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This book examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. It examines the roles played by health professionals within child protection and investigates the nature and operation of the central policy community and local provider networks.

Written by leading researchers, this book collects a number of articles considering the problems of finite-precision computing in digital controllers and filters. Topics range from analysis of fragility and finite-precision effects to the design of low-complexity digital controllers.

Heinz Gerstenmeyers Biographie mit Daten, Fakten und rund 700 Interview-Ausschnitten zur Geschichte der Musik einer der ganz großen Rockgruppen hat die Dichte und Spannung einer dramaturgischen Komposition. In seinem Buch wird die Geschichte der DOORS in erster Linie von den Bandmitgliedern selbst erzählt, unterstützt von akribisch recherchierten Fakten - ein Fest für jeden Fan und eine Fundgrube für jeden Einsteiger. Wer von einem Buch, das ...

Mit "Datt Schlitzohr" hat der Autor aus Bad Zwischenahn nun bereits sein 3. Buch bei BoD überaus erfolgreich auf den Markt gebracht. "Datt Schlitzohr" ist ein plattdeutsch geschriebenes Buch und so verfasst, wie man spricht! "Das vereinfacht vieles", meint der Autor und scheint damit auf dem richtigen Weg zu sein. In "Datt Schlitzohr" beschreibt der Autor die wahren Geschichten um seinen Opa Hermann, das "Schlitzohr der Nation", und Oma Herta,...

Der Historiker Werner Conze, als Angehöriger der sogenannten Volksgeschichte in der Zwischenkriegszeit sozialhistorisch ausgebildet, verfolgte nach dem Kriege dezidiert das Projekt, die bislang von der Politikgeschichte dominierte Geschichtsschreibung auf Sozialgeschichte umzustellen. Er und einige befreundete Kollegen waren der Meinung, dass die tief greifenden gesellschaftlichen Veränderungsprozesse im Gefolge der Industrialisierung und des ...

Prison Argot is Gilbert L. Encinas' study of the different elements of prison language.

Modern computer architectures designed with high-performance microprocessors offer tremendous potential gains in performance over previous designs. Yet their very complexity makes it increasingly difficult to produce efficient code and to realize their full potential. This landmark text from two leaders in the field focuses on the pivotal role that compilers can play in addressing this critical issue.The basis for all the methods presented in ...

This book attempts to correct the impression created by Western media that Sub-Saharan Africa is in a state of anarchy. The text analyzes and shows that while many Sub-Saharan African nations are experiencing the worst time of their history, others are enjoying their best times.

This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century.

From the Author (Robbyn van Frankenhuyzen): "For twenty years we have rehabilitated a wide variety of wild critters, from fawns, foxes, skunks, and crows to opposums, raccoons, rabbits, and owls. Some of the animals were injured adults, others were orphaned babies, but all of them were in need of a little help to get them back into the wild. Growing up on a farm, as well as my training as an animal technician, prepared me for many of the medic...

A haven for summer tourists and winter sport enthusiasts, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. Richard Nelson Current's compact history reveals the colorful past of America's Dairyland, from early explorers and gangsters to latter-day sports heroes and cheeseheads.Both the Ringling Brothers' "World's Greatest Shows" and Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" originated in Wi...

This book combines in one volume everything a high school teacher needs to organize and implement a sucessful, dynamic theatre program.

This work presents a practical framework for the teaching of thinking skills and problem-solving across the primary curriculum using: examples of topics from the National Curriculum, classroom techniques, and tried-and-tested activities which develop pupils' thinking and problem-solving skills.

What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for peace.

Since its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted visitors more than 15 million visitors, sometimes at the rate of 10, 000 a day, each of whom has walked away with an indelible impression of awe in the face of the unimaginable. This lively, honest, behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the museum's birth.

An ambitious undertaking in a field often lacking critical data, the book also includes an assessment of the state of information on the performing arts. Trends affecting commercial and large nonprofit organizations, midsized nonprofit groups, and smaller, community-level groups are all examined

This new translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context.

New Playwriting Strategies offers a fresh and dynamic approach to playwriting that will be welcomed by teachers and aspiring playwrights alike.

Ringing hammers, swinging cranes, the hot breath of furnaces and the gush of molten metal, a skyline ringed with belching smokestacks -- the energy of industry, both in manufacturing and in old-fashioned human diligence, has fueled Ohio since its earliest history as the first state in the Northwest Territory.From Harvey Firestone's rubber rims for buggy wheels to John Leon Bennet's wire flyswatter, from O. C. Barber's first book matches to Dr....

The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America's bitter history of violence against minorities, and something about Matt Shepard himself struck a chord with people across the nation. Although the details of the tragedy are familiar to most people, the complex and ever-shifting context of the killing is not. Losing Matt Shepard explor...