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    Handbook of intercultural communication and cooperation (2010-)
    Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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    Language: English
    Uniform Title: Handbuch interkulturelle Kommunikation und Kooperation
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook of intercultural communication and cooperation
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Kulturstandard ; Kulturkontakt ; Kooperation
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    The Oxford handbook of material culture studies (2010)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780191743887
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 774 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Material culture ; Sachkulturforschung ; Sachkultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Sachkulturforschung ; Sachkultur
    DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.001.0001
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    Would-be warriors : incidents of jihadist terrorist radicalization in the United States since September 11, 2001 (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833049810 , 0833049976 , 083304981X , 9780833049971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 20 pages)
    Series Statement: Occasional paper OP-292-RC
    Parallel Title: Print version Jenkins, Brian Michael Would-be warriors
    Keywords: Terrorists Recruiting ; Terrorism Religious aspects ; Islam ; Jihad ; Domestic terrorism ; Terrorists ; Terrorism ; Jihad ; Domestic terrorism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Freedom & Security ; Terrorism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; International Relations ; General ; Domestic terrorism ; Jihad ; Terrorism ; Religious aspects ; Islam ; Terrorists ; Recruiting ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This paper examines the extent of jihadist radicalization in the United States, discusses who is being recruited, and assesses the domestic terrorist threat posed by the recruits. It then looks at how the recruits were identified by U.S. authorities and asks what this means for domestic counterterrorist strategy
    Abstract: This paper examines the extent of jihadist radicalization in the United States, discusses who is being recruited, and assesses the domestic terrorist threat posed by the recruits. It then looks at how the recruits were identified by U.S. authorities and asks what this means for domestic counterterrorist strategy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20)
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    Fiducial governance : an Australian republic for the new millennium (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666551 , 1921666552 , 9781921666544 , 1921666544
    Language: English
    Series Statement: ANZSOG monograph series
    Keywords: Republicanism Australia. ; Democracy Australia. ; Democracy ; Republicanism ; Democracy ; Republicanism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; General ; Democracy ; Politics and government ; Republicanism ; Politics and government ; Australia ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Australia Politics and government. ; Australia Politics and government ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Power's monograph asserts the need for the reform of Australian governance and charts Australia's fitful progress towards a republican future. Along the way he sketches a framework for constitutional reform, mindful of the strengths and weaknesses of the current system of government and the contest of ideas about the role and configuration of Australian Heads of State. Long a frustrated Australian republican, Power contends that the republican log jam is due in significant part to a lack of respect shown by the republican policy community to the contribution long made to good governance by monarchical heads of state. This monograph seeks to draw lessons from this experience, so as to make the republican venture one of substance for the Australian public. In so doing, Power draws on a range of republican, indigenous and feminist writings in order to develop a new framework of 'fiducial governance' aimed at enhancing the trustworthiness and integrity of our institutions of governance, thereby paving the way for the replacement of the monarch by a directly elected head of state."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: A framework for constitutional reform -- The current Australian regime -- Reconfiguring head-of-state offices in Australia -- Conclusion: republican measures for a republican future.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Regime and periphery in Northern Yemen : the Huthi phenomenon (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833049339 , 0833049747 , 9781282797239 , 1282797239 , 9780833049742 , 083304933X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 382 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-962-DIA
    Parallel Title: Print version Salmoni, Barak A Regime and periphery in Northern Yemen
    Keywords: Political stability ; Insurgency ; Political stability ; Insurgency ; HISTORY ; General ; HISTORY ; Middle East ; General ; Insurgency ; Yemen (Republic) ; Yemen ; armed conflicts ; Politics and government ; History ; Political stability ; Yemen (Republic) Politics and government 21st century ; Yemen (Republic) Politics and government 20th century ; Yemen (Republic) History 1990- ; Yemen (Republic) ; Yemen (Republic) ; Yemen (Republic) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: For nearly six years, the Government of Yemen (GoY) has conducted military operations against groups of its citizens north of San'a, known as "Huthis" or Believing Youth (BY). In spite of using all coercive and ideological means at its disposal, the GoY has been unable to fully subdue the Huthi movement, which has sustained a material and popular base over successive phases of armed conflict into the winter of 2010. At the same time, the regime has confronted mounting southern discontent and al-Qa'ida-inspired terrorism, as well as severely contracting economic prospects. The war against the Huthis, however, has of late absorbed more of the GoY's political attention and coercive resources than these other issues, weakening the state's ability to deal with the multiple challenges it faces. The Huthi conflict thus presents an enduing threat both to the regime of President 'Ali 'Abdullah Saleh and to the stability of Yemen as a unitary state. It also fundamentally impairs the GoY's ability to function as a U.S. partner for regional security, stability, and counterterrorism. Furthermore, armed confrontation between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Huthi fighters beginning in November-December 2009 has added a transnational dimension to the conflict and risks pulling in other regional countries, such as Iran. Such an eventuality would fundamentally undermine security in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, harming the regional interests of the United States while it is engaged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and nuclear negotiations with Iran
    Abstract: For nearly six years, the Government of Yemen (GoY) has conducted military operations against groups of its citizens north of San'a, known as "Huthis" or Believing Youth (BY). In spite of using all coercive and ideological means at its disposal, the GoY has been unable to fully subdue the Huthi movement, which has sustained a material and popular base over successive phases of armed conflict into the winter of 2010. At the same time, the regime has confronted mounting southern discontent and al-Qa'ida-inspired terrorism, as well as severely contracting economic prospects. The war against the Huthis, however, has of late absorbed more of the GoY's political attention and coercive resources than these other issues, weakening the state's ability to deal with the multiple challenges it faces. The Huthi conflict thus presents an enduing threat both to the regime of President 'Ali 'Abdullah Saleh and to the stability of Yemen as a unitary state. It also fundamentally impairs the GoY's ability to function as a U.S. partner for regional security, stability, and counterterrorism. Furthermore, armed confrontation between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Huthi fighters beginning in November-December 2009 has added a transnational dimension to the conflict and risks pulling in other regional countries, such as Iran. Such an eventuality would fundamentally undermine security in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, harming the regional interests of the United States while it is engaged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and nuclear negotiations with Iran
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-382)
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    Crisis policymaking : Australia and the East Timor crisis of 1999 (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666575 , 1921666579 , 9781921666568 , 1921666560
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
    Series Statement: Canberra papers on strategy and defence no. 176
    Keywords: Politics and government ; Politics and government ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Security (National & International) ; Australia ; Timor-Leste ; Diplomatic relations ; Australia Politics and government. ; Australia Foreign relations ; Timor-Leste. ; Timor-Leste Foreign relations ; Australia. ; Australia Foreign relations ; Timor-Leste Foreign relations ; Australia Politics and government ; Australia ; Timor-Leste ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "East Timor's violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian Government with a significant foreign policy crisis. This crisis was not sudden, totally unexpected or ultimately threatening to Australia's survival. But the crisis consumed the attention of Australian leaders, saw significant national and international resources employed, and led to the largest operational deployment for the Australian Defence Force since the Vietnam War. This crisis also created a significant rupture in the hitherto carefully-managed relationships between Australia and its important neighbor, Indonesia. The events of September 1999 ultimately led to the birth of a new nation and the deaths of many people who might have otherwise expected to enjoy that independence. In this major study, David Connery examines how the Australian Government--at the political and bureaucratic levels--developed and managed national security policy in the face of this crisis. The events, and the policymaking processes that both led and followed, are reconstructed using sixty interviews with key participants. This study identifies certain characteristics of crisis policymaking in Australia that include a dominant executive, secrecy, external actors and complexity."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: Australian Policymaking and the East Timor Crisis -- A Brief Outline of the East Timor Crisis: The View from Canberra -- Initiating the Policy Cycle -- Bringing Policy Advice Together -- Decision and Beyond -- Conclusion: East Timor and the Characteristics of Crisis Policymaking.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    Sexual orientation and U.S. military personnel policy : an update of RAND's 1993 study (2010)
    Santa Monica : Rand Corp
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    ISBN: 9780833051295 , 0833051326 , 0833051296 , 9780833051325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 410 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation monograph series
    Parallel Title: Print version National Defense Research Institute (U.S.) Sexual orientation and U.S. military personnel policy
    Keywords: Gay military personnel ; Gay military personnel ; Gay military personnel ; Military policy ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; United States ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies ; United States Military policy ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: At the request of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Secretary of Defense, the RAND Corporation conducted a study on sexual orientation and U.S. military policy in order to provide information and analysis that might be considered in discussing the possible repeal of the law known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). The study examined DADT implementation; U.S. public and military opinion about allowing gay men and lesbians to serve in the military without restriction; and the scientific literature on group cohesion, sexual orientation, and related health issues. RAND conducted focus groups with military personnel and a survey of gay, lesbian, and bisexual military personnel. RAND researchers also examined the comparable experiences of other institutions, domestic agencies, and foreign militaries, as well as how repeal of DADT might affect unit cohesion and military readiness and effectiveness
    Abstract: At the request of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Secretary of Defense, the RAND Corporation conducted a study on sexual orientation and U.S. military policy in order to provide information and analysis that might be considered in discussing the possible repeal of the law known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). The study examined DADT implementation; U.S. public and military opinion about allowing gay men and lesbians to serve in the military without restriction; and the scientific literature on group cohesion, sexual orientation, and related health issues. RAND conducted focus groups with military personnel and a survey of gay, lesbian, and bisexual military personnel. RAND researchers also examined the comparable experiences of other institutions, domestic agencies, and foreign militaries, as well as how repeal of DADT might affect unit cohesion and military readiness and effectiveness
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    RAND in southeast Asia : a history of the Vietnam War era (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp
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    ISBN: 9780833047540 , 0833049151 , 083304754X , 9780833049155
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 672 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Elliott, Duong Van Mai, 1941- RAND in Southeast Asia
    Keywords: Rand Corporation Influence ; Rand Corporation ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Research ; History ; Military planning History 20th century ; Counterinsurgency Research 20th century ; History ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 ; Military planning ; Counterinsurgency ; HISTORY ; Military ; Vietnam War ; HISTORY ; Military ; General ; Counterinsurgency ; Research ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Military planning ; Research ; military strategy ; USA ; History ; Southeast Asia ; Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East ; History & Archaeology ; Rand Corporation ; United States ; Vietnam War (1961-1975) ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era, from the period preceding the dispatch of U.S. troops, to the most intensive combat years, to the Tet Offensive of 1968, to the end of the war in 1975. The author draws on interviews with RAND staff who were involved in research in the region, the hundreds of studies that RAND produced on these topics, and documentary sources outside RAND to provide a narrative that captures the tenor of the times, conveys the attitudes and thinking of those involved, and recounts their personal stories and experiences. Elliott assesses both the extent to which RAND's research influenced U.S. policies and decisionmakers during the war and the effect that the war had on RAND--culminating with the release of the Pentagon Papers, which became a national controversy in 1971"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: "This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era, from the period preceding the dispatch of U.S. troops, to the most intensive combat years, to the Tet Offensive of 1968, to the end of the war in 1975. The author draws on interviews with RAND staff who were involved in research in the region, the hundreds of studies that RAND produced on these topics, and documentary sources outside RAND to provide a narrative that captures the tenor of the times, conveys the attitudes and thinking of those involved, and recounts their personal stories and experiences. Elliott assesses both the extent to which RAND's research influenced U.S. policies and decisionmakers during the war and the effect that the war had on RAND--culminating with the release of the Pentagon Papers, which became a national controversy in 1971"--Provided by publisher
    Note: "CP-564-RC"--Page 4 of cover , "RAND Investment in People and Ideas , Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-652) and index
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    Pioneers, settlers, aliens, exiles : the decolonisation of white identity in Zimbabwe (2010)
    Canberra : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666155 , 1921666153 , 9781921666148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 276 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fisher, J.L. (Josephine Lucy) Pioneers, settlers, aliens, exiles : the decolonisation of white identity in Zimbabwe
    Keywords: Decolonization Zimbabwe. ; Whites Zimbabwe. ; Whites ; Decolonization ; Whites ; Decolonization ; Politics and government ; Social groups ; Society and culture: general ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Peace ; Decolonization ; Politics and government ; Race relations ; Whites ; Zimbabwe ; Ethnic studies ; Zimbabwe Politics and government, 1980- ; Zimbabwe Race relations. ; Zimbabwe Politics and government 1980- ; Zimbabwe Race relations ; Zimbabwe ; Zimbabwe ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "What did the future hold for Rhodesia's white population at the end of a bloody armed conflict fought against settler colonialism? Would there be a place for them in newly independent Zimbabwe? Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles sets out the terms offered by Robert Mugabe in 1980 to whites who opted to stay in the country they thought of as their home. The book traces over the next two decades their changing relationship with the country when the post-colonial government revised its symbolic and geographical landscape and reworked codes of membership. Particular attention is paid to colonial memories and white interpellation in the official account of the nation's rebirth and indigene discourses, in view of which their attachment to the place shifted and weakened. As the book describes the whites' trajectory from privileged citizens to persons of disputed membership and contested belonging, it provides valuable background information with regard to the land and governance crises that engulfed Zimbabwe at the start of the twenty-first century."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: Zimbabwe's discourse of national reconciliation -- Re-inscribing the national landscape -- Zimbabwe's narrative of national rebirth -- Decolonising settler citizenship -- The mobilisation of indigeneity -- The loss of certainty -- Zimbabwe's governance and land reform crises--a postscript.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-276)
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    Sex discrimination in uncertain times (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666773 , 1921666773 , 9781921666766 , 1921666765
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sex discrimination in uncertain times.
    Parallel Title: Print version Sex discrimination in uncertain times
    Keywords: Sex discrimination Law and legislation ; Australia. ; Sex discrimination in employment Australia. ; Sexism Australia. ; Discrimination Australia. ; Discrimination ; Sexism ; Sex discrimination in employment ; Sex discrimination Law and legislation ; Discrimination ; Sexism ; Sex discrimination in employment ; Sex discrimination ; Law ; Laws of Specific jurisdictions ; Psychology ; Sexual behaviour ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; LAW ; Gender & the Law ; Discrimination ; Sex discrimination in employment ; Sex discrimination ; Law and legislation ; Sexism ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Gender Studies & Sexuality ; Social Sciences ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited individuals who valiantly fought for the enactment of the legislation against the odds, and those who championed the new law once it was passed; secondly, to present a stock-take of the Act within the changed socio-political environment of the 21st century. The contributors present clear-eyed appraisals of the legislation, in addition to considering new forms of legal regulation, such as Equality Act, and the significance of a Human Rights Act. The introduction of a proactive model, which would impose positive duties on organisations, is explored as an alternative to the existing individual complaint-based model of legislation. The contributors also pay attention to the international human rights framework, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. The essays are illuminated by recourse to a rich vein of historical and contemporary literature. Regard is also paid to the comparative experience of other jurisdictions, particularly the UK and Canada
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Part I: A silver anniversary ; Opening address I , Opening address II , Opening address III , Part II: Then and now ; The sex discrimination act and its rocky rite of passage , A radical prequel: historicising the concept of gendered law in Australia , Women's work is never done: the pursuit of equality and the commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act , To demand equality is to lack ambition': sex discrimination legislation-contexts and contradictions , Part III: Critiquing the SDA ; The Sex Discrimination Act at 25: reflections on the past, present and future , The Sex Discrimination Act: advancing gender equality and decent work? , Reproducing discrimination: promoting the equal sharing of caring work in CEDAW, at the ILO and in the SDA , Part IV: Equivocations of equality ; Equality unmodified? , And which 'equality act' would that be? , Rethinking the Sex Discrimination Act: does Canada's experience suggest we should give our judges , Equality as a basic human right: choice and responsibility , Part V: Women's rights as human rights ; Raising women up: analysing Australian advocacy for women's rights under international and domestic law , Can we feminise human rights? , Sex, race and questions of aboriginality , English
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    Dance of the nomad : a study of the selected notebooks of A.D. Hope (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666919 , 1921666919 , 9781921666902 , 1921666900
    Language: English
    Keywords: Hope, A. D ; Hope, A. D ; Hope, A. D. ; Hope, A. D. ; Hope, A. D Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc ; Hope, A. D Criticism and interpretation ; Hope, A. D ; Literary studies: poetry and poets ; Literature and literary studies ; Literature: history and criticism ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Australian & Oceanian ; English Literature ; English ; Languages & Literatures ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The notebooks of A.D. Hope are a portrait of the contradictory essence of the poet's intellect and character. Shot through with threads of self-awareness and revelation, Hope imbued his notebooks with irony and humour, forming them as a celebration of the joy and terror of human existence. Stripped of intimate revelation, the entries give witness to Hope's view that art is a superior force in the creation of new being and values, and a guide for the conduct of our lives. Seeking to find pathways through the maze of an intellectual life, this is a profound and timely contribution to Australia's literary scholarship. Ann McCulloch's analysis of this thematic selection of Hope's notebooks reveals him to be relentless in his experimentation with ideas. Revealing the originality of his thinking and the astonishing range of his reading and interests, this edition is a testament to the intellect of one of Australia's towering literary figures."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: A.D. Hope: Dance of a Nomad in Flight from the Doppelgänger -- Negative Capability -- Anti-Modernism -- Argument and Commentary on Critics and Writers -- What is Art? -- Source of His Poetry -- A Sense of Detachment -- Cosmology -- Wine, Women and Insectual Song -- A Sense of Destiny -- The Dream-Team -- Argument by Analogy.
