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Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks
Although many Bayesian Network (BN) applications are now in everyday use, BNs have not yet achieved mainstream penetration. Focusing on practical real-world problem solving and model building, as opposed to algorithms and theory, Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks explains...
Published November 6th 2012 by CRC Press
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Principles and Practices for Response in Second Language Writing
Developing Self-Regulated Learners
Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
Based on the assumptions that students expect feedback and want to improve, and that improvement is possible, this book introduces a framework that applies the theory of self-regulated learning to guide second language writing teachers’ response to learners at all stages of the writing process....
Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Classical Islam
A Sourcebook of Religious Literature, 2nd Edition
This definitive sourcebook presents more than sixty authoritative new translations of key Islamic texts. Edited and translated by three leading specialists, Classical Islam features eight thematically-linked sections covering the Qur'an and its interpretation, the life of Muhammad, hadith, law,...
Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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The Language of Jane Austen (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1972, Norman Page’s seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the exceptional nature and the degree of subtlety of Jane Austen’s use of language. As well as examining the staple items of her vocabulary and some of the characteristic patterns of her...
Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Limitation of Liability in International Maritime Conventions
The Relationship between Global Limitation Conventions and Particular Liability Regimes
Series: IMLI Studies in International Maritime Law
Limitation of liability for maritime claims is a concept of respectable antiquity which is now deeply entrenched in the maritime industry. Under this concept, the shipowner is entitled to limit his liability for maritime claims up to a maximum sum regardless of the actual amount of the claims. The...
Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Tony Hunt's Second Sketchbook
Tony Hunt's Sketchbook illustrates the connection between brain and hand in conceiving structural concepts and details as possible solutions to structures in architecture. This new edition features 100 previously unpublished sketches. These sketches illustrate alternative structural concepts, ideas...
Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Moral Judgement from Childhood to Adolescence (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 5)
Originally published in 1969 this book analyzes the development of moral judgement in children and adolescents. Interviews were held with 360 children aged 7 to 17, with equal numbers of either sex. Original visual devices were planned to elicit judgements in moral areas known to be of universal...
Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time
Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical...
Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Socialism Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 57
This book, originally published in 1949 (but here re-issuing the second edition of 1966) presents a history of international socialism, not just from the political but also the economic standpoint....
Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Moral Education (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 4)
A companion volume to Moral Judgement from Childhood to Adolescence specially written for teachers and students of education. This volume includes analysis of the broad stages in the developmental pattern; of the key variables that must shape it, and of their function in moral judgement; and of the...
Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge