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Whether striving to protect citizens from financial risks, climate change, inadequate health care, or the uncertainties of the emerging "sharing” economy, regulators must routinely make difficult judgment calls in an effort to meet the conflicting demands that society places on them.Operating within... More

There is much focus today on the agony of Christ's death. The story is not finished. God has left us with four different accounts of Jesus' victory over death. Here are all the words of all the Gospels about the last week of Christ and His resurrection. The orderly and harmonized reports about the p... More

Use past performance to win contracts and deliver results at the lowest risk and cost!The federal government has focused on past performance to rank bidders for almost two decades, yet both the collection and use of past performance information remain disjointed, siloed, and not fully understood in ... More

La década de 1920 en México y el suroeste de Estados Unidos tienen muchos peligros, ya que los últimos bastiones Apaches persisten contra los invasores extranjeros. Duro como clavos, el militar confederado Jock MacNeil recibe una invitación inesperada para guiar a los fugitivos de una reserva a una ... More

1950, Westburn, Scozia. Tim Ronsard sta per terminare il suo percorso di studi alla St. Mary's, una scuola di matrice cattolica.   Annoiato e svogliato, non vede l'ora di andarsene via. Ma la sua vita cambia di colpo quando conosce la nuova insegnante di musica: Isobel Clieshman, una Protestante.... More

Nathan Forrest es un católico no practicante, un soldador, un hijo ilegítimo, y un trompetista de jazz talentoso. Luego de comenzar a perseguir a Dorothy -una chica protestante de una familia de clase media- enfrentan el antagonismo de la Escocia a mediados del siglo veinte. Con el fondo de los a... More

"¿Son estas cartas, acaso, el reflejo del interior de cada ser humano o son el mensaje inconsciente de fuerzas que vienen de otras dimensiones? Cualquiera que sea nuestra opción, en definitiva, las cartas del Tarot son las herederas de un conocimiento milenario y manifiestan arquetipos del tránsito ... More

Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.... More

Autobiography by sportscaster Jim Nantz, who tells behind-the-scenes stories of some of the most dramatic moments in American sports, while paying tribute to his inspiration, his father.... More

This book, first published in 1982, collects together ten studies from the journal Middle Eastern Studies. They tackle a variety of issues stemming from the conflict between Arabism and Zionism, before and after the creation of the State of Israel. Aspects of Arab- Jewish relations during the Mandat... More

Published in 1988, Essays on the Economic History of the Middle East is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle Eastern Studies.... More

"Lebowitz and Omer have taken the latest and most relevant scientific research and synthesized it into an essential read for caregivers of anxious children. Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: A Guide for Caregivers provides an 'inside look' at the nuts and bolts of cognitive behavioral ther... More

Anselm of Canterbury is one of the most famous of medieval Christian thinkers, who left a considerable political and intellectual inheritance of his own. This book reveals that the theological and intellectual inheritance available to Anselm was more dynamic, broader and deeper than is traditionally... More

The favored prostitute of Lisbon's rich and powerful has been found dead amid austerity protests in Portugal, and down-on-his-luck actor Americo Abril, who has just won the role of a lifetime playing Paul Giamatti in the avant-garde film Being Paul Giamatti, is the prime suspect.Abril seeks the real... More

First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

First published in 1980, 'Modern Egypt, Studies in Politics and Society' is an important contribution to the field of History.... More

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

Process innovations - an improved way of doing things – help firms achieve higher-level performance by reducing the time and cost to produce a product or perform a service, and increasing productivity and growth. This book provides a comprehensive examination of process innovations occurring in the... More

This is the first book to present a systematic review of applications of the Haar wavelet method for solving Calculus and Structural Mechanics problems. Haar wavelet-based solutions for a wide range of problems, such as various differential and integral equations, fractional equations, optimal cont... More

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants ove... More

How is qualitative data actually collected, analyzed, and accomplished? Real stories of How Qualitative Data Analysis Occurs: Moving Beyond "Themes Emerged" offers an in-depth look into how qualitative social science researchers studying family issues and dynamics approach their data analyses. It mo... More

When Ayn Carrillo-Gailey confronted her boyfriend about his porn habit, he pronounced her "pornophobic. " Determined to prove she wasn't phobic, simply more enlightened, Ayn set out to learn all she could about this phenomenon. Like any good researcher, she added her new quest to her daily To-Do li... More

This book brings together writing from activists and scholars that examine leftist and decolonial forms of resistance that have emerged from Hong Kong’s contemporary era of protests. Practices such as labor unionism, police abolition, land justice struggles, and other radical expressions of self-gov... More

Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative service... More

The book presents a collection of selected papers from the I Workshop of the Venezuelan Society of Fluid Mechanics held on Margarita Island, Venezuela from November 4 to 9, 2012. Written by experts in their respective fields, the contributions are organized into five parts: - Part I Invited Lecture... More