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British weather and the climate of enlightenment by Golinski, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Experiencing the weather in 1703 -- The "exquisite atmography" and its author -- The atmosphere and the earth -- Clouds in the head -- Public weather and the culture of enlightenment -- The great storm in public debate -- Providence and the British climate -- Conversation and weather lore -- Recording and forecasting -- The discipline of the diary -- The calendar and the seasons -- Forecasting by the heavens -- Barometers of enlightenment -- The genealogy of weather instruments -- The instrument trade and consumers -- Interpreting the "oraculous glasses" -- Sensibility and climatic pathology -- The hippocratic revival -- Aerial sensitivity and social change -- The politics of atmospheric reform -- Climate and civilization -- The enlightenment debate on climate -- Medicine and the colonial situation -- America: climate and destiny -- Conclusion: the science of weather.…”
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Differentiating instruction with technology in middle school classrooms / by Smith, Grace E.

Table of Contents: “…Technology's big picture: 21st century skills, NETS, and current research -- Differentiated instruction and middle school learners -- Using the new Web 2.0 and other technologies -- Using technology to differentiate English/language arts -- Using technology to differentiate math -- Using technology to differentiate science -- Using technology to differentiate social studies -- Using technology to differentiate encore subjects: art, secondary languages, music, and physical education/health -- Using technology to assess learning -- Final summary -- Appendixes: Glossary of strategies -- Bibliography -- National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S).…”
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Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- General reflections -- The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: sustainability ‘after the crisis’ -- Impacts of global trade flows -- Stocks and flows in the performance economy -- The Embeddedness of carbon in UK Lifestyles -- Ethics of Industrial Ecology -- Complexity and prediction -- Urban metabolism -- Industrial Symbiosis -- Industrial Ecology and the Solidarity Economy -- Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries -- Material Flow Analysis and Waste Management -- Social sciences in Industrial Ecology -- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment -- Prospective Models of Society’s Future Metabolism -- Planetary boundaries and sustainable business -- Working with policymakers -- Portugal’s national waste plan -- The Industrial Ecology of the automobile.…”
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Statistical methods in psychiatry research and SPSS / by Reddy, M. Venkataswamy

Table of Contents: “…Psychiatric research -- Observational studies -- Experimental studies -- One-variable descriptive statistics -- Mental health statistics -- Probability and probability distributions -- Sampling theory and methods -- Basic elements of statistical inference -- Parametric tests of significance -- Experimental data analysis : ANOVA -- Non-parametric tests of significance -- Correlation analysis and regression analysis -- Reliability analysis and validity analysis -- Survival analysis and time series analysis -- Multivariate statistical methods -- Cluster analysis -- Discriminant analysis -- Factor analysis -- Meta-analysis -- Reporting the results -- Statistical package for social sciences -- Running data analysis using SPSS.…”
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Challenging genetic determinism new perspectives on the gene in its multiple environments /

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Agrarian structures and agrarian reform : exercises in development theory and policy / by Cohen, Suleiman Ibrahim

Innovations in software engineering for defense systems

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Making an impact on mental health : the applications of psychological research /

Table of Contents: “…Kirby and Paul Gilbert -- Chapter 1: Evolutionary Functional Analysis: The Study of Social Mentalities, Social Rank,and Caring-Compassion / Paul Gilbert -- Chapter 2: The Influence of Attachments in Close Relationships on Mental Health / Christopher A. …”
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The master and the dean the literary criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells / by Davidson, Rob, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A horror of dogma : James, Howells, and the roots of American realism -- Young Americans : criticism and correspondence I -- James's "The art of fiction" in critical context -- Defining the critic in the "Editor's study" and "The science of criticism" -- "The honest daylight about us" : social, ethical, and moral concerns in the criticism of Howells and James, 1886-1895 -- "American chances and opportunities" : criticism and correspondence II -- The man of letters as a man of business : defining the writer, the novel, and the critic in the twentieth century -- James's prefaces to the New York edition -- Howells's literary criticism in the "Editor's easy chair" and Heroines of fiction -- On native grounds : criticism and correspondence III.…”
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Approaches to language anthropological issues /

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Field evaluation in the intelligence and counterintelligence context workshop summary /

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Improving learning with information technology report of a workshop /

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Shaping entrepreneurship research : made, as well as found /

Table of Contents: “…Economics as a Historical Science (Herbert A. Simon)25. The Art and Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl)26. …”
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Preparing teachers building evidence for sound policy.

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Forensic Psychiatry : Fundamentals and Clinical Practice. by Puri, Basant

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The Hebrew Bible new insights and scholarship /

Table of Contents: “…Rendsburg -- Bible, archaeology, and the social sciences: the next generation / Elizabeth Bloch-Smith -- Literary approaches to biblical literature: general observations and a case study of Genesis 34 / Adele Berlin -- Feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible / Esther Fuchs -- The laws of biblical Israel / Raymond Westbrook -- The study of ritual in the Hebrew Bible / David P. …”
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The changing nature of work implications for occupational analysis.

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Implementing randomized field trials in education report of a workshop /

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Tinnitus facts, theories, and treatments /

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