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Israeli-US relations are an important factor in U.S. policy in the Middle East, and Congress has placed considerable emphasis on the maintenance of a close and supportive relationship. The main vehicle for expressing support for Israel has been foreign aid, Israel currently receives about $3 billion per year in economic and military grants, refugee settlement assistance, and other aid. Israel is not economically self-sufficient, and relies on ...

Malnutrition is a serious problem amongst many sections of the population. Increases in morbidity and mortality, length of hospital stay and hence, cost of providing health care have all been attributable to this, so the identification of subjects at risk of malnutrition is essential to provide optimal nutrition during treatment and recovery. Many screening tools have been developed for the purpose of identifying subjects who are at risk of ma...

While the link between crime and schizophrenia has been noted for almost a century, it is only recently that research has provided convincing, broad-based evidence for this association. This advance in knowledge also brings with it the troublesome danger that schizophrenia patients could be doubly-stigmatised in society: they suffer from a serious mental illness and furthermore they are potentially dangerous. This understandable fear has both ...

This book reviews recent advanced research work in the area of flat plate collectors, solar distillation, greenhouse technology for crop drying and production and solar electric/ thermal (PV/T) systems. The basic working principle, energy balances, thermal modelling, energy and economic analysis will be discussed. An instantaneous and overall efficiency of each solar thermal and electric system are also discussed and their results compared for...

The Case for a CreatorA journalist investigates scientific evidence that points toward God. In recent years, a diverse and impressive body of research has increasingly supported the conclusion that the universe was intelligently designed. Join Strobel as he reexamines the theories that once led him away from God. Through his compelling and highly readable account, you'll encounter mind-stretching discoveries from cosmology, cellular biology, D...

A remarkable personal and professional chronicle by one of today's leading physicists, this is a collection of Chen Ning Yang's personally selected papers supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Including previously unpublished or hard-to-find works, this volume contains Yang's important papers on statistical physics, nuclear forces, and particle physics. Among them are his seminal work with T D Lee on the nonconservation of parity, for w...

Go back in time to WWII and relive the experience of it with 'Sweet Lorraine'. This is a fictional story with a cast of believable characters and events you are certain to enjoy. Go with 'Sweet Lorraine' as she nurses at the front in WWII, and meet the very real individuals that make up her extraordinary family. Our heroin has many remembrances to share with her readers, and you will not only fall in love with 'Sweet Lorraine", you will hear t...

Reilly's Black Belt features ten-year-old Reilly Hall as an ambitious boy who works toward earning his black belt in karate. A well-skilled student when it comes to martial arts, Reilly feels that he'll have no problem getting his black belt. But Hunter Maxwell, the fifth grade bully at Charles Wright School, begins to distract Reilly which makes it difficult for him to concentrate on his karate. Reilly's two best friends, Ben and Matt, insist...

Ted Williams is perhaps the most fascinating, the most controversial - yes, and possibly the greatest - figure in American sports history.  Only Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan stand on a pedestal with him. It is sad that millions of young people know only what they have read of his death.  This book is not about his death.  It is about his life. Ted Williams was an enigma, who just wouldn't fit into a mold.  The Boston press once ...

An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.

The ports at Beaufort, Wilmington, New Bern and Ocracoke, part of the Outer Banks (a chain of barrier islands that sweeps down the North Carolina coast from the Virginia Capes to Oregon Inlet), were early involved in the chaos that grew into the Civil War. Though smaller than their counterparts in South Carolina, the small river ports were useful for the import of war mat?riel and the export of cash producing crops, through their use of the in...

In better days, the elegant young dog Francine enjoyed wealth and privilege. Now she spends the hours staring at her friends through the grim bars of a cage. Her terrier pal Sammie, her cousin Flitz, and her three hound buddies pace their cages with increasing desperation. Francine comes from noble lines, and the courage of her ancestors runs in her veins. But the days to come will demand every ounce of cleverness, courage, and grit within her...

Taking an anthropological approach, Essential Principles of Contract and Sales Law in the Northern Pacific highlights how regional customary and traditional law interact with Anglo-American concepts of contract and sales law to produce a unique amalgam of substantive law in this Pacific region. Author and law professor Daniel P. Ryan compiles and discusses the current contract and sales law applicable in the Pacific region, including the Repub...

Ranging from South America to Africa and Italy, Christopher Cardew's inspirational novel explores the extremes of nature, and the extremes which men go to in order to survive, find a niche in life and attain personal redemption. A web of dramatic events is drawn together, almost miraculously, by the appearance of Pietro, a young orphan from a favela in Rio de Janeiro, whose luminous presence touches all who meet him - both in everyday life ...

New York City, 2004. Shortly after New York City rocker Tommy Peterson of The Winding Roads accepts an award at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gala at The Waldorf-Astoria, the guitar legend is found brutally murdered the next day inside his recording studio apartment in the West Village. Nothing is taken but the way in which Peterson was murdered raises questions as to what the killer's motives were. Veteran rock journalist Tony Russo is devas...

In the eagerly awaited sequel to the sold out Mage, Vol. 1: The Hero Discovered HC, Kevin Matchstick's path brings him into the company of other legendary heroes, reborn in the modern world under everyday guises. Trouble arises when their purpose and challenges seem to be drying up and the number of supernatural "nasties, " rapidly diminishing. Have the forces of darkness been defeated, or is there a more sinister manipulation at work?

The dBASE Book is aimed at developers of dBASE applications from beginner to advanced, and will assist a developer to get up to speed quickly with the dBASE Object model. It covers application design from design to deployment.

This is a story about brothers dreaming about starting a hunting club, working together to build it, and watching their dream become a reality. It is about an old Army barracks being transformed into a beautiful cabin in the scenic mountains of Western Maryland near Deep Creek Lake. And it is about some of the people who were involved in the construction of this cabin and some who were not fortunate enough to see it completed. This is also a s...

This book offers a unique opportunity to become clearly focused on the present, and begins with an emphasis upon the importance of truly "seeing" through the Mind's Eye, just what is going on in the modern world in which we live. There is ample evidence that we live in a world gone mildly insane, including spiritually, as well as socially, politically and economically, and the author has outlined the essence of how and why we are where we are ...