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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Scholars have tended to portray T. H. Huxley John Tyndall and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley the physicist John Tyndall and the philosopher of evolution Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour the novelist Samuel Butler and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century. | Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

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Revival: The Jews of Asia (1920) Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Revival: The Jews of Asia (1920) Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different countries which they have made their homes since their expulsion from the land which they had been identified for something like thirty centuries. In these pages the author has endeavoured to compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the Jews of Asia in the last eighteen and a half centuries. | Revival: The Jews of Asia (1920) Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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Finite Automata

Finite Automata

Interest in finite automata theory continues to grow not only because of its applications in computer science but also because of more recent applications in mathematics particularly group theory and symbolic dynamics. The subject itself lies on the boundaries of mathematics and computer science and with a balanced approach that does justice to both aspects this book provides a well-motivated introduction to the mathematical theory of finite automata. The first half of Finite Automata focuses on the computer science side of the theory and culminates in Kleene's Theorem which the author proves in a variety of ways to suit both computer scientists and mathematicians. In the second half the focus shifts to the mathematical side of the theory and constructing an algebraic approach to languages. Here the author proves two main results: Schützenberger's Theorem on star-free languages and the variety theorem of Eilenberg and Schützenberger. Accessible even to students with only a basic knowledge of discrete mathematics this treatment develops the underlying algebra gently but rigorously and nearly 200 exercises reinforce the concepts. Whether your students' interests lie in computer science or mathematics the well organized and flexible presentation of Finite Automata provides a route to understanding that you can tailor to their particular tastes and abilities.

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Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance

Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance

Over the last decade the world has increasingly grappled with the complex linkages emerging between efforts to combat climate change and to protect human rights around the world. The Paris Climate Agreement adopted in December 2015 recognized the necessity for governments to take into consideration their human rights obligations when taking climate action. However important gaps remain in understanding how human rights can be used in practice to develop and implement effective and equitable solutions to climate change at multiple levels of governance. This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to offer a timely and comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges for integrating human rights in diverse areas and forms of global climate governance. The first half of the book explores how human rights principles and obligations can be used to reconceive climate governance and shape responses to particular aspects of climate change. The second half of the book identifies lessons in the integration of human rights in climate advocacy and governance and sets out future directions in this burgeoning domain. Featuring a diverse range of contributors and case studies this Handbook will be an essential resource for students scholars practitioners and policy makers with an interest in climate law and governance human rights and international environmental law. | Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance

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Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory

Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory

Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory is the first reference work to compile the contributions of the greatest social thinkers to the global conversation about consumption and consumer culture. A prestige reference work it offers original chapters by the world's most prominent thought leaders. It introduces the works of historical theorists and surveys how their work has influenced and shaped consumption theory both through history and at the cutting edge of research. Consumption is at core of contemporary lifestyles of political successes and failures and with discussions of sustainability and environmental change. Contemporary consumer culture shapes modern identities and is the engine of the globalizing capitalist economy. Still the majority of social theorizations over the last century and a half have been addressing production processes rather than consumption processes. This is about to change. Studies of consumption play an increasing role as a topic and a domain of study in marketing anthropology sociology and cultural studies. Currently there is no single compilation that systematically links scholarly work published by the greatest social thinkers of the last century and a half to the understanding of contemporary consumer society. This book provides a solid framework for understanding the relevance of these canonical authors in social theory to facilitate analysis of consumer culture and to act as a comprehensive reference point for consumer researchers doctoral students and practitioners.

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A History of the American People Volume 1: To the Civil War

A History of the American People Volume 1: To the Civil War

Originally published in 1933 and written by America’s historian James Truslow Adams this volume tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing economics religion social change and politics from settlement to the Civil War. Due emphasis is given to the inter-connectedness of America with Europe – both in terms of cultural heritage and political and military entanglements. Extensive in size and scope and richly illustrated with half-tones and maps these volumes balance a historical narrative with philosophical interpretation whilst touching on as many aspects of American life and history as possible. | A History of the American People Volume 1: To the Civil War

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Creativity in the Classroom Schools of Curious Delight

Creativity in the Classroom Schools of Curious Delight

Now in its seventh edition Creativity in the Classroom helps teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Ideal reading for any course dealing wholly or partially with creativity and teaching this foundational textbook covers definitions research and theory in the first half and reflects on classroom practices in the second. Thoroughly revised and updated the seventh edition features new research on neuroscience and creativity in specific disciplines; new sections on social-emotional learning teaching engineering and leadership; and an entire new chapter on building creativity at the school or district level. | Creativity in the Classroom Schools of Curious Delight

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Broadcasting in Ireland

Broadcasting in Ireland

Broadcasting in Ireland (1978) outlines the historical and sociological background of Ireland to place the progress of its broadcasting service in the context of its post-independence development. It analyses the difficulties of running public service broadcasting financed by both licence fee and advertising and competing in half its television reception area with two of the premier broadcasting systems in the world. With regular broadcasting beginning with Independence its development was inevitably bound up with the process of building the political economic and social framework of the new State and this book closely examines how the Irish broadcasting system coped with the attending economic cultural and political difficulties.

