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Poland has been building its market economy for slightly more than a quarter of a century and has been a member of the European Union for thirteen years. Currently, Poland can feel the results of the international crisis, but with some delay compared to the other European countries. Despite its stable economic development and relatively low unemployment, a deterioration in the quality of...

In "The Viagra Myth", Dr. Abraham Morgentaler (a practicing urologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School) shows us that while Viagra has proved enormously helpful to many men, it has also uncovered previously ignored aspects of identity and authenticity in sexuality and relationships. Some men, for example, may fear telling their partner they are using Viagra, yet still struggle with...

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Herman Pontzer's ground-breaking research has revealed how, contrary to received wisdom, exercise does not increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. In this book, he draws on twenty years of cutting-edge science to take a closer look at what happens to the energy we consume. Burn...

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The world's leading programming author updates his internationally bestselling guide to Java, covering all the new features in Java SE 8. In Java: The Complete Reference, Ninth Edition, Herb Schildt uses the clear, concise, uncompromising style that has made the previous eight editions so successfu

With Smart Card Programming the reader will have the expert guidance he need to work with smart cards. The book offers a comprehensive guide, to the technological aspects related to smart cards, providing an high level overview of the technological panorama and giving an in-depth technical coverage about the related architectures, programming paradigms and APIs. The first part of the book...

Functiones et Approximatio, Commentarii Mathematici is a mathematical journal edited by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University since 1974. The journal publishes original papers in mathematics, with special attention to analysis (in a broad sense) and number theory.

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Modern statistics deals with large and complex data sets, and consequently with models containing a large number of parameters. This book presents a detailed account of recently developed approaches, including the Lasso and versions of it for various models, boosting methods, undirected graphical modeling, and procedures controlling false positive selections. A special characteristic...

Das Buch vermittelt umfassende Grundlagen moderner Techniken des verteilten und parallelen Datenmanagements, die das Fundament moderner Informationssysteme bilden. Ausgehend von einer Betrachtung der Architekturvarianten, die sich aus verteilten sowie parallelen Hardwareinfrastrukturen ergeben, werden die Bereiche Datenverteilung, Anfrageverarbeitung sowie Konsistenzsicherung behandelt....

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Capitalism has a history of several hundred years, while the socialist regime existed only for a few decades. But this pair of opposites was central to the history of the twentieth century. This book covers topics such as socialism, capitalism, democracy, and change of system.

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This monograph is the result of the research programme “Crises of the European integration process and the methods of overcoming them” financed by National Science Centre. This project was completed in September 2015 and realised between 2013 and 2015. The research team consisted of 28 members mainly from the Institute of European Studies at the University of Warsaw but also from the...

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