|
Showing 1 - 25 of
34 matches in All Departments
W idowed college professor Jim McAllister is involved in an
accident one snowy night in Vermont. When he rescues Alex Scorsese,
a U.S. State Department courier, he never expects to fall in love.
But that's exactly what happens.
While the couple honeymoon in Paris, Alex picks up a diplomatic
pouch that leads them into a harrowing dash across Europe. They
evade terrorists, escape a plane crash, and narrowly avoid an
embassy assassination attempt only to find themselves shot down
over the icy Atlantic. After a cruise ship rescues them, the
unthinkable happens: Alex dies.
Finding the strength to keep living after losing his second wife
proves an incredible challenge for Jim, and he finds support from
an unlikely place: Leigh Scorsese, Alex's twenty-one-year-old
daughter. But Jim is still in jeopardy because of the information
he now carries in his memory. When Leigh is kidnapped and held
hostage, Jim has a tough choice to make: either lose Leigh or give
up the information the whole world wants-the coordinates to bin
Laden's hiding place.
Combining a tender love story with a violent escape chase
across Europe, "Winter White" is a heart-stopping, first-rate
thriller.
This book shows you how to consider AGC, signal thresholding, and
range tracking loops from a practical viewpoint.
For centuries, beer has been a favourite drink throughout the
world. The art of brewing has more recently evolved into the
science it is today as a result of the increased knowledge of both
the ingredients and the process. Considerations such as appearance,
taste and the nutritional value of beer are important topics for
consumers and brewing scientists alike. This book looks at the
chemistry behind those aspects of beer that are of particular
interest to beer drinkers, namely flavour and nutritional aspects,
in combination with a discussion of maintenance of quality and
safety, the areas more relevant to the brewing scientist. Beer:
Quality, Safety and Nutritional Aspects brings the reader right up
to date with current thinking, and will be valued by both
interested consumers and those employed in industries related to
the brewing industry.
This book analyses the key factors determining European
competitiveness. It focuses in particular on the issues of
internationalization of firms and markets, the role of technology
and innovation, and of continuing European integration, and deals
with these issues on the level of firms, industries and countries.
The competitiveness of the EC as a whole, relative to the USA and
Japan, is also examined. Part I deals with internationalization,
the organization of firms, and the activities of multinationals in
Europe. Part II focuses on trends in technological competitiveness,
and its importance in growth and trade performance. Part III is
concerned with structural change, the integration of the European
market, competition and mergers, the role of the public sector, and
the role of cultural differences. The book ends by addressing the
role of industrial policy in the future of the Eastern European
economies.
PET/CT in Clinical Practice provides guidelines for appropriate
use of PET/CT in lung, lymphoma, esophageal, colorectal, head/neck
and melanoma, with reference also made to tumors of the male and
female reproductive system. Concise, relevant and illustrated with
many interesting PET/CT images, each chapter contains a summary of
the appropriate staging system. The range of normal PET/CT
appearances is outlined in chapter 9. The book focuses on
FDG-PET/CT throughout, but chapter 10 makes reference to the future
application of other positron emitters and gives a beginners guide
to the physics of PET/CT.
Everyone from medical student to consultant oncologist will be
touched by this modality and all will need to understand its
strengths and weaknesses. The book is essential reading for all
consultants and medical students in radiology, nuclear medicine and
oncology.
This book analyses the key factors determining European
competitiveness. It focuses in particular on the issues of
internationalization of firms and markets, the role of technology
and innovation, and of continuing European integration, and deals
with these issues on the level of firms, industries and countries.
The competitiveness of the EC as a whole, relative to the USA and
Japan, is also examined. Part I deals with internationalization,
the organization of firms, and the activities of multinationals in
Europe. Part II focuses on trends in technological competitiveness,
and its importance in growth and trade performance. Part III is
concerned with structural change, the integration of the European
market, competition and mergers, the role of the public sector, and
the role of cultural differences. The book ends by addressing the
role of industrial policy in the future of the Eastern European
economies.
In 1983, in Australia, a medical resident, Dr. Barry Marshall, and
a hospital pathologist, Dr. Robin Warren, reported in two letters
to The Lancet finding a bacterium associated with gastritis or
inflammation of the stomach. The publication stimulated little
reaction. However, a year later when they reported that the
bacterium was also associated with ulcer disease and declared that
bacteria caused ulcer disease, it had the effect of an
assassination of an archduke. Most prominent clinical investigators
in the United States and England argued that hyper secretion of
acid was the cause of ulcer disease, and they collaborated with the
pharmaceutical companies that made the new drugs that blocked acid
secretion to attack the new bacterial theory. The Great Ulcer War
tells how the war was fought, the weapons used, and the alliances
made, and why the war in spite of overwhelming evidence in favor of
the bacterial theory, lasted for ten years. The Great Ulcer War
introduces a novel theory, the Pandora Hypothesis, to explain the
length of the war. It proposes that the general medical
establishment especially in the United States simply did not like
the bacterial theories of major chronic diseases. These thought
leaders-"the big guys"-facilitated and prolonged the opposition to
the bacterial theory of ulcers largely by doing nothing to support
the theory until the very end of the war. They were afraid that if
a germ theory was accepted for ulcers, a Pandora's Box of germ
theories developed within university departments of microbiology
for other chronic diseases would be opened and released into the
medical world. This revelation would diminish the reputation and
profit of the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry
by threatening their favored explanations of the causes of these
diseases: genomic errors and dysfunctional biochemistry and
physiology.
Gather up all of the data and make a decision
Decision-making during a crisis tests the mettle of any
corporate executive, but Porcupine Pflu gives illustrations of how
to make critical plans during a pandemic caused by the Hen 1 Pflu
Virus. Told from the animals' point-of-view, each story or "Pfable"
in Porcupine Pflu has a "take-home message" or moral. The original
story, Pfarma Pfables, laid the groundwork for the trials and
tribulations of the Chief Executive Warthog and the tumultuous
environment at his company, Big Pfarma. Porcupine Pflu picks up
after the retirement of the Chief Executive Warthog. His successor,
Chief Executive Hyena, and Big Pfarma are faced with a pandemic
caused by the dreaded Hen1 Pflu Virus Big Pfarma must help all of
the porcupines in the Verdant Valley and surrounding valleys by
developing a vaccine and getting it to the porcupines before it is
too late
|
You may like...
Water and Society V
S Mambretti, J. L. Miralles I Garcia
Hardcover
R4,534
Discovery Miles 45 340
|