Authors:April A. Gordon, Donald L. Gordo,
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publisher
Keywords: understanding, contemporary, regions, world, introductions, africa, states
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2006-11-13
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 1588264661
ISBN-13: 9781588264664

Thoroughly updated to reflect recent events and trends - including Africa and the war on terror, progress and problems in democratization, advances by women in politics, developments in the fight against AIDS, the growing influence of China, the establishment of the African Union, and much more - this new edition of "Understanding Contemporary Africa" treats the range of issues facing the continent in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The authors provide current, thorough analyses not only of history, politics, and economics, but also geography, environmental concerns, population s

Author: Avi Gordo
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional - Open University Pre
Keywords: essay, writing, building, profile, admissions, strategy, mba
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0335218903
ISBN-13: 9780335218905

"I would definitely buy this book if I were applying again."--Rodney Bryant, Macquarie Bank, Australia, formerly of Morgan Stanley, New York Learn all about MBA admissions techniques and skills from an expert! MBA Admissions Strategy guides candidates through the four most important aspects of a successful, competitive business school application: -Competitive Strategy -Profile Development -Essay Management and -Writing Technique This lively and accessible new book takes you step-by-step through the process of producing a successful MBA application, with primary emphasis on the essays. The boo

Author: J.e. Gordo
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: don, things, structures
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2003-07-10
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0306812835
ISBN-13: 9780306812835

For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don’t collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. J. E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.

Author: R.L. Gordo
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: topics, regulatory, economics, policy, centuries, over, economic, analysis, critique, regulation
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1994-04-30
List price: $174.00
ISBN-10: 079232790X
ISBN-13: 9780792327905

Regulation and Economic Analysis: A Critique Over Two Centuries argues that long experience with the practice of regulation creates a broad anti-intervention consensus among economists. This consensus is based on comparison of real intervention to real markets rather than an ideological preconception. It is shown that economic theory can support all possible positions on intervention. Much theory is too abstract to support any policy position; many arguments about how intervention might help contain qualifications expressing doubts about whether the potential can be realized; many theories ill

Author: Ray Gordo
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughto
Keywords: practice, sex
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0340695129
ISBN-13: 9780340695128

Larry Lickman operates the country’s most outrageous private marriage guidance and sex therapy practice. Larry himself has an insatiable craving for most kinds of extreme sex and his counselling is extremely unorthodox. His staff don’t exactly help matters—there’s his beautiful but incompetent secretary, his trainee therapist whose strange phobias and obsessions cause havoc, and the receptionist who knows what Larry is up to and is always threatening to expose him.

Author: M.A. Gordo
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: observatory, astronomy, astrophysics, space, library, science, radio, national, tucson, operations, millimeter, wave, recollections
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2005-05-24
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 1402032358
ISBN-13: 9781402032356

This book is a personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It begins with the construction of the hugely successful, but flawed, 36 ft radio telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and continues through the funding of its ultimate successor, the Atacama Large Millimeter-wave Array (ALMA), being constructed on a 5.000 m (16.500 ft) site in northern Chile. The book describes the behind-the-scenes activities of the NRAO Tucson staff. These include the identification and solution of technical problems, the scheduling and support of visiting

Author: Andrew D. Gordo
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: dissertations, computer, science, distinguished, output, programming, input, functional
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2008-07-31
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521070074
ISBN-13: 9780521070072

A common attraction to functional programming is the ease with which proofs can be given of program properties. A common disappointment with functional programming is the difficulty of expressing input/output (I/O) while at the same time being able to verify programs. Here, the author shows how a theory of functional programming can be smoothly extended to admit both an operational semantics for functional I/O and verification of programs engaged in I/O. He obtains, for the first time, operational semantics for the three most widely implemented I/O mechanisms for lazy languages, and proves tha