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The Physiology of Immunity

By: James A. Marsh,Marion D. Kendall

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The study of neuroendocrine-immune interactions has become a highly visible and fast-growing segment of mainstream immunology. This book provides an overview of the immune system and in-depth coverage of the many different areas that make up neuroendocrine-immune research. The main emphasis is on the physiology of the processes involved, stressing an integrated approach to immunology. The text is organized in seven sections, beginning with an introduction to the immune system. Section II outlines how the central nervous system (CNS) communicates with central and peripheral lymphoid organs. Section III provides information on factors from the immune system that act as messengers to the CNS. The metabolic regulation of growth and development is discussed in Section IV. Section V examines the interactions occurring between the reproductive and immune systems. The effects of other physiologic stressors on immunity are reviewed in Section VI. Section VII considers cyclic and periodic influences on the immune system. Finally, there is a consideration of a new unifying theory for immunology. Students, researchers, clinicians, and veterinary scientists can discover new areas of interest in specific diseases and immune interactions in this novel presentation.

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CRC Press

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0849380332

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In Hope of Liberty

Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860

By: James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton

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In Hope of Liberty

Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860

By: James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton

The northern free black American community (1700-1860) gained visibility and voice on culture, race, and class in the colonial north. It shows the evolution of family and household, culture, and politics as part of the African-American identity.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195124650

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Trauma Among Older People

Issues and Treatment

By: Leon Albert Hyer,Steven James Sohnle

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Trauma Among Older People

Issues and Treatment

By: Leon Albert Hyer,Steven James Sohnle

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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1583910816

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9781583910818

Rolling Back the Islamic State

By: Seth G. Jones,James Dobbins,Daniel Byman,Christopher S. Chivvis,Ben Connable,Jeffrey Martini,Eric Robinson,Nathan Chandler

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Rolling Back the Islamic State

By: Seth G. Jones,James Dobbins,Daniel Byman,Christopher S. Chivvis,Ben Connable,Jeffrey Martini,Eric Robinson,Nathan Chandler

This report assesses the threat the Islamic State poses to the United States and examines strategies to counter the group.

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Rand Corporation

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0833097563

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The Persuasion Handbook

Developments in Theory and Practice

By: James Price Dillard,Michael Pfau

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The Persuasion Handbook

Developments in Theory and Practice

By: James Price Dillard,Michael Pfau

The Persuasion Handbook provides readers with cogent, comprehensive summaries of research in a wide range of areas related to persuasion. From a topical standpoint, this handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering issues of interest to interpersonal and mass communication researchers as well as psychologists and public health practitioners. Persuasion is presented in this volume on a micro to macro continuum, moving from chapters on cognitive processes, the individual, and theories of persuasion to chapters highlighting broader social factors and phenomena related to persuasion, such as social context and larger scale persuasive campaigns. Each chapter identifies key challenges to the area and lays out research strategies for addressing those challenges.

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SAGE Publications

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1452261598

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Walk in My Combat Boots

True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

By: James Patterson,Matt Eversmann

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Walk in My Combat Boots

True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

By: James Patterson,Matt Eversmann

Discover “the stories America needs to hear” (Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.)) with these moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them. Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of original interviews by James Patterson, the world’s #1 bestselling writer, and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann, part of the Ranger unit portrayed in the movie Black Hawk Down. These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women who’ve fought overseas from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is a rare eye-opening look into what wearing the uniform, fighting in combat, losing friends and coming home is really like. Readers who next thank a military member for their service will finally have a true understanding of what that thanks is for.

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Little, Brown

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0316429104

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The Rough Guide to Germany

By: Christian Williams,James Stewart,Neville Walker

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The Rough Guide to Germany

By: Christian Williams,James Stewart,Neville Walker

Now available in ePub format. The Rough Guide to Germany is the ultimate travel guide to this dynamic country. Full-color photography illustrates Germany's stylish cities and beautiful landscapes, its meandering rivers and picture-perfect castles. Detailed accounts of every attraction provide all the information you need to explore the country's exceptional museums, iconic architecture, and its many rural escapes, from the soaring Bavarian Alps and dense woodlands of the Black Forest to the beautiful beaches and islands of the North Sea, or the idyllic Rhineland vineyards where you can sample some of the country's many world-class wines. The Rough Guide to Germany includes practical advice to ensures that, no matter what your budget, you'll find the perfect boutique hotel, convivial hostel, authentic cellar restaurant, stylish gourmet haunt, design-conscious shop, cutting-edge arts venue, or hip bar and club-all marked on the book's many color maps. The Rough Guide to Germany includes well-researched historical and cultural background to help you understand and appreciate this complex country and, above all, make the most of your time.

