Subject(s): Optical communications -- Equipment and supplies | Optical amplifiers | Light -- Transmission Summary: "Over the past two decades, optical amplifiers have become of key importance in modern communications. In addition to this, the technology has applications in cutting-edge research such as biophotonics and lab-on-a-chip devices

Subject(s): Paper money | Money supply | Currency question | Credit Summary: "In an engaging style based on extensive research, Paper Money Collapse shows conclusively why paper money systems - monetary systems that are based on an elastic and constantly expanding supply of money (such as our system today) as opposed to a system of commodit

Subject(s): Teenage girls | Mothers and daughters Summary: With the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the open (and sometimes wounded) heart of a mother, writer Lauren Kessler embeds herself in her about-to-be-teenage daughter's life. In seventh- and eighth-grade classrooms, at home, online, at the mall, and at summ

Subject(s): Bonds Summary: "In Bonds, Second Edition: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth, two veteran investors expose the myth of stocks' superior investment returns and propose an all-bond portfolio as a sure-footed strategy that can ensure results. The enhanced new edition of Bonds includes information on corporate bonds,

Subject(s): Environmental sociology | Environmental responsibility | Environmental ethics Summary: "The highly praised Fourth Edition of An Invitation to Environmental Sociology brings out the sociology of environmental possibility, inviting students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, Michael Bel

Subject(s): Ethnicity -- Malaysia | Malaysians -- Ethnic identity | Malaysia -- Ethnic relations Summary: "Provide[s] an in-depth and multifaceted study of the processes of ethnicization and identity construction in Malaysia, from the colonial period until the present"--Publisher's description. Holdings: ,Book - General

Subject(s): Macroeconomics | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Review: "This innovative book focuses on the current global financial crisis and the inadequacies of the economic theories being used to guide policy. In so doing, it tackles the economic theories that have been used firstly to understand its causes and thereafter to contain th

Subject(s): Financial futures | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | Risk management Summary: "A critical look at the risk measurement tool that has repeatedly, and severely, hurt the financial worldThe credit crisis that erupted in 2007 is by no means the only shock to have shaken the financial markets throughout the years. But these marke

Subject(s): Protein engineering | Proteins -- Analysis | Thermodynamics Summary: "Thermostable Proteins: Structural Stability and Design provides a comprehensive, updated account of the physical basis of enhanced stability of thermophilic proteins and the design of tailor-made thermostable proteins, paving the way for their possible industr

Subject(s): Economics -- History -- Greece | Ethics -- History -- Greece | Economics -- History | Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects Summary: "Arising from a disenchantment with mainstream economics -- a dissatisfaction that is widespread today -- A Short History of Ethics and Economics sketches the emergence and decline of the ethical