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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Grants are supposed to enable work, not create more of it. You need a guide, a map, and the right tools for the job. Helping you from your earliest brainstorming sessions to fully funded projects, this essential directory offers countless tips and resources for...

Thomas Remington discusses the methods used by the Communist Party to manage communications in Soviet society. Covering literature produced by Soviet scholars from the 1970s and 1980s, that studies the organization, content, usage, and impact of propaganda, Remington views how Party officials intrinsically manage...

In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the racial, class, gender, sexuality, caste,...

This important volume looks at conflicts of interest, codes of ethics, and the regulation of corruption in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the European Community. It finds that there is less corruption than ever before, but the gap between public...

This is an annual research series devoted to the examination of occupational stress, health and well being, with particular emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. Titles pull together the various streams of research from a variety of disciplines to better capture the...

Volume 9 is entitled "Industrial Organization" and is the ninth volume in the series "Advances in Applied Microeconomics". This series provides a forum in which researchers may disseminate frontier research in applied microeconomics to include both theoretical and empirical contributions in applied areas such...

This volume explores the tension between the search for generic principles of good teaching that cut across school subjects and the belief that portrayals of best practices ought to be framed separately for each subject. Its contributors all favor teaching in ways that encourage...

Author: Michael R. BayeISBN-10: 0762305762ISBN-13: 9780762305766Publisher: Jai Press Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2000Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Among the states that have moved from authoritarianism in the past 15 years, most have not moved beyond the mere procedures of democracy. This excellent scholarly resource provides a comparative account of the internal security situations of Morocco and Indonesia, and focuses on democracy...

As they provide a negotiating space for a diversity of interests, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) are an increasingly popular mode of involving civil society in resource management decisions. Illustrated by a wide geographical range of case studies, this book focuses on water management to take...

The European Union and the United States have identified Latin American cocaine trafficking as a security threat, but their policy responses to it have differed. This book examines the ways in which the EU and the US have conceptualized this threat.Author: Sayaka FukumiISBN-10: 0754670430ISBN-13:...

By the end of the nineteenth century Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world; Edinburgh by contrast may still be thought of as a rather staid city of lawyers and Presbyterian ministers, academics and doctors. Yet despite this apparent cultural...

A text which addresses the relationship between childhood, competence and the social arenas of action in which children live. The contributors develop a picture of children as competent, sophisticated social agents, focusing on the contexts which both enable and constrain that competence.Author: Ian HutchbyISBN-10:...

How should we decide which inequalities between people are justified, and which are unjustified?One answer is that such inequalities are only justified where there is a corresponding variation in responsible action or choice on the part of the persons concerned. This view, which has...

Honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand's outstanding achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern scholarship.Author: Yasir SuleimanISBN-10: 0748637389ISBN-13: 9780748637386Publisher: Edinburgh University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2010Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d

It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism. What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only...

Explores the consequences of September 11 2001 and questions the effect this has had on future international peace operations.Author: Thierry TardyISBN-10: 071465647XISBN-13: 9780714656472Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2004Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership was formed in 1995 in Barcelona. In this volume, concepts of democracy, civil society, human rights and dialogue among civilizations in the Mediterranean region are addressed in the context of the new Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.Author: Stefania PanebiancoISBN-10: 0714654116ISBN-13: 9780714654119Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2003Pages:...

With an Expanded Appendix on the Current Legal Status of Surrogacy Arrangements A practice known since Biblical times, surrogate motherhood has only recently leaped to prominence as a way of providing babies for childless couples--and leaped to notoriety through the dramatic case of Baby...

One of the most common and strongest criticisms of the EU is that power is held by a select few who are unaccountable technocrats sitting in Brussels who are formulating policies without consultation, with the risk that the basic thrust of democracy is being...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

A broad range of current experimental research on numerical cognition and the acquisition of mathematical skills is covered in this volume. The individual chapters provide in-depth analysis of specific issues, methodologies, phenomena, and theory. The book is divided into two parts. In the first...

This book introduces counselors to specific bereavement situations drawn from the author's counseling practice. Theory is blended with practical suggestions for intervention and a discussion of the counselor's struggles.Author: Joan BederISBN-10: 041594614XISBN-13: 9780415946148Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2004Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.32w x 0.74d

This book offers a significant contribution to the globalization debate, and examines the complexities surrounding modern globalization. It will be of great interest to scholars of international political economy, international relations and globalization studies.Author: Andrew SobelISBN-10: 0415778069ISBN-13: 9780415778060Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2009Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize:...