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Penguin

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1409359263

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9781409359265

An Elementary German Reader in Prose and Verse

By: James H. Worman

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An Elementary German Reader in Prose and Verse

By: James H. Worman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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3368184520

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Credibility

How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

By: James M. Kouzes,Barry Z. Posner

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Credibility

How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

By: James M. Kouzes,Barry Z. Posner

The first true revision of the classic book from the bestselling author of The Leadership Challenge As the world falls deeper into economic downturns and warfare, the question of credibility (how leaders gain and lose it) is more important than ever. Building on their research from The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner explore in Credibility why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone, and why leaders must "Say what you mean and mean what you say." This first full revision of the book since its initial publication in 1993 features new case studies from around the world, fully updated data and research, and a streamlined format. Written by the premier leadership experts working today, Credibility: Reveals the six key disciplines that strengthen a leader's capacity for developing and sustaining credibility. Provides rich examples of real managers in action Includes updates to the applications and research This personal, inspiring, and genuine guide helps you understand the fundamental importance of credibility for building personal and organizational success.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118098382

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9781118098387

Painting Below Zero

By: James Rosenquist,David Dalton

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Painting Below Zero

By: James Rosenquist,David Dalton

From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors. A skilled traditional painter, he avoided the stencils and silk screens of Warhol and Lichtenstein. His vast canvases full of brilliant, surreally juxtaposed images would influence both many of his contemporaries and younger generations, as well as revolutionize twentieth-century painting. Ronsequist writes about growing up in a tight-knit community of Scandinavian farmers in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and early 1940s; about his mother, who was not only an amateur painter but, along with his father, a passionate aviator; and about leaving that flat midwestern landscape in 1955 for New York, where he had won a scholarship to the Art Students League. George Grosz, Edwin Dickinson, and Robert Beverly Hale were among his teachers, but his early life was a struggle until he discovered sign painting. He describes days suspended on scaffolding high over Broadway, painting movie or theater billboards, and nights at the Cedar Tavern with Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and the poet LeRoi Jones. His first major studio, on Coenties Slip, was in the thick of the new art world. Among his neighbors were Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin, and Jack Youngerman, and his mentors Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Rosenquist writes about his shows with the dealers Richard Bellamy, Ileana Sonnabend, and Leo Castelli, and about colorful collectors like Robert and Ethel Scull. We learn about the 1971 car crash that left his wife and son in a coma and his own life and work in shambles, his lobbying—along with Rauschenberg—for artists’ rights in Washington D.C., and how he got his work back on track. With his distinct voice, Roseqnuist writes about the ideas behind some of his major paintings, from the startling revelation that led to his first pop painting, Zone, to his masterpiece, F-III, a stunning critique of war and consumerism, to the cosmic reverie of Star Thief. This is James Rosenquist’s story in his own words—captivating and unexpected, a unique look inside the contemporary art world in the company of one of its most important painters.

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Knopf

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0307273296

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Innovation, Transformation, and War

Counterinsurgency Operations in Anbar and Ninewa Provinces, Iraq, 2005-2007

By: James Russell

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Innovation, Transformation, and War

Counterinsurgency Operations in Anbar and Ninewa Provinces, Iraq, 2005-2007

By: James Russell

Within a year of President George W. Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May 2003, dozens of attacks by insurgents had claimed hundreds of civilian and military lives. Through 2004 and 2005, accounts from returning veterans presaged an unfolding strategic debacle—potentially made worse by U.S. tactics being focused on extending conventionally oriented military operations rather than on adapting to the insurgency. By 2007, however, a sea change had taken place, and some U.S. units were integrating counterinsurgency tactics and full-spectrum operations to great effect. In the main, the government and the media cited three factors for having turned the tide on the battlefield: the promulgation of a new joint counterinsurgency doctrine, the "surge" in troop numbers, and the appointment of General David Petraeus as senior military commander. James Russell, however, contends that local security had already improved greatly in Anbar and Ninewah between 2005 and 2007 thanks to the innovative actions of brigade and company commanders—evidenced most notably in the turning of tribal leaders against Al Qaeda. In Innovation, Transformation, and War, he goes behind the headlines to reveal—through extensive field research and face-to-face interviews with military and civilian personnel of all ranks—how a group of Army and Marine Corps units successfully innovated in an unprecedented way: from the bottom up as well as from the top down. In the process they transformed themselves from organizations structured and trained for conventional military operations into ones with a unique array of capabilities for a full spectrum of combat operations. As well as telling an inspiring story, this book will be an invaluable reference for anyone tasked with driving innovation in any kind of complex organization.

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Stanford University Press

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0804777489

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Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life

By: James Hawes

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Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life

By: James Hawes

Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy figure who was scarcely known in his own lifetime bears no resemblance to the historical reality. Franz Kafka was a popular and well-connected millionaire's son who enjoyed good-time girls, brothels, and expensive porn, who landed a highly desirable state job that pulled in at least $90,000 a year in today's dollars for a six-hour day, who remained a loyal member of Prague's German-speaking Imperial elite right to the end, and whose work was backed by a powerful literary clique. Here are some of the prevalent Kafka myths: *Kafka was the archetypal genius neglected in his lifetime. *Kafka was lonely. *Kafka was stuck in a dead-end job, struggling to find time to write. *Kafka was tormented by fear of sex. *Kafka was unbendingly honest about himself to the women in his life – too honest. *Kafka had a terrible, domineering father who had no understanding of his son's needs. *Kafka's style is mysterious and opaque. *Kafka takes us into bizarre worlds. James Hawes wants to tear down the critical walls which generations of gatekeepers---scholars, biographers, and tourist guides---have built up around Franz Kafka, giving us back the real man and the real significance of his splendid works. And he'll take no prisoners in the process.

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Macmillan

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1429988835

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9781429988834

Postconventional Moral Thinking

A Neo-kohlbergian Approach

By: James R. Rest,Darcia Narv ez,Stephen J. Thoma,Muriel J. Bebeau

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Postconventional Moral Thinking

A Neo-kohlbergian Approach

By: James R. Rest,Darcia Narv ez,Stephen J. Thoma,Muriel J. Bebeau

This book summarizes the body of work on Rest's Defining Issues Test, culminating in a reformulation of Kohlberg's theory of moral development. For developmentalists, philosophers, and educators.

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Psychology Press

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1135705623

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9781135705626

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Effective Modeling for Linked Data, RDFS, and OWL

By: James Hendler,Fabien Gandon,Dean Allemang

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Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Effective Modeling for Linked Data, RDFS, and OWL

By: James Hendler,Fabien Gandon,Dean Allemang

Enterprises have made amazing advances by taking advantage of data about their business to provide predictions and understanding of their customers, markets, and products. But as the world of business becomes more interconnected and global, enterprise data is no long a monolith; it is just a part of a vast web of data. Managing data on a world-wide scale is a key capability for any business today. The Semantic Web treats data as a distributed resource on the scale of the World Wide Web, and incorporates features to address the challenges of massive data distribution as part of its basic design. The aim of the first two editions was to motivate the Semantic Web technology stack from end-to-end; to describe not only what the Semantic Web standards are and how they work, but also what their goals are and why they were designed as they are. It tells a coherent story from beginning to end of how the standards work to manage a world-wide distributed web of knowledge in a meaningful way. The third edition builds on this foundation to bring Semantic Web practice to enterprise. Fabien Gandon joins Dean Allemang and Jim Hendler, bringing with him years of experience in global linked data, to open up the story to a modern view of global linked data. While the overall story is the same, the examples have been brought up to date and applied in a modern setting, where enterprise and global data come together as a living, linked network of data. Also included with the third edition, all of the data sets and queries are available online for study and experimentation at data.world/swwo.

