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  Using R at the Bench: Step-by-Step Data Analytics for Biologists

  Martina Bremer and Rebecca W. Doerge

  Using R at the Bench: Step-by-Step Data Analytics for Biologists is a convenient bench-side handbook for biologists, designed as a handy reference guide for elementary and intermediate statistical analyses using the free/public software package known as “R.” The expectations for biologists to have a more complete understanding of statistics are growing rapidly. New technologies and new areas of science, such as microarrays, next-generation sequencing, and proteomics, have dramatically increased the need for quantitative reasoning among biologists when designing experiments and interpreting results. Even the most routine informatics tools rely on statistical assumptions and methods that need to be appreciated if the scientific results are to be correct, understood, and exploited fully.

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  Legacy: The Spirit of Beethoven

  Gwendolyn Mok

  This CD celebrates the Legacy of Beethoven and his influence on composers Carl Czerny, Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn. Each of the works are recorded on historic pianos from the collection at SJSU.

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  Big Java: Early Objects

  Cay S. Horstmann

  Cay Horstmann’s sixth edition of Big Java, Early Objects provides an approachable introduction to fundamental programming techniques and design skills, helping students master basic concepts and become competent coders. Updates for the Java 8 software release and additional visual design elements make this student-friendly text even more engaging. The text is known for its realistic programming examples, great quantity and variety of homework assignments, and programming exercises that build student problem-solving abilities. This edition now includes problem solving sections, more example code online, and exercise from Science and Business.

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  Encyclopedia of Archival Science

  Luciana Duranti and Patricia C. Franks

  Encyclopedia of Archival Science features 154 entries, which address every aspect of archival professional knowledge. These entries range from traditional ideas (like appraisal and provenance) to today’s challenges (digitization and digital preservation). They present the thoughts of leading luminaries like Ernst Posner, Margaret Cross-Norton, and Philip Brooks as well as those of contemporary authors and rising scholars. Historical and ethical components of practice are infused throughout the work.

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  Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual, 1823–1835

  Katherine D. Harris

  By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott’s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann’s exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with Forget Me Nots, Friendship’s Offerings, Keepsakes, and Literary Souvenirs. By wrapping literature, poetry, and art into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the literary annual. In Forget Me Not, Katherine D. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the annual and its origins in other English, German, and French literary forms as well as its social influence on women, its redefinition of the feminine, and its effects on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century print culture. Harris adopts an interdisciplinary approach that uses textual and social contexts to explore a forum of subversive femininity, where warfare and the masculine hero were not celebrated.

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  Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films

  Elizabeth Haas, Terry Christensen, and Peter J. Haas

  The new edition of this influential work updates and expands the scope of the original, including more sustained analyses of individual films, from The Birth of a Nation to The Wolf of Wall Street. An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between American politics and popular films of all kinds—including comedy, science fiction, melodrama, and action-adventure—Projecting Politics offers original approaches to determining the political contours of films, and to connecting cinematic language to political messaging. A new chapter covering 2000 to 2013 updates the decade-by-decade look at the Washington-Hollywood nexus, with special areas of focus including the post-9/11 increase in political films, the rise of political war films, and films about the 2008 economic recession. The new edition also considers recent developments such as the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the controversy sparked by the film Zero Dark Thirty, newer generation actor-activists, and the effects of shifting industrial financing structures on political content. A new chapter addresses the resurgence of the disaster-apocalyptic film genre with particular attention paid to its themes of political nostalgia and the turn to global settings and audiences. Updated and expanded chapters on nonfiction film and advocacy documentaries, the politics of race and African-American film, and women and gender in political films round out this expansive, timely new work.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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