The universe was born in a nuclear explosion. We live on a radioactive planet. Without radiation there would be not life. And yet radiation remains deeply misunderstood and often mistakenly feared. Now Dr. Robert Peter Gale—one of the world’s leading experts on the subject—and Eric Lax set the record straight about subjects like uranium, plutonium, iodine-131, X-Rays, CT scans, and the radiation of food, while lucidly debunking myths about radioactivity. In this fascinating book, the authors explore the science, benefits, and risks of radiation exposure, drawing on the most up-to-date research and Gale’s extensive experience treating victims of radiation accidents around the globe. Here is an illuminating and essential guide to our post-Chernobyl, post-Fukushima world.
Gale Researcher Guide for: After the Broken Home: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and James Merrill is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
The medals and honours awarded to Sister Mary Theodore during the later years of her long life testify to the importance of her work with the poorest and most desperate children of Madras (Chennai). But they don't tell you who this woman was, and why she is so remembered and loved. What she gave up, and at what cost. What drove her.
Murder at the Adelphi is Peter Gale's first-hand, day-to-day diary account of acting in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1993 musical Sunset Boulevard presented at the Adelphi Theatre in London. The show was based on the highly acclaimed Paramount Pictures 1950 film of the same name directed by Billy Wilder. Along the way, Peter includes a galaxy of entertaining anecdotes about internationally famous stars, such as Steven Spielberg, Ingrid Bergman and even Marilyn Monroe. For example, Peter's partner, the actor Paul Hardwick, worked very closely with Marilyn in the film The Prince and the Showgirl. Peter volunteered to be the Sunset Boulevard company's Equity deputy and closely witnessed the seismic rift between the show's leading lady, Patti LuPone, and the show's composer/producer, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Peter found Patti to be as warm and approachable as Andrew was cold and aloof. He says Trevor Nunn was one of the most supportive and inspired directors he ever worked with but the weird distance between Trevor and Andrew confused and dispirited many company members. Murder at the Adelphi is a "must read" for any theatre fan.
For undergraduate and postgraduate courses in political science, Aboriginal and Australian studies. The Politics of Fear: From Wik to Woomera focuses on racism and the politics of fear that has become a feature of politics in western nation states. In the Australian context such fears centre on a range of rights and issues such as native title, reconciliation, and the Government response to the stolen generation, along with social policy on multiculturalism, immigration and asylum seekers. This text brings together a range of disparate policy areas in an analysis of racism and fear in contemporary Australia and addresses the broader issues of racism confronting contemporary Australia.
Gale Researcher Guide for: Mrs. Dalloway: Virginia Woolf's Modernist Breakthrough is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
This pupil book, written specifically to cover Key Stage 3 curriculum needs, helps pupils acquire knowledge and understanding of resistant materials and the products made from them. Full instructions are given to give pupils practice in using different tools and processes.
The "Heinemann Science Scheme" offers an approach to the QCA's Scheme of Work. Teacher's resource packs provide support with lesson planning, with each chapter matching the Scheme of Work, and in-built assessment.
African bond markets have been steadily growing in recent years, but nonetheless remain undeveloped. African countries would benefit from greater access to financing and deeper financial markets. This paper compiles a unique set of data on corporate bond markets in Africa. It then applies an econometric model to analyze the key determinants of African government securities market and corporate bond market capitalization. Government securities market capitalization is directly related to better institutions and interest rate volatility, and inversely related to the fiscal balance, higher interest rate spreads, exchange rate volatility, and current and capital account openness. Corporate bond market capitalization is directly linked to economic size, the level of development of the economy and financial markets, better institutions, and interest rate volatility, and inversely related to higher interest rate spreads and current account openness. Policy implications follow.
Gale Researcher Guide for: History of Early Korea is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
The heroic American doctor who performed emergency bone marrow transplants for the victims of Chernobyl offers an inspirational message of hope for a world with the possibility of nuclear disaster.
This graduate level text covers the theory of stochastic integration, an important area of Mathematics that has a wide range of applications, including financial mathematics and signal processing. Aimed at graduate students in Mathematics, Statistics, Probability, Mathematical Finance, and Economics, the book not only covers the theory of the stochastic integral in great depth but also presents the associated theory (martingales, Levy processes) and important examples (Brownianmotion, Poisson process).
Risk Neutral Pricing and Financial Mathematics: A Primer provides a foundation to financial mathematics for those whose undergraduate quantitative preparation does not extend beyond calculus, statistics, and linear math. It covers a broad range of foundation topics related to financial modeling, including probability, discrete and continuous time and space valuation, stochastic processes, equivalent martingales, option pricing, and term structure models, along with related valuation and hedging techniques. The joint effort of two authors with a combined 70 years of academic and practitioner experience, Risk Neutral Pricing and Financial Mathematics takes a reader from learning the basics of beginning probability, with a refresher on differential calculus, all the way to Doob-Meyer, Ito, Girsanov, and SDEs. It can also serve as a useful resource for actuaries preparing for Exams FM and MFE (Society of Actuaries) and Exams 2 and 3F (Casualty Actuarial Society). Includes more subjects than other books, including probability, discrete and continuous time and space valuation, stochastic processes, equivalent martingales, option pricing, term structure models, valuation, and hedging techniques Emphasizes introductory financial engineering, financial modeling, and financial mathematics Suited for corporate training programs and professional association certification programs
The "Heinemann Science Scheme" offers an approach to the QCA's Scheme of Work. Teacher's resource packs provide support with lesson planning, with each chapter matching the Scheme of Work, and in-built assessment.
Gale Researcher Guide for: Democratization in South Korea is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
This work summarizes and synthesizes the substantial crime prevention literature to provide an approachable and comprehensive text for students. It sets out a critical analysis in the context of the politics of criminal justice policy.
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