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Accelerating and Vortex Laser Beams

Accelerating and Vortex Laser Beams

This book gives insight into the theoretical backgrounds of optical vortices and their propagation in free space and simple optical systems. The author’s theoretical analysis allows full comprehension of recent results and allows a bridge between the mentioned topics. For example there is a solution for an accelerating beam propagating along an almost half-circle obtained from a solution for an asymmetric vortex Bessel mode. And vice versa there is a solution for an optical vortex with accelerating focusing obtained from a solution for a two-dimensional accelerating Pearcey beam. The book is intended for graduate and postgraduate students studying optics or wave physics. | Accelerating and Vortex Laser Beams

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Petroleum Refining Technology Economics and Markets Sixth Edition

Petroleum Refining Technology Economics and Markets Sixth Edition

For four decades Petroleum Refining has guided thousands of readers toward a reliable understanding of the field and through the years has become the standard text in many schools and universities around the world offering petroleum refining classes for self-study training and as a reference for industry professionals. The sixth edition of this perennial bestseller continues in the tradition set by Jim Gary as the most modern and authoritative guide in the field. Updated and expanded to reflect new technologies methods and topics the book includes new discussion on the business and economics of refining cost estimation and complexity crude origins and properties fuel specifications and updates on technology process units and catalysts. The first half of the book is written for a general audience to introduce the primary economic and market characteristics of the industry and to describe the inputs and outputs of refining. Most of this material is new to this edition and can be read independently or in parallel with the rest of the text. In the second half of the book a technical review of the main process units of a refinery is provided beginning with distillation and covering each of the primary conversion and treatment processes. Much of this material was reorganized updated and rewritten with greater emphasis on reaction chemistry and the role of catalysis in applications. Petroleum Refining: Technology Economics and Markets is a book written for users the practitioners of refining and all those who want to learn more about the field. | Petroleum Refining Technology Economics and Markets Sixth Edition

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Growing Through the Erotic Transference An Analysand's Journey

Growing Through the Erotic Transference An Analysand's Journey

The book offers an in-depth case study of the erotic transference experienced by a female analysand with her male analyst exploring how the shifting phases of erotic transference help the analysand to understand rediscover and redefine herself with transformative growth. The first half of the book tells the story of the analysis which is richly imbued with the erotic from the beginning. It describes the complexity of the relationship between analyst and analysand and how the patient is able to grow through experiencing analysing and progressing through the erotic transference. The second half of the book consists of five reflections highlighting relative blind spots in the current thinking on the erotic transference and countertransference. The author explores the dynamics of power potency and erotic turn-on between male analyst and female analysand and considers the implications for the erotic transference when the patient is a sexual abuse survivor. She also explores the nature of ‘transference love’ itself: whether it is ‘real love’ and how both members of the dyad can surrender to it enough to grow while not losing their bearings. The final reflection considers the role of the patient’s voice in the psychoanalytic literature and argues the need for more of such accounts to enrich our understanding of this vital area. Writing as the patient the author is able to share a remarkable frank and revealing glimpse into their personal experience of analysis making this book essential reading for psychoanalysts psychotherapists and anyone interested in understanding analysis in more depth. | Growing Through the Erotic Transference An Analysand's Journey

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The Nigerian Army 1956-1966

The Nigerian Army 1956-1966

Originally published in 1971 this book is an account of the development of the Nigerian Army in the critical ten years spanning independence. It describes the transformation of a despised colonial defence force into a Nigerian army with a popularly recognized reputation. On the eve of the first military coup the Army stood at the pinnacle of popular esteem. It had been modernized and expanded had served with distinction in the Congo and elsewhere and all its officers were Nigerian. The first half of the book traces the stages of this transformation and reveals the difficulties which had to be overcome. The second part examines the increasing tension and political manoeuvring which exploded into the military coups of 1966. | The Nigerian Army 1956-1966

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Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement Science and Social Action

Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement Science and Social Action

