Promotions - Title Listings - Technical and Reference, May 7, 2012

Master teacher and curriculum specialist Kathy T. Glass familiarizes teachers and curriculum designers with the key points of the ELA Common Core Standards and demonstrates how to design effective curriculum units to align with them.

This comprehensive introduction to the field of human biology covers all the major areas of the field: genetic variation, variation related to climate, infectious and non-infectious diseases, aging, growth, nutrition, and demography.

In this book, an international team of archaeologists and primatologists examines early Stone Age tools and bones and uses scientific methods to test alternative hypotheses that explain the archaeological record.

This book explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes the persistent influence of the English common law on Virginia's postcolonial political culture.

This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth century Mexican American history that examines Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States in the aftermath of a war resulting in the loss of half its territory.

The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the history of the region.

This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy.

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative language.

This volume of essays draws together research on different types of collective actions: group actions, representative actions, test case procedures, derivative actions and class actions. The main focus is on how these actions can enhance access to justice and on how to balance the interests of private actors in protecting their rights with the interest of society as a whole.

The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant or the varying traditions, histories, and values of different countries.

This volume of essays casts light on the shape and future direction of the EU in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty and highlights the incomplete nature of the reforms.

In this book, the author argues that the TRIPS Agreement, in its current configuration, does not hinder the establishment of exceptions to intellectual property rights, devised to promote vital socioeconomic interests such as the freedom to carry out creative and inventive activities, freedom of expression, the strengthening of free competition, and increased access to educational materials by underprivileged students and to technical knowledge for humanitarian purposes.

Despite cultural progress in reducing overt acts of racism, stark racial disparities continue to define American life. This book is for anyone who wonders why race still matters and is interested in what emerging social science can contribute to the discussion.

By considering the extent to which a coherent body of common evidentiary standards is being developed in both domestic and international jurisprudence, the authors of this book chart this development with particular reference to the jurisprudence on the right to a fair trial that has emerged from the European Court of Human Rights and to the attempts in the new international criminal tribunals to fashion agreed approaches towards the regulation of evidence.

Andres Rigo Sureda's Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture examines how arbitral discretion is exercised in the face of uncertainty of the law. It explores the choices made by arbitral tribunals as they approach treaty interpretation, as they search for consistency in the exercise of arbitral discretion.

This collection of essays discusses the way digital materials will be created and how they will change concepts of authorship as well as methods of production and distribution, and the impact of digital materials on law libraries.

This collection of essays brings together some of the leading legal, political, and moral theorists to discuss the normative issues that arise when war concludes and when a society strives to regain peace.

This book provides the reader with immediate access to understanding the world of international arbitration. It explains how and why arbitration works and provides the legal and regulatory framework for international arbitration, as well as practical strategies to follow and pitfalls to avoid.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the politics of war crimes trials. It provides a systematic and theoretically rigorous examination of whether these trials are used as tools for political consolidation or whether justice is their primary purpose.

This engaging introduction explores the key principles of equity and trusts law and offers students effective learning features. By covering the essentials of each topic, it ensures readers have the foundations for successful further study.

This detailed evaluation of the relationship between trials and truth commissions challenges their assumed compatibility through an analysis of their operational features at national, inter-state and international levels.

This book tells the story of how women mobilized in fifteen states to change jury laws so that women could gain this additional right of citizenship.

This book provides readers with the essential visual and practical tools to effectively diagnose and treat patients with hyperkinetic movement disorders.

This guide provides specialists and trainees with an innovative text and video guide to this dynamic area, in order to aid mastery of robotic approaches and improve the care of pediatric patients.

Organized chronologically and avoiding technical musical terminology, this book clearly demonstrates how opera reflected and reacted to changes in the world around it.

In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars, Bruce Lincoln assembles a collection of essays that both illustrates and reveals the benefits of his methodology, making a case for a critical religious studies that starts with skepticism but is neither cynical nor crude.

This book offers thorough and insightful coverage of human resource management in the public sector. It discusses the complex issues, explains how they arise, and suggest what can be done about them.

The only text in management and organizational behavior to focus on public organizations, nonprofit organizations, healthcare organizations, and school systems, this book fosters competency in critical management and leadership skills such as communication, motivation, teamwork, group dynamics, and decision making.

Introducing data analysis techniques, this textbook pays particular attention to the internationally recognized guidelines for calculating and expressing measurement uncertainty. This new edition has been revised to incorporate Excel 2010.

Hierarchical Linear Modeling provides a brief, easy-to-read guide to implementing hierarchical linear modeling using three leading software platforms, followed by a set of original 'how-to' application articles following a standardized instructional format.

Covering the basic concepts and working tools in the physical sciences, this reference is a unique, indispensable guide for students and researchers in chemistry, physics, and related disciplines.

This book provides a clear introduction to widely used topics in bivariate and multivariate statistics, including multiple regression, discriminant analysis, MANOVA, factor analysis, and binary logistic regression.

The Richard Ivey School of Business and SAGE have come together to provide this distinctive collection of 32 real-world leadership cases which will help readers gain a better understanding of leadership.

Reconstructing biographies of Africans and merchants, Roquinaldo Ferreira demonstrates how cross-cultural trade, identity formation, religious ties, and resistance to slaving were central to the formation of the Atlantic world.

What are the micro-level interactions and conversations that underlie successful and failed diffusion? By comparing the spread of direct action tactics from the 1999 Global Justice Movement protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle to grassroots activists in Toronto and New York, Lesley Wood argues that dynamics of deliberation among local activists both aided and blocked diffusion.

Here is an innovative text that promotes the idea that effective marketing thinking leads to successful marketing strategy. The book's theories go beyond simply introducing the reader to concepts in the field by providing tools and methods to develop marketing thinking and questioning skills that will help with application of real-life marketing strategies.

Robert Lieber offers this clear, concise, and provocative analysis about an important global issue: the future of American power in the world.

Written by two award-winning criminologists, the Third Edition of Race and Crime examines the history of how racial and ethnic groups intersect with the U.S. criminal justice system.

This book presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent subprime mortgage crisis.

This book is intended to provide a comprehensive technical overview and survey of advanced internet protocols, first providing a solid introduction and going on to discuss internetworking technologies, architectures and protocols.

This engineering textbook is designed to introduce advanced control systems for vehicles, including advanced automotive concepts and the next generation of vehicles for ITS. For each automotive control problem considered, the authors emphasize the physics and underlying principles behind the control system concept and design.

This book explores the unique hardware programmability of FPGA-based embedded systems, using a learn-by-doing approach to introduce the concepts and techniques for embedded SoPC design with Verilog.

This book, which updates the 1966 edition, provides a single source reference that explains the American Petroleum Institute (API) permanent (752) and temporary (753) building recommended practices and details how to implement them.

This book serves as a fundamental guide to seismic imaging principles and algorithms and their foundation in inverse scattering theory.