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Wise Wealth
Creating It, Managing It, Preserving It
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Captures the insights of leading academics and practitioners based on decades of research around the globe on factors of success and failures of private wealth, over time. It presents a deep and broad approach to understanding why and how wealth is created, managed and preserved over generations.
Education for Development or Underdevelopment?
Guyana’s Educational System and its Implications for the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
How critical is education in the development struggle of a third world country? Responding to popular demands for more accessible education, the Guyanese government instituted numerous educational reforms, hoping to promote economic growth in both the modern and the traditional sectors of the economy....
by Solange Kelly, Mustafa Balat, Ayhan Demirbas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However petroleum, once considered inexhaustible, is now being depleted at a rapid rate. As the amount of available petroleum decreases, the need for alternative technologies...
by K. E. Peters, C. C. Walters, J. M. Moldowan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this essential reference. Now in two volumes, it provides a comprehensive account of the role that biomarker technology plays both in petroleum exploration and in understanding Earth history and processes. Biomarkers...
by Denny K. S. Ng, Raymond R. Tan, Dominic C. Y. Foo
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This book covers recent developments in process systems engineering (PSE) for efficient resource use in biomass conversion systems. It provides an overview of process development in biomass conversion systems with focus on biorefineries involving the production and coproduction of fuels, heating,...
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...
Old Ninety Six
A History & Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Few locations in South Carolina have figured as prominently in the early history of the state as the old town of Ninety Six. As a witness to two Revolutionary War battles, two Cherokee War battles, a trading post, three forts and two towns, the site is perhaps one of the richest archaeological sites...
Economic Development Through Regional Trade
A Role for the New East African Community?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.
LASIK
A Guide to Laser Vision Correction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
If you'd like to improve your vision and reduce or eliminate your need for glasses or contacts, perhaps you're considering LASIK. This procedure has become one of the most popular vision correction surgeries in the nation with 9 million Americans undergoing LASIK procedures annually.
But,...
by M. K. Van Rensselaer
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Chapter I—Prophetical and Other Cards
Chapter II—The Book of Thoth, Hermes, and Nebo
Chapter III—Mercurius
Chapter IV—Thoth
Chapter V—Nebo or Nabu
Chapter VI—The Atouts of the Tarots
Chapter VII—Pips...
by William E. Martin, Helen M. Ingram, Nancy K. Laney
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book was stimulated by and sets out to analyse a political battle over water pricing by a municipal system. Originally published in 1984, this title provides improved methods for demand function estimation where block rates are involved, suggests procedures for rational pricing of municipal water,...
Radiometric Temperature Measurements
II. Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
This book describes the practice of radiation thermometry, both at a primary level and for a variety of applications, such as in the materials processing industries and remote sensing. This book is written for those who will a) apply radiation thermometry in industrial practice b) use radiation thermometers...
Ko te Whenua te Utu / Land Is the Price
Essays on Maori History, Land and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For more than half a century, Keith Sorrenson—one of New Zealand's leading historians and himself of mixed Maori and Pakeha descent—has dived deeper than anyone into the story of two peoples in New Zealand. In this new book, Sorrenson brings together his major writing from the last 56 years into...
The Program Evaluation Standards
A Guide for Evaluators and Evaluation Users
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
With oversight from the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Yarbrough, Schulha, Hopson, and Caruthers have revised and illustrated this new edition of the Program Evaluation Standards. These thirty standards support the core attributes of evaluation quality: utility, feasibility,...