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The book provides a clear explanation of the economic concepts such as market definition that underpin the competition rules, and an outline on the application of the rules to the most important types of commercial agreement and behaviour.

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Technical Rescue Operations, Volume II: Common Emergencies is the second in a three-volume series by Larry Collins. Volume II covers responding to, managing, and conducting rescues in the "daily" setting of fire/rescue agencies. This includes the kind of technical rescues that confront firefighters and rescuers on practically a daily basis. This volume also explains how to handle more complex and large-scale rescue operations that challenge re...

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Documents the Army Medical Department's process of identifying and addressing medical issues related to the Army's transformation to the Future Force.

Presents the English essentials for doing business in global marketplace. This title takes account of international contexts, countries and cultures and a business environment where English is often used as the language of communication between speakers of many nationalities.

Looks at Sherwood Anderson's early fiction from contemporary interpretative methodologies, particularly from post-structuralist approaches. Robert Dunne breaks new ground in Anderson scholarship: his is the first sustained, full-length critical work on Anderson from a postmodern theoretical perspective and is the first study of a substantial body of Anderson's work in more than thirty years.

This comprehensive book takes the mystery out of dry gas seals that are used in compressor stations, processing plants, refineries, and chemical plants. This book presents a complete guide to the technology, from the principle of gas seal operation to "lessons learned" from actual field experience. Ideal for engineers, operators, maintenance personnel, purchasing personnel, and technical management.

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Comparing mythologies that the United States and Canada share, Canadians and Americans examines national views of their histories, from the common origin of both nations in the American Revolution, through the two world wars. The author also examines the role of nature and images of place and home in Canadian and American literary writing, noting the disparate historical development of the two national literatures. Using specific works, Morris...

Novelist, lawyer, and humanist Scott Turow has made the legal mystery a modern phenomenon, with books such as Presumed Innocent, Pleading Guilty, and Reversible Errors.

In this collection of letters from the David O. McKay Papers at the J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah, McKay’s courtship of Emma Ray Riggs and the early days of the couple’s marriage are revealed in his own words.

The birth of Islam in the 7th century and its subsequent outward expansion from the Arab world has been one of the most influential occurrences in world history. During its first few decades, the new faith inspired conquests from Spain to northern India. In this illuminating study, the author tracks the rise of Islam from it 7th century beginnings with the life of the Prophet Muhammad to the collapse of the Islamic empire in the early 10th cen...

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Mikhail Gorbachev and Daisaku Ikeda are contemporaries raised in different cultures: Gorbachev is a statesman influenced by Marx and communist politics while Ikeda is a Buddhist inspired by the thirteenth century Japanese sage, Nichiren. This book is a result of a series of conversations between these two men. Together they explore their experiences of life amidst the turmoil of the twentieth century and together they search for a common ethic...

In this landmark volume of contemporary communication theory, Ronald C. Arnett applies the metaphor of dialogic confession--which enables historical moments to be addressed from a confessed standpoint and through a communicative lens--to the works of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who pointed to an era of postmodern difference with his notion of "a world come of age." Arnett's interpretations of Bonhoeffer's life and scholarship in con...

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The 3rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2005) was sponsored and organized by ICISA (the International Commu- cations and Information Security Association). It was held at Columbia University in New York, USA, June 7-10, 2005. This conference proceedings volume contains papers presented in the academic/research track. ACNS covers a large number of research areas that have been gaining importance in re...

Shines light on the work of Mary Austin (1866-1934), revealing her to be a significant trailblazer for Southwestern literary criticism, with thoughtful introductions to selected writings on her prose, drama, and poetry.