English | 2022 | ISBN: 1469668254 | 257 pages | True PDF EPUB | 10.4 MB The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons—people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers—established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites. English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119714443 | 263 pages | True EPUB | 1.3 MB A timely and incisive exploration of disinformation and its impact in the Global South English | 2021 | ISBN: 0866473300 | 233 pages | True PDF EPUB | 19.12 MB The activities in this book follow and build upon the strategic conversation skills of the Kehes' book, Conversation Strategies. Discussion Strategies develops discussion skills at high levels of communicative interaction, especially communication in academic settings. Students, in step-by-step procedures, are given extensive practice in a variety of strategies for leading and participating in a discussion. Discussion Strategies provides focused practice with the following discussion techniques: using rejoinders, asking follow-up questions, seeking and giving clarification, using comprehension checks, answering with details, soliciting more details from others, interrupting others during a discussion, recounting something they have heard, volunteering an answer, helping the leader of a discussion, expressing an opinion, referring to a source when giving an opinion, and leading a discussion. Each unit builds on and recycles the previous units. The first twenty-eight units provide controlled practice of the discussion and are for pair groups or triads. Units 29-38 give the students an opportunity to use their new strategies in less structured discussions; they involve large groups or the whole class in open discussion of the articles provided.
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367749831 | 183 pages | True PDF EPUB | 13.19 MB Discrete stochastic models are tools that allow us to understand, control, and optimize engineering systems and processes. This book provides real-life examples and illustrations of models in reliability engineering and statistical quality control and establishes a connection between the theoretical framework and their engineering applications. This book describes discrete stochastic models along with real-life examples and explores not only well-known models, but also comparatively lesser-known ones. It includes definitions, concepts, and methods with a clear understanding of their use in reliability engineering and statistical quality control fields. Also covered are the recent advances and established connections between the theoretical framework of discrete stochastic models and their engineering applications. This book is an ideal reference for researchers in academia and graduate students working in the fields of operations research, reliability engineering, quality control, and probability and statistics. English | 2022 | ISBN: 1493060708 | 335 pages | True EPUB | 57.33 MB From beginners to thru-hikers, Discovering the Appalachian Trail has something for anyone that wants a connection with the nation's longest marked footpath at approximately 2,181 miles. Starting at Springer Mountain in Georgia and finishing far to the north in Maine's Mount Katahdin, the A.T. crosses 14 states, 6 national parks, and 8 national forests. Taking on the A.T. is a pilgrimage because of both its beauty and accessibility. Let Joshua Niven and Amber Adams guide you across the best trails that the Appalachian Trail has to offer. Complete with full-color photography, you'll also have hikes suited to every ability, mile-by-mile directional cues, sidebars, and maps. English | 2022 | ISBN: 0136677649 | 568 pages | True PDF | 9.73 MB Write Powerful, Modern C++ Code for Scientific, Engineering, and Embedded Applications English | 2022 | ISBN: 1644115239 | 295 pages | True EPUB | 2.06 MB • Shares practices to bring you back in touch with the energy of your inner child, reconnect your soul with its mission, explore your soul contracts, and call on the Angels to support you English | 2022 | ISBN: 1524870595 | 102 pages | True EPUB | 917.48 KB Lockdowns, Zoom meetings, and reduced physical contact have made us more dependent on the internet than ever before—and now we want to log off. English | 2022 | ISBN: 0262543656 | 212 pages | True EPUB | 3.57 MB An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. English | 2022 | ISBN: 103228708X | 273 pages | True PDF | 17.49 MB This book informs students about the practice of modern diplomacy while simultaneously inviting them to critically reflect on it. |