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The world's second largest reserves of petroleum lie beneath the land-locked Caspian Sea, making the Caucasus of vital importance to both regional and global economic and security interests. This book brings together experts from the US, Russia and the Caucasus to examine the issues of conflict, foreign policy tradeoffs, and security in the region. It takes into account the geopolitical factors, Western and Russian involvement, and the interac...

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The first history of Europe since 1945 which examines the continent from a mainly ethnic perspective, Panikos Panayi has drawn on years of research to produce this comparative and exploratory account of the experience of ethnic minorities in post-war Europe. The coverage encompasses all categories of minorities including immigrants and refugees, localised ethnic groupings and dispersed peoples. Geographically, the scope of the book ranges from...

This anthology of women's writing on the mother-daughter relationship covers the whole of the twentieth century and includes writing from many different cultures -- black American, Jewish, West Indian, Irish, Chinese-American. This anthology has headnotes giving brief biographical details for each author plus suggestions for further reading. There is a substantial introduction tracking the evolution of the mother-daughter relationship in the t...

It is a pleasure to write the foreword to Nutrition and Table 1 Nutritional Status and Outcome of Infection Immunology: Principles and Practice. In fact, this book comes at a timely moment, when the impact of nutrition and Definite adverse outcome immunology is being widely felt because of the AIDS epi­ Measles, diarrhea, tuberculosis demic. This is particularly of note in Africa, where large Probable adverse outcome HIV, malaria, pneumonia su...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Gliederungsübersicht -- Gliederung -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Glossar -- Einleitung und Gang der Untersuchung -- 1. Teil: Entwicklung, Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und regulatorisches Umfeld für den Einsatz von OTC-Derivaten -- 2. Teil: Die Rechtsnatur von OTC-Zins- und Währungsderivaten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Finanzswaps -- 3. Teil: Das Innenverhältnis der Swapparteien zueinander sowie das Außenverhältnis z...

This clearly written book exposes the underlying errors of a failing system while suggesting new ways to approach such a monumental problem as the increasing violence in America. It urges us to rethink incarceration policy, especially as it intersects with race, social class, gender, morality, technology, the media, profiteering and legislated messages of prejudice, fear and violence.

THIS VOLUME, WHICH IS DESIGNED FOR STAND-ALONE USE IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH, FOCUSES ON QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, AN AREA OF SCIENCE THAT MANY CONSIDER TO BE THE CENTRAL CORE OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. TUTORIALS AND REVIEWS COVER * HOW TO OBTAIN SIMPLE CHEMICAL INSIGHT AND CONCEPTS FROM DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS, * HOW TO MODEL PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS AND EXCITED STATES, AND * HOW TO COMPUTE ENTHALPIES OF FORMATION OF MOLECULES. * A FO...

This collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to "Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575." It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.

This collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.

This book takes a crtitical look at employee participation in organizational decision making. It is the first book to do this by integrating into one source the various facts, theories, and applications concerning participation and empowerment in organizational settings. Through the extensive use of graphs and tables, the book traces the origins of worker participation in management and decision making, examines the repertoire of empowerment a...

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, and vegetation science.

Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC's, for they are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical feats.In this book, Mitsumasa Anno, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet, invites young readers...

A comprehensive overview of the state of the art in imaging of the head and neck. The book discusses the role of the standard modalities such as MRI and CT in diagnosing and staging head and neck cancers and in evaluating the effectiveness of various treatment regimens. In addition, it provides extensive insight into the role of such emerging technologies as positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and 3D volume rendering...

A brotherly companion to Nancy Lurie's "Mountain Wolf Woman

Using MPI is a completely up-to-date version of the authors' 1994 introduction to the core functions of MPI. It adds material on the new C++ and Fortran 90 bindings for MPI throughout the book.

This volume presents a balanced blend of methodological and applied contributions. It supplements well the first three volumes of the series, revealing results of current research in computational chemistry. It also reviews the topographical features of several molecular scalar fields. A brief discussion of topographical concepts is followed by examples of their application to several branches of chemistry.The size of a basis set applied in a ...

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In the first volume, Professors Poole and Farach provided one of the first definitive reference tools for this field. In this second volume, the authors present a comprehensive source for subfields of ESR not covered in the first volume, including: * Sensitivity * Field Swept versus Frequency Swept Spectra * Resonators * Line Shapes * Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation * Hamiltonian types and symmetries * ESR Imaging * High Magnetic Fields...

Hoffmann-Klassiker zum silbernen Bühnenjubiläum. Ein Jahr nach der äußerst erfolgreichen CD "Hoffmann-Berlin" erschien 1999 mit "Mein Weg" ein ganz besonderes Hoffmann-Album. Zu seinem silbernen Bühnenjubiläum präsentierte uns Klaus Hoffmann seine persönlichen Klassiker, wie z. B. "Blinde Katharina", "Der Boxer", "Gerda", "Salambo". Dass diese musikalische Reise durch drei Jahrzehnte keine simple "Best Of..." wurde, verdanken wir dem ehemalige...