"Kate Standish has been on the forest-world of Huginn less than a week and she's already pretty sure her new company murdered her boss. But the little town of mill workers and farmers is more worried about eco-terrorism and a series of attacks by the bizarre, sentient dogs of this planet, than a death most people would like to believe is an accident. That is, until Kate's investigation uncovers a conspiracy which threatens them all. File Under: Science Fiction [ Colony World | Into the Woods | Leader of the Pack | Woman's Best Friend ]"

Advances in Financial Risk Management presents the latest research on measuring, managing and pricing financial risk. It provides an expansive view of the latest techniques available to academics and practitioners in three critical areas: corporate, financial and portfolio risk management. It brings together both empirical and theoretical perspectives on issues that remain paramount despite financial market volatility abating in recent years.
Looking ahead, the prospects for the financial services industry are for more regulatory oversight and attention being paid to the modeling and measuring of financial risk. This volume contributes to this ongoing debate and provides valuable insights into the issues and appropriate practice of financial risk management.
Advances in Financial Risk Management is essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding the latest developments in risk management in the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) environment.

A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine is an account of how nuclear medicine developed, and its basic philosophy in the past, present and future. The book outlines the history of the development of nuclear medicine as experienced by the author and describes the hurdles that nuclear medicine has had to face, in view of the perception of risk of radiation. It also explains how nuclear medicine solves medical problems in clinical practice and how it has contributed to a new definition of disease. The book concludes with future projections of the likely developments in this area in the next 50 years. Target market: nuclear medicine professionals as well non-nuclear medicine physicians and the public

The latest research on measuring, managing and pricing financial risk. Three broad perspectives are considered: financial risk in non-financial corporations; in financial intermediaries such as banks; and finally within the context of a portfolio of securities of different credit quality and marketability.

Presented in an interesting, historical and philosophical way, this book describes the current state of play in brain imaging, showing the differences among the different imaging modalities, and reviewing the knowledge about the chemical reactions in the brain, and their relationship to thinking, feeling and acting.

The book reviews all the results of PET and PET/CT imaging of the brain with all radiopharmaceuticals that bind to receptors in all recognized and classified mental diseases, as well as the studies on the localization of those sites that are activated by sensory or motor activity. The book illustrates the parts of the brain activated and deactivated during sensory perception, motion and other mental functions and explains how the process of neurotransmission takes place in chemical terms.

The book is a valuable reference resource for all those in nuclear medicine and radiology as well as the educated general public.

A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine is an account of how nuclear medicine developed, and its basic philosophy in the past, present and future. The book outlines the history of the development of nuclear medicine as experienced by the author and describes the hurdles that nuclear medicine has had to face, in view of the perception of risk of radiation. It also explains how nuclear medicine solves medical problems in clinical practice and how it has contributed to a new definition of disease. The book concludes with future projections of the likely developments in this area in the next 50 years.

Target market: nuclear medicine professionals as well non-nuclear medicine physicians and the public

In den Entwicklungslandern leben gegenwartig etwa 3,5 Milliarden Menschen, das sind fast drei Viertel der Weltbevoelkerung. Bis zum Jahr 2000 - also in weniger als vierzehn Jahren - wird diese Zahl auf etwa 4,8 Milliarden angewachsen sein, was dem jetzigen Stand der Weltbevoelkerung entspricht. Gleichwohl wird den ent- wicklungspolitischen Fragen noch immer keine angemessene Beachtung ge- schenkt. Dies mag darin begrundet sein, dass Entwicklungspolitik auf unterschied- lichen Ebenen, z. B. national und international, praktiziert wird, dass Entwick- lungspolitik ein schwieriges Unterfangen ist und haufig nicht zu den gewunschten Ergebnissen fuhrt, dass die weltweite entwicklungspolitische Zusammenarbeit ein kaum zu durchschauendes Geflecht aus unterschiedlichen Sachzusammenhangen, Zielsetzungen und Realisierungschancen darstellt. Unser Buch versucht, dieses Geflecht zu entwirren und dem Leser Orientierungshilfen zu geben. Wegen der Vielschichtigkeit der weltweiten Verflechtungen werden die einzelnen Sachverhalte aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln betrachtet. Hohes Bevoelke- rungswachstum zum Beispiel ist ein typisches Kennzeichen der Entwicklungslan- der und wird folglich als Problemfeld (Kapitel I) dargestellt. Andererseits kann eine starke UEberbevoelkerung auch Ursache von Unterentwicklung (Kapitel II) sein, weshalb Familienpolitik zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil der Eigenanstren- gungen der Entwicklungslander (KapitelllI) werden muss. Diese Eigenanstren- gungen koennen von den Industrielandern (Kapitel IV) in Form von Entwicklungs- projekten unterstutzt werden. Gemeinsam mit diesen direkten Einflussmoeglichkei- ten der Lander selbst und ihrer Partnerlander spielen die internationalen Wirt- schaftsbeziehungen (Kapitel V) eine bedeutsame Rolle. Entwicklungspolitik kann auch auf dieser Ebene ansetzen. Aussenhandel und Kapitaltransfer besitzen einen grossen Einfluss auf den Wohlstand eines Landes.

Urbanization refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Historically, it has been closely connected with industrialization. When more and more inanimate sources of energy were used to enhance human productivity (industrialization), surpluses increased in both agriculture and industry. Larger and larger proportions of a population could live in cities. Economic forces were such that cities became the ideal places to locate factories and their workers. This new book presents recent and significant research from around the globe.