Few people have made greater contributions to protecting and improving the environment than the scientist teacher activist Dr. Barry Commoner. For half a century Dr. Commoner has been an international leader in the environmental movement. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday a symposium was held at which invited speakers discussed his contributions to a wide range of environmental issues. This book collecting many of the invited papers provides fascinating insights into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists and social activists. Chapters contributed by other activists scientists and scholars including Ralph Nader Tony Mazzocchi and Peter Montague cover many of Dr. Commoner's major contributions. | Barry Commoner's Contribution to the Environmental Movement Science and Social Action

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Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

Achieve any cost goals in half the time and achieve stable production with quality designed in right-the-first-time. Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost High-Quality Products for Lean Production is still the definitive work on DFM. This second edition extends the proven methodology to the most advanced product development process with the addition of the following new unique and original topics which have never been addressed previously. These topics show you how to: Cut cost from 1/2 to 1/10 in 9 categories—with ways to remove that much cost from product charges and pricing Commercialize innovation—starting with Manufacturable Research and learning from the new section on scalability you will learn how to design products and processing equipment to quickly scale up to any needed demand or desired growth. Design product families that can be built on-demand in platform cells that also mass customize products to-order Make Lean production easier to implement with much more effective results while making build-to-order practical with spontaneous supply chains and eliminating forecasted inventory by including an updated chapter on Designing Products for Lean Production The author’s 30 years of experience teaching companies DFM based on pre-class surveys and plant tours is the foundation of this most advanced design process. It includes incorporating dozens of proven DFM guidelines through up-front concurrent-engineering teamwork that cuts the time to stable production in half and curtails change orders for ramps rework redesign substituting cheaper parts change orders to fix the changes unstable design specs part obsolescence and late discovery of manufacturability issues at periodic design reviews. This second edition is for the whole product development community including: Engineers who want to learn the most advanced DFM techniques Managers who want to lead the most advanced product development Project team leaders who want to immediately apply all the principles taught in this book in their own micro-climate Improvement leaders and champions who want to implement the above and ensure that the company can design products and versatile processing equipment for low-volume/high-mix product varieties Designing half to a tenth of cost categories can avoid substituting cheap parts which degrades quality and encourages standardization and spontaneous supply chains which will encourage Lean initiatives. Using cellular manufacturing to shift production between lines for mixed production of platforms and build-to-order to offer the fastest order fulfillment can beat any competitors’ delivery time. | Design for Manufacturability How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop High-Quality Products for Lean Production Second

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Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom provides college music history instructors with a concise guide on how to create an accessible and inclusive classroom environment. In addition to providing a concise overview of disability studies highlighting definitions theories and national and international policies related to disability this book offers practical applications for implementing accessibility measures in the music history classroom. The latter half of this text provides case studies of well-known disabled composers and musicians from the Western Art Music canon from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century as well as popular music genres such as the blues jazz R&B pop country and hip hop. These examples provide opportunities to integrate discussions of disability into a standard music history curriculum. | Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom A Teacher's Guide

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Hydro-Environmental Analysis Freshwater Environments

Hydro-Environmental Analysis Freshwater Environments

Focusing on fundamental principles Hydro-Environmental Analysis: Freshwater Environments presents in-depth information about freshwater environments and how they are influenced by regulation. It provides a holistic approach exploring the factors that impact water quality and quantity and the regulations policy and management methods that are necessary to maintain this vital resource. It offers a historical viewpoint as well as an overview and foundation of the physical chemical and biological characteristics affecting the management of freshwater environments. The book concentrates on broad and general concepts providing an interdisciplinary foundation. The author covers the methods of measurement and classification; chemical physical and biological characteristics; indicators of ecological health; and management and restoration. He also considers common indicators of environmental health; characteristics and operations of regulatory control structures; applicable laws and regulations; and restoration methods. The text delves into rivers and streams in the first half and lakes and reservoirs in the second half. Each section centers on the characteristics of those systems and methods of classification and then moves on to discuss the physical chemical and biological characteristics of each. In the section on lakes and reservoirs it examines the characteristics and operations of regulatory structures and presents the methods commonly used to assess the environmental health or integrity of these water bodies. It also introduces considerations for restoration and presents two unique aquatic environments: wetlands and reservoir tailwaters. Written from an engineering perspective the book is an ideal introduction to the aquatic and limnological sciences for students of environmental science as well as students of environmental engineering. It also serves as a reference for engineers and scientists involved in the management regulation or restoration of freshwater environments. | Hydro-Environmental Analysis Freshwater Environments

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Connective Tissue Histophysiology Biochemistry Molecular Biology

