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Univelt Inc., 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. CD-ROM included. These proceedings of the symposium held in June and July of 2008 includes articles commemorating the work of Markley, who left academia to serve on the technical staff of the NASA space systems division. The papers here reflect his methods of attitude determination as well as his interests in formation flying, orbit theory, and the Hubble space telescope. Topics include estimation of a Brownian motion by using wavelets and a multi-scale K... more information

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Food and Agriculture Organization, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This volume is a collection of scientific discussions and papers originally presented during the Building an ecosystem approach to aquaculture proceedings sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in May 2007. Topics covered by the 22 contributors include aquaculture environmental, social, and economic issues in a variety of aspects of the ecosystem approach t... more information

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Nomos, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume contains the published reports of Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen (FIDE) during its XXIII Congress Linz 2008, which dealt primarily with European law topics during recent expansions within the European Union and new regulations implemented in January 2003. Editors Koeck and Karollus are both officers with FIDE and present this information in English, French and German to benefit policymakers and EU financial pers... more information

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Nomos, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This collection contains reports from the May 2008 Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen (FIDE) biannual Congress. Editors and contributors Koeck and Karollus (law, Johannes Kepler U. of Linz) and 28 co-contributors provide their responses to a questionnaire regarding revisions of primary law following the non- ratification of the treaty that would have established a European constitution. Responses from 18 countries are included,... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Fabbri (philosophy, U. of California, Irvine) takes on Rorty's attempt to reconcile deconstruction with American pragmatist and liberal traditions, a challenging task as well as a risky business itself because Rorty's ideas were largely motivated by a need to contain Derrida's critique of Western philosophy and politics. Fabbri finds that Rorty's assertions that Derrida reduced philosophy to a collection of irrelevancies them... more information

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McFarland & Co., 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Faber, a former teacher and government official, and Bedford, a nursing assistant, describe the domestic programs of each US president factually, then analyze and assess the policy's wisdom, effectiveness, and benefit or harm to the nation's well being. They do not articulate their political biases, but a reading of their evaluations suggests that they believe government should support citizens over corporations, and the poor and downtrodde... more information

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Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. These 18 papers are drawn from those presented at a May 2005 meeting of linguists, lexicogaphers, translation studies theorists and practitioners, a psycholinguist and even a philosopher. The papers are therefore varied in both content and intent, and include such topics as synergy in the construction of meaning, plausibility and predictability in the suppression of irrelevant literal meanings and idiom processing, English dictionaries as sou... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In this guide for individuals, institutional investors, and academics, Fabozzi (finance, School of Management, Yale University) shows how to successfully include commodities in a portfolio and provides insights on the fundamentals of this volatile market. The book begins with a primer on the basics of commodity investing, offering insight into market participants, commodity sectors, commodity exchanges, return components of commodity futures, and... more information

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Martinus-Nijhoff, 2004. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Stern and Fabri, both professors of international law at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, present an analysis of case law related to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Contributors in law and international studies offer both objective and critical approaches on the WTO's dispute settlement mechanism (DSM). Material was originally written in French, and is presented in both English and French. Cases detail decisions on standards... more information

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Martinus-Nijhoff, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The editors (both of the U. of Paris I, France) present the fourth volume of a series of books on the case law of the World Trade Organization. Contributors take a dual approach to the topic by giving a neutral account of the reasoning of the dispute resolution mechanism, together with quotes, and by providing their critical analysis of the reasoning adopted and its relationship to evolving global case law. The cases discussed in this volume include j... more information

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Basic Books, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. A decade before the Stonewall Riots and on the other side of the country, drag queens at Los Angeles's Cooper's Doughnuts coffee shop resisted police harassment in what became "perhaps the first homosexual uprising in the world." This story provides an appropriate opening for a book that upturns the conventional wisdom surrounding the history of gay life in America by placing Los Angeles at the epicenter of gay institutional, political, a... more information

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U. of Wisconsin Press, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Sudan native Fadlalla (women's studies, Afro-American and African studies, U. of Michigan) reports findings from an ethnographic study of the women of the Hadendowa, a predominantly pastoral group in the Red Sea area of northeastern Sudan. Based on fieldwork conducted from 1989-91 and from November 1997 to December 1998, the research examines issues surrounding fertility, sexuality, and rituals. Coverage includes an historical overview of the... more information

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Edwin Mellen Pr., 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Faedo (U. of Oviedo, Spain) offers a guide to the literary legacy left by 18th-century religious women in England and Spain. Her arrangement is by literary genre, so that the information about a particular writer is often spread over several sections (though each references the others), and the bibliography is separate rather than attached to the particular author. She sketches the lives and work of women writers and translators of prose, poetry, and ... more information

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Willan Publishing, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Fafinski (law, Brunel University) examines the nature of computer misuse and the legal and extra-legal responses to it. He provides a history of its emergence parallel with the evolution of computer technology, and surveys attempts of criminal law in England and Wales in dealing with it. He then explores whether effective regulation requires more than just the domestic criminal law. The book introduces various theories of risk and considers the idea ... more information

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Univ. Press of America, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Shaykh Muhammad 'Ali Mu'adhdhin (c. 1016/1605-1078/1667) was known as the leader of his community, rather than as a scholar, yet his account of the history, beliefs, and practices of Sufism and its connection with Shi'ite Islam became a classic work and has remained so down the centuries. Faghfoory (Islamic studies, George Washington U., DC) translates the typical Safavid-period prose into an English easily read by non-scholars. (&co... more information

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Allyn & Bacon, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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U. of New Mexico Press, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Fahey (Latin American studies, Stanford U.) examines six fictional autobiographies by Alina Diaconú, Manuela Fingueret, Luisa Valenzuela, Sara Sefshovich, Laura Restrepo, and Ana Castillo, illustrating how these Latina authors portray the psychological affects of historical traumas--a recurring topic is the Argentine Dirty War--and addressing sociocultural issues of politics and gender in the protagonists' respective countries and tem... more information

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Gefen, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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Humana Press Inc., 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. According to Fairchild (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, U. of Oxford, UK), advances in the understanding of immunological tolerance raise the prospect of reestablishing a state of self-tolerance in the face of progressive autoimmunity and also suggest the possibility for avoiding the need for immunosuppression in order to treat transplant rejection. He presents methods and protocols for culturing and characterizing the cell types responsible fo... more information

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Michigan State U. Press, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Hanflik's master's thesis ( U. of Michigan-Flint, 2000) became the basis for an art exhibit titled "A Century of Jewish Life in Flint," which in turn led to this study coauthored with Faires (history and women's studies, Western Michigan U.). The authors trace demographic trends, and the civic/cultural life and challenges of the evolving Jewish community in "Vehicle City" during boom and bust times as a General M... more information

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