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    Victory has a thousand fathers : detailed counterinsurgency case studies (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND National Defense Research Institute
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    ISBN: 9780833049674 , 0833050796 , 0833049674 , 9780833050793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 327 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-964-1 OSD
    Parallel Title: Print version Paul, Christopher, 1971- Victory has a thousand fathers
    Keywords: Counterinsurgency Case studies ; Insurgency Case studies ; Counterinsurgency ; Insurgency ; Insurgency ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Case studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Security (National & International) ; Counterinsurgency ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Detailed overviews of 30 counterinsurgency cases -- Nicaragua (Somoza), 1978-1979 -- Afghanistan (anti-Soviet), 1978-1992 -- Kampuchea, 1978-1992 -- El Salvador, 1979-1992 -- Somalia, 1980-1991 -- Peru, 1980-1992 -- Nicaragua (Contras), 1981-1990 -- Senegal, 1982-2002 -- Turkey (PKK), 1984-1999 -- Sudan (SPLA), 1984-2004 -- Uganda (ADF), 1986-2000 -- Papua New Guinea, 1988-1998 -- Liberia, 1989-1997 -- Rwanda, 1990-1994 -- Moldova, 1990-1992 -- Sierra Leone, 1991-2002 -- Algeria (GIA), 1992-2004 -- Croatia, 1992-1995 -- Afghanistan (post-Soviet), 1992-1996 -- Tajikistan, 1992-1997 -- Georgia/Abkhazia, 1992-1994 -- Nagorno-Karabakh, 1992-1994 --Bosnia, 1992-1995 -- Burundi, 1993-2003 -- Chechnya I, 1994-1996 -- Afghanistan (Taliban), 1996-2001 -- Zaire (anti-Mobutu), 1996-1997 -- Kosovo, 1996-1999 -- Nepal, 1997-2006 --Democratic Republic of the Congo (anti-Kabila), 1998-2003
    Abstract: Detailed overviews of 30 counterinsurgency cases -- Nicaragua (Somoza), 1978-1979 -- Afghanistan (anti-Soviet), 1978-1992 -- Kampuchea, 1978-1992 -- El Salvador, 1979-1992 -- Somalia, 1980-1991 -- Peru, 1980-1992 -- Nicaragua (Contras), 1981-1990 -- Senegal, 1982-2002 -- Turkey (PKK), 1984-1999 -- Sudan (SPLA), 1984-2004 -- Uganda (ADF), 1986-2000 -- Papua New Guinea, 1988-1998 -- Liberia, 1989-1997 -- Rwanda, 1990-1994 -- Moldova, 1990-1992 -- Sierra Leone, 1991-2002 -- Algeria (GIA), 1992-2004 -- Croatia, 1992-1995 -- Afghanistan (post-Soviet), 1992-1996 -- Tajikistan, 1992-1997 -- Georgia/Abkhazia, 1992-1994 -- Nagorno-Karabakh, 1992-1994 --Bosnia, 1992-1995 -- Burundi, 1993-2003 -- Chechnya I, 1994-1996 -- Afghanistan (Taliban), 1996-2001 -- Zaire (anti-Mobutu), 1996-1997 -- Kosovo, 1996-1999 -- Nepal, 1997-2006 --Democratic Republic of the Congo (anti-Kabila), 1998-2003
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327)
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    Toward a comparison of DNA profiling and databases in the United States and England (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833051479 , 0833051474 , 9780833051219 , 0833051601 , 0833051210 , 9780833051608
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (30 pages)
    Series Statement: Technical report TR-918-ISEC
    Parallel Title: Print version Toward a comparison of DNA profiling and databases in the United States and England
    Keywords: Chemistry, Forensic ; DNA Analysis ; Evidence, Criminal ; Social sciences ; Chemistry, Forensic ; Evidence, Criminal ; Evidence, Criminal ; Chemistry, Forensic ; DNA ; Evidence, Criminal ; Social sciences ; Chemistry, Forensic ; Evidence, Criminal ; Evidence, Criminal ; Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment ; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena ; Biometric Identification ; Biometry ; Chemicals and Drugs ; Criminology ; DNA Fingerprinting ; DNA ; Databases as Topic ; Databases, Factual ; Databases, Genetic ; Databases, Nucleic Acid ; Disciplines and Occupations ; Epidemiologic Methods ; Forensic Genetics ; Forensic Medicine ; Forensic Sciences ; Genetic Techniques ; Health Occupations ; Information Science ; Information Storage and Retrieval ; Information Systems ; Investigative Techniques ; Medical Informatics Applications ; Medical Informatics ; Medicine ; Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides ; Nucleic Acids ; Social Sciences ; Statistics as Topic ; LAW ; Criminal Law ; General ; Chemistry, Forensic ; DNA ; Analysis ; Evidence, Criminal ; Social sciences ; England ; Great Britain ; United States ; LAW ; Forensic Science ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction -- How do the U.S. and English systems and processes compare? -- How do turnaround and backlog compare in the U.S. and English systems? -- Comparing the U.S. and English databases and thinking about match-rates
    Abstract: Introduction -- How do the U.S. and English systems and processes compare? -- How do turnaround and backlog compare in the U.S. and English systems? -- Comparing the U.S. and English databases and thinking about match-rates
    Note: At head of title: Issues in policing , Caption title , Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-30)
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    An assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Performance Track Program (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833049919 , 0833050710 , 0833049917 , 9780833050717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 109 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation technical report TR-732-EPA
    Parallel Title: Print version Assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Performance Track Program
    Keywords: National Environmental Performance Track (Program : U.S.) ; National Environmental Performance Track (Program : U.S.) ; Environmental policy ; Industrial policy ; Environmental policy ; Industrial policy ; SCIENCE ; Environmental Science (see also Chemistry ; Environmental) ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Environmental Policy ; Environmental policy ; Industrial policy ; United States ; National Environmental Performance Track (Program : U.S.) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This report addresses the conceptual basis of the National Environmental Performance Track program, a voluntary program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency between 2000 and 2009; its program design; and its implementation. Performance Track sought to improve the quality of the environment by encouraging facilities to recognize and improve all aspects of their environmental performance and by providing a range of benefits, including broad-based recognition, regulatory benefits, and a more open and collaborative relationship between facilities and their regulators. While Performance Track's concepts, design, and implementation had mixed success, the significant environmental challenges that the United States faces require that EPA continue to seek out new approaches that can complement and enhance traditional regulatory approaches. The authors recommend that EPA continue to experiment with voluntary programs, designing tightly focused ones; promote information sharing and networking among regulated entities; strive for complete, clear, and understandable program concepts, designs, and expectations; protect the EPA brand; independently evaluate key program elements; continue to try to change corporate culture to benefit the environment; and identify new ways to independently validate environmental performance
    Abstract: This report addresses the conceptual basis of the National Environmental Performance Track program, a voluntary program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency between 2000 and 2009; its program design; and its implementation. Performance Track sought to improve the quality of the environment by encouraging facilities to recognize and improve all aspects of their environmental performance and by providing a range of benefits, including broad-based recognition, regulatory benefits, and a more open and collaborative relationship between facilities and their regulators. While Performance Track's concepts, design, and implementation had mixed success, the significant environmental challenges that the United States faces require that EPA continue to seek out new approaches that can complement and enhance traditional regulatory approaches. The authors recommend that EPA continue to experiment with voluntary programs, designing tightly focused ones; promote information sharing and networking among regulated entities; strive for complete, clear, and understandable program concepts, designs, and expectations; protect the EPA brand; independently evaluate key program elements; continue to try to change corporate culture to benefit the environment; and identify new ways to independently validate environmental performance
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    Radical spaces : venues of popular politics in london, 1790-1845 (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921862014 , 1921862017 , 9781921862007 , 1921862009
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Parolin, Christina.; Radical spaces.
    Parallel Title: Print version Parolin, Christina Radical spaces
    Keywords: Radicalism Great Britain, 18th century. ; Radicalism 18th century ; Radicalism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Civics & Citizenship ; Manners and customs ; Great Britain ; Politics and government ; Radicalism ; Great Britain Politics and government, 18th century. ; Great Britain Social life and customs, 18th century. ; Great Britain Politics and government 18th century ; Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century ; Great Britain ; Great Britain ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Radical Spaces explores the rise of popular radicalism in London between 1790 and 1845 through key sites of radical assembly: the prison, the tavern and the radical theatre. Access to spaces in which to meet, agitate and debate provided those excluded from the formal arenas of the political nation-the great majority of the population-a crucial voice in the public sphere. Radical Spaces utilises both textual and visual public records, private correspondence and the secret service reports from the files of the Home Office to shed new light on the rise of plebeian radicalism in the metropolis. It brings the gendered nature of such sites to the fore, finding women where none were thought to gather, and reveals that despite the diversity in these spaces, there existed a dynamic and symbiotic relationship between radical culture and the sites in which it operated. These venues were both shaped by and helped to shape the political identity of a generation of radical men and women who envisioned a new social and political order for Britain."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Honourable House of Blasphemers': The radical public of Newgate in the early nineteenth century -- 'Bastilles of despotism': Radical resistance in the Coldbath Fields House of Correction, 1798-1830 -- The 'She-Champion of Impiety': Female radicalism and political crime in early nineteenth-century England -- Radicalism and reform at the 'Gate of Pandemonium': The Crown and Anchor tavern in visual culture, 1790-1820 -- 'Fresh Crown and Anchor sentiments': Radical reform in the Strand, 1817-1847 -- 'Temple of Knowledge and Reason': Culture and politics at 3 Blackfriars Road, Surrey -- 'Bitten with the Rotunda notions': Audience, identity and communication 1830-1832 -- 'Pythoness of the Temple': Eliza Sharples and the gendered public of the Rotunda.
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    The Rudd government : Australian Commonwealth administration 2007-2010 (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921862076 , 1921862076 , 9781921862069 , 1921862068
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rudd government.
    Parallel Title: Print version Rudd government
    Keywords: Rudd, Kevin Political and social views ; Rudd, Kevin ; Australian Labor Party ; Australian Labor Party. ; Australian Labor Party ; Public administration Australia. ; Prime ministers Australia. ; Political parties Australia. ; Political parties ; Public administration ; Prime ministers ; Political parties ; Public administration ; Prime ministers ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Essays ; Political and social views ; Political parties ; Politics and government ; Prime ministers ; Public administration ; Government - Asia ; Government - Non-U.S ; Law, Politics & Government ; Rudd, Kevin ; Australian Labor Party ; Australia ; Politics and government ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Australia Politics and government, 2001- ; Australia Politics and government 2001- ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Part I.Introduction.It was the best of times; it was the worst of times /Chris Aulich --Issues and agendas for the term /John Wanna --Part II.The Institutions of Government.The Australian Public Service: new agendas and reform /John Halligan --Continuity and change in the outer public sector /Roger Wettenhall --The Rudd administration and the Senate: business as usual /Harry Evans --Federalism: a fork in the road? /Geoff Anderson and Andrew Parkin --The opposition /Gwynneth Singleton --Part III.Policy Issues.Citizen-centred policy making under Rudd: network governance in the shadow of hierarchy? /David Marsh, Chris Lewis and Paul Fawcett --The education revolutionary road: paved with good intentions /Carole Kayrooz and Stephen Parker --The economy /Anne Garnett and Phil Lewis --Climate change /Andrew Macintosh, Deb Wilkinson and Richard Denniss --Sorry, but the Indigenous affairs revolution continues /Will Sanders and Janet Hunt --Foreign policy Andrew Carr and Chris Roberts --Part IV.Rudd as Prime Minister.The rise and fall of the magic kingdom: understanding Kevin Rudd's domestic statecraft /Mark Evans.
