The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultura...

The Fall 2020 edition of SABR's Baseball Research Journal (Volume 49, issue 2), runs the gamut of research, from the nineteenth century to events that took place in 2020. The article that anchors this issue of the journal, appearing last, is Richard Hershberger's account of the "First Baseball War," in which the nineteenth-century clash between leagues contributed to the creation of the reserve system that suppressed free agency until the late twentieth, while Mary Hums and her team docume...

"Wall Street Journal Bestseller"En un mundo de cambios incesantes y retos nunca vistos, necesitamos organizaciones que sean resilientes y audaces.Por desgracia, la mayoría de las organizaciones, sobrecargadas de burocracia, son lentas y rígidas. En una época de transformaciones, las estructuras de poder descendentes y las normas de lossistemas de gestión son un lastre: limitan la creatividad y frenan la iniciativa. Como líderes, empleados, ...

Platoon Sergeant Bob Buick - decorated with the Military Medal for bravery for his actions during the Battle of Long Tan - tells in vivid and enthralling detail the story of his tour of Viet Nam. It culminates in the most famous battle involving Australian Diggers in the Viet Nam War, in which thirteen of Buick's men were killed and the remainder survived against overwhelming odds.All Guts and No Glory is a no-pulled-punches account, covering all the major actions Buick's ...

With the global population estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050, agricultural production must align with this growth to alleviate any further burden on our current food systems. More sustainable and alternative modes of production are required to ensure that this overburden doesn’t occur and that the food security of millions isn’t compromised in the process.Advances in cultured meat technology reviews the growing interest and emergence in the field of cel...

This book provides a detailed update on all aspects of fine-needle aspiration cytology of breast lesions. It will serve readers as an up-to-date reference and atlas on both new entities in breast pathology, including borderline lesions such as flat epithelial atypia, and the classic benign and malignant lesions. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the characteristic diagnostic features as well as the common pitfalls faced by cytologists. As cytologic features can be highly variable, correspo...

A collection of eleven erotic short stories which explore the mysterious world of the vampire. This anthology includes stories by Pagan O' Leary, Raven Kaldera, Bryn Haniver and many more. Fall into the darkness and sensuality that is the vampire's world, velvet nights and sweet blood, like nothing you've ever experienced before.

En un mundo de incesantes cambios y desafíos sin precedentes, necesitamos organizaciones que sean resistentes y que capaciten a todos sus miembros para que se desarrollen almáximo y den lo mejor de sí mismos.Desafortunadamente, la mayoría de las organizaciones, sobrecargadas por la burocracia, sonlentas y desconfadas. En una época de grandes turbulencias, las estructuras de poder verticales y los sistemas de gestión con regulaciones sofocantes son una desventaja. Impidenla creativi...

THE VIEWER tells the peculiar story of a boy whose obsession with curious artefacts leads him to discover an strange box at a dump site. It proves to be an ancient chest full of optical devices, one of which captures his interest; an intricately mechanical object which carries disks of images; scenes of destruction, violence and the collapse of civilisations throughout time. The boy is afraid, but also cannot help but look into the machine time and time again as the images shift and change...

This book CCIS 2483 constitutes the proceedings of the First International Symposium on Systems Modelling and Simulation, SMS 2024, held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, during December 16–17, 2024.The 27 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The proceedings focus on the applications of modelling and simulation to advancedsystemssuchasrobotics,smartmanufacturing, intelligentsystemsandmachinelearning are of interest.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Asia Simulation Conference on Methods and Applications for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems, AsiaSim 2025, held in Singapore, during November 17-19, 2025.The 19 full papers and 8 short papers presented here, were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Agent Based Simulation, Simulation Methods and Tools, Visualization, Modeling Methodology, and Simul...

A moving and inspiring story about how we remember the past from two of Australia's most acclaimed picture book creators, Gary Crew and Shaun Tan.When the soldiers return in 1918, a memorial tree is planted ... 'Lest We Forget'. But generations later, what do those who pause in the shadows of the tree's immense branches remember?Gary Crew is well known for his rich, multi-layered and intensely suspenseful bestselling novels for young adults. Four times the winner of the CBC...