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From the reviews: “All aspects of modeling time in computing are presented in this book, but that’s not all it offers. Each of the chapters can be read as an independent text, allowing a very customized experience with the book. ... Part 1 is extremely useful for readers at an early level of computer science learning, as it presents aspects that can be easily understood by an undergraduate student. These chapters also offer the bonus of some exercises that help readers assess their ability to understand the concepts discussed. Part 2, I think, is harder to follow because it deals with a higher level of abstraction. However, these chapters are very well written and allow a complete understanding of the issues of simulating time. After the closing chapter, the authors provide an extensive set of references and a useful index. The authors have succeeded in writing a very complete text, which is fairly easy to read and to follow ... This book is now one of my favorite sources on this topic. ”  [Nuno M. Garcia, Computing Reviews, 2013] “The book is well written, the details are given in a rigorous manner, the bibliography seems to be adequate and well explained. … I consider the book to be a nice presentation of a large range of results regarding time modeling in computer science, complemented by a considerable number of pointers towards further readings. In fewer words: a good starting point both for students and researchers interested in this topic.”  [Florin Manea, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1260, 2013] “... Next to its admirably comparative and conceptual approach, the highlight of this book are its numerous examples and its many excellent, albeit challenging, exercises ... its brilliantly written first part revisits the approaches adopted by physics and engineering for describing dynamic systems ... this is a successful monograph on the diverse and difficult topic of modeling time. I highly recommend it to engineers and practitioners who need to apply modern computer science techniques to developing and analyzing complex, software-intensive systems. ”  [G. Lüttgen, AMS Mathematical Reviews, MR3185244, 2015]

Modeling Time in Computing

Journeying to the Sacred

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'...student researchers will appreciate the abundant attention accorded notables such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Chang-rae Lee, Jessica Hagedorn, Jhumpa Lahiri, and others. There are helpful, individual, hyphenated-ethnic literary group assessments, including an informative study of Asian Canadian literature by Donald Goellnicht and Eleanor Ty. Mark Chiang’s “Cultural Capital,” one of the strongest essays, considers the embrace of successful authors such as Lahiri and Lee by mainstream American fiction readers and the prickly range of criticism in turn.'
--T. Carolan, University of the Fraser Valley in Choice, January 2015.

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The Many Careers of D.D. Kosambi

The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America

Westviking

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Accounting and Emancipation

Resources, Nutritional Composition, and Preservation

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Noble Metal Nanoparticles in Biodetection

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"Steven E. Jones rolls his katamari through wonderful terrain, collecting insights about how video games relate to reality TV, otaku culture, British gift-book annuals, and our perspectives on outer space. The Meaning of Video Games draws on the methods of textual studies and on a solid understanding of games and how they are played. It is an enjoyable, edifying, next-generation book."
-Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"In The Meaning of Video Games Steven E. Jones makes it look easy, effortlessly dissolving distinctions between media studies, game studies, and textual studies. Close readings become 'close playings' (and back again) as the book creates an interdisciplinary convergence culture every bit as mobile and networked as the objects of its study."
-Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland

"This is a perfect case of a book hitting the market exactly when we need it. While there have been individual academic accounts of specific types and modes of games before, Jones's book is the first scholarly (and 'popular') study of an increasingly pervasive element of contemporary culture, deftly integrating the phenomenology of game design and game playing with the general textuality in which Jones wisely chooses to discuss both the creation and reception of gaming. Avoiding the pitfalls of a straight historical narrative, the author selects certain emblematic moments in the growth of games and games studies (from Lost to Halo to the Wii-and 'platform studies' -to the forthcoming Spore). He sets these exempla against a wide array of other disciplines and approaches: media studies, psychology, textual studies, popular culture, sociology, anthropology, and even 'literature.' Whether Jones has provided the last word on the 'meaning' of video games remains to be seen, but it will certainly inspire others to continue the search for such 'meaning.'"
-David Greetham, City University of New York

"The meaning of video games - suggests Jones - is not intrinsic to the text, but is produced dynamically from the interaction between author and user, code and system, machine and human being. The pleasant digressions on otaku culture, reality TV shows and TV series such as Lost (which opens the volume) make reading The Meaning of Video Games pleasant, if not essential." 
- Matteo Bittanti, Videoludica

"As his title promises, Jones successfully demonstrates strategies for understanding the meanings of video games. His six case studies present insightful analyses and exemplify how scholars might approach games using textual studies theories...Jones provides another fruitful contribution to the interdisciplinary network of game studies, offering close textual readings of specific game artifacts to illuminate how video games are the "quintessential social texts of our present cultural moment.""
-Cinema Journal Spring 2009 Issue
"Ultimately, Jones’ contributions in this excellent collectionof more or less stand-alone chapters sums up with a wonderful expositionof the ceaseless movement of significance in the paratextual character of thehuman engagement with videogames."
-New Media and Society 2009; 11; 641

Gaming and Textual Strategies

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An Early Mesolithic Site at Seamer Near Scarborough, Yorkshire

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'A most impressive resource for historians of women.' - Women's History Network'Any budding historian looking for a project on British women's history would find reading the dictionary a useful experience.' - Feminist Collections

Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960

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The Just

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'The articles published here aim to explore a relatively neglected area: the cultural history of the Crusades and how they shaped European identities. All ten are lively and accessible but they are also exhaustively footnoted. They both synthesise previous work and bring new insights of their own ... So while this book will be of interest to researchers in the field, it will also be useful for teaching the crusades especially to those teachers who wish to go beyond the stereotyped ‘clash of cultures’ and explore complexity and diversity in the ways that human societies interact.' – Jonathan Harris, Reviews in History
'Conor Kostick should be congratulated for gathering such a stimulating, varied yet unified collection.' - Christopher Tyerman, Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK
'Kostick has produced a useful collection that shows how much and how little the Crusades impacted on all the peoples involved. The articles should be useful to anyone who needs to know that the Crusades were never an all-or-nothing proposition." - Laurence W. Marvin, Canadian Journal of History
'A volume that spans subjects as diverse as warfare, propaganda, diplomacy, medicine, architecture, literature, and "national identity." Refreshingly, the volume embraces a range of perspectives - not only the Latin/Frankish one but also Byzantine, Islamic, and even Armenian... The essays themselves will certainly be useful to graduate students and scholars who are focusing on the Crusades.' - Brian A. Catlos, Religious Studies Review

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"…a collection of already published articles, in their exact forms, collected by Adaramola (renewable energy, Norwegian Univ. of Life Sciences). The book is organized into three parts, each consisting of several articles. Part 1 covers wind energy resources in selected regions of the world (four articles). Part 2 is titled "Social, Economic, and Environmental Impacts" (seven articles), and part 3 ("Trends and Future Challenges") consists of two articles. Each of the collected articles is interesting and the editor has done a good job selecting relevant and important papers in the field..."—CHOICE, January 2016

Environmental, Social, and Economic Issues

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Praise for the first edition: 
'The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis provides much tasty food for thought and shows that useful tools and promising approaches are being developed. But more than anything else it makes clear the need for further subdivision of work, for systematic rigour, and for many, many more corpus-based case studies.'
Charles Forceville, Journal of Pragmatics

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Israel's War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Consequences

33 Day War

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Metaphysical Interpretation

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