The field of biotechnology, since its inception as the experience-based knowledge of few natural phenomena, has changed to a well-developed, vast field based on studies, experiments, innovations and technological development.
Brazil: A Global Studies Handbook provides an easy-to-access, multifaceted introduction to the world's fifth largest nation—a staggeringly diverse region, socially and geographically, that remains relatively unknown even as it becomes increasingly important on the world stage. Brazil offers an expert chronological narrative summary of over five centuries of South America's largest country—from the days of early Portuguese exploration to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's reelection.
CONTENTS Ideology and the Social Imaginary Symbolic Violence Theories of Ideology and Methods of Discourse Analysis Methods of discourse analysis some open issues
Problems in Operator Theory (Graduate Studies in Mathematics)
This is one of the few books available in the literature that contains problems devoted entirely to the theory of operators on Banach spaces and Banach lattices. The book contains complete solutions to the more than 600 exercises in the companion volume, An Invitation to Operator Theory, Volume 50 in the AMS series Graduate Studies in Mathematics, also by Abramovich and Aliprantis.
