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Model Based Software Design
Series: Software Engineering Series
This reference summarizes the properties and techniques of conceptual modeling and provides analyses of many examples of existing software. It examines the complexity and scale of software systems, including key components, relationships, user interfaces, and persistent data. The authors consider...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Experiencing Dewey
Insights for Today's Classrooms, 2nd Edition
Experiencing Dewey: Insights for Today’s Classroom offers an inspiring introduction to one of the most seminal figures in the field of education. In this collection of essays, contemporary authors consider their favorite quotations from Dewey’s bountiful works and share how Dewey has impacted their...
To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge
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From Good Ma to Welfare Queen
A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
First published in 2001...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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European Valuation Practice
Theory and Techniques
The variability of valuation practice within Europe is perceived as a problem within the globalization of property. This edited textbook examines the practice of real estate valuation in selected countries in Europe. The focus is on countries with well developed real estate markets in which both...
Published June 21st 2012 by Taylor & Francis
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Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Building Global Understanding
Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
Sport has long been a paradoxical environment with respect to issues of 'race', ethnicity, and identity. For much of the twentieth century, sports around the world were enclaves of difference. Whites and non-whites, for example, were separated on the sports field as they were in many ways off the...
Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Narrative Learning
What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives? Are there different patterns and forms of narrativity? How do they influence learning? Based on data gathered for the Learning Lives project, which sought to understand learning by questioning individuals about their life...
Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Introducing Christianity
Series: World Religions
What is Christianity? How did it begin? What do Christians believe? What are their customs and history? How has Christianity developed though the centuries, and how diverse is Christianity today? Introducing Christianity is an essential introduction to one of the world’s great religious traditions....
Published December 18th 2007 by Routledge
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The Wearing of the Green
A History of St Patrick's Day
The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in The Wearing of the Green. Illustrated with photos, the book spans the medieval origins, steeped in folklore and myth, through its turbulent and troubled times when it acted as fuel for fierce political argument, and tells...
Published February 22nd 2006 by Routledge
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Social Psychology Around the World: Origins and Subsequent Development
A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology
Series: Special Issues of the International Journal of Psychology
In this special issue we consider the development of social psychology in three developed-world countries/regions: Australia, Canada, and Europe and in three majority-world countries/regions: India, Taiwan, and Latin America. Each author examines how social psychology has uniquely evolved from an...
Published August 31st 2005 by Psychology Press
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Preventing Eating Disorders
A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges
This comprehensive resource provides multiple prevention strategies, programs, and approaches for health and mental health workers, educators, researchers, students, and interested members of the community at large who work to prevent eating disorders and related problems....
Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge