Engineering Economic Analysis: CD-ROM included containing Interactive Tutorials, ExcelRG Spreadsheets and Interest Tables

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Engineering Economic Analysis: CD-ROM included containing Interactive Tutorials, ExcelRG Spreadsheets and Interest Tables
Ted G. Eschenbach, Jerome P. Lavelle Donald G. Newnan
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKSG52

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This volume examines whether the present "era of finance" represents the best possible way of organizing economic affairs, arguing the ensuing economic instability and inefficiency create the preconditions for the end of the dominance of finance.

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The original theory of finance which grows out of this critique is of interest to students and researchers of financial economics, practitioners in finance and policy-makers.

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Dolphin Doctor

Dolphin Doctor: A Pioneering Veterinarian and Scientist Remembers the Extraordinary Dolphin that Inspired His Career
Sam H Ridgway
Manufacturer: Dolphin Science Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0964271605

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Dolphin Doctor.......2006-06-09

It was almost finished. Wally pointed to the only dolphin left to examine - the skinny one with the crescent-shaped scar. First Mo grabbed the animal around the chest, just behind the flippers. Then Bill Sconce and Marty latched onto the tail behind the dorsal fin. Unexpectedly the dolphin recoiled. With his snout, he swatted Mo on the head, knocking him backward into the pool. With his tail flukes, the dolphin flailed Marty's shins and knocked him headlong into the water. Bill received several body blows in the melee and disappeared briefly under the murk.

About ten minutes of thrashing, spalshes, bites, and bruises followed. Finally, the skinny dolphin with the scar lay still on the rubber pad with four men draped across him. I hurriedly gave him his vitamin injection and inserted my thermometer.

Struck by the spectacle of our crew battered by a single dolphin, Wally began to laugh, "At least we have a name for the dolphin now," he said. "From now on, he's Tuf Guy."
--- from book's back cover

The Dolphin Doctor: A Pioneering Veterinarian Remembers the Extraordinary Dolphin That Inspired His Career

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The Dolphin Doctor: A Pioneering Veterinarian Remembers the Extraordinary Dolphin That Inspired His Career
Sam H. Ridgway
Manufacturer: Yankee Publishing
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology is a major reference work for all those interested in the identification of disease in human remains. Many diseases leave characteristic lesions and deformities on human bones, teeth and soft tissues that can be identified many years after death. This comprehensive volume includes all conditions producing effects recognizable with the unaided eye. Detailed lesion descriptions and over 300 photographs and diagrams facilitate disease recognition and each condition is placed in context with discussion of its history, antiquity, etiology, epidemiology, geography, and natural history. Uniquely, diseases affecting the soft tissues are also included as these are commonly present in mummified remains.

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THE handbook for skeletal pathology.......2004-01-30

That's all that really needs to be said about it. This book is mind-blowing. It's huge and comprehensive for those who need a reference not only for diagnosis, but histology and pathology.

This book is a definitive text!!!.......1999-09-23

If you want to know anything about paleopathology, this is the book you want to use. It is easy to understand and great as a reference book. The authors cover every aspect of pathology from bone to soft tissue...definitely a must-have if you need the best pathology reference book out there.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution

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Some interesting ideas, much padding
The need for a new paradigm: intelligent design
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521323703

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This is a new and refreshing introduction to the human species that places modern humans squarely in evolutionary perspective and treats evolution itself as a continuing genetic process in which every one of us is involved. Over seventy scholars worldwide have collaborated on the Encyclopedia, which is divided into ten main sections. Following a keynote introduction asking simply "What makes us human?", the coverage ranges widely: from genetics, primatology and fossil origins to human biology and ecology, brain function and behavior, and demography and disease. Emphasis is placed throughout on the biological diversity of modern people and the increasing convergence of the fossil and genetic evidence for human evolution that has emerged in recent years. Because of the need to look at humankind in the context of our closest relatives, the Encyclopedia also pays particular attention to the evolution and ecology of the living primates--lemurs, lorises, monkeys and apes. It deals with the evolution and ecology of human society, as reconstructed from archaeological remains, and from studies of indigenous peoples and living primates today. It considers the biology of uniquely human abilities such as language and upright walking, and it reviews the biological future of humankind in the face of challenges greater than those ever before experienced. Boxes highlighting key issues and techniques are provided throughout the text, and there are numerous maps, photographs, diagrams, and ready-reference tables--all the reader needs in a single volume to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of how humankind has developed and how scientists set about investigating the origin of our species.

