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Hiking Oregon's Geology

by John Allen, Ellen Bishop ...

* 90 hikes, many off the beaten path* Appendices list hikes by rock age, collectible minerals or fossils present, and more; plus a new illustrated section on rock identificationVisit tropical islands sequestered in the Wallowa Mountains, ancient volcanoes in the depths of Hells Canyon, and Cascade valleys carved by glaciers towering far above your head. All it takes is a little imagination (yours) ... Read more

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* 90 hikes, many off the beaten path* Appendices list hikes by rock age, collectible minerals or fossils present, and more; plus a new illustrated section on rock identificationVisit tropical islands sequestered in the Wallowa Mountains, ancient volcanoes in the depths of Hells Canyon, and Cascade valleys carved by glaciers towering far above your head. All it takes is a little imagination (yours)
... Read more
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

by John Allen Paulos ...

Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom. In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market , best-selling author John Allen Paulos employs his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles to address every thinking reader's curiosity about the market -- Is it efficient? Is it random? Is there anything to technical analysis, ... Read more

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Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom. In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market , best-selling author John Allen Paulos employs his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles to address every thinking reader's curiosity about the market -- Is it efficient? Is it random? Is there anything to technical analysis,
... Read more
Infrared Imaging

A casebook in clinical medicine

by Allen John, Katarzyna Jobs, Rafal Dulski, Marek Klewar, Pawel Twarkowski, A Koszycka, W Wozniak, Rui Carvalho, K Bilska, Kurt Amsler, Miroslaw Dabrowski, Liliana Esteves, Stanislaw Zmuda, Boleslaw Kalicki, Lech Gawron, Petros Perros, Crispian Oates, Ryszard Grenda, B Nurowska-Wrzosek, Bridget Griffiths, Costanzo Di Maria, Nicola Leech, Ana Domingues, V Flower, Ana Marques, Joaquim Gabriel, Marcin Mozanski, Madalena Pimenta, Michal Osiecki, Rafal Kuligowski, Weronika Machura, A Lipinska-Opalka, Wojciech Perdzynski, Radoslaw Rózycki, Bartosz Rustecki, Jane Dickinson, Joao Torres, Ian Forrest, Ricardo Vardasca, David Talbot, Steven Burnett, A Rustecka, Piotr Murawski, Grainne Gorman, Pawel Zaborowski, Aleksander Ligezinski, Andrej Stankiewicz, Betka L vel Gadomska, J Shipley, Cezary Pogorzelski, J D Pauling, Z Gacion, J Oliveira, Derek Robertshaw, D Hart, J Mróz, Marek Stanczyk, W Stankiewicz, Jakub Klimkiewicz, Marco Rebelo ...

Series series IOP Expanding Physics
Infrared thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin-temperature distribution of the human body. Advanced software and high-resolution infrared detectors has allowed for a renaissance in the use of infrared thermal imaging or thermography in medical research and practice. After a review of theory, technology and methodology of medical infrared imaging, the remainder of ... Read more

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Infrared thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin-temperature distribution of the human body. Advanced software and high-resolution infrared detectors has allowed for a renaissance in the use of infrared thermal imaging or thermography in medical research and practice. After a review of theory, technology and methodology of medical infrared imaging, the remainder of
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Opus Dei

An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church

by John L. Allen Jr. ...

The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church.Opus Dei (literally “the work of God”) is an international association of Catholics often labeled as conservative who seek personal ... Read more

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The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church.Opus Dei (literally “the work of God”) is an international association of Catholics often labeled as conservative who seek personal
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The Presidency and Social Media

Discourse, Disruption, and Digital Democracy in the 2016 Presidential Election

Edited by Dan Schill, John Allen Hendricks ...

