the Life Span

Educational Neuroscience Development Across the Life Span

The field of educational neuroscience uses new insights about the neural mechanisms of learning to improve educational practices and outcomes. The first volume to bring together the latest knowledge on the development of educational neuroscience from a life-span perspective this important text offers state of the art authoritative research findings in educational neuroscience before providing evidence-based recommendations for classroom practice. Thomas Mareschal Dumontheil and the team of expert international contributors assembled in this volume thoroughly explore four main themes throughout the book. The first theme is individual differences or what makes children perform better or worse in the classroom. The second theme is the nature of individual differences at different stages in development from early years into adulthood. The third theme addresses cognitive enhancement summarizing research that has investigated activities that might give general benefits to cognition. And the fourth theme considers the translation of research findings into classroom practices discussing broader ethical issues raised by educational neuroscience and what teachers need to know about neuroscience to enhance their day-to-day practice. Specific topics explored include neuropsychological perspectives on socioeconomic disparities in educational achievement reading difficulties phonological skills executive function and emotional development. Educational Neuroscience is essential reading for researchers and graduate students of educational psychology developmental science developmental psychology and cognitive psychology especially those specializing in emotion regulation. | Educational Neuroscience Development Across the Life Span

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Reconsidering American Political Thought A New Identity

Reconsidering American Political Thought A New Identity

Filling in the missing spaces left by traditional textbooks on American political thought Reconsidering American Political Thought uses race gender and ethnicity as a lens through which to engage ongoing debates on American values and intellectual traditions. Weaving document-based texts analysis with short excerpts from classics in American literature this book presents a re-examination of the political and intellectual debates of consequence throughout American history. Purposely beginning the story in 1619 Saladin Ambar reassesses the religious political and social histories of the colonial period in American history. Thereafter Ambar moves through the story of America with each chapter focusing on a different era in American history up to the present day. Ambar threads together analysis of periods including Thomas Jefferson’s aspiration to create an Empire of Liberty the ethnic racial and gender-based discourse instrumental in creating a Yankee industrial state between 1877 and 1932 and the intellectual cultural and social forces that led to the political rise of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama in recent decades. In closing Ambar assesses the prospects for a new more invigorated political thought and discourse to reshape and redirect national energies and identity in the Trump presidency. Reconsidering American Political Thought presents a broad and subjective view about critical arguments in American political thought giving future generations of students and lecturers alike an inclusive understanding of how to teach research study and think about American political thought. | Reconsidering American Political Thought A New Identity

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Medical Risk Prediction Models With Ties to Machine Learning

Medical Risk Prediction Models With Ties to Machine Learning

Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning is a hands-on book for clinicians epidemiologists and professional statisticians who need to make or evaluate a statistical prediction model based on data. The subject of the book is the patient’s individualized probability of a medical event within a given time horizon. Gerds and Kattan describe the mathematical details of making and evaluating a statistical prediction model in a highly pedagogical manner while avoiding mathematical notation. Read this book when you are in doubt about whether a Cox regression model predicts better than a random survival forest. Features: All you need to know to correctly make an online risk calculator from scratch Discrimination calibration and predictive performance with censored data and competing risks R-code and illustrative examples Interpretation of prediction performance via benchmarks Comparison and combination of rival modeling strategies via cross-validation Thomas A. Gerds is a professor at the Biostatistics Unit at the University of Copenhagen and is affiliated with the Danish Heart Foundation. He is the author of several R-packages on CRAN and has taught statistics courses to non-statisticians for many years. Michael W. Kattan is a highly cited author and Chair of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has received two awards from the Society for Medical Decision Making: the Eugene L. Saenger Award for Distinguished Service and the John M. Eisenberg Award for Practical Application of Medical Decision-Making Research. | Medical Risk Prediction Models With Ties to Machine Learning

