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Lester Packer
Flavonoids and Other Polyphenols (Volume 335) (Methods in Enzymology, Volume 335)
The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now w...
$56.41
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Jamuna S. Murthy
Cloud Security: Concepts, Applications and Practices
This comprehensive work surveys the challenges, the best practices in the industry, and the latest developments and technologies. It covers the fundamentals of cloud computing, including deployment models, service models, and the benefits of cloud computing, followed by critical aspects of cloud sec...
$100.74
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Kaigui Bian
Cognitive Radio Networks: Medium Access Control for Coexistence of Wireless Systems
This book gives a comprehensive overview of the medium access control (MAC) principles in cognitive radio networks, with a specific focus on how such MAC principles enable different wireless systems to coexist in the same spectrum band and carry out spectrum sharing.  From algorithm design to the l...
$77.30
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William K. Carroll
The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social ...
$27.95
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Michael Freeman
ESPN: The Uncensored History
ESPN: The Uncensored History is the first book to provide a critical analysis of the 20-year history of Americas original and largest sports network. Through information gleaned from internal documents, police and court records, and interviews with network employees, on-air talent, producers and exe...
$18.88
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Sidun Fang
Optimization-Based Energy Management for Multi-energy Maritime Grids (Springer Series on Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Shipbuilding and
This open access book discusses the energy management for the multi-energy maritime grid, which is the local energy network installed in harbors, ports, ships, ferries, or vessels. The grid consists of generation, storage, and critical loads. It operates either in grid-connected or in islanding mode...
$49.99
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Nipun Jaswal
Mastering Metasploit: Take your penetration testing and IT security skills to a whole new level with the secrets of Metasploit, 3rd Edition
Discover the next level of network defense with the Metasploit framework Key Features Gain the skills to carry out penetration testing in complex and highly-secured environments - Become a master using the Metasploit framework, develop exploits, and generate modules for a variety of real-world scena...
$49.79
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James Kubicki
A Heart on Fire: Rediscovering Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
In A Heart on Fire: Rediscovering Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus , Rev. James Kubicki, SJ, presents a persuasive and engaging guide to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, an age-old and often misunderstood Catholic devotion. He delves into the rich theological and spiritual roots of the devotion and ...
$17.95
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Phil Gonring
Pay-for-Performance Teacher Compensation: An Inside View of Denver's ProComp Plan
Denver’s groundbreaking campaign to introduce performance-based pay for teachers captured national and international attention and has paved the way for similar efforts elsewhere. In this book, Phil Gonring, Paul Teske, and Brad Jupp—among the key players in this successful come-from-behind cam...
$29.00
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Tarek Saadawi
Cyber Infrastructure Protection
The Internet, as well as other telecommunication networks and information systems, have become an integrated part of our daily lives, and our dependency upon their underlying infrastructure is ever-increasing. Unfortunately, as our dependency has grown, so have hostile attacks on the cyber infrastru...
$23.99
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Duncan J. Watts
Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Everyone knows the small-world phenomenon: soon after meeting a stranger, we are surprised to discover that we have a mutual friend, or we are connected through a short chain of acquaintances. In his book, Duncan Watts uses this intriguing phenomenon--colloquially called "six degrees of separation"-...
$33.97
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Mario Luis Small
Someone To Talk To
When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant-a person to vent to or a sympathetic ear with whom to talk things through. How do they decide on whom to rely? In theory, the answer seems obvious: if the matter is personal, they will turn to a spouse, a family member, or...
$28.82
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Alan Jacobson
The Hunted (1) (OPSIG Team Black)
From a national bestselling author: “A classic cat-and-mouse with enough twists to enthrall even the most veteran thriller reader” (David Baldacci). How well do you really know the person you love? How far would you go to find out?  If there were one person in the world Dr. Lauren Chambers...
$19.10
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Allison D. Smith
Teaching in the Pop Culture Zone: Using Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom
This professional development guide offers insights and strategies about using pop culture in the first year writing classroom. The edited volume includes essays by instructors who share details of their most effective class ideas and writing assignments. It is a resource for new teachers and for th...
$74.95
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Arie Kaplan
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books
Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or “Comix”) movement of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as...
$17.59
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Nick Crossley
Networks of sound, style and subversion: The punk and post–punk worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975–80 (Music and Society)
This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of ‘critical mass’, ‘social networks’ and ‘music worlds’, and using sophisticated techniques of ‘social network analysis’, it teases out...
$88.12
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Kevin L. Nadal
Queer Psychology: Intersectional Perspectives
Queer Psychology is the first comprehensive book to examine the current state of LGBTQ communities and psychology, through the lenses of both queer theory and Intersectionality theory. Thus, the book describes the experiences of LGBTQ people broadly, while also highlighting the voices of LGBTQ peopl...
$129.99
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Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia (and Technology in the World Economy)
The global electronics industry is one of the most innovation-driven and technology-intensive sectors in the contemporary world economy. From semiconductors to end products, complex transnational production and value-generating activities have integrated diverse macro-regions and national economies ...
$40.00
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Bettina De Souza Guilherme
Financial Crisis Management and Democracy: Lessons from Europe and Latin America
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this volume takes an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, analyzing both the role a...
$59.99
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Deborah Simonton
Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives
The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation...
$55.19
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