    Abstract: This edited collection examines Commonwealth administration under the leadership Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from 2007-2010. This was a remarkable period in Australian history: Rudd's government was elected in 2007 with an ambitious program for change. However, as the chapters in this book demonstrate, these ambitions were thwarted by a range of factors, not the least being Rudd's failure to press ahead when he confronted 'road blocks' such the ETS or managing his massive agenda which constantly elevated issues to 'first order priority'. Although he started his term with stratospheric approval ratings, only two years later his support had collapsed and on 24 July 2010 he became the first sitting Prime Minister to be removed by his own Party before the expiry of his first term. In this book, expert contributors consider the Rudd Government's policy, institutional and political legacy. The 14 chapters are organized into four sections, outlining the issues and agendas that guided Rudd's government, changes to the institutions of state such as the public service and parliament, followed by discussions of key issues and policies that marked Rudd's term in office. The final section examines Rudd's leadership and reflects on the personal foibles and political factors that brought his Prime Ministership undone. The Rudd Government has been produced by the ANZSOG Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra. It is the tenth in a series of books on successive Commonwealth administrations. Each volume has provided a chronicle and commentary of major events, policies and issues that have dominated successive administrations since 1983. As with previous volumes in the series, contributors have been drawn from a range of universities and other organisations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Part I. Introduction. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times , Issues and agendas for the term , Part II. The Institutions of Government. The Australian Public Service: new agendas and reform , Continuity and change in the outer public sector , The Rudd administration and the Senate: business as usual , Federalism: a fork in the road? , The opposition , Part III. Policy Issues. Citizen-centred policy making under Rudd: network governance in the shadow of hierarchy? , The education revolutionary road: paved with good intentions , The economy , Climate change , Sorry, but the Indigenous affairs revolution continues , Foreign policy Andrew Carr and Chris Roberts ; Part IV. Rudd as Prime Minister. The rise and fall of the magic kingdom: understanding Kevin Rudd's domestic statecraft , English
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    The historical Jesus and the literary imagination, 1860-1920 (2010)
    Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
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    ISBN: 9781846314704 , 1846316154 , 1846314704 , 9781846316159
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)
    Series Statement: English Association studies 3
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Jesus Christ In literature ; Jesus Christ ; Bible In literature ; Bible ; Christianity in literature ; Christianity in literature ; Jesus Christ ; Bible ; Jesus Christus ; Literature and literary studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General ; Christianity in literature ; Literature ; Literatur ; Languages & Literatures ; Literature - General ; Englisch ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by mid-to-late-twentieth-century authors such as Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Anthony Burgess. This book looks back further to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when the templates of the majority of today's Gospel fictions and dramas were set down. In doing so, it examines the extent to which significant works of biblical scholarship both influenced and inspired literary works. Focusing on writers such as Oscar Wilde, George Moore and Marie Corelli, this timely new addition to the English Association Monographs series will be essential reading for scholars working at the intersection of literature and theology
    Description / Table of Contents: The Victorians and the Bible -- Nineteenth-century lives of Jesus -- The rise of the fictional Jesus -- The fifth gospel of Oscar Wilde -- The afterlife of Oscar Wilde's oral tales -- A peculiar Protestant : the gospels according to George Moore -- George Moore's life of Jesus.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index , English
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    Memory : histories, theories, debates (2010)
    New York : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
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    ISBN: 0823232611 , 0823275124 , 9780823232611 , 9780823275120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 561 pages) , illustrations, charts, figures, tables
    Edition: Also issued in print and PDF version
    Parallel Title: Print version Memory, Histories, Theories, Debates
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Memory
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    Keywords: Memory (Philosophy) ; Memory Social aspects ; Memory ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Gedächtnis ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; Gedächtnis ; Philosophie
    Abstract: The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefront of the modernist and postmodernist imagination?among them, Bergson, Halbwachs, Freud, Proust, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida, and Deleuze. Drawing on recent advances in the sciences and in the humanities, the contributors address the question of how memory works, highlighting transactions between the interiority of subjective memory and the larger fields of public or collective memory
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes , Introduction: mapping memory , How to make a composition: memory-craft in antiquity and the middle ages , The reformation of memory in early modern Europe , Memory, temporality, modernity: Les lieux de mémoire , Bergson on memory , Halbwachs and the social properties of memory , Memory in Freud , Proust: the music of memory , Siegfriend Kracauer and Walter Benjamin: memory from Weimar to Hitler , Adorno on the destruction of memory , Acts of memory and mourning: Derrida and the fictions of anteriority , Deleuze and the overcoming of memory , Memory and the unconscious , Memories are made of this , Memory and cognition , Physiological memory systems , Memory-talk : London childhoods , Affect and embodiment , Telling stories: memory and narrative , Ritual and memory , A long war: public memory and the popular media , Sites of memory , Cinema and memory , Machines of memory , Slavery, historicism, and the poverty of memorialization , Soviet memories: patriotism and trauma , The witness in the archive: holocaust studies/memory studies , The long afterlife of loss , Migration, food, memory, and home-building , The seventh veil: feminism, recovered memory, and the politics of the unconscious , The gender of memory in post-apartheid South Africa , Afterword , Also issued in print and PDF version. , In English
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    Environmental sociology : European perspectives and interdisciplinary challenges (2010)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789048187300
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Environmental sociology
    DDC: 363.7
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environmental economics ; Political science ; Sociology ; Human Geography ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umwelt ; Soziologie
    Abstract: Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdisciplinary collaborations and problem solving. Current trends such as global environmental modernization and processes of economic, political and socio-cultural globalization, fuelled by developments of transport, environmental flows, scientific uncertainty, and information technologies, have fostered new conceptual approaches that move beyond classical sociological mind-sets toward broader attempts to connect to other disciplines.
    Abstract: Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdisciplinary collaborations and problem solving. Current trends such as global environmental modernization and processes of economic, political and socio-cultural globalization, fuelled by developments of transport, environmental flows, scientific uncertainty, and information technologies, have fostered new conceptual approaches that move beyond classical sociological mind-sets toward broader attempts to connect to other disciplines
    Description / Table of Contents: Environmental Sociology; Chapter 1: Introduction: New Trends and Interdisciplinary Challenges in Environmental Sociology; Chapter 2: Social Theories of Environmental Reform: Towards a Third Generation; Chapter 3: The New Climate Change Discourse: A Challenge for Environmental Sociology; Chapter 4: Earth System Governance and the Social Sciences; Chapter 5: Ecological Regimes: Towards a Conceptual Integration of Biophysical Environment into Social Theory; Chapter 6: Understanding Responses to the Environmental and Ethical Aspects of Innovative Technologies: The Case of Synthetic B
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Social Simulation: A Method to Investigate Environmental Change from a Social Science PerspectiveChapter 8: Trust and Cooperation as Requirements for Maintaining Environmental Governance Capacity; Chapter 9: Rational Choice Theory and the Environment: Variants, Applications, and New Trends; Chapter 10: Environmental Knowledge and Deliberative Democracy; Chapter 11: Knowledge and Social Learning for Sustainable Development; Chapter 12: Beyond Neocorporatism? Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Means for Collaborative Learning in Sustainable Developm
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 13: Social Practices and Sustainable Consumption: Benefits and Limitations of a New Theoretical ApproachChapter 14: (Im)mobility and Environment-Society Relations: Arguments for and Against the 'Mobilisation' of Environmental Soci; Chapter 15: Environmental Sustainability as Challenge for Media and Journalism; Chapter 16: The Experimental Turn in Environmental Sociology: Pragmatism and New Forms of Governance; Chapter 17: Risk, Society and Environmental Policy: Risk Governance in a Complex World; Chapter 18: Climate Change and Society - Communicating Adaptation
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 19: Moving Ahead: Environmental Sociology's Contribution to Inter- and Transdisciplinary ResearchIndex
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0
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    The earliest history of the Christian gathering : origin, development and content of the Christian gathering in the first to third centuries (2010)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9789004190702
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 342 Seiten) , Illustrationen ; Diagramme ; Karten
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Öhler, Markus, 1967 - [Rezension von: Alikin, Valerij A., 1974-, The earliest history of the Christian gathering : origin, development, and content of the Christian gathering in the first to third centuries] 2017
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Stewart-Sykes, Alistair [Rezension von: Alikin, Valerij A., 1974-, The earliest history of the Christian gathering : origin, development, and content of the Christian gathering in the first to third centuries] 2011
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Harrill, J. Albert [Rezension von: Alikin, Valerij A., 1974-, The earliest history of the Christian gathering : origin, development, and content of the Christian gathering in the first to third centuries] 2012
    Series Statement: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae Volume 102
    Series Statement: Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016
    Series Statement: Theology & Religion
    Series Statement: Vigiliae Christianae Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae
    Series Statement: Vigiliae Christianae Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Alikin, Valerij A., 1974 - The earliest history of the Christian gathering
    DDC: 264.3609015
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift ; Kirchliches Leben ; Gottesdienst ; Zusammenkunft ; Frühchristentum ; Kultur ; Zeithintergrund ; Geschichte 30-300
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    Mullahs, guards, and bonyads : an exploration of Iranian leadership dynamics (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND, National Defense Research Institute
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    ISBN: 9780833047731 , 0833049305 , 0833047736 , 9780833049308
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 144 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation monograph series
    Parallel Title: Print version Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads
    Keywords: Islam and politics ; Political leadership ; Civil-military relations ; Political culture ; Islam and politics ; Political leadership ; Civil-military relations ; Political culture ; Political leadership ; Politics and government ; Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East ; Middle East ; History & Archaeology ; HISTORY ; General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Security (National & International) ; Iran ; United States ; Iran ; government ; Iran ; internal politics ; Civil-military relations ; Diplomatic relations ; Islam and politics ; Military policy ; Political culture ; Iran Foreign relations ; Iran Military policy ; United States Foreign relations ; Iran Foreign relations ; Iran Politics and government ; Iran ; Iran ; United States ; Iran ; Iran ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Islamic Republic of Iran poses serious challenges to U.S. interests in the Middle East, and its nuclear program continues to worry, and bring condemnation and sanction from, the international community. Yet the U.S. ability to "read" the regime in Tehran and formulate appropriate policies has been handicapped by the lack of access to Iran experienced by U.S. diplomats and other citizens and by what many observers lament as the opacity of Iranian decisionmaking processes. The objective of this book is to offer a framework to help U.S. policymakers and analysts better understand existing and evolving leadership dynamics driving Iranian decisionmaking. The research herein provides not only a basic primer on the structure, institutions, and personalities of the government and other influential power centers but also a better understanding of Iranian elite behavior as a driver of Iranian policy formulation and execution. The book pays special attention to emerging fissures within the regime, competing centers of power, and the primacy of informal networks-- a particularly important yet not well understood hallmark of the Iranian system
    Abstract: The Islamic Republic of Iran poses serious challenges to U.S. interests in the Middle East, and its nuclear program continues to worry, and bring condemnation and sanction from, the international community. Yet the U.S. ability to "read" the regime in Tehran and formulate appropriate policies has been handicapped by the lack of access to Iran experienced by U.S. diplomats and other citizens and by what many observers lament as the opacity of Iranian decisionmaking processes. The objective of this book is to offer a framework to help U.S. policymakers and analysts better understand existing and evolving leadership dynamics driving Iranian decisionmaking. The research herein provides not only a basic primer on the structure, institutions, and personalities of the government and other influential power centers but also a better understanding of Iranian elite behavior as a driver of Iranian policy formulation and execution. The book pays special attention to emerging fissures within the regime, competing centers of power, and the primacy of informal networks-- a particularly important yet not well understood hallmark of the Iranian system
    Note: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, approved for public release, distribution unlimited , Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-144)
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    Directors as guardians of compliance and ethics within the corporate citadel : what the policy community should know : conference proceedings (2010)
    Santa Monica, Calif : RAND Center for Corporate Ethics and Government
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    ISBN: 9780833050328 , 0833050826 , 083305032X , 9780833050823
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 60 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation conference proceedings series
    Parallel Title: Print version Greenberg, Michael D., 1969- Directors as guardians of compliance and ethics within the corporate citadel
    Keywords: Corporations Congresses Corrupt practices ; Business ethics Congresses ; Corporate governance Congresses Moral and ethical aspects ; Corporations ; Business ethics ; Corporate governance ; LAW ; Business & Financial ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Finance ; Business ethics ; Corporations ; Corrupt practices ; United States ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Preface -- Summary -- Introduction -- Invited remarks from symposium participants -- Challenges and opportunities for boards in performing the ethics and compliance oversight role -- Empowerment, resources, and policy : how do we set directors up to succeed in ethics and compliance oversight -- Appendix A : Symposium participants -- Appendix B : Symposium agenda -- Appendix C : Invited papers from panel participants -- Appendix D : Twenty questions that boards of directors should ask about compliance and ethics
    Abstract: Preface -- Summary -- Introduction -- Invited remarks from symposium participants -- Challenges and opportunities for boards in performing the ethics and compliance oversight role -- Empowerment, resources, and policy : how do we set directors up to succeed in ethics and compliance oversight -- Appendix A : Symposium participants -- Appendix B : Symposium agenda -- Appendix C : Invited papers from panel participants -- Appendix D : Twenty questions that boards of directors should ask about compliance and ethics
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    Hours of opportunity : Vol. 1: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school-time programs (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : Rand
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    ISBN: 9780833050489 , 0833050540 , 0833050494 , 0833050486 , 9780833050496 , 9780833050540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 80 pages)))
    Parallel Title: Print version Hours of opportunity Vol. 1, Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school-time programs
    Keywords: Summer schools Case studies ; Summer schools ; After-school programs Case studies ; School improvement programs Case studies ; After-school programs ; School improvement programs ; Summer schools ; EDUCATION ; Students & Student Life ; EDUCATION ; General ; School improvement programs ; United States ; Case studies ; After-school programs ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; Foundation Goals and Expectations; Purpose of This Monograph; Methods; Organization of This Monograph; CHAPTER TWO: The Early Phases of the Initiative and Decisions Made: The Importance of Context; The Start of the Initiative; City Context and the Planning Process; Coordinating Structures; The Role of the Mayor; Summary; CHAPTER THREE: How Sites Attempted to Improve Access, Quality, Information, and Sustainability and the Progress They Made.
    Abstract: High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their OST systems. The overall goals of the initiative were to increase access, improve quality, develop information systems for decisionmaking, and plan for financial stability. Each city received a planning grant, which it focused on particular efforts tied to city context and area of need. The first in this three-volume series describes the cities' early work under the grant and analyzes the conditions and activities that contributed to their progress in building a coordinated system of services to meet the initiative's goals. Specifically, it addresses how city context affected the approaches implemented, the effectiveness of these approaches, and important enablers of progress, particularly in the areas of collaboration and coordination. Of particular note was the finding that city context and the involvement of the mayor had a significant influence on both decisionmaking and outcomes. In addition, the cities depended on the ability to gain buy-in from the schools and other key stakeholders, as well as financial assistance through city budgets and grants to ensure sustainability."--Page 4 of cover
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    The Future of audit : keeping capital markets efficient (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666513 , 192166651X , 9781921666506 , 1921666501
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Future of audit.
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    Keywords: Auditing Australia. ; Auditing Standards ; Australia. ; Auditing Law and legislation ; Australia. ; Auditors Australia. ; Auditors' reports Australia. ; Auditing Law and legislation ; Auditing ; Auditors' reports ; Auditing Standards ; Auditors ; Auditing ; Auditing ; Auditors' reports ; Auditing ; Auditors ; Auditing ; Standards ; Auditors ; Auditors' reports ; Australia ; Economics, finance, business and management ; Finance and accounting ; Finance ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Auditing ; Banking ; Auditing ; Auditing ; Law and legislation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "At a time when increased independence requirements for auditors, legal backing for auditing standards, and increased audit documentation requirements have occurred, this book examines key issues in the market for audit services in Australia. It investigates issues including: the understandability of audit and the state of the audit expectations gap; auditors' business acumen and industry expertise; the auditors' use of materiality; whether or not the increasingly prescriptive nature of auditing is creating a distraction from the 'real' audit task and stifling auditors' judgement; whether or not CLERP 9 reforms involving audit partner rotation and restrictions on non-audit service provision are efficient and effective and reactions to the increasing scrutiny of auditors and audit firms by regulators."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction and summary of findings -- Research method -- Understanding of the audit and perceptions of the deliverables -- Communication -- Understanding of materiality -- Developing business acumen and client and industry knowledge -- Attracting and supporting staff -- Retention of staff -- Auditor independence -- Regulatory reforms to audit: their impacts -- Increasingly Prescriptive audits: A Distraction for Auditors? -- The approach, operation and resources of regulators -- Competition -- Differential auditing standards -- Internal audit -- Other assurance services and reports -- Differing levels of audit assurance -- Conclusion and recommendations.
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    Anomie and violence : non-truth and reconciliation in Indonesian peacebuilding (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666230 , 1921666234 , 9781921666223 , 1921666226
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 501 pages)
    Series Statement: Peacebuilding compared
    Keywords: Conflict management Indonesia. ; Peace-building Indonesia. ; Social conflict Indonesia. ; Political violence Indonesia. ; Social conflict ; Peace-building ; Conflict management ; Political violence ; Social conflict ; Peace-building ; Conflict management ; Political violence ; Political violence ; Politics and government ; Social conditions ; Social conflict ; Politics and government ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Indonesia ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; World ; Australian & Oceanian ; Conflict management ; Peace-building ; Indonesia Politics and government, 1998- ; Indonesia Social conditions. ; Indonesia Social conditions ; Indonesia Politics and government 1998- ; Indonesia ; Indonesia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Healing a fractured transition to democracy --Papua /John Braithwaite, Michael Cookson, Valerie Braithwaite and Leah Dunn --Maluku and North Maluku /John Braithwaite with Leah Dunn --Central Sulawesi --West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan --Aceh --First steps towards a theory of peacebuilding.
    Abstract: Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia had the worst terrorism problem of any nation. All these forms of violence have now fallen dramatically. How was this accomplished? What drove the rise and the fall of violence? Anomie theory is deployed to explain these developments. Sudden institutional change at the time of the Asian financial crisis and the fall of President Suharto meant the rules of the game were up for grabs. Valerie Braithwaite's motivational postures theory is used to explain the gaming of the rules and the disengagement from authority that occurred in that era. Ultimately resistance to Suharto laid a foundation for commitment to a revised, more democratic, institutional order. The peacebuilding that occurred was not based on the high-integrity truth-seeking and reconciliation that was the normative preference of these authors. Rather it was based on non-truth, sometimes lies, and yet substantial reconciliation. This poses a challenge to restorative justice theories of peacebuilding
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-480) and indexes , Healing a fractured transition to democracy ; Papua , Maluku and North Maluku , Central Sulawesi ; West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan ; Aceh ; First steps towards a theory of peacebuilding.