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Rebuilding America's Cities

Rebuilding America's Cities

A growing cooperation between the public and private sectors indicates that the tasks of redevelopment are too large and complex for either sector to accomplish alone. Some people maintain that government can do few things right; others are equally distrustful of the private sector. As used here the private sector is considered to be all that is not government. Each of the success stories illustrated is in part a road to recovery although none appear to have been influenced by a purpose that broad. Paul R. Porter and David C. Sweet present stories of progress in self-reliance that concern neighborhood and downtown recoveries school improvement job generation a regained fiscal solvency novel financing techniques helping tenants to become homeowners and a successful venture in self-help and tenant management in crime-infested neighborhoods. The successes stem from the diverse community roles of Yale University a medical center the world's largest research organization the Clorox Company a gas company an insurance company a newspaper neighborhood and downtown organizations city governments and two religious organizations - the Mormon Church and the tiny Church of the Savior. These stories are located throughout the United States including Akron Baltimore Brooklyn Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Fort Wayne Indianapolis Milwaukee New Haven Oakland Pittsburgh St. Louis St. Paul Salt Lake City Springfield Mass. Tampa and Washington D. C. The editors have gathered the work of professionals known in the field of urban studies: James W. Rouse Donald E. Lasater Rolf Goetze Dale F. Bertsch Joel Lieske Eugene H. Methvin James E. Kunde T. Michael Smith Robert Mier Carol Davidow Jay Chatterjee June Manning Thomas Norman Krumholz Larry C. Ledebur and Robert C. Holland. | Rebuilding America's Cities

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The School in the United States A Documentary History

The School in the United States A Documentary History

The School in the United States collects a wide range of essential primary documents of the history of education in the United States from colonial America to present-day reform efforts. Expertly chosen by historian and education scholar James Fraser these documents incorporate many different sources from first-person accounts to textbook excerpts and presidential speeches. As Fraser demonstrates the history of American education is also a history of national debates and decisions about schooling and he places the prominent voices of these debates in conversation through carefully curated selections including the work of famous thinkers like Thomas Jefferson and W. E. B. DuBois as well as that of ordinary classroom teachers. Organized by era each chapter begins with a brief introduction intended to spark student interest while a detailed bibliography suggests opportunities for further research. In addition the fourth edition also offers an alternative structure that allows easy use of the book by topic as an alternative to chronology. Comprehensive enough to be used as a main text but selective enough to be used alongside another The School in the United States makes accessible key readings in the history of American education in a format that encourages students to make their own evaluations as they engage with major historical debates. Updates to this fourth edition include: New documents throughout including additional teacher voices and a focus on technology. The last two chapters have been extensively revised to include material on school shootings debates about charter schools teacher strikes and the purposes of public education in the United States. A number of older documents have been shortened to point students more clearly to the most important ideas of a document. Overall the fourth edition is shorter than previous editions. Online resources that include a full Instructor’s Manual and sample syllabi. | The School in the United States A Documentary History

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Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country

Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country

This thought-provoking book demonstrates how processes of landscape transformation usually illustrated only in simplified or idealized form play out over time in real complex landscapes. Trimble illustrates how a simple landscape disturbance generated in this case by agriculture can spread an astonishing variety of altered hydrologic and sedimentation processes throughout a drainage basin. The changes have spatial and temporal patterns forced on them by the distinctive topographic structure of drainage basins. Through painstaking field surveys comparative photographic records careful dating a skillful eye for subtle landscape features and a geographer’s interdisciplinary understanding of landscape processes the author leads the reader through the arc of an instructive and encouraging story. Farmers—whose unfamiliarity with new environmental conditions led initially to landscape destruction impoverishment and instability—eventually adapted their land use and settlement practices and supported by government institutions recovered and enriched the same working landscape. For the natural scientist Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country illustrates how an initially simple alteration of land cover can set off a train of unanticipated changes to runoff erosion and sedimentation processes that spread through a landscape over decades—impoverishing downstream landscapes and communities. Distinct zones of the landscape respond differently and in sequence. The effects take a surprisingly long time to spread through a landscape because sediment moves short distances during storms and can persist for decades or centuries in relatively stable forms where it resists further movement because of consolidation plant reinforcement and low gradients. For the social scientist the book raises questions of whether and how people can be alerted early to their potential for environmental disturbance but also for learning and adopting restorative practices. Trimble’s commitment to all aspects of this problem should energize both groups. —Professor Thomas Dunne Bren School of Environmental Science and Management UC Santa Barbara

