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Fit Kids for Life
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 9.99Exercise and Nutrition Guidelines for Active Kids When we look back on childhood, we realize that ''exercise'' was a lot like play. We enjoyed running, playing tag, or hitting a baseball just because it felt good. However, it's apparent that staying active, even as kids, has become the exception. The statistics are depressing: up... more...
Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 23.00Are newly established presidential democracies doomed to fail? Advocates of parliamentarism point to the fact that these regimes tend to last longer than presidential ones in support of their positive answer to this question. This book takes a contrary view on this issue. more...
Regional Financial Cooperation
Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 36.95Assesses how regional financial institutions can help developing countries, often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework, finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard''--Provided by publisher. more...
QRD-RLS Adaptive Filtering
Springer 2009; US$ 99.99This book provides tools and knowledge in a simple way such that the reader is able to implement a particular QRD-RLS algorithm tailored for the application at hand. The material presents not only classical and recent research results but also the expertise of a number of authors that have contributed to the development of this fast converging class... more...
Beyond Reforms
World Bank Publications 2005; US$ 19.99Beyond Reform argues that economic growth in developing countries is intrinsically tied to the dynamics of production structures, to the specific policies and institutions created to support it, and the creation of linkages among domestic firms and sectors. Avoiding macroeconomic instability is also essential, however, macroeconomic stability is not... more...
Globalization and Development
World Bank Publications 2003; US$ 14.99Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. In this book, ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean regions experience in order to formulate a historical and multidimensional assessment of the... more...
Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 38.99Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched... more...
History of Portuguese Economic Thought
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 250.00A History of Portuguese Economic Thought offers the first account in English of the development of economic thought in Portugal. The authors adopt a comparative approach to analyse how economic doctrine, theories and policies have been disseminated and assimilated by Portuguese economists in different periods. They assess the influence on Portuguese... more...
Speech Recognition Over Digital Channels
Wiley 2006; US$ 145.00Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a very attractive means for human-machine interaction. The degree of maturity reached by speech recognition technologies during recent years allows the development of applications that use them. In particular, ASR shows an enormous potential in mobile environments, where devices such as mobile phones or PDAs are... more...
Product and Market Development For Subsistence Marketplaces
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 99.95This volume provides a more detailed and profound understanding of an important and, until recently ignored, global phenomenon marketplaces where individuals living in poverty buy/sell products and services. It is estimated that as many as 4 billion people with buying power exceeding $14 trillion fall into this market segment. Historically,... more...









