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Back From the Future: Cuba Under Castro
Susan Eckstein Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415947936 |
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Back From the Future is the definitive analysis of Castro's Cuba from 1959 to the present. The Second Edition contains a new Preface and Epilogue by the author addressing such important changes of the last decade as the growing immigrant community of Cuban-Americans in Florida, the withering U.S. embargo on Cuba, the role of Cubans in the 2000 elections, and the inevitable transition of power now that Castro is in his seventies. No other book on Cuba offers such an in-depth and grounded historical analysis.
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Brazil's Economic and Political Future (Westview Special Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean)
Pamels S. Falk Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0813302684 |
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Cuba and the Future (Contributions in Latin American Studies)
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0313287848 |
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In Cuba and the Future, nine leading Cubanologists analyze the causes, nature, and scope of the Cuban crisis and assess the prospects for the future. They suggest that in spite of the severity of the crisis--which Castro himself calls the worst in the country's history--the regime may well survive, at least for the near-to-intermediate future. Although the forces undermining political stability are enormous, there are also powerful factors reinforcing the state's control.
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The Cuban Revolution: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
Geraldine Lievesley Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0333968522 |
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The Cuban Revolution offers a reflective account of what the Revolution has meant to various actors (the dominant powers, the Third World, fellow revolutionaries, intellectuals and Cuban citizens) at different periods in its history. Rather than offer a simple narrative of events, Geraldine Lievesley addresses significant themes with which the Revolution has engaged and the problems it has encountered.
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The Economic Future of the Caribbean (Caribbean Classics)
Manufacturer: Majority Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0912469374 |
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Energy policy in Mexico: Problems and prospects for the future (Westview special studies on Latin America and the Caribbean)
Manufacturer: Westview Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0813302498 |
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Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives
Brain Meeks Manufacturer: University of West Indies Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9766402000 |
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Haiti's Future: Views of Twelve Haitian Leaders (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Manufacturer: Woodrow Wilson Center Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 094387503X |
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Macroeconomic Coordination in Latin America: Does It Have a Future?
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Manufacturer: United Nations Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9211215714 |
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This paper examines shows that in Latin America the progress achieved on macroeconomic coordination has been poor. Demand for coordination is weakened by the lack of synchronization between economic cycles in the different countries. The heterogeneous productive structures in the region explain in part this situation; but one of the main reasons, is the low level of trade interdependence. It is clear that macroeconomic coordination and convergence in Latin America entails greater difficulties than those confronted by Europe in its early stages of the integration process. These difficulties reinforce the importance of gradualism in the approach to macroeconomic coordination in the region.
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Petroleum and Mexico's Future (Westview Special Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean)
Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0813303397 |
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Transportation Planning on Trial: The Clean Air Act and Travel Forecasting (Metropolis & Region)
Mark Garrett , and Martin Wachs Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0803973527 |
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Authors' ad copy***Use whenever possible*** The Clean Air Act of 1991 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1994 require that metropolitan transportation planning agencies give high priority to the improvement of air quality. Under these laws, transportation planners must design regional highway and transit systems that contribute substantially to the attainment of federal air quality standards. This new requirement reveals important limitations to the standard methods by which transportation planners do their work. The mathematical models and statistical techniques used by transportation planners appear to be inadequate to enable them to analyze the air quality implications of alternative transportation plans. This was the situation when a group of environmental organizations brought suit in federal district court alleging that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay area had violated requirements of these laws in its transportation planning and highway funding activities. This volume provides an account of the legal dispute that pitted environmentalists against regional transportation planners, and which demonstrated that regional transportation planning methods are in need of substantial improvement. This monograph should be of interest to urban planners, environmentalists, public policy analysts, and those who apply mathematical modeling and statistical analysis to questions of public policy. The authors--an attorney and a transportation planner who took part in the lawsuit--analyze the specific arguments made by both sides in this important legal action, and draw from the specific case broader conclusions about the role of technical analysis in public policy making. *************************************************************** Urban planning does not and cannot exist in isolation--there are a large number of external factors that impact on a planner's work including politics and the planning commission; environmental impact studies; and national, state, and local legislation. Focusing on the interrelations between federal legislation, the judicial process, and transportation planning, Transportation Planning on Trial examines the interaction between regional transportation planning and environmental, particularly air, quality. This unique volume is designed to help urban planners understand the legal restrictions and requirements that directly impact how they operate. It considers two recent federal legislation pieces--the Clean Air Act of 1990 and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991--that mark the most important landmarks in a decade-long shift in emphasis in regional transportation planning. This groundbreaking volume will be vitally important to transportation planners, students of urban and transportation planning, transportation policymakers, environmentalists and environmental lawyers.
