Author: Yossi Shain
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: affairs, international, diasporas, kinship
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-10-04
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0472099108
ISBN-13: 9780472099108

In the face of globalization, the War on Terror, and massive shifts in migration patterns, analysts and scholars are finally being forced to reckon with the limitations of the old territorial models of global politics. As these and other political and economic changes continue to defy national borders, interested readers owe it to themselves to appreciate the power of kinship and diaspora---two of the most powerful factors in transnational politics today. Yossi Shain’s essential new work replaces the old, nationally bounded image of international politics (a vestige of the age of empire

Author: Randy Shain
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: hedge, fund, managers, finance, investigate, wiley, professional, due, diligence, tools
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0470139773
ISBN-13: 9780470139776

Hedge Fund Due Diligence provides a step-by-step methodology that will allow you to recognize and avoid questionable hedge funds before its too late. Based on a framework that hedge fund investigative expert Randy Shain has refined over the course of his successful career, this book offers an overview of due diligence into hedge fund management, how information on managers can be obtained, and why this information is essential to your investment endeavors.

Author: Shain-Dow Kung
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: volume, biology, plant, discoveries
Number of Pages: 473
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $138.00
ISBN-10: 9810238827
ISBN-13: 9789810238827

Scientific progress hinges on continual discovery and the extension of previous discoveries. The important series of volumes Discoveries in Plant Biology is specially compiled to provide a microcosmic atlas of the landmark discoveries that span the breadth of plant biology. Written by renowned plant biologists, the papers describe how classic discoveries were made and how they have served as the basis for subsequent breakthroughs. The 24 chapters in this third volume describe discoveries which contribute to the foundations of modern plant biology. The contributors, many of whom pers

Authors:Shain-Dow Kung, Shang-Fa Yang,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: biology, plant, discoveries
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $106.00
ISBN-10: 981023547X
ISBN-13: 9789810235475

Scientific progress hinges on continual discovery and the extension of previous discoveries. The important series of volumes Discoveries in Plant Biology is specially compiled to provide a microcosmic atlas of the landmark discoveries that span the breadth of plant biology. Written by renowned plant biologists, the papers describe how classic discoveries were made and how they have served as the basis for subsequent breakthroughs. The 19 chapters in this second volume describe discoveries which contribute to the foundations of modern plant biology. The contributors, many of whom personally lit

Authors:Shain-Dow Kung, Shang-Fa Yang,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: biology, plant, discoveries
Number of Pages: 371
Published: 1998-03
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 9810213131
ISBN-13: 9789810213138

As scientific progress hinges on the continual discovery and extension of previous discoveries, this series, Discoveries in Plant Biology, is specially compiled to provide an atlas of the landmark discoveries in the broad span of plant biology. The collection of chapters, written by renowned plant biologists, describe how classic discoveries were made and how they have served as the foundation for subsequent discoveries. We hope that this will facilitate our readers’ quest to advance their knowledge based on the advancements made previously by others. The 21 discoveries described in t

Author: Yossi Ghinsberg
Publisher: Boomerang New Media
Keywords: survival, story, true, harrowing, jungle
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0977171906
ISBN-13: 9780977171903

What begins as a dream adventure for four amicable, if hastily met, muchileros (backpackers) quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the jungle. They are an odd mix to be sure: Marcus, the Swiss mystic; Karl, the shady Austrian geologist; Kevin, the well-intentioned American photographer; and Yossi, the Israeli adventurer. Jungle is the incredible true story of Yossi Ghinsberg’s triumph over the most adverse and frightening of circumstances. It is a tale of survival and human fortitude against the wildest backdrop on the planet.

Author: Yossi Ghinsberg
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: jungle, lost
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-03-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1602393702
ISBN-13: 9781602393707

A classic adventure book in the spirit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Heart of Darkness. Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he mu