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Some interesting ideas, much padding.......2004-05-18

Anyone who is interested in understanding human origins is likely to be attracted to this book. It actually consists of a very comprehensive collection of articles by specialists - specialists on everything from "The structure of DNA" to "Tribal peoples in the modern world." Hidden away among all this specialised knowledge are some interesting conclusions, but they take a lot of searching for. There is one on page 358 - a three-quarter page box headed "Throwing". Barbara Isaac suggests that our ancestors, lacking sharp canine teeth or claws, made up for it, once their hand were freed from walking duties, by becoming good at throwing stones. There is another exciting idea on page 88. In another three-quarter page box, M H Day suggests that bipedalism involved a smaller pelvic girdle, which made it more difficult to give birth to a big-brained baby.

There are some more exciting ideas, but the great bulk of the text, whilst good background material for the specialised anthropologist, doesn't tell us anything very interesting. Some of it is downright irrelevant, merely filling up space. Why did we need an article on the New World Monkeys? They are nothing to do with our ancestry. And why must the book start off by trotting out the old chestnut about life starting off 3000 million years ago as "short stretches of nucleic acid floating in a chemical sea". Those who still believe that, do so on faith alone - it's science fiction. The truth is that no one knows how life began, if indeed it ever did begin.

What the book lacks, above all, is an intelligent overview, someone who can draw the strands together and tell us what it all means - the kind of overview that is attempted on the site evolution-of-man.info. Perhaps we should not expect this kind of overview. Certainly we don't get it.

The need for a new paradigm: intelligent design.......2002-03-06

The pieces of the puzzle simply don't fit. One doesn't have to go through the subjects of the prebiotic soup, the origins of life, the cambrian explosion, irreducible complexity of molecular machines, the fossil record, micro and macroevolution, the fine-tunning of the universe for life, to make that clear. It is already abundantly clear. That is one of the reasons there should be a place for intelligent design in science. The other, of course, lies in the fact that intelligent design has already presented itself as a viable research paradigm. It is not enough to say, as evolutionary theorists like to say, that, as Dr. David L. Haury puts it, "science has no statement to make beyond the natural world". The problem, though, is that science may be working with a flawed conception of natural world in the first place, by conflating nature with matter. The fact is that information may be a structural and internal part of nature, as it is a structural part of computer "hardware" and "software". It is impossible to deal with computers from a purely naturalistic or materialistic perspective that excludes intelligent design in advance. The same may be true about the "natural world", and science has certainly something to say about that. Naturalist "scientists" may want laugh and scorn of intelligent design. But theirs is a partial, interested and biased laughter, as is the laughter of a Republican towards a campaign finance reform bill proposed by a Democrat. This kind of laughter must not be taken seriously.

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.......2000-02-16

Excellent work. In depth treatment of the subject yet accesible to everyone.It covers every imaginable aspect of human evolution by the men and woman that are at the frontiers of this science.

up to date, wide range and scientific yet readable book.......1999-08-03

this book fully covers the subject and gives all the scientific details in depth and up to date. many contributors and many graphics. few personal biases, discussion in a scientific style where other books are narrative / prosaic.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0521560462

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development is a comprehensive but accessible account of the current understanding of the factors affecting human growth and development. Over 120 internationally renowned experts have contributed to the book, covering topics such as fetal and postnatal growth, the relative impact of genetic and environmental factors, behavioral development, growth abnormalities, the human lifespan, and the prospects for future generations. Extensively illustrated with photographs, graphs, and diagrams, it offers a great breadth of topic coverage, providing insights into the subject for those not familiar with the area.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Adrian Friday , and David S. Ingram
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0521256968

