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Trading Currency Cross Rates

Proven Trading Strategies from a Leading International Currency Trader and a Noted Expert on Futures and Options

By: Gary Klopfenstein,Jon Stein

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Trading Currency Cross Rates

Proven Trading Strategies from a Leading International Currency Trader and a Noted Expert on Futures and Options

By: Gary Klopfenstein,Jon Stein

For commodity traders and portfolio managers--a practical, hands-onguide to profiting in today's growing international cross ratemarkets. Cross rates trading is growing increasingly popular,fueled in no small part by banks and multinationals seekingcreative strategies for hedging currency risk and speculatorsseeking profits from interest rate plays and exchange rate moves.Trading Currency Cross Rates is the passkey to this vastlyprofitable financial sector. Written for the experienced tradermoving into the currency futures and foreign exchange cash markets,as well as for the corporate portfolio manager seeking to limitcompany exposure, this professional guide covers the fundamentalsof today's cross rates markets and delivers the step-by-steptechniques needed to trade cross rates successfully. Packed withcharts and tables that apply over a broad range of internationalmarkets and currencies, the guide: * Explains what cross rates are and profiles the different typesthat currently are traded * Shows whether to trade on an agency or principal basis, and howto avoid counterparty failure * Covers the building blocks of currency valuation and the bestmethods for forecasting moves in currency cross rates * Reveals how to profitably trade exotic cross rates amongcurrencies from the Pacific Rim and Middle East * Explains how to cross over to the growing interbank currencymarket, and which fundamental and technical analysis techniquesspecifically apply to it * Discusses how to easily adapt any current trading system and itsinput to the profitable cash markets Featuring the expertise of a leading cross rates trading expert ina concise, direct, accessible format, Trading Currency Cross Ratesis the dependable, single-source guide to trading cross ratessuccessfully.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471569488

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9780471569480

The Cross of St. Anne

By: Gary Alan Ruse

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The Cross of St. Anne

By: Gary Alan Ruse

A supernatural suspense novel...When New England antiques dealer Annie McCormick sells a religious relic to a new museum on Jarritt's Island and its charming owner Curt Devereaux, she could not be happier. But when the relic she delivers turns up missing and Annie learns the ghostly secret of the sinister old mansion-turned-museum, her dream adventure becomes a nightmare that puts her life...her very soul...at risk!

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Lulu.com

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1105015289

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Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships

How You Can Help Heal Racial Divides, One Relationship at a Time

By: Gary Chapman,Clarence Shuler

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Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships

How You Can Help Heal Racial Divides, One Relationship at a Time

By: Gary Chapman,Clarence Shuler

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time. Everyone wants to do something to improve race relations, but many of us don't know where to start. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, lifelong friends Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler will show you how. Through important lessons they have learned, you will learn how to begin and grow authentic friendships across racial and ethnic barriers. Each chapter will guide you toward deeper understanding of what it takes to foster cross-cultural friendships. These powerful lessons include: How to overcome the fear of developing cross-cultural friendships How to differentiate true friends from mere acquaintances How Jesus initiated cross-cultural relationships The first two steps to your own cross-cultural friendship Three ways to resolve conflict in a cross-cultural friendship How to make friendships last a lifetime Chapman and Shuler challenge every reader to join a movement, the Cross-Cultural Friendship Challenge, and begin changing the world one friendship at a time.

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Zondervan

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0310365023

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Gifts from the foot of the Cross

By: Gary Robert Villani

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Gifts from the foot of the Cross

By: Gary Robert Villani

Gifts from the foot of the Cross By: Gary Robert Villani This volume came to fruition at the request of attendees from many of the Sunday school classes the author has led over the past twenty years. The majority of spiritual messages contained in this book came directly from the support material prepared for these sessions, which ultimately led to class members stating, “You’ve got to put that on paper!” Gifts from the foot of the Cross is not a devotional. The underlying theme of the book is simple and direct—it is designed to reach the everyday Christian and let them know they are not alone in facing the stumbles, slips, trips, and falls they may be experiencing in their daily spiritual walk. Additionally, there are numerous suggestions on how to successfully avoid these pitfalls, and each entry is backed by Biblical passages. It is Gary’s sincere hope that the reader will immediately identify with the material in these stories and subsequently find spiritual support and direction to get back on the spiritual wellness trail.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480953164

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Cross-pollinations

The Marriage of Science and Poetry

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Cross-pollinations

The Marriage of Science and Poetry

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression that are essential to discovery. In this highly readable book, he tells four stories to illustrate this idea. In the first, coping with color blindness in art class leads to his career as a scientist; in the second, ancient American Indian songs, when translated, reveal an understanding of plants and animals that rivals modern research; in the third, a poem inspires an approach to diabetes using desert plants; and in the fourth, a coalition of scientists and artists creates the Ironwood Forest National Monument in the Sonoran Desert.

