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American Mathematical Society, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The school is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of mathematics, but the lecturers came from biology, medicine, and physics and well as mathematics. Six selected lectures cover the rules of an embryo, modeling dorsal-ventral specification in the developing mouse limb, notch-mathics, individual-based models and multi-scale approaches for modeling tumor-induced angiogenesis, tumor radiotherapy and its mathematical mod... more information

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International Trade Centre, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Developed by researchers affiliated with the International Trade Center, the Business Management System (BMS) is a generic structure for effectively managing business enterprises so that they can be more competitive in the global marketplace. This resource for managers of small- and medium-sized enterprises explains the principles of BMS and discusses its application in each phase of the strategy cycle of business management. Supplementary m... more information

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International Trade Centre, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This guide examines all aspects of the cotton value chain from a market perspective, and provides an overview of the world cotton market. It considers trade policy and WTO issues, and covers aspects of cotton trading and export marketing, such as packaging, controlling, back office and documentation, freight and shipping, contracts and arbitration, e-commerce, and futures markets. It also reviews the market for different types of cotton, inc... more information

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United Nations Publications, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Several agencies have collaborated to produce a guide to help statistical authorities of countries in the region make their national statistical systems more responsive to information needs of policy makers and other users of development data and indicators. Reliable statistics are needed to improve survey programs, make more effective use of existing sources, and adopt international standards and definitions. (©2008 Book News, Inc., P... more information

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Am. Society of Civil Engineers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this product of a US-China workshop held in Orlando on March 14, 2009, Han (U. of Kansas) introduces 33 technical papers that present recent advances in research and applications in ground improvement technologies. Keynote addresses summarize project development pros and cons for such technologies used in the US for highway renewal, and advances in column-type reinforcement element and its applications in China. Papers on slope stabil... more information

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Am. Society of Civil Engineers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this product of a US-China workshop held in Orlando on March 14, 2009, Han (U. of Kansas) introduces 33 technical papers that present recent advances in research and applications in ground improvement technologies. Keynote addresses summarize project development pros and cons for such technologies used in the US for highway renewal, and advances in column-type reinforcement element and its applications in China. Papers on slope stabil... more information

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Am. Society of Civil Engineers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this product of a US-China workshop held in Orlando on March 14, 2009, Han (U. of Kansas) introduces 33 technical papers that present recent advances in research and applications in ground improvement technologies. Keynote addresses summarize project development pros and cons for such technologies used in the US for highway renewal, and advances in column-type reinforcement element and its applications in China. Papers on slope stabil... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This brief monograph describes the multi-component molecular orbital methods and the hybrid type density functional theories used to analyze such chemical phenomenon as the H/D isotope effect and positronic systems. Udagawa (quantum chemistry, Yokohama-City U., Japan) and Tachikawa (quantum chemistry, International Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Japan) have aimed this paper primarily at fellow researchers and advanced students of quantum... more information

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Praeger, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Presenting here means not displaying, but what Udayakumar (South Asian Community Center for Education and Research, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India) calls nowcasting, making the past into the present. One of the main strategies, he says, of the Indian Hindu nationalist movement is to construct a sanitized Hindu history and force all of India to conform to it. He describes the operations of defining US and depicting Our Story; historicizing myth and mythologizing ... more information

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Lexington Books, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In a series of connected essays, Udogu (political science, Appalachian State U.) aims to identify the impediments to African political and economic development. He discusses the colonial political legacy, lack of developed markets and economic dependency, areas of concern with the New Partnership for Africa's Development, the need for re-structuring African polities, ethnic politics, pan- Africanism, and the African "brain drain." (©... more information

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Prentice Hall, 2001. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. CD-ROM included. Step-by-step instructions are given for tasks and procedures associated with deploying, executing, administering, and troubleshooting WebSphere applications in this book/CD-ROM package. Tasks are placed in context with discussion of architectural alternatives, deployment topologies, and workload management. Technologies described include JavaServer Pages, Enterprise JavaBeans APIs, and WebSphere security. The companion CD-ROM contains a ... more information

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UCSD, Ctr/U.S.-Mexican Studies, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Through fieldwork-based qualitative and quantitative data gathered in several Mexican states, this volume traces the results of the decentralization policy for improving health care services in Latin America. The text begins with an overview of the history of health decentralization in Mexico and then presents case studies of decentralization in 10 states. The conclusions in each case are presented as useful information for policymakers,... more information

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Edwin Mellen Pr., 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In order to investigate aesthetic features of Igbo masking performances, Ukaegbu (drama, U. of Northampton) focuses on a selection of representative masking styles, and explores different performance contexts and displays from all region of Ibgo society. He analyzes design concepts and aspects of the form that continue to provide information, drawing mainly from public performances, and avoiding the super-secret displays of occult societies. (©20... more information

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Examining the European banking industry through a 23-year industry level historical review, a review of the academic literature, a firm level questionnaire survey, and in-depth firm level interviews, ul- Haq (strategic management, U. of Birmingham, UK) seeks to answer the question of whether strategic alliances add value. In general, he finds that strategic alliances allow the ability to balance markets and intra-firm transaction extremes; "Clu... more information

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Berghahn Books, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. If human social organization is fundamentally a problem of human ecology and thus concerns material and mental creativity, human biology, and the co-evolution of society and culture, then full understanding of human society requires a holistic anthropology that can incorporate diverse areas of inquiry. Parkin (social anthropology, U. of Oxford, UK) and Ulijaszek (human ecology, U. of Oxford) present 10 essays that explore the ramifications of holism in ... more information

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Berghahn Books, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Based on papers given at a University of Oxford seminar, these ten articles examine population decline and subsequent resurgence, the ways in which the biological is uncoupled from the social in the context of reproduction, and local understandings of fertility in the Pacific region encompassing New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Ireland, the Vanuatu Islands, and New Caledonia. Topics include the impacts of colonialism on health and fertility, sexuali... more information

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BRILL, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Uljas (Trinity College, Cambridge U.) considers how the three verbal "meaning domains" of tense, aspect and modality work within the grammatical organization of the language, focusing on modality. He proposes a new way of thinking about modality in Egyptological linguistics, analyzing it according to semantics and pragmatics and focusing on fully clausal complements. He begins his survey with complementary clauses after governing verbs and moves to oth... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The 60 short chapters in this quick resource provide step-by-step instructions for getting the Mac Panther operating system to load and run faster, organizing files and removing clutter, improving application performance, cranking up internet activities, and optimizing a network. Multimedia CDs, iPod, backups, Bluetooth, and the Terminal are also addressed. (©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Stanford U. Press, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This is a biography of Francis Jeanson, the French existentialist philosopher who has been called the "chosen disciple" of Jean Paul Sartre, but who broke with Sartre and Camus in the 1950s. Ulloa (associate director, Mediterranean Studies Form and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford U.) describes Jeanson's intellectual development and its connections to his evolving political commitments, which saw Jeanson working with the ... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Intended for readers new to this software, as well as for those who want to learn more about Photoshop Elements or want to know what's new in version 3, this manual offers step-by-step instructions that are shown rather than described. The text is minimal and concise, and much of the information is presented in screen shots. Topics range from basics about working with the image, saving and printing, to making selections, navigating image cont... more information

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