Author: Naomi Hirahara
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: distinguished, asian, americans, series, business, american, leaders
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-03-30
List price: $86.95
ISBN-10: 1573563447
ISBN-13: 9781573563444

Although there are other reference books about Asian Americans, no other book focuses solely on businesspeople. This collection of engagingly written biographies gives the details on the lives of 96 Asian men and women who have had successful business careers, giving information on their education, training, and career highlights and histories. The book provides valuable information as well as inspiration to students, from high school through university. Each biography concludes with references for further reading, and an appendix lists the people profiled by field of business, from fashion to

Author: Sue Miller
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: guest, distinguished
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0060930004
ISBN-13: 9780060930004

The moving story of a mother and son that touches the deepest concerns about love, art, family, and life Lily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and has become a famous writer at age seventy-two. Now, stricken with Parkinson’s disease and staying with her architect son Alan, Lily must cope with her fading powers as well as with disturbing memories of the events that estranged her from her children and ended her marriage. For Alan, her visit raises old questions about his relationship with her, about the choices he has made in his own life, and about the nature of love, disappointment,

Author: Virginia Moore
Publisher: Moore Press
Keywords: writers, women, distinguished
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1406762830
ISBN-13: 9781406762839

Author: Julianne Cicarelli
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: economists, women, distinguished
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-10-30
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0313303312
ISBN-13: 9780313303319

Women are vital members of the economics profession, yet they have traditionally received scant recognition for their work. This volume provides information on 51 remarkable women in the profession. They come from all areas of economics-academia, the business world, public policy-and include those who are currently active as well as 19th-century pioneers in the field. Entries cover biographical information, as well as the subjects’ work, providing a unique guide to the many and varied contributions these women have made to economics.

Author: Carlton McCarthy
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: citizen, fellow, distinguished
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2009-10-03
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 111552304X
ISBN-13: 9781115523042

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Whittet

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

Author: Philip Henry Lotz
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Keywords: reprint, series, index, essay, american, jews, distinguished
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 1970
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0836916719
ISBN-13: 9780836916713