Economic Development and Financial Markets: Latest Research and Policy Insights from Central and Southeastern Europe (Contributions to Economics)

Leptin (Endocrine Updates)

Springer, 2006

The discovery of leptin by Friedman and his colleagues in 1994 was a seminal discovery in the study of metabolism, providing a new tool to study energy expenditure and appetite regulation. Early studies actively investigated many aspects of metabolism, obesity, and diabetes but it was soon evident that leptin was much more than...

The Photoshop Elements 7 Book for Digital Photographers

New Riders Publishing, 2009

This book breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s never been done before—it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly “how to do it.” It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does...

Mobile and Personal Communication Services and Systems

John Wiley & Sons, 1999

The idea and the scope for the book emerged from my own experience in attempting to acquire a good understanding of the rapidly evolving field of mobile and personal communication systems and standards, at a reasonable level of detail and breadth of coverage. Generally, one comes across either books that cover a range of technologies with very...

Basic Concepts for Managing Telecommunications Networks: Copper to Sand to Glass to Air (Network and Systems Management)

Springer, 1999

It is important to understand what came before and how to meld new products with legacy systems. Network managers need to understand the context and origins of the systems they are using. Programmers need an understanding of the reasons behind the interfaces they must satisfy and the relationship of the software they build to the whole...

Nuclear Medicine in Infectious Diseases

Springer, 2019

This book is designed as a reference manual that is exceptional in systematically discussing every aspect of nuclear medicine imaging of infections, with careful explanation of the most up-to-date concepts and recent guidelines on diagnostic flowcharts as shared between the EANM, ESR, ESNR, ESCMID, ESC, EACVI, ECCO, ESGAR and EBJIS....

Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes

Oxford University Press, 2004

Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychoactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals. Once such plants are adopted by outsiders for profane use, the often impoverished peasant farmers who grow them are faced with a life of extreme poverty or are lured by the prospect of a very...