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    Building a more resilient Haitian state (2010)
    Santa Monica, Calif : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833050434 , 0833050532 , 0833050435 , 9780833050533
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 179 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-1039-SRF/CC
    Parallel Title: Print version Building a more resilient Haitian state
    Keywords: Nation-building ; Political planning ; Nation-building ; Political planning ; Politics and government ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; General ; Haiti ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; World ; General ; Nation-building ; Political planning ; Haiti Politics and government 1986- ; Haiti ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Hope for a more prosperous and peaceful future for the Haitian people lies in building a more effective, resilient state. Haiti's state institutions are riddled with weaknesses in human resources, organization, procedures, and policies. State-building should be at the forefront of efforts to recover from the January 2010 earthquake. Devising lists of measures needed to repair the state's weaknesses is relatively easy, but formulating strategies to address those weaknesses is hard, and implementation is even harder. This report supports the development of a Haitian state-building strategy by identifying the main challenges to more capable governance, evaluating existing plans for strengthening government institutions and improving the delivery of public services, and proposing a realistic and carefully limited set of critical actions. The recommended priorities, in the areas of public administration, justice, security, economic policy, infrastructure, education, and health care, merit the greatest degree of Haiti's and international donors' policy attention and financial commitment
    Abstract: Hope for a more prosperous and peaceful future for the Haitian people lies in building a more effective, resilient state. Haiti's state institutions are riddled with weaknesses in human resources, organization, procedures, and policies. State-building should be at the forefront of efforts to recover from the January 2010 earthquake. Devising lists of measures needed to repair the state's weaknesses is relatively easy, but formulating strategies to address those weaknesses is hard, and implementation is even harder. This report supports the development of a Haitian state-building strategy by identifying the main challenges to more capable governance, evaluating existing plans for strengthening government institutions and improving the delivery of public services, and proposing a realistic and carefully limited set of critical actions. The recommended priorities, in the areas of public administration, justice, security, economic policy, infrastructure, education, and health care, merit the greatest degree of Haiti's and international donors' policy attention and financial commitment
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-179)
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    Victory has a thousand fathers : sources of success in counterinsurgency (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833049612 , 0833050788 , 9781282940536 , 1282940538 , 9780833050786 , 0833049615
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 153 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-964-OSD
    Parallel Title: Print version Paul, Christopher, 1971- Victory has a thousand fathers
    Keywords: Insurgency Case studies ; Counterinsurgency Case studies ; Insurgency ; Counterinsurgency ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Security (National & International) ; Counterinsurgency ; Insurgency ; Military & Naval Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; Military Science - General ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Case studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of armed conflict since at least 1949, as well as the subject of countless historical and contemporary studies. Contemporary discourse on the subject is voluminous and often contentious, but to date there has been a dearth of systematic evidence supporting the counterinsurgency (COIN) approaches, practices, and tenets that make for successful operations. Relying on a collection of the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, along with a bank of factors that helped or hindered the COIN force in each case and in each phase of each case, several commonalities emerge. For instance, the data show that good COIN practices tend to "run in packs" and that the balance of selected good and bad practices perfectly predicts the outcome of a conflict. The importance of popular support is confirmed, but the ability to interdict tangible support (such as new personnel, materiel, and financing) is the single best predictor of COIN force success. Twenty distinct approaches to COIN are rigorously tested against the historical record, providing valuable lessons for U.S. engagement in and support for COIN operations
    Abstract: Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of armed conflict since at least 1949, as well as the subject of countless historical and contemporary studies. Contemporary discourse on the subject is voluminous and often contentious, but to date there has been a dearth of systematic evidence supporting the counterinsurgency (COIN) approaches, practices, and tenets that make for successful operations. Relying on a collection of the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, along with a bank of factors that helped or hindered the COIN force in each case and in each phase of each case, several commonalities emerge. For instance, the data show that good COIN practices tend to "run in packs" and that the balance of selected good and bad practices perfectly predicts the outcome of a conflict. The importance of popular support is confirmed, but the ability to interdict tangible support (such as new personnel, materiel, and financing) is the single best predictor of COIN force success. Twenty distinct approaches to COIN are rigorously tested against the historical record, providing valuable lessons for U.S. engagement in and support for COIN operations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    Bridging the 'know-do' gap : knowledge brokering to improve child wellbeing (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666414 , 1921666412 , 9781921666407 , 1921666404
    Language: English
    Keywords: Knowledge management Australia. ; Knowledge management Social aspects. ; Children Services for. ; Communication in human services ; Communication in the social sciences ; Communication in human services. ; Communication in the social sciences. ; Knowledge management ; Children Services for ; Knowledge management Social aspects ; Communication in human services ; Communication in the social sciences ; Knowledge management ; Children ; Knowledge management ; Health and personal development ; EDUCATION ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; Children ; Services for ; Communication in human services ; Communication in the social sciences ; Knowledge management ; Business & Economics ; Management Theory ; Management ; Australia ; Advice on parenting ; Child care and upbringing ; Family and health ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Today's children are tomorrow's citizens. Good health and well-being in the early years are the foundations for well-adjusted and productive adult lives and a thriving society. But children are being let down in Australia and elsewhere by the lack of knowledge transfer between the worlds of research, policy and practice. Improving such transfer is the job of knowledge brokers - the various ways they can operate are explored in this book through case examples and the lessons learned from experienced proponents. The book concludes by posing three sets of ideas to shape the future of knowledge brokering."--Publisher's description.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Setting the Scene. Improving the wellbeing of Australian children and youth: the importance of bridging the know-do gap , Cases of successful knowledge brokering. Integrating knowledge in service delivery-land: a view from The Benevolent Society , Building knowledge futures for cerebral palsy: examples from The Spastic Centre , Making research more relevant to policy: evidence and suggestions , KnowledgExchange: a knowledge-brokering initiative in the Victorian child and family welfare sector , The art and science of influence: reflections from the boundary , Creating and implementing large-scale parenting education programs: bridging research, decision making and practice , Future considerations. From knowledge transfer to knowledge sharing? Towards better links between research, policy and practice , Knowledge, power and politics , Expanding the deliberations about the research-policy gap: useful ideas from the literature , Helen Berry, Alison Ritter, Peter Deane and Lorrae van Kerkhoff. , English
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    How insurgencies end (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833049520 , 0833049836 , 0833049526 , 9780833049834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 244 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-965-MCIA
    Parallel Title: Print version Connable, Ben How insurgencies end
    Keywords: Counterinsurgency Case studies ; Insurgency ; Counterinsurgency ; Insurgency Case studies ; Insurgency Case studies ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Security (National & International) ; Upprorsbekämpning ; Uppror ; Law, Politics & Government ; Political Science ; Political Theory of the State ; insurgency ; Insurgency ; Counterinsurgency ; Case studies ; Statistics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This study tested conventional wisdom about how insurgencies end against the evidence from 89 insurgencies. It compares a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 89 insurgency case studies with lessons from insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN) literature. While no two insurgencies are the same, the authors find that modern insurgencies last about ten years and that a government's chances of winning may increase slightly over time. Insurgencies are suited to hierarchical organization and rural terrain, and sanctuary is vital to insurgents. Insurgent use of terrorism often backfires, and withdrawal of state sponsorship can cripple an insurgency, typically leading to its defeat. Inconsistent support to either side generally presages defeat for that side, although weak insurgencies can still win. Anocracies (pseudodemocracies) rarely succeed against insurgencies. Historically derived force ratios are neither accurate nor predictive, and civil defense forces are very useful for both sides. Key indicators of possible trends and tipping points in an insurgency include changes in desertions, defections, and the flow of information to the COIN effort. The more parties in an insurgency, the more likely it is to have a complex and protracted ending. There are no COIN shortcuts."--Rand web site
    Abstract: "This study tested conventional wisdom about how insurgencies end against the evidence from 89 insurgencies. It compares a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 89 insurgency case studies with lessons from insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN) literature. While no two insurgencies are the same, the authors find that modern insurgencies last about ten years and that a government's chances of winning may increase slightly over time. Insurgencies are suited to hierarchical organization and rural terrain, and sanctuary is vital to insurgents. Insurgent use of terrorism often backfires, and withdrawal of state sponsorship can cripple an insurgency, typically leading to its defeat. Inconsistent support to either side generally presages defeat for that side, although weak insurgencies can still win. Anocracies (pseudodemocracies) rarely succeed against insurgencies. Historically derived force ratios are neither accurate nor predictive, and civil defense forces are very useful for both sides. Key indicators of possible trends and tipping points in an insurgency include changes in desertions, defections, and the flow of information to the COIN effort. The more parties in an insurgency, the more likely it is to have a complex and protracted ending. There are no COIN shortcuts."--Rand web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244)
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    Going public : what writing programs learn from engagement (2010)
    Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780874217698 , 0874217709 , 0874217695 , 9780874217704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Going public
    Keywords: Language arts (Secondary) ; English language Study and teaching (Secondary) ; Language arts (Secondary) ; English language ; English language ; Study and teaching (Secondary) ; Language arts (Secondary) ; United States ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; General ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Composition & Creative Writing ; Electronic books ; USA ; Sprachunterricht
    Abstract: An important new resource for WPA preparation courses in rhetoric and composition PhD programs. In Going Public, Rose and Weiser moderate a discussion of the role of the writing program vis-a-vis the engagement movement, the service learning movement, and current interest in public discourse/civic rhetoric among scholars of rhetoric and composition. This is a thoughtful collection on the ways that engagement-focused programs may be changing conceptions of WPA identity. As institutions begin to include more explicit engagement with citizen and stakeholder communities as an
    Abstract: Infrastructure Outreach and the Engaged Writing Program --Centering Community Literacy --The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project --The Illusion of Transparency at an HSI --A Hybrid Genre Supports Hybrid Roles in Community-UniversityCollaboration --Apprenticing Civic and Political Engagement in the First Year Writing Program --Wearing Multiple Hats --Students, Faculty and "Sustainable" WPA Work --The Writing Center as Site for Engagement --Not Politics as Usual --Coming Down from the Ivory Tower --The WPA as Activist.
    Description / Table of Contents: Infrastructure Outreach and the Engaged Writing Program -- Centering Community Literacy -- The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project -- The Illusion of Transparency at an HSI -- A Hybrid Genre Supports Hybrid Roles in Community-UniversityCollaboration -- Apprenticing Civic and Political Engagement in the First Year Writing Program -- Wearing Multiple Hats -- Students, Faculty and "Sustainable" WPA Work -- The Writing Center as Site for Engagement -- Not Politics as Usual -- Coming Down from the Ivory Tower -- The WPA as Activist.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    The Lihir destiny : cultural responses to mining in Melanesia (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666858 , 1921666854 , 9781921666841 , 1921666846
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Asia-pacific environment monographs 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bainton, Nicholas A.; Lihir destiny.
    Parallel Title: Print version Bainton, Nicholas A Lihir destiny
    Keywords: Lihirians Social life and customs. ; Mineral industries Social aspects ; Papua New Guinea ; Niolam Island. ; Lihirians Social life and customs ; Lihirians ; Mineral industries Social aspects ; Mineral industries ; Lihir (Papua New Guinean people) Social life and customs ; Manners and customs ; Mineral industries ; Social aspects ; Anthropology ; Papua New Guinea ; Lihir Islands ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Sociology and anthropology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Developing & Emerging Countries ; Niolam Island (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs. ; Niolam Island (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs ; Niolam Island (Papua New Guinea) ; Lihir Islands (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea have long held visions of a prosperous new future, often referred to by local leaders as the 'Lihir Destiny'. When large-scale gold mining activities commenced on the main island of Lihir in 1995, many hoped that this new world had finally arrived. The Lihir Destiny provides a nuanced account of the social structural and cultural transformations engendered by large-scale resource extraction. Tracing the history of Lihirian engagement with outside forces, from the colonial period through to recent mining activities, this book brings new light to bear on the bigger question of what 'development' means in contemporary Melanesia. The Lihir Destiny explores how Lihirian leaders devised future plans for a cultural revolution based upon the maximisation of mining activities and the influential philosophies of the Personal Viability movement."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: New Lives for Old -- The Presence of the Mine -- Las Kantri: Lihir Before the Mining Era -- Lihir Custom as an Ethnographic Subject -- When Cargo Arrives -- Personal Viability and the Lihir Destiny Plan -- Custom Reconfigured -- Conclusion: Society Reformed.
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    The Hmong of Australia : culture and diaspora (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666957 , 1921666951 , 9781921666940 , 1921666943
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hmong of Australia : culture and diaspora
    Keywords: Hmong (Asian people) Cultural assimilation ; Australia. ; Hmong (Asian people) Australia ; Social life and customs. ; Hmong (Asian people) Social aspects ; Australia. ; Hmong (Asian people) Social aspects ; Hmong (Asian people) Cultural assimilation ; Hmong (Asian people) Social life and customs ; Hmong (Asian people) ; Hmong (Asian people) ; Hmong (Asian people) ; Sociology and anthropology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; Hmong (Asian people) ; Cultural assimilation ; Hmong (Asian people) ; Social life and customs ; History & Archaeology ; Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania ; Australia ; Anthropology ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The Hmong are among Australia's newest immigrant populations. They came as refugees from Laos after the communist revolution of 1975 ended their life there as highland shifting cultivators. The Hmong originate from southern China where many still remain, and others live in Vietnam, Thailand and Burma. Hmong refugees are now also settled in the USA, Canada, France, Germany and French Guyana. Already the beauty and richness of traditional Hmong culture, in particular their shamanism and embroidered costume, has attracted the attention of the Australian public, but little is known about these people, their background or the struggles they have faced to adjust to a new life in Australia. This interdisciplinary collection of articles deals with their music and textiles, gender and language, their social adaptation and their global diaspora. The book aims to bring knowledge of the Hmong to a wider public and contribute to the understanding of these people."--Publisher's description.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Introduction , Culture and settlement: the present situation of the Hmong in Australia , Living locally, dreaming globally: transnational cultural imaginings and practices in the Hmong diaspora , Hmong diaspora in Australia , Globalised threads: costumes of the Hmong community in north Queensland , The private and public lives of the Hmong Qeej and Miao Lusheng , Being a woman: The social construction of menstruation among Hmong women in Australia , Process and goal in white Hmong , English
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    In the eye of the storm : Jai Ram Reddy and the politics of postcolonial Fiji (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666537 , 1921666536 , 9781921666520
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lal, Brij V.; In the eye of the storm.
    Parallel Title: Print version Lal, Brij V In the eye of the storm
    Keywords: Reddy, Jai Ram ; Reddy, Jai Ram ; Politics and government ; Reddy, Jai Ram ; Fiji ; Politics and government ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; World ; Australian & Oceanian ; Fiji Politics and government, 20th century. ; Fiji History. ; Fiji Politics and government 20th century ; Fiji History ; Fiji ; Fiji ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "To read this evocative book is to be thrust into a Fiji that has, for the moment, been snuffed out by military might: a Fiji of political parties, parliamentary politics, elections, manifestoes, campaigns, democractic defence of interests, party manoeuvres, and constitutional protection of rights and freedoms. It is a comprehensive and eloquent re-telling of the story of Fiji politics from independence in 1970 to 1999 through the perspective of Fiji's greatest living statesman, Jai Ram Reddy, by one of the world's most distinguished scholars of its history and politics."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: Inheritance -- Baptism by fire -- Rupture and recuperation -- Before the storm -- Sunset at noon -- Transition -- Back from the brink -- New foundations -- The denouement -- The road to Arusha.