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Milkweed Editions

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1571312706

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Men to Boys

The Making of Modern Immaturity

By: Gary S. Cross

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Men to Boys

The Making of Modern Immaturity

By: Gary S. Cross

When did maturity become the ultimate taboo? Men have gone from idolizing Cary Grant to aping Hugh Grant, shunning marriage and responsibility well into their twenties and thirties. Gary Cross, renowned cultural historian, identifies the boy-man and his habits, examining the attitudes and practices of three generations to make sense of this gradual but profound shift in American masculinity. Cross matches the rise of the American boy-man to trends in twentieth-century advertising, popular culture, and consumerism, and he locates the roots of our present crisis in the vague call for a new model of leadership that, ultimately, failed to offer a better concept of maturity.

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Columbia University Press

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023114430X

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An All-consuming Century

Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

By: Gary S. Cross

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An All-consuming Century

Why Commercialism Won in Modern America

By: Gary S. Cross

The victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been home to the most aggressive and thoughtful critics of consumption such as Puritanism and Prohibition. This work offers a history of how market forces came to dominate American life.

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0231113129

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Badges of the Bravest

A Pictorial History of Fire Departments in New York City

By: Gary R. Urbanowicz

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Badges of the Bravest

A Pictorial History of Fire Departments in New York City

By: Gary R. Urbanowicz

This fascinating pictorial history chronicles the vibrant development of the largest and most colorful fire service in the country -- the Fire Department of New York (FDNY). Beautifully illustrated, Badges of the Bravest tells the nostalgic story of the fire departments in New York City through a lavish collection of more than 900 badges -- the most time-honored of firefighters' symbols -- along with intriguing photographs and historical documents sure to captivate history buffs, firefighting enthusiasts, and collectors of fire memorabilia. Badges of the Bravest takes the reader through a vivid journey, from the early volunteer companies to the paid uniformed force, from bucket brigades to steam fire engines, from the hand-drawn to the horse-drawn to the motorized era! Badges punctuate the many important milestones in the FDNY's history and capture its most poignant events, including the tragic fires at the Brooklyn Theater, Triangle Shirtwaist factory and the Happyland Social Club. Often overlooked in other published histories of New York firefighting, Badges of the Bravest documents the important role of many specialized fire brigades protecting New York City's landmarks, including the World's Fair, United Nations, Grand Central Terminal, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Coney Island amusement parks, and the World Trade Center. Badges of the Bravest is the saga of a great city... of firefighting and firefighters... and the glorious badges that celebrate and pay fitting tribute to the bravest of American heroes. Book jacket.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1563117975

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The Eye Exam

A Complete Guide

By: Gary S. Schwartz

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The Eye Exam

A Complete Guide

By: Gary S. Schwartz

The Ophthalmic Exam: An Introduction to Techniques and Instrumentation for Evaluation" is an excellent reference for everyone new to the eye clinic. With a primary focus on developing history and exam skills, this handy reference delivers the fundamentals on a range of physical exam topics including refraction, retina exam, and alignment. Written in an easy and practical format, "The Ophthalmic Exam" presents the proper way to perform a history and physical examination on an eye patient. The opening chapter will educate the reader on how to perform an eye history on adults and children. Also included are chapters on the foundation of basic optics and how to perform a proper distance and near refraction exams. The book concludes by teaching the reader how to perform various examination techniques and how to record the findings. Dr Gary Schwartz includes only the essential information about ophthalmic examinations, so as to not bog down the reader with in-depth information about diseases. Important concepts are reinforced by including a helpful question and answer section at the end of most chapters. "The Ophthalmic Exam" is perfect for the eye clinic novice wanting to learn the basics and increase their familiarity with performing routine eye exams, as well as the experienced physician looking to fine tune their skills. Physical Exam topics include: Subjective and Objective Refraction, Near Refraction, Color vision, Pupil exam, Motilities, Alignment, Slit lamp examination, Intraocular pressure, determination, Gonioscopy and Retina examination.

