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Structural Concrete: Theory and Design
M. Nadim Hassoun and Akthem Al-Manaseer
Structural Concrete is the bestselling text on concrete structural design and analysis, providing the latest information and clear explanation in an easy to understand style. Newly updated to reflect the latest ACI 318-14 code, this sixth edition emphasizes a conceptual understanding of the subject, and builds the student's body of knowledge by presenting design methods alongside relevant standards and code. Numerous examples and practice problems help readers grasp the real-world application of the industry's best practices, with explanations and insight on the extensive ACI revision. Each chapter features examples using SI units and US-SI conversion factors, and SI unit design tables are included for reference.
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Information Services Today: An Introduction
Sandra Hirsh
This essential overview of what it means to be a library and information professional today provides a broad overview of the transformation of libraries as information organizations, why these organizations are more important today than ever before, the technological influence on how we provide information resources and services in today’s digital and global environment, and the various career opportunities available for information professionals.
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An Ancient Astronomer Aristarchus Tells the History of Science
Hidefumi Katsuura
Aristarchus of Samos time travels from ancient Greece to modern day Berkeley, California, where he catches up on the history of science to the present day.
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Core Java for the Impatient
Cay S. Horstmann
This book covers all aspects of Java that a modern developer needs to know, including the powerful lambda expressions that have been introduced in Java 8. It also tells how to find out more about old-fashioned concepts that might still be seen in legacy code, but doesn't dwell on them. This book also provides fresh coverage of concurrent programming topics, showing how to use the powerful streams library features in Java 8 instead of tedious and error-prone manual locking.
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What We Wish We’d Known: Negotiating Graduate School
Ryan Skinnell, Judy Holiday, and Christine Vassett
This book contains 15 chapters written by graduate students who explore the ways they have made sense of, and made choices about, graduate school challenges, including choosing a committee, teaching as a graduate student, and writing a dissertation.
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Path of Grace
Anita Coleman
The island fortress of Suomenlinna off the coast of Finland and a water-wise garden in Southern California provide the setting for this charming children's story. "Why are people mean?" Little Anni asked Nana, her grandmother. Nana helps Anni find her own path of grace by sharing the story of the Bridge of Concord.
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The Death & Rebirth of Cinema: Mastering the Art of Cinematography in the Digital Cinema Age
Harry Mathias
This book teaches the vital new cinematography skills that are needed to make great films in a digital cinema world. It covers lighting, lens selection, image control methods, and much more--whether using digital cinema or (photochemical) film with today's technology-driven cinema. Mathias is a very experienced film cinematographer, one who also is a pioneer of digital cinema cinematography. He outlines concrete plans to take the best path forward to a digital imaging future, without leaving behind the photographic skills and lighting arts of films of the past. Exploring the path from our past to the future, this book is not only for cinematographers; it is for anyone who cares about telling dramatic stories visually to film audiences. Film directors, producers, production designers, art directors, editors, colorists, and film critics are all concerned with communicating cinematic images effectively to a theatre audience. Often the issue today is not how can this be done effectively with digital cinema, but how can it be done in spite of all this new technology. In this book, Mathias boldly sets out the plan to reach that cinematography of the future. What is important to cinema is image quality and the art of cinematography--and that is why the major skills required are the same whether a Director of Photography is using film or digital cinema. This book is about making images the right way, regardless of the camera technology being used. Cinema is, after all, technology in the service of art, not the other way around.
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Software Patterns, Knowledge Maps, and Domain Analysis
Mohamed Fayad, Huascar A. Sanchez, Srikanth G. K. Hegde, Anshu Basia, and Ashka Vakil
This book delineates a new creation process and provides an understanding of software pattern languages and true domain analysis, based on the fundamental concepts of software stability. It introduces a very well defined paradigm for creating pattern languages, software patterns, software architectures on demand, and better software development methodology that leads to highly reusable artifacts and high quality, cost-effective systems. Department of Computer Engineering
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Working with Interpreters and Translators: a Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
Henriette W. Langdon and Terry Irvine Saenz
Working with Interpreters and Translators: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists offers state-of-the-art procedures to conduct interviews, assessments, and conferences with students with limited English language proficiency and their families. As no research base is available in the field of communicative disorders on this specific topic, the information presented in this guide is supported by a critical review of the literature on best practices in interpreting for international conferences and legal and medical fields. Furthermore, the authors' experience working with language interpreters and training professionals as well as graduate students in communicative disorders, makes this a very valuable resource for professionals, interpreters/translators, as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
Federal and state laws specify that, if necessary, English-language learners (ELL) need to be assessed in their native language when referred for possible special education. The number of ELL students attending public schools across the nation has increased in the past few decades. There are not enough speech-language pathologists (SLPs) or audiologists who are proficient in the various languages spoken by ELL students--even in Spanish, the most common language spoken by ELL students in the United States. The next best solution is to conduct assessments in collaboration with a trained interpreter/translator.