This book reflects on the way in which war and police/policing intersect in contemporary Western-led interventions in the global South. The volume combines empirically oriented work with groundbreaking theoretical insights and aims to collect, for the first time, thoughts on how war and policing...

The aim of this text is therefore to mark the long overdue arrival of - some would say return to - the "race question" in IRAuthor: Alexander AnievasISBN-10: 0415724341ISBN-13: 9780415724340Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2014Pages: 218Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.80d

Showing how worker productivity and stress levels are affected by factors such as lighting, ventilation, temperature, noise and layout, this book demonstrates how the technical aspects of human comfort do not always tally with users' perceptions and behaviour. With vivid examples and case studies...

This book explores how conceptualisations of secular politics contribute to our understanding of Europe's conflictual encounters with Islam.Author: Luca MavelliISBN-10: 0415693292ISBN-13: 9780415693295Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2012Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced. Gossip and Organizations provides the reader with an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, drawing upon empirical findings and the author's experiences of researching gossip...

The book offers a critical survey of the most important contributions to managerial marketing discourse from the earliest twentieth century onwards, articulating a social critique and evaluation of marketing. Author: Per Skålén,Martin Fougère,Markus FellessonISBN-10: 0415416698ISBN-13: 9780415416696Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2008Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.21h x...

This book offers new perspectives on transnational activism with a focus on Asia. The chapters and case studies examine macro and micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups relate to problems of democracy.Author: Nicola PiperISBN-10: 0415315131ISBN-13: 9780415315135Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book looks at the way in which foreign policy has changed in communist states. It considers especially the relationship between domestic reform and foreign policy reform at times when formerly closed societies are becoming more open to the outside world. It focuses on...

In this book Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction.Author: Caroline AlphinISBN-10: 0367490994ISBN-13: 9780367490997Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2020Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 6.10h x 9.10w x 0.60d

Netnography has become an essential tool for qualitative research in the dynamic, complex, and conflicted worlds of contemporary technoculture.  In this volume, thirty-two researchers present nineteen chapters that examine how they have adapted netnography and what those changes can teach us. Author: Robert V....

In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the emergence and the internal organization of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America and Southern Europe, and the relationships between these parties and the organised working class.Author: Enrico PadoanISBN-10: 0367322153ISBN-13: 9780367322151Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

We create technology enabling us to do things never before possible and it ultimately changes the way we live, work, play, and interact with each other. Throughout human history, the democratization of technology making a technology available to the masses, has brought about sweeping...

Levente Szentkirályi explores why it is morally wrong for industry to release substances into the environment whose health effects are uncorroborated. Author: Levente SzentkirályiISBN-10: 0367193744ISBN-13: 9780367193744Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2019Pages: 198Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Choice 03/01/2021

This study explores the 'ecology of knowledge' of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in which Victorians comprehended the nature of their urban society. Author: Martin HewittISBN-10: 036713568XISBN-13: 9780367135683Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2019Pages: 114Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

The Estonian SSR is the most industrially advanced and urbanized of the Soviet republics and also, perhaps logically, has the most Western life style and the highest standard of living. This in-depth study of the Estonian SSR not only describes the current Estonian scene,...

Central and Eastern European countries are facing the transition from central to market systems with different strategies and capacities. As the task of societal transformation is without precedent in world history, the massive economic restructuring has revealed the need for distributive justice and general...

Based on in-depth interviews by skilled clinicians with husbands and wives who have been married more than 20 years, Mackey and O'Brien explore how spouses adapt to each other from the early years of marriage, through the parenting years, and into the post-parenting or...

The Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) Survey in Psychology is the last among a series of academic social science surveys undertaken by the nodal governmental agency of social research in India. In five volumes, this Survey evaluate developments in the discipline of...

The Noise War: How to Find the Truth When Everything Is Lying to You is a field manual for a world where facts are under siege and lies travel faster than light. Written by veteran national security correspondent J.J. Green, it distills two decades...

The recognition of women's human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation's definition of trafficking.This volume explores the life experiences, agency, and human rights of trafficked women in order...