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SLACK Incorporated

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1556427557

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Dictionary of Financial Risk Management

By: Gary L. Gastineau,Mark P. Kritzman

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Dictionary of Financial Risk Management

By: Gary L. Gastineau,Mark P. Kritzman

Gary Gastineau and Mark Kritzman team up once again for the third edition of this classic reference tool designed for financial analysts and managers. Anyone involved in financial risk management must have a proper understanding of the words, terms, and phrases used in this fast paced field-and Dictionary of Financial Risk Management clearly provides that understanding. Risk management terminology is a part of almost any financial operation, including cash, forwards/futures, swaps, options-and is found in many disciplines: probability and statistics, tax and financial accounting, and law. The vocabulary of the risk manager continues to expand with the creation of new products and new concepts. This volume carefully defines and illustrates all the words and phrases that financial professionals need to know and understand. The Dictionary of Financial Risk Management includes listings of common acronyms, profit/loss diagrams of new financial instruments, and extensive coverage of derivatives and quantitative techniques. This invaluable reference guide provides comprehensive definitions of the key terms and concepts that many financial professionals need to know on a day-to-day basis.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1883249570

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Toward the Cross

Heart-Shaping Lessons for Lent and Easter

By: Taylor W. Mills,Gary Thompson,Michelle J. Morris

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Toward the Cross

Heart-Shaping Lessons for Lent and Easter

By: Taylor W. Mills,Gary Thompson,Michelle J. Morris

Let Jesus, not the world, set the priorities of your heart in this Lenten season. Toward the Cross challenges each of us to answer the question that lies at the heart of discipleship, at the heart of our priorities: Is following Jesus the most important thing to you? Is it your priority? When you follow Jesus, how does it change the way you think, speak, and act? Jesus told would-be followers to count the cost. The chapters and daily readings in this book help you do that by developing a disciple’s perspective on yourself, others, and things. They encourage you to let go of the past, guilt, and things that weigh you down and cling tightly to Christ in genuine discipleship. This seven-week study guides you through Lent and Easter, helping you explore qualities and characteristics of Christian discipleship that lead you to claim Jesus as your highest priority. Each week includes a group session based on the traditional Gospel texts with supporting daily readings for Ash Wednesday through Easter Monday. Group Sessions have questions to spark discussion as you strengthen your commitment to making Jesus your priority during the Lenten season, Easter, and beyond.

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Abingdon Press

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1791028950

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Experiencing the Power of the Cross

How It Changes Everything

By: Gary Kinnaman

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Experiencing the Power of the Cross

How It Changes Everything

By: Gary Kinnaman

Written for believers as well as those curious about the cross and the Christian faith, this devotional reading for the Lenten and Easter seasons is an invitation to go beyond the symbol of the cross and discover its significance for every person.

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076422994X

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The Word as True Myth

Interpreting Modern Theology

By: Gary J. Dorrien

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The Word as True Myth

Interpreting Modern Theology

By: Gary J. Dorrien

Gary Dorrien follows the threads of theology through the twentieth century, examining how Christians have reconciled their myth-filled religious beliefs within a world secularized by Enlightenment criticism and science. To understand how religion keeps its place in Christians' lives, Dorrien writes, we must explore how modern theologians have answered the question of myth in today's Christianity. Dorrien's narrative walks readers through modern theology - stopping with each of the major thinkers along the way to see how they dealt with the issue of modern Christian mythology. Ultimately he offers his own "new neo-orthodoxy", a theology of Word and Spirit that is pluralistic and affirms the mythical character of the gospel while holding fast to the Gospels' myth-negating condemnation of idolatry and their focus on history.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664257453

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Perspectives in Spread Spectrum

By: Amer A. Hassan,John E. Hershey,Gary Saulnier

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Perspectives in Spread Spectrum

