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Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman

• ISBN:
• 0262681064

Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman were born in different countries, in different generations--Cahun in France in 1894, Deren in Russia in 1917, and Sherman in the United States in 1954. Yet they share a deeply theatrical obsession that shatters any notion of a unified self. All three try out identities from different social classes and geographic environments, extend their temporal range into the past and future, and transform...

Self Continuity: Individual and Collective Perspectives

• ISBN:
• 080585701X

This volume is the first to bring together the fast-growing research on self-continuity from multiple perspectives within and beyond social psychology. The book covers individual and collective aspects of self-continuity, while a final section explores the relationship between these two forms. Topics include environmental and cultural influences on self-continuity; the interplay of autobiographical memory and personal self-continuity; the...

Principles of Molecular Pathology

• ISBN:
• 1588290859
• Authors:
• Anthony A. Killeen

Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Offers a comprehensive and concise introduction to molecular pathology encompassing both applied and theoretical knowledge. Presents analytical principles and molecular principles underlying inherited diseases and genetically based cancers For residents, pathologists, and researchers.

Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion (Suny Series in Dream Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0791457877

Anthropological perspectives on dreams around the world.

The Paradox of Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition

• ISBN:
• 0195126904
• Authors:
• David Carr

Challenging prevailing interpretations of the development of modern philosophy, this book proposes a reinterpretation of the transcendental tradition, as represented primarily by Kant and Husserl, and counters Heidegger's influential reading of these philosophers. Author David Carr defends their subtle and complex transcendental investigations of the self and the life of subjectivity, and seeks to revive an understanding of what Husserl calls...

Postfoundational Phenomenology: Husserlian Reflections on Presence and Embodiment

• ISBN:
• 0271020474
• Authors:
• James Richard Mensch

This book offers a fresh look at Edmund Husserl’s philosophy as a nonfoundational approach to understanding the self as an embodied presence. Contrary to the conventional view of Husserl as carrying on the Cartesian tradition of seeking a trustworthy foundation for knowledge in the "pure" observations of a disembodied ego, James Mensch introduces us to the Husserl who, anticipating the later investigations of Merleau-Ponty, explored how the...

Picturing the Self: Changing Views of the Subject in Visual Culture

• ISBN:
• 1850434123
• Authors:
• Gen Doy

Ideas of selfhood, from Descartes to postmodern notions of the fragmented and de-centred self, have been crucial to the visual arts. Gen Doy explores this relationship, primarily in relation to contemporary art but also going back to the early modern period and Holbein's Ambassadors. She argues that the importance of subjectivity for art goes far beyond self-portraits, exploring the self and identity--both the artist's and the viewer's--and...

Downshifting: How to Work Less and Enjoy Life More

• ISBN:
• 1576751163
• Authors:
• John D. Drake

oFrom the founder and former CEO of Drake Beam & Associates (now Drake Bean Morin, Inc.) the world’s largest human resources consulting firm o Offers clear, step-by-step guidance on how to cut back on work—including how to convince employers to agree to downshifting o Details a wide range of practical downshifting options o Real-life stories from successful downshifters provide inspiration and encouragement This practical how-to book will...

Woman's Relationship with Herself: Gender, Foucault and Therapy (Women and Psychology)

• ISBN:
• 0415331277
• Authors:
• Helen O'Grady

Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of self-surveillance and the broader mechanisms of social control, arguing that these negative practices prevent women from enjoying a satisfying,...

Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar (Practice Makes Perfect Series)

• ISBN:
• 0071482849
• Authors:
• Annie Heminway

Polish your French grammar skills and communicate with more savoir-faire The only way to build your confidence in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. From present tense of regular verbs to direct object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all aspects of French grammar that you need to master. Focusing on the practical aspects of French as it's really spoken, each unit of Practice Makes Perfect: Complete...

Schaum's Outline of French Grammar, 5ed (Schaum's Outline Series)

• ISBN:
• 0071546057
• Authors:
• Mary Crocker

Schaum's Outline of French Grammar delivers a comprehensive and efficient review of French grammar, with exercises, quick drills, and helpful verb charts. The fifth edition includes the latest usages and carefully explains challenging grammatical topics.

Discover the Power Within You: A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within

• ISBN:
• 0062501151
• Authors:
• Eric Butterworth

In this classic work, Eric Butterworth sees the divine within us all to be a hidden and untapped resource of limitless abundance. Exploring this "depth potential," Butterworth outlines ways in which we can release the power locked within us and let our "light shine." Butterworth demonstrates that the existence of this divine dimension in each individual is the greatest discovery of all time. He explains the universality of such vital subjects...

Ten Stupid Things Couples Do to Mess Up Their Relationships

• ISBN:
• 0060512601
• Authors:
• Laura C. Schlessinger

1. Stupid Secrets Withholding important information for fear of rejection 2. Stupid Egotism Asking not what you can do for the relationship but only what the relationship can do for you 3. Stupid Pettiness Making a big deal out of the small stuff 4. Stupid Power Always trying to be in control 5. Stupid Priorities Consuming all your time and energies with work, hobbies, errands, and chores instead of focusing on your relationship 6. Stupid...

Intangible Management: Tools for Solving the Accounting and Management Crisis

• ISBN:
• 0126633517
• Authors:
• Ken Standfield

For the recorded history of management, the world has managed value creation according to what can be seen, touched and proven. In today's knowledge-based economy, value creation is derived primarily from how well firms manage intangibles (knowledge, service, expectations, response time, innovation, change management, etc). The large capital outlays that signified the manufacturing economy are no longer required. In fact, such 'tangibles' now...

Computable Economics (Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0198295278
• Authors:
• Kumaraswamy Velupillai

In the field of economic analysis, computability in the formation of economic hypotheses is seen as the way forward. In this book, Professor Velupillai implements a theoretical research program along these lines. Choice theory, learning rational expectations equlibria, the persistence of adaptive behavior, arithmetical games, aspects of production theory, and economic dynamics are given recursion theoretic (i.e. computable) interpretations.

Parasitism and Ecosystems

• ISBN:
• 0198529872

For several years there has been a growing interest in understanding the dynamics of parasites in ecosystems, as well as the diversity of ways in which they influence ecosystem functioning through their effects on host populations and communities. Ecologists, epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and other scientists are increasingly coming to realise that parasites must be taken into account when studying ecosystems. Parasitism and...

Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies

• ISBN:
• 0198742010
• Authors:
• Gosta Esping-Andersen

Gosta Esping-Andersen, Europe's leading analyst of the welfare state, presents a provocative examination of postindustrial economies at the end of the twentieth century. This book takes a second look at the driving forces of economic transformation in a more sociological and institutional way. As a result, what stands out is postindustrial diversity, not convergence.

The Natural Origins of Economics

• ISBN:
• 0226735702
• Authors:
• Margaret Schabas

References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common perception of the economy, and discourses on money, trade, and commerce treated economic phenomena as properties of physical nature. Only in the early nineteenth century did economists begin to posit and identify the economy as a distinct object,...

Powerful Finance and Innovation Trends in a High-Risk Economy

• ISBN:
• 0230553591

In the 1970s, the large size of enterprises was one of the symbols of the mass production system's rigidity. The second symbol was state interventionism--blamed for the economic difficulties of the period: growing unemployment and upsurge of inflation. Globalisation is characterised by the predominance of deregulated finance ("big finance") over economic activities. Between free enterprise capitalism and monopoly capitalism stands finance-based...

Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph E. Stiglitz

• ISBN:
• 0262012057

Throughout Joseph Stiglitz's long and distinguished career in economics, the focus has been on the real world, with all of its imperfections. His 2001 Nobel Prize recognized his pioneering research in imperfect information; his work in other areas, including macroeconomics, public economics, and development economics, has been just as influential. This volume, a collection of essays written to mark Stiglitz's sixtieth birthday, reflects the...

Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications (CESifo Seminar Series)

• ISBN:
• 0262090376

In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and substantial regulatory change. Because of their spectacular but often puzzling outcomes, these spectrum auctions...

Econometrics, Vol. 3: Economic Growth in the Information Age

• ISBN:
• 0262100940
• Authors:
• Dale W. Jorgenson

The relentless decline in the prices of information technology (IT) has steadily enhanced the role of IT investment as a source of economic growth in the United States. Productivity growth in IT-producing industries has gradually risen in importance, and a productivity revival has taken place in the rest of the economy. In this book Dale Jorgenson shows that IT provides the foundation for the resurgence of American economic growth. Information...

A Guide to Econometrics - 4th Edition

• ISBN:
• 0262112353
• Authors:
• Peter Kennedy

A Guide to Econometrics has established itself as a preferred text for teachers and students throughout the world. It provides an overview of the subject and an intuitive feel for its concepts and techniques without the notation and technical detail that characterize most econometrics textbooks. The fifth edition has two major additions, a chapter on panel data and an innovative chapter on applied econometrics. Existing chapters have been...

Generational Policy (Cairoli Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0262112833
• Authors:
• Laurence J. Kotlikoff

In these eight 2002 Cairoli Lectures, presented at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laurence Kotlikoff shows how generational policy works, how it is measured, and how much it matters. Kotlikoff discusses the incidence and measurement of generational policy, the relationship of generational policy to monetary policy, and the vacuity of deficits, taxes, and transfer payments as economic measures of fiscal policy....

Contracts in Trade and Transition: The Resurgence of Barter

• ISBN:
• 0262133997
• Authors:
• Dalia Marin, Monika Schnitzer

Difficulties in contract enforcement impede international transactions in the world economy and domestic transactions in transition economies. In Contracts in Trade and Transition , Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer explain how barter as an economic institution can facilitate contract enforcement across national borders in international trade and within borders in transition countries. The authors show that international countertrade--tying an...

Applied Computational Economics and Finance

• ISBN:
• 0262134209
• Authors:
• Mario J. Miranda, Paul L. Fackler

This book presents a variety of computational methods used to solve dynamic problems in economics and finance. It emphasizes practical numerical methods rather than mathematical proofs and focuses on techniques that apply directly to economic analyses. The examples are drawn from a wide range of subspecialties of economics and finance, with particular emphasis on problems in agricultural and resource economics, macroeconomics, and finance. The...

Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming

• ISBN:
• 0262140713
• Authors:
• William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer

Humanity is risking the health of the natural environment through a myriad of interventions, including the atmospheric emission of trace gases such as carbon dioxide, the use of ozone-depleting chemicals, the engineering of massive land-use changes, and the destruction of the habitats of many species. It is imperative that we learn to protect our common geophysical and biological resources. Although scientists have studied greenhouse warming for...

Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy (Urban and Industrial Environments)

• ISBN:
• 026257148X
• Authors:
• Kenneth Geiser

The products we purchase and use are assembled from a wide range of naturally occurring and manufactured materials. But too often we create hazards for the ecosystem and human health as we mine, process, distribute, use, and dispose of these materials. Until recently, most research has focused on the waste end of material cycles. This book argues that the safest and least costly point at which to avoid environmental damage is when materials are...

Student Solutions Manual for Mathematics for Economics - 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0262582015
• Authors:
• Michael Hoy, John Livernois, Chris McKenna, Ray Rees, Anthanassios Stengos

This text offers a presentation of the mathematics required to tackle problems in economic analysis. After a review of the fundamentals of sets, numbers, and functions, it covers limits and continuity, the calculus of functions of one variable, linear algebra, multivariate calculus, and dynamics.

Applied Computational Economics and Finance

• ISBN:
• 0262633094
• Authors:
• Mario J. Miranda, Paul L. Fackler

This book presents a variety of computational methods used to solve dynamic problems in economics and finance. It emphasizes practical numerical methods rather than mathematical proofs and focuses on techniques that apply directly to economic analyses. The examples are drawn from a wide range of subspecialties of economics and finance, with particular emphasis on problems in agricultural and resource economics, macroeconomics, and finance. The...

