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    • Vaccine Adjuvants. Preparation Methods and Research Protocols 

      OHagan, Derek T. (Humana Press, 2010)
      Derek T. O'Hagan and a team of expert vaccinologists and pharmacologists thoroughly describe the preparation, characterization, and evaluation of a wide range of alternative vaccine adjuvants for use in preclinical studies. ...

    • Vagueness in the Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives 

      Keil, Geert; Poscher, Ralf (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Vague expressions are omnipresent in natural language. As such, their use in legal texts is virtually inevitable. If a law contains vague terms, the question whether it applies to a particular case often lacks a clear ...

    • Value Creation through Engineering Excellence: Building Global Network Capabilities 

      Gregory, Mike; Zhang, Yufeng (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book provides a systematic framework for effectively creating value through engineering in global business networks, and contributes to an increasingly important branch of engineering operations. By updating the ...

    • Valuing music in education : a Charles Fowler reader 

      Fowler, Charles; Resta, Craig (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Noted music education and arts activist Charles Fowler has inspired music educators for more than 60 years. In this book, editor Craig Resta brings together the most important of Fowler's writings from the journal Musical ...

    • Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: A Competitive Advantage Framework 

      Hughes, Claretha (IGI Global, 2012)
      People as Technology introduces a more proactive, strategic approach to bring employees into, and develop them within, an organization. Interpreting and accepting this concept requires managers to think of employees as ...

    • Varieties of English in writing : the written word as linguistic evidence 

      Hickey, Raymond (John Benjamins Pub Co, 2010)
      This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, ...

    • Variety of development : Chinese automakers in market reform and globalization 

      Feng, Qiushi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since 2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the story of the Chinese economy in microcosm. It focuses on China's systemically important automobile ...

    • Vegan on the Cheap 

      Robertson, Robin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
      You don't have to blow your budget to eat great meatless and dairy-free meals every day. With Vegan on the Cheap, you can enjoy delicious vegan meals every day of the week. Veteran food writer and vegan authority Robin ...

    • Vegetarian Times Everything Vegan 

      Vegetarian Times (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
      A diverse and delicious collection of vegan recipes from the experts at Vegetarian Times magazine. Whether they're vegan for a day, a week, a lifetime, or even just for lunch hour, the demand among vegans for deliciously ...

    • Venice & the Veneto (Eyewitness Travel Guides) 

      Birmingham, Brenda (Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2010)
      DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled ...

    • Venice incognito: masks in the serene republic 

      Johnson, James H. (University of California Press, 2011)
      The entire town is disguised, declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks--nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men--could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. ...

    • The Venture Capital Deformation: Value Destruction throughout the Investment Process 

      Klonowski, Darek (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      In spite of the robust development of venture capital that has occurred over the last three decades, returns from venture capital have been declining. This book focuses on a simple question: why? The answer lies in the ...

    • Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels: On the Method and Meaning of Divergent Tense-Form Usage in the Synoptic Passion Narratives 

      Cirafesi, Wally V. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)
      In Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels Wally Cirafesi answers the question of why the Synoptic Gospels at times employ different tense-forms to communicate the same action. The problem has typically been explained from the ...

    • Vertigo : five physician scientists and the quest for a cure 

      Baloh, Robert William (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), the most common cause of vertigo, affects one in five people at some point during their lifetime, triggering the sudden feeling like one is moving or spinning when perfectly ...

    • Victory in Spiritual Warfare Outfitting Yourself for the Battle 

      Evans, Tony (Harvest House Publishers, 2011)
      With passion and clarity, Dr. Evans demystifies spiritual warfare so that readers can tackle challenges and obstacles with spiritual power God’s authority as they: understand how the battle is fought by Satan, actively use ...

    • Vienna (Eyewitness Travel Guides) 

      Brook, Stephen (Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2010)
      DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled ...

    • Vietnam Tax Guide: Domestic Fiscal System and International Treaties 

      Riccardi, Lorenzo (Springer International Publishing, 2014)
      Vietnam is one of the main developing countries experiencing rapid growth in East Asia. As part of ASEAN and strategically located near China and the Mekong region, Vietnam is considered a leading market between Asian and ...

    • Việt Nam : a history from earliest times to the present 

      Kiernan, Ben (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French ...

    • A Vineyard in Napa 

      Shafer, Doug; Meyer, Danny; Demsky, Andy (University of California Press, 2012)
      At the age of 47, when he a successful publishing executive and living with his wife and four children in an affluent Chicago suburb, John Shafer made the surprise announcement that he had purchased a vineyard in the Napa ...

    • Vino Argentino: An Insider's Guide to the Wines and Wine Country of Argentina. 

      Catena, Laura (Chronicle Books, 2011)
      In this book part wine primer, part cultural exploration, part introduction to the Argentine lifestyle discover where to eat, what to see, and how to travel like a local with Laura Catena, the Argentina-born, United ...