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The Science of Bureaucracy

Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency

By: David Demortain

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The Science of Bureaucracy

Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency

By: David Demortain

How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which they were conceived; how they were used; and how they served to legitimize the EPA. Demortain argues that the EPA is structurally embedded in controversy, resulting in constant reevaluation of its credibility and fueling the evolution of the knowledge and technologies it uses to produce decisions and to create a legitimate image of how and why it acts on the environment. He describes the emergence and institutionalization of the risk assessment–risk management framework codified in the National Research Council's Red Book, and its subsequent unraveling as the agency's mission evolved toward environmental justice, ecological restoration, and sustainability, and as controversies over determining risk gained vigor in the 1990s. Through its rise and fall at the EPA, risk decision-making enshrines the science of a bureaucracy that learns how to make credible decisions and to reform itself, amid constant conflicts about the environment, risk, and its own legitimacy.

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MIT Press

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026253794X

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Kanji Handbook

(JLPT All Levels) This Japanese Character Dictionary and Kanji Textbook Uses an Innovative and Effective System

By: Vee David

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Kanji Handbook

(JLPT All Levels) This Japanese Character Dictionary and Kanji Textbook Uses an Innovative and Effective System

By: Vee David

This massive text is the ultimate authoritative book on learning Japanese Kanji. The Kanji Handbook presents an ingenious and tested method to learn the 1,945 kanji characters taught in all Japanese language schools. Through the use of "KanjiHybrids"--a concept invented by the author--learners of Kanji and taught to link the characters mentally with English words to form one integral and indivisible unit. This innovative mnemonic device has been proven to train the learner to retain each kanji in the memory much better than simple repetition of the kanji alone--as well as enabling users to differentiate similar-looking kanji characters. Specific learning strategies also enable users to progress quickly from the beginner to advanced level kanji, with stroke orders shown clearly for each kanji character. Eight different indexes-including the highly useful Flip-it Index--form the last part of this unique handbook. Contains the complete list of all 1,945 kanji characters taught in Japanese schools. Presents a new KanjiHybrids system linking kanji characters with English words to aid memorization. Innovative learning strategies guide learners at all levels from beginner to advanced.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462910637

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Modern Ceramic Engineering

Properties, Processing, and Use in Design, Fourth Edition

By: David W. Richerson,William E. Lee

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Modern Ceramic Engineering

Properties, Processing, and Use in Design, Fourth Edition

By: David W. Richerson,William E. Lee

Since the publication of its Third Edition, there have been many notable advances in ceramic engineering. Modern Ceramic Engineering, Fourth Edition serves as an authoritative text and reference for both professionals and students seeking to understand key concepts of ceramics engineering by introducing the interrelationships among the structure, properties, processing, design concepts, and applications of advanced ceramics. Written in the same clear manner that made the previous editions so accessible, this latest edition has been expanded to include new information in almost every chapter, as well as two new chapters that present a variety of relevant case studies. The new edition now includes updated content on nanotechnology, the use of ceramics in integrated circuits, flash drives, and digital cameras, and the role of miniaturization that has made our modern digital devices possible, as well as information on electrochemical ceramics, updated discussions on LEDs, lasers and optical applications, and the role of ceramics in energy and pollution control technologies. It also highlights the increasing importance of modeling and simulation.

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CRC Press

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149871692X

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Economics of the Mortgage Market

Perspectives on Household Decision Making

By: David Leece

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Economics of the Mortgage Market

Perspectives on Household Decision Making

By: David Leece

The analysis of the mortgage market is a specialised field but examines a financial market with extremely wide-ranging implications; it affects the stability of the whole economy. The key thing about this analysis is the increasing importance of the secondary mortgage market – which in the US is now several times larger than the market for government debt. The UK secondary mortgage market is also growing and the book will provide a timely resource to those active and interested in this important financial market. The 1990s saw an enormous growth of mortgage market analysis as an academic subject and there is a vast literature scattered among the key real estate journals. There is now a great need to not only bring this very complex subject area together, but also to abstract the main issues and to render them intelligible. The book will provide an organised research resource and also inform and motivate further research into the microeconomics of mortgage markets.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470693231

