Overview: During the early days of quarantine, many teachers turned to poetry to process their experiences. Teacher-Poets Writing to Bridge the Distance: An Oral History of COVID-19 preserves this poetry and teachers' experiences as they navigated a new reality in education.
Overview: Over forty-plus years, Joseph Donohue spent many days in London libraries researching theatrical subjects and many afternoons and evenings in London theatres, witnessing almost one hundred twenty-five productions of original plays and revivals and recording his experience in a series of meticulously kept journals.
Overview: This book was developed at Simon Fraser University for an upper-level physics course. Along with a careful exposition of electricity and magnetism, it devotes a chapter to ferromagnets. According to the course description, the topics covered were “electromagnetics, magnetostatics, waves, transmission lines, wave guides,antennas, and radiating systems.”
The danger posed by nuclear weapons and fissile materials is ever present. The end of the Cold War and the significant reduction in the size of Russian and U.S. nuclear stockpiles did not change this fact of life. There are now nine states that possess nuclear weapons – the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea – and the number of…
This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings. In a first approach, the total number of potential parameters is effectively reduced and the selected criteria are divided into two different groups: the monument’s location in relation to …
This is a thorough revision of the 2007 publication, and includes five new chapters and brings all existing chapters completely up to date. There have been many advances in hydropower and renewable technologies since the original publication, and Europe, and particularly Scandinavia, plan many more in the coming years. From a review of the original edition: “… it is important to …
Di Bagian 1 berikut ini, Melalui Mata yang Lain, saya mengingat masa kecil saya di dunia bebas diikuti oleh pengalaman saya yang kurang sehat di Jepang sebagai mahasiswa selama perang. Pada saat Jepang menyerang Pearl Harbor, saya telah bertemu Katsuma Dan (Katy), dan harapan baru dalam penelitian ilmiah mulai meresap dalam diri saya. Dari Bagian 2, saya menggambarkan hidup saya sebagai ilmuwan…
Seri buku Neuroscience and Respiration menyajikan kontribusi para peneliti ahli dan dokter di bidang gangguan paru. Bab-bab ini memberikan ikhtisar tepat waktu tentang isu-isu yang diperdebatkan atau kemajuan terkini dalam diagnosis, klasifikasi, dan pengobatan seluruh rangkaian gangguan paru, baik akut maupun kronis. Teks-teks tersebut dianggap sebagai penggabungan penelitian dasar dan klinis …
This brief highlights advances in DNA technologies and their wider applications. DNA is the source of life and has been studied since a generation, but very little is known as yet. Several sophisticated technologies of the current era have laid their foundations on the principle of DNA based mechanisms. DNA based technologies are bringing a new revolution of Advanced Science and Technology. For…
This book focuses on automated negotiations based on multi-agent systems. It is intended for researchers and students in various fields involving autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, such as e-commerce tools, decision-making and negotiation support systems, and collaboration tools. The contents will help them to understand the concept of automated negotiations, negotiation protocols, nego…