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October 28, 1997. The Dow drops 500 points. Investors the world over receive a startling reminder that "what goes up, must come down." It is a profoundly unsettling experience for those of us who have either forgotten or have never known the experience of a bear market. Half of the money invested in U.S. stocks in this century entered the market from 1991-1996, making the dark days of October memorable for their bloodletting. Overall, this was...

Praise for Faster Company "What a ride! Pat Kelly's story is amazing and his business lessons are invaluable. If you want to build a great company, read this book! If you want to inspire a youngster, give him or her this book. It could change their life." -Alen "Ace" Greenberg, Chairman of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. "Faster Company is a quick and easy read full of simple but sound advice about the real basics of business. Few business books have...

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Reveals how those seeking personal change in an intense community setting is susceptible to the lure of group influence. This book focuses on the author's analysis of one community in southern California, The Center for Feeling Therapy, which opened in 1971 as an offshoot of Arthur Janov's Primal Scream approach.

This outstanding book assesses the whole sweep of American thought from the colonial era to the present day.

Dieses praxisorientierte Handbuch ist besonders für Neulinge auf dem Gebiet der Molekülspektroskopie gedacht. Es vermittelt das notwendige Grundwissen, um moderne Techniken im Laboralltag anwenden zu können, und zeigt, wie die Resultate geeignet auszuwerten sind. (04/98)

Using numerous sources, such as contemporary etiquette manuals, society papers and columns, novels, magazines, private correspondence, and diaries, "Displaying Women" vividly depicts the custom and culture of New York "society" women from roughly 1870 to 1920.

At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when human difference is so relentlessly celebrated, it may even seem impossible to talk about the traditions and experiences that join us across race, religion, and nation. Wendy Doniger offers a powerful antidote to the paralysis of postcolonial intellectual life. In this spirited, enlightening book, ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, ein besseres Verständnis der Benetzungseigenschaften von flüssigem Helium zu erhalten. Ganz allgemein sind Benetzungseigenschaften von großem technischem Interesse. Beispiele hierfür sind das Aufbringen von Farbe auf eine Oberfläche oder die Herstellung immer kleiner Strukturen in der Halbleiterindustrie. All diese Systeme sind aber sehr komplex und sowohl theoretisch als auch experimentel...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Firmeninhaber, Entscheidungsträger oder Manager wollen stets einen genauen Überblick über das Leistungsspektrum ihrer Organisation erlangen. Häufig werden zur Beurteilung sporadisch Leistungsmaßstäbe herangezogen, die in den wenigsten Fällen periodenübergreifende Konstanz aufweisen. Vielfach fehlt es an der nötigen Abstimmung der Maßstäbe untereinander und mit der Geschäftspolitik der Unternehmung. Auf diese Weise ge...

The volumes of Organic Reactions are collections of chapters, each dedicated to a singled reaction or definitive phase of a reaction of wide applicability. The subject is presented from the preparative viewpoint & particular attention is given to limitations, interfering influences, effects of structure & the selection of experimental techniques.

The Dark Side of Paradise" is an attempt to put the politics back into Bali's 20th-century history. Exploring both Indonesian and Dutch sources, Geoffrey Robinson analyzes the class tensions between aristocrats and commoners during the late colonial period. This work demolishes the fiction of the "peaceful Balinese" that pervades academic and popular literature, and places modern political history directly into the middle of Balinese scholarship.

Traces the careers and ideas of four of AmericaAAA1/2s early environmental advocates: George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell.

The nostalgic vision of a rural Midwest populated by independent family farmers hides the reality that rural wage labor has been integral to the region's development, says Deborah Fink. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and highlights its significance in shaping the state's economic, political, and social contours. Fink draws both on interviews and on her own firsthand exp...

A comprehensive, accessible, up-to-date catalog of enzymes and their uses in modern manufacturing. Enzymes have long been used by industrial product makers as major catalysts to transform raw materials into end products. Now available in English for the first time, Industrial Enzymes and Their Applications is the only authoritative catalog of enzymes with in-depth coverage of their varied uses, the classes in which they are grouped, and which ...

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One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution. "New York Times Book Review"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic, ' this is surely one. "William and Mary Quarterly"(A) brilliant and sweeping interpretation of political culture...

Sharing a past of war in the Middle East and the fallout of a failed mission, Paul Chardy, a former CIA covert warrior and Ulu Beg, a Kurdish freedom fighter, meet again in the midst of conspiracy of lies and violence. When key members of the Beltway elite start dropping dead, the CIA knows that only Beg can be responsible and that only Chardy can stop him. As this taut thriller races towards a searing conclusion, both men realize that nothing...

Four Views on the Book of Revelation are presented, critiqued, and defended: preterist, idealist, and the classical dispensationalist and progressive dispensationalist forms of the futurist approach.