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Sample Surveys

By: Raymond L. Chambers,David G. Steel,Suojin Wang,Alan Welsh

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Sample Surveys

By: Raymond L. Chambers,David G. Steel,Suojin Wang,Alan Welsh

Sample surveys provide data used by researchers in a large range of disciplines to analyze important relationships using well-established and widely used likelihood methods. The methods used to select samples often result in the sample differing in important ways from the target population and standard application of likelihood methods can lead to

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1420011359

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Understanding Risk

The Theory and Practice of Financial Risk Management

By: David Murphy

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Understanding Risk

The Theory and Practice of Financial Risk Management

By: David Murphy

Sound risk management often involves a combination of both mathematical and practical aspects. Taking this into account, Understanding Risk: The Theory and Practice of Financial Risk Management explains how to understand financial risk and how the severity and frequency of losses can be controlled. It combines a quantitative approach with a

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1584888946

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Establishing a Secure Hybrid Cloud with the IBM PureApplication Family

By: Amit P. Acharya,Tom Bal,Chris Clark,Addison Goering,David Graesser,Angelo Littera,Marcelo Manhaes,Gregory Scott,IBM Redbooks

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Establishing a Secure Hybrid Cloud with the IBM PureApplication Family

By: Amit P. Acharya,Tom Bal,Chris Clark,Addison Goering,David Graesser,Angelo Littera,Marcelo Manhaes,Gregory Scott,IBM Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication takes you on a hybrid cloud journey with IBM PureApplication® System and PureApplication Service: from the what, over the why, and to the how. We outline the needs for a hybrid PureApplication cloud and we describe how to build a strategy. We provide advice about the components, including security. Through use cases, we define the need and the strategy for a hybrid cloud implementation with IBM PureApplication System, Software, or Service. The target audience for this book varies from anyone who is interested in learning more about a true hybrid cloud solution from IBM to strategists, IT architects, and IT specialists who want an overview of what is required to build a hybrid cloud with IBM PureApplication family members.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738441252

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Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management

By: Mary R. Hardy,David Saunders

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Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management

By: Mary R. Hardy,David Saunders

This relevant, readable text integrates quantitative and qualitative approaches, connecting key mathematical tools to real-world challenges.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009098462

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The Tangled Tree

A Radical New History of Life

By: David Quammen

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The Tangled Tree

A Radical New History of Life

By: David Quammen

In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field—the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level—is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important; we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived sideways by viral infection—a type of HGT. In The Tangled Tree, “the grandest tale in biology….David Quammen presents the science—and the scientists involved—with patience, candor, and flair” (Nature). We learn about the major players, such as Carl Woese, the most important little-known biologist of the twentieth century; Lynn Margulis, the notorious maverick whose wild ideas about “mosaic” creatures proved to be true; and Tsutomu Wantanabe, who discovered that the scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a direct result of horizontal gene transfer, bringing the deep study of genome histories to bear on a global crisis in public health. “David Quammen proves to be an immensely well-informed guide to a complex story” (The Wall Street Journal). In The Tangled Tree, he explains how molecular studies of evolution have brought startling recognitions about the tangled tree of life—including where we humans fit upon it. Thanks to new technologies, we now have the ability to alter even our genetic composition—through sideways insertions, as nature has long been doing. “The Tangled Tree is a source of wonder….Quammen has written a deep and daring intellectual adventure” (The Boston Globe).

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Simon & Schuster

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1476776636

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Practical Longitudinal Data Analysis

By: David J. Hand

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Practical Longitudinal Data Analysis

By: David J. Hand

This text describes regression-based approaches to analyzing longitudinal and repeated measures data. It emphasizes statistical models, discusses the relationships between different approaches, and uses real data to illustrate practical applications. It uses commercially available software when it exists and illustrates the program code and output. The data appendix provides many real data sets-beyond those used for the examples-which can serve as the basis for exercises.