The media have long played an important role in the modern political process and the 2016 presidential campaign was no different. From Trump’s tweets and cable-show-call-ins to Sander’s social media machine to Clinton’s "Trump Yourself" app and podcast, journalism, social and digital media, and entertainment media were front-and-center in 2016. Clearly, political media played a dominant and ... Read more

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The media have long played an important role in the modern political process and the 2016 presidential campaign was no different. From Trump’s tweets and cable-show-call-ins to Sander’s social media machine to Clinton’s "Trump Yourself" app and podcast, journalism, social and digital media, and entertainment media were front-and-center in 2016. Clearly, political media played a dominant and
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Housing and Labour Markets

Building the Connections

Edited by John Allen, Chris Hamnett ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Labour Economics
First published in 1991. The connection between housing and work is one of the most discussed yet least understood aspects of modern society. Housing and Labour Markets explores the different ways in which housing and labour are linked and examines their central significance in many of the key changes in society today. It provides a wide-ranging analysis of the relationships between housing and ... Read more

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First published in 1991. The connection between housing and work is one of the most discussed yet least understood aspects of modern society. Housing and Labour Markets explores the different ways in which housing and labour are linked and examines their central significance in many of the key changes in society today. It provides a wide-ranging analysis of the relationships between housing and
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The House of Many Windows

by John Robert Allen ...

What is a mastermind? The House of Many Windows is a story of one man's life and his journey to become a millionaire. Wallace Paine was born in the late 1800s. His grandmother led a psychotic life that ultimately affected the entire family. From Wallace's early childhood to his death in 1919, he maneuvered his way at a young age into owning a newspaper company called the Weekly Page. He had a keen ... Read more

$8.99 USD

What is a mastermind? The House of Many Windows is a story of one man's life and his journey to become a millionaire. Wallace Paine was born in the late 1800s. His grandmother led a psychotic life that ultimately affected the entire family. From Wallace's early childhood to his death in 1919, he maneuvered his way at a young age into owning a newspaper company called the Weekly Page. He had a keen
... Read more
Cataclysms on the Columbia

The Great Missoula Floods

by John Eliot Allen, Marjorie Burns, Scott Burns ...

Series series OpenBook
Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the result of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The cataclysms at the end of the last Ice Age left a scabland of buttes, dry falls, and rocky gorges, but it took the ... Read more

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Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the result of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The cataclysms at the end of the last Ice Age left a scabland of buttes, dry falls, and rocky gorges, but it took the
... Read more
Blades Against Bullets: The Final Stand of the Satsuma Rebellion

Honor, Artillery, and the Bloody Eradication of the Samurai Class in Imperial Japan, 1877

by John Allen ...

What happens when an ancient, legendary warrior class realizes that the very modernization they helped initiate is now designed to completely eradicate their existence? The violent, inevitable collision of tradition and industrialization erupted in 1877 during the brutal Satsuma Rebellion. Following the Meiji Restoration, the imperial government systematically stripped the samurai of their ... Read more

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What happens when an ancient, legendary warrior class realizes that the very modernization they helped initiate is now designed to completely eradicate their existence? The violent, inevitable collision of tradition and industrialization erupted in 1877 during the brutal Satsuma Rebellion. Following the Meiji Restoration, the imperial government systematically stripped the samurai of their
... Read more
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

by John Allen Paulos ...

John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas?What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones?Employing the same fun-filled, user-friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best-seller lists, Paulos now ... Read more

$11.99 USD

John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas?What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones?Employing the same fun-filled, user-friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best-seller lists, Paulos now
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M A X I M O 1517

A Spanish Jew In The Last Days Of The Aztec Empire

by John Allen ...

This story follows a young Spanish Jew, Maximo ha-Levi Constanego, in the land of Mesoamerica. He left his homeland of Spain as the Islamic caliphate gasped its last collective breath of occupation. The Reconquista, the reconquering of Spain, was well underway.Even as newfound freedom blossomed for some, it was not so for the Jews. Maximo was spirited out of the country by his anxious mother, on a ... Read more

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This story follows a young Spanish Jew, Maximo ha-Levi Constanego, in the land of Mesoamerica. He left his homeland of Spain as the Islamic caliphate gasped its last collective breath of occupation. The Reconquista, the reconquering of Spain, was well underway.Even as newfound freedom blossomed for some, it was not so for the Jews. Maximo was spirited out of the country by his anxious mother, on a
... Read more
The Lives of the Brain

by John S. Allen ...

Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces are what truly set us apart from the other apes and primates. And how this three-pound organ composed of water, fat, and protein turned a mammal species into the dominant animal on earth today is the story John S. Allen seeks to tell. ... Read more

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Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces are what truly set us apart from the other apes and primates. And how this three-pound organ composed of water, fat, and protein turned a mammal species into the dominant animal on earth today is the story John S. Allen seeks to tell.
... Read more

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