Working with Interpreters and Translators: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists is a must-have reference for anyone working with ELL students. Although the process was developed with the pediatric population in mind, much of this information can be applied to older culturally and linguistically diverse populations in need of speech-language and/or hearing services. It will also be useful to professionals working with language interpreters in allied health professions in other countries.
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Prehistoric Life
Joseph Petsche
Prehistoric Life is a college-level textbook that explores the history of life and evolution on Earth. It is designed for lower-level Earth Science courses at colleges and universities. The preliminary edition is available to SJSU students right now and the first edition will be available nationwide for the Spring Semester. Department of Geology
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Teaching Men of Color in the Community College: A Guidebook
J. Luke Wood, Frank Harris III, and Khalid White
This guidebook articulates strategies for teaching men of color in community college. You will learn why implementing these approaches may take additional support from instructional leaders (e.g., department chairs, faculty development professionals, academic deans, vice presidents of instruction). Beyond providing recommendations for their peers, faculty leaders also extended suggestions for college leaders. Specifically, these suggestions focused on steps and strategies that instructional leaders could take to improve the success of men of color.
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Computer and Communication Networks, 2nd Edition
Nader Mir
An 810-page text book, with a successful word-wide university adoption record of its 1st edition first establishes a solid foundation in basic computer networking concepts, TCP/IP schemes, wireless networking, Internet applications, and network security. Next, Mir delves into the mathematical analysis of networks, as well as advanced networking protocols. Students and researchers will find up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of: Packet-switched networks and Internet protocols, including IPv6 Links LAN protocols Wireless networks (Wi-Fi and 4G LTE) Transport protocols Applications and management Network security Delay analysis Network QoS High-speed network protocols VoIP and multimedia networking Optical networks Multicasting protocols Voice/video compression Sensor/mesh networks Router/switching system design, and more. Department of Electrical Engineering
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The Setup Man
Nicholas Taylor
Published under the pseudonym T.T. Monday, THE SETUP MAN is the first in a series of crime novels set in San Jose featuring the relief pitcher / detective Johnny Adcock. The second novel in the series, DOUBLE SWITCH, will be published in Spring 2016. Department of English and Comparative Literature, Steinbeck Center
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Basic Biostatistics: Statistics for Public Health Practice
B. Burt Gerstman
Basic Biostatistics is a concise, introductory text that covers biostatistical principles and focuses on the common types of data encountered in public health and biomedical fields. The text puts equal emphasis on exploratory and confirmatory statistical methods. Sampling, exploratory data analysis, estimation, hypothesis testing, and power and precision are covered through detailed, illustrative examples. Department of Health Science and Recreation
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The Human Rights Enterprise
William Armaline
This book presents a framework for understanding human rights as a terrain of struggle over power between states, private interests, and organized, “bottom-up” social movements. The authors develop a critical sociology of human rights, focusing on the concept of the Human Rights Enterprise: the process through which rights are defined and realized. While states are designated arbiters of human rights according to human rights instruments, they do not exist in a vacuum. Political sociology helps us to understand how global neoliberalism and powerful non-governmental actors (particularly economic actors such as corporations and financial institutions) deeply affect states’ ability and likelihood to enforce human rights standards. Department of Justice Studies
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Polls, Expectations, and Elections: TV News Making in U.S. Presidential Campaigns
Richard Craig
In modern American presidential campaigning, scholars and citizens have bemoaned the effects of electronic media on voters. Much has been written about the effects of television ads, media management, perceived bias, and other issues, yet one element of today’s media environment that most Americans would recognize has not been identified in the public mind: expectation setting. Journalists regularly tell audiences what actions candidates should take on the campaign trail, based solely on whether they’re leading or trailing in public opinion polls. Polls, Expectations, and Elections: TV News Making in U.S. Presidential Campaigns follows the rise and proliferation of this phenomenon through a comprehensive content analysis of transcripts of CBS Evening News broadcasts during presidential election campaigns from 1968–2012. Richard Craig uses numerous examples from these transcripts to illustrate how television news has gone from simply reporting poll data to portraying it as nearly the only motivation for anything candidates do while campaigning. He argues that with the combination of heightened coverage of campaigns and the omnipresence of poll data, campaign coverage has largely become a day-to-day series of contests, with candidates portrayed as succeeding or failing each day to meet “expectations” of what the candidate at a given position in the polls should do on the campaign trail. Highlighting the change in news media and candidate coverage, Polls, Expectations, and Elections will appeal to scholars of media studies, political communication, and journalism.
