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Depression in Later Life
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 23.99Depression affects between 10-15% of older people, making it the most frequently encountered mental health condition in later life. Despite this, the condition is easily missed in clinical practice or not adequately treated. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library, this concise pocketbook will provide an accessible account of what depression in older... more...
Empirical Studies of Commercial Policy
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00The need for careful research on trade policy is particularly acute, and this volume empirically addresses these and many other important issues. The contributors offer studies which integrate the institutional details of current trade policy with creative economic analyses. Marked by a shift from a traditional reliance on simulation models, these... more...
Trade Policy Issues and Empirical Analysis
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 45.00Interest in U.S. trade policy has been stimulated in recent years by the massive American trade deficit, by the belief that intervention by foreign governments in international markets has given other countries a competitive edge over the United States, and by concern about the increase in protectionism among industrial countries. In turn, major analytical... more...
Peptide Solvation and H-bonds
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 166.00Volume 72 addresses the role of peptide backbone solvation in the energetics of protein folding. Particular attention is focused on modeling and computation. This volume will be of particular interest to biophysicists and structural biologists. *Challenges the longstanding and basic assumptions of structural biology *Discusses how to solve the problem... more...
Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting provides a forum for leading specialists in trade and international economics to explore whether changes in the world economy have increased the usefulness of international accounts drawn up on the basis of ownership rather than on geography. The papers in this volume suggest that ownership-based... more...
Integrated Management of Depression in the Elderly
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 51.00A new approach to understanding late-life depression, using a series of case studies with commentaries. more...
Challenges to Globalization
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 37.50People passionately disagree about the nature of the globalization process. The failure of both the 1999 and 2003 World Trade Organization's (WTO) ministerial conferences in Seattle and Cancun, respectively, have highlighted the tensions among official, international organizations like the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank,... more...
The Structure and Evolution of Recent U.S. Trade Policy
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 45.00The trade policies addressed in this book have far-reaching effects on the world's increasingly interdependent economies, but until now little research has been devoted to them. This volume represents the first systematic effort to analyze specific U.S. trade policies, particularly nontariff measures. It provides a better understanding of how trade... more...
Landscape-scale Conservation Planning
Springer 2010; US$ 139.99This book applies the latest thinking and techniques of systematic conservation planning to the issues that arise in protecting ecosystem pattern and process in human-dominated landscapes such as seascapes, multiple countries and conservation targets. more...
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Oxford University Press, USA 1998; US$ 21.99George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man... more...









