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As a species, we are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in our
lifestyle, family structure, health, and global contact.
Evolutionary Anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework
to study such changes, revealing how current environments and
legacies of past selection shape human diversity. This book is the
first major review of the emerging field of Applied Evolutionary
Anthropology bringing together the work of an international group
of evolutionary scientists, addressing many of the major public
health and social issues of this century. Through a series of case
studies that span both rural and urban situations in Africa, Asia,
Europe and South America, each chapter addresses topics such as
natural resource management, health service delivery, population
growth and the emergence of new family structures, dietary, and
co-operative behaviours. The research presented identifies the
great, largely untapped, potential that Applied Evolutionary
Anthropology holds to guide the design, implementation and
evaluation of effective social and public health policy. This book
will be of interest to policy-makers and applied researchers, along
with academics and students across the biological and social
sciences.
As a species, we are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in our
lifestyle, family structure, health, and global contact.
Evolutionary Anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework
to study such changes, revealing how current environments and
legacies of past selection shape human diversity. This book is the
first major review of the emerging field of Applied Evolutionary
Anthropology bringing together the work of an international group
of evolutionary scientists, addressing many of the major public
health and social issues of this century. Through a series of case
studies that span both rural and urban situations in Africa, Asia,
Europe and South America, each chapter addresses topics such as
natural resource management, health service delivery, population
growth and the emergence of new family structures, dietary, and
co-operative behaviours. The research presented identifies the
great, largely untapped, potential that Applied Evolutionary
Anthropology holds to guide the design, implementation and
evaluation of effective social and public health policy. This book
will be of interest to policy-makers and applied researchers, along
with academics and students across the biological and social
sciences.
One would rarely have the opportunity to augment his medical
library with a more exhaustive examination of the subject matter
than is contained herein. Would only that all areas of one's
professional responsibilities be available in such a complete,
didactic, written form. Having a decided interest in the subject of
head and neck paragangliomas for the past decade, I have had the
opportunity to explore the subject through published medical
literature and personal investi gation, and feel qualified to
commend Doctors Zak and Lawson on their dedica tion, accuracy, and
thoroughness in this presentation. One seeking any particular
aspect of knowledge from historical to an up-to-date concept on the
subject of paragangliomas will find his answer here. Vincent J.
Hyams CAPT MC USN Chairman, Otolaryngic Pathology Department Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology Washington, D.C. Preface One of us
(F.G.Z.) initially became interested in the paraganglionic system
when as a resident in pathology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, he
performed an autopsy on an elderly woman with an intracranial tumor
of the posterior fossa, which extended through the jugular foramen
into the neck in a dumbbell fashion."
This is the only book on the market that has been conceived and
deliberately written as a one-semester text on basic electric
circuit theory. As such, this book employs a novel approach to the
exposition of the material in which phasors and ac steady-state
analysis are introduced at the beginning. This allows one to use
phasors in the discussion of transients excited by ac sources,
which makes the presentation of transients more comprehensive and
meaningful. Furthermore, the machinery of phasors paves the road to
the introduction of transfer functions, which are then used in the
analysis of transients and the discussion of Bode plots and
filters. Another salient feature of the text is the consolidation
into one chapter of the material concerned with dependent sources
and operational amplifiers. Dependent sources are introduced as
linear models for transistors on the basis of small signal
analysis. In the text, PSpice simulations are prominently featured
to reinforce the basic material and understanding of circuit
analysis.
Key Features
* Designed as a comprehensive one-semester text in basic circuit
theory
* Features early introduction of phasors and ac steady-state
analysis
* Covers the application of phasors and ac steady-state
analysis
* Consolidates the material on dependent sources and operational
amplifiers
* Places emphasis on connections between circuit theory and other
areas in electrical engineering
* Includes PSpice tutorials and examples
* Introduces the design of active filters
* Includes problems at the end of every chapter
* Priced well below similar books designed for year-long courses
AMERICA STRIKES BACK
After Pearl Harbor, America seemed to have lost the war before it
had begun. Allied forces were being beaten across the Pacific by
the Japanese military juggernaut, and morale was at the breaking
point. America desperately needed to strike back at the enemy. For
this, a corps of heroic volunteer fliers led by Lt. Col. James H.
Doolittle began training to attack the very heart of the Japanese
Empire -- Tokyo.
To succeed, the "Tokyo Raiders" would have to launch sixteen fully
loaded B-25 twin-engine medium bombers off the deck of the aircraft
carrier Hornet -- something never done before -- and land at
airfields in China. Through courage and luck, the raid itself went
flawlessly. But bad weather, lack of fuel, and darkness worked
against many of the pilots -- and for many, escaping China proved
even more perilous than the mission....
This gripping eyewitness account -- hailed as "the most stirring
story of individual heroism that the war] has so far produced"
("The New York Times") -- is one of the most daring missions in
military aviation history: the legendary Doolittle Raid.
INCLUDES HISTORIC PHOTOS - SOME NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory began as a short
paper and was eventually published as a book written by Albert
Einstein with the aim of giving:
. . . an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those
readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of
view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with
the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.
- from the Preface
It was first published in German in 1916 and later translated into
English in 1920. It is divided into 3 parts, the first dealing with
special relativity, the second dealing with general relativity and
the third dealing with considerations on the universe as a whole.
There have been many versions published since the original in 1916,
the latest in December, 2011. The work has been labeled by whom?]
unique in that it gives readers an insight into the thought
processes of one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact
insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a
general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested
in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical
apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of
education corresponding to that of a university matriculation
examination, and, despite the shortness of the book, a fair amount
of patience and force of will on the part of the reader. The author
has spared himself no pains in his endeavour to present the main
ideas in the simplest and most intelligible form, and on the whole,
in the sequence and connection in which they actually originated.
In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I
should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest
attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered
scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist
L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be
left to the tailor and to the cobbler. I make no pretence of having
withheld from the reader difficulties which are inherent to the
subject. On the other hand, I have purposely treated the empirical
physical foundations of the theory in a "step-motherly" fashion, so
that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer
who was unable to see the forest for the trees. May the book bring
some one a few happy hours of suggestive thought
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