Product Description: Although the self-adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of self-adaptive systems that are able to adapt to internal faults, changing requirements, and evolving environments...read more

Product Description: Retold in graphic novel form, Sherlock Holmes investigates if there is danger afoot when a young woman is asked to cut off her long hair and dress in a specific blue gown in order to be hired as governess at the Copper Beeches. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery...read more

Product Description: Retold in graphic novel form, Sherlock Holmes attempts to solve the murder of a Herefordshire landowner, whose estranged son has been accused of the crime. Includes a section explaining Holmes's reasoning and the clues he used to solve the mystery.

Exploring the concept and history of visual and graphic epistemologies, this engrossing collection of essays by artists, curators, and scholars provides keen insights into the many forms of connection between visibility and legibility. With more than 130 color and black-and-white photographs, Visible Writings sheds new light on the visual dimensions of writing as well as writing's interaction with images in ways that affect our experiences of reading and seeing.Multicultural in character and historical in range, essays discuss pre-Colombian Mesoamerican scripts, inscriptions on ancient Greek vases, medieval illuminations, Renaissance prints, Enlightenment concepts of the legible, and the Western "reading" of Chinese ideograms. A rich array of modern forms, including comics, poster art, typographic signs, scribblings in writers' manuscripts, anthropomorphic statistical pictograms, the street writings of 9/11, intersections between poetry and painting, the use of color in literary texts, and the use of writing in visual art are also addressed.Visible Writings reaches outside the traditional venues of literature and art history into topics that consider design, history of writing, philosophy of language, and the emerging area of visual studies. Marija Dalbello, Mary Shaw, and the other contributors offer both scholars and those with a more casual interest in literature and art the opportunity, simply stated, to see the writing on the wall.

Product Description: This impressive full-colour atlas, with over 100 colour-coded and accessible maps, uniquely presents the geography of death in Britain. The first atlas published on this subject for over two decades, this book presents data from more than 14 million deaths over a 24-year period in Britain...read more

An updated fourth edition has now (Mar 2012) been published. If you search Amazon for "978-0972732451" you will find it. The trails of the Allegheny Trail Alliance will connect with the C&O Canal Towpath at Cumberland, creating a traffic-free route between Pittsburgh and Washington DC. Although a few gaps in the trail won't be finished for another year or two, there's enough trail on the ground to make an outstanding bike trip. To help you plan this trip -- or a shorter trip along this route -- this book has brought together most of the information that you will need to plan your trip. This Second Edition (May 2002) is now 48 pages and includes all of the information in the first edition and more. All of the detail tables have been updated. In addtion a milage table from and between over 25 trailheads has been added, and a table of restaurants and grocery stores has been added.

Product Description: This Handbook is the definitive resource for anyone wishing to quickly look up and understand key concepts and measurements relating to socioeconomic position and inequalities. A range of key concepts is defined and measures of socioeconomic position and inequality described...read more

Product Description: This Handbook is the definitive resource for anyone wishing to quickly look up and understand key concepts and measurements relating to socioeconomic position and inequalities.

When Caroline, the newest member of the Icehogs, encounters some bad luck with passing and receiving the puck, Brady helps her realize that it will take more than fast skating to improve her game.

When Brady invites his friends to a fun game of shinny on his great rink, his friends are invited to an even greater rink and Brady feels betrayed.

Product Description: This lively, colourful and innovative pack has been designed specifically for use as a teaching aid and learning resource for students of geography, sociology, social policy and related social science disciplines. With new evidence about the nature of social and geographical divisions in British society, it is also an invaluable resource for policy makers and local authority professionals in areas such as planning, education, housing, poverty and social exclusion...read more

Trouble strikes Brady and his friends when, after taking his father's autographed hockey puck and using it in a game of shinny, it sails into a large snowbank, making it nearly impossible to find.

When Brady Brady and the Icehogs lose a big game to a rival team, they learn a valuable lesson about playing fairly.

When Chester, the goalie on Brady Brady's hockey team, hides just before the big game because he does not think he is a good enough player, it is up to Brady to convince Chester to play.

Tes begins to crack because of the constant teasing the opposing team gives her simply because she is a girl, but Brady Brady and the rest of the Icehogs know just how to quiet their comments.

Brady's Icehogs teammate Kev is a favorite because of his outgoing personality, even though he does not score goals--something which bothers him--but when he gets an offer to join another team, he must decide what really matters in hockey.

Avid hockey fan Brady Brady builds his own backyard rink, even though it is a lot of work and takes a long time.

Amidst the tremendous pressures he feels from his father, Tree discovers his singing talent after belting out the national anthem at his hockey game, but his father scolds him and only pressures him more to become the best at hockey.

When his friend Gregory outgrows his skates and his parents cannot afford new ones, Brady comes up with a winning idea.

Product Description: Health, Place and Society is a groundbreaking text covering both the main issues in medical geography, and also overlapping with key issues in medical sociology. The approach focuses on the empirical, outlining the main research questions in medical geography, addressing how these can be investigated (covering both concepts and measurements) and then reviewing what is known about the issue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This follow up report to Death in Britain (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1997) - a study of changes in death inequalities from the 1950s to the 1990s - contains further evidence of the widening geographical gap in mortality in Britain, but shows how this gap might be narrowed through social and economic policies...read more

Product Description: An updated fourth edition has now (Mar 2012) been published. If you search Amazon for "978-0972732451" you will find it. The previous edition of this book (this page) was so successful that we updated it to show the new trail construction and current businesses...read more