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This volume emphasizes the economic aspects of art and culture, a relatively new field that poses inherent problems for economics, with its quantitative concepts and tools. Building bridges across disciplines such as management, art history, art philosophy, sociology, and law, editors Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby assemble chapters that yield new perspectives on the supply and demand for artistic services, the contribution of the arts sec...

The second edition of Extrusion is designed to aid operators, engineers, and managers in extrusion processing in quickly answering practical day-to-day questions. The first part of the book provides the fundamental principles, for operators and engineers, of polymeric materials extrusion processing in single and twin screw extruders. The next section covers advanced topics including troubleshooting, auxiliary equipment, and coextrusion for ope...

The number of practitioners appearing before international courts, tribunals, and arbitral panels has risen sharply in the last decade, prompting concerns over ethics and best practice standards. This book assesses these issues, and argues that common ethical standards will be key to maintaining the integrity of the international judicial system.

When this unforgettable novel was first publishedin a much shorter formin a magazine in 1914, it was a rousing success and was made into a movie four times by 1941. Yet when Zane Grey submitted the full-length manuscript to his book publisher, it was rejected because it contained too much gunplay. And so a masterpiece of Western fiction remained unpublished in book form for more than 80 years. Finally, this powerful tale is available in its en...

David Gillespie is a recovering corporate lawyer, co-founder of a successful software company and consultant to the IT industry. He is also the father of six young children (including one set of twins). With such a lot of extra time on his hands, and 40 extra kilos on his waistline, he set out to investigate why he, like so many in his generation, was fat. He deciphered the latest medical findings on diet and weight gain and what he found was ...

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A hundred billion neurons, close to a quadrillion connections between them, and we don't even fully understand a single cell! Amazing, isn't it? This complex structure called the brain located inside the human head controls almost all our actions and reactions. The author in this book has collected and compiled several techniques devised by a wide range of researchers, to strengthen and sharpen the human brain so that it? improves the body's i...

Living in an age of constant gratification, economic influx and fragile egos, happiness has become increasingly elusive, yet it remains the Holy Grail, we search for all our lives. The purpose of this book is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day to day unhappiness which most people suffer from in today's world due to no obvious reasons. Since the goal of every human being on this Earth is to attain Happiness, it is hoped that after reading t...

The English word, 'Reiki' has been derived from the Japanese word, Reiki, meaning "mysterious atmosphere or spiritual energy". The system of Reiki was developed by Mikao Usui in 1922 while performing Isyu Guo, a twenty-one day Buddhist training course held on Mount Kurama. The book contains all about the traditional Japanese Reiki and the Western Reiki, explained by the author in detail. The salient features of the book are: Uses of Reiki in E...

Are you looking for delicious and nutritious recipes that are satisfying? This book, entitled Everyday Paleo Diet for Beginners, is designed to be a source of information for everything you need to know about the Paleo diet. It discusses how it works, the reasons that you should practice it, its benefits, and the list of foods that are included in the diet. It also contains a list of the best and most delicious Paleo Diet recipes.This diet foc...

The supply vessel was way too large to experience the powerful violent shudder of the thunderous explosion caused by the RPG rocket that had all those nearby, whether friend or foe, shaking and trembling uncontrollably, while their ear drums reverberated by the shockwave of the blast. As the crew reeled from fright, the dark cloud of smoke cleared to reveal a mass of mangled steel of what just seconds ago was the ship's bridge - its control ce...

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During WWII, the U.S. Army's ranks of men and its arsenal of equipment grew mightily. From a mere 190, 000 soldiers in 1939, the Army would reach 8.4 million in 1945. That was a staggering achievement, and what is even more impressive is to consider how few guns, tanks, artillery and other essentials the military possessed prior to Pearl Harbor. Outfitting America's war machine, and assessing its needs and delivering the goods, was one of the ...

During WWII, the U.S. Army's ranks of men and its arsenal of equipment grew mightily. From a mere 190, 000 soldiers in 1939, the Army would reach 8.4 million in 1945. That was a staggering achievement, and what is even more impressive is to consider how few guns, tanks, artillery and other essentials the military possessed prior to Pearl Harbor. Outfitting America's war machine, and assessing its needs and delivering the goods, was one of the ...

Textiles have long provided metaphors for storytelling. To what extent, however, should we take these metaphors seriously? Arras Hanging reveals that in the early modern period, when cloth-making was ubiquitous and high-quality tapestries called arras hangings were the most valuable objects in England, such metaphors were literal.

Works between Burney's Journals and Letters and her fiction more thoroughly than any study of her in the past twenty-five years. By doing so, it offers significant reinterpretations of Burney's four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer.

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A very readable and comprehensive overview that examines the realities of Jewish life while setting them in their political, economic, and social contexts.

Young, beautiful, and ambitious Taruni sets her foot in Hyderabad, a bustling city in South India, to make her career only to find herself drawn into an uncertain, one-sided adolescent love of a young man who, though aware of her sentiments, is reluctant to acknowledge. Taruni has to go through trials and tribulations of times and emotions to emerge into a person of her own. She patiently awaits his verdict whilst tackling regional prejudices ...