Authors:Joseph Glaz, Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Sylvan Wallenstein
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: statistics, technology, industry, methods, scan, applications
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2009-05-28
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0817647481
ISBN-13: 9780817647483

Scan statistics is currently one of the most active and important areas of research in applied probability and statistics, having applications to a wide variety of fields: archaeology, astronomy, bioinformatics, biosurveillance, molecular biology, genetics, computer science, electrical engineering, geography, material sciences, physics, reconnaissance, reliability and quality control, telecommunication, and epidemiology. Filling a gap in the literature, this self-contained volume brings together a collection of selected chapters illustrating the depth and diversity of theory, methods and appl

Author: Peter Wallenstein
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: law, american, history, marriage, race, love, wife, court
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0312294743
ISBN-13: 9780312294748

The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller’s detail with a historian’s analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of how individual states had the power to regulate one of the most private aspects of life: marriage.

Author: Rob Sylvan
Publisher: For Dummies
Keywords: dummies, lightroom, photoshop
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-09-09
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 047034539X
ISBN-13: 9780470345399

Author: Sylvan Barnet
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: art, writing, guide, short
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-01-18
List price: $50.40
ISBN-10: 0136138551
ISBN-13: 9780136138556

Key Benefit: A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Eighth Edition, the best-selling book of its kind, equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and prepares them with the tools they need to present their ideas in effective writing. Key Topics:This concise yet thorough guide to “seeing and saying” addresses a wealth of fundamental matters, such as distinguishing between description and analysis, writing a comparison, using peer review, documenting sources, and editing the final essay. Market: This book is a perfect complement

Author: Dianne Sylvan
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Keywords: sacred
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0738707619
ISBN-13: 9780738707617

When you look in the mirror, do you see a Goddess? For anyone who’s experienced a "fat day" or wished a doctor could make them younger, Wiccan Dianne Sylvan speaks candidly about overcoming body hatred and offers a spiritual path back to Divine femininity. Sharing her own struggles with poor body image and self-acceptance, Sylvan explores how the impossible standard of female beauty has developed and endured. Emphasizing the Mother, the Healer, the Lover, and other archetypes of one’s relationship with the sacred body, the author provides a uniquely Wiccan approach to achie

Author: Sylvan Learning
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
Keywords: workbooks, language, arts, sylvan, success, grade, vocabulary, third
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0375430024
ISBN-13: 9780375430022

Solid vocabulary knowledge not only prepares third-graders for academic success–it makes them stronger readers. The teacher-reviewed, curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead.Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you’ll find inside are:TIC-TAC-TOEHelps kids distinguish between synonyms and antonyms. Find three synonyms or antonyms in a row, and win!COMBO MAMBOTeaches prefi xes and suffi xes by having kids create all the words they can by adding prefi xes and suffixes to roots.I

Author: Sylvan Learning
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
Keywords: workbooks, language, arts, sylvan, success, grade, reading, comprehension, fifth
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0375430105
ISBN-13: 9780375430107

Good reading skills are essential not only for fifth-grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. The teacher-reviewed, curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it!WHAT’S THE WORDIntroducing challenging words in short stories helps kids learn vocabulary in context.READ BETWEEN THE LINESDo-it-yourself essays on parties, cell phones, and more teach kids to grasp inferences within a story.STOP & GO STORYIllustrations and short stories featuring surfers, detec