Activation Analysis, Volume I

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This timely publication covers prompt measurements as well as delayed activation measurements used in chemical analysis of the elements. It describes the various possibilities of activation: neutrons, charged ions, and photons. Also discussed are the advantages and disadvantages of each activation method. These volumes are important for those in geology, archaeology, biology, analytical chemistry, radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, the semiconductor industry, and others.

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Take an amazing and truly awe-inspiring visual voyage, courtesy of 100 incredible images made from the most sophisticated, cutting-edge technology, and see what can’t be seen with the naked eye.

It’s an eye-opening experience: from the smashing of atoms to the diffraction of X-rays skimming through a crystal of DNA, the deepest patterns of nature’s building blocks are revealed to thrilling effect thanks to revolutionary technology. These thoroughly breathtaking images delve deep into the invisible world, letting us peer into the hidden secrets of heat, sound, and all manner of exotic energies and radiations. View the human body as seen in a colored Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan; a photo of a huge solar prominence, taken by an Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope; an enhanced electron scan of tiny dust mites; and striking spots of light from the distant galaxies. Computer simulations, powered by 21st-century mathematics, hint that there are still greater truths out there. It’s as unbelievable as the best science fiction—and it’s all true.

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A Time to Flee: Unseen Women of Courage
Betty J. Iverson
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Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World

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Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World
Bernard Dixon
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Power Unseen: How microbes rule the world
Bernard Dixon
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Microbes - tiny unseen bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa - pervade every aspect of human society and of the natural world. They provide all our daily food; they were the original source of the world's abundant oil supplies; their presence in soil is essential to the existence of life itself. They also cause horrendous epidemics, from the plague and smallpox of past centuries to the continuing pandemics of cholera and today's growing AIDS crisis. Microbes have vanquished armies, swinging great military campaigns even more effectively than the strategies of generals or the machinations of politicians; they now provide life-saving antibiotics and other benefits of modern biotechnology. Power Unseen portrays the many, diverse and often unexpected activities of microbes through a series of 75 vignettes, each focusing on one particular organism and its characteristic behaviour. Here, then, is a portrait gallery illustrating microbial life in its astonishing diversity. Microbes have influenced history and they are helping to shape our future. They are still springing surprises, and they continue to threaten us; yet we could not exist without them. In this fascinating and entertaining book, Bernard Dixon leaves the reader in no doubt that microbes, not macrobes, rule the world.

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truly an excellent book.......2007-03-01

This is a great book for general reading on microbes and microbiology. The short chapters make for easy and very entertaining reading, and it is one of those books that can really inspire an interest in science. Many people develop an interest microbiology after reading "The Microbe Hunters," and I agree with the previous reviewer who suggested that "Power Unseen" makes very good follow-up reading. It is more focused on the actual microbes rather than their discoverers, but the excellent storytelling and appeal to general audiences is similar. It is really a shame, and very surprising to me, that it is not currently in print. I highly recommend reading it if you have even the slightest interest in microbiology and can buy or borrow a used copy.

Amazing!.......2003-07-20

Being a junior doctor now, whenever I recall my 2nd year in the medical school I remember all these nights trying to understand what at time thought of a much more difficult course than anatomy (!)....microbiology. I never thought I would be following a microbiology career. This book changed it all. There is nothing to be afraid of microbes.....Hypochondriac as all med students are was also myself...all you must do is to consider it as part of our planet's natural history..The book correlates human history and microbes in the most exciting way! The language is readable by everyone and the new ideas jump out in every page....I could not stop thinking humanity as a microbe of the universe. There were chapters that i couldnt stop laughing and others that really put me thinking. Read it....it will make you appreciate the role of medicine and microbes in our lifes.

