"Weather can be wild, freaky, and fascinating! Powerful twisters roar through homes; earthquakes shatter whole cities; hurricanes fly through towns. How does it all happen and how do we know what we d
Poetry. Praise for Hands of the Saddlemaker: "... [Samaras] is a stern and original poet, whose seriousness and morality seem almost foreign, like that of the Turkish writer Nazim Hikmet or Czeslaw M
GET D!RTY! Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Greek with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:‧ cool slang‧ fu
Revising his 1996 doctoral dissertation for the University of Warwick, though not departing radically from his original contention, Samaras argues that Plato's political thinking develops along a cont
Why should kids have all the fun? Now grown-ups can have a blast coloring in Devil Babe's luscious lips and tantalizing body parts, playing connect-the-dots to discover naughty pictures, dressing up t
Includes such works as "Lost," "In the Shell of a City Cathedral," "In the Wake of Exile," "What Grandfathers Leave," and "Returning to Stoneham, Massachusetts"
Self-Study Teacher Research guides pre-service and in-service teachers in conducting and assessing classroom-based self-study research. Teacher education students are guided in developing a more cons
Popular lowbrow artist Isabel Samaras's work is populated with pop culture icons and riffs on the old master painters. This delightful postcard collection highlights her witty, sexy, surreal work.
This book offers a theoretical and computational presentation of a variety of linear programming algorithms and methods with an emphasis on the revised simplex method and its components. A theoretical
GPU Programming in MATLAB is intended for scientists, engineers, or students who develop or maintain applications in MATLAB and would like to accelerate their codes using GPU programming without losin
Of nature’s weapons, tornadoes are among the most unforgiving, and here’s an unforgettable portrait of these storms and the extraordinary man who challenged them?and produced the first-ever photograph
An example of a preservice teacher who applied self-study in his master's paper to better understand his frustrations about his classroom performance begins this book. Samaras (education, George Mason
Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now Amer
If policies aimed at large reductions of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are enacted, more carbon capture and storage will be needed. RAND researchers explored the ability of the industrial base suppor
Isabel Samaras - a celebrated artist of today's Pop Surrealist scene - has distinguished herself by applying meticulous technique and a sense of history to wry observations of contemporary popular cul
Key findings -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Legislative background on life-cycle cost analysis for military construction -- Study motivation and research approach -- Outline of this
Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actuall
Autonomous vehicle technology has the potential to significantly improve social welfare. This report addresses the numerous legislative, regulatory, and liability issues this technology will raise.
Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. One near-term option for using biomass to generate electricity is to cofire biomass in coal-fired electricity plants.
* examples of research conducted on 15 different teacher education programs* the impact the research had on the development of the program is included* the text systematically describes 15 teacher edu
This book addresses the need for the exchange of scientific information among experts on issues related to environmental toxicology, toxicity assessment and hazardous waste management. Publishing pape
This book offers a collection of original, peer-reviewed studies by scholars working to develop a knowledge base of teaching and facilitating self-study research methodology. Further, it details and i
