Author: Kirk Loury
Publisher: Bloomberg Pre
Keywords: private, protection, placement, life, insurance, asset, efficiency, delivering, solution, wealth, accumulation, tax, ppli
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1576601730
ISBN-13: 9781576601730

Wealth accumulation, tax efficiency, and asset protection are among the most critical concerns of high-net-worth clients. That’s why their advisers need to know about private placement life insurance. PPLI is a flexible and cost-effective answer to these fundamental wealth-management challenges. Through a life insurance policy designed for the affluent investor, highly desirable investment options such as hedge funds and private equity can serve as the foundation for a comprehensive long-term investment solution. PPLI’s substantial wealth-management benefits make it a vital tool fo

Authors:Franklyn W. Kirk, Thomas A. Weedon, Phillip Kirk,
Publisher: Amer Technical Pub
Keywords: instrumentation
Number of Pages: 627
Published: 2005-06-30
List price: $146.00
ISBN-10: 0826934234
ISBN-13: 9780826934239

This textbook provides a detailed description of the operation of measurement devices and instruments. Large, full-color illustrations are used to detail fundamental theory and operating principles of instrumentation in industry. Common applications used in control of manufacturing and other processes are included to show the details of how to install instruments in control systems.Instrumentation covers industrial communications from traditional pneumatic to state-of-the-art digital and wireless communication systems, including fieldbus, Hart®, and Ethernet. This textbook includes a n

Authors:Franklyn W. Kirk, Thomas A. Weedon, Phillip Kirk,
Publisher: Amer Technical Pub
Keywords: instrumentation
Number of Pages: 691
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 0826934307
ISBN-13: 9780826934307

Instrumentation provides a detailed description of the operation of instruments and their controls. The textbook addresses instrument operation and application, industrial communications from traditional pneumatic to state-of-the-art wireless communication systems, final control elements, and safety systems. Communication systems include fieldbus, Hart®, and Industrial Ethernet. Safety systems introduced include common safety devices and systems such as relief valves, rupture discs, burner control systems, hazardous location classifications, enclosures, and safety instrumented systems (SISs

Authors:W. W. Kirk, W. W. Kirk, Herbert H. Lawson,
Publisher: ASTM International
Keywords: technical, publication, special, astm, corrosion, atmospheric
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1995-03
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 080312015X
ISBN-13: 9780803120150

Authors:R. Kirk Belnap, B. Kirk Belnap, Niloofar Haeri, Charl
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: linguistics, studies, semitic, languages, papers, charles, arabic, structuralist, ferguson
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 9004105115
ISBN-13: 9789004105119

Containing Charles Ferguson’s papers on Arabic linguistics, this volume addresses issues of continuing concern in phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The introduction provides a biographical sketch, including excerpts from interviews with Ferguson in which he discusses his career and dealings with Arabic. A critical overview precedes each of the four sections (Diachronica, Phonology, Register and Genre, and General). This work fills an important gap in the history of linguistics in documenting much of the career and contributions of a

Authors:Kirk Melnikoff and Edward Gieskes, Kirk Melnikoff, E
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: greene, robert, writing
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2008-04-22
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754657019
ISBN-13: 9780754657019

Robert Greene, contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe and member of the group of six known as the "University Wits," is the subject of this essay collection, the first to be dedicated solely to his work. Although in his short lifetime Greene published some three dozen prose works, composed at least five plays, and was one of the period’s most recognized-if not notorious-literary figures, his place within the canon of Renaissance writers has been marginal at best. "Writing Robert Greene" offers a reappraisal of Greene’s career and of his contribution to Elizabethan culture.Rather t

Authors:Kirk St.Amant, Kirk St.Amant and Brian Still,
Publisher: IGI Global
Keywords: economic, social, perspectives, technological, software, research, open, source, handbook
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 1591409993
ISBN-13: 9781591409991

The Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives is one of the few texts to combine OSS in public and private sector activities into a single reference source. This authoritative publication examines how the use of open source software (OSS) affects practices in society, business, government, education, and law. It provides a balance of theoretical perspectives, experiences, and cases in relation to these key areas. This thorough collection includes an overview of the culture from which OSS emerged and the development practices though whic