This book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics may be used to explore and explain the grammar of scientific examination questions. The author outlines the key elements of this theory and identifies problematical structures that affect the linguistic validity of such education assessment questions. This book also shows how...
The present well-established study of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, the exoplanets, was reviewed by the author in his earlier book Wandering Stars. This new and exciting field of study has expanded quickly, particularly due to technological advances in both Earth-based telescopes and, more recently, in the application of...
This book provides a hands-on, application-oriented guide to the language and methodology of both SystemVerilog Assertions and SytemVerilog Functional Coverage. Readers will benefit from the step-by-step approach to functional hardware verification, which will enable them to uncover hidden and hard to find bugs, point directly to the...
The first question any reader should ask is “Why this book?” We decided to write this book after learning SystemC and after using minimal documents to help us through the quest of becoming comfortable with the language’s finer points. After teaching several SystemC classes, we were even more convinced that an...
Affect and emotion have come to dominate discourse on social and political life in the mobile and networked societies of the early 21st century.
This volume introduces a unique collection of essential concepts for theorizing and empirically investigating societies as Affective Societies. The concepts promote insights...
It is the argument of this book that the contemporary Progressive movement in the United States, designed to replace the Liberalism whose demise was the object and accomplishment of the Reagan Revolution, is the product of a series of strategic experiments and decisions by activists in organized labor, in the environmental and human rights...
SAPCOOKOOK readers have a need for information they can use right now. And our series of SAP interview questions books is an answer to that need for instant information. Our books are written by SAP practitioners and expert authors who have varied and vast experiences in...
In this volume, the authors apply insights from a variety of perspectives to explore the alignment among strategy, organization design, process and human resource management, and e-business practices on developing successful social networking programsâwith particular regard to applying such initiatives against the backdrop of the global...
When first published in 1963, IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr.’s A Business and Its Beliefs gave readers an unprecedented look inside IBM’s executive offices. Watson--son of IBM’s founder--candidly discussed how the company clung to its values during the first great technological shift, and how this refusal to compromise...
Take the unCONQUERability out of ORGANIC CHEMISTRY!
Now anyone can master organic chemistry -- without tears, unlimited time, or a Ph.D. In Organic Chemistry Demystified, organic chemist and experienced teacher Daniel Bloch provides an effective and painless way to learn or review organic chemistry, from the chemical...
This book provides visualizations of many topics in general physics. The aim is to have an interactive MATLAB script wherein the user can vary parameters in a specific problem and then immediately see the outcome by way of dynamic "movies" of the response of the system in question. MATLAB tools are used throughout and the software...