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Resistive, Capacitive, Inductive, and Magnetic Sensor Technologies
Winncy Du
Resistive, Capacitive, Inductive, and Magnetic Sensor Technologies examines existing, new, and novel sensor technologies and—through real-world examples, sample problems, and practical exercises—illustrates how the related science and engineering principles can be applied across multiple disciplines, offering greater insight into various sensors’ operating mechanisms and practical functions. The book assists readers in understanding resistive, capacitive, inductive, and magnetic (RCIM) sensors, as well as sensors with similar design concepts, characteristics, and circuitry. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Cognitive Communication Disorders
Michael L. Kimbarow
Cognitive Communication Disorders, now in its second edition, is the definitive core text for graduate courses that address cognitively based communicative disorders. This text provides up-to-date knowledge on the normal cognitive processes that support communication, cognitive linguistic communication disorders, clinical management, as well as the impact that deficits in these cognitive domains may have on language and communication - including right hemisphere disorders, Alzheimer disease and related disorders, and traumatic brain injury. Furthermore, through contributions from a renowned group of contributors, this text provides a comprehensive review of theoretical and applied research on the cognitive processes of attention, memory, and executive function.
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Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty
Scott Myers-Lipton
Poverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty, while middle class incomes are in decline. The top 20 percent now controls 89 percent of all wealth. These conditions have renewed demands for a new Economic Bill of Rights, an American idea proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Martin Luther King Jr. The new Economic Bill of Rights has a coherent plan and proclaims that all Americans have the right to a job, a living wage, a decent home, adequate medical care, a good education, and adequate protection from economic fears of unemployment, sickness, and old age. Integrating the latest economic and social data, this new book explores each of these rights. Each chapter includes an analysis of the social problems surrounding each right, a historical overview of the attempts to implement these rights, and assessments of current solutions offered by citizens, community groups, and politicians. These contemporary, real-life solutions to inequality can inspire students and citizens to become involved and open pathways toward a more just society. Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
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Seismic Design of Building Structures: A Professional's Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details
Michael R. Lindeburg and Kurt M. McMullin
Seismic Design of Building Structures presents the seismic design concepts most essential to engineers, architects, and students of civil and structural engineering, and architecture. The book’s 15 chapters provide a concise but thorough review of seismic theory, code application, design principles, and structural analysis. The 30 example problems demonstrate how to apply concepts, codes, and equations to solve realistic problems. More than 125 practice problems provide opportunities for independent problem-solving practice, and complete solutions allow you to check your solution approach.
This book includes two comprehensive indexes—one of key terms and another of seismic building codes—to quickly direct you to the information you are looking for. You can also locate related support material by following references throughout the text to the 150 equations, 29 tables, 144 figures, and 16 appendices, and to relevant codes and standards.
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Screenwriting for Neurotics
Scott Sublett
A quirky guide for beginning screenwriters that not only covers technique, but also the psychological pitfalls faced by all writers. Department of Radio-Television-Film and Theatre
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José Martí, the United States, and Race
Anne Fountain
This book offers a comprehensive study of what José Martí wrote about race and race relations, in the context of nineteenth century North American life. Martí is Cuba's national hero and lived in the United States for nearly fifteen years (1880-1895). It brings together a careful reading of Martí’s Complete Works (28 vols.) and extensive research in American history. Department of World Languages and Literatures
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Education for the Joy of It: How to Thrive Not Just Survive in High School, College and Beyond
Robert J. Pellegrini
This book is targeted to all current or prospective high school students, college students, or anyone else who aspires to strengthen the educational foundation upon which to build the rest of her/his life -- with the hope that it is especially helpful to people who might otherwise become, or have already been formal educational program dropouts or lockouts. I cannot guarantee that applying what is offered here will ensure an “A” grade, or achievement of one’s life goals. But I do guarantee that I have tried to summarize critical elements of thought, feeling, and action oriented to such objectives.
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Advances in Global Leadership, Volume 8
Joyce Osland
This edited volume contributes to bridging and integrating conceptual and practitioner perspectives that yield a deeper understanding of the variables associated with effective global leadership and its development. The book advances foundational research in a nascent but critical field of study. The book has been chosen as one of the four finalists for the annual University of San Diego's Outstanding Leadership Book Award. School of Global Innovation & Leadership
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Civic Pedagogies in Higher Education Teaching for Democracy in Europe, Canada and the USA
Jason Laker
In this text, university teachers from Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America report on their efforts to prepare students for engaged democratic citizenship. Their case studies illustrate methods employed to prepare citizens for meaningful participation in democracies, whether long-standing, young or emerging. The contributors describe their approaches in detail, reflecting on the philosophical and pedagogical considerations being employed, as well as exploring models of experiential service-learning, action research, and other curricular innovations. Department of Counselor Education
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