Contemporary students of mathematics differ considerably from those of half a century ago. In spite of this, many textbooks written decades ago, and now considered to be “classics”, are still prescribed for students today. These texts are not suitable for today’s students. This text is meant for and written to today’s mathematics students.Set theory is a pure mathematics endeavor in the sense that it seems to have no immediate applications; yet the knowledge and skills dev...

"An excellent introduction to the power of public dissent." -- Kirkus"If supporting grassroots activists taught us anything, it is that when enough individuals come together, it is possible to take on a system." -- Yvon ChouinardWhat would the world look like if we couldn’t express outrage against the systems we disagree with or support the changes we seek?Our right to peaceful protest is under atta...

River Processes deals primarily with flow and sediment dynamics in alluvial channels. It emphasises water flows (basic principles and characterisation), fluvial sediment, processes of erosion and sediment transport, bedforms that result from flow-bed sediment interactions in sand and gravel, flow and sedimentary processes in curved, braided and confluent channels, as well as aquatic habits.River Processes provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge about physical proces...

An excellent introduction to the power of public dissent." -- Kirkus"If supporting grassroots activists taught us anything, it is that when enough individuals come together, it is possible to take on a system." -- Yvon ChouinardWhat would the world look like if we couldn’t express outrage against the systems we disagree with or support the changes we seek?Our right to peaceful protest is under attac...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Akashic records are your pathway to not only understanding divinity but also becoming a disciple of the divine.The chapters of this book are laid out carefully to help you navigate the different energies you'll be facing as you soar lightly through endless oceans of vibrations.This is an opportunity to investigate the intricate lines that form your destiny and bend them to your will.In pa...

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward.A companion book to the landmark documentary series on BBC TV.The journey from Cape Canaveral to the Moon was a tremendous achievement of human courage and ingenuity. It was also a long, deadly march, haunte...

Voisin's classic is still in great demand, nearly three-quarters of a century after it was first written and published.The main point of it, that grass is more productive when shorn and given time to re-grow, is the core base of all the current popular works on rotational and "mob" grazing.A regular re-study of Voison's work brings new understanding and simplicity to anyone's grazing operation.The underlying basic to this work is that through manage...

EDU057000 EDUCATION / Arts in EducationTake student musical and coding skills to a higher plane!Robert A. Marmaduke and Andre N. Marmaduke present a remarkable update to the original Atari voice synthesizer codec by Mark Barton, building on reverse-engineering work of Sebastian Macke, to create a new workbook for Computational Musicology, based on using MicroPython programming language for the BBC micro:bit chipset.They explore clas...

Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography. Without denying the importance of this tradition, this volume presents an overview of recent idiom research outside the immediate domain of lexicology/lexicography. The chapters address the status of idioms in recent formal and experimental linguistic theorizing. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions are written by ...

The 4th International Conference on Selenium in the Environment and Human Health was held 18-21 October 2015 in S�Paulo, Brazil. This conference provided an effective scientific communication platform for researchers in different disciplines worldwide to elucidate and better understand those complex roles of Se as both essential nutrient and enviro

Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that sought to persuade colonial subjects to identify with the empire while simultaneously maintaining the distinctions that subjugated them and marking their attempts to self-identify as Japanese as inauthentic, illegitimate for...

Eco-efficient Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Infrastructures provides an updated state-of-the-art review on eco-efficient repair and rehabilitation of concrete infrastructure. The first section focuses on deterioration assessment methods, and includes chapters on stress wave assessment, ground-penetrating radar, monitoring of corrosion, SHM using acoustic emission and optical fiber sensors. Other sections discuss the development and application of several new innovative repair and r...