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A presentation of the problems and opportunities inherent in contemporary banking. It is devoted to the understanding and use of the capital markets in the broadest sense - to enhance the overall strength of banks and finance companies.

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As the aging population of the United States continues to increase, age-related policies have come under intense scrutiny and have sparked heated debates. This edition explains the politics behind the country's age-based programs, describes how those programs work, and assesses how well - or poorly - they meet the needs of older Americans.

Excerpt from A Series of Original Poems on Love, Home, and the SouthlandThese poems, mainly lyrics on love, home and the Southland, were composed for the most part during the author's early life, when and wherever occasion permitted, but seldom with any thought of publication. They were in most instances letters to friends and loved ones, setting forth his experiences in life, at the same time his love for the beautiful. Not one was written to...

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In Seeing Things, Robert Hudson argues that robustness reasoning lacks the special value it is often claimed to have. Robustness reasoning claims that an observation report is more likely to be true if the report is produced by multiple, independent sources.

?Dr. Hudson has written a lively, informative, and thought-provoking book.... Hudson traces the doctor's and patient's relationships to disease down through the centuries. He shows how we have obtained our information about diseases from ancient times to the present and describes the accompanying changes in viewpoints.... The author carefully distinguishes between disease ... and illness ... and demonstrates how failure to be aware of this sep...

This study analyzes the ways in which personality, gender, type of crime, and defendant-juror similarity affect sentencing severity. In every jury trial, the selection of jurors is a crucial factor in determining the outcome of the case. The prosecution and the defense both attempt to assemble a jury that will be sympathetic to their arguments. Because attorneys have the opportunity to select the jurors, proper evaluation of each juror candida...

Includes extra material not featured in the Radio 4 series, both elements of the letters cut from the final scripts and additional material not featured in the shows at all, including the letters from Marengo to his hygienist and the horse he plays chess with, and the notes between Copenhagen and the annoying dog he has to share a stall with.

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Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste generally exhibits one or more of these characteristics: ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity or toxicity. The universe of hazardous wastes is large and diverse. Hazardous wastes can be liquids, solids, contained gases, or sludges. They can be the by-products of manufacturing processes or simply discarde...

Excerpt from Memorials of a Warwickshire Parish: Being Papers Mainly Descriptive of the Records and Registers of the Parish of LapworthCriticism on one point may perhaps be forestalled by a sentence as to why the book contains no general index. To furnish a complete index would add enormously to the bulk of a volume made up so largely of proper names. A n abridged index, omitting these names or giving only a selection of them, would be of litt...

This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . One finds a gratifying mastery of recent as well as classic scholarship in medical history and a careful sidestepping of positivistic excesses. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen. A...

Excerpt from Songs of the Cumberlands: A Series of Poems Descriptive of Scenes and Incidents Among the Cumberlands and Throughout the South The Cumberlands, reaching through Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Georgia, have lately been justly celebrated in the stories of various prose writers, but never before have they appeared in song. It is hoped that this little volume is not misplaced in attempting to fill the vacancy thus existing. The auth...

Excerpt from Beyond the Dragon Temple About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the or...

Now in its fourth revised edition, The Christian Writer's Manual of Style provides answers to writers', editors', and proofreaders' most pressing questions about language, style, and usage, focusing on the particular issues involved in religious writing.

Stephen Fry, Daniel Rigby and Tamsin Greig star in all three series of the poignant BBC Radio 4 comedy drama. Warhorses of Letters is the world's finest and best-loved equine, military, epistolary romance, comprising the newly-discovered love letters between two horses united by passion but cruelly divided by conflict.Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, these twelve episodes introduce us to Copenhagen, the Duke of Welling...

Scholars, students, and policymakers will appreciate the volume's timely overview of the evolution of aging policy.

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