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Six Sizzling Markets: How to Profit from Investing in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea, and Mexico

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Praise for Six Sizzling Markets

"Everyone knows that the globe is being changed by globalization, but what does it mean for the ordinary citizen or investor? Pran Tiku offers a clear and informative account of the opportunities that exist in six of the major new global economies. The book sizzles with...

Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest

Twelve, 2019

From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a dissection of how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world -- and increased Russia's status on the global stage.

How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak...

Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 12th East European Conference, ADBIS 2008, Pori, Finland, September 5-9, 2008, Proceedings

Springer, 2008

This volume contains the best papers presented at the 12th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2008) held during September 5–9, 2008, in Pori, Finland. The series of ADBIS conferences is the successor of the annual international workshops with the same title that during 1993-1996 were organized in...

Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management: How Top Companies Assess Risk, Manage Exposure, and Seize Opportunity

AMACOM, 2009

Using examples from companies such as Home Depot, Airbus, Boeing, and Nokia, as well as countries including Taiwan and Russia, "Enterprise Risk Management" takes an in-depth look at one of the hottest topics in business today. This title shows readers in charge of monitoring operational exposures in corporations, nonprofit organizations,...

Computer Algebra 2006: Latest Advances in Symbolic Algorithms - Proceedings of the Waterloo Workshop

World Scientific Publishing, 2007

Written by world-renowned experts, the book is a collection of tutorial presentations and research papers catering to the latest advances in symbolic summation, factorization, symbolic-numeric linear algebra and linear functional equations. The papers were presented at a workshop celebrating the 60th birthday of Sergei Abramov (Russia), whose...

Authoritarianism and How to Counter It

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gaining power – from Trump’s US and Bolsonaro's Brazil to Orban's Hungary – while Russia and China have turned back towards their old, autocratic traditions. This...

Spacecraft Power Systems

CRC Press, 2004

The first man-made satellite was Sputnik I, launched and operated by Russia in the low Earth orbit in 1957. In the decade that followed, the American space exploration programs launched many Earth orbiting satellites. The first commercial geosynchronous satellite, Intelsat-1, was placed in orbit in 1965, and, in 1969, NASA’s Apollo-11 became...

Oil and Security: A World beyond Petroleum (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)

Springer, 2008

The celebration welcoming the second half of the 21st century on 31 December 2050 was subdued in the Persian Gulf. The major cities of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and others were dark. No fireworks or other signs of jubilation. Even those among them who had diversified their economies by investing in tourism, technology parks,...

The Stairway to Heaven (Book II) (2nd Book of Earth Chronicles)

Bear & Company, 1992

Since earliest times, humanity has pondered the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe, life...and the afterlife. Was there somewhere on Earth where, after death, mortal man could join the immortal Gods? Where was this place? By whom was it established? And does it still exist today? After years of painstaking research--combining recent...

Tsunamis and Hurricanes: A Mathematical Approach

Springer, 2006

"... This book is useful for researchers working in mathematical modeling and hydrodynamics." Zentralblatt MATH 11/2007

Tsunamis and hurricanes have had a devastating impact on the population living near the coast during the year 2005. The calculation of the power and intensity of tsunamis and...

International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies

Routledge, 2013

This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes contributions by a range of international scholars and takes the concept of place as a unifying paradigm. As a way of overcoming borders that are both...

Barron's Finance & Investment Handbook (5th ed)

Barron's Educational Series, 1998

People retiring in the early years of the 21st century, the so-called baby boom generation, have witnessed a revolution in the world of finance and investment during their working years. The forces of globalization assure that their children, now in their earning years, face a future just as dynamic.

Deregulation of the...

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