On the surface, seventeen-year-old Susan King is a normal girl with normal problems - studying for the SAT, getting a date for prom, and worrying about how she's going to pay for college. Except she's
Traveling on a thousand-year journey aboard the space ship Noah, City Planning Administrator Hana Dempsey feels bereft after being required to have a baby she will never know and assists an unofficial
In this riveting science fiction debut, all that is left of humanity is on a thousand-year journey to a new planet aboard one ship, The Noah, which is also carrying a dangerous serial killer An exciti
Over the last decade, the major focus of pollutant research has shifted from previously established contaminants to the emerging contaminants of concern. These emerging contaminants are not of recent
Environmental sustainability issues in a fragile, semi-arid region and its coastal area, which experience climate changes from extreme drought conditions to the effects of hurricanes over a period of
??This book highlights the environmental sustainability problems specific to the South Texas–Mexico border region, on both sides of the Rio Grande. Coverage focuses on water and air pollution and incl
Controversy erupted in 1996 when the Oakland Unified School District’s ‘Ebonics Resolution’ proposed an approach to teaching Standard English that recognized the variety of English spoken by African A
Seven leading scholars contribute six papers written in response to the national controversy that erupted following the 1996 Resolution on Ebonics by the Oakland Unified School District in California.
This book tries to fill a gap in the financial literature on regulatory bank capital. There are a substantial number of excellent books written by developers of quantitative models on the estimation o
The derivative practitioner’s expert guide to IFRS 9 applicationAccounting for Derivatives explains the likely accounting implications of a proposed transaction on derivatives strategy, in alignment w
Equity strategies are closely guarded secrets and as such, there is very little written about how investors and corporate can utilise equity vehicles as part of their growth strategies. In this much-n
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) compliance has always been challenging due to complex regulatory language and exposure to risk. However, institutions that do not comply are in jeopar
In Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, Michael Ramirez, the internationally known editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily, offers a comprehensive collection of his award-winning cartoons,
Television was one of the inventions that shaped the way society and culture evolved over the second half of the twentieth century. It had the powerful effect of shrinking the world which creating a u
This book deals with the frameworks between customers and suppliers. These frameworks link a customer's own value creating activities to the competencies and resources of the supplying firm(s). Both t
