Scholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse. In E...
In our increasingly multicultural global society, it has become important for practitioners to consider social and cultural factors when looking at the causes o...
This book is about design and innovation – what it is and how to teach it. The blending of design and innovation is having an increasing impact not only on th...
From the revelers on horseback in Eunice and Mamou to the miles-long New Orleans parade routes lined with eager spectators shouting “Throw me something, miste...
This text offers a rationale for the popular idea among teachers and researchers that young children should be taught critical thinking and argument in the earl...
Fifty years ago, the town of Gouldens Falls was evacuated, flooded, and submerged under two hundred feet of water. Along with its secrets. Just as well it was b...
byJames Oleson,Barbara Costello
This volume marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Travis Hirschi’s seminal work Causes of Delinquency. The influence of Hirschi’s book, and the t...
byElizabeth Catlos,Ibrahim Cemen
Compressional Tectonics A synthesis of current knowledge on collisional and convergent plate boundaries worldwide Major mountain belts on Earth, such as the Alp...
byJorge Castillo,Peter Quesenberry
This book will be the first that focuses on solely on model organisms for lymphoma. It's editors are internationally recognized in the field....
Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control. Quantitative meth...
byF. Wilson,Janet Berliner,Matthew Costello,Kevin Anderson
Six adrenalin junkies who call themselves the Daredevils Club hold the fate of the world in their hands. In an ancient undersea cavern, one of them, oil man Fri...
byForrest Morgan,Brian Rosen,Karl Mueller,Jasen Castillo,Negeen Pegahi
RAND Project AIR FORCE studied the post-9/11 shift in U.S. defense policy emphasis toward preemptive and preventive attack, asking under what conditions preempt...
byAnny Wong,Jefferson Marquis,Richard Darilek,Jasen Castillo,Cathryn Thurston
This report presents a framework for assessing U.S. Army International Activities (AIA). It also provides a matrix of eight AIA "ends," derived from top-level n...
byJuane Li,Shu Lin,Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar,William Ryan,Daniel Costello
Written by leading experts, this self-contained text provides systematic coverage of LDPC codes and their construction techniques, unifying both algebraic- and ...
by Hugo César Arredondo-Bernal,Jorge Sifontes,Anobel Barba,Lorena Barra-Bucarei,César Basso,Wagner Bettiol,Fermin Blanco,Helga Blanco-Metzler,Claudia Antúnez,Guillermo Walsh,Carmen Castillo,Charlotte Causton,Ronald Cave
The book summarizes the history of biological control in Latin America and the Caribbean. Few publications provide historical detail and the records are, theref...