Product Description: Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this book focuses on the ways in which poor residents can be helped to improve their own situations, their living conditions, and the central city itself...read more

Product Description: What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nuture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities"...read more

Product Description: A richly illustrated text designed to provide examples of recently developed methods for the production of amino acids, derivatives and biocatalysts. Describes such new technologies as development of membrane reactors, use of enzymes in nonaqueous solvents, application of recombinant DNA techniques for the cloning and expression of genes, newly discovered enzymes and microbial strains and immobilized biocatalytic systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)