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Routledge

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1351422650

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IT Business Management: Solutions from SAP - A Pocket Guide

By: David Pultorak,Swen Conrad

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IT Business Management: Solutions from SAP - A Pocket Guide

By: David Pultorak,Swen Conrad

Managing IT like a business demands integrated and systematic business and IT insight the kind of integration and systematic insight that SAP has spent the last 35 years helping the world s leading companies achieve. Best-run businesses use SAP® solutions to automate key business processes so they can close the gap between strategy and execution. Best-run businesses drive clarity into their organizations by gaining insight for improved performance, efficiency for optimized operations, and flexibility to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.Like best-run businesses, best-run IT organizations are able to optimize operations, maximize innovation, and adjust rapidly to evolving business needs. Their IT management solutions help them better understand themselves and their customers and make the best decisions in the face of challenging expectations and constraints.This book outlines SAP s view on best-run IT. It will help orient you to our related solutions and provide you with ideas for driving clarity and business value in your IT organization.

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Van Haren

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9087536356

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9789087536350

Pension Finance

By: David Blake

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Pension Finance

By: David Blake

This book provides a secure grounding in the theory and practice of finance insofar as it deals with pension matters. By using it, the reader will understand the various types of investment assets; * the allocation of personal wealth to different asset classes * corporate pension finance * the financial aspects of defined contribution pension plans during both the accumulation and distribution phases * the financial aspects of defined benefit pension plans * the role of pension funds and pension fund management * pension fund performance measurement and attribution * risk management in pension funds

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470058706

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9780470058701

Inside Coca-Cola

A CEO's Secrets on Building the World's Most Popular Brand

By: Neville Isdell,David Beasley

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Inside Coca-Cola

A CEO's Secrets on Building the World's Most Popular Brand

By: Neville Isdell,David Beasley

The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival Neville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than 30 years, retiring in 2009 as CEO after regilding the tarnished brand image of the world's leading soft-drink company. This first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells an extraordinary personal and professional world-wide story, ranging from Northern Ireland to South Africa to Australia, the Philippines, Russia, Germany, India, South Africa and Turkey. Isdell helped put out huge public relations fires (India and Turkey), opened markets(Russia, Eastern Europe, Philippines and Africa), championed Muhtar Kent, the current Turkish-American CEO, all while living the ideal of corporate responsibility. Isdell's, and Coke's, story is newsy without being gossipy; principled without being preachy. Inside Coca-Cola is filled with stories and lessons appealing to anybody who has ever taken "the pause that refreshes." It's also a readable and important look at how companies can market and govern themselves more-ethically and to great success.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429988894

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Northern Forested Wetlands Ecology and Management

By: Carl C. Trettin,Martin F. Jurgensen,David F. Grigal,Margaret R. Gale,John R. Jeglum

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Northern Forested Wetlands Ecology and Management

By: Carl C. Trettin,Martin F. Jurgensen,David F. Grigal,Margaret R. Gale,John R. Jeglum

Forested wetlands are a major component of northern landscapes, important both for their ecological functions and their socioeconomic values. Historically, these lands have been used for timber and fiber products, hunting, fishing, trapping, food gathering, and recreation. There are many questions about the use and management of these lands in the future, particularly with respect to forest products, hydrology and water quality, plant and wildlife ecology, landscape dynamics, and wetland restoration. Northern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management provides a synthesis of current research and literature. It examines the status, distribution, and use of these wetland resources. The book focuses on understanding the role of wetlands in the landscape and on how to manage these wetlands and sustain their important functions. This is a primary reference text for the study and management of northern forested wetlands, providing a forum for information discovered by researchers and managers from many nations.