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The Paleoconservatives New Voices of the Old Right

The Paleoconservatives New Voices of the Old Right

Paleoconservatism as a concept came into circulation during the 1980s as a rejoinder to the rise of neoconservatism. It signifies a brand of conservatism that rose up in opposition to the New Deal setting itself against the centralizing trends that define modern politics to champion the republican virtues of self-governance and celebrate the nation's varied and colorful regional cultures. This volume brings together key writings of the major representatives of Old Right thought past and present. The essays included here define a coherent intellectual tradition linking New York libertarians to unreconstructed Southern traditionalists to Midwestern agrarians. Part I is devoted to the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement. Essays by Frank Chodorov Murray Rothbard and James Burnham attack economic aspects of the New Deal big government in general and high taxes. Russell Kirk introduces the cultural paleoconservatism with its preference for social classes and distinctions of age and sex while Richard Weaver explains why culture is more important to a civilization's survival than mere material conditions. The second part covers the contemporary resurgence of the Old Right. Chilton Williamson Jr. sets out the argument against large-scale immigration on cultural and economic grounds. The divisive issue of trade is covered. William Hawkins outlines a mercantilist trade policy at odds with the free trade libertarianism of Chodorov and Rothbard. On education Allan Carlson goes further than the Beltway Right in his advocacy of home schooling. M. E. Bradford shows how the doctrine of equality of opportunity inevitably leads to greater and more tyrannical state action. The contemporary culture wars are the focus of Thomas Fleming Paul Gottfried Clyde Wilson and Samuel Francis who search for the roots of American nationalism the lessons to be drawn from the past and how they may be applied in the future. | The Paleoconservatives New Voices of the Old Right

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A Programing Contingency Analysis of Mental Health

A Programing Contingency Analysis of Mental Health

A Programing Contingency Analysis of Mental Health presents Dr. Israel Goldiamond’s reflections on various ways we formulate behavioral and emotional problems most often in traditional terms of mental health disorders mental diseases or illnesses psychopathological disorders and so on – what he calls a pathological orientation. Here Goldiamond argues for a groundbreaking alternative view from the vantage point of radical behaviorism. The book begins by discussing contingency relations between behavior and its past and present consequences along with other environmental events. It reminds us that this approach sits comfortably alongside other consequential systems in the social and biological sciences particularly decision theory and evolution. This behaviorist system regards most important human behaviors as being emitted rather than stimulus-elicited. Described are some of the diverse origins of behavior including the effects of environmental consequences and the programing procedures of social and cultural inheritance. The exposition includes decision matrices which rationalize some of the programed patterns and the accompanying thoughts and emotions commonly found in mental illness. As a result of this nonlinear contingency analysis such patterns may be considered adaptive rather than maladaptive. The book describes programs based on those matrices and outlines how they might be applied to mitigate any problems or costs associated with those patterns. The book concludes by moving from individual analysis to social analysis with particular reference to some societal contingencies that may maintain the pathological orientation and others that might shift our gaze in the direction proposed here. Alongside Dr. Goldiamond’s original work this volume features a new introduction from Dr. Paul Thomas Andronis and Dr. T. V. Joe Layng as well as an article tracing the history of the non-linear thinking of Dr. Goldiamond first published in The Behavior Analyst. It will be a must-read for anyone working in the analysis of and clinical intervention in problems associated with mental health or those more generally interested in the work of Israel Goldiamond.

