Linguistics expert and long-time educator Hackett offers a robust introduction to biblical Hebrew grammar and the Masoretic text. All exercises from... Hebrew to English are taken from the Old Testament: those in earlier lessons with slight modification suitable to the experience of the student; those exercises found in the later lessons are taken from the Masoretic test of the Old Testament without modification, but with footnotes to explain unusual or advanced formations. Classroom tested and suitable for self-study as well, this quick-moving one-semester course (30 lessons) features clear, readable explanations, exercises, and examples that provide students with an effective foundation in original language usage. This text-book is also suitable for an entire first-year's study of Biblical Hebrew conducted at a slower place. Course work includes an overview of the history of the Hebrew Bible; deductive lessons on recognition, drawing, and pronunciation of consonants and vowels; memorization and recitation of the alphabet; and proper spelling of words; as well inductive experience in translating biblical passages. Excellent textbook for students who wish to progress beyond using simple reference works and ideal for those who wish to read the Hebrew Bible deeply, widely, and accurately, as well as for any who wish to pursue advanced studies in the Hebrew Scriptures.

In this edition, Leo Michels continues to offer a review of math concepts and basic chemical principles with an emphasis on the mathematical and... conceptual skills needed for preparatory and general chemistry. The book is divided into frames, each of which contains questions and problems with answers that appear on the same page, allowing students to grasp each new idea before proceeding to more difficult material. The book also includes self-evaluation tests, which appear at the end of each unit with the answers appearing in the back of the book. Michels uses SI units and current abbreviations for measurements and addresses the calculator. This book works as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to a preparatory chemistry text such as Morris Hein and Susan Arena's Foundations of College Chemistry, 10th and 7th Alternate Editions.

Learning through doing is the foundation of this book, which allows readers to explore case studies as well as expository material. The book provides a... practical guide to the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear equations, differential equations, optimization problems, and eigenvalue problems. It treats standard problems and introduces important variants such as sparse systems, differential-algebraic equations, constrained optimization, Monte Carlo simulations, and parametric studies. Stability and error analysis is emphasized, and the MATLAB® algorithms are grounded in sound principles of software design and in the understanding of machine arithmetic and memory management. Nineteen case studies allow readers to become familiar with mathematical modeling and algorithm design, motivated by problems in physics, engineering, epidemiology, chemistry, and biology. A website provides solutions to the challenges that are offered throughout the book and also supplies relevant MATLAB codes, derivations, and supplementary notes and slides. Audience: This book is intended as a primary text for courses in numerical analysis, scientific computing, and computational science for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students. Physicists, chemists, biologists, earth scientists, astronomers, and engineers whose work involves numerical computing also will find the book useful as a reference and tool for self-study. Contents: Preface; Part I: Preliminaries: Mathematical Modeling, Errors, Hardware, and Software; Chapter 1: Errors and Arithmetic; Chapter 2: Sensitivity Analysis: When a Little Means a Lot; Chapter 3: Computer Memory and Arithmetic: A Look Under the Hood; Chapter 4: Design of Computer Programs: Writing Your Legacy; Part II: Dense Matrix Computations; Chapter 5: Matrix Factorizations; Chapter 6: Case Study: Image Deblurring: I Can See Clearly Now; Chapter 7: Case Study: Updating and Downdating Matrix Factorizations: A Change in Plans; Chapter 8: Case Study: The Direction-of-Arrival Problem; Part III: Optimization and Data Fitting; Chapter 9: Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization; Chapter 10: Numerical Methods for Constrained Optimization; Chapter 11: Case Study: Classified Information: The Data Clustering Problem; Chapter 12: Case Study: Achieving a Common Viewpoint: Yaw, Pitch, and Roll; Chapter 13: Case Study: Fitting Exponentials: An Interest in Rates; Chapter 14: Case Study: Blind Deconvolution: Errors, Errors, Everywhere; Chapter 15: Case Study: Blind Deconvolution: A Matter of Norm; Part IV: Monte Carlo Computations; Chapter 16: Monte Carlo Principles; Chapter 17: Case Study: Monte-Carlo Minimization and Counting One, Two, Too Many; Chapter 18: Case Study: Multidimensional Integration: Partition and Conquer; Chapter 19: Case Study: Models of Infections: Person to Person; Part V: Ordinary Differential Equations; Chapter 20: Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations; Chapter 21: Case Study: More Models of Infection: It s Epidemic; Chapter 22: Case Study: Robot Control: Swinging Like a Pendulum; Chapter 23: Case Study: Finite Differences and Finite Elements: Getting to Know You; Part VI: Nonlinear Equations and Continuation Methods; Chapter 24: Nonlinear Systems; Chapter 25: Case Study: Variable-Geometry Trusses; Chapter 26: Case Study: Beetles, Cannibalism, and Chaos; Part VII: Sparse Matrix Computations, with Application to Partial Differential Equations; Chapter 27: Solving Sparse Linear Systems: Taking the Direct Approach; Chapter 28: Iterative Methods for Linear Systems; Chapter 29: Case Study: Elastoplastic Torsion: Twist and Stress; Chapter 30: Case Studt: Fast Solvers and Sylvester Equations: Both Sides Now; Chapter 31: Case Study: Eigenvalues: Valuable Principles; Chapter 32: Multigrid Methods: Managing Massive Meshes; Bibliography; Index

From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, this military history explains the principal campaigns of the Civil War and all the major battles in lively text. A... clear, concise and authoritative volume ideal for battlefield tours or classroom studies.