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1566701775

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Fundamentals of Nuclear Models

Foundational Models

By: David J. Rowe,John L. Wood

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Fundamentals of Nuclear Models

Foundational Models

By: David J. Rowe,John L. Wood

This book reviews the basic models and theories of nuclear structure and gives an in-depth analysis of their experimental and mathematical foundations. It shows the relationships between the models and exhibits the value of following the strategy of: looking for patterns in all the data available, developing phenomenological models to explain them, and finally giving the models a foundation in a fundamental microscopic theory of interacting neutrons and protons. This unique book takes a newcomer from an introduction to nuclear structure physics to the frontiers of the subject along a painless path. It provides both the experimental and mathematical foundations of the essential models in a way that is accessible to a broad range of experimental and theoretical physicists. Thus, the book provides a unique resource and an exposition of the essential principles, mathematical structures, assumptions, and observational data on which the models and theories are based. It avoids discussion of many non-essential variations and technical details of the models.

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World Scientific

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9812569553

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Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, Eighth Edition, 2 Volume set

By: Lowell A. Goldsmith,Stephen I. Katz,Barbara A. Gilchrest,Amy Paller,David J. Leffell,Klaus Wolff

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Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, Eighth Edition, 2 Volume set

By: Lowell A. Goldsmith,Stephen I. Katz,Barbara A. Gilchrest,Amy Paller,David J. Leffell,Klaus Wolff

The landmark dermatology text that bridges the gap between science and clinical medicine—updated for today’s practice Generations of clinicians, skin biologists, residents, and educators have acclaimed Fitzpatrick’s as the most authoritative and complete guide to dermatologic basic sciences, histopathology, diagnosis, and treatment. Edition after edition, it reflects the latest insights into skin diseases and skin biology—and their practical relevance to general internal medicine—while covering the scientific foundations of the specialty. This classic yet cutting-edge text is supported by the expert insights of more than 500 internationally respected contributors, and it covers everything dermatologists need to know about skin, dermatologic signs of underlying disease, and the management of all skin diseases, including acne, skin cancer, and psoriasis. FEATURES More than 3000 full-color photographs DVD with image bank includes downloadable figures from the text New illustration style makes difficult concepts easier to understand Therapeutic ladders with first, second, and third line therapies New or thoroughly revised chapters on Psoriasis;Skin disease in immunosuppressed patients;Epidermal stem cells;Hair growth disorders;Neonatal, pediatric, and adolescent dermatology;Radiotherapy;Immunobiologicals and cytokines;Lasers for rejuvenation Expanded medical and surgical therapeutics sections guide you through all treatment options

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071717552

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9780071717557

Cocktail Conversations by the Controversial Counselor

By: David Glover

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Cocktail Conversations by the Controversial Counselor

By: David Glover

Cocktail Conversations is one of the most relevant books coming out since the Bible. You will be hard pressed to find a book that everyone can identify with when it involves relationships, friendships, family, work, health, education, loyalty, mistrust, child drama, and the dating game. This book will address seventy-seven scenarios and much feedback given back from followers of Cocktail Conversations; these perspectives are very diverse, and they force you to see different viewpoints to the same situation. You are able to identify how individuals relate their perceptions based on their experiences. This book will open up opportunities for discussions, which will lead to growth and learning.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503510093

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9781503510098

Young Refugees and Forced Displacement

Navigating Everyday Life in Beirut

By: Liliana Riga,Mary Holmes,Arek Dakessian,Johannes Langer,David Anderson

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Young Refugees and Forced Displacement

Navigating Everyday Life in Beirut

By: Liliana Riga,Mary Holmes,Arek Dakessian,Johannes Langer,David Anderson

Young Refugees and Forced Displacement is about young Syrian and Iraqi refugees navigating the complex realities of forced displacement in Beirut. It is based on a British Academy funded two-year project with 51 displaced youths aged 8 to 17 and under the care of three local humanitarian organisations. Focus groups, interviews and innovative arts-based methods were used to learn about their everyday lives. At the end of the project, we coproduced with them a public mural, allowing unexpected epistemological and methodological reflections on researching refugees and the "right to opacity." Families and friendships, humanitarian caregiving, racism, discrimination and everyday decencies and civilities make up the stuff of their ordinary, everyday encounters within refugeedom, defining both its sharper edges and its more inadvertent and quietly political ones. Thus, refugeedom, as we conceive it, includes "the humanitarian condition" but goes a little beyond it, to become also a human condition of political alterity. In navigating refugeedom, the young Syrians and Iraqis become sophisticated political and moral actors, using emotional reflexivity as they engage layered subjectivities to define the terms of their own forced displacement. This book will be of interest to policymakers, humanitarian organisations, social science scholars and students working on refugees, displacement, humanitarianism, intimacies and emotions, racism and discrimination. It may also be of interest to displaced youth.

