Surveys & polls show that most of us, including those in business, know that the natural & social life support systems of the world are in trouble but that little is being done about it. This book considers how business leaders, groups of people taking collective action & countries can come to think differently about the world's problems. ...

Beth Prendergast has fallen hook, line & sinker for her boss. Tom Maloney is everything she wants in a man & they seem made for each other. But when Beth discovers that she is pregnant Tom makes it clear that a baby was never part of his plan. Is Beth really ready to take on motherhood all on her own? ...

Presents survey articles addressing topics surrounding positivity, with an emphasis on functional analysis. This book provides insight into the structure of classical spaces of continuous functions, f-algebras, & integral operators, & contains contributions to modern topics like vector measures, operator spaces, & ordered tensor products. ...

This handbook describes the principles of positron emission tomography (PET), providing detailed view of its application in clinical practice. The text explains the physical & biochemical basis for PET & covers topics like instrumentation, image reconstruction, & radiopharmaceuticals production. ...

Offers the tools of physics & chemistry to the aid of biological researchers & clinicians who are bridging the fields of inquiry, ranging from clinical to basic science. This book is suitable for nuclear physicists & clinicians interested in the basic science of PET. ...

Mario Van Peebles' story of ex-slave Jesse Lee who was conscripted into the Spanish American War in 1892 & who, along with his squadron of black conscripts, was ordered by Colonel Graham (Billy Zane) to ambush a supply column that happens to be laden with gold. However, Lee & his men realise that once they have stolen the gold Graham plans to kill them
- so they decide to keep the booty. But Graham catches up with them in New Orleans. The 'posse' flee to Lee's hometown, Freemanville, but even here the men cannot escape trouble as local strife rises to a head, & Graham is hot on their trail.
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The minute Sheriff Webb Dolan led the posse out of town he knew he was in serious trouble. The three murdering outlaws were already hours into the deadly Ute Indian country, & some of Dolan's recruits were unfit to go after them. Worse yet, Dolan realized, his fellow lawman Floyd Aragon had no intention of actually capturing the badmen. ...