Titles starting with V from Gulls Nest Books

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Convinced that the political losers should be part of history as well as the winners, Trapeznik (history, U. of Otago, New Zealand) examines the difficulty with creating a socialist revolution in a backward agricultural country by focusing on Chernov (1873-1952) and the Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia during the years up to and immediately following the 1917 revolution. He characterizes Chernov and the Party as the major rival of ... more information

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Que Publishing, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. CD-ROM included. This book/CD-ROM package will prepare students to pass the VCP-310 exam on VMware Infrastructure 3 and ESX Server 3.5. The book draws from VMware's own listing of knowledge requirements, from other preparation guides, from technical web sites, and from the exams themselves. Readers can use the book to get a sense of the context of any topic in the chapters, or to skim-read for exam alerts, key term lists, bullet points, tips, and su... more information

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N.Y. Academy of Sciences, 2000. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Regent Press, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. A futurist presents an atypically positive view of the predicted demise of the written word. Crossman (Vista Community College, Berkeley, CA) discusses the role of talking computers in creating an egalitarian, global oral culture by mid-century, and the technological and evolutionary "engines" driving this radical shift. Frequently Asked Questions conclude the book. The author is the founder/director of the CompSpeak 2050 Institute for the Study... more information

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Regent Press, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. A futurist presents an atypically positive view of the predicted demise of the written word. Crossman (Vista Community College, Berkeley, CA) discusses the role of talking computers in creating an egalitarian, global oral culture by mid-century, and the technological and evolutionary "engines" driving this radical shift. Frequently Asked Questions conclude the book. The author is the founder/director of the CompSpeak 2050 Institute for the Study... more information

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Fifth House Ltd., 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Peetoom, an editor and author from Canada, recounts the stories of his travels aboard the cargo ships Ville d'Aquarius and Sydney Star in 1998 and 2000 with his wife, as they voyaged from Hamburg through the North Sea, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and then to ports in South Korea and China, as well as from Savannah, Georgia, to Australia and New Zealand for the second trip. He describes their experiences on the ships, interacting with the cr... more information

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HarperCollins, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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Basic Books, 2004. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. ... more information

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Elsevier Saunders, 2009. New. CD-ROM; not a bound book. This CD-ROM is a mobile companion to the Vaccines guide from Plotkin, Orenstein and Offit and provides health care professionals with detailed vaccination and prophylaxis recommendations from several medical boards. Jenson, a noted physician and author, has used this particular format so that the content can be downloaded to Windows and Mac systems as well as mobile devices such as a Blackberry or iPhone. Travelers and those with compromised immune sy... more information

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American Mathematical Society, 2002. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Contains six papers from a special session held during the December 2000 meeting to explore the connections between the two fields of value distribution theory and complex dynamics. The contributors discuss non-Archimedean value distribution theory, the dynamics of the tangent family ltan(z), the phenomenon of parabolic implosion, and deformation spaces of entire functions. The volume is not indexed. (©2002 Book News, Inc., Portland,... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Willain, a Belgian entrepreneur and former software engineer, offers this guide for stock investors on how to spot market manipulations and take advantage in a timely manner. The author outlines three tools used to detect and act upon this economic indicators, which he labels Effective Volume, Effective Ratio and Active Boundaries, which can be used to tell the difference between calculated illusions and real tactical moves. A section on analyzin... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2001. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Scale trading involves buying a commodity at progressively lower prices until it ceases to decline, then selling it at progressively higher prices as it rises. This book/disk package explains the benefits of scale trading, outlines the principles upon which scale trading is based, shows how to construct a scale, and tells how to choose a broker. Includes a glossary. The accompanying disk contains a template of a scale spreadsheet in Microsoft Exc... more information

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TMS (Minerals, Metals...Soc.), 1998. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Contains papers from a February 1998 symposium on principles and practices of process engineering involved in the production of value- added advanced materials based on metals. Material is presented in sections on preparation of intermetallic compounds, specialty materials such as rare earth metals and precious metals, electrodeposition and CVD of thin films of magnetic and semiconducting and metallic materials, coatings, and processing o... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This book uses some of the first empirical evidence available to assess the theory and practice of VBM--a business strategy and organization approach in which shareholder wealth maximization is the primary objective. Topics of the sixteen chapters include VBM's development; a review of VMB in practice, based on literature, surveys, and case studies; challenges to VMB, including one by a stakeholder; economic added value (EVA) and other approa... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Kerzner and Saladis, who are associated with a global learning solutions company that conducts training for corporations around the world, present a guide to project management using an approach that views success as achieved when planned business values are met, including internal, financial, future, and customer-related values. They describe how to define project success and include value, the roles of project managers, how stakeholders view va... more information

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Edizioni Polistampa, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The result of a March 2007 conference organized by the International Scientific Committee on Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration; the International Centre of Study for the Conservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property; and the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco of Florence, Italy, this volume contains 43 papers philosophically exploring which values and criteria should be considered pertinent to making decisions in the field ... more information

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Smith (social work, University of Leicester, UK) extends the previous understanding of the relationship between ideas and practice to build a framework for understanding developments in children's services. He begins with a review of established ideologies of social welfare, then examines important developments and debates in practice, law, and policy. He addresses the challenge of making sense of competing value positions by looking at dilemmas... more information

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Continuum Publishing Group, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This explores long-standing and new questions about how schools in a secular society should approach ethics, morality and religion. Haydon (philosophy of education, U. of London) takes a comprehensive approach with the understanding he is examining issues of values that anyone engaged in education is sure to encounter. He knows teachers come to the classroom complete with their own values and students will emerge with their own sometime late... more information

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Kogan Page, 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Two personnel and performance management consultants offer well- written information and advice on the establishment of relative worth of a job to an organization. The text lays out a program for choosing, implementing, sustaining, and applying the results of a job evaluation scheme. Other topics addressed include equal pay framework and legislation, market pricing, development of pay and grade structures, and international job evaluation. (©2008 Book ... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Drawn from the contents of the 2002 ninth edition of the larger, two-volume encyclopedia, this condensed volume was undertaken to make available a general reference for a less technical audience. Editors DePree (physics and astronomy, Agnes College, Decatur, GA) and historian Axelrod reduced the larger reference by 75%, eliminating some entries (a great proportion of those related to materials sciences and information sciences) and abridging othe... more information

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