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Product Description: This is a book about infrastructure networks that are intrinsically nonlinear. The networks considered range from vehicular networks to electric power networks to data networks. The main point of view taken is that of mathematical programming in concert with finite-dimensional variational inequality theory...read more

Product Description: Only he can stop the gates of Hell from opening wide. John Crawford wasn’t able to deal with the pain and took the easy way out. At least he thought he did. Instead, he’s been offered a deal by a nightmarish creature and given a second chance at life...read more

Product Description: Life is an aging process. Each of us will go through it in our own way. How we lead our lives when we are old, particularly as we near the end, is, I believe, worth pondering. In this way, "I've Got Some Good News and Some Bad News: You're Old" serves as a guide for all of us as we age, providing topics for contemplation and discussion with friends, family and colleagues...read more

Product Description: The Guest Editor has organized this issue to focus on the clinical management of alcoholic liver disease. Authors have written state-of-the-art reviews on the following topics: Prevalence and Natural History of ALD; Alcohol Metabolism; Immunology in ALD; Histological Findings in ALD; Diagnosis and Management of Alcoholic Hepatitis; Management of Alcohol Abuse; Long Term Management of Alcoholic Liver Disease; Infections in ALD; Nutrition in ALD; Alcohol’s Effect on Other Chronic Liver Diseases; Liver Cancer and Alcohol; Evaluation and Selection of Candidates for Liver Transplantation; and ALD and Specific Transplant-Related Issues...read more

Product Description: Young and alone against the living dead. Riley has lived alone with her dad in an isolated cabin in New York State for as long as she can remember. It's just safer. Her dad's told her about the time before the zombies, but she can only imagine it...read more

Product Description: Como las empresas exitosas mandan a pastar a las viejas ideas? Si uno lo piensa, hay muchisimas vacas sagradas pastando perezosamente por las empresas de todo el mundo, y ya es hora de que alguien comience a dispararles. Esto no es una campana en contra de las vacas, sino tan solo una fijacion que tienen los autores con el excesivo respeto a las vacas sagradas, es decir, hacer las cosas ciegamente y sin cuestionarse por el mero hecho de que siempre se ha hecho asi...read more

Product Description: "Teams Create The Best Solutions." BANG. "Always Trust Your Research." BANG. "It's Okay To Put Up With Jerks, If They're Talented." BANG. When you think about it, there are a lot of Sacred Cows grazing lazily in the halls of corporate America...read more

Product Description: Published to accompany an exhibition at The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, this catalogue beautifully presents a history of Russian collage, with an emphasis on the middle and later years of the 20th century. Works by Popova, Rodchenko, and Malevich allow the reader to see the roots of later constructions, in chapters organised by application, including texture, assemblage, decoupage, and photomontage...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the history and development of outdoor advertising since the beginning of the 19th century. The author examines the rise of commercial art, the development of advertising as a discipline and an industry and the role it plays in modern life, also making reference to examples of successful ad campaigns...read more

Product Description: A story of tenacity, luck, toughness - and controversy. Joseph Isaac Gutnick - variously known as Diamond Joe for his mining exploits, Demon Joe for his presidency of the Melbourne Demons, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Special Emissary for the integrity of the Land of Israel is a fantastic mix of contradictions...read more

Product Description: A story of tenacity, luck, toughness - and controversy. Joseph Gutnick -known variously as Diamond Joe for his mining exploits, Demon Joe for his presidency of the AFL Melbourne Demons, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Special Emissary for the Integrity of the Land of Israel - is a fantastic mix of contradictions...read more

Product Description: Book by David Bernstein