Книга посвящена всестороннему рассмотрению центрального института современного экономического порядка - банковского дела на началах частичного резервирования с центральным банком и роли этого института в периодически повторяющихся экономических циклах. Автор анализирует эту проблему с юридической, исторической и экономической точек зрения

This expanded and thoroughly revised new edition is designed not only to add hundreds of useful new words to a student’s permanent working vocabulary but also to teach the most common and useful Greek and Latin word-building roots to help students understand and master additional vocabulary in the future. Example sentences and brief explanatory comments provide a rich context to bring the words to life, and quizzes are provided to encourage reuse and recall of words and to reinforce memory of them. All of these features combine to make this a valuable tool for students preparing for standardized tests or simply seeking to expand their English vocabulary

In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. And one by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. There's only one cure, but many ways to die...

This book is unique among current books on writing in two important ways. First, it presents cognitive strategies for writing: sequences of specific steps which make the writing process clearer and enable students to organize their thoughts about the writing task. The strategies help students know how to turn thoughts into writing products. This is especially important for students having difficulty producing acceptable writing products, but all students benefit from learning these procedures. Second, the authors focus on helping the student become a self-regulating writer -- aware and in control of the writing processes. The combination of composition and self-regulation strategies adds critically important dimensions to a whole language program because the strategies help students think about and organize writing products at the same time, while they learn to manage their writing

This popular textbook offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of teaching English as a foreign/second language. It is written both for teachers and for those taking professional courses in English language teaching

Эта книга - курс многомерного статистического анализа в приложении к задачам анализа и планирования экономических явлений. В ней подробно рассматриваются традиционные статистические методы исследования: распределения, среднего значения, корреляция и регрессия, а также современные методы статистического анализа (например, спектральный анализ временных рядов)

The complete guide to problems of confused or disputed usage. Clear, concise usage articles; more than 2,300; over 20,000 illustrative quotations

Whether you are a learner of English who is having difficulty understanding expressions in everyday speech or a native speaker who wants to expand your written or spoken range, you need a comprehensive reference for idioms, common phrases, and sayings of American English

Math SAT 800: How to Master the Toughest Problems contains 425 math SAT problems suited for students who are at an advanced level. The chapters in this book will provide ample opportunity to practice only the most difficult problems found on the SAT. The goal of this book is to maximize your score by zeroing in on the most difficult problems that appear on the math section of the SAT. This book differs from other SAT books in that it doesn’t spend time on material that high achieving math students are already familiar with. Therefore, this book provides the most efficient way for advanced students to study for the math SAT