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Manchester U. Press, 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Drawing on his work with two research institutes in Japan, Babb examines the relationship between business and politics in that country. He does review past patterns of interaction, but focuses primarily on the current state of business involvement in politics and the degree to which things have and have not changed. He argues that the typical business reaction to government as meddling and tampering with the economy is unhealthy, and does not ackn... more information

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Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Babcock (emerita, Stanford Law School), Massaro (U. of Arizona College of Law), Spaulding (Stanford Law School) present the fourth edition of their law school textbook on United States Federal Civil Procedure. Over the course of seven chapters, they discuss due process of law, constructing a civil lawsuit, discovery of the adversary's case, dispositions and adjudications, decision makers and decision models, more complex litigation, and endi... more information

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Prometheus Books, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Drawing on some 25 years of experience as an educator, a couples' therapist, and a supervisor of couples' therapists, Babits (Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, Manhattan) has developed a framework and a method for reestablishing emotional safety in a troubled partnership; he shares this knowledge in this self-help text for couples working through relationship difficulties. The framework a cluster of interconnected ideas referred to as ... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2002. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Presents citations of current book and journal literature dealing with nuclear proliferation. The material mainly comes from Western universities and U.S. government reports and committees, although some entries from scholars from the third world are also included. (©2002 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Syracuse U. Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. As a "post-assimilation" student of Jewish literature in America, Bachman (English, Spalding U., Louisville, Kentucky) reads works by authors who provide "thresholds" to understanding the immigrant experience in the real/imagined "Yiddishland" of New York's Lower East Side: Abraham Cahan's novel Yekl (1896) and Anzia Yezierska's short story collection, Hungry Hearts (1920 ). She contrasts these works to moder... more information

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In presenting this reference collection designed for the use of researchers in law and economics, Backhaus (public finance and fiscal sociology, Erfurt U., Germany) seeks to avoid duplication with similar works, particularly the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, which focused on the Chicago tradition. This allows for a greater focus on primarily European aspects of law and economics. The first 32 contributions are presented in s... more information

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Conceived as a companion to The Asian Insider, also by Backman (a newspaper columnist specializing in Asian culture and corporate practice), this is a self-described "potpourri" of information about doing business in Asia that recognizes that there is no strict delineation of boundaries between business and non-business in the Asian context. After a chapter on Asian naming structures he provides chapters describing the positive and negativ... more information

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American Mathematical Society, 2002. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This mathematical monograph concerns fundamental problems of the theory of infinitely differentiable functions, particularly focusing on the theory of functions of quasianalytic classes. The study of factorial series is combined with the study of quasipower series, which generalize the ordinary power series and serve as a tool for the representation of functions of quasianalytic classes. Also presented are some applications of quasipower ... more information

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Wiley-VCH, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. From Alexei Abrikosov, the Russian-born physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of condensed matter physics, to Rolf M. Zinkernagel, the Swiss immunologist who won for helping to discover the restriction of major histocompatibility complex antigens, this book presents 305 black and white photographic portraits of Nobel Prize winners in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, economics, peace, and literature. The... more information

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Sage Publications, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The four-step model of planning described in this guide for middle and high school teachers outlines a logical progression from state and national content area standards to unit and daily instructional objectives, mirroring the progression from the knowledge level to the evaluation level of Bloom's taxonomy. Opening chapters on deconstructing the standards shows how to create clear instructional objectives for various content areas as prescribed ... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Bosteels (romance studies, Cornell University) has accomplished the amazing feat of making the English translation of Alain Badiou's first major philosophical work both readable and true to the lyrical style of the original. Badiou's philosophy, along with that of Foucault, has been applied to sociology, anthropology, history, literary criticism, film studies and political theory. In this book, the ideas of which he later expanded up... more information

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CRC / Taylor & Francis, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Covering both emerging and standard tools and techniques, Badiru (Air Force Institute of Technology) presents an integrated approach to using project management in an industrial setting to mitigate the adverse effects of time, cost, and performance constraints typical for any project. Introductory chapters review characteristics of industrial projects, principles of project management, and time and schedule management. This is followed by ma... more information

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Edwin Mellen Pr., 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Without claiming to provide a comprehensive account, Badru (pan African studies and sociology, U. of Louisville) traces the history of globalization and Islam in West Africa to its ancient roots, and demonstrates the effect of globalization on the embrace of Islam in the region. He also describes the specificity of Islamic practice in black Africa and the socio-cultural basis of the local variation in the adoption of Islam. (©2007 Book News, Inc.... more information

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Frank Cass, 1998. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Contains seven essays focusing on the Korean model of industrialization and economic growth, internationalization, organizational capabilities and management, and its inherent disadvantages. Topics include the sources of growth and industrialization, the "catch-up" strategies of firms, foreign investment, the causes of the recent financial crisis, and future possibilities. Distributed by ISBS. (©1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Transaction Publishers, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Max Weber was a noted German political sociologist and economist (1864-1920) and a founder of the disciplines of modern sociology and public administration. While a considerable volume of literature on Weber exists, Baehr (sociology and social policy, Lingnan U., Hong Kong) has undertaken to create new connections and explanations of Weber's noted concepts of charisma and its political expression in Caesarism. The author also connects Weber&... more information

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Wiley-Interscience, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Oncologists and radiologists from industry and academia survey potentials of modern imaging instrumentation and automated image processing tools to accelerate the development of more effective drug therapies for early lung cancer. Relevant background material is provided to make the discussion accessible to readers in a number of specialties. Among their topics are an industry perspective on incorporating imaging into drug development, the impact on... more information

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LFB Scholarly Publishing, LLC, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Baer, a New York history teacher, knows that there have been many studies of the court mandated desegregation of public schools fifty years ago. Perhaps time was needed for a more objective view. Baer takes Arkansas as her base, with Little Rock as the focal point. She argues that Little Rock was a moderate town ready to integrate, if not enthusiastic. However, Governor Faubus saw the matter as one of states' rights. This diverted man... more information

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Crown Publishers, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Baer, now medical director for the nation's largest Medicare contractor, had a psychiatry practice for 14 years. He offers a complete account of his 18 year odyssey with Karen Overhill, a seemingly normal wife and mother who came to him for depression and eventually revealed 17 separate personalities. A classic case of multiple personality disorder (MPD), Karen survived a childhood of unimaginable horror and was only able to maintain even a tenuou... more information

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Lost Coast Press, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Moroccan-born American painter Coriat de Baëre renders historic images from the Holocaust through a new lens, doing away with the softening effect achieved by the public's familiarity with the images. The nine paintings collected here are coupled with the artist's poems, are all nearly devoid of color, and all lack living subjects. Instead, the artist tests the ability of monochrome to evoke a wintry railroad during WWII, the empty inside... more information

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Stanford U. Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. For many households in Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Honduras and Mexico, getting sufficient preventative health care is problematic; for many a relatively minor illness, especially when the primary income is impacted, can cause a financial crisis from which no member of the family will completely recover. In this report based on case studies, Baeza, lead health policy specialist and Packard, senior economist, both of the World Bank, track the... more information

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