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The recent regulatory changes, together with the increasing awareness of the variety of sources of uncertainty that affect the activities of insurance and pension funds, have generated increasing attention towards insurance risk management theory and practice. Against this background, this Special I...

Having disposed of the bodies of the would-be informant and his killers, Rakvir and Arhilka Stagarnik try to unsettle the still largely unknown conspirators. Learning that a force of Borvmen soldiers are involved in some way, they discover their whereabouts and persuade them to depart. Shortness of ...

When a career criminal shows up on Prairie Rose Indian Reservation planning a heist on Red Crow's new casino, Dash, now using heroin, finds himself sucked into the plan. Meanwhile, the spotlight falls on psychotic criminal Diesel, and the terrible truth about the FBI bust twenty years ago is reveale...

Bilingual classic in French and English....

JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder....

In this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popul...

The rapid development of wireless digital communication technology has cre­ ated capabilities that software systems are only beginning to exploit. The falling cost of both communication and of mobile computing devices (laptop computers, hand-held computers, etc. ) is making wireless computing afford...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preservin...

The stones and sculptures on the beach of the Baltic Sea appear as witnesses of another time. Created by the power of nature and man-made the sculptures every day change the appearance. Sand, seaweed und shells decorate the structures which are formed by the wind and the waves. Calvendo calendars ar...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,0, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 39 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Die Welt wird Traum, der Traum wird Welt." Dieser Satz aus dem Gedicht „Astralis" ...

Book by HOLT MCDOUGAL...

Always dreamed of becoming a Life Coach? Life Coaching Training and Certification has all the tools you'll need to begin your concentrated Life Coaching practice....

The astonishing science of black holes and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe.Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Every massive star leaves behind a black hole when it dies, and every galaxy harbors a supermassive bla...

Interest in the Scala programming language continues to grow for many reasons. Scala embraces the functional programming style without abandoning the object-oriented paradigm, and it allows you to write programs more concisely than in Java. Because Scala runs on the JVM, it can access any Java libra...

A critique of selectionism and the proposal of an alternate theory of emergent evolution that is causally sufficient for evolutionary biology.Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient e...

Book by McMurry, John E, Hoeger, Carl A., Peterson, Virginia S, Ballantine, David S, Miller, Michael...

Judge Sarah T. Hughes is perhaps best remembered as the woman who swore in Lyndon Johnson as president aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. But long before then, she had been making headlines as the foremost woman Democrat in Texas. In 1...

The second edition of this best-selling guide demystifies Shakespeare’s plays and brings critical ideas within a beginner’s grasp. The text provides a thorough general introduction to the plays, based on the exciting new approaches shaping the field of Shakespeare studies.Demonstrating how interpret...

Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes...

This econometric study covers the world outlook for mass-market skin care products across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share ...

An essential reader containing 19 important papers on the invention and early development of concurrent programming and its relevance to computer science and computer engineering. All of them are written by the pioneers in concurrent programming, including Brinch Hansen himself, and have introductio...

Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) became one of the most controversial politicians of his generation during his time as Governor-General of Bengal (1798-1805). Although this period saw him achieve territorial gains and military victories in India - including the defeat of Tipu Sultan, the rule...

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and export managers whose primary concern is the world market for sawn, chipped, sliced, or peeled coniferous wood over 6 millimeters thick. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented w...

`Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who only write in English . . . ? More importantly, is it possible to assess properly and appreciate the merits of this handful of writers without any recourse to th...