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Routledge

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1000336158

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The Primordial Density Perturbation

Cosmology, Inflation and the Origin of Structure

By: David H. Lyth,Andrew R. Liddle

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The Primordial Density Perturbation

Cosmology, Inflation and the Origin of Structure

By: David H. Lyth,Andrew R. Liddle

The origin and evolution of the primordial perturbation is the key to understanding structure formation in the earliest stages of the Universe. It carries clues to the types of physical phenomena active in that extreme high-density environment. Through its evolution, generating first the observed cosmic microwave background anisotropies and later the distribution of galaxies and dark matter in the Universe, it probes the properties and dynamics of the present Universe. This graduate-level textbook gives a thorough account of theoretical cosmology and perturbations in the early Universe, describing their observational consequences and showing how to relate such observations to primordial physical processes, particularly cosmological inflation. With ambitious observational programmes complementing ever-increasing sophistication in theoretical modelling, cosmological studies will remain at the cutting edge of astrophysical studies for the foreseeable future.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139643746

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The 1st Century Aramaic English Interlinear Bible- The Psalms, Proverbs & Ecclesiastes

By: Rev. David Bauscher

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The 1st Century Aramaic English Interlinear Bible- The Psalms, Proverbs & Ecclesiastes

By: Rev. David Bauscher

This is an interlinear translation of The Aramaic Peshitta Old Testament books of Psalms, Proverbs & Ecclesiastes.Aramaic was the language of Jesus & of Israel since the 7th century BC. The Peshitta OT is very likely the 1st century Aramaic translation of the 1st century Hebrew Old Testament. In the 1st century AD, the Aramaic of Israel was called "Hebrew". Aramaic was used in Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" to make the film as realistic & accurate as possible. This translation will surprise & thrill the reader with its power & inspiration coming from the 1st century Hebrew Bible translated into Aramaic, the sister language of Hebrew. (8x11" size 174 pages B&W hardback)

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Lulu.com

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130426100X

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Stuttering and Cluttering

Frameworks for Understanding and Treatment

By: David Ward

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Stuttering and Cluttering

Frameworks for Understanding and Treatment

By: David Ward

Stuttering and Cluttering provides a comprehensive overview of both theoretical and treatment aspects of disorders of fluency: stuttering (also known as stammering) and the lesser-known cluttering. The book demonstrates how treatment strategies relate to the various theories as to why stuttering and cluttering arise, and how they develop. Uniquely, it outlines the major approaches to treatment alongside alternative methods, including drug treatment and recent auditory feedback procedures. Part one looks at different perspectives on causation and development, emphasizing that in many cases these apparently different approaches are inextricably intertwined. Part two covers the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of stuttering and cluttering. In addition to chapters on established approaches, there are sections on alternative therapies, including drug therapy, and auditory feedback, together with a chapter on counselling. Reference is made to a number of established treatment programs, but the focus is on the more detailed description of specific landmark approaches. These provide a framework from which the reader may not only understand others’ treatment procedures, but also a perspective from which they can develop their own. Offering a clear, accessible and comprehensive account of both the theoretical underpinning of stammering therapy and its practical implications, the book will be of interest to speech language therapy students, as well as qualified therapists, psychologists, and to those who stutter and clutter.

