An evocative blend of history and nature writing that tells the story of Yellowstone’s evolving significance in American culture through the stories of ten iconic figuresYellowstone is America’s premier national park. Today Yellowstone is often a byword for conservation, natural beauty, and a way for everyone to enjoy the great outdoors. But it was not always this way. Wonderlandscape presents a new perspective on Yellowstone, the emotions that various natural wonders and ...

At the end of the nineteenth century, in the small town of Trinity, Kansas, on the edge of the West, fourteen-year-old Eli is newly orphaned. With his mother's funeral barely concluded, the judgmental Reverend Mr. Ellis and his congregation of Trinitarians turn him out of his home. But Eli quickly discovers that he is not all alone in the world as a group of kind townspeople help him find a new home and build a prospering business, becoming not just his friends but his "sometimes" family. ...

This book provides definitions and mathematical derivations of fundamental relationships of tensor analysis encountered in nonlinear continuum mechanics and continuum physics, with a focus on finite deformation kinematics and classical differential geometry. Of particular interest are anholonomic aspects arising from a multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient into two terms, neither of which in isolation necessarily obeys the integrability conditions satisfied by the gradie...

The stories in John J. Clayton's newest collection are luminous, expressing a struggle to see growth and meaning in life as much as possible. Nearly all focus on family, and the characters, most of them Jewish, grapple with questions of living, dying, loving, and worshipping. Clayton has published several novels, including Mitzvah Man (TTUP, 2011), but he is best known for his critically-acclaimed short fiction, which has been included in O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories...

The internalism-externalism debate is one of the oldest debates in epistemology. Internalists assert that the justification of our beliefs can only depend on facts internal to us, while externalists insist that justification can depend on additional, for example environmental, factors. In this book Clayton Littlejohn proposes and defends a new strategy for resolving this debate. Focussing on the connections between practical and theoretical reason, he explores the question of whether the p...

Develop applications for the real world with a thorough software testing approachKey FeaturesDevelop a thorough understanding of TDD and how it can help you develop simpler applications with no defects using C\# and JavaScriptAdapt to the mindset of writing tests before code by incorporating business goals, code manageability, and other factorsMake all your software units and modules pass tests by analyzing failed tests and refactoring code as ...

Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit organizations, business, and citizens all have roles in the public sphere. In so doing, they demonstrate th...

What does love mean to you? How many different ways do you use the word? Since love has such a broad range of meanings, it can be defined in many different ways. The love for God can be different than love for family, a friend, or a spouse. In Conversations with Love we express in poetic dialog the four Greek forms of love, as well as Feast, a form we've added. Storge, motherly love of offspring and family. Phileo, brotherly friendship love. Eros, passionate, sensual, romantic love. Agape,...

The Multiphase Flow Handbook, Second Edition is a thoroughly updated and reorganized revision of the late Clayton Crowe’s work, and provides a detailed look at the basic concepts and the wide range of applications in this important area of thermal/fluids engineering. Revised by the new editors, Efstathios E. (Stathis) Michaelides and John D. Schwarzkopf, the new Second Edition begins with two chapters covering fundamental concepts and methods that pertain to all the types ...

Exploring the rich and intricate tapestry of self-exploration, 'The Path to Becoming – 10 Classic Search for Identity Fiction' offers readers a profound journey through narratives that capture the essence of personal evolution and self-discovery. This anthology comprises a stunning array of literary forms, from intricate novels to nuanced short stories, all unified by the characters' quests to uncover their true selves amid societal expectations and personal challenges. These works, each a...

Today's journalists need a wide range of knowledge, technical skills, and digital savvy. In this innovative book, experts on digital journalism share their perspectives on what digital journalism is, where it came from, and where it may be going. Addressing some of the most important issues in new media and journalism, authors take on history, convergence, ethics, online media and politics, alternative digital sources of information, and cutting-edge technology, from multimedia web sites a...

John Muir and Gifford Pinchot have often been seen as the embodiment of conflicting environmental philosophies. Muir, the preservationist and co-founder of the Sierra Club. Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service advocating sustainability in timber harvests, instituted conservation. The idealistic Muir saw nature as something special and separate; the pragmatic Pinchot accepted that people used the products of nature. The environmental movement’s original sin, and the root of m...