Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. More people are spending more time at home making more noise--yet they want quiet environments. This is the only book available that tells designers, planners, architects, and builders how to give homeowners and apartment-dwellers the quiet they crave. Simple enough to be used by the average do-it-yourselfer (it avoids complex mathematics), yet so complete it will satisfy the requirements of knowledgeable building professionals, this authoritative guide gives you one-stop answers on designing, specifying, testing, and retrofitting residences to meet the new environmental standards and satisfy our need for peace and quiet.

Noise Control Manual for Residential Buildings

Science & Math

Harris, David A.

Walls & Ceilings Magazine

Physics

McGraw=Hill

The Thrive in Bioscience guides are written to help students achieve exam success in all core areas of bioscience. Each title in the series encourages students to follow four simple steps to maximize learning potential: Step 1: Review the facts The revision guides are designed to make learning quick and effective: * Information is set out in bullet points, making content easy to take in. * Clear, uncluttered illustrations illuminate key points. * Key concept panels summarize essential learning points. Step 2: Check your understanding Students are encouraged to: * Complete the questions at the end of chapters and answer online multiple-choice questions to reinforce their learning. * Use the online flashcard app to master essential terms and phrases. Step 3: Take note of extra advice Revision tips--and hints for getting higher grades on exams--are presented throughout. Step 4: Go the extra mile Students can explore the suggestions for further reading to take their understanding one step further. Features of the Thrive in Bioscience Series: * Written by a group of highly experienced educators * Succinct writing style and clear, bulleted presentation * Carefully developed artwork that reinforces key points * Extensive in-text pedagogy--including review questions--that supports active learning * Companion website resources--including interactive flashcards and multiple-choice review questions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Titles in the series: Thrive in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by Lynne Cox, David Harris, and Catherine Pears ISBN 9780199645480 Thrive in Cell Biology by Qiuyu Wang, Chris Smith, and Emma Davis ISBN 9780199697328 Thrive in Ecology and Evolution by Alan Beeby and Ralph Beeby ISBN 9780199644056 Thrive in Genetics by Alison Thomas ISBN 9780199694624

Thrive in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Thrive In Bioscience Revision Guides)

Cox, Lynne S.

Pears, Catherine J.

Biological Sciences

Oxford University Press

With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science—it rejects it instead, resisting it vigorously. The question at the heart of this book is why.
 »» Eyewitness identifications procedures using simultaneous lineups—showing the witness six persons together,as police have traditionally done—produces a significant number of incorrect identifications.
 »» Interrogations that include threats of harsh penalties and untruths about the existence of evidence proving the suspect’s guilt significantly increase the prospect of an innocent person confessing falsely.
 »» Fingerprint matching does not use probability calculations based on collected and standardized data to generate conclusions, but rather human interpretation and judgment.Examiners generally claim a zero rate of error – an untenable claim in the face of publicly known errors by the best examiners in the U.S.
 Failed Evidence explores the real reasons that police and prosecutors resist scientific change, and it lays out a concrete plan to bring law enforcement into the scientific present. Written in a crisp and engaging style, free of legal and scientific jargon, Failed Evidence will explain to police and prosecutors, political leaders and policy makers, as well as other experts and anyone else who cares about how law enforcement does its job, where we should go from here. Because only if we understand why law enforcement resists science will we be able to break through this resistance and convince police and prosecutors to rely on the best that science has to offer. Justice demands no less.
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Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

NYU Press

This book is formidable work of philosophical synthesis. By introducing dialectical argumentation, it casts the problematic of analogous being in a new light. In the process it illuminates the main issues that arise in classical philosophy. The examination of the Pre-Socratics is especially important as introducing cosmological categories. These are taken up in a dialectical sequence that culminates in Kepler's Laws. The result is a metaphysical standpoint beyond mechanism. The physical world is understood not as a system of external relations but as an organic totality, self-determining and free.

The Manifestation of Analogous Being in the Dialectic of the Space-Time Continuum: A Philosophical Study in Freedom (American University Studies)

Philosophy

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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The Jokes of Oppression: The Humor of Soviet Jews

Humor & Entertainment

Rabinovich, Izrail

Humor

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Over 190 separate selected speeches and writings from 1979-1999 from an American Jewish activist and the executive director of the American Jewish Committee.

In the Trenches: Selected Speeches and Writings of an American Jewish Activist, 1979-1999

Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc

In the Trenches: Selected Speeches and Writings of an American Jewish Activist 2000-2001

In the Trenches: Selected Speeches and Writings of an American Jewish Activist 2000-2001 (2)

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

This collection of letters, speeches, articles, and testimony of a perceptive and articulate Jewish communal leader provides insight into the tumultuous events of 2000-01. Against the background of Palestinian violence directed at the Israeli populace, anti-Semitism reinvigorated in Durban and in Western Europe, and America under terrorist attack, David Harris's engaging and prescient commentary assesses both the dangers and the possibilities. This material both records the development of events during a critical period and offers a vision of how to move forward.

In the Trenches: Selected Speeches and Writings of an American Jewish Activist: 2002-2003 (3)

History

World

In the Trenches: Selected Speeches and Writings of an American Jewish Activist

Ktav Publishing House, Inc.

Excessive noise levels are generally acknowledged to have adverse effects on our environment. Studies indicate that excessive noise levels can cause fatigue in exposed individuals, lower efficiency and productivity, impaired speech communication, and hearing loss. Excessive noise is almost everywhere today - in the office, in schools, hospitals and other institutional facilities, in all classes of public buildings, and in our factories. INDUSTRIAL NOISE High noise levels in factories can make speech communication in the plant difficult and at times impossible. Foremen are often unable to hear warning shouts from co-workers. The problem of hearing loss due to excessive noise exposure is of particular concern to industry, and to the federal government. In the early 1970s, the United States Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) which sets criteria for health hazards and established limits for noise exposure of industrial workers. The OSHA Noise Standard was amended in 1982 to require audiometric testing of all employees exposed to noise levels of 85 dB or above for eight hours. A NOISE IN COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDINGS While noise levels in offices, stores, schools, and other commercial and institutional buildings seldom reach those encountered in many industrial environments, they often reach levels which are distracting to the occupants of such buildings. Impairment of speech communica tion among workers, or inversely the lack of speech privacy, are both deterrents to effiCiency and productivity and are detrimental to the occupants' comfort and sense of well-being.

Noise Control Manual: Guidelines for Problem-Solving in the Industrial / Commercial Acoustical Environment

Earth Sciences

Springer

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