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    Ciaran Carson : space, place, writing (2010)
    Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
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    ISBN: 9781846314780 , 1846316200 , 184631478X , 9781846316203
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 237 pages)
    Series Statement: Liverpool English texts and studies 58
    Keywords: Carson, Ciaran Criticism and interpretation ; Carson, Ciaran ; Poets, Irish 20th century ; Poets, Irish ; Carson, Ciaran ; Northern Ireland ; Belfast ; Intellectual life ; Poets, Irish ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Belfast (Northern Ireland) Intellectual life ; Belfast (Northern Ireland) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This study considers the full range of his oeuvre in poetry, prose, and translations
    Description / Table of Contents: Imaginative Geographies: The Politics and Poetics of Space -- Mapping Belfast: Urban Cartographies -- Deviations from the Known Route: Reading, Writing, Walking -- Revised Versions: Place and Memory -- Spatial Stories: Narrative and Representation -- Babel-babble: Language and Translation -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Works.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-226) and indexes , English
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    Coastal management in Australia (2010)
    Adelaide, S. Aust : University of Adelaide Press
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    ISBN: 9780980723038 , 0980723035 , 9780980723045
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 342 pages)
    Keywords: Coastal zone management ; Shore protection ; Coastal engineering ; Coastal zone management ; Shore protection ; Coastal engineering ; Coastal engineering ; Coastal zone management ; Shore protection ; Australia ; Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning ; Geography ; SCIENCE ; Earth Sciences ; Geology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The coast is one of our most valuable assets but how is it being treated and what is being done to look after it? Coastal Management in Australia is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of this important subject. Interesting case studies are used to illustrate human impact on coastal processes as well as demonstrating the global significance of the coast and the international imperative to manage it properly. Coastal Management in Australia introduces the background to the various coastal management systems operating in Australia and illustrates these with 'real world' examples from the different states and territories. Since this book was first published yet another parliamentary inquiry has been added to some 30 years of national inquiries into coastal management, with further calls for national co-ordination. In addition, the Australian government has focused attention on the potential risks of climate change for the Australian coast. Both authors have national and international coastal expertise; significant academic teaching experience in coastal processes and coastal management; coastal planning and policy skills; and have extensive government expertise in coastal management"--Publisher's description
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. An Era of Change -- Global imperatives for coastal management -- Global influences on Australian coastal management -- Action in the 1990s: changes to Australian coastal management -- What is the Australian coast? -- Conclusion -- 2. Understanding Coastal Processes -- The dynamics of coastal systems -- Global change and Australian coastal processes -- Australian case studies of coastal processes -- 3. Human Impact on the Australian Coast -- Coastal impacts from our cities -- Non-metropolitan expansion along the coast -- Catchment to the coast -- Commercial use of coastal waters -- Tourism and recreational pressure on the coast -- Coastal mining and industry activities -- 4. Managing the Australian Coast -- The need for management -- Government roles and responsibilities -- Coastal planning -- The role of the community -- Sustainable coastal management and scientific uncertainty -- Coastal environmental management systems -- Management of places of high conservation and landscape value -- 5. Conclusions and Future Directions -- The state of coastal management in Australia -- Coastal management for the 21st century.
    Note: "First published in 2003 by Oxford University Press, Republished 2010 by University of Adelaide Press, with a new foreword by Nick Harvey."--Title page verso , Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-329) and index
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    Achieving strong teamwork practices in hospital labor and delivery units (2010)
    Santa Monica : Rand Corp. Center for Military Health Policy Research
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    ISBN: 9780833050557 , 0833051180 , 0833050559 , 9780833051189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 124 pages)
    Series Statement: Technical report TR-842-OSD
    Parallel Title: Print version Achieving strong teamwork practices in hospital labor and delivery units
    Keywords: Hospitals Maternity services ; Labor (Obstetrics) ; Hospitals Employees ; Hospitals ; Labor (Obstetrics) ; Hospitals ; Birthing Centers organization & administration ; Cooperative Behavior ; Delivery Rooms standards ; Delivery, Obstetric ; Patient Care Team ; Medical Staff, Hospital psychology ; Electronic books ; Labor (Obstetrics) ; HEALTH & FITNESS ; Pregnancy & Childbirth ; MEDICAL ; Hospital Administration & Care ; Hospitals ; Employees ; Hospitals ; Maternity services ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A RAND study of teamwork-improvement initiatives in hospital labor and delivery (L & D) units was designed to document and learn from the experiences and outcomes of five L & D units as they implemented improvements in their teamwork practices over a one-year period. The study had two objectives: (1) better understand the conditions and actions required for hospital L & D units to achieve effective and sustainable teamwork practices, and (2) assess the extent to which successful adoption of teamwork practices may influence the experiences of L & D staff and patient outcomes. Substantial progress is possible in one year of implementing teamwork practices, which can improve proximal outcomes, such as staff knowledge and perceptions. More than a year of implementation effort is required to achieve a high level of performance on teamwork practices. Two dynamics might be involved in later years of implementation: (1) momentum from the first year might continue into later years, such that subsequent implementation might reinforce continued improvement, and (2) it might not be possible to sustain high intensity in implementation beyond the first year. The study results reinforce the importance of developing and implementing a well-crafted strategy by training staff in the L & D units, working consistently with staff to introduce practices, and providing coaching on effective use of practices. The study identified some key factors required by any given strategy for teamwork improvement, but it did not point to a standard template for implementation. This result implies that there may not be one fixed "intervention" that could be tested in comparative-control studies to develop further evidence for teamwork practices
    Abstract: A RAND study of teamwork-improvement initiatives in hospital labor and delivery (L & D) units was designed to document and learn from the experiences and outcomes of five L & D units as they implemented improvements in their teamwork practices over a one-year period. The study had two objectives: (1) better understand the conditions and actions required for hospital L & D units to achieve effective and sustainable teamwork practices, and (2) assess the extent to which successful adoption of teamwork practices may influence the experiences of L & D staff and patient outcomes. Substantial progress is possible in one year of implementing teamwork practices, which can improve proximal outcomes, such as staff knowledge and perceptions. More than a year of implementation effort is required to achieve a high level of performance on teamwork practices. Two dynamics might be involved in later years of implementation: (1) momentum from the first year might continue into later years, such that subsequent implementation might reinforce continued improvement, and (2) it might not be possible to sustain high intensity in implementation beyond the first year. The study results reinforce the importance of developing and implementing a well-crafted strategy by training staff in the L & D units, working consistently with staff to introduce practices, and providing coaching on effective use of practices. The study identified some key factors required by any given strategy for teamwork improvement, but it did not point to a standard template for implementation. This result implies that there may not be one fixed "intervention" that could be tested in comparative-control studies to develop further evidence for teamwork practices
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-124)
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    Afghanistan's local war : building local defense forces (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND National Defense Research Institute
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    ISBN: 9780833049889 , 083305080X , 0833049887 , 9780833050809
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 97 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-1002-MCIA
    Parallel Title: Print version Jones, Seth G., 1972- Afghanistan's local war
    Keywords: National security ; Internal security ; National security ; Internal security ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Security (National & International) ; Internal security ; Afghanistan ; National security ; Politics and government ; Armed Forces ; Military readiness ; Military policy ; Afghanistan ; Afghanistan ; Afghanistan Military policy 21st century ; Afghanistan Armed Forces 21st century ; Afghanistan Armed Forces ; Afghanistan Politics and government 2001- ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Security in Afghanistan has historically required a combination of top-down efforts from the central government and bottom-up efforts from local communities. Since 2001, U.S. and broader international efforts have focused on establishing security solely from the top down through Afghan national security forces and other central government institutions. But local security forces are a critical complement to these efforts, especially in rural areas of the country. The Afghan government and NATO forces need to move quickly to establish a more-effective bottom-up strategy to complement top-down efforts by better leveraging local communities. The Afghan government can work with existing community structures that oppose insurgents to establish village-level policing entities, such as arbakai and chalweshtai, with support from NATO. Effectively leveraging local communities should significantly improve counterinsurgency prospects and can facilitate mobilization of the population against insurgents. This analysis documents lessons about the viability of establishing local security in Afghanistan and addresses concerns about the wisdom of such policies
    Abstract: Security in Afghanistan has historically required a combination of top-down efforts from the central government and bottom-up efforts from local communities. Since 2001, U.S. and broader international efforts have focused on establishing security solely from the top down through Afghan national security forces and other central government institutions. But local security forces are a critical complement to these efforts, especially in rural areas of the country. The Afghan government and NATO forces need to move quickly to establish a more-effective bottom-up strategy to complement top-down efforts by better leveraging local communities. The Afghan government can work with existing community structures that oppose insurgents to establish village-level policing entities, such as arbakai and chalweshtai, with support from NATO. Effectively leveraging local communities should significantly improve counterinsurgency prospects and can facilitate mobilization of the population against insurgents. This analysis documents lessons about the viability of establishing local security in Afghanistan and addresses concerns about the wisdom of such policies
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-97)
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    Managing spent nuclear fuel : strategy alternatives and policy implications (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833051080 , 0833051156 , 0833051083 , 9780833051158
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 71 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-970-RC
    Parallel Title: Print version Managing spent nuclear fuel
    Keywords: Spent reactor fuels Storage ; Government policy ; Radioactive waste disposal Government policy ; Spent reactor fuels ; Radioactive waste disposal ; SCIENCE ; Environmental Science ; SCIENCE ; Physics ; Nuclear ; Radioactive waste disposal ; Government policy ; Spent reactor fuels ; Storage ; Government policy ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Increasing awareness of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has renewed interest in nuclear power generation. At the same time, the longstanding logjam over how to manage spent nuclear fuel continues to hamper the expansion of nuclear power. If nuclear power is to be a sustainable option for the United States, methods for managing spent fuel that meet stringent safety and environmental standards must be implemented. This monograph evaluates the main technical and institutional approaches to spent nuclear fuel management and identifies implications for the development of spent fuel management policy. The authors find that on-site storage, centralized interim storage, and permanent geological disposal are generally safe, secure, and low- to moderate-cost approaches with no insurmountable technical obstacles. Advanced fuel cycles enabling spent-fuel recycling could reduce waste repository capacity needs but are difficult to evaluate because they still in early research stages. Public acceptance challenges stand as a major impediment to any technical approach. The analysis shows that the technical approaches can be combined in different ways to form different spent fuel management strategies that can be distinguished primarily in terms of societal preferences in three areas: the disposition of spent fuel, the growth of nuclear power, and intergenerational trade-offs
    Abstract: Increasing awareness of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has renewed interest in nuclear power generation. At the same time, the longstanding logjam over how to manage spent nuclear fuel continues to hamper the expansion of nuclear power. If nuclear power is to be a sustainable option for the United States, methods for managing spent fuel that meet stringent safety and environmental standards must be implemented. This monograph evaluates the main technical and institutional approaches to spent nuclear fuel management and identifies implications for the development of spent fuel management policy. The authors find that on-site storage, centralized interim storage, and permanent geological disposal are generally safe, secure, and low- to moderate-cost approaches with no insurmountable technical obstacles. Advanced fuel cycles enabling spent-fuel recycling could reduce waste repository capacity needs but are difficult to evaluate because they still in early research stages. Public acceptance challenges stand as a major impediment to any technical approach. The analysis shows that the technical approaches can be combined in different ways to form different spent fuel management strategies that can be distinguished primarily in terms of societal preferences in three areas: the disposition of spent fuel, the growth of nuclear power, and intergenerational trade-offs
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    Building security in the Persian Gulf (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833049186 , 0833050230 , 0833049186 , 9780833050236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 175 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series
    Parallel Title: Print version Hunter, Robert Edwards, 1940- Building security in the Persian Gulf
    Keywords: Security, International ; Security, International ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; International Relations ; Diplomacy ; Security, International ; Strategic aspects of individual places ; Middle East ; Persian Gulf Region ; Persian Gulf Region Strategic aspects ; Persian Gulf Region ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Following the war in Iraq, the United States, along with its allies and friends, faces the need to define a new, long-term strategy for the Persian Gulf region. The United States' continued, indeed permanent, engagement in the region has already been determined by its interests, but many elements must be considered and questions answered, including the following: --What are the best strategy and approach to promoting long-term security and stability in the region in a manner consonant with the basic interests of the United States, its allies and partners, and participating regional countries? --What means can be found to reduce the long-term burdens imposed on the United States by its involvement in the region in terms of military engagement, risks and expenses, and opportunity costs? --Can Iran be drawn productively into security arrangements for the Persian Gulf, or will it decide instead to challenge security in the region? --What regional security structure can be developed with the potential to include all regional countries and provide lasting value? To answer these questions, the author analyzes the future of Iraq, the role of Iran, asymmetric threats (including terrorism), regional reassurance, the Arab-Israeli conflict, regional tensions, and the roles of other external actors. The work recommends criteria, parameters, potential models and partners, arms-control and confidence-building measures, and specific steps in diplomacy and military commitments for a new security structure for the Persian Gulf region that can meet U.S. interests at a reduced cost and gain the support of the American people
    Abstract: Following the war in Iraq, the United States, along with its allies and friends, faces the need to define a new, long-term strategy for the Persian Gulf region. The United States' continued, indeed permanent, engagement in the region has already been determined by its interests, but many elements must be considered and questions answered, including the following: --What are the best strategy and approach to promoting long-term security and stability in the region in a manner consonant with the basic interests of the United States, its allies and partners, and participating regional countries? --What means can be found to reduce the long-term burdens imposed on the United States by its involvement in the region in terms of military engagement, risks and expenses, and opportunity costs? --Can Iran be drawn productively into security arrangements for the Persian Gulf, or will it decide instead to challenge security in the region? --What regional security structure can be developed with the potential to include all regional countries and provide lasting value? To answer these questions, the author analyzes the future of Iraq, the role of Iran, asymmetric threats (including terrorism), regional reassurance, the Arab-Israeli conflict, regional tensions, and the roles of other external actors. The work recommends criteria, parameters, potential models and partners, arms-control and confidence-building measures, and specific steps in diplomacy and military commitments for a new security structure for the Persian Gulf region that can meet U.S. interests at a reduced cost and gain the support of the American people
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    The Iraq effect : the Middle East after the Iraq War (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833047885 , 0833048066 , 9781282797215 , 1282797212 , 9780833048066 , 0833047884
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 187 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series
    Parallel Title: Print version Iraq effect
    Keywords: Iraq War, 2003-2011 Influence ; Iraq War, 2003-2011 ; Irakkriget 2003- ; influenser ; Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East ; Middle East ; History & Archaeology ; HISTORY ; Military ; United States ; Middle East ; regional development ; HISTORY ; Asia ; Central Asia ; Diplomatic relations ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Iraq ; Middle East ; Strategic aspects of individual places ; Iraq War (2003-2011) ; United States Foreign relations ; Middle East Strategic aspects ; Middle East Foreign relations ; United States ; Middle East ; Middle East ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The conflict in Iraq has reverberated across the Middle East, affecting the balance of power between neighboring states, their internal political dynamics, how their publics view American credibility, and the strategies and tactics of al-Qa'ida. No matter how the internal situation in Iraq evolves, its effects on the broader region will be felt for decades, presenting new challenges and opportunities for U.S. policy. A better understanding of how regional states and nonstate actors have responded to the Iraq conflict will better prepare the United States to manage the war's long-term consequences. To that end, the authors conducted extensive fieldwork in the region and canvassed local media sources to inform their analysis. Among their key findings: The war has facilitated the rise of Iranian power in the region, but Iran faces more limits than is commonly acknowledged; the war has eroded local confidence in U.S. credibility and created new opportunities for Chinese and Russian involvement; the war has entrenched and strengthened neighboring Arab regimes while diminishing the momentum for political reform; and the war has eroded al-Qa'ida's standing in the region, but the network and its affiliates are adapting with new tactics and strategies
    Abstract: The conflict in Iraq has reverberated across the Middle East, affecting the balance of power between neighboring states, their internal political dynamics, how their publics view American credibility, and the strategies and tactics of al-Qa'ida. No matter how the internal situation in Iraq evolves, its effects on the broader region will be felt for decades, presenting new challenges and opportunities for U.S. policy. A better understanding of how regional states and nonstate actors have responded to the Iraq conflict will better prepare the United States to manage the war's long-term consequences. To that end, the authors conducted extensive fieldwork in the region and canvassed local media sources to inform their analysis. Among their key findings: The war has facilitated the rise of Iranian power in the region, but Iran faces more limits than is commonly acknowledged; the war has eroded local confidence in U.S. credibility and created new opportunities for Chinese and Russian involvement; the war has entrenched and strengthened neighboring Arab regimes while diminishing the momentum for political reform; and the war has eroded al-Qa'ida's standing in the region, but the network and its affiliates are adapting with new tactics and strategies
    Note: "Prepared for the United States Air Force , Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-187)
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    Passage of change : law, society and governance in the Pacific (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666896 , 1921666897 , 9781921666889 , 1921666889
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Passage of change.
