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Anarchism   Overview History Theory in Depth Theory in Action Analysis and Critical Response Topics for Fur... Study Pack: 3 Summaries, 9 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 362 pages (108,444 words) in 13 products

Autism   Communicating Shortly after concluding class on Wednesday morning, I was searching on the internet for recent news articles relating to psychology. As I was scanning through the lists, I came across an interesting article that caught my ... Study Pack: 5 Summaries, 5 Essays About 75 pages (22,574 words) in 10 products

Albedo The reflecting power of a surface, expressed as a ratio of reflected radiation to incident or incoming radiation; it is sometimes expressed as a percentage. Albedo is also called the "reflection coefficient" and derives fro... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 9 pages (2,698 words) in 2 products

Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (Arabic: أبو ظبي ʼAbū Ẓabī, literally "Father of Gazelle") is the capital and second largest city of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital and largest city of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, which is the largest of... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 9 pages (2,743 words) in 1 product

A The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a[1] (pronounced /eɪ/), plural aes, as, or a's.[2]... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (1,003 words) in 1 product

Alabama The State of Alabama (IPA: /ˌæləˈbæmə/), is located in the southern region of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 26 pages (7,740 words) in 1 product

Achilles (Latin, Achilles) Hero of Greek legend. The young Achilleus had been dipped by his mother → Thetis in the water of the Styx to make him invulnerable, but the water did not touch the heel by which she held him (hence ‘Achilles&#... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Essay About 23 pages (6,758 words) in 2 products

Aristotle   Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. at Stagira, a small coastal town in northern Greece. His father, Nicomachus, was a physician to the Macedonian ruler Amyntas II. His mother was Phaestis, a descendant of a family from Chalcis who had moved th... Study Pack: 9 Biographies, 14 Summaries, 2 Essays, 20 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 777 pages (233,043 words) in 46 products

Actrius Actrius (Actresses) is a 1996 film directed by Ventura Pons. In the film, there are no male actors and the four leading actresses dubbed themselves in the Castillian version.... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (136 words) in 1 product

Animalia (book) Animalia is an alphabet book and contains twenty six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each illustration features an animal from the animal kingdom (A is for alligator, B is for butterfly, etc). The illustrations contain d... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (152 words) in 1 product

International Atomic Time International Atomic Time (TAI, from the French name Temps Atomique International) is a high-precision atomic time standard that tracks proper time on Earth's geoid. It is the principal realisation of Terrestrial Time, and the basis for Coo... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,118 words) in 1 product

Altruism   Altruism, defined as an action that benefits the receiver but comes at some cost to the performer, is one of the four types of social interactions that can occur between animals of the same species. Figure 1 summarizes these four interacti... Study Pack: 8 Summaries About 64 pages (19,154 words) in 8 products

Ang Lee   "Ang Lee astonishes," exclaimed film critic Stanley Kauffmann in a New Republic review of the Taiwanese-born director's 2000 hit, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. "The still-early career of this director would be incredible except the films... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 27 pages (8,145 words) in 4 products

Ayn Rand   Ayn Rand's novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) develop her philosophy of objectivism, which challenged conventional values by emphasizing laissez-faire capitalism, individualism, and opposition to altruism. After her n... Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 3 Summaries, 2 Essays, 4 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 190 pages (57,002 words) in 15 products

Alain Connes 1947- French mathematician who was awarded a Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to theories on operator algebras (including the classification and structure theorem of type III factors), C*-algebras, and the classifications of inje... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 2 pages (549 words) in 2 products

Allan Dwan Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his family moved to the United States wh... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (641 words) in 1 product

Economy of Algeria Current GDP per capita grew 40% in the Sixties reaching a peak growth of 538% in the Seventies. But this proved unsustainable and growth collapsed to a paltry 9.7% in the turbulent Eighties. Failure of timely reforms by successive governmen... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,763 words) in 1 product

Algeria   My country report is on the country Algeria. Algeria is located in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia, or 28 00 N, 3 00 E. The area is mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discon... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 2 Essays About 100 pages (29,947 words) in 6 products

Characters in Atlas Shrugged Characters in Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Balph Eubank Called "the literary leader of the age", despite the fact that he is incapable o... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 30 pages (8,944 words) in 1 product

Agricultural science   During the nineteenth century the agricultural sciences flourished in the Western world. When the century began there was not one person who devoted a career to the scientific investigation of agriculture; by the century's end, how... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 21 pages (6,277 words) in 4 products

Alchemy   The vocable alchemia (or some alternate form such as ars chemica) appears in the West from the twelfth century onward in reference to the medieval quest for a means of transmuting base metals into gold, for a universal cure, and for the &#... Study Pack: 8 Summaries, 1 Quotes About 101 pages (30,247 words) in 9 products

Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is a function on a properly equipped aircraft or surface vehicle that periodically broadcasts its state vector (horizontal and vertical position, horizontal and vertical velocity) and other... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 12 pages (3,730 words) in 1 product

Austria   Republic of Austria Republik Österreich CAPITAL: Vienna (Wien) FLAG: The flag consists of a white horizontal stripe between two red stripes. ANTHEM: Land der Berge, Land am Ströme (Land of Mountains, Land on the River). MONET... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 100 pages (30,130 words) in 4 products

American Samoa   The Samoan archipelago consists of 15 inhabited islands in the South Pacific that are located approximately 14 degrees south latitude and between 171 and 173 degrees west longitude. The archipelago is a politically divided one. The easter... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 34 pages (10,270 words) in 2 products

Alien Alien may refer to: if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Science and engineering Alien (biology) Extraterrestrial life, in scientific context. Extraterrestrial life in popular cu... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (411 words) in 1 product