Useful and worrisome features of microbes are detailed........1997-04-28

With our present concerns and apprehensions about the invisible yet ubiquitous microbes which are a natural part of our environment, Bernard Dixon, the British science writer has written a series of vignettes to protray the myriad diverse and fascinating activities of some of these microscopic bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoans. Too frequently, we associate microbes with pestilence and spoilage; microbes as germs have been branded as invaders and pathogens which use and abuse their hosts. While from the human perspective, this reputation may be well deserved, the essays portray both the useful and the worrisome features of these microorganisms. Divided into five sections, each holding fifteen delightful short stories to illustrate how microbes (1)shape our world, (2)spring surprises, (3)threaten us, (4) lead us to depend on them, and (5)shape our future; the contents combine historical background with contemporary technology. Starting with the primordial cell, where we all began - the essays cover the problems and circumstances that are associated with plague, smallpox, AIDS, rabies, yellow fever, lyme disease, typhoid, cholera along with many other appalling diseases. To balance this fearsome ensemble, useful microbes on which we depend or which we can manipulate to advantage are described; such as the nitrogen fixers, antibiotic producers, vitamin manufacturers, and the genetically engineered microrobots. Bernard Dixon has the knack of describing the microbes both in their historical context and in our current awareness of their impact. In two essays, he relates the story of Typhoid Mary and the consequences on those infected with the bacteria along with our past helplessness to control the disease, and in the second he relates the tale of the development of a recently cultured live oral vaccine that is more successful than the dead vaccines used earlier. In fact, Vivotif, the oral typhoid vaccine was prescribed for us before embarking on an Amazon trip recently. It is a painless, oral tablet that carries a modified strain of 'Salmomella typhii'. This living ingested microbe infects the intestinal wall for a few days before it self-destructs due to 'genetic crippling'. It was gratifying to learn that the 'live' medication confers long term immunity and shows better results that the earlier painful, injected dead bacterial vaccines. This is a delightful and practical book which will enrich the scientific background of students at the high school and college levels, as well as interested adults. Years back, the classic 'Microbe Hunters' by Paul de Kruif was the recommended outside reading for microbiology students and science afficiandos; I would strongly add "Power Unseen" to the list of exciting and relevant reading materials that present background history along with up-to-date descriptions about some of those 'microbes that rule the world'.

City of Darkness: Unseen (World of Darkness)

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City of Darkness: Unseen (World of Darkness)

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Biofilms & Dead Zones: The Microbe-Environment Connection: How Unseen Life Influences the World Around Us

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Biofilms & Dead Zones: The Microbe-Environment Connection: How Unseen Life Influences the World Around Us
David M. Carlberg PH. D.
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This book explores the beneficial and harmful impacts microorganisms have on Earth's air, water and soil. The book was written for environmental activists involved with environmental quality issues, and all others concerned with the general condition of our planet.

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Exploring the Unseen World of Microbes
Madelyn D. Hunt , and Lisa C. Lyons
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Microbiology: Principles and Explorations

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This text is designed for students taking their first course in microbiology. The intent of this manual is to acquaint the student with laboratory techniques, through hands on experience, used in research, clinical, and industrial laboratories. Exercises are included that teach techniques of isolating pure cultures and identification procedures that follow. Emphasis on applications of various techniques are included to show the student how these procedures may be applied in their field of study. The appendices include directions for media and reagents preparation and a pronunciation guide to scientific names of organisms used in this laboratory manual as well as some that are studied in the lecture portion of the course.

Microorganisms: The Unseen World (Our Living World)

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Microorganisms: The Unseen World (Our Living World)
Edward R. Ricciuti
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The award-winning Our Living World series emphasizes the fascinating patterns in the natural world, enabling readers to discover their own place in the network of life. Each book includes chapters on unique characteristics of the organism, senses, metabolism, reproduction and growth, food webs and food chains, fitting into the web of life. Introductions by John Behler, New York Zoological Society.

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Science and the Unseen World
A. S. Eddington
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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The Nature of the Physical World

The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All

ASIN: 054801907X

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1929. Swarthmore Lecture. Contents: Outline of evolution leading to the advent of Man in the physical world; The questioning voice, What doest thou here?; Changing views of the scope of physical theory and the ideal of physical explanation; Both a scientific and a mystical outlook are involved in the problem of experience; The irrelevancy of natural law to some aspects of mind and consciousness; The importance of significances and the consequences of ruling them outside the scope of inquiry; and Assurance of the revelation of God rather than of the existence of God is demanded. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Science and the unseen world
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
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When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column bleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin to shout at the top of your lungs because you are there, at the birth of freedom -- you're a veteran of the Battle of Lexington, and you've helped whip the King's best soldiers...

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Excellent, eye-opening .......2006-09-01

"A boy becomes a man" is been the theme of countless novels. April Morning, written in 1961, reveals what a skilled writer can do with a basic idea. The novel starts innocently with Adam Cooper, a 15-year-old Lexington boy, being scolded by his stern father for laziness in doing his afternoon chores. But today is no ordinary day. As the evening progresses, Adam's dad is called to a town committee meeting--it seems the British are marching out of Boston to seize the colonists' arsenal and put them back in their places.