Economics

• ISBN:
• 0273681079
• Authors:
• Stephen Ison, Stuart Wall

Economics 4th edition is a concise introduction to the core principles of economics, aimed at students taking their first, and probably only, one semester course in Economics. These students may be taking a business related degree, or may be from other degree schemes in the university taking a service course in Introductory Economics. There is a balanced split between the micro and macro economics section and the use of case studies and numerous...

Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity

• ISBN:
• 0292712952
• Authors:
• Cynthia Becker

In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly coloured carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate jewellery. Their extraordinarily detailed arts are rich in cultural symbolism; they are always breathtakingly beautiful - and they are typically made by women. Like other Amazigh (Berber) groups (but in contrast to the Arab societies of North Africa), the...

"Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear

• ISBN:
• 029271341X
• Authors:
• Tim Jon Semmerling

The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries, particularly since the oil embargo of the 1970s and continuing through the Iranian hostage crisis, the first and second Gulf...

The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University (Focus on American History Series)

• ISBN:
• 0292714297

As the University of Texas at Austin celebrates its 125th anniversary, it can justly claim to be a "university of the first class," as mandated in the Texas Constitution. The university's faculty and student body include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur "genius award," and Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, as well as members of learned societies all over the world. UT's athletic programs are said to be the best...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)

• ISBN:
• 0313336997

The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the dicovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized...

The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide

• ISBN:
• 0313339961

The more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is a focus of intense interest today, as immigration, security, and environmental issues dominate the headlines. This is the first A-to-Z encyclopedia to overview the unique and vibrant elements that make up the borderlands. More than 150 essay entries provide students and general readers with a solid sense of the U.S.-Mexico border history, culture, and politics. Coverage runs the gamut from key...

Administrator's Guide to SQL Server 2005

• ISBN:
• 0321397975
• Authors:
• Buck Woody

"Buck Woody's new book will help new and experienced users alike in getting productive with SQL Server 2005 quickly. His special attention to security and performance make this an exceptional reference that is sure to remain relevant for some time." --Chip Andrews, CISSP, MCDBA, Director of Research and Development Special Ops Security, Inc. "SQL 2005 is the most exciting upgrade to come out of Redmond in years; this book will help you get up...

Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis: Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide

• ISBN:
• 0387288287

"Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis" aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines and policy fields.The work further develops methods for systematic comparative cases analysis in...

Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and applications (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series)

• ISBN:
• 0387848118

"Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and Applications" follows the book "Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling", published in this series in 2004, recognizing the critical role that schedules play in transportation systems. Conceived for the simulation of transit systems, in the last few years the schedule-based approach has been expanded and applied to operational planning of other transportation schedule services...

Psychology of Composition (Eisenstein Texts)

• ISBN:
• 041319650X
• Authors:
• Sergei M. Eisenstein, Alan Upchurch, Jay Leyda

Hollywood Economics: How extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry (Contemporary Politicaleconomy)

• ISBN:
• 0415312604
• Authors:
• Arthur De Vany

Movies expected to perform well can flop, whilst independent movies with low budgets can be wildly successful. In this superb new book, De Vany casts his expert eye over all aspects of the business and presents some intriguing conclusions.

Economics: The Basics (Basics (Routledge (Firm)).)

• ISBN:
• 0415314127
• Authors:
• Tony Cleaver

Economics: The Basics provides a fascinating introduction to the key issues in contemporary economics. With case studies ranging from the coffee plantations of El Salvador to the economic slowdown in Japan, it addresses questions such as whether increasing wealth for some always means increasing poverty for others, and whether producing more food for humankind means we drive other species to extinction. Comprehensive and easy to read, it is...

The New Economy and Macroeconomics (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

• ISBN:
• 041533876X
• Authors:
• Dario Togati

The past decade has seen many leading economies, especially the US, undergo profound structural transformations. Departing from the standard theories employed to explain this phenomenon, here author Togati provides the first broad analysis of the New Economy. In this book, the first to look at the new economy from a post-Keynesian / post-modern perspective, he focuses on its macroeconomic implications, presenting a more balanced view than that...

International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

• ISBN:
• 0415770270
• Authors:
• D.m.p Mccarthy

International economic integration is perceived as one of the paramount forces shaping the modern world. Many organizations, both public and private, are trying to combine economic activities across international borders. The European Union and the North American Free Trade Area are two examples of government-managed international economic integration. Private organizations include various criminal groups as well as international churches....

Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics (Handbooks in Economics)

• ISBN:
• 0444512535

The explosive growth in computational power over the past several decades offers new tools and opportunities for economists. This handbook volume surveys recent research on Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE), the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. Empirical referents for "agents" in ACE models can range from individuals or social groups with learning capabilities to physical world...

Chemical Engineering: Visions of the World

• ISBN:
• 0444513094

This book presents six visionary essays on the past, present and future of the chemical and process industries, together with a critical commentary. Our world is changing fast and the visions explore the implications for business and academic institutions, and for the professionals working in them. The visions were written and brought together for the 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Melbourne, Australia in September 2001. ·...

Luminescence and the Solid State, Second Edition (Studies in Inorganic Chemistry)

• ISBN:
• 0444516611
• Authors:
• Richard C. Ropp

Since the first date of publication of this book in 1991, the subject of phosphors and luminescence has assumed even more importance in the overall scheme of technological development. Many new types of displays have appeared which depend upon phosphors in their operation. Some of these were pure conjecture in 1991 but are a reality in 2004. Descriptions have been included of the newer (as well as the older) types of displays in this edition...

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

• ISBN:
• 0465029167
• Authors:
• Michael Heller

A startling and definitive account of the "tragedy of the anticommons," a hidden economic phenomenon that costs trillions in lost productivity and affects every field. Garrett Hardin's famous "tragedy of the commons" states that when no one has a significant stake in some common resource--such as a grazing meadow, a stream, or clean air--the resource is inevitably overused and eventually degraded. But what about the reverse situation--when...

Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning (Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0470176393
• Authors:
• Steven Wort, Christian Bolton, Justin Langford, Michael Cape, Joshua J. Jin, Douglas Hinson, Haidong Ji, Paul A. Mestemaker, Arindam Sen

Written by a team of expert SQL users, this comprehensive resource approaches performance tuning from a new perspective by showing you a methodical scientific approach to diagnose performance problems. The book first walks you through how to discover bottlenecks when something is wrong and you’ll then learn how to identify and remove the problems that are causing poor performance. You’ll discover preventive measures you can take to try to...

India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty

• ISBN:
• 0195668308
• Authors:
• The World Bank

This World Bank report is an assessment of the policy reforms undertaken in India at various levels. It looks, in particular, at the impact the economic reforms, the country embarked upon in 1991, have had on the levels of poverty in India. Beginning with an overview of macroeconomics scenario in India, the report approaches the poverty outcome and the economic performance of the country in the aftermath of the reform process.

Concentrated Corporate Ownership (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

• ISBN:
• 0226536785

Standard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large U.S. firms, but wealthy individuals or families generally hold controlling blocks in smaller U.S. firms and in all firms in most other countries. Given this, the lack of theoretical and empirical work on tightly held firms is surprising. What corporate governance problems arise in tightly held firms? How do these differ from corporate governance...

The Complete Film Production Handbook, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 0240804198
• Authors:
• Eve Light Honthaner

The Complete Film Production Handbook is a comprehensive step-by-step guide covering the essentials of the business, from checklists and sample pre-production and post production schedules to contracts and company policies relating to insurance, talent management, and even customs and immigration details. The book contains all of the many necessary forms including SAG, DGA, and WGA forms, together with standard production forms, deal memos, and...

Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship

• ISBN:
• 0262083299

Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief that it invigorates the economy -- producing greater productivity, more jobs, and higher economic growth. President George W. Bush promoted his economic plan by pointing to its encouragement of entrepreneurship. Yet, despite its importance, the topic of entrepreneurship is underrepresented in the economics literature. The...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales

• ISBN:
• 0313334412
• Authors:
• Donald Haase

Folk and fairy tales exist in all cultures and are at the heart of civilization. This massive Encyclopedia gives students and general readers a broad, multicultural survey of folk and fairy tales from around the world. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries written by numerous expert contributors. Entries cover themes and motifs, individuals, characters and character types, national traditions, genres, and a range of other...

Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server: Best Practice Architectures and Examples, 7th Edition (Microsoft Windows Server System Series)

• ISBN:
• 0321243625
• Authors:
• William R. Vaughn, Peter Blackburn

Since 1994 when he wrote his first “Hitchhiker’s Guide”, William Vaughn has been providing developers all over the world the intimate details of how SQL Server can be accessed and managed from RAD languages like Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET. With the 7th Edition, Bill has completely rewritten this encyclopedic work from cover to cover–giving readers his insightful views on how applications should be built to maximize both developer...

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games: Applications in Finance, Management Science and Economics (Advances in Computational Management Science)

• ISBN:
• 0387258043

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games has been edited to honor the outstanding contributions of Professor Suresh Sethi in the fields of Applied Optimal Control. Professor Sethi is internationally one of the foremost experts in this field. He is, among others, co-author of the popular textbook "Sethi and Thompson: Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Economics". The book consists of a collection of essays by some of the best...

Chinese National Cinema (National Cinemas Series.)

• ISBN:
• 041517290X
• Authors:
• Yingjin Zhang

What does it mean to be "Chinese?" This controversial question has sparked off a never-ending process of image-making in Chinese and Chinese-speaking communities throughout the twentieth century. This introduction to Chinese national cinema, written by a leading scholar, covers three "Chinas": mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It traces the formation, negotiation and problematization of the national on the Chinese screen over ninety years....

Fifty Major Economists (Routledge Key Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0415366496
• Authors:
• Steven Pressman

Fully updated to include the most recent developments in economic thought, this new edition explores the work of fifty major economists, from seventeenth century philosophers such as John Lock to contemporary practitioners like Joseph Stiglitz. Other entries include: DT Thomas Munn DT Joan Robinson DT Amartya Sen DT Daniel Kahneman DT Robert E. Lucas Fifty Major Economists contains brief biographical information on each featured economist, as...

Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel

• ISBN:
• 0470099518
• Authors:
• Gordon S. Linoff

Useful business analysis requires you to effectively transform data into actionable information. This book helps you use SQL and Excel to extract business information from relational databases and use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, produce results, and more. Each chapter explains when and why to perform a particular type of business analysis in order to obtain useful results, how to design and...

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0470257024
• Authors:
• Robert Vieira

Master the increasingly complex feature set of the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server with the information in Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming . Review the new features of SQL Server that will be of interest to you as an experienced developer and move on to more detailed, practical code examples. Learn how to write complex queries, build different types of data structures, improve application speed and performance, manage...

Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

• ISBN:
• 0470277742
• Authors:
• Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat

Understand how to use the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for data mining by using the tools in Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 , which will show you how to use the SQL Server Data Mining Toolset with Office 2007 to mine and analyze data. Explore each of the major data mining algorithms, including naive bayes, decision trees, time series, clustering, association rules, and neural networks. Learn more about topics like mining...

Mastering SQL Server 2008

• ISBN:
• 047028904X
• Authors:
• Michael Lee, Gentry Bieker

As Microsoft’s bestselling database manager, SQL Server is highly flexible and customizable, and has excellent support—the 2008 version offers several significant new capabilities. This book offers accurate and expert coverage on the updates to SQL Server 2008 such as its enhanced security; the ability to encrypt an entire database, data files, and log files without the need for application changes; a scalable infrastructure that can manage...

Final Cut Pro Portable Genius

• ISBN:
• 0470387602
• Authors:
• GeniusDV

This savvy Portable Guide shows you how to get the most from Final Cut Pro. You’ll find cool and useful tips, full-color screenshots, and pages of easy-to-access shortcuts and tools that show you which editing technique is right for you, how to use Final Cut Pro as a sound and mixing tool, and the best ways to maximize the output of your final product.

