Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But significant donors (defined here as those contributing more than 200) are the least understood participants in the system. Defenders assert that contributing money to campaigns is part of a broader ...
Materials Science on CD-ROM has been designed by the MATTER team for teachers and students of materials science, metallurgy, engineering, and other related disciplines. This collection of completely interactive learning modules - created to make use of those functions best performed by computer-makes it easier to understand the complex concepts ...
Discover Vietnam, the easternmost nation on the Indochina Peninsula. Take note of Vietnam's economy, which in 2006 boasted the fastest growth rate in Southeast Asia. Learn about the legacy of the Vietnam War; and why America deployed large numbers of troops in South Vietnam between 1954 and 1973. Feel the heat of Vietnam's tropical monsoon climate ...
Highly Structured Stochastic Systems (HSSS) is a modern strategy for building statistical models for challenging real-world problems, for computing with them, and for interpreting the resulting inferences. Complexity is handled by working up from simple local assumptions in a coherent way, and that is the key to modelling, computation, inference ...
This book has been written to help programmers use the PL/I programming language more effectively. It is a practical guide both to the extensive facilities of PL/I and to the best ways of exploiting these facilities. Part I analyses the fundamental principles of PLA, Part Ii the more specialised features. At the end of both parts, examples of good ...
Independence Day shows what happens when an individual with a disability meets a personal computer and puts it to work to change his or her life. Four different individuals with four different disabilities discover computer solutions to meet their particular needs. The book includes descriptions of adaptive technology products, manufacturer's ...
The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. Although designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that it is fully accessible to the informed gardener and landscape architect, as well as to the professional ...
With maps, track layouts, operating data and personal recollections from the people who worked on Barnsley's railways, this book recalls the days when there were railways, collieries and coke works seemingly at the end of every field and when Barnsley had not one, but two stations.
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