Connective Tissue Histophysiology Biochemistry Molecular Biology

Connective tissue is a multicomponent polyfunctional complex of cells and extracellular matrix that serves as a framework for all organs combining to form a unified organism. It is a structure responsible for numerous vital functions such as tissue–organ integration morphogenesis homeostasis maintenance biomechanical support and more. The regeneration potential of connective tissue affects healing of damaged tissue and organs while trauma stress and other factors that cause damage to connective tissue can lead to numerous disorders. Connective Tissue: Histophysiology Biochemistry Molecular Biology brings together crucial knowledge of mammalian connective tissue (including human) and its components both cellular and noncellular in one authoritative reference. The breadth and depth of information has fundamental scientific significance as well as applied relevance in clinical medicine. The first half of the book covers the structure classification biochemical aspects histogenesis and cellular elements of connective tissue. It presents data from the macro- to nanolevel organization of the extracellular matrix—its structural and functional aspects—and addresses metabolic functions and the biochemistry and molecular biology of connective tissue ageing. The second half of the book reviews current data on the biochemistry and molecular biology of skeletal connective tissue including bone and cartilage metabolism and regulation. It presents an in-depth analysis of data on the molecular mechanisms of connective tissue ontogenesis from embryonic development through ageing. It also reports novel findings on bone marrow stroma and describes electron microscopy results of the nanostructure of bone mineral mineralized cartilage and teeth compared with coral and seashells. Comprising both classic and modern data on the histopathology biochemistry and molecular biology of connective tissue this book provides a unique resource for clinicians and researchers alike. | Connective Tissue Histophysiology Biochemistry Molecular Biology

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Fundamentals of Modern Bioprocessing

Fundamentals of Modern Bioprocessing

Biological drug and vaccine manufacturing has quickly become one of the highest-value fields of bioprocess engineering and many bioprocess engineers are now finding job opportunities that have traditionally gone to chemical engineers. Fundamentals of Modern Bioprocessing addresses this growing demand. Written by experts well-established in the field this book connects the principles and applications of bioprocessing engineering to healthcare product manufacturing and expands on areas of opportunity for qualified bioprocess engineers and students. The book is divided into two sections: the first half centers on the engineering fundamentals of bioprocessing; while the second half serves as a handbook offering advice and practical applications. Focused on the fundamental principles at the core of this discipline this work outlines every facet of design component selection and regulatory concerns. It discusses the purpose of bioprocessing (to produce products suitable for human use) describes the manufacturing technologies related to bioprocessing and explores the rapid expansion of bioprocess engineering applications relevant to health care product manufacturing. It also considers the future of bioprocessing—the use of disposable components (which is the fastest growing area in the field of bioprocessing) to replace traditional stainless steel. In addition this text: Discusses the many types of genetically modified organisms Outlines laboratory techniques Includes the most recent developments Serves as a reference and contains an extensive bibliography Emphasizes biological manufacturing using recombinant processing which begins with creating a genetically modified organism using recombinant techniques Fundamentals of Modern Bioprocessing outlines both the principles and applications of bioprocessing engineering related to healthcare product manufacturing. It lays out the basic concepts definitions methods and applications of bioprocessing. A single volume comprehensive reference developed to meet the needs of students with a bioprocessing background; it can also be used as a source for professionals in the field.

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Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate

Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate

With the built environment contributing almost half of global greenhouse emissions there is a pressing need for the property and real estate discipline to thoroughly investigate sustainability concerns. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate brings together the latest research of leading academics globally demonstrating the nature and extent of the impact as well as suggesting means of mitigating humankind's impact and building resilience. Four sections examine the different aspects of sustainable real estate:governance and policy valuation investment and financemanagement redevelopment and adaptation. Covering all land uses from residential to commercial retail and industrial the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate is an exciting mixture of received wisdom and emerging ideas and approaches from both the developed and developing world. Academics upper-level students and researchers will find this book an essential guide to the very best of sustainable real estate research.

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Positive Psychoanalysis Meaning Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being

