Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits.

Cold War thriller about daring escape from East Berlin to the west.

The Hot Body Club is a murder mystery set in Eugene, Oregon. Summer Rain is a precocious, sixteen going on twenty-four year-old femme fatale who goes missing. Jack Hunter, a down-on-his-luck private detective who specializes in marital infidelity cases, is hired to find Summer by her father, Charles Thurgood Winetrout. Winetrout is also Hunter's landlord and the owner of the Hot Body Club, a sleazy strip bar. Jimmy (James) Sundquist, a twenty-something, born-again Christian with a background of drugs, booze, sex, and violence, is infatuated with Summer. Susan St. Marie, aka Charity, is a...

Aimed at practitioners with no prior expertise in the subject, this book helps readers build basic real options models to aid in decision-making. Providing a pragmatic and informative approach, the authors introduce basic probability theories, before putting these theories into a real-world context.

Aimed at practitioners with no prior expertise in the subject, this book helps readers build basic real options models to aid in decision-making. Providing a pragmatic and informative approach, the authors introduce basic probability theories, before putting these theories into a real-world context.