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Otago University Press, 2001. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Written between 1909 and 1911 this autobiography describes Vaggioli's philosophical temperament, his search for justice, his objections to war, and his activities as a missionary in New Zealand. It covers the period of his life between 1879 and 1887. The introduction provides background information, and a few black and white illustrations are featured. Distributed by ISBS. (©2002 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Cited in Guide to Reference Books and prepared under the auspices of the International Association of Legal Science, this magisterial two-volume work assembles lengthy, authoritative chapters on comparative business law that were written by specialists in Europe and the U.S. The laws discussed in the most depth are those of the U.S., Germany, France, and England. State corporate law in the U.S. is generally that of Delaware, where the large... more information

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CRC Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In this update of the 2004 edition since when "...much water has flowed under the bridge of Biotechnology," Vaidyanath (biotechnology advisor; retired, genetics, Osmania U., Hyderabad, India) introduces advances and applications in the field from the perspectives of sustainable development and human welfare in areas including animal and human biology, genetics, microbial biotechnology, and molecular medicine. Chapters include essay type questions a... more information

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John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The Third International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia was held in Tomsk, south-central Siberia, in June 2006. A broad range of topics was discussed, but the 14 papers chosen and revised for this volume focus mostly on issues involving systems of coordination and subordination in complex sentences in the languages of Eurasia. Languages in the region display an usually high prevalence of suffixation ... more information

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Regent Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume compiles approximately 50 black and white photographs by Iranian-born and California-based doctor and photographer Vajed. The work includes studies of plants, flowers, portraits, and industrial forms, but the artist's main subject is light. The discipline with which he has studied its possibilities, and the capacity for photography to manipulate light is evident in his elegantly simple, liquid, often dream-like images. (©2009 Book New... more information

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Middlesex Univ. Press, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Vaknin, an archivist at the Library of Historic Advertising, Middlesex U., UK, traces the history of car advertising in the twentieth century from early automobiles of the 1900s to sport utility vehicles of the 1990s. She includes about 120 original ads in color, as she recounts the history decade by decade, the content of ads, and their purpose. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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The World Bank, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This study by Andersen (economics, U. of Adelaide, Australia) and Valdés (U. Católica de Chile) compiles new annual time series estimates of protection and taxation in agriculture in Mexico, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina over the past half century in order to obtain quantitative indicators of policy interventions, to gain understanding of the political economy of what they identify as pr... more information

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Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In this analysis of South Africa's post-apartheid security system, the author moves beyond a discussion of different states to examine southern Africa as an integrated whole. Vale, who holds the Nelson Mandela Chair in Politics at Rhodes University in South Africa, argues that, despite South Africa's manipulation of state structures and elites in the region for its own ends, the apartheid regime drew the region together at the po... more information

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Basic Books, 2002. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Using the letters and journals of 19th century settlers in the Arkansas and Missouri territories, newspapers and other historical materials, Valencius (history, Washington U., St. Louis) focuses on the relationship between the pioneers and the lands they settled. Her book reveals their concerns for the healthfulness of their environments, their sense of connection between the health of the land and their own health, and connections between the history of m... more information

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Harrington Park Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Harrington Park Press, 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Appearing simultaneously as Journal of Lesbian Studies v. 4, no. 1 (2000), this book traces the development of lesbian geographies throughout history and examines intangible and physical space that is defined by lesbians. Eight authors offer essays and poems to reveal how lesbian identities and lifestyles are becoming more publicly articulated in the urban and rural landscape. Throughout the book, concepts of "public" and "private&... more information

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Praeger Security International, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Valeriano and Bohannan, both highly-regarded counterinsurgency and irregular warfare experts, wrote the original edition of the book in 1962, basing it almost entirely on their experiences in the Philippines. The authors explain guerillas in terms of their motivation and background, as well as their organizations and operations. Most importantly, the authors describe in plain language and real-life scenarios how to assess guerilla moveme... more information

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EPFL Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Arzhantseva (U. of Geneva, Switzerland) and Valette's (U. Neuchâtel, Switzerland) text is derived from a one-semester research program led by the editors at the Bernoulli Center (EPF Lausanne) from January to June 2007. Written by 12 international academics and researchers, the ten research articles and survey papers highlight state-of-the-art methods and open problems that will be of interest to experts and graduate students in the fields of geom... more information

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A.A. Balkema, 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The report of a study commissioned by the Water Bureau of the Seine River, Normandy in response to increasing complexity in sewerage systems that combine waste and storm water, and new regulations at the French and European levels. It deals with the structures that during the rainy season discharge into a combined network water that cannot be carried farther downstream without causing flooding, focusing on storm weirs, in which the wastes are discharged i... more information

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Irish Academic Press, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Valiulis (Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Trinity College, U. of Dublin, Ireland) assembles 12 essays on the nature of gender in Irish history, written by scholars of history, women's studies, and art education from universities in Ireland, the US, and Canada. Essays are based on papers given at the Women's History Association Ireland conference held at Trinity College in November 2006. With the overarching theme of the use and ... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. As a framework for corporate business practitioners and government employees, this book identifies best practices for general management, manufacturing and service, marketing and sales, quality, process, human resources, accounting and finance, information technology, international business, and project management. Topics include supply chain management, product marketing, business process reengineering, outsourcing finance operations, computer s... more information

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Vallentine Mitchell, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Mainstream Jews may denounce Jewish Buddhism and the Jewish Renewal Movement, but such new/evolving forms of New Age Judaism are part of the larger trend in contemporary American spiritual revivalism, says Rothenberg (religious studies, McMaster U., Hamilton, Ontario). From ethnographic and textual studies of Jewish Buddhism from an 'exile and return' to Jewish identity perspective, a Renewal ritual honoring women of vision, an evolving syn... more information

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Univ. Press of America, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Atlantic Publishing, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Trans Tech Publications, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The 14 papers presented here by Vallet-Regí (chemistry, U. Complutense de Madrid, Spain) were selected in order give a picture of current trends in medical bioceramics, with coverage oriented towards describing the different research lines as much as possible. Following the introductory overview, the papers discuss upgrading calcium phosphate scaffolds for tissues engineering applications, the potential of calcium phosphate glass as biom... more information

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