Beginning Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration

• ISBN:
• 0470440910
• Authors:
• Chris Leiter, Dan Wood, Michael Cierkowski, Albert Boettger

SQL Server 2008 introduces many new features that will change database administration procedures; many DBAs will be forced to migrate to SQL Server 2008. This book teaches you how to develop the skills required to successfully administer a SQL Server 2008 database; no prior experience is required. The material covers system installation and configuration/architecting, implementing and monitoring security controls, configuring and managing...

Stochastic Dynamic Programming and the Control of Queueing Systems

• ISBN:
• 0471161209
• Authors:
• Linn I. Sennott

A path-breaking account of Markov decision processes-theory and computation This book's clear presentation of theory, numerous chapter-end problems, and development of a unified method for the computation of optimal policies in both discrete and continuous time make it an excellent course text for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Its comprehensive coverage of important recent advances in stochastic dynamic programming makes it a...

The Evidence-Based Practice: Methods, Models, and Tools for Mental Health Professionals

• ISBN:
• 0471467472

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), a trend started in the medical community, is rapidly becoming of critical importance to the mental health profession as insurance companies begin to offer preferential pay to organizations using it. Featuring contributions from top researchers in the field, this groundbreaking book covers everything from what EBP is and its relevance to behavioural health to specific models for application and implementation,...

Do's and Taboos of Public Speaking: How to Get Those Butterflies Flying in Formation

• ISBN:
• 0471536709
• Authors:
• Roger E. Axtell

Develop your powers of public persuasion with the ultimate guide to great speeches and business presentations… Do you get tongue-tied at the mere thought of speaking in public? Would you rather swim with sharks or undergo a tax audit than face an audience? Well, you’re not alone. According to the Book of Lists’ list of humans’ greatest fears, the fear of death is our fourth greatest fear, while fear of public speaking commands a solid...

Linear Statistical Models

• ISBN:
• 0471571504
• Authors:
• James H. Stapleton

Linear Statistical Models Developed and refined over a period of twenty years, the material in this book offers an especially lucid presentation of linear statistical models. These models lead to what is usually called "multiple regression" or "analysis of variance" methodology, which, in turn, opens up a wide range of applications to the physical, biological, and social sciences, as well as to business, agriculture, and engineering. Unlike...

Stochastic Programming (Wiley Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization)

• ISBN:
• 0471951080
• Authors:
• Peter Kall, Stein W. Wallace

Carefully written to cover all necessary background material from both linear and non-linear programming as well as probability theory, the book brings together the methods and techniques previously described in disparate sources. Topics include decision trees and dynamic programming, recourse problems, probabilistic constraints, preprocessing and network problems. Emphasises the appropriate use of the techniques described. Exercises are...

University Builders

• ISBN:
• 0471988340
• Authors:
• Martin Pearce

The building of a university campus is an extremely challenging you an extensive study of a variety of styles of universities from around the world. This excellent reference portrays expert architects and their work in designing outstanding educational establishments. Full of impressive colour and black and white images Features the most influential architects of this century The range of styles and philosophies covered in this book will prove...

The Blue Fairy Book (Dover Storybooks for Children)

• ISBN:
• 0486214370
• Authors:
• Andrew Lang

Finest stories from around the world--most of them old favorites: "Sleeping Beauty," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," "The Arabian Nights," 33 more. Includes original 138 black-and-white illustrations.

White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India

• ISBN:
• 0520220005
• Authors:
• Sarah Lamb

This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have...

Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

• ISBN:
• 0520238915
• Authors:
• Marilyn Fabe

How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch. Ranging from D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, and ending with an epilogue on digital media, Closely Watched Films focuses on...

New Frontiers in Economics

• ISBN:
• 0521836867

Analyzing the new directions that subdisciplines of economics have taken in the face of modern economic challenges, these essays represent invention and discovery in the areas of information, macroeconomics and public policies, international trade and development, finance, business, contracts, law, gaming, and government. They offer not only a wealth of factual information on the current state of the economy, but also theoretical and empirical...

An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization

• ISBN:
• 0521856663
• Authors:
• Ivan T. Berend

A major new history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in responding to the challenges of this crisis-ridden and troubled but highly successful age. The book surveys the European economy's chronological development, the main factors of economic growth, and the...

Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms

• ISBN:
• 0521871352
• Authors:
• Vernon L. Smith

The principal findings of experimental economics are that impersonal exchange in markets converges in repeated interaction to the equilibrium states implied by economic theory, under information conditions far weaker than specified in the theory. In personal, social, and economic exchange, as studied in two-person games, cooperation exceeds the prediction of traditional game theory. This book relates these two findings to field studies and...

The Economics of Contracts: Theories and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0521893135

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the economic analysis of contracts written by a specially commissioned team of leading international scholars. The book offers a well structured analysis of theoretical developments, the diverse fields of applications, the methodologies in use, and the policy implications at both firm and state level. It offers a unique combination of theoretical and applied economics along with insights from...

Linux System Programming

• ISBN:
• 0596009585
• Authors:
• Robert Love

This book is about writing software that makes the most effective use of the system you're running on -- code that interfaces directly with the kernel and core system libraries, including the shell, text editor, compiler, debugger, core utilities, and system daemons. The majority of both Unix and Linux code is still written at the system level, and Linux System Programming focuses on everything above the kernel, where applications such as...

Backup and Recovery

• ISBN:
• 0596102461
• Authors:
• W. Curtis Preston

Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of "Unix Backup & Recovery" by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material. "Backup & Recovery" starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto,...

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought (Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics)

• ISBN:
• 0631225730

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought. Provides sophisticated introductions to a vast array of topics. Focuses on a unique range of topics, including the history of economic...

American Identities: An Introductory Textbook

• ISBN:
• 0631234314

American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present. The textbook charts the rich multiplicity of American identities as refracted through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families,...

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere Pro in 24 Hours

• ISBN:
• 0672326078
• Authors:
• Jeff Sengstack

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere in 24 Hours offers practical advice from an author with a strong writing background, solid teaching experience, and extensive television production credentials ¿ TV anchor, reporter, photographer, and editor plus recipient of a regional Emmy award and two Society of Professional Journalists 1st place awards. Rather than simply presenting a collection of disconnected hands-on tutorials, Sams Teach Yourself...

How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends

• ISBN:
• 0684868016
• Authors:
• Don Gabor

For nearly twenty years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This new edition brings the art of having a conversation up to date. By following the simple and dynamic guidelines in this easy-to-read book, you'll be ready to strike up a great conversation with anyone anywhere! And you'll learn how to keep the...

Game Theory for Applied Economists

• ISBN:
• 0691003955
• Authors:
• Robert Gibbons

This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have found other works overly abstract. Gibbons emphasizes the economic applications of the theory at least as much as the pure theory itself; formal...

Macroeconomics

• ISBN:
• 0716752379
• Authors:
• N. Gregory Mankiw

The fifth edition of the #1 bestselling intermediate macroeconomics text, with coverage based on the most recent data available, plus new student media resources.

Double Your Learning Power: Master the Techniques of Successful Memory and Recall

• ISBN:
• 0722512112
• Authors:
• Geoffrey A. Dudley

Do you have trouble remembering names, faces or telephone numbers? This excellent guidebook provides short-cut techniques for essential memory skills: mnemonics, reading quickly while remembering more, tools for scoring well on examinations. Drawing on recent psychological research about the learning process, Dudley adapts these insights into a practical set of exercises that anyone can master.

Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))

• ISBN:
• 0735622507
• Authors:
• Stacia Misner, Hitachi Consulting

Your hands-on guide to learning Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft’s customizable reporting solution for business data analysis. Reporting Services is a powerful tool for business intelligence, so an understanding of the essentials—how to architect a report, as well as how to install and program Reporting Services—is key to harnessing the full benefits of SQL Server. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to get started,...

The Making of Modern America: The Nation from 1945 to the Present

• ISBN:
• 0742548198
• Authors:
• Gary A. Donaldson

When World War II ended in 1945, America emerged as the only superpower. It had defeated Germany and Japan, it was the only nation with the bomb, and much of the rest of the world lay in ruins as a result of the war. In addition, the wartime economy had dragged the nation out of the worst depression in modern history. The United States seemed on the verge of its greatest age, and from that starting point, its people embarked on a journey through...

Love Smart: Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got

• ISBN:
• 0739462865
• Authors:
• Phil McGraw

If you are sleeping single in a double bed or walking down the street thinking, How do I meet that guy?; if you're on your twentieth date and he's no more committed than when you first exchanged cell phone numbers; if everyone you know is getting married for the second time and you can't even get a first date; if you love the one you're with but the relationship needs some spark...then this book is for you. In Love Smart: Find the One You Want...

Beyond September 11: An Anthology of Dissent

• ISBN:
• 0745319637
• Authors:
• Phil Scraton

The unprecedented and tragic events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania left an indelible mark on world politics. Civilian deaths in horrific circumstances triggered an uncompromising response from the US administration and its allies: an open-ended "war on terrorism". This anthology includes some of the world's leading commentators - Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Naomi Klein, John Pilger and A. Sivanandan. This book presents accessible,...

Preparing the Perfect CV: How to Make a Great Impression and Get the Job You Want

• ISBN:
• 0749448555
• Authors:
• Rebecca Corfield

Every job hunter needs an impressive CV that describes their educational and professional history. A well-prepared and individually tailored CV is invaluable and can greatly improve a candidate's chances of getting the job they want. "Preparing the Perfect CV" provides all the answers about where to start. This bestselling guide will be welcomed by job-seekers of every age and calibre, from school leavers to those wishing to return to work after...

Creating Value, Second Edition: Successful Business Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0750653639
• Authors:
• Shiv S Mathur, Alfred Kenyon

'Creating Value through Business Strategy' is the new edition of 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997. This new edition provides constructive guidelines to readers to open their minds to the challenges of creating value. It extends and updates the reasons for the choice of the individual offering as the strategy unit and intensifies and extends the challenges to standard approaches...

The Economics of Health and Wellness, Volume 26: Anthropological Perspectives (Research in Economic Anthropology)

• ISBN:
• 0762314214

This 26th volume in the Research in Economic Anthropology series differs in two main ways from all those that have come before. For one, it is the first REA volume to focus exclusively on the issue of health. In addition, it is not as concerned overall with economic or social theory, or with economic reasoning and action, as other volumes have been. Rather, it concentrates on the identification and analysis of important economic factors in the...

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 For Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764577557
• Authors:
• Andrew Watt

Now updated to reflect the much-anticipated "Yukon" release of SQL Server, this friendly guide shows database developers and administrators as well as those who use database application how to get up to speed fast Offers a gentle introduction to relational database design and shows how to build databases, create database applications, and maintain and optimize database performance Covers the major new features of the "Yukon" release-including...

Reiki For Dummies (For Dummies (Psychology & Self Help))

• ISBN:
• 0764599070
• Authors:
• Nina L. Paul

Millions of people seek ways to relax, promote healing, or connect with their soul. Reiki (pronounced ray-key ) is a simple but profound healing system that was originally developed in Japan. Reiki means "spiritual energy" or "universal life-force energy." The Reiki system is universal because it can be used by people of any background or religion. Reiki For Dummies explains how you can harness this energy for yourself. Reiki For Dummies is a...

I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews With 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television

• ISBN:
• 0786441186
• Authors:
• Tom Weaver

"I talked with a zombie"-it DOES seem like an odd thing to say! But for over 25 years, Tom Weaver has been chatting up zombies and many other vintage movie monsters, along with the screenwriters, producers, directors and actors responsible for bringing them to life. In this newest compilation of interviews, 23 more veterans share their stories-strange, frightening and even a little funny-this time with an increased emphasis on genre TV series...

Drugs and Sports (Point/Counterpoint)

• ISBN:
• 0791095533
• Authors:
• Alan Marzilli

The use of drugs by American athletes has come under increasing scrutiny. As steroids, stimulants, and supplements have become more easily available and salaries and endorsement deals have become more lucrative, it seems that more athletes are availing themselves of substances designed to improve their performance - whether legal or illegal. But what kinds of restrictions and punishments should athletes face? Should the federal government get...

JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party

• ISBN:
• 0791461696
• Authors:
• Sean J. Savage

JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party is a richly detailed, comprehensive, and provocative account of presidential party leadership in the turbulent 1960s. Using many primary sources, including resources from presidential libraries, state and national archival material, public opinion polls, and numerous interviews, Sean J. Savage reveals for the first time the influence of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson on the chairmanship,...

Medusa's Ear: University Foundings from Kant to Chora L

• ISBN:
• 0791462471
• Authors:
• Dawne McCance

Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West

• ISBN:
• 0803216084
• Authors:
• Prof. Annette Stott PhD

As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the “Wild West,” cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together...

William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War (Civil War America)

• ISBN:
• 0807830275
• Authors:
• Eric H. Walther

In the first comprehensive biography of William Lowndes Yancey (1814-63), one of the leading secessionists of the Old South, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater. Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, and hypocritical. His personal journey led him...

Film and Television After 9/11

• ISBN:
• 080932556X
• Authors:
• Wheeler Winston Dixon

In Film and Television after 9/11, twelve distinguished scholars and critics discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how movies have changed to reflect the new world climate. While some contemporary films offer escapism, the bulk of mainstream American cinema since 9/11 seems centered on the desire to replicate the idea of the "just war," in...

Complete Reference Checking Handbook, The: The Proven (and Legal) Way to Prevent Hiring Mistakes

• ISBN:
• 0814407447
• Authors:
• Edward C. Andler, Dara Herbst

The original edition of The Complete Reference Checking Handbook provided managers, small company owners, and human resources professionals with all the tools and information necessary to reduce screening time, identify underqualified or potentially problematic employees, and get honest and accurate information from references, all while staying within legal boundaries and avoiding charges of discrimination. Now fully updated and expanded, this...

The New New Economy: Yet Another Clueless Manifesto for the Post-Digital Age

• ISBN:
• 0814471439
• Authors:
• Tim McEachern, Chris O'Brien

No matter how many paradigms, buzzwords, and empty slogans the average business book reader may have picked up now that his cheese has been moved, the only way he can truly survive is to keep his sense of humor . . . not to mention finding a new piece of cheese. And no one knows this better than Tim McEachern and Chris O'Brien. Now, in this hilarious parody of every business tome that hasn't already been "blown to bits", these two founders and...

The First-Time Manager's Guide to Performance Appraisals

• ISBN:
• 0814474403
• Authors:
• Diane Arthur

Conducting performance appraisals can be a daunting prospect, especially for new managers. With the same brand of accessible and sage advice readers have come to rely on from The First-Time Manager, this helpful guide provides straightforward, useful information that will enable anyone to take on this important task with confidence and skill. Filled with ready-to-use tools including sample dialogues, phrases, and documents, as well as plenty of...

Owning Up: Poverty, Assets and the American Dream

• ISBN:
• 0815706200
• Authors:
• Michelle Miller-Adams

Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets. Even when they are getting by, they lack many of the resources—tangible and intangible—that provide middle-class Americans with a sense of security, stability, and a stake in the future. In Owning Up, Michelle Miller-Adams demonstrates how...

Japanese Immigrants (Immigration to the United States)

• ISBN:
• 0816056889
• Authors:
• W. Scott Ingram, Scott Ingram, Robert Asher

The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a "nation of nations." Spanning the time from when the Europeans first came to the New World to the present day, the new "Immigration to the United States" set conveys the excitement of these stories to young people. Beginning with a brief preface to the set written by general editor Robert Asher that discusses some of the broad reasons why people came to...

The Slave Trade (Slavery in the Americas)

• ISBN:
• 0816061343
• Authors:
• Matthew Kachur

The transatlantic slave trade forcibly brought thousands of Africans to the Americas. In doing so, it impacted peoples and cultures across the globe. The legacy of the slave trade has had lasting effects on the American culture for generations. From the new set "Slavery in the Americas", "The Slave Trade" explores this intriguing time in American history more thoroughly. Topics include: slavery's beginnings in North America; the need for sugar...

The Colonial and Revolutionary Era: Beginnings to 1783 (Handbook to Life in America)

• ISBN:
• 0816071748

This title offers a comprehensive look at the people, customs, and trends of the colonial and revolutionary era. Life in colonial America was often a struggle for survival and a constant lesson in adaptation. The early years of colonization - fraught with disease, starvation, and conflict with Native Americans - progressed to the development of regional communities in the form of agricultural plantations in the South and industrial port cities...

The Early National Period and Expansion: 1783 to 1859 (Handbook to Life in America)

• ISBN:
• 0816071756

Encompassing the period leading up to the Civil War, the interval from 1783 to 1859 witnessed the newly implemented concept of a democratically organized state. The fast growth of the national economy gave rise to a new middle class not founded on pedigree while the acquisition of new territories provided many opportunities for immigrants to seek their fortunes. As the colonies expanded into a country, writers and artists began to describe a...

The Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860 to 1876 (Handbook to Life in America)

• ISBN:
• 0816071764

This title takes a thorough look at the Civil War and Reconstruction - from the family life ate to favorite pastimes. Characterized by the tragedy of the Civil War and its aftermath, the period of 1860 to 1876 presented the greatest challenge to a still young national government. The battle to abolish slavery and reform the country after the secession of 11 Southern states was led by Abraham Lincoln. Throughout this turmoil, a burgeoning...

The Gilded Age: 1870 to 1900 (Handbook to Life in America)

• ISBN:
• 0816071772

Often referred to as the 'Gilded Age', the period spanning from 1870 to 1900 encompassed both extravagant wealth and dire poverty in America. Due to this disparity, political agitators and reformists armed with socialist and anarchist manifestos flourished and the distinction between urban life and rural life grew increasingly sharper, creating an entirely new set of living conditions and social customs. Technological advancements such as the...

Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde

• ISBN:
• 0816634130
• Authors:
• Joan Hawkins

Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

• ISBN:
• 0822325195
• Authors:
• Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s entire body of work, from 1943’s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993’s Madadayo . In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which...

Dino-Hockey (Carolrhoda Picture Books)

• ISBN:
• 0822561913
• Authors:
• Lisa Wheeler

Chemical Process Engineering (Chemical Industries)

• ISBN:
• 0824742745
• Authors:
• Harry Silla

Chemical Process Engineering presents a systematic approach to solving design problems by listing the needed equations, calculating degrees-of-freedom, developing calculation procedures to generate process specifications—mostly pressures, temperatures, compositions, and flow rates—and sizing equipment. This illustrative reference/text tabulates numerous easy-to-follow calculation procedures as well as the relationships needed for sizing...

The Stonewall Brigade (Men-at-Arms)

• ISBN:
• 0850450527
• Authors:
• John Selby

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of Jackson’s ‘Stonewall Brigade’, and its combat experience during the American Civil War. The brigade’s major engagements at Bull Run and Chancellorsville are covered, and uniforms are shown in full colour artwork.

Stepping Stones: A Guide for Mature-Aged Students at University

• ISBN:
• 0864314140

Provides prospective middle aged students with strategies and skills for a successful learning experience.

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Emotional Intelligence (The Manager's Pocket Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0874255996
• Authors:
• Emily A. Sterrett

One of the keys to becoming a true leader is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence quotient (or EQ) encompasses qualities that go beyond general intellectual intelligence and technical competency. EQ includes self-awareness, self-control, self-confidence, motivation, empathy, and competencies in the social environment. These hallmarks of a true leader can be learned. The activities in this guide will help strengthen the reader’s EQ...

No Such Country: Essays toward Home (Sightline Books)

• ISBN:
• 0877457964
• Authors:
• Elmar Lueth

No Such Country explores the idea of home—but a home without clear boundaries, a home in motion. A German who spent ten years in the U.S. and also witnessed the complexities of German reunification firsthand, Elmar Lueth writes about his idea of home, its shape and texture, which has shifted in unexpected and often startling ways. The autobiographical essays here focus on these shifts, tracing the geographical and psychological borders Lueth...

Linear Programming with MATLAB (MPS-SIAM Series on Optimization)

• ISBN:
• 0898716438
• Authors:
• Michael C. Ferris, Olvi L. Mangasarian, Stephen J. Wright

This textbook provides a self-contained introduction to linear programming using MATLAB® software to elucidate the development of algorithms and theory. Early chapters cover linear algebra basics, the simplex method, duality, the solving of large linear problems, sensitivity analysis, and parametric linear programming. In later chapters, the authors discuss quadratic programming, linear complementarity, interior-point methods, and selected...

Linear and Nonlinear Optimization, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0898716616
• Authors:
• Igor Griva, Stephen G. Nash, Ariela Sofer

This book introduces the applications, theory, and algorithms of linear and nonlinear optimization, with an emphasis on the practical aspects of the material. Its unique modular structure provides flexibility to accommodate the varying needs of instructors, students, and practitioners with different levels of sophistication in these topics. The succinct style of this second edition is punctuated with numerous real-life examples and exercises,...

Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

• ISBN:
• 0973714727
• Authors:
• William F. Engdahl

This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish its control over the very basis of human survival, the provision of our daily bread. Control the food and you control the people. This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms. The author reveals...

Transportation Planning: State of the Art (Applied Optimization)

• ISBN:
• 1402005466

This book is a collection of selected presentations of the 6th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, which took place at the Department on Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. It contains fourteen chapters on recent advances in theory, computation, and practice in a wide variety of areas in transportation research such as the reliability of transportation networks, parking management policies,...

Geometric Data Analysis: From Correspondence Analysis to Structured Data Analysis

• ISBN:
• 1402022352
• Authors:
• Brigitte Le Roux, Henry Rouanet

Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) is the name suggested by P. Suppes (Stanford University) to designate the approach to Multivariate Statistics initiated by Benzécri as Correspondence Analysis, an approach that has become more and more used and appreciated over the years. This book presents the full formalization of GDA in terms of linear algebra - the most original and far-reaching consequential feature of the approach - and shows also how to...

Potential Function Methods for Approximately Solving Linear Programming Problems: Theory and Practice (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

• ISBN:
• 1402071736
• Authors:
• Daniel Bienstock

Potential Function Methods For Approximately Solving Linear Programming Problems breaks new ground in linear programming theory. The book draws on the research developments in three broad areas: linear and integer programming, numerical analysis, and the computational architectures which enable speedy, high-level algorithm design. During the last ten years, a new body of research within the field of optimization research has emerged, which seeks...

Who Pays for Bank Insolvency?

• ISBN:
• 140391740X

How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any future banking crises. It shows how political imperatives and legal constraints currently result in economic losses in many countries round the world.

Evolutionary Finance

• ISBN:
• 1403996652
• Authors:
• Bartholomew Frederick Dowling

The purpose of this book is to introduce the field of bioinformatics to financial modelling. It focuses on the way information informs price, and constructs a framework to explain information generation and the agglomeration process, enabling the reader to make more effective financial decisions. Based on all aspects of applied finance, this book uses informational analysis to help the reader understand the similarities between biomathematics...

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)

• ISBN:
• 1405115106

This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen. The book’s contributors use the latest thinking from cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical, and filmic approaches, in order to push the field forward. They consider Shakespeare on screen not only as a set of finished products but also as a process. For this reason,...

Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema

• ISBN:
• 1405168625

Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, Puzzle Films investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from Memento , Old Boy , and Run Lola Run , to the Infernal Affairs trilogy and In the Mood for Love . Unites American ‘independent’ cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexity Draws upon the...

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert's Voice in SQL Server)

• ISBN:
• 1430219025
• Authors:
• Grant Fritchey, Sajal Dam

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled presents a direct trouble–shooting methodology for identifying poorly performing stored procedures and queries, isolating the causes of that poor performance, and fixing the underlying problems. Each chapter is dedicated to one of the top causes of poorly performing queries and shows methods for identifying and dealing with the problems in that chapter’s domain. Emphasis is always put upon...

