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Praeger, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The earliest battle in history that can be reconstructed in detail, Qadesh pitted Muwatallish of Hatti against Pharaoh Rameses II. This account establishes the historical context and describes the participants in the engagement before relating all known details of the campaign. The text is extensively illustrated with maps and ancient depictions of the battle. This is a reprint of the 1993 edition published by Osprey Publishing. (© Book News, Inc., Portla... more information

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Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Hinterwimmer presents a revised version of the Ph.D. thesis he completed at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Based almost exclusively on analysis of English and German data, the text deals with the interpretation of adverbially quantified sentences containing definite DPs and free relatives (FRs), concentrating on the origins of Quantificational Variability Effects (QVEs). Coverage includes QVEs in sentences with FRs, singular definites and u... more information

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GMB Publishing, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This guide provides an assessment of the potential for foreign investors and companies in the emirate of Qatar and relevant rules and guidelines of business engagement there. Qatar's enormous natural gas reserves, significant oil reserves, and its rapidly growing and diversified economy make it an attractive investment choice. Written by 25 locally-based firms and experts with current experience, the book describes in detail the emirate's busine... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This book poses solutions to questions related to quality of service (QoS) issues within heterogeneous network environments. The book includes a series of algorithms and protocols to help solve potential QoS problems, and information on QoS mapping in terms of service- level specifics. Case studies and operative examples illustrate the main points of the book. Coverage includes end-to-end QoS, QoS architecture, and QoS internetworking and mapping... more information

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American Mathematical Society, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In the sequel to volume 344 of this series, the proceedings of the International Conference on the Algebraic and Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms held in Chile in 2002, the editors introduce this collection of 25 papers from the 2007 conference. Contributors discuss and provide proofs for problems that have a key place in the history of the algebraic theory of quadratic forms or are classical problems in number theory, e.g., particula... more information

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Sage Publications, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Grbich, who is not further identified, begins by setting out theoretical and practical issues that underlie qualitative research as conducted in the social sciences. Then she considers specific approaches to analyzing the data from such research, among them new ethnographic and feminist. A section on analyzing documentation describes narrative, discourse, post-structural, and other analysis. Writing up data, theorizing from it, displaying it, and oth... more information

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Sage Publications, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Dingwall, director of the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham, states in his introduction that health care for the past 150 years has been seen in quantitative terms with test results only valid if they could be placed on graphs or measured by instruments. He presents here a four-volume collection of articles by social scientists of the past hundred years covering topics that he feels should be integrated into an underst... more information

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Sage Publications, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This text offers an introduction to the use of qualitative methods in business, framed by background on research design, varieties of data types, and the writing process as key components of any successful research project. Part I provides an overview of the qualitative research process, with material on research ethics, collecting qualitative data, and electronic research. Part II introduces nine different qualitative research approaches that can be... more information

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American Water Works Assn., 2005. New Book. Spiral Binding. So that engineers can respond to consumer complaints about particulate matter in drinking water, this manual provides a series of decision trees for selecting an analysis process, and describes wet chemical methods for making qualitative identifications of aluminum, copper, iron, lead, manganese, and zinc contaminants along with advanced methods for confirming results. Preparation of reagents required for each wet chemical method and procedural in... more information

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OECD, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Produced by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)--an international forum bringing together the governments of 30 democracies to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalization--this report examines the strengths of Scotland's schools and offers advice for the nation's teachers and policy makers on addressing the difficulties of securing high standards for all children. An executive summary is followe... more information

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United Nations Publications, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Food Products Pr., 2002. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume provides current information on improving nutritional quality and yield volume in field crops such as wheat, maize, rice, barley, oats, lentils, pigeonpeas, soybeans, cool season legumes, and crops whose seeds are used to make oils. Contributions by leading authorities discuss the uses of agronomic management, conventional plant breeding, and modern biotechnologies in improving the quality of important food, feed, and fiber products. Topi... more information

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Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Consumers are increasingly driving the market for agricultural commodities. Zú ñiga-Arias (International Centre for Political Economy and Sustainable Development, U. Nacional, Costa Rica) presents an empirical study of the mango supply chain in his country focusing on small- and large-scale producers, traders (including multinational exporters), and retailers. From an analysis linking consumers' perception of product qu... 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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RAND, 2000. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. As part of a series of US government-sponsored health reports describing the application of Rand's QA Tools system for assessing quality of care, this volume covers women's general and population- specific health areas (e.g., breast cancer, family planning, and Cesarean delivery). The introduction touts the system's advantages, and describes the selection of primarily process clinical indicators derived from a literature review in 1995. Includes suppo... more information

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Edwin Mellen Pr., 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Not like the steady and inevitable opening of a flower is modernization, says Jordan (emeritus child development, U. of Missouri-St. Louis), but rather a narrative of ups and downs as man and nature pursue their agendas in an imperfect world. He explores the process of modernization in 19th-century Ireland using the criteria of quality of life as a measure. The illustrations are poorly reproduced, though the binding is excellent as in all Edwin Mellon... more information

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Nova Science Publishers, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Sarker (pharmacy and biomolecular sciences, University of Brighton) introduces validation activities which show that a pharmaceutical works to a suitable standard, processes for manufacturing different forms of medicines and cosmeceuticals, and analytical methods for clinical testing. Intended for undergraduate chemistry students, the textbook concludes with specimen examples and exam questions. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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The World Bank, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Presented by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank and aimed at policy makers, this volume describes quality systems for private sector development, with a focus on developing countries, and specific chapters on Latin America and the Caribbean. Guasch (economics, U. of California, San Diego), and others associated with the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank, bring together the different components tha... more information

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Computer Society Press, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. QEST 2005 (September, Torino, Italy) was the second conference to combine four other conferences--on computer performance evaluation (TOOLS), Petri nets and performance models (PNPM), process algebras and performance modeling (PAPM), and probabilistic methods in verificationj (ProbMIV). The proceedings volume comprises 21 papers (selected from 74 submissions), 10 short tool presentations, and three keynote addresses on evaluating petaflop system... more information

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