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Birgerson examines the endurance of economic and political institutions established during the Soviet period and how their endurance has comprised the independence of the former republics. These successor states are struggling to establish stable, independent states against a backdrop of economic decline, and, in some cases, civil unrest. The role of Russia remains that of the dominant power in the region.

Addresses the methodology of an amplitude interpretation and the subsequent benefits and limitations expected in rock-property settings. Included are relationships between rock properties and geophysical observations, practical problems, field examples, general rules, and case histories.

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A comprehensive approach to solving applied geophysical problems, this book includes applications of BEM to solve problems of potential-field continuation and transformation, gravity and magnetic anomalies modelling, electric resistivity and induced polarization field modelling, magnetotelluric modelling, and various seismic modelling problems.

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Monte Carlo methods form an experimental branch of mathematics that employs simulations driven by random number generators. This book examines the theoretical properties of Monte Carlo methods as well as practical issues concerning their computer implementation and statistical analysis.

Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire's limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society.

This work clarifies and explains a characteristic of people in organizations that is crucial to the organization's success-dynamism, and provides Human Resources specialists with ways to enhance, measure and encourage its spread.

A comprehensive introduction to convexity and optimization in Rn This book presents the mathematics of finite dimensional constrained optimization problems. It provides a basis for the further mathematical study of convexity, of more general optimization problems, and of numerical algorithms for the solution of finite dimensional optimization problems. For readers who do not have the requisite background in real analysis, the author provides a...

This guide provides the needed direction to locate the appropriate intelligence to answer questions about current personal financial needs. Covering 1400 selected Websites, the work includes resources for financing personal goals, such as education and retirement.

Wagman gives a broad, structured, and detailed account of advancing intellectual developments in both psychological and computational theories of the nature of problem- solving. Known for originating the PLATO computer-based Dilemma Counseling System, psychologist Wagman is the author of 17 books, including Scientific Discovery Processes in Humans and Computers (Praeger, 2000).

History is an important, dangerous, and fragile subject. Historical thought can be censored in widely diverging political and historiographical contexts. Yet the problems of censorship, often thought to be obvious, are rarely studied. Filling a significant void, this guide supplies information on the censorship of historical thought and the fate of persecuted historians in over 130 countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and from 1945 to 2000.

Examines the lives and experiences of the men of the Elizabethan maritime community during a particularly volatile period of maritime history.

As workers and consumers, Mexican Americans are a viable -- and valuable -- part of the broad U.S. economy Despite that many are hindered by low education (and consequently low wages) and limited opportunities, they have continuously struggled for, and continue to seek, better days and the opportunity to realize their share of the American dream.This book examines the problems that Mexican Americans have experienced in attaining economic parit...

Alexander examines the role and impact of interest groups in gambling initiatives in California and Missouri. Attempting to build on current theories of interest group involvement in direct democracy, Alexander provides a compelling analysis of interest group lobbying in a nonlegislative setting.

While society may applaud middle and upper class women who decide to stay home to raise their children, there exists a decided abhorrence for single mothers, "welfare queens, " who collect public funds but do not work. Here, Hart challenges traditional notions of welfare mothers by providing first-hand accounts of poor urban mothers and revealing the life-affirming and moral aspects of their "motherwork"--a form of subsistence work, involving ...

Surveys the threats to and responses of tribal and ethnic groups in the United States and Canada.