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This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of reading emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at addressing the rights of LGBT people.

A major new contribution to college student development theory, this book brings ""third wave"" theories to bear on this vitally important topic for anyone working on campus today. The primary audience for the book is faculty members who teach in graduate programs in higher education and student affairs and their students.

Covers aspects of probability, distribution theory and random processes that are fundamental to a proper understanding of inference. This book discusses the properties of estimators constructed from a random sample of ends, with sections on methods for estimating parameters in time series models.

This book provides construction professionals, designers, contractors and quality auditors involved in construction projects with the auditing skills and processes required to improve construction quality and make their projects more competitive and economical.

This textbook gives students a comprehensive introduction to formal methods and their application in software and hardware specification and verification.

This book is an attempt to provide the latest knowledge, state of the art and demystify outstanding issues that delay the deployment of the technology on a large scale. It explains the energy advantage of membrane distillation for desalination when compared to traditional techniques such as thermal or reverse osmosis.

This book provides a simplified approach to a very diverse chemical subject dealing with the chemistry and technology of various petroleum and petrochemical process. It presents valuable information containing insights into petrochemical reactions and products, process technology, and polymer synthesis.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of invertebrate organismal zoology and is one of the first to combine classical morphological approaches and newer evo-devo and Next Generation Sequencing approaches.

Aquatic Chemistry Concepts, Second Edition. Fully revised and updated, this textbook fills the need for a comprehensive treatment of aquatic chemistry and covers the many complicated equations and principles of aquatic chemistry.

Radar networks are increasingly regarded as an efficient approach to enhancing radar capabilities in the face of popular anti-radar techniques and hostile operating environments. The book discusses emerging topics that directly relate to networks such as Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radars, and waveform design diversity.

This book aims to help improve predictions of important properties of soils through a modern understanding of their highly reactive clay minerals as they are formed and occur in soils worldwide. It examines how clays occur in soils and the role of soil clays in disparate applications.

This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women¿s fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, regional, geographical, caste, class and regional contexts.

Originally published in 1992. Distinguished international researchers on beginning reading address various processes and problems in learning to read including how acquisition gets underway, contributions of story listening experiences, what is involved in learning to read words, and how readers represent information about written words in memory.

Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age examines contemporary issues in the design and delivery of effective learning through a critical discussion of the theoretical and professional perspectives informing current digital education practice.

Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age examines contemporary issues in the design and delivery of effective learning through a critical discussion of the theoretical and professional perspectives informing current digital education practice.

The wave of data breaches raises two pressing questions: Why don¿t we defend our networks better? And, what practical incentives can we create to improve our defenses? This book answers those questions.

In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. Yet sexual transition is only one possible type of transformation, and this interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its meanings.

Precision medicine seeks to use data to construct principled, i.e., evidence-based, treatment strategies that dictate where, when, and to whom treatment should be applied. This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to statistical methodology for dynamic treatment regimes.

This book shows how to analyze spatial and spatial-temporal data. It focuses on key datasets and data analysis, using the open source software WinBUGS, R, and GeoDa. It examines a range of different spatial and spatial-temporal data modeling situations encountered in the social and economic sciences.

Drawing on a diverse range of contributions to analyse the concepts and practice of "activist", "protest" and "dissent" public relations, this book challenges the view that PR is only a tool of corporate capitalism.

Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building, which were unified in their insistence on enacting a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form.

The book takes a very practical and holistic approach to ground characterization and structural calculation. Emphasising rock tunnelling, it covers excavations, site investigation, in-situ stress determination and geotechnical classifications, then deals with various construction methods.