Author: Paul Segall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: deformation, volcano, earthquake
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 2010-01-24
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0691133026
ISBN-13: 9780691133027

Earthquake and Volcano Deformation is the first textbook to present the mechanical models of earthquake and volcanic processes, emphasizing earth-surface deformations that can be compared with observations from Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, Interferometric Radar (InSAR), and borehole strain- and tiltmeters. Paul Segall provides the physical and mathematical fundamentals for the models used to interpret deformation measurements near active faults and volcanic centers.Segall highlights analytical methods of continuum mechanics applied to problems of active crustal deformation. Topic

Author: Grant Segall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, portraits, oil, anointed, rockefeller, john
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-02-08
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0195121473
ISBN-13: 9780195121476

Author: Shlomi Segall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: justice, luck, health
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2009-09-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691140537
ISBN-13: 9780691140537

"Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls’s theory of distributive justice. Health, Luck, and Justice is the first attempt to systematically apply luck egalitarianism to the just distribution of health and health care. Challenging Rawlsian approaches to health policy, Shlomi Segall develops an account of just health that is sensitive to considerations of luck and personal responsibility, arguing that people’s health and the health care they recei

Authors:Adrian Segall, Shmuel Zaks,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lecture, proceedings, notes, computer, science, november, israel, international, algorithms, workshop, wdag, haifa, distributed
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 1992-11-19
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 3540561889
ISBN-13: 9783540561880

This volume presents the proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Distributed Algorithms (WDAG 92), held in Haifa, Israel, November 2-4, 1992. WDAG provides a forum for researchers and other parties interested in distributedalgorithms and their applications. The aim is to present recent research results, explore directions for future research, and identify common fundamental techniques that serve as building blocks in many distributed algorithms. Papers in the volume describe original results in all areas of distributed algorithms and their applications,

Authors:John W. Berry, Ype H. Poortinga, Marshall H. Segall,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: applications, research, psychology, cultural, cross
Number of Pages: 610
Published: 2002-09-09
List price: $48.99
ISBN-10: 0521646170
ISBN-13: 9780521646178

This second edition of the best selling textbook has been substantially revised to provide the student with the most comprehensive overview of cross-cultural psychology available in one volume. The team of internationally acclaimed authors have included the most up-to-date research in the field and two new chapters on language and on emotion. The book covers basic processes and theory and applications of cross-cultural psychology with respect to acculturation, organizational processes, communication, health and national development. The new format, glossary and textual features are designed to

Authors:Tony Buxton, Paul Chapman, Paul G Chapman, Paul Templ
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: performance, economic, britain
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1997-12-16
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 041514874X
ISBN-13: 9780415148740

This new and substantially revised edition of Britain’s Economic Performance provides a unique assessment of the current state of the supply-side of the economy. Written by a team of highly experienced, policy oriented applied economists, this volume will be a valuable source of reference, analysis and guidance for students and policy-makers.

Authors:Tony Buxton, Paul Chapman, Paul G Chapman, Paul Templ
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: performance, economic, britain
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1997-12-16
List price: $240.00
ISBN-10: 0415148731
ISBN-13: 9780415148733

This new edition provides a unique assessment of the current state of the supply-side of the economy and is written by a team of highly experienced, policy oriented applied economists