April Morning is a short book, but it at first seems to unfold quite slowly. There is plenty of time to see Adam clash with his pompous dad, seek solace from his tart-tongued grandmother, argue with his little brother, and grab a furtive kiss with his young girlfriend. The modern reader, used to each book opening with an exploding helicopter, might be forgiven for wondering where Fast is going with all this.

Then something happens that is so shocking and so unexpected, that we, like Adam, are thrown forever out of the ordinary world and into the nightmarish beginning of war. In the course of the next hours, Adam is forced to confront the realities of a war he never asked for and a world that is forever changed.

Required Reading.......2006-06-30

This book should be read by all young adults, as well as adults of any age. Along with Howard Fast's book The Hessian, these books are excellent lessons in tolerance, compassion and war.

A High School Junior Remembers.......2006-01-26

I read this book my freshman year of high school. Looking back, it was a slow book in my mind. However, that was mostly because we read it section by section and discussed each one. If I were to have read it on my own I would have been through it in about a day or two. While not everything in it is exactly accurate, the story of Adam is an inspiring one.

I feel that this is a book for a high school level reader and maybe at the least a mature high school reader. A lot of the events and ideas presented are not for those who do not take war and death seriously.

While a lot of people have said they read it and would never want to read it again, I have to differ. I would gladly read this book over and over. It sits on my shelf of classics that include A Separate Peace, The Great Gatsby, Les Miserables and the like.

April Morning.......2006-01-05

I read this book knowing that the story would go on for a space of 24 hours. Little did I know that the plot would be tiresome and the family relationships stereotypical. I found this book slow and dull and I could not bring myself to read it again. However the character Adam is fun to watch grow as a boy in the Revolution. The description of the Battle of Lexington was precise until I talked to a history whiz and realized its facts were not all true.

April Morning.......2005-11-02

In class we read April Morning and it started out slow, but it surprised me. The book started getting good, and it was action-packed. It helped me learn alot and I had fun reading it too. Also, the ending was kind of boring and they should have had more battles. It was also kind of hard to read with all the old words and the religous words that were everywhere. For a book that I had to read in school, it ended up being one of the best.

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Only mystery is that this woman is an FBI agent
Complex and involved
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Good Morning, Killer
April Smith
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ASIN: 0375412409
Release Date: 2003-04-22

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FBI Special Agent Ana Gray returns in this complex, involving thriller about a dedicated officer's search for a serial rapist that proceeds alongside her passionate and obsessive love affair with a fellow cop, Santa Monica detective Andrew Berringer. Before their relationship culminates in a violent episode that leaves him clinging for life and her accused of attempted murder, the deviant who brutalized the teenage girl Ana has taken into her heart and under her wing has found another victim, and Ana's efforts to stop him before he kills her drive Smith's stunning narrative to a shocking denouement. But the author has additional surprises in store for the reader that involve Andrew's motivations for escalating their passion--to keep Ana from reopening a closed case involving bank robbery, fraud, and deception, which will lead her to reevaluate the man, and the obsession, that has brought her to the brink of personal and professional oblivion. While many authors who feature the same protagonist in all their mysteries simply serve up the same character in different scenarios in each new outing, April Smith expertly illuminates aspects of her heroine's psychological life and devotion to justice that deepen our understanding about who she is--a complicated, brave, multidimensional woman it is a pleasure to meet in this engrossing and powerful novel. --Jane Adams.

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An electrifying new thriller that brings back the complex, strong-willed, often-maverick FBI agent—Ana Grey—whom we first met in the author’s stunning debut novel, North of Montana.

This time Special Agent Grey is working on a kidnapping case—a fifteen-year-old named Juliana has been abducted in Santa Monica. Grey’s counterpart in the Santa Monica Police Department is Detective Andrew Berringer. They’ve worked together before—and they’ve been more than just working together ever since.

It’s Ana’s job “to know the victim as if she were my own flesh and blood.” But when Juliana turns up—traumatized into a state of total and paralyzing terror—it becomes clear that Ana has gone too far: she is viewing her own life from the perspective of Juliana’s blasted emotional terrain. And in a moment of passion (Andrew has betrayed her) and panic (is it possible that he also means to harm her?) Ana points a gun at him and shoots.

