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The Handbook of European Fixed Income Securities is the first comprehensive guide to this important and diverse capital market. It is essential reading for all investors with an interest in European bond markets, as well as a vital reference work for traders, marketers, and risk managers. Featuring contributions from over thirty internationally recognized experts in the field of debt finance and derivatives, this book covers every aspect of t...

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Examining the concepts, conventions, and components that underlie the ecology of human-managed landscapes, this is the first book to address landscape agroecology. It will show you how to address and overcome drought, flooding, poor soil, damaging winds, plant diseases, plant-eating insects, and more, while respecting the importance of sustainability and environmental friendliness. Bringing together ideas from a number of sources within the fi...

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In an accessible style, the author demonstrates the link between grammar and vocabulary.

An introduction to the building trades, this work helps users attain the skills and information necessary for success in a construction career. It examines the areas of workplace skills, mathematics, communications, print reading, safety, common tools, and job opportunities in the field.

This completely updated edition explores in detail the unresolved debate on the existence of weather cycles. It provides a different perspective on one of the most difficult questions in the current global warming debate: how much of the recent temperature rise can be attributed to natural causes? The book examines the complex analysis required to assess the evidence for cycles with a minimum of mathematics. First Edition Hb (1992): 0-521-3817...

ARQ is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice.

This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state has a tainted history of coercion, ethnic violence, and even, as in ultranationalist Nazi Germany, genocide. Most contemporary theorists are therefore skeptical, if not ...

This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state has a tainted history of coercion, ethnic violence, and even, as in ultranationalist Nazi Germany, genocide. Most contemporary theorists are therefore skeptical, if not ...

Translations of texts by important Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work.

Translations of texts by important Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work.

Watner and McElroy have compiled a collection of essays that present the historical, religious, moral and practical arguments against government identification systems. The essays look at several government naming practices, and the census, and discuss how the collection of seemingly innocent data could easily be used to commit abuses. Section one recounts the history of what we now call national ID. Section two covers contemporary technologie...

This completely updated edition explores in detail the unresolved debate on the existence of weather cycles. It provides a different perspective on one of the most difficult questions in the current global warming debate: how much of the recent temperature rise can be attributed to natural causes? The book examines the complex analysis required to assess the evidence for cycles with a minimum of mathematics. First Edition Hb (1992): 0-521-3817...

In Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory, Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the "girl-friend" as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ara Aidoo, Dionne Brand, photographer Lorna Simpson, and many others, inform debates over the concept of identity. Quashie argues that these authors and artists replace t...