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Psychology Press

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1135425205

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Fixed Income Markets

Management, Trading and Hedging

By: Moorad Choudhry,David Moskovic,Max Wong

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Fixed Income Markets

Management, Trading and Hedging

By: Moorad Choudhry,David Moskovic,Max Wong

A comprehensive, in-depth look at global debt capital markets in the post-crisis world Fully updated with comprehensive coverage of the post-crisis debt markets and their impact on key industry issues, Fixed Income Markets: Management, Trading, and Hedging, Second Edition offers insights into derivative pricing, cross-currency hedging, and new liquidity legislation. Written by Choudhry, Moskovic, and Wong, Fixed Income Markets is an indispensable read for anyone working in bond markets, interest-rate markets, and credit derivatives markets looking to better understand today's debt markets. This acclaimed book takes a unique look into the leading practices in bond markets as well as post-credit-crunch impacts on pricing that are rarely captured in textbooks. The new edition provides expanded coverage on a wide range of topics within hedging, derivatives, bonds, rebalancing, and global debt capital markets. New topics include: Dynamic hedging practices and cross-currency hedging Collateralized and uncollateralized derivatives, and their impact on valuation Callable bonds, pricing, trading, and regulatory aspects related to liquidity Rebalancing as a method for capturing contingencies and other complex imbedded risks As a bonus, the book includes reference information for statistical concepts and fixed income pricing, as well as a full glossary and index. Written in Choudhry's usual accessible style, Fixed Income Markets is a comprehensive and in-depth account of the global debt capital markets in today's post-crisis world.

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1118171756

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The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science

By: David Creese

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The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science

By: David Creese

Traces the history of the monochord from its earliest appearance to Claudius Ptolemy (mid-second century AD).

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Cambridge University Press

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0521843243

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The Scottish Parliament

A Scandinavian-Style Assembly?

By: David Arter

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The Scottish Parliament

A Scandinavian-Style Assembly?

By: David Arter

This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish Parliament from a systematically comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999 Scotland can be considered a Scandinavian-style democracy with several features of a Scandinavian-style parliament. The basic research question, therefore, is: 'Has the Scottish Parliament in its first four-year term manifested a Scandinavian-style politics in the sense that there has been a high incidence of inter-party negotiation within Parliament?' The architects of the Scottish Parliament saw the committees as the motor of a 'new politics' and gave them extensive powers. Outside Austria, only the Swedish and Icelandic committees have comparable powers. Accordingly, the study sets out to describe and analyse the workings of the committees in the Scottish, Swedish and Icelandic Parliaments. The concluding chapter also discusses the operation of the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian committees.

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1135768757

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Protecting All

Risk Sharing for a Diverse and Diversifying World of Work

By: Truman Packard,Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Philip O’Keefe,David Robalino,Indhira Santos

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Protecting All

Risk Sharing for a Diverse and Diversifying World of Work

By: Truman Packard,Ugo Gentilini,Margaret Grosh,Philip O’Keefe,David Robalino,Indhira Santos

Socially inclusive growth is the talk of the town in developing countries. But to go from talk to walk these countries face a critical task: reconstructing their welfare states given the failures of the standard Bismarckian model and the challenges posed by rapid technological change. This book—known to many as the White Paper—is indispensable for tackling this task. It develops a clear conceptual framework to help policy makers understand this complex issue, set clear objectives, evaluate trade-offs, and chart a coherent path of reform. A much-needed and very welcome contribution." --Santiago Levy, Senior Fellow—Global Economy and Development, Brookings Economic and Social Policy in Latin America Initiative, Brookings Institution "Most countries have failed to support people adequately as the combination of globalization and technology changes the structure of their economies and their jobs. This has fostered a backlash in which economic insecurity is widespread and support for populist policies is on the rise. We can do much better than this by sharing risks and providing a guaranteed minimum to everyone. This important book lays out a set of policies that strikes a new balance between economic flexibility and individual security that is relevant to both advanced and developing countries." --Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science "Economic insecurity confronts working people around the world today. To overcome this insecurity through suitable risk-sharing interventions is a policy challenge of the first order. This exceptionally thoughtful and clearly written book charts a course for replacing employment-based risk-sharing policies with social insurance†“based ones, financed by general revenues with the broadest possible base. The resultant Flexicurity model promises 'a more robust and resilient policy response to a diverse and fluid world of work.' " --Gary Fields, Professor of International and Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics, Cornell University "Protecting All presents thoughtful, thorough, and bold proposals to achieve universal social protection in a modern welfare state. This lucid document identifies implementable policies for poverty prevention, coping with livelihood shocks, and managing labor market risks that range from state-guaranteed publicly funded income floors to mandated consumption-smoothing mechanisms funded by individual contributions to privately financed incentivized and purely voluntary consumption-smoothing schemes. Clearly written, rich with ideas, and relevant for countries at all income levels, Protecting All is bound to become an essential reference for policy makers and policy analysts focused on (re)designing social protection systems that achieve key social goals in ways consistent with fast-changing labor markets, fiscal sustainability, and economic efficiency and growth." --Nora Lustig, Professor of Latin American Economics and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute, Tulane University

