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Labor Economics
(MIT Press, 2014)The new edition of a widely used, comprehensive graduate-level text and professional reference covering all aspects of labor economics, with substantial new material. This landmark graduate-level text combines depth and ... -
Labor risk sharing
(MIT International Center for Air Transportation (ICAT), 2015)In this paper we aim to test the extent of labor risk sharing exists in thai village economies. Specifically we test the null hypothesis of full risk sharing at the village level. We outline a simple planner's problem that ... -
Laboratory Explorations to Accompany Microelectronic Circuits
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Designed to accompany Microelectronic Circuits, Seventh Edition, by Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, Laboratory Explorations invites students to explore the realm of real-world engineering through practical, hands-on ... -
Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology
(Pearson, 2018)Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology is produced under the auspices of the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT). For decades it has been the most widely adopted ... -
Laboratory Medicine Diagnosis of Disease in Clinical Laboratory 2/E
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)A complete full-color guide to medical test selection and test result interpretation A Doody's Core Title for 2017! Laboratory Medicine is an essential text for medical students and residents studying clinical pathology, ... -
Land and Credit: Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been ... -
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
(University of California Press, 2015)In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the ... -
Landscape Construction
(Delmar Cengage Learning, 2010)Landscape Construction, 3rd edition, with its simple but complete instructions for a multitude of exterior construction projects, is the ideal learning and resource tool for future landscape contractors and designers. ... -
Lange Clinical Neurology and Neuroanatomy: A Localization-Based Approach
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2016)Clinical Neurology and Neuroanatomy delivers a clear, logical discussion of the complex relationship between neuroanatomical structure and function and neurologic disease. Written in a clear, concise style, this unique ... -
Language and Bilingual Cognition
(Psychology Press, 2010)This innovative volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals. It brings together contributions from international leading figures in various ... -
Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals: An Introduction
(Psychology Press, 2010)Psycholinguistics – the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language – had a strong monolingual orientation during the ... -
Language and Reality: On an Episode in Indian Thought
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2011)The following work is based on a series of lectures delivered before the Section des Sciences Religieuses at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris) in May 1997. I had addressed the main sub-ject of these ... -
Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity
(MIT Press, 2017)Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. ... -
The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction
(MIT Press, 2011)Susan Schneider's The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction does precisely what its title claims: it provides a new orientation for the language of thought and the related computational theory of mind. Schneider ... -
Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education system and wider society. Profiling a range of different communities and sociolinguistic ... -
Language variation - European perspectives III : selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009
(John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011)The series aims to include empirical studies of linguistic variation as well as its description, explanation and interpretation in structural, social and cognitive terms. The series will cover any relevant subdiscipline: ... -
Language, Gender and Children's Fiction
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)Language, Gender and Children’s Fiction is about the fi ction young children read (at home and school), the language of that fiction, and the way female and male characters, and gender relations, are represented in the ... -
The Last Pictures
(University of California Press, 2012)Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the ... -
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010)Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our ... -
LaTeX in 24 Hours: A Practical Guide for Scientific Writing
(Springer, 2017)This book presents direct and concise explanations and examples to many LaTeX syntax and structures, allowing students and researchers to quickly understand the basics that are required for writing and preparing book ...