    Parallel Title: Print version Passage of change
    Keywords: Jurisprudence Pacific Area. ; Customary law Pacific Area. ; Customary law ; Jurisprudence ; Customary law ; Jurisprudence ; Jurisprudence ; Politics and government ; Social conditions ; Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica ; Law - Non-U.S ; Law, Politics & Government ; Politics and government ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Pacific Area ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; World ; Australian & Oceanian ; Customary law ; Pacific Area Politics and government. ; Pacific Area Social conditions. ; Pacific Area Social conditions ; Pacific Area Politics and government ; Pacific Area ; Pacific Area ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction /Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton-Cain --Section 1:The context of change.Modernisation and development in the South Pacific /Vijay Naidu --Section 2:Corruption.Corruption /Robert Hughes --Governance, legitimacy and the rule of law in the South Pacific /Graham Hassall --The Vanuatu Ombudsman /Edward R. Hill --Section 3:customary law.Custom then and now: the changing Melanesian family /Jean G. Zorn --Issues in contemporary customary law: women and the law /Jean G. Zorn --Rites, whites and might: a critique of the effect of the revival of customary law upon the autonomy of indigenous women /Susan Bothmann --The incorporation of customary law & principle into sentencing decisions in the South Pacific region /Tess Newton Cain --Section 4:Human rights.The notion of human rights /Anita Jowitt --Human rights vs. custom in the Pacific: struggle, adaptation, or game? /Ian Fraser --Customary family law and gender discrimination in Papua New Guinea /Owen Jessep --Section 5:Natural resource issues.Environmental law issues in the South Pacific and the quest for sustainable development and good governance /Laurence Cordonnery --Legal developments in the conservation and management of highly migratory and straddling fish stocks in the western and central Pacific Ocean /Laurence Cordonnery --Section 6:Rebuilding nation states.Building bridges -- Law and justice reform in Papua New Guinea /Sinclair Dinnen --Constitutions as limits on the state in Melanesia: comparative perspectives on constitutionalism, participation and civil society /Anthony Regan --Legal pluralism and the problem of identity /Robert Hughes.
    Abstract: Numerous issues face Pacific states trying to find their way in the early 21st century. Countries are striving to secure the benefits of modernisation. Governance, law and order are needed to reach such a goal, but development cannot be at the price of culture or the environment. The question of how to develop and maintain sound legal systems and legal rules whilst maintaining the unique cultural heritages within the Pacific is a challenge with no easy answer. This interdisciplinary collection locates issues of law and governance within the particular socio-political context of the Pacific island region, presenting sociological, anthropological and political insights alongside jurisprudential analysis. Key issues including corruption, the role of customary law in modern legal systems, the place of human rights in the Pacific, environmental issues and the structure of the state are explored from a variety of perspectives
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Introduction , Section 1: The context of change. Modernisation and development in the South Pacific , Section 2: Corruption. Corruption , Governance, legitimacy and the rule of law in the South Pacific , The Vanuatu Ombudsman , Section 3: customary law. Custom then and now: the changing Melanesian family , Issues in contemporary customary law: women and the law , Rites, whites and might: a critique of the effect of the revival of customary law upon the autonomy of indigenous women , The incorporation of customary law & principle into sentencing decisions in the South Pacific region , Section 4: Human rights. The notion of human rights , Human rights vs. custom in the Pacific: struggle, adaptation, or game? , Customary family law and gender discrimination in Papua New Guinea , Section 5: Natural resource issues. Environmental law issues in the South Pacific and the quest for sustainable development and good governance , Legal developments in the conservation and management of highly migratory and straddling fish stocks in the western and central Pacific Ocean , Section 6: Rebuilding nation states. Building bridges -- Law and justice reform in Papua New Guinea , Constitutions as limits on the state in Melanesia: comparative perspectives on constitutionalism, participation and civil society , Legal pluralism and the problem of identity , English
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    Developing an Army strategy for building partner capacity for stability operations (2010)
    Santa Monica, Calif : RAND Arroyo Center
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    ISBN: 9780833049544 , 0833050737 , 0833049542 , 9780833050731
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 234 pages)
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation monograph series MG-942-A
    Parallel Title: Print version Developing an Army strategy for building partner capacity for stability operations
    Keywords: United States Stability operations ; United States ; Integrated operations (Military science) ; Integrated operations (Military science) ; HISTORY ; Military ; Strategy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; International Relations ; Treaties ; Armed Forces ; Stability operations ; Integrated operations (Military science) ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The U.S. government is facing the dual challenge of building its own interagency capacity for conducting stability operations while simultaneously building partner capacity (BPC) for stability operations. The purpose of this study is to assist the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and other U.S. government agencies in developing an integrated BPC for stability operations strategy. To accomplish this goal, a RAND Arroyo Center study team conducted an exploratory analysis of key strategic elements within the context of BPC and stability operations guidance as well as ongoing security cooperation programs, using a variety of analytical techniques. In general, this study concludes that BPC and stability operations are receiving a good deal of attention in official strategy and planning documents. However, insufficient attention is being paid to the details of an integrated strategy. A baseline analysis of existing security cooperation programs needs to be undertaken to comprehend the type, scope, and target of activities related to BPC for stability operations. An assessment of these activities should then be conducted, focusing on both process outputs and operational outcomes. In addition, the Departments of State and Defense should develop a rigorous method for selecting and prioritizing partners whose stability operations capacity they wish to build. Ideally, the results of these analytical processes will have a significant impact on the set of BPC for stability operations activities and partners, aligning relevant and effective activities with appropriate partners
    Abstract: The U.S. government is facing the dual challenge of building its own interagency capacity for conducting stability operations while simultaneously building partner capacity (BPC) for stability operations. The purpose of this study is to assist the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and other U.S. government agencies in developing an integrated BPC for stability operations strategy. To accomplish this goal, a RAND Arroyo Center study team conducted an exploratory analysis of key strategic elements within the context of BPC and stability operations guidance as well as ongoing security cooperation programs, using a variety of analytical techniques. In general, this study concludes that BPC and stability operations are receiving a good deal of attention in official strategy and planning documents. However, insufficient attention is being paid to the details of an integrated strategy. A baseline analysis of existing security cooperation programs needs to be undertaken to comprehend the type, scope, and target of activities related to BPC for stability operations. An assessment of these activities should then be conducted, focusing on both process outputs and operational outcomes. In addition, the Departments of State and Defense should develop a rigorous method for selecting and prioritizing partners whose stability operations capacity they wish to build. Ideally, the results of these analytical processes will have a significant impact on the set of BPC for stability operations activities and partners, aligning relevant and effective activities with appropriate partners
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    Toward a culture of consequences : performance-based accountability systems for public services : executive summary (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833050168 , 0833050354 , 9781282940437 , 1282940430 , 9780833050359 , 0833050168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 37 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series
    Parallel Title: Print version Toward a culture of consequences
    Keywords: Performance Management ; Organizational effectiveness ; Government accountability ; Performance ; Organizational effectiveness ; Government accountability ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Affairs & Administration ; EDUCATION ; Educational Policy & Reform ; General ; Government accountability ; Organizational effectiveness ; Performance ; Management ; Government - U.S ; Law, Politics & Government ; Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., General ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs), which link incentives to measured performance as a means of improving services to the public, have gained popularity. While PBASs can vary widely across sectors, they share three main components: goals, incentives, and measures. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at achieving their performance goals or about government and agency experiences. This document summarizes a study that examined nine PBASs in five sectors: child care, education, health care, public health emergency preparedness, and transportation. In the right circumstances, a PBAS can be an effective strategy for improving service delivery. Optimum circumstances include having a widely shared goal, unambiguous observable measures, meaningful incentives for those with control over the relevant inputs and processes, few competing interests, and adequate resources to design, implement, and operate the PBAS. However, these conditions are rarely fully realized, so it is difficult to design and implement PBASs that are uniformly effective. PBASs represent a promising policy option for improving the quality of service-delivery activities in many contexts. The evidence supports continued experimentation with and adoption of this approach in appropriate circumstances. Even so, PBAS design and its prospects for success depend on the context in which it will operate. Also, ongoing system evaluation and monitoring are integral components of a PBAS; they inform refinements that improve system functioning over time
    Abstract: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Table; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Research Approach; Findings; Decision to Adopt a Performance-Based Accountability System Is Shaped by Political, Historical, and Cultural Contexts; Selection of Incentive Structures Has Proven Challenging; Design of Performance Measures Requires a Balance Among Competing Priorities; Successful Implementation Must Overcome Many Potential Pitfalls; Evidence of System Effectiveness Is Limited and Leads to Varying Conclusions by Sector; Recommendations for System Developers
    Abstract: Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs), which link incentives to measured performance as a means of improving services to the public, have gained popularity. While PBASs can vary widely across sectors, they share three main components: goals, incentives, and measures. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at achieving their performance goals or about government and agency experiences. This document summarizes a study that examined nine PBASs in five sectors: child care, education, health care, public health emergency preparedness, and transportation. In the right circumstances, a PBAS can be an effective strategy for improving service delivery. Optimum circumstances include having a widely shared goal, unambiguous observable measures, meaningful incentives for those with control over the relevant inputs and processes, few competing interests, and adequate resources to design, implement, and operate the PBAS. However, these conditions are rarely fully realized, so it is difficult to design and implement PBASs that are uniformly effective. PBASs represent a promising policy option for improving the quality of service-delivery activities in many contexts. The evidence supports continued experimentation with and adoption of this approach in appropriate circumstances. Even so, PBAS design and its prospects for success depend on the context in which it will operate. Also, ongoing system evaluation and monitoring are integral components of a PBAS; they inform refinements that improve system functioning over time
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    Risking NATO : testing the limits of the Alliance in Afghanistan (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780833050113 , 0833051164 , 0833050117 , 9780833051165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 91 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-974-AF
    Parallel Title: Print version Hoehn, Andrew R Risking NATO
    Keywords: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Armed Forces ; Operations other than war ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization Armed Forces ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization Forecasting ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization ; Counterinsurgency ; Counterinsurgency ; HISTORY ; Military ; Afghan War (2001- ) ; Armed Forces ; Armed Forces ; Operations other than war ; Counterinsurgency ; Forecasting ; Afghanistan ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization ; HISTORY ; General ; Electronic books
    Abstract: NATO's success in Afghanistan -- or lack thereof -- will have significant implications for the alliance itself. Success could promote the image of a capable global security alliance. Failure, or even an indeterminate outcome, would cloud the alliance's own future. The authors examine the risks, commitments, and obligations of the current mission in light of NATO's history and with an eye toward the future, as well as the effects on the alliance's internal dynamics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the authors describe how NATO came to be involved, concerns and tensions that have developed over the investments and risks that member and nonmember states have in the operation, management of the expectations of nations and peoples, and the need for a coherent, comprehensive, and coordinated long-term strategy. The list of issues NATO faces is long and daunting and extends beyond the borders of the member countries. If the goal is indeed to look toward the future, however, the alliance must confront them; failure to do so would risk the long-term success and sustainability of the alliance
    Abstract: NATO's success in Afghanistan -- or lack thereof -- will have significant implications for the alliance itself. Success could promote the image of a capable global security alliance. Failure, or even an indeterminate outcome, would cloud the alliance's own future. The authors examine the risks, commitments, and obligations of the current mission in light of NATO's history and with an eye toward the future, as well as the effects on the alliance's internal dynamics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the authors describe how NATO came to be involved, concerns and tensions that have developed over the investments and risks that member and nonmember states have in the operation, management of the expectations of nations and peoples, and the need for a coherent, comprehensive, and coordinated long-term strategy. The list of issues NATO faces is long and daunting and extends beyond the borders of the member countries. If the goal is indeed to look toward the future, however, the alliance must confront them; failure to do so would risk the long-term success and sustainability of the alliance
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    Soeharto's new order and its legacy : essays in honour of Harold Crouch (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666476 , 1921666471 , 9781921666469 , 1921666463
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Asian Studies Series Monograph 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Soeharto's new order and its legacy.
