Product Description: The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: London published Military History - Air

Product Description: This monograph summarizes our current knowledge of the structure, function, and biochemistry of normal skin. It details the clinical and pathological characteristics of psoriasis and relates what is known about its pathophysiology...read more

This book is a self-teaching text aimed at students of engineering courses whose performance on their qualifying course was less than adequate. Such students should work through the text before beginning the degree course, so that serious gaps in their knowledge may be filled. The material comprises the fundamentals of statics, kinematics and kinetics normally covered on an A level course but with an engineering bias. The format comprises three programmed texts, arranged in 'frames'. The programs are designed to be worked through sequentially.

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Text and photographs profile the working life of New York City cab drivers as it unfolds over the course of a single night

Product Description: This is a guide to the portraits or snapshots of some 6,000 people who were newsworthy in the recent past, including politicians and entertainers, the good and the bad, the famous and the notorious, winners and losers, criminals and victims...read more

In this book the author presents a method for implementing delay learning in artificial neural networks. She shows that such a system bears some behavioural (and possibly, at a deeper level, conceptual) similarities to the bilogical methods by which living creatures accomplish the same tasks. The book begins with an overview of the existing neural network paradigms which address some features of delay learning. The attention-driven buffering approach is described; this allows a system of finite size to learn about action-reinforcement associations, even in situations where reinforcements are delayed indefinitely and may be interleaved with others. This approach is shown to be applicable to an operant conditioning task - which is also an example of delay learning in animals. the biological relevance of the attention-driving buffering approach is discussed in later chapters where it is compared in detail with the learning system in one specific animal - the octopus - and with higher animals such as mammals.

Uses old photographs and personal accounts to summarize the history of African Americans in baseball during the days of the old Negro Leagues and includes such legends as Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and Jackie Robinson.

Product Description: The "Signs of the Times" series explores the development of systems of recording and measuring, from the first forms of writing and the earliest calendars, to the latest in calculators and quartz clocks. Innovators, inventions and facts are highlighted in text boxes, and there are suggestions for related activities...read more

Product Description: This work explores the concept of reflective teaching as a key element of professional development. It covers historical documents, research findings and perceptive forms of analysis. The aim of the book is to raise educational standards and improve teacher and pupil experience.

Product Description: This volume is a comprehensive political history of the American nation which integrates social, economic and cultural developments in a single treatment. This edition has been updated to include Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, the 1996 election and the 1995 budget crisis...read more

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