This work examines the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries.
If you have a business, you want your Web site to show up quickly when people search for what you're selling. "Search Engine Optimization All-in-One For Dummies" has the whole story on how to build a site that works, position and promote it, track and understand your search results, and use keywords effectively. And it includes a $25 credit on ...
Environmental issues are growing in importance to the most important political, social, legal, and economic decisions. The book presents chemical analyses of our most pressing waste, pollution, and resource problems for the undergraduate or graduate student. The distinctive holistic approach provides both a solid ground in theory, as well as a ...
Environmental issues are growing in importance to the most important political, social, legal, and economic decisions. The book presents chemical analyses of our most pressing waste, pollution, and resource problems for the undergraduate or graduate student. The distinctive holistic approach provides both a solid ground in theory, as well as a ...
With the clarity of 2020 hindsight, a licensed Christian counselor provides vital and encouraging parenting tools straight from a wellworn counseling toolbox. Presented through poignant examples from the authors thirty years of counseling with some of our countrys most troubled youth, and many a bungled parenting experience with her own four ...
Model checking is a prominent technique used in the hardware and software industries for automatic verification. While it is very successful in finding subtle bugs in distributed systems, it faces the state explosion problem - the number of reachable states grows exponentially in the number of concurrent components. In this book the authors ...
Petri nets are a popular and powerful formal model for the analysis and modelling of concurrent systems, and a rich theory has developed around them. Petri nets are taught to undergraduates, and also used by industrial practitioners. This book focuses on a particular class of petri nets, free choice petri nets, which play a central role in the ...
There are approximately half a million people living in 227 officially designated colonias in southern Arizona and New Mexico. These border communities are characterized by poor-quality housing, a lack of infrastructure (paved roads, water and sewer systems, and electricity), high levels of poverty and unemployment, and a disproportionate ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2002, held in Adelaide, Australia, in June 2002. The 18 regular papers and one tool presentation presented together with six invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. All current issues ...
Action, adventure, romance! You won't find any of that here! Just a bunch of one-shot comics from the wild imagination of Jon Esparza, a guy with way too much time on his hands! If silly, off-the-wall humor is your thing, then buy The One Shot Express!
Gina's friend Felecia Finch asks her to deliver a love note to Felecia's dream boy, Eric Miller. Of all places, she asks Gina to deliver the note while they are in the cafeteria during lunch break. Gina doesn't want to do it, but with all the whining she's hearing from her friend it just seems easier to get up and walk the note over to the table ...
Ideal for young crafters, this book instructs how to make fairy dolls with poseable bodies, flowing floss hair, and petal-perfect dresses. Faux flower petals, fairy wire, and enough supplies to make a dozen posey pixies are included.
The Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) is the author of an impressive body of scientific work which comprises a broad spectrum of humanistic knowledge. While the languages dealt with by Nebrija include not only Latin and Spanish, but the most prominent Romance languages, his grammatical work focuses on Latin, Castillian, Greek and ...
Explores political violence and genocide in Latin America during the Cold War, examining this in light of the United States' hegemonic position on the continent.
Much of the country's recent population growth is situated beyond the metropolitan fringe, where development consumes millions of acres of privately owned land. Exurbanization has become the dominant pattern of land development in America and there is no indication it will slow in the future. This development depletes agricultural and wildlands, ...
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