Sink or Swim: Get Your Degree Without Drowning in Debt

• ISBN:
• 1550024493
• Authors:
• Sarah Deveau

Undergraduate fees for universities and colleges across Canada have more than doubled in every province over the past decade. Today, the average student debt load after graduation is almost $20,000. Individuals considering a post-secondary education are looking for intelligent, resourceful ways to fund their education without mortgaging their future. Those currently in school are trying to find ways to cut their spending, increase their income,...

Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications

• ISBN:
• 1559633123
• Authors:
• Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley

Conventional economics is increasingly criticized for failing to reflect the value of clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding biophysical and social reality from its analyses and equations, conventional economics seems ill-suited to address problems in a world characterized by increasing human impacts and decreasing natural resources. Ecological Economics is an introductory-level textbook for an...

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself

• ISBN:
• 1564145190
• Authors:
• Steve Chandler

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself give you 100 different thinking tools for accessing your most spirited and creative self. It is a book that you can turn to anywhere and read for just two or three minutes and find your whole day lifted up with energy and purpose. Written like a psychological thriller, 100 Was has been used by everyone from professional football coaches to homemakers to engage the brain at the deepest and most inspired level in...

Information Technology, Corporate Productivity, and the New Economy

• ISBN:
• 1567204201
• Authors:
• Stephan Kudyba, Romesh Diwan

The authors bring a dual perspective--that of a practicing consultant and that of a professor of economics--to the complex strategic questions facing managers and corporate leaders who want their firms to get the most out of their investments in information technology. The information economy is built upon the myriad and sometimes unforeseen ways in which information technologies have become engines of productivity in themselves, rather than...

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Database Implementation Training Kit

• ISBN:
• 1572318260

This training teaches IS professionals and SQL developers how to implement database solutions using the latest version of the Microsoft SQL Server relational database management system. Students will gain an understanding of the product's architecture and, through the accompanying labs, attain hands-on experience with the procedures to plan, configure, and implement database solutions. Upon course completion, students will be able to describe...

English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales (Classic Folk and Fairy Tales)

• ISBN:
• 1576074269

In these two classic collections, first published in 1890 and 1894, Joseph Jacobs combined folklore, children's literature, and the eclectic scholarship of the Victorian era to create a storehouse of tales that inhabited the imaginations of children and adults for generations. Here readers first met Tom Tit Tot, Molly Whuppie, and Jack the Giant-Killer, and first read the stories of the Three Little Pigs, the Three Bears, and Henny-Penny....

Emotional Discipline: The Power to Choose How You Feel; 5 Life Changing Steps to Feeling Better Every Day

• ISBN:
• 1576752305
• Authors:
• Charles C Manz PH.D.

Emotions sometimes get the better of us all, but you can learn how to analyze and manage your emotional reactions in any situation. Emotional Discipline details 5 easy-to-learn steps and 25 specific strategies for responding to your feelings in the present and preparing for emotional challenges in the future. This remarkable approach combines mind, body, and spirit to help you deal with arguably the most challenging part of the human condition:...

Instant Boris Effects (Instant Series)

• ISBN:
• 1578202620
• Authors:
• Chris Vadnais

Boris plug-in applications, including Graffiti, FX, and Red, permit video editors to add titling, effects, compositing, and 3D capabilities to their nonlinear editing (NLE) systems. Documentation and training materials have been notoriously lacking for these applications. Instant Boris Effects is a complete guide for novice and intermediate users of Boris Graffiti, FX, and Red applications. Beginning with an orientation to the user interface,...

Clinical Retina

• ISBN:
• 1579472842
• Authors:
• David A. Quillen, Barbara A. Blodi

With its intuitive format and one of the largest collections of high-quality retinal images, Clinical Retina is an exceptional value for any ophthalmologist or retina specialist. For each disease, the book provides text, an atlas and a differential diagnosis with the important information found on two facing pages. On one side of each page are the symptoms, clinical features, ancillary testing, pathology/pathogenesis, treatment/prognosis and...

Vault Career Guide to Sales & Trading (Vault Career Library)

• ISBN:
• 1581312520
• Authors:
• Gabriel Kim

This guide includes step-by-step examples of how a trade is made on the trading floor, and Q & As with industry professionals of all levels.

Iterative Dynamic Programming (Chapman and Hall /Crc Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 1584881488
• Authors:
• Rein Luus

Dynamic programming is a powerful method for solving optimization problems, but has a number of drawbacks that limit its use to solving problems of very low dimension. To overcome these limitations, author Rein Luus suggested using it in an iterative fashion. Although this method required vast computer resources, modifications to his original scheme have made the computational procedure feasible. With iteration, dynamic programming becomes an...

SQL Server Security Distilled, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1590592190
• Authors:
• Morris Lewis

SQL Server is the dominant relational database in the Windows market and data security is a huge and growing concern for all businesses. Securing SQL Server is one of the most important responsibilities of the SQL Server professional. SQL Server Distilled, Second Edition is a very carefully researched, clearly explained book on securing SQL Server, by an author who knows SQL Server inside and out. If you follow the practical guidelines that are...

SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedures Handbook (Expert's Voice)

• ISBN:
• 1590592875
• Authors:
• Tony Bain, Louis Davidson, Robin Dewson, Chuck Hawkins, Tony Bain, Louise Davidson, Robin Dewson, Chuck Hawkins

Stored procedures are compiled T-SQL statements that reside on the database. They are the cornerstones of successful data manipulation, and data-handling operations of every complexity make use of them. This book is an in-depth guide to a key area of database development. This book tackles real-world problems faced by developers when working with stored procedures, showing you how to solve these problems, avoid the common pitfalls, and produce...

Pro VS 2005 Reporting using SQL Server and Crystal Reports

• ISBN:
• 1590596889
• Authors:
• Kevin Goff, Rod Paddock

Pro VS 2005 Reporting Using SQL Server and Crystal Reports offers a proven methodology for building reporting solutions. The authors focus on SQL Server 2005 and Crystal Reports, but also cover other popular technologies like Oracle and ActiveReports, to give you a thorough grounding in the reporting field. The book presents the requirements for a real-world reporting application in a distributed environment, and covers all the phases of...

Digital Economy:: Impacts, Influences and Challenges

• ISBN:
• 1591403634

Digital Economy: Impacts, Influences and Challenges provides information about the socioeconomic aspects of the Digital Economy. This set of 18 essays covers the effects of Digital Economy on business transactions, technology and culture, as well as on education. It also covers various aspects of global production, trade, and investment and the effects of Internet. The chapters review best practices from concept to development, through...

Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: Strategies and Realities

• ISBN:
• 1591408997

Through case studies and practical examples, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: Strategies and Realities illustrates how organizations worldwide can apply strategies for supply chain implementation. This book shows readers how to develop a supply chain strategy and implementation plan and use it to gain an advantage in the 21st century competitive marketplace.

Beginning OpenGL Game Programming (Game Development Series)

• ISBN:
• 1592003699
• Authors:
• Dave Astle, Kevin Hawkins

Beginning OpenGL Game Programming provides new game programmers with a complete introduction to 3D game programming using OpenGL. All of the basic elements of OpenGL as it applies to game development are covered. You will learn how to apply these elements to games. The material is designed to be completely accessible to beginners, with complete but concise coverage to ensure the highest value.

Beginning Game Level Design (Premier Press Game Development)

• ISBN:
• 1592004342
• Authors:
• John Harold Feil, Marc Scattergood

Get ready to conquer the basics of building a strong level or mod for your games. "Beginning Game Level Design" covers everything from putting your ideas down on paper, to creating spaces and architecture, through placing units and scripting their behavior. You'll cover each important area of expertise that goes into creating a great level. As you cover each new topic, use the end-of-chapter projects to test your newfound skills. "Beginning Game...

Cubase SX/SL 3 Power!

• ISBN:
• 1592005373
• Authors:
• Robert Guerin

Get ready to dive into Cubase SX or SL 3! This book provides a thorough look at the most common as well as lesser-known features of this impressive digital audio production software. Beyond describing the features of the program and how they work, Cubase SX/SL 3 Power! tells "why" to use certain features and "when" they are most beneficial to your project. You'll gain a better understanding of Cubase SX or SL while learning how to use all the...

Cubase SX 3 Ignite!

• ISBN:
• 1592005381
• Authors:
• Eric D. Grebler, Chris Hawkins

Get ready to understand, use, and explore the world of music sequencing with this one-stop guide to Cubase SX 3. This introductory book provides you with a solid foundation of Steinberg's powerful digital music production software. With "Cubase SX 3 Ignite!", you'll examine the many different tools Cubase has to offer. Screenshots and step-by-step instructions guide you through the various new features in SX 3. Hands-on exercises help you take...

Game Interface Design

• ISBN:
• 1592005934
• Authors:
• Brent Fox

The interface is the heart and soul of a video game: it is the integral piece that allows a player to interact with the game. In order to create a great interface, you must carefully plan every detail. "Game Interface Design" helps you outline each step and define the goals for your interface. It covers the interface from the first image that appears onscreen to the information displayed during game-play. YouÂ’ll cover basic design and art...

Microsoft Access VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1592007236
• Authors:
• Michael Vine

If you are new to programming with Microsoft Access VBA and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science professors, books in the for the absolute beginner series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. Covering Access 2003, "Microsoft Access VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner" provides you with the skills that you need for more practical Access VBA programming...

Game Programming for Teens

• ISBN:
• 1592008348
• Authors:
• Maneesh Sethi

You've played plenty of games. Now it's time to create your own! "Game Programming for Teens, Second Edition" helps you develop the skills you need to create every element of your first video game - from graphics and animation to sound and music. You'll even learn how to incorporate artificial intelligence. You don't have to have any programming experience to get started. You'll learn everything you need to know along the way using BlitzPlus, an...

Truth, Lies, and Online Dating: Secrets to Finding Romance on the Internet

• ISBN:
• 1592009166
• Authors:
• Terry Ulick, Alyssa Wodtke

Online dating represents an amazing new way to meet people, but it requires technology skills in addition to social skills. "Truth, Lies, and Online Dating" shows you how you can effectively use your PC, digital camera, word processor and other PC-based tools to effectively market yourself and communicate who you are -- and who you are looking for. It teaches the mechanics of online dating services and shows you how to put each service's search...

ABAP Objects

• ISBN:
• 1592290795
• Authors:
• Horst Keller, Sascha Krüger

The all-new 2nd Edition of this bestselling book covers ABAP development with SAP NetWeaver. Whether you are new to ABAP programming, an experienced developer, or a consultant or project team member: this in-depth reference provides you with comprehensive knowledge of all facets of ABAP technology. Based on ABAP Objects, this 1000+ page book describes all concepts of modern ABAP up to Release 7.0 (including a "sneak preview" of Release 7.10)....

Production Plannning and Control with SAP

• ISBN:
• 1592291066
• Authors:
• Jorg Thomas Dickersbach, Gerhard Keller, Klaus Weihrauch

This all-new, extended second edition provides readers with a detailed introduction to the tasks associated with industrial operations as well as highly detailed descriptions of the core processes of SAP PP (mySAP ERP 2005 Release). The various processes of discrete manufacturing are explained clearly in the following contexts: What are the business requirements? How can they be implemented using SAP? Which configuration steps are necessary and...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Economics

• ISBN:
• 1592576605
• Authors:
• Craig Hovey, Gregory Rehmke

Think outside the borders. Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and sweat shops are just some of the forces driving our world, food supply, jobs, and future. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Global Economics provides the key to understanding the various facts, figures, policies, and practices that offer insight into...

Confederate Artilleryman 1861-65 (Warrior)

• ISBN:
• 1841763004
• Authors:
• Philip Katcher

In the heady days of the rush to arms in 1861, comparatively few Southern men volunteered for service in the artillery: most preferred the easily accessible glory of the infantry or cavalry. Yet those that did quickly earned the respect of their fellow soldiers, and a reputation for being able to "pull through deeper mud, ford deeper springs, shoot faster, swear louder ... than any other class of men in the service". Given that field artillery...