By: Amer A. Hassan,John E. Hershey,Gary Saulnier

Perspectives in Spread Spectrum brings together studies and recent work on six exciting topics from the spread spectrum arts. The book gives a wide, collective view of trends, ideas, and techniques in the spread spectrum discipline, due to the authors' extensive work on spread spectrum techniques and applications from different vantage points. The inexorable march of electronics towards ever faster, ever smaller, and ever more powerful electronic and optical circuitry has wrought, and will continue to enable, profound changes in the spread spectrum arts, by allowing increasingly complex signalling waveforms and statistical tests to be implemented as the theory beyond spread spectrum continues to evolve. Perspectives in Spread Spectrum is divided into six chapters. The first chapter deals with sequence spreading design. There is not a single metric for design of spreading sequences; rather, the design is ideally tailored to the specific scenario of usage. This chapter delves into recent and very promising synthesis work. The second chapter deals with OFDM techniques. As channels become wider and trans-channel fading (or jamming) becomes frequency selective across the band, OFDM techniques may provide a powerful alternative design perspective. The third chapter is a generalization of the venerable Walsh functions. A new modulation scheme, Geometric Harmonic Modulation, GHM for short, is reviewed and characterized as a form of OFDM. From GHM, a further generalization of the Walsh functions is derived for non-binary signalling. The fourth chapter is concerned with some new and exciting results regarding the follower jammer paradigm. A counter-countermeasure technique is reviewed, notable for its counterintuitive characteristic which can be understood from a simple yet elegant game framework. The fifth chapter recounts some results pertaining to random coding for an optical spread spectrum link. The technique is based on laser speckle statistics and uses a coherent array of spatial light modulators at the transmitter but allows the receiver to be realized as a spatially distributed radiometric and therefore incoherent structure. The sixth and final chapter looks at an important and interesting application of spread spectrum to accurately locate a wideband, ‘bent pipe’, satellite transponder. It is, in a strong sense, an inverted GPS technique. Perspectives in Spread Spectrum serves as an excellent reference and source of ideas for further research, and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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079238265X

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9780792382652

Ultrasonic Scattering in Biological Tissues

By: K. Kirk Shung,Gary A. Thieme

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Ultrasonic Scattering in Biological Tissues

By: K. Kirk Shung,Gary A. Thieme

Ultrasonic Scattering in Biological Tissues contains 14 chapters written by world-renowned authorities who describe current work related to theoretical and experimental aspects of ultrasonic scattering phenomenon in biological tissues. Introductory material regarding ultrasonic scattering in biological tissues is presented, followed by discussions on theoretical treatments, experimental approaches, in vitro results on selective tissues, in vivo results on various tissues, and the current status of quantitative backscatter imaging. Ultrasonic Scattering in Biological Tissues will be an excellent reference for biomedical engineers, ultrasound specialists, biophysicists, and radiology researchers.

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CRC Press

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0849365686

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Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

By: Robert Nisbet,John Elder,Gary D. Miner

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Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

By: Robert Nisbet,John Elder,Gary D. Miner

The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers (both academic and industrial) through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The Handbook helps one discern the technical and business problem, understand the strengths and weaknesses of modern data mining algorithms, and employ the right statistical methods for practical application. Use this book to address massive and complex datasets with novel statistical approaches and be able to objectively evaluate analyses and solutions. It has clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques, and discusses their application to real problems, in ways accessible and beneficial to practitioners across industries - from science and engineering, to medicine, academia and commerce. This handbook brings together, in a single resource, all the information a beginner will need to understand the tools and issues in data mining to build successful data mining solutions. - Written "By Practitioners for Practitioners" - Non-technical explanations build understanding without jargon and equations - Tutorials in numerous fields of study provide step-by-step instruction on how to use supplied tools to build models - Practical advice from successful real-world implementations - Includes extensive case studies, examples, MS PowerPoint slides and datasets - CD-DVD with valuable fully-working 90-day software included: "Complete Data Miner - QC-Miner - Text Miner" bound with book

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Academic Press

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0080912036

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9780080912035

Art in Renaissance Italy

By: John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke

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Art in Renaissance Italy

By: John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke

Art in Renaissance Italy' sets the art of that time in its context, exploring why it was created and in particular looking at who commissioned the palaces and cathedrals, the paintings and the sculptures.