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The Aramaic-English Interlinear New Testament

By: Rev. David Bauscher

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The Aramaic-English Interlinear New Testament

By: Rev. David Bauscher

This is The New Testament in the language of Jesus and his countrymen of 1st century Israel, with a word for word translation into English next to each Aramaic word. Aramaic was used in Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" to make the film as realistic as possible. This New Testament will surprise and thrill the reader with its power and inspiration coming from the words of "Yeshua" ("Jesus" in ancient Aramaic) as He originally spoke them and a very literal English rendering. Much evidence is presented demonstrating very powerfully that The Peshitta Aramaic NT is the original behind The Greek NT. There are many graphics and even photos from Dead Sea Scrolls to illustrate an Aramaic verse and how a reading was interpreted by a Greek translating the text.625 pages.B&W Hardback 6x9." Pastor Dave is a former high school science teacher with a proficiency in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic and has been preaching & teaching The Bible since 1976 in several churches in the USA. His web site is aramaicnt.com

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Development

The Molecular Genetic Approach

By: Vincenzo E.A. Russo,Stuart Brody,David Cove,Sergio Ottolenghi

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Development

The Molecular Genetic Approach

By: Vincenzo E.A. Russo,Stuart Brody,David Cove,Sergio Ottolenghi

As a result of the molecular genetic analysis of development similar mechanisms for the regulation of gene expression are found in a wide range of organisms. In "Development - the Molecular Genetic Approach" these common mechanisms as well as the specific events leading to a differentiated cell are described. Particular items treated are, for example, how asymmetry is achieved, how cell size is determined, how cell division is controlled, how cell lineage influences development, how cells know their position, and how cells communicate during development.

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i am through you so i

By: Brother David Steindl-Rast

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i am through you so i

By: Brother David Steindl-Rast

“Brother David,” one of the most significant spiritual teachers and international speakers, tells here his incomparably rich story spanning the nine decades of his life.

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Applied Computational Aerodynamics

By: Russell M. Cummings,Scott A. Morton,William H. Mason,David R. McDaniel

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Applied Computational Aerodynamics

By: Russell M. Cummings,Scott A. Morton,William H. Mason,David R. McDaniel

This book covers the application of computational fluid dynamics from low-speed to high-speed flows, especially for use in aerospace applications.

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The Cure

How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

By: David Gratzer

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The Cure

How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care

By: David Gratzer

We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatab death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. In this path-breaking book, Dr. David Gratzer goes to the heart of the problem, showing that the crisis in American health care stems largely from its addiction to outmoded and discredited economic ideas. His argument is bold and provocative, rejecting the conventional wisdom that socialized health care is compassionate and that top-down government agencies like the FDA save lives. Instead, he prescribes a strong dose of capitalism. The Cure presents an overview of American health care, from economics and politics to medical science. An award-winning author and essayist, Dr. Gratzer is a master storyteller who spices his book with interviews and anecdotes, some from his extensive clinical experience. He details the cardiac woes of Robert E. Lee and Dick Cheney, describes a chat over coffee with Canada's foremost private medical entrepreneur, and explains the evolution of his own thinking, from advocating HillaryCare as a medical student to promoting individual choice and competition today. Dr. Gratzer makes a compelling case that it's possible to reduce health expenses, insure millions more, and improve quality of care without growing government or raising taxes. Book jacket.