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Discovering beekeeping (Discovering)
Daphne More Manufacturer: Shire Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 085263367X |
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Hormones, Signals and Target Cells in Plant Development (Developmental and Cell Biology Series)
Daphne J. Osborne , and Michael T. McManus Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521330769 |
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Meristematic cells in plants (as with stem cells in animals) become the many different types of cells found in a mature plant. This is achieved by a selective response to chemical signals both from neighbouring cells and distant tissues. It is these responses that shape the plant, its time of flowering, the sex of its flowers, its length of survival or progress to senescence and death. How do plants achieve this? This up-to-date treatise addresses this question using well-chosen examples to illustrate the concept of target cells. The authors discuss how each cell has the ability to discriminate between different chemical signals, determining which it will respond to and which it will ignore. The regulation of gene expression through signal perception and signal transduction is at the core of this selectivity and the Target Cell concept. This volume will serve as a valuable reference for all researchers working in the field of plant developmental biology.Download Description
Meristematic cells in plants (as with stem cells in animals) become the many different types of cells found in a mature plant. This is achieved by a selective response to chemical signals both from neighbouring cells and distant tissues. It is these responses that shape the plant, its time of flowering, the sex of its flowers, its length of survival or progress to senescence and death. How do plants achieve this? This up-to-date treatise addresses this question using well-chosen examples to illustrate the concept of target cells. The authors discuss how each cell has the ability to discriminate between different chemical signals, determining which it will respond to and which it will ignore. The regulation of gene expression through signal perception and signal transduction is at the core of this selectivity and the Target Cell concept. This volume will serve as a valuable reference for all researchers working in the field of plant developmental biology.
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HORMONES, SIGNALS AND TARGET CELLS IN PLANT DEVELOPMENT
DAPHNE J. (THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, MILTON KEYNES) MCMANUS, OSBORNE Manufacturer: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N5BKUQ |
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Silicon Carbide: A Review of Fundamental Questions and Applicationsto Current Device Technology (Two volume set)
Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 352740127X |
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This collection of about 50 papers gives a detailed review of the recent developments in the rapidly advancing field of silicon carbide research. The contributions cover the whole field from theoretical modelling, analysis of crystal growth and characterization of defects through to the processing and to the applications in device technology.
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Glow Discharge Processes: Sputtering and Plasma Etching
Brian Chapman Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 047107828X |
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Develops detailed understanding of the deposition and etching of materials by sputtering discharge, and of etching of materials by chemically active discharge. Treats glow discharge at several levels from basic phenomena to industrial applications—practical techniques diligently related to fundamentals. Subjects range from voltage, distributions encountered in plasma etching systems to plasma-electron interactions that contribute to sustaining the discharge.Customer Reviews:
Mixed feelings.......2001-07-16
However, if you have read the literature and have been exposed to the subject for a while, you will find that the book is very basic and a little outdated. Chapman used to be the VP of Technology for a Plasma Etch firm when he wrote the 1st edition. Now he is (and has for some time been) President of a vacuumn diagnostics company. He really has not been updating this. With that caveat, if the other books/literature is "over your head" - go to this book for simply to understand explanations of so called "low temperature" plasma phenemena.
Great fundamental reference.......2000-08-22
Good introductory book, too expensive.......1999-05-06
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Three Ghost Stories, Large-Print Edition
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: Waking Lion Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1600965113 Release Date: 2006-08-03 |
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Three short ghost stories (in the vein of A Christmas Carol) that originally appeared as Christmas tales. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
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Charles Dickens Three Short Stories
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: Tantor Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: MP3 CD ASIN: 1400151279 |
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Charles Dickens was also known for his short stories.
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Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels: North and South, Our Mutual Friend, Daniel Deronda
Deirdre David Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0231049803 |
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Three Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: Waking Lion Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1600964206 Release Date: 2006-08-03 |
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Three short ghost stories (in the vein of A Christmas Carol) that originally appeared as Christmas tales. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.Download Description
Includes The Signal-Man.
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Three Ghost Stories [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425084737 Release Date: 2007-06-07 |
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"With just the right amount of scary elements, this collection of ghost stories is spine chilling! Dickens has created an atmosphere of foreboding without the use of any gross elements. Just the right reading for juvenile readers, the work entertains and rivets through its brilliant depiction of unexpected events."
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Three Ghost Stories [EasyRead Edition]
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425083773 Release Date: 2007-06-07 |
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"With just the right amount of scary elements, this collection of ghost stories is spine chilling! Dickens has created an atmosphere of foreboding without the use of any gross elements. Just the right reading for juvenile readers, the work entertains and rivets through its brilliant depiction of unexpected events."
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Three Ghost Stories [EasyRead Large Edition]
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425085695 Release Date: 2007-06-07 |
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"With just the right amount of scary elements, this collection of ghost stories is spine chilling! Dickens has created an atmosphere of foreboding without the use of any gross elements. Just the right reading for juvenile readers, the work entertains and rivets through its brilliant depiction of unexpected events."
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Three Ghost Stories [EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition]
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425015298 Release Date: 2007-08-21 |
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Three Ghost Stories [EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition]
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425030866 Release Date: 2007-08-21 |
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Three Ghost Stories [EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition]
Charles Dickens Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1425039782 Release Date: 2007-08-21 |
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