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This remarkable encyclopedia uniquely encapsulates the world of nature in one volume. Its text and illustrations carry the reader from individual cells, through organisms in all their variety in natural environments, to the current debates on evolution and on the origin of the h species. A unified approach eliminates rigid divisions between disciplines so that the general reader can more easily appreciate the fascination of the study of life processes and obtain an integrated picture of living organisms. The volume as a whole is lavishly illustrated with specially prepared diagrams and drawings and with carefully selected photographs. A classification of living organisms is given, and the lists of further reading ensure the book’s continuing value as a reference work. It is a completely up-to-date account, which reflects the fast-moving state of the life sciences today.

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Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Adrian et al (ed) Friday
Manufacturer: Cambridge
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O6K4S8

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Atomic theory began more than two and a half millenia ago in Greece and India; but scientific details have emerged - albeit very rapidly - only in our century. This book conveys a glimpse of the grandeur of 20th century physics through nine essays and one interview on the models and modelers of a basic element of matter: the hydrogen atom. The basic ideas are simply presented and illustrated, the mathematical treatments are of a tutorial nature, and facsimile reproductions of ten key papers are included. Using the simple hydrogen atom, educators may use this book to initiate high school students into the grandeur of physics or motivate university students to become science-literate.

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A comic, dark, and fast-moving David-and-Goliath story about lawyers in Chicago. A decade ago, Milton Blauser was a successful lawyer, a tactical genius, but he suffered a complete breakdown. The wife and son of his former partner, Perry Stockbridge, died tragically then, and Blauser blames himself for their deaths. Stockbridge is Goliath to Blauser's David. He was the strategic planner and rain-maker in his former partnership with Blauser. After Blauser's breakdown, Stockbridge moved on to a large corporate law firm, where he oversees a profitable and rapacious stable of transnational clients. Meanwhile, Blauser's downward spiral has continued: he lives in a tenement and works as a busboy in a Greek restaurant. To serve an unnamed client, Stockbridge schemes to take Blauser's building and get Blauser's law license revoked. Blauser resists; he's assistedreluctantlyby a Chicago police detective named Rollo Feinberg, who is retiring imminently, graduating from night law school, and planning to sue the Chicago Police Department for never promoting him above detective. Ultimately, Blauser may save his building and his license, but he will have to pay a high personal price to prevail.

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Rants and raves.......2006-10-13

I enjoyed the book, and I'm not just saying that because Alan is a colleague. It's hard even for lawyers to like and respect other lawyers, but Alan manages to convey both his love and disdain for lawyers and the law in a smart, caustic and engaging manner. The story moves along, and non-lawyers can read it and enjoy the riffs. Lawyers can read it and think about who and what we are, or what we've become, which, given most of the stuff that occupies our minds, isn't a bad thing at all.

Don't mistake this for a legal thriller a la Scott Turow.......2006-09-28

It was so much more than I expected--I approached it as a simple legal procedural, and then there are all these Pynchon-esque allusions to things not being what they seem. I got a great kick out of the voice, out of that slightly comical-paranoid tone that pays homage to Vonnegut while being completely Neff's own, and out of the way he kept me on the ground in Chicago through all of these ethnic types. I was sort of puzzled by the Langley Peach--she seemed just a shade weirder than everyone else, as if she were operating in some slightly different book, though that's probably what was intended.

Effortless fun just reading it, and thought-provoking on top of it. Bravo!

Blauser's Building...momentum.......2006-09-28

Mr. Neff's book sneaks up on you...what starts out as a simple legal drama expands to offer humor, pathos, and plot twists that move well beyond the courtroom and into the court of humanity. Most importantly, I really cared about the characters in Blauser's Building, and can't wait to hear from them in future stories. Highly recommended.

a great book.......2005-12-05

i found this book to be very entertaining. as a lawyer i saw the descriptions of the legal procedures and scenarios to be accurate and credible. they were secondary ,however, to the great bunch of characters who appeared throughout the book. when i was done i found my self thinking about those characters and their stories. also at times i reread passages just to enjoy the writing. again, a great book which was a lot of fun to read.

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