Positive Psychoanalysis Meaning Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy have in one way or another focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring Positive Experience into patients’ lives. Positive Psychoanalysis moves away from this traditional focus on negative experience and problems and instead looks at what makes for a positive life experience bringing a new clinical piece to what psychoanalysts do: Positive Psychoanalysis and the interdisciplinary theory and research behind it. The envelope of functions entailed in Positive Psychoanalysis is an area of Being described as Subjective Well-Being. This book identifies three particular areas of function encompassed by SWB: Personal Meaning Aesthetics and Desire. Mark Leffert looks at the importance of these factors in our positive experiences in everyday life and how they are manifested in clinical psychoanalytic work. These domains of Being form the basis of chapters each comprising an interdisciplinary discussion integrating many strands of research and argument. Leffert discusses how the areas interact with each other and how they come to bear on the care healing and cure that are the usual subjects of psychoanalytic treatment. He also explores how they can be represented in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. This novel work discusses and integrates research findings phenomenology and psychoanalytic thought that have not yet been considered together. It seeks to inform readers about these subjects and demonstrates with clinical examples how to incorporate them into their clinical work with the negative helping patients not just to heal the negative but also move into essential positive aspects of living: a sense of personal meaning aesthetic competence and becoming a desiring being that experiences Subjective Well-Being. Drawing on ideas from across neuroscience philosophy and social and culture studies this book sets out a new agenda for covering the positive in psychoanalysis. Positive Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists neuroscientists and philosophers as well as academics across these fields and in psychiatry comparative literature and literature and the mind. | Positive Psychoanalysis Meaning Aesthetics and Subjective Well-Being

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Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought Narratives of World Politics

Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought Narratives of World Politics

Over the past few years ‘dystopia’ has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times and more specifically that a genre of fiction called dystopia has above others achieved symbolic cultural value in representing fears and anxieties about the future. As such dystopian fictions do not merely mirror what is happening in the world: in becoming such a ready referent for discussions about such varied topics as governance popular culture security structural discrimination environmental disasters and beyond the narrative conventions and generic tropes of dystopian fiction affect the ways in which we grapple with contemporary political problems economic anxieties and social fears. The volume addresses the development of the narrative methods and generic conventions of dystopian fiction as a mode of socio-political critique across the first half of the twentieth century. It examines how a series of texts from an age of political extremes contributed to political discourse and rhetoric both in its contemporary setting and in the terms in which we increasingly cast our cultural anxieties. Focusing on interactions between temporality spatiality and narrative the analysis unpicks how the dystopian interacts with social and political events debates and ideas Stock evaluates modern dystopian fiction as a historically responsive mode of political literature. He argues that amid the terrors and upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century dystopian fiction provided a unique space for writers to engage with historical and contemporary political thought in a mode that had popular cultural appeal. Combining literary analysis informed by critical theory and the history of political thought with archival-based historical research this volume works to shed new light on the intersection of popular culture and world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies cultural and intellectual history politics and international relations. | Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought Narratives of World Politics

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Verilog HDL Design Examples

Verilog HDL Design Examples

The Verilog language provides a means to model a digital system at many levels of abstraction from a logic gate to a complex digital system to a mainframe computer. The purpose of this book is to present the Verilog language together with a wide variety of examples so that the reader can gain a firm foundation in the design of the digital system using Verilog HDL. The Verilog projects include the design module the test bench module and the outputs obtained from the simulator that illustrate the complete functional operation of the design. Where applicable a detailed review of the theory of the topic is presented together with the logic design principles—including: state diagrams Karnaugh maps equations and the logic diagram. Numerous examples and homework problems are included throughout. The examples include logical operations counters of different moduli half adders full adders a carry lookahead adder array multipliers different types of Moore and Mealy machines and arithmetic logic units (ALUs). | Verilog HDL Design Examples

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Inequality and Public Policy Towards Visible Equality and Equal Opportunity

Inequality and Public Policy Towards Visible Equality and Equal Opportunity

This book’s concern is with visible inequalities in housing health and education and policy initiatives to address them. The authors offer readers a summary of evidence on inequalities – not only in income gender and wealth but also in education health and housing. They showcase temporal and cross-country trends as well as the policy initiatives to minimize visible inequalities. The book also discusses policy initiatives and provides clarity on what works what does not and what may be of use when formulating public policies. Seventeen countries were chosen for focus based on their share in global population; of these seven are given special focus which together account for a little over half the world’s population. Offering current research as well as insights into prospects for visible inequalities the book is an essential read for students and professionals interested in the study of visible inequalities and equal opportunity. | Inequality and Public Policy Towards Visible Equality and Equal Opportunity

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Costs of Sprawl

Costs of Sprawl

Across the nation the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its impact has become pivotal to urban planning. A decade and a half ago Smart Growth America and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency sought to raise the level of the debate by sponsoring groundbreaking research to quantitatively measure sprawl and its quality-of-life impacts. The resulting measures are widely used in urban research and public health. Costs of Sprawl provides a panoramic guide to urban form in America measures sprawl for metropolitan areas urbanized areas and counties and studies the relationship between sprawl and quality-of-life outcomes. From this preliminary investigation it looks like the costs of sprawl are varied and substantial and the alternative of compact development is far superior. An essential read for researchers planners urban designers policy makers and smart growth advocates in the U. S. and abroad this book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of one of the most critical issues in planning today.

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