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Exploring Roguelike Games

Exploring Roguelike Games

Since 1980 in-the-know computer gamers have been enthralled by the unpredictable random and incredibly deep gameplay of Rogue and those games inspired by it known to fans as roguelikes. For decades this venerable genre was off the radar of most players and developers for a variety of reasons: deceptively simple graphics (often just text characters) high difficulty and their demand that a player brings more of themselves to the game than your typical AAA title asks. This book covers many of the most prominent titles and explains in great detail what makes them interesting the ways to get started playing them the history of the genre and more. It includes interviews playthroughs and hundreds of screenshots. It is a labor of love: if even a fraction of the author’s enthusiasm for these games gets through these pages to you then you will enjoy it a great deal. Key Features: Playing tips and strategy for newcomers to the genre Core roguelikes Rogue Angband NetHack Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup ADOM and Brogue The lost roguelikes Super Rogue and XRogue and the early RPG dnd for PLATO systems The Japanese console roguelikes Taloon’s Mystery Dungeon and Shiren the Wanderer Lesser-known but extremely interesting games like Larn DoomRL HyperRogue Incursion and Dungeon Hack Rogue-ish games that blur the edges of the genre including Spelunky HyperRogue ToeJam & Earl Defense of the Oasis Out There and Zelda Randomizer Interviews with such developers as Keith Burgun (100 Rogues and Auro) Rodain Joubert (Desktop Dungeons) Josh Ge (Cogmind) Dr. Thomas Biskup (ADOM) and Robin Bandy (devnull public NetHack tournament) An interview regarding Strange Adventures in Infinite Space Design issues of interest to developers and enthusiasts Author Bio: John Harris has bumped around the Internet for more than 20 years. In addition to writing the columns @Play and Pixel Journeys for GameSetWatch and developer interviews for Gamasutra he has spoken at Roguelike Celebration. John Harris has a MA in English Literature from Georgia Southern University. | Exploring Roguelike Games

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An Introduction to Analysis

An Introduction to Analysis

The third edition of this widely popular textbook is authored by a master teacher. This book provides a mathematically rigorous introduction to analysis of real­valued functions of one variable. This intuitive student-friendly text is written in a manner that will help to ease the transition from primarily computational to primarily theoretical mathematics. The material is presented clearly and as intuitive as possible while maintaining mathematical integrity. The author supplies the ideas of the proof and leaves the write-up as an exercise. The text also states why a step in a proof is the reasonable thing to do and which techniques are recurrent. Examples while no substitute for a proof are a valuable tool in helping to develop intuition and are an important feature of this text. Examples can also provide a vivid reminder that what one hopes might be true is not always true. Features of the Third Edition: Begins with a discussion of the axioms of the real number system. The limit is introduced via sequences. Examples motivate what is to come highlight the need for hypothesis in a theorem and make abstract ideas more concrete. A new section on the Cantor set and the Cantor function. Additional material on connectedness. Exercises range in difficulty from the routine getting your feet wet types of problems to the moderately challenging problems. Topology of the real number system is developed to obtain the familiar properties of continuous functions. Some exercises are devoted to the construction of counterexamples. The author presents the material to make the subject understandable and perhaps exciting to those who are beginning their study of abstract mathematics. Table of Contents Preface Introduction The Real Number System Sequences of Real Numbers Topology of the Real Numbers Continuous Functions Differentiation Integration Series of Real Numbers Sequences and Series of Functions Fourier Series Bibliography Hints and Answers to Selected Exercises Index Biography James R. Kirkwood holds a Ph. D. from University of Virginia. He has authored fifteen published mathematics textbooks on various topics including calculus real analysis mathematical biology and mathematical physics. His original research was in mathematical physics and he co-authored the seminal paper in a topic now called Kirkwood-Thomas Theory in mathematical physics. During the summer he teaches real analysis to entering graduate students at the University of Virginia. He has been awarded several National Science Foundation grants. His texts Elementary Linear Algebra Linear Algebra and Markov Processes are also published by CRC Press. | An Introduction to Analysis

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