A Jewish family living in Europe seeks to survive after leaving the ghetto in the early nineteenth century, facing persecution, violence, prejudice, and occasionally, the kindness and compassion of their neighbors, as they experience revolutions, pogroms, and even gold rushes in their struggle to survive and prosper. Original.

Product Description: Researchers in the natural sciences are faced with problems that require a novel approach to improve the quality of forecasts of processes that are sensitive to environmental conditions. Nonlinearity of a system may significantly complicate the predictability of future states: a small variation of parameters can dramatically change the dynamics, while sensitive dependence of the initial state may severely limit the predictability horizon...read more

Product Description: In the late 1970s. the adverse effects of man-made eutrophication became manifest in many countries. which explains. perhaps. why there was such a broad interest when the former Resources and Environment Area of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) organized a workshop on the subject...read more