Authors:Stanley A. Plotkin MD, Walter Orenstein MD, Paul A.
Publisher: Saunders
Keywords: expert, consult, print, online, title, vaccines
Number of Pages: 1748
Published: 2008-02-07
List price: $355.00
ISBN-10: 1416036113
ISBN-13: 9781416036111

Completely revised and updated, this respected reference offers comprehensive and current coverage of every aspect of vaccination-from development to use in reducing disease. It provides authoritative information on vaccine production, available preparations, efficacy, and safety.recommendations for vaccine use, with rationales.data on the impact of vaccination programs on morbidity and mortality.and more. And now, as an Expert Consult title, it includes a companion web site offering this unparalleled guidance where and when you need it most!Provides a complete understanding of each disease, i

Author: Mitchell A. Orenstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: security, reform, social, campaign, pensions, transnational, privatizing
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0691136971
ISBN-13: 9780691136974

To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of globalization that, unbeknownst to most citizens, shapes policies that used to be the sole domain of domestic politics? Privatizing Pensions reveals how international institutions--such as the World Bank, USAID, and other transnational policy actors--have played a seminal role in the development, diffusion, and implementation of new pension reforms that are transforming the postwar social contract in more than thirty coun

Authors:A. Orenstein, P. Kotatko,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: studies, philosophy, science, boston, quine, language, logic, questions, knowledge
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2001-11-30
List price: $86.95
ISBN-10: 140200253X
ISBN-13: 9781402002533

Quine is one of the twentieth century’s most important and influential philosophers. The essays in this collection are by some of the leading figures in their fields and they touch on the most recent turnings in Quine’s work. The book also features an essay by Quine himself, and his replies to each of the papers. Questions are raised concerning Quine’s views on knowledge: observation, holism, truth, naturalized epistemology; about language: meaning, the indeterminacy of translation, conjecture; and about the philosophy of logic: ontology, singular terms, vagueness, id

Author: Harold S. Orenstein
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: operational, art, soviet, series, study, war, cass, basis, documentary, evolution, volume
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1995-08-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0714642282
ISBN-13: 9780714642284

This collection of texts has been taken from formerly classified material in the official Red Army General Staff journal ’Military Thought’. The results are two volumes of great scope based on archival evidence. They stand as a compulsory reference point for anyone with an interest in the operational endeavours of the Soviet Army from the 1920’s onward.

Author: Arbie Orenstein
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: musician, man, ravel
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1991-06-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0486266338
ISBN-13: 9780486266336

The standard Ravel biography by the world’s foremost authority—brilliantly detailed and documented, filled with quotations from letters, interviews with the composer’s friends, an illuminating analysis of each of his works, a study of his musical esthetics and language, a complete catalog of his works, and a discography. "Highly recommended"—Choice. 48 illustrations.

Author: Arbie Orenstein
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: interviews, articles, correspondence, reader, ravel
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2003-10-23
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0486430782
ISBN-13: 9780486430782

Maurice Ravel played a decisive role in the history of modern French music. This reader captures the essence of this enigmatic man through his own words, both written and spoken. This compilation of articles by Ravel (who was a brilliant critic) features reviews, interviews, and some 350 letters from Cocteau, Colette, de Falla, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, and others.

Authors:David M. Glantz, Harold S. Orenstein,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: soviet, study, russian, war, general, kursk, battle, staff
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-09-29
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0714644935
ISBN-13: 9780714644936

This volume offers detailed information about the Red Army’s preparation for and conduct of the Battle of Kursk, the nature of the war on the German Eastern Front, and on the range of horrors that have characterized warfare in the 20th century.