Now she is both criminal investigator and criminal as she breaks her bail agreement to continue tracking the abductor, torn between her powerful emotional connection with Juliana and the fraying connection she has to her own common sense and to the truths she knows about Andrew—and about herself.

Psychologically acute and unstoppably suspenseful— Good Morning, Killer is a searing, addictive read.

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An electrifying new thriller that brings back the complex, strong-willed, often-maverick FBI agent—Ana Grey—whom we first met in the author's stunning debut novel, North of Montana.

This time Special Agent Grey is working on a kidnapping case: A fifteen-year-old named Juliana has been abducted in Santa Monica. Grey's counterpart in the Santa Monica Police Department is Detective Andrew Berringer. They've worked together before—and they've been more than just working together ever since.

It's Ana's job "to know the victim as if she were my own flesh and blood." But when Juliana turns up—traumatized into a state of total and paralyzing terror—it becomes clear that Ana has gone too far: she is viewing her own life from the perspective of Juliana's blasted emotional terrain. And in a moment of passion (Andrew has betrayed her) and panic (is it possible that he also means to harm her?) Ana points a gun at him and shoots.

Now she is both criminal investigator and criminal as she breaks her bail agreement to continue tracking the abductor, torn between her powerful emotional connection with Juliana and the fraying connection she has to her own common sense and to the truths she knows about Andrew—and about herself.

Psychologically acute and unstoppably suspenseful, Good Morning, Killer is a searing, addictive read.

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Only mystery is that this woman is an FBI agent.......2007-06-01

This book started with a lot of promise. April Smith is an engaging writer with an easy to read style and she starts by throwing you straight into the action.

However, I very quickly lost respect for main character Ana Grey. The greatest mystery in this book is how someone so completely unskilled in spotting deception in her own boyfriend could even begin to profile killers and kidnappers for the FBI let alone pass their psychological assessments.

At first I thought I would like FBI agent Ana Grey. She seemed feisty and motivated. I soon wanted to hand Ana Grey a copy of the book 'He's just not that into you' with 'Women who love too much' as a chaser. To say that it was obvious that her cop boyfriend was a bad egg is an understatement. He was ambivalent about moving in with her, disrespected her in front of colleagues, demonstrated moodiness and infidelity and borrowed money from her without making any commitment. Ana Grey is basically a doormat to this man, yet by day she chases hardened criminals.

During a fight with her boyfriend she shoots him, and then attempts to cover up the crime. At the end when she continued to persist in believing they could have a future together I was ready to call Dr Phil for an intervention. Ridiculous.

Also, here is a woman who basically has no friends other than colleagues that she visits during her work day. Her home life is zip.

As for the rest of the story. It was tightly written thriller. I wouldn't describe it as a mystery. We knew who the kidnapper was about half way through the book, and then it was a race against time to catch him before he kidnapped other women.

The book is well written but unbelievable. If the main character had been a teenager or naive woman in her early 20s then maybe I could buy into it, but an FBI agent with 10 years on the job should be a bit smarter than to spend her spare time chasing after a man who isn't treating her with respect.

Complex and involved.......2005-07-04

This is one of those books which, if you pick it up expecting a certain plot line, you'll either be bored because you already know what's going to happen, or you'll be disappointed because you didn't know, and were surprised by where the author takes the story. Ana Grey is an FBI agent, and at the beginning of the story, she's in charge of the search for a serial rapist who victimizes underaged girls. His latest victim, kidnapped from a Santa Monica mall, is apparently only the latest in a string of girls he's run across in several states, some of whom are still missing. Ana and her fellow FBI agents, as well as the local police, must search for the rapist before he does his thing again and victimizes someone else.

Meanwhile, Ana is romatically involved with one of the local cops, a Santa Monica detective named Andrew Berringer. Their stormy, rocky, on-again-off-again relationship is the second half of the story, and I won't tell you anything beyond mentioning that it goes in several surprising directions that I didn't guess till later, though I did guess one part of what was going on. It's interesting though, and the integration of this part of the plot into the larger story of how the serial rapist gets caught is interesting.

While I enjoyed this book a great deal, there were a few plot twists that I guessed in advance, and one of the supporting characters so clearly needs psychological help that it's unbelievable that it wouldn't be afforded them, even insisted upon. This being said, this is still a good and interesting mystery.

