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Radar Equations for Modern Radar
Artech House 2012; US$ 149.00Based on the classic Radar Range-Performance Analysis from 1980, this practical volume extends that work to ensure applicability of radar equations to the design and analysis of modern radars. This unique book helps you identify what information on the radar and its environment is needed to predict detection range. Moreover, it provides equations and... more...
Local Literacies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Britain, the authors analyze how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. This exploration provides a description of literacy at one point in time, and also reveals the nature and significance of communication... more...
Anthropology of Writing
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00We live in a textually-mediated world where writing is central to society, its cultural practices and institutions. Writing has been the subject of much research but it is usually highly visible and valued texts that are studied -- the work of novelists, poets and scholars. The studies included in this book examine every day acts of writing... more...
Letter Writing as a Social Practice
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 158.00This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the... more...
Beyond Communities of Practice
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00This book consists of a set of studies exploring the concept of 'communities of practice'. more...
Local Literacies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people?s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail examining how they use local media, their participation... more...
Language Online
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95In Language Online, David Barton and Carmen Lee investigate the impact of the online world on the study of language. The effects of language use in the digital world can be seen in every aspect of language study, and new ways of researching the field are needed. In this book the authors look at language online from a variety of perspectives,... more...
Situated Literacies
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 55.95Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices. Detailed ethnographic studies of a wide variety of specific situations, all... more...
Expanding the Criminological Imagination
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95This book brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action. Its main aim is to establish the conceptual and practical foundations for a new generation of studies in criminology,... more...
Monopulse Principles and Techniques
Artech House 2011; US$ 109.00Monopulse is a type of radar that sends additional information in the signal in order to avoid problems caused by rapid changes in signal strength. Monopulse is resistant to jamming which is one of the main reasons it is used in most radar systems today. This updated and expanded edition of an Artech House classic offers you a current and comprehensive... more...









