A Perfect Plan for the Perfect Score We want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies to give you the edge on test day, and plenty of practice with AP-style test questions. You'll sharpen your subject knowledge, strengthen your thinking skills, and build your test-taking confidence with Full-length practice exams modeled on the real test All the terms and concepts you need to know to get your best score Your choice of three customized study schedules--so you can pick the one that meets your needs The 5-Step Plan helps you get the most out of your study time: Step 1: Set Up Your Study Program Step 2: Determine Your Readiness Step 3: Develop the Strategies Step 4: Review the Knowledge Step 5: Build Your Confidence Topics include: The Settling of the Western Hemisphere and Colonial America • The British Empire in America: Growth and Conflict • Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution • The American Revolution and the New Nation • The Establishment of the New Political Systems • The Jeffersonian Revolution • The Rise of Manufacturing and the Age of Jackson • The Union Expanded and Challenged • The Union Divided: The Civil War • The Era of Reconstruction • Western Expansion and Its Impact on the American Character • America Transformed into the Industrial Giant of the World • The Rise of American Imperialism • The Progressive Era • The United States and World War I • The Beginning of Modern America • The Great Depression and the New Deal • World War II • The Origins of the Cold War • Prosperity and Anxiety • America in an Era of Turmoil • Decline and Rebirth • Prosperity and a New World Order • The Threat of Terrorism and the Increase of Presidential Power • Contemporary America: Evaluating the "Big Themes" of American History

This guide to AP Microeconomics uses the successful 5 Steps plan to help you score high on this difficult exam.

Presents a study plan to build knowlege and confidence, discusses study skills and strategies, provides one diagnostic exam and two practice exams, and includes a review of the core concepts.

A Perfect Plan for the Perfect Score We want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies to give you the edge on test day, and plenty of practice with AP-style test questions. You'll sharpen your subject knowledge, strengthen your thinking skills, and build your test-taking confidence with Full-length practice exams modeled on the real test All the terms and concepts you need to know to get your best score Your choice of three customized study schedules--so you can pick the one that meets your needs The 5-Step Plan helps you get the most out of your study time: Step 1: Set Up Your Study Program Step 2: Determine Your Readiness Step 3: Develop the Strategies Step 4: Review the Knowledge Step 5: Build Your Confidence Topics include: Fundamentals of Economic Analysis * Demand, Supply, Market Equilibrium, and Welfare Analysis * Elasticity, Microeconomic Policy, and Consumer Theory * The Firm, Profit, and the Costs of Production * Market Structures, Perfect Competition, Monopoly, and Things Between * Factor Markets * Public Goods, Externalities, and the Role of Government * Macroeconomic Measures of Performance * Consumption, Saving, Investment, and the Multiplier * Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply * Fiscal Policy, Economic Growth, and Productivity * Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy * International Trade

A Perfect Plan for the Perfect Score We want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That's why we've created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies to give you the edge on test day, and plenty of practice with AP-style test questions. You'll sharpen your subject knowledge, strengthen your thinking skills, and build your test-taking confidence with Full-length practice exams modeled on the real test All the terms and concepts you need to know to get your best score Your choice of three customized study schedules--so you can pick the one that meets your needs The 5-Step Plan helps you get the most out of your study time: Step 1: Set Up Your Study Program Step 2: Determine Your Readiness Step 3: Develop the Strategies Step 4: Review the Knowledge Step 5: Build Your Confidence Topics include: Fundamentals of Economic Analysis * Demand, Supply, Market Equilibrium, and Welfare Analysis * Elasticity, Microeconomic Policy, and Consumer Theory * The Firm, Profit, and the Costs of Production * Market Structures, Perfect Competition, Monopoly, and Things Between * Factor Markets * Public Goods, Externalities, and the Role of Government * Macroeconomic Measures of Performance * Consumption, Saving, Investment, and the Multiplier * Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply * Fiscal Policy, Economic Growth, and Productivity * Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy * International Trade

Tilapia Culture, Second Edition, covers the vital issues of farmed tilapia in the world, including their biology, environmental requirements, semi-intensive culture, intensive culture systems, nutrition and feeding, reproduction, seed production and larval rearing, stress and disease, harvesting, economics, trade, marketing, the role of tilapia culture in rural development and poverty eradication, and technological innovations in, and the environmental impacts of, tilapia culture. In addition, the book highlights and presents the experiences of leading countries in tilapia culture, thus making it ideal for tilapia farmers and researchers who seek the most relevant research and information. The new second edition not only brings the most updated information within each chapter, but also delivers new content on tilapia transfers, introductions and their impacts, the use of probiotics and other additives in tilapia culture, tilapia trade, including marketing, and sustainability approaches and practices, such as management practices, ecosystem approaches to tilapia culture, and value chain analyses of tilapia farming. - Presents the biology of tilapia, including taxonomy, body shapes, geographical distribution, introductions and transfers, gut morphology, and feeding habits - Covers semi-intensive tilapia culture in earthen ponds, tanks, raceways, cages, recirculating systems, and aquaponics - Provides the latest information on brood stock management, production of monosex tilapia, seed production, and larval rearing under different culture systems - Highlights the most common infectious and non-infectious diseases affecting farmed tilapia, with a full description of disease symptoms and treatment measures - Provides an in-depth exploration of tilapia economics, trade and marketing

Industrial Process Scale-up: A Practical Innovation Guide from Idea to Commercial Implementation, Second Edition helps industrial process innovators in research, development and commercial start-ups assess the risks of commercial-scale implementation, also providing them with practical guidelines and methods to reduce the risks to acceptable levels. In addition, the book can be used in cooperation with industrial R&D people and academic researchers to shape open innovation programs, and in education as a reference book. This updated edition has the latest literature and has been expanded with a scale-up of pharmaceutical processes and their history in both academia and the process industries. - Offers easily accessible, step-by-step and concise guidelines for industrial process scale-up - Explains each stage of the innovation funnel, from research, development, demonstration and commercial implementation for any process type and branch - Based on industrial experiences and practices that reduce the risks of commercial scale implementation of new processes to acceptable levels and reduce cost and time of process innovation