Going to Live on the French Riviera: The Cote D'azur (How to)

• ISBN:
• 1845281187
• Authors:
• Charles Davey

An increasing number of Britons and other English speakers go to live on the Cote d'Azur each year - both to retire or to work there for two or three years. Whether you are planning to go to the Cote to study, retire or to work, this book will tell you all need to know: how to find a house and a job, plus vital information on schools, health services, shopping, and leisure activities - both for adults and for children.

Regional Knowledge Economies: Markets, Clusters and Innovation (New Horizons in Regional Science)

• ISBN:
• 1845425294
• Authors:
• Philip Cooke, Carla De Laurentis, Franz Todtling, Michaela Trippl

This original and timely book presents the most comprehensive, empirically based analysis of clustering dynamics in the high-technology sector across liberal and co-ordinated market economies. By carefully exploring and comparing ICT and biotechnology in the UK and Austria, the authors find evidence that industry innovation characteristics can overcome some of the supposed constraints of such 'varieties of capitalism' and themselves usher in...

Argentina's Parallel Currency: The Economy of the Poor (Financial History)

• ISBN:
• 1851966188
• Authors:
• Georgina M. Gomez

The story of the Red de Trueque in Argentina (RT) exposes the problems of creating a grassroots market system parallel and complementary to the official economy. The RT was launched in 1995 by a group of environmentalists who exchanged goods and services at their own 'market' using a system of mutual credit. The group grew and they printed fiat money to facilitate exchange. The scheme was rapidly replicated across Argentina as the country's...

Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists (Englightment World)

• ISBN:
• 1851969551
• Authors:
• Michelle Faubert

During the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on a hitherto little-known group of psychologist-poets who grew out of the liberal literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas - concepts which were echoed by so many canonical Romantic poets that we now think of them as distinct...

Serious Money: How to Make It and Enjoy It

• ISBN:
• 1854183109
• Authors:
• Barrie Pearson

This book has the power to guide and inspire you to become seriously richer and happier, regardless of whether you are in dire financial straits or are already wealthy.

How to Develop a Perfect Memory

• ISBN:
• 1857931068
• Authors:
• Dominic O'Brien

This manual explains Dominic O'Brien's system intended to help the reader remember names, faces, telephone numbers, pass exams, learn languages, win at Trivial Pursuit and clean up at the blackjack table. O'Brien is able to memorize the sequence of 36 shuffled packs of cards using his method.

Flame Retardants for Plastics

• ISBN:
• 1859573851
• Authors:
• P.W. Dufton

This report examines the latest developments in the flame retardant industry. It focuses on the companies with the largest market share, covering their new products and business news. The trend is for the larger players to purchase companies with other types of technology, to broaden their product offering. This provides protection as market forces drive customers away from some types of flame retardants. For example, there has been legislation...

The Business Idea: The Early Stages of Entrepreneurship

• ISBN:
• 354022663X
• Authors:
• Søren Hougaard

Getting successful business ideas isnÆt so much about talent - it is about a systematic approach. The Business Idea encourages you to look at new ways of thinking when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation. Too many ventures originate in the solutions the entrepreneur has to offer - and not in the problem the customer needs to have solved. So do business plans - and often this leads to disappointment. The Business Idea leaves behind this...

Natural Computing in Computational Finance (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

• ISBN:
• 3540774769

"Natural Computing in Computational Finance" is a innovative volume containing fifteen chapters which illustrate cutting-edge applications of natural computing or agent-based modeling in modern computational finance. Following an introductory chapter the book is organized into three sections. The first section deals with optimization applications of natural computing demonstrating the application of a broad range of algorithms from genetic...

Love Smart: Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got

• ISBN:
• 0739462865
• Authors:
• Phil McGraw

If you are sleeping single in a double bed or walking down the street thinking, How do I meet that guy?; if you're on your twentieth date and he's no more committed than when you first exchanged cell phone numbers; if everyone you know is getting married for the second time and you can't even get a first date; if you love the one you're with but the relationship needs some spark...then this book is for you. In Love Smart: Find the One You Want...

Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (P.S.)

• ISBN:
• 0060505125
• Authors:
• John Steele Gordon

Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way -- through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the true source of our nation's global influence: wealth...

Screen Plays: How 25 Scripts Made It to a Theater Near You--for Better or Worse

• ISBN:
• 0061189197
• Authors:
• David S. Cohen

Every green-lighted screenplay travels a long and harrowing road from idea to script to celluloid. In this fascinating survey of contemporary film craft, David Cohen of Script and Variety magazines interviews screenwriters from across the board—Oscar winners and novices alike—to explore what sets blockbuster successes apart from downright disasters. Tracing the fortunes of twenty-five films, including Troy, Erin Brockovich, Lost in...

How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays

• ISBN:
• 0061456438
• Authors:
• Daniel Mendelsohn

Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken reveals all at once the enormous stature of Mendelsohn's achievement and demonstrates why he is considered one of our greatest critics....

Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History

• ISBN:
• 0061470546
• Authors:
• Alan Huffman

A powerful account of a surprisingly forgotten tragedy of the Civil War A stunning wartime account of human endurance and adventure, and an exploration of just how much the human body and mind can take, Sultana follows several young Union soldiers through the Civil War and what was, for them, its unimaginably disastrous aftermath. We see them enlist and then almost immediately be plunged into a cascading series of wartime horrors: Battle,...

SPIN-FREE ECONOMICS

• ISBN:
• 007154903X
• Authors:
• Nariman Behravesh

With technology and globalization advancing at breakneck speed, the world economy becomes more complex by the day. Activists, politicians, and media enablers—conservative and liberal, left and right, informed and just plain wrong—consistently seize this opportunity to present woefully simplistic explanations and hype the latest myths regarding issues affecting the economy. Their purpose is not to educate but to advocate and, in many cases...

The American Vision, Reading Essentials and Study Guide, Student Edition

• ISBN:
• 0078654394
• Authors:
• McGraw-Hill

Reading Essentials, Student Edition provides concise content of the Student Edition written at a lower grade level, making it perfect for struggling readers and ELL students.

Corrosion of Aluminium

• ISBN:
• 0080444954
• Authors:
• Christian Vargel

This book highlights the practical and general aspects of the corrosion of aluminium alloys with many illustrations and references. In addition to that, the first chapter allows the reader who is not very familiar with aluminium to understand the metallurgical, chemical and physical features of the aluminium alloys. The author Christian Vargel, has adopted a practitioner approach, based on the expertise and experience gained from a 40 year...

Handbook of Liquids-Assisted Laser Processing

• ISBN:
• 0080444989
• Authors:
• Arvi Kruusing

Laser processing of solid materials has been commonly performed in gas ambient. Having the workpiece immersed into liquid, having a liquid film on it, or soaking the material with liquid gives several advantages such as removal of the debris, lowering the heat load on the workpiece, and confining the vapour and plasma, resulting in higher shock pressure on the surface. Introduced in the 1980s, neutral liquids assisted laser processing (LALP) has...

Postharvest Handling, Second Edition: A Systems Approach (Food Science and Technology)

• ISBN:
• 0123741122

Consideration of the interactions between decisions made at one point in the supply chain and its effects on the subsequent stages is the core concept of a systems approach. Postharvest Handling is unique in its application of this systems approach to the handling of fruits and vegetables, exploring multiple aspects of this important process through chapters written by experts from a variety of backgrounds. Newly updated and revised, this second...

Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution (Handbooks in Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0123742587

The models of portfolio selection and asset price dynamics in this volume seek to explain the market dynamics of asset prices. Presenting a range of analytical, empirical, and numerical techniques as well as several different modeling approaches, the authors depict the state of debate on the market selection hypothesis. By explicitly assuming the heterogeneity of investors, they present models that are descriptive and normative as well, making...

Computational Methods in Optimization: A Unified Approach (Mathematics in Science and Engineering Ser. : Vol 77)

• ISBN:
• 0125593503
• Authors:
• Author Unknown

Decide and Conquer: Make Winning Decisions and Take Control of Your Life

• ISBN:
• 0131425013
• Authors:
• Stephen P. Robbins

Better decisions lead to a better life: one that's happier, wealthier, healthier and more fulfilling. "Decide and Conquer" brings together all the practical skills readers need to make the best possible decisions every day. Best-selling author, and the world's number one management textbook author, Stephen P. Robbins draws on the latest research to identify the biggest reasons why people make poor decisions--and offer no-nonsense, plain-English...

The Japanese Money Tree: How Investors Can Prosper from Japan's Economic Rebirth

• ISBN:
• 0132343908
• Authors:
• Andrew H. Shipley

Front Flap For over a decade, investors shunned Japan, which had been stuck in an economic quagmire. But reforms have unleashed the world's second largest economy. Andrew H. Shipley's The Japanese Money Tree challenges the stale conventional wisdom regarding Japan's grim prospects, and highlights how foreign investors are making the most of exciting opportunities in Tokyo. He also reveals how readers themselves, whether institutional money...

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 0192802186
• Authors:
• James Fulcher

This Introduction explores the origins of capitalism and questions whether it did indeed originate in Europe. It examines a distinctive stage in the development of capitalism that began in the 1980s, in order to understand where we are now and how capitalism has evolved since. The book discusses the crisis tendencies of capitalism--including the S.E. Asian banking crisis, the collapse of the Russian economy, and the 1997-1998 global financial...

The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (Pivotal Moments in American History)

• ISBN:
• 0195136756
• Authors:
• Elliott West

This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom. To tell the story, West begins with the early history of the Nez Perce and their years of...

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 (Pivotal Moments in American History)

• ISBN:
• 0195158016
• Authors:
• Maury Klein

The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine...

The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents (Pages from History)

• ISBN:
• 0195166361
• Authors:
• Robert S. McElvaine

The Depression and New Deal is a collection of primary sources documenting American life during the longest and deepest economic collapse in American history. From the prosperity and rampant consumerism of the 1920s, the book moves forward to cover the double shock of the stock market crash and dust bowl and then on to the recovery efforts of Roosevelt's New Deal. Some of the most revealing testaments to the times-including songs by Woody...

The Bay of Pigs (Pivotal Moments in American History)

• ISBN:
• 019517383X
• Authors:
• Howard Jones

In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of American-owned assets. In little more than a year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower concluded that Castro must go. In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of...

A Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica

• ISBN:
• 0195188241
• Authors:
• Margaret Gargiullo, Barbara Magnuson, Larry Kimball

At the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the wold, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and lowland rainforests, to dry tropical evergreen and deciduous forests. Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica is a must-have reference guide for beginner and expert naturalists alike. It provides a thorough survey of more than 850 plant species, each entry accompanied by color photos...

The Oxford History of World Cinema

• ISBN:
• 0198112572

Featuring nearly three hundred film stills, production shots, and other illustrations, an authoritative history of the cinema traces the development of the medium, its filmmakers and stars, and the evolution of national cinemas around the world. UP.

The Business of Economics

• ISBN:
• 0198292228
• Authors:
• John Kay

Medicine and business management share certain similarities, writes John Kay. For centuries, the theories behind medical practice were mostly nonsense. Doctors simply applied fashionable nostrums, bleeding one patient, starving another, and sometimes the patient got better, sometimes not. The prestige of a doctor rested more on the social rank of his patients and the confidence of his assertions than on the evidence of his cures. Much the same...

Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change

• ISBN:
• 0198567057

Tropical forests represent the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and play a key role in hydrology, carbon storage and exchange. Many of the human-induced pressures these regions are facing, e.g. fragmentation and deforestation, have been widely reported and well documented. However, there have been surprisingly few efforts to synthesize cutting-edge science in the area of tropical forest interaction with atmospheric change. At a time when our...

