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Too Far From Home
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 24.95An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all?outer space In the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise?at least until the shuttle Columbia disintegrated like the Challenger before it, reminding us, once again, that the dangers are all... more...
Financial Economics
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 69.95Whilst many undergraduate finance textbooks are largely descriptive in nature, the economic analysis in most graduate texts is too advanced for latter year undergraduates. This book bridges the gap between these two extremes, offering a textbook that studies economic activity in financial markets, focusing on how consumers determine future consumption... more...
Hedge Funds Of Funds
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 70.00Hedge Funds of Funds: A Guide for Investors is a comprehensive guide to investing in hedge funds of funds. Written by an experienced practitioner in clear, concise and jargon free language, this book gives an inside view of this often opaque area and empowers readers with the tools to get to the bottom of how hedge funds of funds really work. Key... more...
Too Far From Home
Random House 2009; US$ 12.00On February 1, 2003, ten astronauts were orbiting the planet. Seven headed back to Earth on the space shuttle Columbia. They never made it. And the three men left behind found themselves too far from home. Chris Jones chronicles the efforts of the beleaguered Mission Control in Houston and Moscow as they work frantically against the clock to... more...
Out of Orbit
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00On February 1, 2003, the nation was stunned to watch the shuttle Columbia disintegrate into a blue-green sky. Despite the numerous new reports surrounding the tragedy, the public remained largely unaware that three men, U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, remained orbiting the earth. With... more...
Applied Welfare Economics
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 74.99Applied Welfare Economics uses important results in the welfare economics literature to extend a conventional Harberger cost-benefit analysis. After reviewing the properties of different welfare measures a conventional welfare equation is used to evaluate marginal policy changes in a general equilibrium economy with tax distortions. The analysis is... more...
Falling Hard
Random House 2012; US$ 9.34365 days, 7 fights, 4 Kos, 3 decisions, 2 scandals, 1 missing ear, 1 wild yearChris Jones did not know what he was getting himself into. He looked for a sport to call his own when he was hired as a rookie reporter. He found boxing. Over the course of the year that followed, the dark trade would creep deeply inside him, set his heart pumping one... more...
Issues in Heart Failure Nursing
M&K Update Ltd 2006; US$ 11.18The number of people suffering from this debilitating condition is predicted to grow exponentially over the next decade. This has serious implications for the health services. Investigating heart failure is not cheap even where facilities exist. The drugs used, though effective often remarkably so are also costly as are laboratory investigations.... more...
Out of Orbit
House of Anansi Press 2012; US$ 14.95In February 2003, American astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin were on a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station. But then the space shuttle Columbia exploded far beneath them. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their... more...
An Agent of Deceit
Pan Macmillan UK 2011; US$ 15.18A tycoon with a deadly secret. A spy dying to find it. Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible tragedy... Now employed by a private London intelligence agency, Webster's interest is piqued when a client asks him to expose the dealings of... more...









