Sociology: Recent submissions
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Electrical Load Forecasting: Modeling and Model Construction
(Heinemann, 2010)Succinct and understandable, this book is a step-by-step guide to the mathematics and construction of Electrical Load Forecasting models. Written by one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, Short and Long Term ... -
Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Differentiated Instruction for Building Strategic, Independent Readers
(Heinemann, 2010)For teachers who sometimes feel as if data-based instruction, differentiated groupings, and formative assessments somehow involve going over to The Dark Side, this book is a powerful antidote. It will help you know that ... -
Cultured Food for Life. How to Make and Serve Delicious Probiotic Foods for Better Health and Wellness
(Hay House, 2013)Donna Schwenk’s world changed when she discovered cultured foods. After a difficult pregnancy and various health problems, she became determined to find answers to what ailed her. And in her quest, she came across the ... -
History of universities. Volume XXIX/2
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Volume XXIX/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This special issue, ... -
History of Oxford University Press: Volume IV. 1970 to 2004
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house, ... -
Graded modality : qualitative and quantitative perspectives
(Oxford University Press, 2017)This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of ... -
Growth, employment, and poverty in Latin America
(Oxford University Press, 2017)A study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of ... -
Good people, bad managers : how work culture corrupts good intentions
(Oxford University Press, 2017)There's far more bad management behavior taking place today than the well-intentioned doling it out realize... and even more than those on the receiving end are aware of! There's little mystery about what good management ... -
Global organizations challenges, opportunities, and the future
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The 21st century is often characterized as the age of globalization, with the world's economies becoming more and more interconnected at an unprecedented rate. And while the phenomenon of globalization isn't necessarily ... -
Musical prodigies : interpretations from psychology, education, musicology, and ethnomusicology
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Child prodigies have been observed in a range of disciplines - particularly music, mathematics, chess, and art. The question of what makes a prodigy has long been controversial. Some have dismissed the notion of giftedness, ... -
Global Governance from Regional Perspectives: A Critical View
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Global Governance from Regional Perspectives argues that the academic debate on global governance has neglected the combination of power with value constellations/culture. Both input and output legitimacy, for instance, ... -
Microcavities
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Microcavities are semiconductor, metal, or dielectric structures providing optical confinement in one, two or three dimensions. At the end of the 20th century, microcavities have attracted attention due to the discovery ... -
Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of ... -
Materials for the 21st century
(Oxford University Press, 2017)What does cotton candy, which dissolves at the touch, have in common with Kevlar, used for bullet-proof vests? How can our understanding of such materials help us to tackle essential problems of the 21st century? Materials ... -
Mass : the quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid, it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school ... -
Managing resource abundance and wealth. The Norwegian experience
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth: The Norwegian Experience describes the sundry and significant challenges, both economic and political, facing petroleum-producing countries. The volume outlines the pitfalls that ... -
Margaret Thatcher : a life and legacy
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier ... -
Managing knowledge integration across boundaries
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Knowledge integration - the purposeful combination of specialized and complementary knowledge to achieve specific tasks - is becoming increasingly important for organizations facing rapidly changing institutional environments, ... -
Making a difference: Essays on the philosophy of causation
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Making a Difference presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. Collectively, they represent the state of the art on these topics. The essays in this volume are ... -
Making sense : the glamorous story of English grammar
(Oxford University Press, 2017)In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as "preposition" ...