    Parallel Title: Print version Soeharto's new order and its legacy
    Keywords: Soeharto ; Soeharto ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Indonesia ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; History & Theory ; Economic history ; Politics and government ; Soeharto ; Politics and government ; Indonesia Politics and government, 1966-1998. ; Indonesia Economic conditions, 1945-1966. ; Indonesia Politics and government 1966-1998 ; Indonesia Economic conditions 1945-1966 ; Indonesia ; Indonesia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Indonesia's President Soeharto led one of the most durable and effective authoritarian regimes of the second half of the twentieth century. Yet his rule ended in ignominy, and much of the turbulence and corruption of the subsequent years was blamed on his legacy. More than a decade after Soeharto's resignation, Indonesia is a consolidating democracy and the time has come to reconsider the place of his regime in modern Indonesian history, and its lasting impact. This book begins this task by bringing together a collection of leading experts on Indonesia to examine Soeharto and his legacy from diverse perspectives. In presenting their analyses, these authors pay tribute to Harold Crouch, an Australian political scientist who remains one of the greatest chroniclers of the Soeharto regime and its aftermath."--Publisher's description.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Introduction: Soeharto's new order and its legacy , The new order and its antecedents. One reasonably capable man: Soeharto's early fundraising , Soeharto's Javanese Pancasila , New order repression and the birth of Jemaah Islamiyah , Managing industrialisation in a globalising economy: lessons from the Soeharto era , The historical roots of Indonesia's new order: beyond the colonial comparison , Patrimonialism: the new order and beyond , The LEGACY. The Habibie presidency: catapulting towards reform , Semi-opponents in power: the Abdurrahman Wahid and Megawati Soekarnoputri presidencies , The legacy of the new order military in local politics: west, central and east Java , The political economy of reform: labour after Soeharto , Indonesia's direct elections: empowering the electorate or entrenching the new order oligarchy? , Exemplar or anomaly? exiting the new order in comparative perspective
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    Counterinsurgency in Pakistan (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833049766 , 0833049860 , 0833049763 , 9780833049865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 185 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-982-RC
    Parallel Title: Print version Jones, Seth G., 1972- Counterinsurgency in Pakistan
    Keywords: Counterinsurgency ; Terrorism Prevention ; Counterinsurgency ; Terrorism ; Politics and government ; Terrorism ; Prevention ; counterinsurgency ; Pakistan ; HISTORY ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Terrorism ; Pakistan ; Counterinsurgency ; Pakistan Politics and government 1988- ; Pakistan ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This document examines the evolution of militancy in Pakistan, assesses Pakistan's efforts to counter militants, and offers a range of policy recommendations. It is based on detailed research in Pakistan and an examination of the quantitative and qualitative literatures on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism
    Abstract: This document examines the evolution of militancy in Pakistan, assesses Pakistan's efforts to counter militants, and offers a range of policy recommendations. It is based on detailed research in Pakistan and an examination of the quantitative and qualitative literatures on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-167) and index
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    Long-term effects of law enforcement's post-9/11 focus on counterterrorism and homeland security (2010)
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    ISBN: 9780833051035 , 0833051121 , 0833051032 , 9780833051127
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xli, 133 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-1031-NIJ
    Parallel Title: Print version Long-term effects of law enforcement's post-9/11 focus on counterterrorism and homeland security
    Keywords: Civil defense ; National security ; Law enforcement ; Terrorism Prevention ; Police training Costs ; Civil defense ; National security ; Law enforcement ; Terrorism ; Police training ; Civil defense ; Law enforcement ; National security ; Terrorism ; Prevention ; United States ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Freedom & Security ; Law Enforcement ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Law Enforcement ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the need for increased counterterrorism (CT) and homeland security (HS) efforts at the federal, state, and local levels has taken the spotlight in public safety efforts. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, many law enforcement agencies (LEAs) shifted more resources toward developing CT and HS capabilities, and the federal government continues to support these efforts with grants provided through the Department of Homeland Security. This monograph examines the long-term adjustments that large urban LEAs have made to accommodate the focus on CT and HS, as well as the advantages and challenges associated with it. The study relies primarily on in-depth case studies of five large urban LEAs, as well as a review of federal HS grant programs and a quantitative analysis of the potential costs associated with shifting law enforcement personnel from traditional policing to focus on HS and CT functions. Major trends among the five case study LEAs include the creation of specialized departments and units, as well as an increased emphasis on information-sharing, which, nationwide, has led to the creation of fusion centers that serve as formal hubs for regional information-sharing networks. LEAs' HS and CT efforts are also greatly influenced by the restrictions and requirements associated with federal HS grant funding. Finally, using cost-of-crime estimates, it is possible to partially quantify the costs associated with LEAs' shifting of personnel away from traditional crime prevention toward CT and HS -- there are also clear benefits associated with law enforcement's focus on CT and HS, but they are difficult to quantify, and this is posing a challenge for LEAs as the economic downturn puts pressure on public budgets
    Abstract: Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the need for increased counterterrorism (CT) and homeland security (HS) efforts at the federal, state, and local levels has taken the spotlight in public safety efforts. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, many law enforcement agencies (LEAs) shifted more resources toward developing CT and HS capabilities, and the federal government continues to support these efforts with grants provided through the Department of Homeland Security. This monograph examines the long-term adjustments that large urban LEAs have made to accommodate the focus on CT and HS, as well as the advantages and challenges associated with it. The study relies primarily on in-depth case studies of five large urban LEAs, as well as a review of federal HS grant programs and a quantitative analysis of the potential costs associated with shifting law enforcement personnel from traditional policing to focus on HS and CT functions. Major trends among the five case study LEAs include the creation of specialized departments and units, as well as an increased emphasis on information-sharing, which, nationwide, has led to the creation of fusion centers that serve as formal hubs for regional information-sharing networks. LEAs' HS and CT efforts are also greatly influenced by the restrictions and requirements associated with federal HS grant funding. Finally, using cost-of-crime estimates, it is possible to partially quantify the costs associated with LEAs' shifting of personnel away from traditional crime prevention toward CT and HS -- there are also clear benefits associated with law enforcement's focus on CT and HS, but they are difficult to quantify, and this is posing a challenge for LEAs as the economic downturn puts pressure on public budgets
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-133)
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    Reconciliation and architectures of commitment : sequencing peace in Bougainville (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666698 , 1921666692 , 9781921666681 , 1921666684
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Reconciliation and architectures of commitment
    Parallel Title: Print version Reconciliation and architectures of commitment
    Keywords: Women and peace Papua New Guinea ; Bougainville Island. ; Women and peace ; Bougainville Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988- ; Bougainville Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988- ; Women and peace ; History ; Humanities ; Political ideologies ; Politics and government ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; World ; Australian & Oceanian ; Autonomy and independence movements ; Politics and government ; Women and peace ; History & Archaeology ; Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania ; Papua New Guinea ; Papua New Guinea ; Bougainville Island ; Bougainville Crisis (Papua New Guinea : 1988- ) ; History ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) History. ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) History ; Autonomy and independence movements. ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) Politics and government. ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) History ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) History ; Autonomy and independence movements ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) Politics and government ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Following a bloody civil war, peace consolidated slowly and sequentially in Bougainville. That sequence was of both a top-down architecture of credible commitment in a formal peace process and layer upon layer of bottom-up reconciliation. Reconciliation was based on indigenous traditions of peacemaking. It also drew on Christian traditions of reconciliation, on training in restorative justice principles and on innovation in womens' peacebuilding. Peacekeepers opened safe spaces for reconciliation, but it was locals who shaped and owned the peace. There is much to learn from this distinctively indigenous peace architecture. It is a far cry from the norms of a 'liberal peace' or a 'realist peace'. The authors describe it as a hybrid 'restorative peace' in which 'mothers of the land' and then male combatants linked arms in creative ways. A danger to Bougainville's peace is weakness of international commitment to honour the result of a forthcoming independence referendum that is one central plank of the peace deal"--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: Peacebuilding Compared and the Bougainville conflict -- Historical background to the conflict -- Descent into civil war -- Peacemaking on, off and finally back on track -- The architecture of the peace -- Reconciliation and reintegration -- The cost of the conflict -- Layers of identity involved in the conflict -- Interpreting the conflict in summary -- Deep and shallow restorative peace.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , English
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    Explorations and encounters in French (2010)
    Adelaide, S.A : University of Adelaide Press
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    ISBN: 9780980672329 , 0980672325 , 9780980672336
    Language: English , French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
    Series Statement: French studies collection
    Keywords: French language Congresses Study and teaching ; French language Congresses Study and teaching ; French language ; French language ; European history ; History ; Humanities ; Regional and national history ; EDUCATION ; Teaching Methods & Materials ; General ; Civilization ; Discovery and exploration, French ; Australia ; France ; Pacific Area ; French language ; Study and teaching ; Manners and customs ; Conference papers and proceedings ; History ; International relations ; Australasian and Pacific history ; France Congresses Civilization 20th century ; France Congresses Civilization 21st century ; France Congresses Social life and customs 20th century ; France Congresses Social life and customs 21st century ; France Congresses Relations ; History ; Pacific Area Congresses Discovery and exploration ; French ; Australia Congresses Relations ; History ; France ; France ; France ; France ; France ; Pacific Area ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "With a title derived literally from the explorations of the French in the Pacific and metaphorically from classroom encounters with another culture - both of which form important subsections to the volume - Explorations and Encounters in French actively seeks to unite those fields of enquiry sometimes seen as separate, namely, culture and language. The essays selected for inclusion in Explorations and Encounters in French bring together many of the current research strands in French Studies today, tapping into current pedagogical trends, analysing contemporary events in France, examining the Franco-Australian past, while reviewing teaching practice and the culture of teaching. Collectively, the essays reflect the common engagement with language, culture and society that characterizes the community of French teachers and scholars in Australia and abroad."--University of Adelaide Press web page
    Description / Table of Contents: Encountering French and the French. Explorations and encounters: on the uses of a theme / Jean Fornasiero and Colette Mrowa-Hopkins -- Le choc des discours dans la presse française: de la crise des banlieues à celle des universités (novembre 2005, mars 2006) / Sophie Moirand -- Comment j'ai appris la littérature: morceaux choisis d'une éducation / Françoise Grauby -- Historical explorations. The inaugural Frank Horner lecture -- Writing and rewriting the Baudin Scientific Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, 1800-1804 / Margaret Sankey -- Doing it by the book: breaking the reputation of Nicolas Baudin / Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby -- Intercultural encounters. Exploration of the "other": teaching and learning socio-pragmatic competence through French film extracts / Colette Mrowa-Hopkins -- Visions and revisions: language learning for cultural mediation / Barbara Hanna & Alicia Toohey -- Explorations in the classroom. Les TICE: de nouveaux outils pédagogiques / Béátrice Atherton & Iwona Czaplinski -- Promoting collaborative learning with IdeaNet: a Francophone literature case study / Bonnie Thomas -- Délier la langue d'étudiants "captifs": enjeux, écueils et fortunes d'un cours d'expression orale à l'université / Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- Appendix 1: Conference history -- President's note -- The conference programme -- The public lecture series -- The French Connection Adelaide 2006 -- The exhibition: a French Australia? Almost! -- Noelene Bloomfield -- Presenters and abstracts -- Appendix 2: Contents of the CD-ROM.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Selected essays from the Inaugural Conference of the Federation of Associations of Teachers of French in Australia, held at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 8-9th July 2006 , Text in English and French
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    Indigenous participation in Australian economies : historical and anthropological perspectives (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666872 , 1921666870 , 9781921666865 , 1921666862
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Indigenous participation in Australian economies : historical and anthropological perspectives
    Keywords: Aboriginal Australians Economic conditions. ; Aboriginal Australians Employment. ; Economic anthropology Australia. ; Hunting and gathering societies Australia. ; Business enterprises, Aboriginal Australian ; Business enterprises, Aboriginal Australian. ; Economic anthropology ; Hunting and gathering societies ; Aboriginal Australians Economic conditions ; Aboriginal Australians Employment ; Business enterprises, Aboriginal Australian ; Economic anthropology ; Hunting and gathering societies ; Aboriginal Australians ; Aboriginal Australians ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Sociology and anthropology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Aboriginal Australians ; Economic conditions ; Aboriginal Australians ; Employment ; Business enterprises, Aboriginal Australian ; Economic anthropology ; Economic history ; Hunting and gathering societies ; Ethnic & Race Studies ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Australia ; Anthropology ; Economics, finance, business and management ; Economics ; Australia Economic conditions. ; Australia Economic conditions ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The chapters of the volume bring new theoretical analyses and empirical data to bear on a continuing discussion about the variety of ways in which Indigenous people in Australia have been engaged in the colonial and post-colonial economy. Contributions cover settler capitalism, concepts of property on the frontier, Torres Strait Islanders in the mainland economy, the pastoral industry in the Kimberley, doggers in the Western Desert, bean and pea picking on the South Coast of New South Wales, attitudes to employment in general in western New South Wales, relations of Aboriginal people to mining in the Pilbara, and relations with the uranium mine and Kakadu National Park in the Top End. The chapters also contribute to discussions about theoretical and analytical frameworks relevant to these kinds of contexts and bring critical perspectives to bear on current issues of development."--Publisher's description.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Introduction , The emergence of Australian settler capitalism in the nineteenth century and the disintegration/integration of Aboriginal societies: hybridisation and local evolution within the world market , The interpretation of Aboriginal 'property' on the Australian colonial frontier , From island to mainland: Torres Strait Islanders in the Australian labour force , Exchange and appropriation: the Wurnan economy and Aboriginal land and labour at Karunjie Station, north-western Australia , Dingo scalping and the frontier economy in the north-west of South Australia , Peas, beans and riverbanks: seasonal picking and dependence in the Tuross Valley , 'Who you is?' Work and identity in Aboriginal New South Wales , Sustainable Aboriginal livelihoods and the Pilbara mining boom , Realities, simulacra and the appropriation of Aboriginality in Kakadu's tourism , English
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    An uneasy relationship : Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australia (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666995 , 1921666994 , 9781921666988 , 1921666986
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als O'Collins, Maev.; Uneasy relationship.
    Parallel Title: Print version O'Collins, Maev Uneasy relationship
    Keywords: Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; World ; Australian & Oceanian ; Politics and government ; History & Archaeology ; Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania ; Australia ; Australia ; Norfolk Island ; History ; Humanities ; Politics and government ; History ; Norfolk Island History. ; Australia Politics and government. ; Australia Politics and government ; Norfolk Island History ; Australia ; Norfolk Island ; Electronic books
    Abstract: British Experiments on Norfolk Island: 1788-1897 --The New South Wales Interregnum: 1897-1914 --Profiles of the Four Main Actors --The Commonwealth takes control --Murphy's Term as Commonwealth Administrator: 1914-1920 --Murphy and Nobbs: their last hurrahs --Imperial, Commonwealth and State Relations --Conclusion: Reluctant Governance in a Changing World.
    Abstract: The situation of Norfolk Island, as a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, is one of the historical anomalies in governance, which has persisted since 1914. It reflects the direct historical linkages between the British Crown and those Norfolk Islanders who were descendants of Pitcairn Islanders of Mutiny on the Bounty fame. Yet, once Federation was in the wind, the British Government, against the expressed wishes of the Norfolk Island community, sought to divest itself of all responsibility for Norfolk Island. There is a curiously 'Yes Minister' quality about the negotiations which lead to the final take-over by Australia, and the appointment of the first Commonwealth Administrator of Norfolk Island. The direct involvement of Atlee Hunt, then Secretary of the Department of External Affairs, eventually ensured the appointment of Michael Vincent Murphy. In order to achieve this end, Hunt had to fend off other applicants who were busy ingratiating themselves with the Minister for External Affairs Patrick McMahon Glynn and the then Prime Minister Joseph Cook. This is essentially a study of the relationships between governors, politicians, public servants and community leaders during the years which followed the take-over of Norfolk Island, and of the struggle of one Norfolk Islander, Charles Chase Ray Nobbs, against Australian administrative authority
    Description / Table of Contents: British Experiments on Norfolk Island: 1788-1897 -- The New South Wales Interregnum: 1897-1914 -- Profiles of the Four Main Actors -- The Commonwealth takes control -- Murphy's Term as Commonwealth Administrator: 1914-1920 -- Murphy and Nobbs: their last hurrahs -- Imperial, Commonwealth and State Relations -- Conclusion: Reluctant Governance in a Changing World.
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    Demographic and socioeconomic outcomes across the indigenous lifecourse : evidence from the 2006 census (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921862038 , 1921862033 , 9781921862021 , 1921862025
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Biddle, Nicholas.; Demographic and socioeconomic outcomes across the indigenous lifecourse.
    Parallel Title: Print version Biddle, Nicholas Demographic and socioeconomic outcomes across the indigenous lifecourse
    Keywords: Aboriginal Australians Social conditions. ; Aboriginal Australians Economic conditions. ; Economic forecasting Australia. ; Social prediction Australia. ; Aboriginal Australians Economic conditions ; Social prediction ; Economic forecasting ; Aboriginal Australians Social conditions ; Aboriginal Australians ; Social prediction ; Economic forecasting ; Aboriginal Australians ; Economic forecasting ; Social prediction ; Australia ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Research ; Aboriginal Australians ; Economic conditions ; Aboriginal Australians ; Social conditions ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Indigenous lifecourse: Introduction and overview --Data and methods --Fertility and family formation --Migration and mobility --Education participation --Employment --Housing --Health --Childhood outcomes --An Indigenous lifecourse? Implications and limitations.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Indigenous lifecourse: Introduction and overview -- Data and methods -- Fertility and family formation -- Migration and mobility -- Education participation -- Employment -- Housing -- Health -- Childhood outcomes -- An Indigenous lifecourse? Implications and limitations.
