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This book explores the effects of microdynamics, such as interactions among individuals, on larger social systems, from corporate and categoric units to institutional domains, stratification systems, community networks, societies, and inter-societal systems.

Allan Bromley, Science Advisor to President Bush during 1989-1983 and past president of the American Physical Society, conveys much of the excitement and wonder that research in physics generated in the 20th century and asks what new things are in store in the next century.

The new edition of this book shows how economists can use the analytical network process to supplement mathematical models, how it helps social scientists derive measurements for intangibles, and how engineers can link hard measurement to human values.

This in-depth study of the childhood loneliness relates their individual characteristics to contextual conditions at home and at school. It presents new strategies for coping with childhood loneliness, including preventive and intervention approaches.

Fueled by a consistent narrative and a lucid ethical stance, this book analyzes the increasing role legal systems play in family life and traces rapidly evolving legal concepts as they apply to child protection.

This user-friendly book is intended to be a thorough introduction to the subject of ordered sets and lattices, with an emphasis on the latter. The presentation is lucid and the book contains a plethora of exercises, examples, and illustrations.

This book covers the major theoretical orientations in American sociology since the mid-twentieth century. It is distinctive as a theory text in giving attention to organizations, communities, markets, and socioeconomic classes as meso-level social formations.

Kosorok's brilliant text provides a self-contained introduction to empirical processes and semiparametric inference. These powerful research techniques are surprisingly useful for developing methods of statistical inference for complex models and in understanding the properties of such methods.

In this first compendium in the growing literature of behavioral teratology, readers will discover an easy-to-access, concise presentation that covers a huge range of subjects. It goes further to examine the role of prenatal perturbations in conditions as varied as dyslexia, schizophrenia, fetal alcohol syndrome, and autism.

This is the first comprehensive book treatment of the emerging subdiscipline of set-valued mapping and enlargements of maximal monotone operators. Throughout the text, examples help readers make the bridge from theory to application. Numerous exercises are also offered to enable readers to apply and build their own skills and knowledge.

This book explores the historical and contemporary relationships of Protestant Puritanism to political and social authoritarianism. It focuses on Puritanism's original, subsequent and modern influences on and legacies in political democracy and civil society within historically Puritan Western societies.

Special and General Relativity are concisely developed together with essential aspects of nuclear and particle physics. Problem sets are provided for many chapters, making the book ideal for a course on the physics of white dwarf and neutron star interiors.

This book explores the links between food and human cultural and physical evolution. This book catalyzes discussion between scientists working on one side in food science and on the other side in biological and biomedical research.

While plenty of literature discusses theory for learning and memory, almost none exists for teaching. This book probes the need and possibility for a theory of teaching and offers many effective teaching practices based on theory.

This book is a general introduction to the uses of ceramics and glasses in the human body for the purposes of aiding, healing, correcting deformities, and restoring lost function.

This unified, comprehensive treatment of an order-theoretic fixed point theory in partially ordered sets shows its various useful interactions with topological structures. Covering the preliminaries before moving to more advanced topics makes it approachable.

This is the second volume covering native and introduced American orchids north of Mexico and Florida, with detailed data on genetic compatibility, breeding systems, pollinators, pollination mechanisms, fruiting success and limiting factors for each species.

Firmly grounded in the principles of neuropsychology, this volume analyzes both successful and unproductive learning in terms of the brain's organizing processes - that is, its unconscious sifting, selecting, and meaning-making that enable students to incorporate and build on what they have learned in the past.

This book provides the reader with an authoritative reference for today's major group visit models: what they are, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they can best be used together and in combination with traditional individual office visits.

Presents the science, history, and biography, all wrapped in the story of a great human enterprise. This book is of interest to those working in the sciences and humanities.

This is an overview of major therapeutic systems in practice today, outlining the philosophical differences and opportunities for integration among them. Considers new ideas and approaches to therapy stemming from the postmodernist and integrative movements.

This comprehensive and clearly structured text begins with an overview of analytical techniques and moves on to discuss the full range of relevant issues, from purification of proteins and their modification to enzyme kinetics and laboratory quality control.

Focusing on the kinetic description of the inner magnetospheric plasma, this volume illustrates how to determine the best approach to any upper atmospheric or space physics problem. Readers will find a full theoretical description of the inner magnetospheric plasma.

This review of numerical computation methods in high resolution conventional and scanning transmission electron microscope images shows how image calculations help separate information from artifact. Updated with instrumental developments and new references.

Conveys general principals of passive (physiological traits such as fingerprint, iris, face) and active (learned and trained behavior such as voice, handwriting and gait) biometric recognition techniques to the reader. This work discusses aspects such as sensor characteristic dependency, and the generation of cryptographic keys from handwriting.

Now in a second, expanded edition, this book bridges the gap between standard geometry books, which are primarily theoretical, and applied books on computer graphics and introduces a range of geometric methods including Lie groups and Euclidean geometry.

Based on the findings of a unique longitudinal study, this volume provides experts with unprecedented analysis of prospectively collected data following the road from childhood to early adulthood of 1,517 boys and young men from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Based on the authors' everyday research experiences in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collisions, this volume bundles temperature, heat, entropy and disorder into modern physics. The main focus is thermodynamics -- the very concept of temperature, its use, and extensions.

This reference fully explores the particulars of the sounds made by all standard instruments in a modern orchestra as well as the human voice. It discusses how acoustics vary in different rooms and offers recommendations for adjustment.