Authors:Richard Gilbert, Anthony Perl,
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: freight, oil, people, moving, revolutions, transport
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-01
List price: $88.00
ISBN-10: 1844072487
ISBN-13: 9781844072484

The lives of people around the world, particularly in developed countries, depend on relatively inexpensive movement of people and goods. Now, more than ever, the prospect of rising costs puts continuation of this transport dependence in question. Costs could rise significantly due to the needs to reduce pollution, reverse urban sprawl, enhance security and, above all, use fuel that will become dramatically more expensive than those used now. This book sets out the challenges that will soon threaten modern society’s dependence on low-cost transport in the light of the problems posed by o

Authors:Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, Anthony Perl,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: policy, subsystems, cycles, studying, public
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-06-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195428021
ISBN-13: 9780195428025

Studying Public Policy examines three dimensions of efforts to engage and resolve public problems: policy actors, institutions, and ideas. Using this focus, the book overviews past efforts to understand public policy-making, outlines the different stages of the policy-making process, and discusses the principal elements and patterns of policy dynamics. Developing an analytical framework of the subject, the text examines the theoretical and conceptual foundations of, and approaches used in, policy sciences giving students a solid basis for understanding public policy. This edition has been full

Author: Jed Perl
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: crisis, world, art, reports, eyewitness
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2000-02-18
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0465055206
ISBN-13: 9780465055203

A provocative look at the contemporary art scene by one of the country’s leading art critics As art critic for The New Republic, Jed Perl is renowned for combining a passion for art and a skepticism about the current art establishment with an ability to write about art in the context of our larger culture. In this collection of essays, including two written especially for this book, he delivers a brilliant mixture of first-rate art criticism and politically informed insight into the true workings of the American art world. Perl offers incisive analysis into the marketing mentality

Author: Lila Perl
Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY)
Keywords: debate, open, terrorism
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2003-11
List price: $42.79
ISBN-10: 0761415831
ISBN-13: 9780761415831

Defines and discusses the history of terrorism, the nature of terrorism and terrorists, and the recent, rapid growth of terrorist acts throughout the world.

Author: Lila Perl
Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY)
Keywords: world, systems, political, theocracy
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2007-09
List price: $42.79
ISBN-10: 0761426310
ISBN-13: 9780761426318

Author: Andras Perl
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: methods, molecular, biology, medicine, protocols, autoimmunity
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1588292312
ISBN-13: 9781588292315

This collection of readily reproducible molecular techniques and related in vitro/in vivo model systems can be used to explore the causes of autoimmunity, as well as how best it may be regulated. There are methods to assess immunological and biochemical pathways relevant for pathogenesis and to establish and assess a variety of autoimmune diseases, including arthritis, lupus, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, myocarditis, thyroiditis, scleroderma, uveitis, and vitiligo.

Author: Teri Perl
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Keywords: addison, wesley, innovative, series, activities, related, equals, biographies, women, mathematicians, math
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1978-02
List price: $26.97
ISBN-10: 0201057093
ISBN-13: 9780201057096

Observes the lives of nine women mathematicians and their particular contributions in the areas of number theory, calculus, topography, and abstract algebra.