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Laurence King Publishing

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1856694399

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Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

By: Gary Nichols

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Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

By: Gary Nichols

Sedimentary rocks contain the most important archive of environmental change through earth history. They record changing climates, the movement of plates, and the rise and fall of sea-level on timescales of a few thousand to billions of years. This fully revised and updated edition introduces the reader to sedimentology and stratigraphic principles, and provides tools for the interpretation of sediments and sedimentary rocks. The processes of formation, transport and deposition of sediment are considered and then applied to develop conceptual models for the full range of sedimentary environments, from deserts to deep seas and reefs to rivers. Different approaches to using stratigraphic principles to date and correlate strata are also considered, in order to provide a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of sedimentology and stratigraphy. The text and figures are designed to be accessible to anyone completely new to the subject, and all of the illustrative material is provided in an accompanying CD-ROM. High-resolution versions of these images can also be downloaded from the companion website for this book at: www.wiley.com/go/nicholssedimentology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405193794

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Cases in Adult Congenital Heart Disease - Expert Consult: Online and Print

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By: Michael A. Gatzoulis,Gary D. Webb,Craig Broberg,Hideki Uemura

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Cases in Adult Congenital Heart Disease - Expert Consult: Online and Print

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By: Michael A. Gatzoulis,Gary D. Webb,Craig Broberg,Hideki Uemura

Cases in Adult Congenital Heart Disease, by Michael Gatzoulis et al., is a new, one-of-a-kind cardiology reference designed to help you effectively manage challenging congenital conditions in adults through comprehensive visual guidance. Leading experts present 85 cases-ranging from the simple to the complex, supplemented by abundant images-which enable you to diagnose these cases from a real-life, clinical perspective. A companion website at expertconsult.com featuring full text and images and supplemented by a library of dynamic imaging clips allows you to access this unique resource in another convenient way. Features 85 cases encompassing a full range of congenital heart disease problems-from the simple to the complex-that provide a better understanding of these conditions from a real-life, clinical perspective. Presents examples of multiple imaging modalities (including chest radiography, echocardiography, CT, MR, and angiography) clearly depict the clinical manifestations of congenital defects and provide you with the best views available of these conditions. Includes a companion website at expertconsult.com featuring the full text fully searchable online and images and supplemented by a library of dynamic imaging clips allows you to access this unique resource in another convenient way. Offers guidance on the assessment of congenital heart disease during pregnancy equips you with essential knowledge in addressing the needs of this growing patient population.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443067120

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Consumed Nostalgia

Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism

By: Gary Cross

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Consumed Nostalgia

Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism

By: Gary Cross

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and fleeting media moments in our age of fast capitalism. This phenomenon has given rise to communities of nostalgia whose members remain loyal to the toys, television, and music of their youth. They return to the theme parks and pastimes of their upbringing, hoping to reclaim that feeling of childhood wonder or teenage freedom. Consumed nostalgia took definite shape in the 1970s, spurred by an increase in the turnover of consumer goods, the commercialization of childhood, and the skillful marketing of nostalgia. Gary Cross immerses readers in this fascinating and often delightful history, unpacking the cultural dynamics that turn pop tunes into oldies and childhood toys into valuable commodities. He compares the limited appeal of heritage sites such as Colonial Williamsburg to the perpetually attractive power of a Disney theme park and reveals how consumed nostalgia shapes how we cope with accelerating change. Today nostalgia can be owned, collected, and easily accessed, making it less elusive and often more fun than in the past, but its commercialization has sometimes limited memory and complicated the positive goals of recollection. By unmasking the fascinating, idiosyncratic character of modern nostalgia, Cross helps us better understand the rituals of recall in an age of fast capitalism.

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Columbia University Press

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0231539606

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9780231539609

Comstock Cross Fire

By: Gary Franklin

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Comstock Cross Fire

By: Gary Franklin

When Joe Moss and his wife, Fiona, are captured by the powerful Peabody family, who hold Fiona responsible for murdering one of their clan, Joe prepares to show his brutal and unforgiving captors why he is known as "Man Killer." Original.

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Penguin

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0425224872

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9780425224878

Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies 2003

By: Gary Hoover,Hoover's Incorporated

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Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies 2003

By: Gary Hoover,Hoover's Incorporated

This manual examines 900 nonpublic US enterprises, including large industrial and service corporations like Milliken & Company and PricewaterhouseCoopers; hospitals and health-care organizations such as Blue Cross; charitable and membership organizations, including the Ford Foundation; mutual and co-operative organizations such as IGA; joint ventures such as Motiva; government-owned corporations such as the United States Postal Service; and major university systems, including The University of Texas System.

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1573110841

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