This penetrating study of the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's life and work engages a cross-cultural dialogue between Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, an... Iranian filmmaker, and Jonathan Rosenbaum, a film critic, both of whom have an intense interest in Kiarostami's work. A pioneer in Iranian cinema and considered one of the most controversial and influential filmmakers alive, Kiarostami has written or directed more than twenty films. He gained notoriety in the West in the 1990s with the breakaway films "Close-Up" and "Through the Olive Trees" and became the first Iranian director to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for "Taste of Cherry". He is also largely credited for his contributions to the Iranian New Wave. Abbas Kiarostami is the first full-length, English-language study of his work. A unique and resplendent collaboration featuring two distinct but complementing perspectives, the book places Kiarostami and his films in a national context and provides American readers with valuable insights into Iranian culture, Kiarostami's portrayal of women and politics, and his influence on other filmmakers.

The scope of this text focuses on the practical topics that are receiving more and more emphasis in medical curriculums and medical practices on a daily... basis. Basic concepts are introduced, but within the framework of commonly confronted clinical problems. Significant sections cover diagnosis, counseling and treatment of genetic disorders for which the second half of the book is devoted to the upcoming integration of genetic knowledge into medical practice, coupled with a review of the major advances in medical genetics. Boxed "Concept Questions" allow the user to assimilate facts as they read through the text, with answers provided at the end of the chapter. "Disease Boxes" test understanding of inheritability of both acquired and inherited diseases. Also included are standard family history algorithms for physicians and pedigree profiles for monogenic disorders.

This revised edition incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel... has updated the commentary in the light of new material, and the bibliography that she has prepared reflects the scholarship on St.-Denis in the last three decades. She has obtained some additional and more recent photographs, and the illustrations include a new ground plan and a new section of the chevet of the Abbey Church, both drawn under the supervision of Sumner McKnight Crosby.

Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first... place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milk shake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young readers see what it was like to live through those days, and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices. Each book in this series tells the story behind a different "scrap of time"; together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.

Motivation provides an overarching organizational scheme of how motivation (the inducement of action, feelings, and thought) leads to behavior from... physiological, psychological, and environmental sources. Well-grounded in the history of the field, Motivation combines classic studies with current research, promoting the idea that motivation stems from physiological states, psychological motives, and environmental incentives and goals. The material draws on topics that are familiar to students while maintaining a conversational tone to sustain student interest.

Enriching each other, this book provides a clear exposition of ABCD (Asset Based Community Development) organizing principles & best practices for... community partnership. Examples of ABCD in Action, learning exercises, worksheets, and reflections from experienced practitioners of ABCD community building. A practical approach to creating community collaborations that work. Reflections by John McKnight; Lessons from Ashville, NC; Marquette, MI; Laconia, NH; Savannah, GA; Ames, IA. Note: There is an ABCD DVD that parallels the book available through the Inclusion Press web site: inclusion.com

This is the first genuine etymological dictionary of Old Chinese written in any language. As such, it constitutes a milestone in research on the... evolution of the Sinitic language group. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the structure of the Chinese characters, this pathbreaking dictionary places primary emphasis on the sounds and meanings of Sinitic roots. Based on more than three decades of intensive investigation in primary and secondary sources, this completely new dictionary places Old Chinese squarely within the Sino-Tibetan language family (including close consideration of numerous Tiberto-Burman languages), while paying due regard to other language families such as Austroasiatic, Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien), and Kam-Tai.Designed for use by nonspecialists and specialists alike, the dictionary is highly accessible, being arranged in alphabetical order and possessed of numerous innovative lexicographical features. Each entry offers one or more possible etymologies as well as reconstructed pronunciations and other relevant data. Words that are morphologically related are grouped together into "word families" that attempt to make explicit the derivational or other etymological processes that relate them. The dictionary is preceded by a substantive and significant introduction that outlines the author’s views on the linguistic position of Chinese within Asia and details the phonological and morphological properties, to the degree they are known, of the earliest stages of the Chinese language and its ancestor. This introduction, because it both summaries and synthesizes earlier work and makes several original contributions, functions as a useful reference work all on its own. The ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese is a monumental achievement in the history of Chinese linguistics, offering many new hypotheses and systematically evaluating and incorporating earlier scholarship. It will be warmly welcomed by scholars in a wide variety of China- and Asia-related fields, including early Chinese language, literature, culture, and thought as well as the broader cultural-linguistic landscape of prehistorical East and Southeast Asia.