The Institutions of the Market: Organizations, Social Systems, and Governance

• ISBN:
• 0199231435

This book approaches markets as a dynamic ensemble of institutions; and as a set of rules or norms, that contribute to the evolution of social systems of governance, and can be analysed as a structured social system. It tackles such questions as: * Where do markets come from and what drives their evolution? * How do organizations cope with the competitive dynamism of markets? * What is the role of governance mechanisms in the institutional...

Leadership, Management and Command: Rethinking D-Day

• ISBN:
• 0230543170
• Authors:
• Keith Grint

The author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side. Instead he provides an account of the battle through the overarching nature of the relationship between the leaders and their followers.

Picture Composition for Film and Video

• ISBN:
• 0240514211
• Authors:
• PETER WARD

Behind each shot there lies an idea or purpose. When setting up a shot, the camera operator can employ a range of visual techniques that will clearly communicate the idea to an audience. Composition is the bedrock of the operator's craft, yet is seldom taught in training courses in the belief that it is an intuitive, personal skill. Behind each shot there lies an idea or purpose. When setting up a shot, the camera operator can employ a range of...

American History

• ISBN:
• 0618556710
• Authors:
• Robert Dallek, Jesus Garcia, Donna M. Ogle, C. Frederick Risinger

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World

• ISBN:
• 0670881112
• Authors:
• Kevin Kelly

The old rules are broken. The current revolution in business requires nothing less than a new set of rules. Succinct and memorable, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy. Kelly's manifesto in Wired brought rave reviews from business gurus such as Tom Peters, and praise from think tanks and business strategists from all over the world. New Rules will wake up the business world. Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. Today,...

How to Win Friends & Influence People

• ISBN:
• 0671723650
• Authors:
• Dale Carnegie

You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you! For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help readers achieve their maximum potential in the...

Testing Macroeconometric Models

• ISBN:
• 0674875036
• Authors:
• Ray Fair

In this book Ray Fair expounds powerful techniques for estimating and analyzing macroeconometric models. He takes advantage of the remarkable decrease in computational costs that has occurred since the early 1980s by implementing such sophisticated techniques as stochastic simulation. Testing Macroeconometric Models also incorporates the assumption of rational expectations in the estimation, solution, and testing of the models. And it presents...

Dictionary of American History: Vol. 2 (Dictionary of American History)

• ISBN:
• 0684805332

Essays on the Great Depression

• ISBN:
• 0691016984
• Authors:
• Ben S. Bernanke

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben Bernanke has gathered together his essays on why the Great Depression was...

Modern Pricing of Interest-Rate Derivatives: The LIBOR Market Model and Beyond

• ISBN:
• 0691089736
• Authors:
• Riccardo Rebonato

In recent years, interest-rate modeling has developed rapidly in terms of both practice and theory. The academic and practitioners' communities, however, have not always communicated as productively as would have been desirable. As a result, their research programs have often developed with little constructive interference. In this book, Riccardo Rebonato draws on his academic and professional experience, straddling both sides of the divide to...

The Power of Creative Intelligence

• ISBN:
• 0722540507
• Authors:
• Tony Buzan

10 ways to tap into your creative genius Did you know the number of ideas it is possible for your brain to create is greater than the number of atoms in the known universe? Creativity is not just painting a picture or playing an instrument -- it can be part of every decision you take! This book is full of fun games and tools to help you make the most of your own creativity. When you are creative, you are full of energy, enthusiasm, and ideas....

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

• ISBN:
• 0738208248
• Authors:
• William Bridges

From the most trusted voice on transition, a revised edition of the classic practical guide to dealing with the human side of organizational change. The business world is a place of constant change, with stories of corporate mergers, layoffs, bankruptcy, and restructuring hitting the news every day. Yet as veteran consultant William Bridges maintains, the situational changes are not as difficult for companies to make as the psychological...

The Art of Faking It: Sounding Smart Without Really Knowing Anything

• ISBN:
• 0762432977
• Authors:
• Laurence Whitted-Fry

In today’s fast-paced society, who has time to keep up with both the current trends and the classics of what is “good” and “popular”? The Art of Faking It guides you—with tongue planted firmly in cheek—through any awkward, intellectual, and/or über-sophisticated social situation, using both panache and pithy nuggets of wisdom to ensure you’ll never be at a loss for the right words and attitudes again. Inside you will find...

Adobe Premiere 6 Bible

• ISBN:
• 0764534564
• Authors:
• Adele Droblas, Seth Greenberg

This is the definitive guide to the new version of the world's top desktop digital video tool. It includes tutorials, tips, and tricks for editing digital video in Premiere -- as well as how to create special effects in Premiere and AfterEffects, Electrifier and other apps. Adobe Premiere 6 Bible demonstrates how to professionally integrate narration, music and/or sound effects with moving images; and shows you how to create digital video...

Final Cut Pro HD for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764577735
• Authors:
• Helmut Kobler

* Shows film and video makers new to Final Cut Pro how to get down to work with this complicated, professional-level video editing software * The Macintosh platform, which includes Final Cut Pro, owns 58 percent of the video editing software market * Topics covered include working with new program features, organizing media, using advanced editing tools, harnessing audio and video filters, applying transitions, creating motion effects,...

Adobe Premiere Elements for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764578812
• Authors:
• Keith Underdahl

Adobe Premiere Elements offers amateur and home moviemakers the opportunity to work with editing tools as powerful as those packed into Adobe Premiere Pro, one of the top tools on the market. Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies offers these same users not only a guide through all the how-to steps of using the software, but also a valuable reference on how to best apply the tools to a great video project. Author Keith Underdahl, also author of...

Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX (Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0764579185
• Authors:
• Sivakumar Harinath, Stephen R. Quinn

Written by the lead developers of Analysis Services at Microsoft, this book begins with an overview showing how Analysis Services and MDX can be used to build data warehouses and multidimensional databases The authors then describe the development processes for building dimensions and cubes from various data sources Demonstrating a variety of techniques in real-world scenarios, the book shows how MDX can be used to query databases to provide...

Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0764584359
• Authors:
• Brian Knight, Allan Mitchell, Darren Green, Douglas Hinson, Kathi Kellenberger, Andy Leonard, Erik Veerman, Jason Gerard, Haidong Ji, Mike Murphy

This book will help you get past the initial learning curve quickly so that you can get started using SSIS to transform data, create a workflow, or maintain your SQL Server. Offering you hands-on guidance, you'll learn a new world of integration possibilities and be able to move away from scripting complex logic to programming tasks using a full-featured language. What you will learn from this book Ways to quickly move and transform data How to...

Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL

• ISBN:
• 0764584375
• Authors:
• Wallace B. McClure, Gregory A. Beamer, IV John J. Croft, J. Ambrose Little, Bill Ryan, Phil Winstanley, David Yack, Jeremy Zongker

ADO.NET revolutionized the way data was accessed through SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. With Microsoft's release of ADO.NET 2, ADO and the .NET Framework are integrated with SQL Server for the first time-enabling you to program .NET applications directly within the SQL Server database. Packed with sample code and recommended best practices for using ADO.NET 2, this code-intensive book explores the new data types that are available in the 2.0...

Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

• ISBN:
• 0764584979
• Authors:
• Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan, Dave DuVarney

Professional SQL Server 2005 XML (Programmer to Programmer)

• ISBN:
• 0764597922
• Authors:
• Scott Klein

Discusses SQL Server 2005 XML from the server and client sides Examines using XSLT to render the XML data that is retrieved from SQL Server, particularly for ASP.NET Addresses SQL Server relationship with schemas, SOAP, XML security, and .NET Makes extensive use of examples to solve problems that programmers face on an everyday basis and features Server 2005 XML best practices

Quilting For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

• ISBN:
• 076459799X
• Authors:
• Cheryl Fall

Get the know-how you need to create beautiful quilts and decorative quilted items Quilting is a fun hobby -- but where do you begin? From selecting fabrics and designing a quilt to stitching by hand or machine, this friendly guide shows you how to put all the pieces together -- and create a wide variety of quilted keepsakes for your home. We'll have you in stitches in no time! Discover how to * Select the right fabrics and threads * Design your...

Auto Repair For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 076459902X
• Authors:
• Deanna Sclar

The top-selling auto repair guide--400,000 copies sold--now extensively reorganized and updated Forty-eight percent of U.S. households perform at least some automobile maintenance on their own, with women now accounting for one third of this $34 billion automotive do-it-yourself market. For new or would-be do-it-yourself mechanics, this illustrated how-to guide has long been a must and now it's even better. A complete reorganization now puts...

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (Library Binder)

• ISBN:
• 0786199172
• Authors:
• Henry Hazlitt

Called by H. L. Mencken, one of the few economists in history who could really write, Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work. In it, he explains basic truths about economics and the economic fallacies responsible for unemployment, inflation, high taxes, and recession. Covering considerable ground, Hazlitt illustrates the destructive effects of taxes, rent and price controls, inflation, trade restrictions, and...

Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core Personality

• ISBN:
• 078798633X
• Authors:
• Michael Gurian

From Michael Gurian, the best-selling author of The Minds of Boys and The Wonder of Girls , comes the next-step book that shows how any parent can tune into a child’s unique core personality, hard wiring, temperament, and genetic predisposition in order to help that child flourish and thrive. Based on the most recent brain research, Nurture the Nature features the Ten Tips for Nurturing the Nature of Your Baby, self-tests, checklists, and many...

The Five Essential Steps in Digital Video

• ISBN:
• 0789726157
• Authors:
• Denise Ohio

Five Essential Steps in Digital Video is packed full of information for the novice to the seasoned producer. It covers the basics of DV technology and choosing the right equipment to planning your budget, digitizing your own music, and acquiring resources online. Selling a project has also been transformed by the Internet and the author explains which means of distribution would be the best for the reader's project.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Online Dating

• ISBN:
• 0789732858
• Authors:
• Greg Holden

Curious about online dating but worried that it might not be safe? Not even sure where to start and which site to try first? Now there is a one-stop reference guide to teach you everything you need to know to enter the world of online dating — safely. The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Online Dating will help you acquire the skills to attract a future mate based on personality, values and interests using e-mail, chat and the Web. From a...

Anxiety Disorders (Psychological Disorders)

• ISBN:
• 0791085430
• Authors:
• Sucheta Connolly, Cynthia L. Petty, David A. Simpson

Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies

• ISBN:
• 0792344359

Innovation and Technology -- Strategies and Policies contains a selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global changes affecting society. The book describes major evolutionary directions and foreseen trends in: environment versus industry; technology breakthroughs; energy planning; education and research; intangible investment requirements; new health...

Institutional Economics: Theory, Method, Policy (Recent Economic Thought)

• ISBN:
• 0792393465

The volume appraises, refines, and extends the institutionalist's evolutionary theory of political economy in six different areas of inquiry: (a) the provision of a fresh and comparative overview of institutional economics in general; (b) the presentation and refinement of pragmatic methods of inquiry; (c) the exploration of extensions and clarifications of instrumental value theory; (d) the distillation of an emergent institutionalist theory of...

Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ

• ISBN:
• 0801892716
• Authors:
• Thomas Leitch

Most books on film adaptation -- the relation between films and their literary sources -- focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy,...

Best Practices For Teaching Introduction To Psychology

• ISBN:
• 0805852174
• Authors:
• Dana Dunn; Stephen L. Chew

Best Practices for Teaching Introduction to Psychology provides a scholarly, yet pedagogically practical approach to the many challenges found in teaching introductory psychology. Where feasible, the book supports the effectiveness of a teaching technique with empirical evidence. It provides a showcase for best practices in teaching the introductory course in two- and four-year colleges, universities, and high schools. Many of the contributing...

Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802

• ISBN:
• 0807821136
• Authors:
• Douglas R. Egerton

Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; and the second, called the 'Easter Plot,' instigated in 1802 by one of his followers. Although Gabriel has frequently been portrayed as a messianic,...

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny

• ISBN:
• 0807823198
• Authors:
• Michael A. Morrison

Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the...

