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This book provides a concise overview of statistical analysis methods for the clinical and public health practitioner. It teaches statistical models without all the theory. Use of SAS software is illustrated in full, including how to interpret results. Includes exercises, case studies, take-away points, and data sets.

This book is the first monograph dedicated wholly to Willmore energy and surfaces as contemporary topics in differential geometry. It also sits at the intersection between integrable systems, harmonic maps, Lie groups, calculus of variations, geometric analysis and applied differential geometry.

Encyclopedic in breadth, yet practical and concise, Medical Biostatistics, Fourth Edition focuses on the statistical aspects ofmedicine with a medical perspective, showing the utility of biostatistics as a tool to manage many medical uncertainties. This edition includes more topics in order to fill gaps in the previous edition.

The book describes carbon based nanomaterials and electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies such as batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and hydrogen generation and storage. It addresses electrochemical processes, materials, components, assembly and manufacturing, degradation mechanisms, and challenges and strategies.

This book is an extended argument for abandoning the species rank. Instead, the author proposes that the rank of "species" be replaced by a pluralistic and multi-level view. In such a view, all clades including the smallest identifiable one would be named and studied within a phylogenetic context.

Few people realize how much science can tell us about the differences between men and women

This book explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global and regional contexts.

Louis Hartz is best known for his classic study, The Liberal Tradition in America . At Harvard University, his lecture course on nineteenth-century politics and ideologies was memorable. Through the editorial hand of Paul Roazen, we can now share the experience of Hartz's considerable contributions to the theory of politics.

This volume of Political and Military Sociology focuses on the perceptions and identities of those serving in the military, using survey or interview data to explore those perceptions

Public Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day

Examines the developing global movement of social entrepreneurship and some of the leading organizations and individuals that are advancing this citizen sector movement. This presents examples of innovative people that are tackling major social problems and triggering systemic change throughout the world today.

In the late 1940s, Paul Honigsheim published four essays from what might be called Weber's "lost decade", the period when Weber established his reputation in Germany as the most brilliant of the younger social scientists. This work covers those four essays on Weber's work.

The Criminology of Criminal Law considers the relation between criminal law and theories of crime, criminality and justice

Are there potentials in central city revitalization? What role will the federal government play in determining future retail locational choices? Shopping center development has never been more popular - or more hazardous than it is today

Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry

For as long as statistics record, housing conditions in the United States have been improving

The quest for freedom has always been a defining characteristic of the American people. That neither constitutionalism nor capitalism has secured complete freedom for every person is demonstrated by media announcements of slavery, oppression, exploitation, and a variety of shortcomings in the economic system.

This volume examines the evolution of higher education opportunities for African Americans in the early and mid-twentieth century

This volume focuses on the most critical strategic activity in any organization, namely, who gets chosen to sit in the top echelon of the pyramid

Calamities influence every moment of our existence. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think and every action we perform. This volume attempts to account for the effects these calamities exert on the mental processes, behavior, social organization, and cultural life of the population involved.

A study of the days when America's great fortunes were built; when futures were unlimited; and, when tycoons trampled across the land.

Moscow, Constantinople (now Istanbul), and Rome itself are magnets for tourists. These cities have their points in common, each wanting to rule the world and establish the kingdom of heaven on earth. People, recognizing this, link them together as the Three Romes. The author shows the reader each city as he himself saw it.

Critiques of traditional urban planning are numerous

A growing cooperation between the public and private sectors indicates that the tasks of redevelopment are too large and complex for either sector to accomplish alone

This volume's authors point out what is ordinarily termed the psychiatric hospital's "social structure" is derived from 3 sources: the number and kinds of professionals who work there; the treatment ideologies and professional identities of these professionals; and the relationships of the institution and its professionals to outside communities

This text argues that Hebrew religion must be analyzed as semitic religion, which must in turn be analyzed as a case of "primitive" religion. Semitic religion was originally collectivist, ritualistic and materialist, and only gradually evolved into the individualist nature of Christianity.