Astronomer An astronomer is an individual who studies the universe primarily using telescopes. Astronomers rely on both observations of celestial objects, including planets, stars, and galaxies, and physical theories to better understand how these ob... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 6 pages (1,647 words) in 3 products

Amoeboid Amoeboids are cells that move or feed by means of temporary projections, called pseudopods (false feet). They have appeared in a number of different groups. Some cells in multicellular animals may be amoeboid, for instance human white blood... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (679 words) in 1 product

ASCII The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, or ASCII for short, is a computer code that uses 128 different encoding combinations of a group of seven bits, or pieces of information, to represent a number of alphanumeric features... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 17 pages (5,090 words) in 2 products

America Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world offers homage to them. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a mo... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Quotes About 4 pages (1,309 words) in 2 products

Austin Austin may refer to: Geographical locations In the United States: Austin, Texas, the state capital of Texas Austin, Arkansas Austin, Colorado Austin, Chicago, in Illinois Austin, Indiana Austin, Minnesota Austin, Nevada Austin, Oregon In Ca... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (238 words) in 1 product

Animation   Animation is the art by which two-dimensional drawings or inanimate objects are turned into moving visual representations of three-dimensional (3-D) life. Computer animation uses computer hardware and software to make the animation process... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 32 pages (9,710 words) in 4 products

Apollo An Etruscan god borrowed from the Greek pantheon (→ Apollon), latterly specified as god of thunder and lightning. He is pictured as naked except for a mantle which covers part of his body; on his head is a wreath of laurel and he hol... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 23 pages (6,832 words) in 1 product

Andre Agassi   Andre Agassi is perhaps the most popular tennis player in the United States. His television ads for Nike sportswear and Cannon cameras have been very successful and fans love his style, both on and off the court. For many years Agassi was ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 2 Summaries, 1 Essay, 1 Quotes About 48 pages (14,283 words) in 5 products

Austro-Asiatic languages The Austroasiatic family, the principal linguistic substrate of mainland Southeast Asian languages, exists today as a patchwork of more than a hundred languages spread across an area that ranges from central India to Vietnam and from Yunna... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 7 pages (2,054 words) in 2 products

Afro-Asiatic languages Language branch consisting of approx. 250 languages with about 175 million speakers in North Africa and southwest Asia which can be grouped into five or possibly six language families (Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Semitic, Chadic, and possi... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,400 words) in 1 product

Andorra   Principality of Andorra Principat d'Andorra CAPITAL: Andorra la Vella FLAG: The national flag is a tricolor of blue, yellow, and red vertical stripes. The yellow stripe bears the coat of arms. ANTHEM: The Himne Andorra begins ... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 32 pages (9,645 words) in 3 products

Arithmetic mean The arithmetic mean, or as it is sometimes referred to, the average of a data set, is the sum of all data values divided by the number of items in the set. A mean is considered to be a measure of central tendency--it describes a "typical" ... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 5 pages (1,523 words) in 2 products

American Football Conference The American Football Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL). The AFC was created after the NFL merged with the American Football League (AFL) in early 1970. The NFL's Cleveland Browns, Pittsbur... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (948 words) in 1 product

Alaska by James Michener   The reason the Titanic's tragic collision on April 14, 1912 was so devastating was because the iceberg the ship hit appeared small, but was in fact extremely large. This is a property icebergs share: only about ten percent of the entire s... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 3 Essays, 3 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 63 pages (18,735 words) in 8 products

Architecture (disambiguation) Architecture is the art and science of design and structure. Architecture may also refer to:... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (168 words) in 1 product

Aldous Huxley   The novels, short stories, and essays of the English author Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) explore crucial questions of science, religion, and philosophy. Aldous Huxley was born into a family of intellectual prominence. His father, Leon... Study Pack: 7 Biographies, 2 Summaries, 1 Essay, 22 Criticisms, 1 Quotes About 305 pages (91,620 words) in 33 products

Ada ADA is a three-letter acronym that may refer to: Aerolineas de Antioquia - A Colombian Airline Aeronautical Development Agency of India's Ministry of Defence Adangme language as its ISO 639 code Adenosine deaminase Ada (programming language... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (347 words) in 1 product

Aberdeen (disambiguation) Aberdeen is a city in Scotland. It may also refer to:... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (335 words) in 1 product

Algae   Scientists' concepts of which organisms should be termed algae (alga, singular; algae, plural; algal, adjective) have changed radically over the past two centuries. The term algae originally referred to almost all aquatic, photosynt... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 28 pages (8,423 words) in 3 products

Analysis of variance   Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANACOVA) are statistical techniques most suited for the analysis of data collected using experimental methods. As a result, they have been used more frequently in the fields of psych... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 23 pages (6,861 words) in 2 products

Alkane The alkanes are the hydrocarbons where all of the carbons are bonded to the other carbon atoms by single bonds. Alkanes may exist in a chain structure (either straight or branched) or in a ring structure. Alkanes that are acyclic (not in a... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 26 pages (7,657 words) in 2 products

Appeal A request by the losing party in a lawsuit that the judgment be reviewed by a higher court. Request to a higher court to change the decision of a trial court. Usually appeals are made and decided on FIGURE A.4 Aortic stenosis. (Courtesy of... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 10 pages (2,923 words) in 1 product

Answer A contextually specified type of statement: namely, the desired type of response to a question. A distinction is drawn between syntactically independent (What time is it?—It’s four o’clock) and dependent answers, and synt... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (528 words) in 1 product

Arraignment In a criminal case, the proceeding in which an accused person is brought before a judge to hear the charges filed against him or her and to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. Sometimes called preliminary hearing or initial appearance.... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (415 words) in 1 product

America the Beautiful "America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song.... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,908 words) in 1 product