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Earth Dream Awakening

"To Help Found a New World"

By: DAVID W. LETTS

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Earth Dream Awakening

"To Help Found a New World"

By: DAVID W. LETTS

All that has happened in the past, all of Earth's history, man has created in his dream. And the end of time will come when man wakes up and realizes he has been dreaming." Suddenly, a young family wrests themselves from life in a North American city to seek a rustic existence close to nature and a circle of new friends in mountain valleys of British Columbia. But that is only one of the levels to this story. For David and Kelly (Siofra) are a mystic and a psychic on an out-of-the-ordinary quest inspired by higher energy presences, Moita and Amar. How will their "experiment in communication between worlds" illuminate the process of planetary rebirth that will accelerate years later . . . in the "awakening" of 2012 and beyond? "This time period is a crossroads. Paths before you lead into the futuresome not pleasant, some extremely promising. We are here to help you choose the road that leads not to destruction but that leads to life, and to this change of man and his awareness, to the reuniting of [our] worlds." Among facets of this visionary yet down-to-earth adventure: helping persons in crisis to unlock their hearts, find their new balance; deepening our sense of community as a core group risks old selves in order to truly meet; confronting dark energies across lifetimes, undoing man's obsession with power; seeing that the planet's upheavals now mirror our ownas a vast evolution in consciousness comes full circle, aided by higher-dimensional beings; and the Earth Mother voicing her plea for man to awaken as a willing partner. "We are entering a New Age of humanity. Instead of man creating only on his own, set apart from the rest of the universe, this time he is involved in a co-creationand we are the co-creators. Those who are here have arrived to help found a new world.

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1466949473

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Planewaves, Pseudopotentials, and the LAPW Method

By: David J. Singh,Lars Nordstrom

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Planewaves, Pseudopotentials, and the LAPW Method

By: David J. Singh,Lars Nordstrom

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, provided an exposition of the LAPW method and its relationship with other electronic structure approaches, especially Car-Parrinello based planewave methods. Since publication of that book, the LAPW method has been transformed from a specialized method used mostly by researchers running their own home made versions, to a popular, widely used method, where most users run standard codes to investigate ma terials of interest to them. This is an exciting development because it opens the door to widespread use of first principles calculations in diverse areas of condensed matter physics and materials science. The positive impact of this on scientific progress is already becoming clear. Also as a result of this trend, the great majority of researchers using the LAPW method are no longer directly in volved in the development of LAPW codes. Nonetheless, it remains important to understand how the LAPW method works, what its limitations are, and how its parameters determine the quahty and efficiency of calculations. The scientist with an understanding of how the method works has a clear advantage. This edition is an updated and expanded treatment of the LAPW method, including descriptions of key developments in the LAPW method since 1994, such as p 1/2 local orbitals, the APW-i-LO method, LDA+U calculations and non-collinear magnetism, as well as much of the material from the first edition.

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0387296840

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Atlas and Synopsis of Lever's Histopathology of the Skin

By: David E. Elder,Rosalie Elenitsas,Adam I. Rubin,Michael Ioffreda,Jeffrey Miller,O. Fred Miller

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Atlas and Synopsis of Lever's Histopathology of the Skin

By: David E. Elder,Rosalie Elenitsas,Adam I. Rubin,Michael Ioffreda,Jeffrey Miller,O. Fred Miller

Atlas and Synopsis of Lever's Histopathology of the Skin provides a systematic approach to diagnosing skin diseases. Written for trainees as well as experienced dermatopathologists, this text classifies skin diseases by location, reaction patterns, and cell type, if applicable. Revised and updated based on the 10th edition of Lever's Histopathology of the Skin, it greatly expands the concept of pattern recognition in differential diagnosis.

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Tax Evasion and the Black Economy

By: David J. Pyle

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Tax Evasion and the Black Economy

By: David J. Pyle

This book attempts to review and summarize the mostly obscure professional literature on tax evasion and the black economy to produce a text that informs both the popular and political debate about the issues involved.

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