"Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases" explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior can produce epidemics is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are determined by human behaviors. In this book, forty experts in the fields of infectious diseases, the life sciences and public health explore how demography, geography, migration, travel, environmental change, natural disaster, sexual behavior, drug use, food production and distribution, medical technology, training and preparedness, as well as governance, human conflict and social dislocation influence current and likely future epidemics.
* Provides essential understanding of current and future epidemics
* Presents a crossover perspective for disciplines in the medical and social sciences and public policy, including public health, infectious diseases, population science, epidemiology, microbiology, food safety, defense preparedness and humanitarian relief
* Creates a new perspective on ecology based on the interaction of microbes and human activities

The AIDS Pandemic explores the ways in which HIV/AIDS has, and continues to transform the wide range of related disciplines it touches. Novel perspectives are provided by a unique panel of internationally recognised experts who cover the unprecedented impact onf AIDS on culture, demographics and politics around the world, including how it affected the worlds' economy, health sciences, epidemiology and public health. This important far- reaching analysis uses the lessons learned from a wide array of disciplines to help us understand the current status and evolution of the pandemic, as it continues to evolve.
* Unique and timely presentation of new theories and perspectives
* Concentrates on the changes that have taken place in a broad array of related disciplines
* Provides key contextual information, for those new to the field or at interface areas between disciplines
* Includes an international focus on evolving African and Asian experiences
* Focuses on the current strategies for developing vaccines and microbicides
* Outlines harm reduction and prevention programs
* Explores issues related to delivery of life-saving AIDS medications in resource-constrained environments

HIV/AIDS continues to be the pandemic of our times. It is estimated that 36 to 45 million people including 2-3 million children already are infected worldwide and an additional 4-7 million more are infected each year.
There has not been a comprehensive medically based AIDS prevention book published in the last five years. Since that time many new program interventions have been tried and much has been learned through evidence-based research. HIV Prevention will place special focus on the array of interventions that have been proven effective through rigorous study. If there is one theme that has been learned to date it is that there is no one-size-fits-all prevention approach that will work in all the geographic, demographic and socio-cultural environments impacted by the worldwide AIDS pandemic.
* Discusses all aspects of AIDS prevention, from epidemiology, molecular immunology and virology to the principles of broad-based public health prevention interventions.
* Special focus on the array of interventions that have been proven effective through rigorous study
* Identifies new trends in HIV/AID epidemiology and their impact on creating and implementing prevention interventions
* Incorporates virology, biology, infectious diseases, vaccinology, microbicides and research methodologies into AIDS prevention

'A Responsible Europe?' seeks to understand the EU's global role from a distinct normative perspective. This book identifies moral principles that could serve as guidelines for a responsible role of the EU in global affairs, and applies these principles to selected policy areas and regional co-operation frameworks.

New introduction by Russell W. Fridley An extraordinary political leader who forged Minnesota's successful Farmer-Labor coalition during the 1920s and 1930s, Governor Olson was a powerful, charismatic, and complex person. In this fascinating biography, Mayer describes the man and his turbulent times.

A Responsible Europe? seeks to understand the EU's global role from a distinct normative perspective. It identifies moral principles that could serve as guidelines for a responsible role of the EU in global affairs, and applies these principles to selected policy areas and regional co-operation frameworks.

Twenty expert financial advisers contribute 15 chapters on the art and science of effective wealth management. Coverage includes general principles, major applications--creation of a new insurance company, home security and qualified personal residence trusts, hedge funds, swaps, single stock concentration risk management, the family office--and sp