Something Different.......2005-02-23

While I certainly understand why this book would not appeal to the average pulp fiction reader, I really enjoyed it because the protagonist was *not* the stereotypical female we've all come to know in the various series that are out there. In fact, I was reminded of Lorraine Page of the short-lived series by Lynda La Plante. I appreciated the fact that Ana Gray was so completely irrational during the course of this story. Isn't anyone weary of the Kinsey Millhones who have such bland, acceptable, if not loveable, faults and are as original as a piece of white paper?

Wasn't impressed........2005-01-02

As a rule I try to read as many authors of the crime genre as I can, whether they are new or established. This novel left me asking myself, "why did I buy this book?" It is rare for me to lose interest in a book or author, but this one has done just that. I must say, I was able to find a new talent that I enjoyed reading. I picked up "Waves of Deceit" by Marlene de Velasco and found her writing style to be quite refreshing and entertaining. She will definitely go far.

Waste of Time and Money.......2004-12-31

I had never picked up an April Smith novel before, but was intrigued by her lead character. The book had an excellent start, then went horribly wrong. Too many crimes, too many back stories, and a brilliant lead character who turned into a completely ignorant stereo-typical female-running-from-a-killer-in-high-heels victim. My first exposure to April Smith's work, will be my last.

APRIL MORNING (THE JOHN JAKES LIBRARY OF HISTORICAL FICTION)

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APRIL MORNING (THE JOHN JAKES LIBRARY OF HISTORICAL FICTION)
HOWARD FAST
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April Morning
Howard Fast
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Good Morning,Africa!
April Pulley Sayre
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One April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing

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One April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing
Nancy Lamb
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Both realistic and reassuring--a real contribution........1999-02-24

This book is a genuine treasure for those trying to explain to children the painful events that can occur into today's world. That's because children's experiences and voices are honored within a caring adult context and structure. I found the children's remarks had a cumulative, powerful, and even healing effect, which reflected accurately their concerns and showed them trying to make sense of a tragic and frightening event. In the end the reader is left with not only the very real anger and loss, but with the incredible spirit of everyone--both within Oklahoma and outside of Oklahoma--who reached out in compassion to help a fellow human being. Ms. Lamb, an Oklahoma native, was in Oklahoma City when the Federal Building was bombed. Perhaps that gives her book its ring of authenticity. We owe her thanks for taking on such a difficult subject and writing about it in a realistic, but reassuring way. This one's a keeper.

Nice insight.......1997-06-30

I liked this book! The children's views are very telling. We always think of the children when we picture this horrible event, and those are the people we hear from in this book. Thank you, Nancy Lamb

3 Titles By Howard Fast : April Morning - Power - Agrippa's Daughter

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3 Titles By Howard Fast : April Morning - Power - Agrippa's Daughter
Howard Fast
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All in the April Morning
J. Saunders
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American patriotism: a sermon preached in the Arch Street Church, Sabbath morning, April 28th, 1861

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American patriotism: a sermon preached in the Arch Street Church, Sabbath morning, April 28th, 1861
Charles Wadsworth
Manufacturer: Cornell University Library
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Originally published in 1861. 22 pages. This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

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April & Beagle One Monday Morning
Margie Young
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In recent years experience has shown that the complex issues raised by cross-border insolvencies cannot be adequately addressed by existing national bankruptcy law regimes. In order to deal effectively with such emerging factors as multi-jurisdictional intellectual property rights and contractual issues surrounding employment or immovable property -- as well as such long-standing problem areas as choice of law and recognition of judgments -- a system of international bankruptcy and insolvency law is sorely needed. This important monograph shows how such a system is ready to hand in Europe and potentially available at a global level. As an obvious step in this direction, Professor Torremans examines the EU Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings. He analyses all its provisions in detail, and sets out the solution it puts in place, partial and imperfect as it may be. He concludes that within the EU this Regulation promises to improve matters substantially, and that it bodes well to become a model for international co-operation in this area. To demonstrate the need for a coherent cross-border insolvency law regime, Professor Torremans first describes two very different national approaches, those of Belgium and the United Kingdom. He explores these two traditional approaches in detail, stressing their practical applications, and finds neither system can offer a satisfactory solution in a cross-border context. Finally, recognising that this problem does not stop at the EU's borders, Professor Torremans examines the UNCITRAL Model Law in detail to see whether it does indeed make a useful contribution. Towards a European Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law is a valuable and highly practical analysis that can immediately be put to good use by practitioners and officials charged with the organisation of bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings anywhere in the world.

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