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This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered la

This book provides an integrated description of methods used to rear vectors of human, higher animal, and plant pathogens in the laboratory. It deals with diverse subject areas, and contains descripti

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The Economy of Roman Palestine presents a description of the economy of the province of Judea-Palestina in the Roman era (AD70 to AD400) on the basis of a broad selection of primary rabbinic sources a

"The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has

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Test your knowledge of modern electrical and electronics systems for aircraftFully updated for the latest technological advances, this complete study guide features hundreds of multiple-choice, fill-i

The author is an art historian and a philosopher. His study is neither a history of illusionistic painting nor a description of the illusion in painting. Instead, as he states in the introduction, he

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Winston Churchill's description of Stalinist Russia in 1939 - he called it a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma - easily could have been said about the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard (the Sp

The former Red Sox coach discusses his eight-year tenure with the team, chronicling the challenges posed by managing difficult players, satisfying multiple owners with different expectations, and deal

This multifaceted analysis of E.U.--Russian relations investigates competing models of international society and unveils multiple alternatives both the EU and Russia can draw on in their policies towa

The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range o

Miller's Collectibles Handbook 2014-2015 is the up-to-date guide to the collectables market. Featuring more than 4,000 objects in full color, each with a detailed description and current price range,

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This totally revised edition is a thoroughly referenced and an exhaustive description of the current state of knowledge on hearing and auditory disorders in infants, toddlers and young children. Prese

Stream processing is a novel distributed computing paradigm that supports the gathering, processing and analysis of high-volume, heterogeneous, continuous data streams, to extract insights and actionable results in real time. This comprehensive, hands-on guide combining the fundamental building blocks and emerging research in stream processing is ideal for application designers, system builders, analytic developers, as well as students and researchers in the field. This book introduces the key components of the stream computing paradigm, including the distributed system infrastructure, the programming model, design patterns and streaming analytics. The explanation of the underlying theoretical principles, illustrative examples and implementations using the IBM InfoSphere Streams SPL language and real-world case studies provide students and practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of such applications and the middleware that supports them.

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Comic Book Geographies is a volume that brings together scholars from the discipline of geography and the field of comics studies to consider the multiple ways in which space is both constitutive of,

Mathematical models can be used to meet many of the challenges and opportunities offered by modern biology. The description of biological phenomena requires a range of mathematical theories. This is t

This book is written for scientists involved in the calibration of viscometers. A detailed description for stepping up procedures to establish the viscosity scale and obtaining sets of master viscomet

An octogenarian bookseller living alone in London has found a description of his father, as a young doctor in 1920s Breslau, in a story about Weimar Germany. Perhaps his own story might be worth telli

Diagnosing learning disabilities (LD) in children has never been an easy task. The multiple approaches in use complicate the assessment process, raising the risk of young students getting the wrong se

Recent advances in functional analysis and homogenization have multiple applications in modeling the mechanics of masonry structures. This book has more than 50 examples that help readers master the u

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Studies on Diabetes examines how increased oxidative and nitrosative stress – one of the leading causes of diabetes complications – pathologically affects multiple tissues in the body. The volume edit

Culture and Circulation presents a range of essays that investigate the dialogue between the multiple literary cultures of early modern India, shedding light on processes of cultural exchange between

This book provides a site description and examines the artifacts taken from the Talbot site and others, on private land near Kanab, Utah. The collection contains a large, diverse array of Puebloan art

The churches of Rome constitute arguably the most important manifestations of art and architecture in the Western world. This book is a detailed description of 251 churches in Rome and the Vatican Cit

Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the latest accepted international standard for cataloging resources in the library profession. Because it is designed to bring library metadata into the wider

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Dutch planning is widely known and admired for its ambitions and its achievements. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description and analysis in English of its full range of poli

Ahacic describes the pioneering grammatical description of the Slovenian language in the 16th century, relatively early compared to other European languages. He also examines the language situation in

Linguists working alone or in teams explore what language can reveal about the role of objective and subjective time and the multiple temporalities people live in, think, and talk about. They discuss