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Models of Achievement
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 75.00This outstanding book contains inspiring stories of late 20th century women who broke new ground in psychological knowledge and its applications. The lives and careers of 53 women are examined within social and historical contexts using three levels of analysis--the individual, the group, and the universal. The thoughtful autobiographies and the... more...
Reducing Global Poverty
Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 24.95Defeating global poverty remains one of the most daunting challenges facing the international community. Income- and consumption-based strategies fall short of helping the world's poor climb out of poverty over the long term in the developing world and even in the United States. But asset-based approaches to development, such as small loans or insurance,... more...
Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives
Brookings Institution Press 2009; US$ 32.95Fifty years after Oscar Lewiss famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a culture of poverty, Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil. In Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives, Moser... more...
Budget Deficits and Macroeconomic Policy
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 111.00Discussions of macroeconomic policy often focus on changes in the budget deficit. A low budget deficit is one of the criteria for admission to the EMU. But some combinations of fiscal measures having a given effect on the budget deficit can have damaging effects on the principal macroeconomic objectives such as inflation and full employment, whereas... more...
Probabilistic Methods In Fluids, Proceedings Of The Swansea 2002 Workshop
World Scientific Publishing Company 2003; US$ 138.00This volume contains recent research papers presented at the international workshop on ?Probabilistic Methods in Fluids? held in Swansea. The central problems considered were turbulence and the Navier?Stokes equations but, as is now well known, these classical problems are deeply intertwined with modern studies of stochastic partial differential equations,... more...
The Solar Tachocline
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 66.00Reference on the tachocline for researchers and graduates in astrophysics, heliospheric physics, and fluid and plasma dynamics. more...
Areawide Pest Management
CABI 2008; US$ 190.00Pest management has long been a problem for farmers worldwide and new techniques are continually being developed to reduce the adverse effects of pest populations. With a discussion of areawide pest management, this book explores the theoretical development and implementation of techniques from a worldwide perspective. more...
Magnonics
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99Spin waves (and their quanta magnons) can effectively carry and process information in magnetic nanostructures. By analogy to photonics, this research field is labelled magnonics. It comprises the study of excitation, detection, and manipulation of magnons. From the practical point of view, the most attractive feature of magnonic devices is the controllability... more...
Handbook of fibre rope technology
Woodhead Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 290.00Fibre rope has undergone dramatic technological changes over the last few decades with such advances as the development of synthetic fibres and modern types of rope construction. This major handbook takes a comprehensive look at rope-making materials and structures, properties and mechanics. It covers rope production, focusing on laid strand, braided,... more...
Molecular Ecology of Rhizosphere Microorganisms
Wiley 2008; US$ 130.00This book helps evaluate the state of the art of rhizosphere microbial ecology and biotechnology. Experts in the field review methods and strategies applied to the detection, identification and monitoring of microorganisms in the rhizosphere. Major topics treated include: - construction of genetically marked rhizosphere bacteria - detection of marked... more...