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Morgan & Claypool

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1450376150

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9781450376150

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Intensive Review of Internal Medicine

By: James K. Stoller

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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Intensive Review of Internal Medicine

By: James K. Stoller

Succeed on internal medicine board certification and recertification exams with Cleveland Clinic Intensive Board Review of Internal Medicine, 6e! The new edition contains ancillary and online exclusive content, drawing from the expertise of the distinguished Cleveland Clinic faculty. Taking a more clinical approach than other review texts, this practical resource includes a unique and well-structured set of exercises that offer a challenge at the end of each chapter.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469881276

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9781469881270

Mass Spectrometry of Natural Substances in Food

By: Fred Mellon,Ron Self,James R. Startin

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Mass Spectrometry of Natural Substances in Food

By: Fred Mellon,Ron Self,James R. Startin

Introduces the principles, practice, and application of mass spectrometric techniques in the study of natural substances in foods. Early chapters address the principles and practice of mass spectrometry, followed by applications in flavor analysis and the determination of non-nutrient, biologically-active, natural substances in foods. Also covered is the analysis and metabolic study of amino acids, peptides, proteins, lipids, sugars, carbohydrates, and vitamins, with separate chapters on mineral and micronutrient metabolism and techniques of pyrolysis mass spectrometry. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0854045716

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9780854045716

Gerontological Social Work

A Task-centered Approach

By: Matthias J. Naleppa,William James Reid

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Gerontological Social Work

A Task-centered Approach

By: Matthias J. Naleppa,William James Reid

This eminently practical book applies the task-centered model to gerontological practice across various settings (community based, hospital based, home healthcare, etc.). The book features in-depth coverage of specific client problems, such as physical or mental health, caregiving, home and personal safety, senior living, and long-term care arrangements. A series of task planners offer a menu of possible actions that can resolve or alleviate a designated problem.

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Columbia University Press

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0231115865

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9780231115865

Sailing Upwind

Leadership and Risk from TopGun to the Situation Room

By: James Winnefeld

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Sailing Upwind

Leadership and Risk from TopGun to the Situation Room

By: James Winnefeld

Sailing Upwind is more than just another memoir of a distinguished former naval officer‘s highly diverse career. This book by Admiral James “Sandy” Winnefeld is also intended to offer useful reflections regarding how he accepted and managed risk along the way, as well as a concise description of the qualities one must develop to become a successful leader. Winnefeld began his career as an F-14 fighter pilot and TOPGUN instructor, commanded an aircraft carrier, and then served in a variety of flag officer billets on the way to becoming the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This book describes in an entertaining and humble manner how that journey unfolded and the lessons he attaches to it. The reader learns what it is like to become a Navy fighter pilot, and to fly, fight, and takeoff and land from an aircraft carrier – including a harrowing description of ejecting from an F-14 at night far from land. Winnefeld describes the culture of excellence at the real TOPGUN and the Navy's nuclear propulsion program. He recounts how he learned to lead the men and women who operate at every level of Navy operational command, from squadron to ship to fleet. Finally, the author presents a behind-the-scenes look at how decisions are made at the highest levels of government regarding whether and how those forces will be used, and how they are acquired. In the process, Winnefeld provides descriptions of how, by challenging existing assumptions and processes and through relentless creativity, he was able to lead change. He reflects on how the risk associated with such changes should be accepted and managed. The title Sailing Upwind—in which a sailboat must be operated against a prevailing force field to make progress in the right direction—is an apt metaphor for the bent for pushing against the system Winnefeld describes throughout the book.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682478904

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Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory 2

By: James C. Moore

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Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory 2

By: James C. Moore

This two-volume work functions both as a textbook for graduates and as a reference for economic scholars. Assuming only the minimal mathematics background required of every second-year graduate in economics, the two volumes provide a self-contained and careful development of mathematics through locally convex topological vector spaces, and fixed-point, separation, and selection theorems in such spaces. This second volume introduces general topology, the theory of correspondences on and into topological spaces, Banach spaces, topological vector spaces, and maximum, fixed-point, and selection theorems for such spaces

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540612106

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9783540612100

Nanoparticles in Anti-microbial Materials

Use and Characterisation

By: James Chapman,Fiona Regan,Timothy Sullivan

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Nanoparticles in Anti-microbial Materials

Use and Characterisation

By: James Chapman,Fiona Regan,Timothy Sullivan

This text describes research in the area of nanoparticles that show anti-microbial activity. It looks at the types of materials and their applications in the area of environmental science, medical devices and coatings for a range of applications.

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1849731594

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