Chemistry ot Organic Compounds von CARL R. NOLLER, Professor der Chemie an der Stanford University, erschien bei W. B. Saunders Company in erster Auf lage 1951. N ach mehreren N eudrucken wurde 1957 eine zweite Auflage veranstaltet, die inzwischen auch schon mehrmals nachgedruckt worden ist. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet in systematischem Aufbau das wichtigste Tatsachen material der organischen Chemie. Zugleich fiihrt es - und darauf kam es dem Verfasser sehr wesentlich an - in leichtverstandlicher Weise in die heutigen Vorstellungen iiber die Mechanismen organischer Reaktionen und die Krafte, die die chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften organischer Verbindungen bedingen, ein. Es bedeutet fiir den Studierenden eine schatzbare Gedachtnis hilfe, wenn, wie es in diesem Buche geschieht, die bedeutende Zahl von Tatsachen, die er sich merken muB, iiberall im Zusammenhang mit der geltenden Theorie dargeboten und durch sie erkHirt wird. Im Streben nach Verstandlichkeit, ins besondere mit Riicksicht auf Vorbildung und spezielle Bediirfnisse des Organikers, hat sich der Verfasser meist auf eine qualitative Darlegung der Theorie be schrankt, selbst auf die Gefahr hin, daB das Gesagte quantitativ nicht streng giiltig ist. NOLLERS Lehrbuch erfreut sich in den angelsachsischen Landern eines un gewahnlichen Erfolges. Es wird an einer wachsenden Zahl von amerikanischen Universitaten offiziell der Ausbildung in organischer Chemie zugrunde gelegt. Aber schon die Originalausgabe hat auch in Europa viele Freunde gefunden; an einer deutschsprachigen Universitat wird sie dem angehenden Organiker sogar in erster Linie zum Studium empfohlen."

Der verstorbene Herausgeber dieser Reihe "Anleitungen fiir die chemische Laboratoriumspraxis", EDUARD ZINTL, nannte im Vorwort zum ersten Bande als ihre Aufgabe, kleinere Lehrgange zusammenzu- tragen, die an Hand ausgewahlter Versuche die Bekanntschaft mit dem handwerklichen Riistzeug, mit den wichtigsten Anwendungsgebieten und mit der Leistungsfahigkeit der Methode vermitteln. Bei der Niederschrift des Manuskripts zu dem vorliegenden "Lehr- gang" haben wir uns ganz von diesen Richtlinien leiten lassen. Dem vor Problemen der schonenden und wirksamen, dabei apparativ einfach durchzufiihrenden Substanztrennung stehenden Chemiker und Bio- chemiker sollte eine kurze Anleitung mit theoretischer Einfiihrung und Fundamentierung der Gegenstromverteilung als einem der bisher er- folgreichsten und am vielseitigsten anzuwendenden Trennverfahren ge- gegeben werden, die ihn erleuchtet, seine eigenen Schwierigkeiten ohne Umschweife anzupacken. Das Theoretische wurde nur in knapper Form dargestellt, und es wurde stets versucht, es dem Praktischen unterzuord- nen. Schematisierungen und - besonders im mathematischen Teil- "Spriinge" bei den Formelableitungen waren nicht ganz zu vermeiden. Die letzten Kapitel behandeln die Kriterien der Trennbarkeit, von Sub- stanzen und geben an Hand einer Reihe ausgesuchter, detailliert wieder- gegebener Arbeitsvorschriften einen Begriff von den vielseitigen An- wendungsmoglichkeiten dieses Trennverfahrens und den bis jetzt er- zielten Trennerfolgen. Das Literaturverzeichnis hilft demjenigen weiter, der sich iiber spezielle Fragen naher unterrichten will. Anspruch auf V ollstandigkeit wird in keinem FaIle erho ben.

In 1942, Ronald started his climb up the Cowboy Chain of Command as a very young man on his grandfather's ranch in West Texas as a "Gate Opener," because all the "big cowboys" had been sent off to war. Since that time, Ronald has cowboyed his way on ranches all throughout West Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, taking time out for schooling and a term in the United States Marine Corp. during the Korean War. Since 1963, Ronald has been active in selling and appraising ranches throughout the southwest ranching community. At this time, Ronald and his family, own and operate a 15,000 acre ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico. For more information on the writer of "No Cry For Help" go to his web page www.ranchfinder.com. No Cry For Help is this cowboy's first attempt at writing a short story about owning a West Texas cattle ranch.