Many important problems in global optimization, algebra, probability & statistics, applied mathematics, control theory, & financial mathematics can be modeled as a particular instance of the Generalized Moment Problem (GMP). This book introduces a general methodology to solve the GMP when its data are polynomials & basic semi-algebraic sets. ...

In this biography, Mo Mowlam tells the story of her time in government in her own words. She writes about the 1997 General Election, Labour's victory, her treatment for a brain tumour & why she left Westminster politics. The text also tells of her hopes & plans for the future. ...

Azazel Jacobs directs this drama chronicling the escalating dilemma of Mikey (Matt Boren), a husband & new father who stops off at his parents' New York home while on a business trip & procrastinates about returning to his wife & child. While his doting mother (Flo Jacobs) is more than happy to indulge his emotional stagnation, his father (Ken Jacobs) begins to grow suspicious about Mikey's many excuses & changes of plan. As events approach a darkly comic crescendo, Mikey realises that he must choose once & for all between life as it is & life as it was. ...

The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) as she struggles for her career & battles the inner demons of her private life. It is told through the eyes of her adopted children, Christina (Diana Scarwid) & Christopher (Xander Berkeley). ...