Religion on Campus

• ISBN:
• 0807826235
• Authors:
• Conrad Cherry, Betty A. DeBerg, Amanda Porterfield

The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to today's undergraduates. To explore firsthand how college students understand, practice, and learn about religion, the authors visited four very different U.S. campuses: a Roman Catholic university in the East, a...

Real Emotional Logic: Film and Television Docudrama as Persuasive Practice

• ISBN:
• 0809324091
• Authors:
• Associate Professor Steven N Lipkin PhD

Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, this book explores the ethical, historical, and ideological functions of docudrama to discover why these films based on true stories offer such appealing storylines. It posits that such appeal is rooted in docudrama's representation of actual people and events by means of melodramatic narrative structures that play on the emotions of the viewer. The dual nature of docudramas - blending narrative and...

The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation: Valuation in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

• ISBN:
• 1844073645
• Authors:
• K. N. Ninan

* Placing an economic value on biodiversity is seen by many as the best and perhaps only successful way of preserving it while also protecting livelihoods * This is the most comprehensive examination of valuation ever conducted, focusing on one of the world’s top eight biodiversity "hotspots", with principles widely applicable across the world * Original comparisons of the different "values" of biodiversity, trade-offs, incentives for...

Earn Money in Retirement: How to Draw on a Lifetime of Experience to Supplement Your Pension

• ISBN:
• 1845281128
• Authors:
• Jim Green

The anticipated pension crisis means that fewer people are going to be able to retire without supplementing their income to some degree. This book is packed with information and resources designed to enable every retiree, regardless of personal circumstances or financial worth, to tap into proven strategies for generating additional income.

France: A handbook for new residents

• ISBN:
• 1845281322
• Authors:
• Michael Brady

This Essential guide to living and working in France is a ready reference for new and established resident and home-owners. You need not read it cover-to-cover to glean information, as it consists of more than 1,000 encyclopaedia-style entries, each containing key facts and many with references to more comprehensive printed and online publications for further information. Moreover, there are two indexes, one in English and one in French, so you...

Buying a Property in Portuga, 2nd editionl: An Insider Guide to Buying a Dream Home in the Sun

• ISBN:
• 1845281977
• Authors:
• Sue Tyson-Ward

Portugal is the perfect place in which to buy a second home, or one for retirement. This book, written by an author with extensive knowledge of life in Portugal, will tell you all you need to know about where to look for a property, what types of property are available and how to find them. It explains the whole buying process from dealing with estate agents and solicitors to promissory contracts and registration. It also covers buy-to-let...

Going to Live in Australia, 2nd edition - Your practical guide to living and working in Oz

• ISBN:
• 1845282612
• Authors:
• Mary Neilson, Mathew Collins

"Everything to help you enjoy life in Australia, right from day one!" You want to move to Australia, but you're not sure how to get the right visa, find work and where to live once you've arrived. This up-to-date book tells you everything you'll need to know to settle successfully into your new life 'down under'. It not only covers visas, finding work and where to live, but also deals with health care, education, and such pontentially difficult...

Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death And Misadventure

• ISBN:
• 1845425804

Applies principles of microeconomics to unusual settings to inspire students, teachers and scholars alike in the 'dismal science'. In this book, leading experts show how economics reaches into the strangest of places and throws light onto the dark side of human nature.

Practical PID Control (Advances in Industrial Control)

• ISBN:
• 1846285852
• Authors:
• Antonio Visioli

Proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controllers are the most adopted controllers in industrial settings because of the advantageous cost/benefit ratio they are able to provide. Despite their long history and the know-how gained from years of experience, the availability of microprocessors and software tools and the increasing demand for higher product quality at reduced cost have stimulated researchers to devise new methodologies to...

Handbook of Worldwide Postal Reform (Advances in Regulatory Economics)

• ISBN:
• 1847209572
• Authors:
• Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, James I., Jr. Campbell

The postal and delivery sector has been the subject of considerable interest in recent years. This book brings together a number of contributions directed at understanding developments in the field of postal reform. The authors review the experience and plans of individual countries to provide some perspective on the problems faced in the area and the varied approaches being taken to address it. They also review key elements of policy and...

365 Confidence Builders

• ISBN:
• 185703757X
• Authors:
• David Lawrence Preston

Confidence and self-esteem are crucial to your happiness and success. But real change happens over time, and the challenge is to stick with it. This practical "365" approach makes it easier to really achieve a positive shift in your self-esteem. It's structured into 52 sections, each containing information, insights and words of inspiration, plus seven exercises, practical hints or points to ponder. At one a day, that's not too taxing is it?!

Working the American Way

• ISBN:
• 185703984X
• Authors:
• Robert Day

The purpose of this book is to help the reader to better understand American values, expectations, and behaviours in business activities and to help them to develop practical strategies for being successful in working with Americans.

Practical Guide to Polyethylene

• ISBN:
• 1859574939
• Authors:
• Mihaela Pascu

Polyethylene is probably the most commonly used polymer in everyday life. It is the polymer that is used to make grocery bags, shampoo bottles, children's toys, and even bullet-proof vests. This Practical Guide provides information about every aspect of polyethylene production and use in a reader-friendly form. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of working with polyethylene, offering practical comment on the available types of...

Late Capitalism (Verso Classics, 23)

• ISBN:
• 185984202X
• Authors:
• Ernest Mandel

Late Capitalism represents the first ever attempt to combine the general theory of the 'laws of motion' of the capitalist mode of production developed by Marx with the concrete history of capitalism in the twentieth century. Mandel sketches the structure of the world market and develops a bold schema for the 'long-waves' of expansion and contraction in the history of capitalism.

From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence: Measuring Technological, Market And Organisational Innovation (Series on Technology Management)

• ISBN:
• 1860946380

The business and academic communities continue to have an interest in the concepts of knowledge management and strategic competencies or core capabilities. This book attempts to establish the links between strategic competencies, knowledge management, organisational learning and innovation - specifically, how an organisation identifies, assesses and exploits its competencies, and translates these into new processes, products and services. The...

The Yin and Yang of American Culture: A Paradox

• ISBN:
• 1877864854
• Authors:
• Eun Y. Kim

This title uses the unique Asian concept of yin and yang to explain how American virtues and vices are opposite sides of the same coin. Unlike the dualism characteristic of the West, in much of Asia the forces of yin and yang are seen to co-exist in everything, and to complete each other to maintain cosmic harmony. Culture amd entity regarded as yin in one light can be regarded as yang in another. Eun Y. Kim begins by looking at America in the...

Dynamic Programming & Optimal Control, Vol. I

• ISBN:
• 1886529264
• Authors:
• Dimitri P. Bertsekas

The first of the two volumes of the leading and most up-to-date textbook on the far-ranging algorithmic methododogy of Dynamic Programming, which can be used for optimal control, Markovian decision problems, planning and sequential decision making under uncertainty, and discrete/combinatorial optimization. The treatment focuses on basic unifying themes, and conceptual foundations. It illustrates the versatility, power, and generality of the...

Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity (Critical Approaches to Law)

• ISBN:
• 1904385850
• Authors:
• Hunter & Cowan

This current and timely volume presents new thinking and new directions in feminist legal scholarship. Rethinking key concepts in legal feminism, Cowan and Hunter provide a unique examination of key socio-legal concepts in law, jurisprudence and legal and political theory. Written by an international cast of contributors, offering different cultural perspectives as well as doctrinal and theoretical knowledge, this collection of essays presents a...

CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

• ISBN:
• 1931641668

Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors

• ISBN:
• 1932159185
• Authors:
• Stephen G. Moyer

Recently, reorganizations, restructurings, and bankruptcies have replaced IPOs as the common financial vehicle of the times. However, these distressed companies can still provide an avenue for profitable investing. This eagerly anticipated new reference helps guide you through this treacherous landscape in order to master the multi-move chess-like strategies required to achieve financially advantageous results for your portfolio. It is the most...

Organometallics in Process Chemistry

• ISBN:
• 3540016031
• Authors:
• Rob Larsen

The design of efficient syntheses of medicinal agents is one of the prime goals of the process chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. The expanding list of metal-mediated reactions has had a major impact on this endeavor over the last two decades. This volume will highlight some of the areas of organometallic chemistry that have played a particularly important role in development. The chapters are written by chemists who work in the process...

Information Technology Auditing: An Evolving Agenda

• ISBN:
• 3540221557
• Authors:
• Jagdish Pathak

An evolving agenda of Information Technology Auditing is subject of this book. The author presents various current and future issues in the domain of IT Auditing in both scholarly as well as highly practice-driven manner so as to make those issues clear in the mind of an IT auditor. The aim of the book is not to delve deep on the technologies but the impact of these technologies on practices and procedures of IT auditors. Among the topics are...

Das Geheimnis des kürzesten Weges: Ein mathematisches Abenteuer (German Edition)

• ISBN:
• 354022193X
• Authors:
• Peter Gritzmann, Rene Brandenberg

Mit dem Auto auf möglichst kurzem Wege von München nach Hamburg zu fahren, ist keine große Übung: Es geht auf die Autobahn und dann immer geradeaus. Eine Route durch 15 112 Orte in Deutschland zu planen, ohne ein Dorf, eine Stadt zwei Mal zu besuchen, ist dagegen deutlich schwieriger. Ruth, 15 Jahre und von Mathematik alles andere als begeistert erschließt mit ihrem neuen Computer die Welt der Routenplanung und der dazugehörigen...

Nonlinear Dynamics and Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

• ISBN:
• 3540222375

Economic application of nonlinear dynamics, microscopic agent-based modelling, and the use of artificial intelligence techniques as learning devices of boundedly rational actors are among the most exciting interdisciplinary ventures of economic theory over the past decade. This volume provides us with a most fascinating series of examples on

Location Theory: A Unified Approach

• ISBN:
• 3540243216
• Authors:
• Stefan Nickel, Justo Puerto

Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly problem oriented. However, a common theory, which keeps the essential characteristics of classical location models, is still missing. This monograph addresses this issue. A flexible location problem called the Ordered Median Problem (OMP) is introduced. For all three main subareas of location theory (continuous, network and...

Systèmes multi-èchelles: Modélisation et simulation (Mathématiques et Applications) (French Edition)

• ISBN:
• 3540253130
• Authors:
• Claude Le Bris

Systèmes multi-échelles est une introduction à la problématique des systèmes multi-échelles du point de vue du mathématicien appliqué. Il se compose d'une mosaique d'exemples dont le seul lien est d'appartenir à la très grande famille des problèmes issus de la physique au sens large qui présentent pour leur modélisation et leur simulation cette difficulté essentielle de comporter en leur sein des échelles de temps ou d'espace...

Handbook on Optimal Growth 1: Discrete Time (V. 1)

• ISBN:
• 3540323082

The problem of efficient or optimal allocation of resources is a fundamental concern of economic analysis. The theory of optimal economic growth can be viewed as an aspect of this central theme, which emphasizes in general the issues arising in the allocation of resources over an infinite time horizon, and in particular the consumption-investment decision process in models in which there is no natural "terminal date". This broad scope of...

Dynamic Inventory Management in Reverse Logistics (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

• ISBN:
• 3540332294
• Authors:
• Rainer Kleber

The integration of product recovery into regular production processes enables new opportunities for cost savings. It also yields new challenges for inventory management because there are two sources to satisfy product requirements which need to be coordinated by additionally taking into account limited availability of used products. In case of a dynamic planning situation, for instance when dealing with seasonality or the product life cycle, new...

Putting Knowledge Networks into Action: Methodology, Development, Maintenance

• ISBN:
• 3540405747

The concepts and theories of knowledge management and networks are meanwhile well documented. Yet there are few, if any, guidelines on how to implement knowledge management within an organization, especially focusing on how to manage knowledge in a network environment. This shows that managing knowledge in networks is a rather new and unexplored field. This book visualizes paths that allow one to make connections between theories, concepts and...

Computer-Aided Introduction to Econometrics

• ISBN:
• 354044114X

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