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Little, Brown, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Armed with only a steno pad and two pens, D'Agostino, an editor at Esquire magazine, knocked on 500 doors in nearly two dozen of the most affluent towns in America, and interviewed 50 regular (though very rich) men and women who built their wealth in 50 different ways. They share their financial decisions, setbacks, triumphant moments, and insights on what it means to have money and how to get it. Rather than nuts and bolts investing or business advi... more information

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. D'Amore (U. Autónoma de Zacatecas "Francisco García Salinas") grapples with problems relating to translating contemporary Mexican texts, especially those that display signs of linguistic innovation and creativity, often resulting from contact with English. She offers advice to translators whose primary allegiance is to the source text, and want to convey in the translation the distinctive features of the original l... more information

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State U. of New York Pr., 1999. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. D'Anieri (political science, Russian, and East European studies, U. of Kansas) examines the dilemmas faced by Ukraine in its quest for independence, focusing on the interplay between the country's desire for sovereignty, prosperity, and security. He argues that Ukraine's quest for political autonomy from Russia is in tension with the deep economic interdependence between the two countries and sets out to show how the scholarly lite... more information

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Pharmaceutical Products Pr., 1999. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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American Mathematical Society, 2004. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Based on a March 2001 workshop, this collection explores connections between random graphs and percolation, between slow mixing and phase transition, and between graph morphisms and hard-constraint models. Topics of the 14 papers include efficient local search near phase transitions in combinatorial optimization, graph homomorphisms and long range action, recent results on parameterized H-colorings, the satisfiability of random k-Horn for... more information

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Broadway Books, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This book presents a new dolchstoßlegende for a new century. Conservative pundit D'Souza argues that the "cultural left" of the United States is responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. His charges boil down to two essential points. First, he argues, the "cultural left" has fostered a decadent American culture that "angers and repulses" the traditional Islamic world. Secondly, and one suspect... more information

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Ashgate Publishing Co., 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Featuring contributions from the perspective of the government, academics, the Quality Assurance Agency, unions, students, and employers, this book addresses some of the challenges facing the UK education system. It identifies and examines the separate responsibilities and contributions of each stakeholder in terms of a compact. The 15 essays included here center on the idea of a compact, the political economy of higher education, issues of incl... more information

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Ess Ess Publications, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Dabas (Deputy Librarian, Maharshi Dayanand U., India) presents sixteen chapters--many previously published--examining issues and developments in information technologies for libraries. Topics include the impact of automation on library management techniques, knowledge management in academic libraries, general philosophy of the evolution of CD-ROM networking, network security, digital collections, e-publishing, and digital initiatives in library ma... more information

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Ess Ess Publications, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Writing for librarians and students, Dabas, a librarian at Maharshi Dayanand U., Rohtak, India, discusses quality management as an approach to evaluating and providing better library services. The book covers the basic elements of total quality management (TQM); quality audit and quality oriented strategies for implementation; marketing and other strategies for surviving in the new information environment, such as library automation and integratin... more information

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Transaction Publishers, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Dabashi (Iranian studies and comparative literature, Columbia U.) offers his reflections over the years on the question of who gets to represent whom and by what authority. More specifically, he points out that when racist representations--here of Muslims generally and Iranians in particular--are initiated in the most militarily powerful country in the world, a country that is already deeply engaged directly and by proxy in several wars against ... more information

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Peterson Inst. Int'l Economics, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Aslund (Peterson Institute for International Economics, US) and Dabrowski (chairman, Supervisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland) laud the economic growth that they see as a result of economic globalization but worry about significant macroeconomic imbalances that it has engendered. They present ten papers that explore these imbalances and possible solutions. Contributions discuss the large current acco... more information

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Central European U. Press, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Dabrowski (Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland and a former Polish finance minister) presents a series of comparative studies of monetary disinflation policies in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe. The authors examine the dynamics of the disinflation process and analyze the importance of such factors as changes in money supply and demand, exchange rate policy, fiscal policy, the legal status of central banks, monetary... more information

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Kluwer Academic Pubs., 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Dabrowski (Center for Social and Economic Research, Warsaw, Poland) presents eight comparative papers from a research project carried by his organization between October 1999 and September 2001. The papers examine theoretical models and causes of currency crises; discuss issues of crisis management and the contagion effect; and explore social and political consequences of currency crises. Also included are case studies of 1990s currency crises in... more information

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Middlesex Univ. Press, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Chair of publications at the Art Libraries Society, Dade has previously treated the advertising of cosmetics. Here she surveys printed advertising of alcoholic beverages during the 20th century, focusing exclusively on British brands or foreign brands that have advertised enough in the British press to be a presence, and excluding American brands. In addition to the iconography of alcohol advertising, she looks at patterns of consumption, some fa... more information

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Prometheus Books, 2004. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Analyzing press freedom during the period after the September 2001 attacks, an editor at the International Press Institute in Vienna asks whether the Bush administration attempted to pressure the media, and what impact the war on terrorism has had on press freedom around the world. (©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In this work of synthesis, Dagg (U. of Waterloo, Canada) surveys information on the social behavior of older animals. Discussing the behavior of a broad range of animals living in the wild or in large- area captivity, including elephants, dolphins, whales, monkeys, antelopes, wolves, birds, chimpanzees, and gorillas, she addresses such topics as elder socialization of younger animals, leadership, teaching and learning, reproduction, aging of cap... more information

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Course Technology *USE ctptr*, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Dagys a writer of books and articles on technology and the internet, discusses the features and uses of SmartPhones, focusing on the Blackberry 7100 series and Treo 650. He explains their commands and functions, applications, communication tools, how to browse the Web, entertainment features, customization, add-on applications, moblogging, and how to decide which device is best. There is no bibliography, but websites are cited throughout ... more information

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Pendragon Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The conviction is firmly rooted that value judgments--here of music--are nothing more but more or less disguised judgments of personal taste. Rooted just as firmly is the conviction that musical analysis is objective and free of any value judgment. Musicologist Dahlhouse (1928-1989) demonstrates the interplay between the two approaches--more complex than compromise and too dynamic to define precisely--as they can and must be employed to teach young peo... more information

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Prentice Hall, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Java architects Dahlen and Fritzon explain how to properly encapsulate legacy systems and make them usable on the Internet. They describe methods and techniques for standardizing the encapsulation process, making it more efficient. Specifically, they recommend producing an integration tier to shield the J2EE part of an application from the properties and demands of its legacy part, thus making the applications more portable. (©2003 Book News, Inc., ... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume compiles nine studies of animal reproduction, along with five short communications. The studies consider topics such as endocrine disruptors and their effects on reproductive function, bovine perinatal mortality, the female reproductive biology of caecilians, GnRH and other hypothalamic peptides, female sperm storage in vertebrates, assisted reproductive techniques in domestic animals, the reproduction of the Yangtze finless porpois... more information

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