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This ebook expounds a newly developed analytical framework to help us understand Economic Crises, as reflected in the movements of U S stocks. The Financial Meltdown (2008), the October Crash (1987), and the Blitzkrieg (1940), to name only a few examples, are predictable months or years in advance...

This monograph on measurement error and misclassification covers a broad range of problems and emphasizes unique features in modeling and analyzing problems arising from medical research and epidemiological studies. Many measurement error and misclassification problems have been addressed in various...

In view of the increasing quest for environmental management in businesses, this book provides a good reference to firms to understand how they may manage their supply chains to improve business and environmental performance. The book consists of six chapters covering such topics as environmental...

All of the processing you have ever experienced was designed to refine the prophetic in you and to propel you into the prophetic promises God preordained from the beginning. Author Jocelyn Y. Buckley provides considerable insight on the prophetic that extends beyond the walls of tradition and into...

With the emergence of popular culture phenomena such as reality television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important to examine the representation of Black women and the potential implications of those images, messages, and roles. Black Women and Popular Culture: The Conversation Continues...

China’s rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism. This book focuses on the urban transformations of these three cities: Beijing is the nation’s political and cultural capital; Shanghai is the...

Advancing work to effectively study, understand, and serve the fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority population, this volume explicitly emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity within this heterogeneous cultural group. The focus is on the complex historical roots of contemporary Latino/as, their...

It was previously stated by scientists that there are only two main drives that affects our behavior – biological (we eat and drink to satisfy our hunger and thirst) and the external drive (reward me and I'll work harder). The former pertains to the basic needs in order to physically survive such...

Vegetables are an important article of commerce both in developed and developing economies. Many studies point to importance of vegetables in our diet. Handbook of Vegetables and Vegetable Processing serves as a reference handbook on vegetables and vegetable processing containing the latest developments...

Lebanon is a Middle Eastern country that has been inhabited for more than six thousand years, and today it has a population of four million with over eighteen different religious sects, many of which are Muslim or Christian. The country, however, is in an incessant struggle to institutionalize democracy...

This book, together with the next two volumes to follow, offers the scientific community the works and thoughts of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The text is a faithful rendition of the original Spanish version, with additional facts taken from the French translation. Both of these are currently quoted...

Medical English for International Doctors and Nurses How to communicate with your colleagues and patients effectively in English... Have you just completed your registration with your professional body in an English speaking country? Or do you frequently receive international patients...

Yani Temujin é um feiticeiro milenar que acorda em uma época que lhe é completamente estranha, o século vinte. E em busca do entendimento do espírito do tempo, do zeitgeist do século vinte, ele irá se meter e criar situações que, irreversivelmente, mudarão o mundo como conhecemos. "Este...

A religião cinzenta espalha-se cada vez mais rápido pelo mundo. Seu mais antigo e ferrenho inimigo, O Punho de Deus, planeja um ataque fulminante a sua mais sagrada cerimônia. Helena, uma assassina de classe mundial, decide que o único jeito de encontrar seu antigo amante é mergulhar na central...