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  • Astronomical Optics

    by Daniel J. Schroeder ...
    This book provides a unified treatment of the characteristics of telescopes of all types, both those whose performance is set by geometrical aberrations and the effect of the atmosphere, and those diffraction-limited telescopes designed for observations from above the atmosphere. The emphasis throughout is on basic principles, such as Fermat's principle, and their application to optical systems ... Read more

    $148.99 USD

  • Is this a compound?

    Borderline cases and demarcation problems of English compounds

    by Daniel Schroeder ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,2, University of Rostock, language: English, abstract: People recognize, differentiate, and understand, therefore, categorize ideas and objects in everyday life. Unsurprisingly, linguists classify words. Compounds, for instance, are a part of the human language, and an ... Read more

    $14.74 USD

  • Corpus Study of Synonymy in English

    by Daniel Schroeder ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Rostock (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: English Lexicology, language: English, abstract: “Similarity of meaning is “the most important lexical relation” in the WordNet model, and, in philosophy, Quine has identified synonymy (along with analyticity) as ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Caught between two worlds. Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko’s "Ceremony"

    by Daniel Schroeder ...
    Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Rostock (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Worldly and Imaginary Spaces in American Transcultural Literature, language: English, abstract: In our life everybody asks himself: Who am I? The answers to that question generate everyone’s self-perception which ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Measuring the Global Burden of Disease

    Philosophical Dimensions

    Edited by Nir Eyal, Samia A. Hurst, Christopher J.L. Murray, S. Andrew Schroeder, Daniel Wikler ...
    Series series Population-Level Bioethics
    The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health information to provide estimates and projections for more than 350 diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 195 countries. Its results are a critical tool informing researchers, policy-makers, and others working to promote health around the globe. A study ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Highway Engineering

    Planning, Design, and Operations

    by Bastian Schroeder, Christopher M. Cunningham, Daniel J. Findley, Thomas H. Brown Jr ...
    This book helps readers maximize effectiveness in all facets of highway engineering including planning, design, operations, safety, and geotechnical engineering. Highway Engineering: Planning, Design, and Operations features a seven part treatment, beginning with a clear and rigorous exposition of highway engineering concepts. These include project development, and the relationship between ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Life After Welfare

    Reform and the Persistence of Poverty

    by Laura Lein, Deanna T. Schexnayder, Karen Douglas, Daniel Schroeder ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic BookIn the decade since President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 into law—amidst promises that it would "end welfare as we know it"—did the reforms ending entitlements and moving toward time limits and work requirements lift Texas families once living on welfare out of poverty, or merely strike their names ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nihilism and Metaphysics

    The Third Voyage

    by Vittorio Possenti ...
    Translated by Daniel B. Gallagher ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
    An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism's ascendency over metaphysics.Challenging the idea that nihilism has supplanted metaphysics, Vittorio Possenti finds in this philosophical turn the grounds for a mature renewal of metaphysics. Possenti takes the reader on a "third voyage" that goes beyond the "second voyage" indicated by Plato in the Phaedo. He traces the ascendancy of nihilism in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Understanding Freud: The Unconscious Mind

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  • Tilly, a Story of Hope and Resilience

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