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    Reconstruction under fire : case studies and further analysis of civil requirements (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp
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    ISBN: 9780833049735 , 0833050761 , 0833049739 , 9780833050762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 149 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series
    Parallel Title: Print version Reconstruction under fire
    Keywords: Counterinsurgency ; Counterinsurgency Case studies ; Counterinsurgency ; Counterinsurgency ; Counterinsurgency ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Case studies ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Successful counterinsurgency (COIN) requires the integration of security and civil COIN to create conditions that allow the population to choose between the government and insurgents, eliminate the grievances that gave rise to the insurgency, and present the population with choices that are more attractive than what the insurgents can offer. Building on a framework for integrating civil and military counterinsurgency first described in Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency, this volume presents an approach to the civil component of counterinsurgency that builds on detailed background, context analysis, and threat analysis to identify and develop critical civil COIN activities. It illustrates this approach using three case studies: Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, Nord-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Al Anbar province in Iraq. The approach builds on the best aspects of existing conflict assessment methodologies and adds new elements developed specifically for this project. The resulting framework goes beyond the strategic and operational decisions related to designing a program that is appropriate for a given conflict context."--Page 4 of cover
    Abstract: "Successful counterinsurgency (COIN) requires the integration of security and civil COIN to create conditions that allow the population to choose between the government and insurgents, eliminate the grievances that gave rise to the insurgency, and present the population with choices that are more attractive than what the insurgents can offer. Building on a framework for integrating civil and military counterinsurgency first described in Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency, this volume presents an approach to the civil component of counterinsurgency that builds on detailed background, context analysis, and threat analysis to identify and develop critical civil COIN activities. It illustrates this approach using three case studies: Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, Nord-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Al Anbar province in Iraq. The approach builds on the best aspects of existing conflict assessment methodologies and adds new elements developed specifically for this project. The resulting framework goes beyond the strategic and operational decisions related to designing a program that is appropriate for a given conflict context."--Page 4 of cover
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149)
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    A kind of mending : restorative justice in the Pacific Islands (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666834 , 1921666838 , 9781921666827 , 192166682X
    Language: English
    Keywords: Restorative justice Pacific Area. ; Restorative justice ; Restorative justice ; Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica ; Law - Non-U.S ; Law, Politics & Government ; Pacific Area ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Law ; Restorative justice ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Restorative justice in the pacific islands: An introduction /Sinclair Dinnen --The fundamentals of restorative justice /John Braithwaite --The age of steam: constructed identity and recalcitrant youth in a Papua New Guinea village /Michael Goddard --Tribal warfare and transformative justice in the New Guinea highlands /Alan Rumsey --Restorative justice and women in Vanuatu /Rita Naviti --Vanuatu law, the police and restorative justice /Peter Bong --Restorative programs in the formal justice system of Vanuatu /Vincent Lunabek --Conflict resolution in a multi-cultural urban setting in Papua New Guinea /John Ivoro --Restorative justice in Papua New Guinea: A collaborative effort /Ruby Zarriga --Rehabilitation for change in Fiji: a women's initiative /Peni Moore --The Vanuatu cultural centre's juvenile justice project /Joemela Simeon --The Lakalakabulu area council of chiefs in Vanuatu /Paul Vuhu --Re-inventing the cultural wheel: re-conceptualising restorative justice and peace building in ethnically divided Fiji /Steven Ratuva --Informal justice in law and justice reform in the pacific region /Alumita Durutalo --Restorative justice in the Solomon Islands Father /Norman Arkwright --Bougainville women's role in conflict resolution in the Bougainville peace process /Ruth Saovana-Spriggs --Restorative justice in Bougainville /Pat Howley --A marriage of custom and introduced skills: Restorative justice Bougainville style /John Tombot --Epilogue --Some thoughts on restorative justice and gender /Margaret Jolly.
    Abstract: With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fertile environment for developing new approaches to crime and conflict. Interactions between formal justice systems and informal methods of dispute resolution contain useful insights for policy makers and others interested in socially attuned resolutions to the problems of order that are found increasingly in the Pacific Islands as elsewhere. Contributors to this volume include Pacific Islanders from Vanuatu, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea including Bougainville, as well as outsiders with a longstanding interest in the region. They come from a variety of backgrounds and include criminal justice practitioners, scholars, traditional leaders and community activists. The chapters deal with conflict in a variety of contexts, from interpersonal disputes within communities to large-scale conflicts between communities. This is a book not only of stories but also of practical models that combine different traditions in creative ways and that offer the prospect of building more sustainable resolutions to crime and conflict
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Restorative justice in the pacific islands: An introduction , The fundamentals of restorative justice , The age of steam: constructed identity and recalcitrant youth in a Papua New Guinea village , Tribal warfare and transformative justice in the New Guinea highlands , Restorative justice and women in Vanuatu , Vanuatu law, the police and restorative justice , Restorative programs in the formal justice system of Vanuatu , Conflict resolution in a multi-cultural urban setting in Papua New Guinea , Restorative justice in Papua New Guinea: A collaborative effort , Rehabilitation for change in Fiji: a women's initiative , The Vanuatu cultural centre's juvenile justice project , The Lakalakabulu area council of chiefs in Vanuatu , Re-inventing the cultural wheel: re-conceptualising restorative justice and peace building in ethnically divided Fiji , Informal justice in law and justice reform in the pacific region , Restorative justice in the Solomon Islands Father , Bougainville women's role in conflict resolution in the Bougainville peace process , Restorative justice in Bougainville , A marriage of custom and introduced skills: Restorative justice Bougainville style , Epilogue ; Some thoughts on restorative justice and gender , English
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    Hired guns : views about armed contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833049827 , 0833050753 , 0833049828 , 9780833050755
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 115 pages)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-987-SRF
    Parallel Title: Print version Hired guns
    Keywords: Government contractors Evaluation ; Contracting out Evaluation ; Government contractors Evaluation ; Contracting out Evaluation ; Private security services Evaluation ; Private military companies Evaluation ; Postwar reconstruction Evaluation ; Government contractors ; Contracting out ; Government contractors ; Contracting out ; Private security services ; Private military companies ; Postwar reconstruction ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; International Relations ; General ; Contracting out ; Evaluation ; Government contractors ; Evaluation ; Iraq ; United States ; HISTORY ; Military ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The use of armed private security contractors (PSCs) in the Iraq war has been unprecedented. Not only government agencies but also journalists, reconstruction contractors, and nongovernmental organizations frequently view them as a logical choice to fill their security needs, yet there have been a number of reports of PSCs committing serious, and sometimes fatal, abuses of power in Iraq. This study uses a systematic, empirically based survey of opinions of U.S. military and State Department personnel on the ground in Iraq to shed light on the following questions: To what extent are armed PSCs perceived to be imposing costs on the U.S. military effort? If so, are those costs tempered by positive contributions? How has the use of PSCs affected U.S. military operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom? While the military personnel did report some incidents of unnecessarily threatening, arrogant, or belligerent contractor behavior, the survey results indicate that neither the U.S. military nor State Department personnel appear to perceive PSCs to be "running wild" in Iraq. Moreover, respondents tended to consider PSCs a force multiplier rather than an additional strain on military troops, but both military and State Department respondents held mixed views regarding the contribution of armed contractors to U.S. foreign policy objectives."--Page 4 of cover
    Abstract: "The use of armed private security contractors (PSCs) in the Iraq war has been unprecedented. Not only government agencies but also journalists, reconstruction contractors, and nongovernmental organizations frequently view them as a logical choice to fill their security needs, yet there have been a number of reports of PSCs committing serious, and sometimes fatal, abuses of power in Iraq. This study uses a systematic, empirically based survey of opinions of U.S. military and State Department personnel on the ground in Iraq to shed light on the following questions: To what extent are armed PSCs perceived to be imposing costs on the U.S. military effort? If so, are those costs tempered by positive contributions? How has the use of PSCs affected U.S. military operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom? While the military personnel did report some incidents of unnecessarily threatening, arrogant, or belligerent contractor behavior, the survey results indicate that neither the U.S. military nor State Department personnel appear to perceive PSCs to be "running wild" in Iraq. Moreover, respondents tended to consider PSCs a force multiplier rather than an additional strain on military troops, but both military and State Department respondents held mixed views regarding the contribution of armed contractors to U.S. foreign policy objectives."--Page 4 of cover
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    Fairy tale films : visions of ambiguity (2010)
    Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780874217810 , 0874217822 , 9781282896963 , 1282896962 , 9780874217827 , 0874217814
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 263 pages)
    Edition: [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Parallel Title: Print version Fairy tale films
    Keywords: Fairy tales in motion pictures ; Fairy tales Film adaptations ; Fairy tales in motion pictures ; Fairy tales ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video ; Reference ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Fairy tales ; Fairy tales in motion pictures ; Film adaptations ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Märchenfilm
    Abstract: Klappentext: "In this, the first collection of essays to address the development of fairy tale film as a genre, Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix stress, "the mirror of fairy-tale film reflects not so much what its audience members actually are but how they see themselves and their potential to develop (or, likewise, to regress)." As Jack Zipes says further in the foreword, "Folk and fairy tales pervade our lives constantly through television soap operas and commercials, in comic books and cartoons, in school plays and storytelling performances, in our superstitions and prayers for miracles, and in our dreams and daydreams. The artistic re-creations of fairy-tale plots and characters in film--the parodies, the aesthetic experimentation, and the mixing of genres to engender new insights into art and life - mirror possibilities of estranging ourselves from designated roles, along with the conventional patterns of the classical tales." Here, scholars from film, folklore, and cultural studies move discussion beyond the well-known Disney movies to the many other filmic adaptations of fairy tales and to the widespread use of fairy tale tropes, themes, and motifs in cinema."--Publisher's description
    Abstract: To set the field: fairy tales are traditional or literary fictional narratives that combine human and non-human protagonists with elements of wonder and the supernatural. Scholars of literature and film explore how such narratives manifest in film, either native to it or changelings from written literature or oral tradition. Among the topics are the commodification of childhood in contemporary fairy tale film, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth/El Laberinto del fauno and neomagical realism, feminism and place in The Juniper Tree, patriarchal backlash and nostalgia in Disney's Enchanted, feminist cultural pedagogy in Angela Carter and Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves, and a secret midnight ball and a magic cloak in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index -- Includes filmography (pages 239-243) , Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL , Foreword: Grounding the spell : the fairy tale film and transformation , Introduction: Envisioning ambiguity : fairy tale films , Mixing it up : generic complexity and gender ideology in early twenty-first century fairy tale films , Building the perfect product : the commodification of childhood in contemporary fairy tale film , The parallelism of the fantastic and the real : Guillermo del Toro's Pan's labyrinth/El Laberinto del fauno and neomagical realism , Fitting the glass slipper : a comparative study of the princess's role in the Harry Potter novels and films , The shoe still fits : Ever after and the pursuit of a feminist Cinderella , Mourning mothers and seeing siblings : feminism and place in The juniper tree , Disney's Enchanted : patriarchal backlash and nostalgia in a fairy tale film , Fairy tale film in the classroom : feminist cultural pedagogy, Angela Carter, and Neil Jordan's The company of wolves , A secret midnight ball and a magic cloak of invisibility : the cinematic folklore of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes wide shut , Tim Burton and the idea of fairy tales , Electronic reproduction , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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    What we are becoming : developments in undergraduate writing majors (2010)
    Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780874217636 , 0874217644 , 9781282555556 , 1282555553 , 9780874217643 , 0874217636
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 294 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version What we are becoming
    Keywords: English language Rhetoric ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; Report writing Study and teaching (Higher) ; Creative writing (Higher education) ; Writing centers ; English philology Study and teaching (Higher) ; English language ; Report writing ; Creative writing (Higher education) ; Writing centers ; English philology ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric ; REFERENCE ; Writing Skills ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Composition & Creative Writing ; EDUCATION ; Teaching Methods & Materials ; Arts & Humanities ; Creative writing (Higher education) ; English language ; Rhetoric ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; English philology ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; Report writing ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; Writing centers ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Greg Giberson and Tom Moriarty have collected a rich volume that offers a state-of-the-field look at the question of the undergraduate writing major, a vital issue for compositionists as the discipline continues to evolve. What We Are Becoming provides an indispensable resource for departments and WPAs who are building undergraduate majors. Contributors to the volume address a range of vital questions for undergraduate programs, including such issues as the competition for majors within departments, the job market for undergraduates, varying focuses and curricula of such majors, and the formation of them in departments separate from English. Other chapters discuss the importance of flexibility, consider arguments for a rhetorical or civic discourse core for the writing major, address the relationship between rhetoric and composition majors, and review the role of multiliteracies in the major. The field of composition has not come to a consensus on the shape, content, or focus of the undergradutate major. But as individual programs develop and refine their curricula, one thing has become clear: we must think about them in ways that go beyond our particular circumstances, theorize them in ways that secure their place on our campuses and in our discipline for years to come. What We Are Becoming is an effort to do just that
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , A major in flexibility , Redefining the undergraduate English writing major: an integrated approach at a small comprehensive university , Re-storying disciplinary relationships: the development of an undergraduate writing concentration , Outside the English department: Oakland University's writing program and the writing and rhetoric major , "Between the idea and the reality-- falls the shadow": the promise and peril of a small college writing major , The writing major as shared commitment , Dancing with our siblings: the unlikely case for a rhetoric major , Writing program development and disciplinary integrity: what's rhetoric got to do with it? , Remembering the canons' middle sisters: style, memory, and the return of the progymnasmata in the liberal arts writing major , Civic rhetoric and the undergraduate major in rhetoric and writing , Composing multiliteracies and image: multimodal writing majors for a creative economy , Not just another pretty classroom genre: the uses of creative nonfiction in the writing major , The writing arts major: a work in process , "What exactly is this major?": creating disciplinary identity through an introductory course , Toward a description of aundergraduate writing majors
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    The power of economic ideas : the origins of macroeconomic management in Australia, 1929-39 (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666278 , 1921666277 , 9781921666261 , 1921666269
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Millmow, Alex.; Power of economic ideas.
    Parallel Title: Print version Millmow, Alex Power of economic ideas
    Keywords: Keynesian economics ; Macroeconomics ; Keynesian economics. ; Macroeconomics. ; Keynesian economics ; Macroeconomics ; Economics, finance, business and management ; Economics ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Economics ; Microeconomics ; Economic history ; Keynesian economics ; Macroeconomics ; Australia ; Economic history ; Australia Economic conditions, 1929-1939. ; Australia Economic conditions 1929-1939 ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a 'very dangerous science'. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists' thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and policy sometimes in the public arena. In a decade marked by depression, recovery and international political turbulence Australian economists moved from a classical orthodox economic position to that of a cautious Keynesianism by 1939. We look at how a small collective of economists tried to influence policy-making in the nineteen-thirties. Economists felt obliged to seek changes to the parameters as economic conditions altered but, more importantly, as their insights about economic management changed. There are three related themes that underscore this book. Firstly, the professionalisation of Australian economics took a gigantic leap in this period, aided in part, by the adverse circumstances confronting the economy but also by the aspirations economists held for their discipline. A second theme relates to the rather unflattering reputation foisted upon interwar economists after 1945. That transition underlies a third theme of this book, namely, how Australian economists were emboldened by Keynes's General Theory to confidently push for greater management of economic activity. By 1939 Australian economists conceptualized from a new theoretic framework and from one which they advanced comment and policy advice. This book therefore will rehabilitate the works of Australian interwar economists, arguing that they not only had an enviable international reputation but also facilitated the acceptance of Keynes's General Theory among policymakers before most of their counterparts elsewhere
    Abstract: The triumph of the economists? --Part I.Backing into the limelight: the interwar Australian economics profession.Economic ideas and an assessment of Australian economists in the 1930s --The Australian economy during the Depression decade --The interwar Australian economics profession --Part II.Triumph and tribulation.The Premiers' Plan and the economists --The agonistes of the economists, 1931-1932 --The Australian recovery, 1933-1936 --Part III.The march of Keynesian ideas.The Royal Commission on Monetary and Banking Systems --Australia, 1936-1938: the nascent Keynesian state? --The economics of near-war.
    Description / Table of Contents: The triumph of the economists? -- Part I. Backing into the limelight: the interwar Australian economics profession. Economic ideas and an assessment of Australian economists in the 1930s -- The Australian economy during the Depression decade -- The interwar Australian economics profession -- Part II. Triumph and tribulation. The Premiers' Plan and the economists -- The agonistes of the economists, 1931-1932 -- The Australian recovery, 1933-1936 -- Part III. The march of Keynesian ideas. The Royal Commission on Monetary and Banking Systems -- Australia, 1936-1938: the nascent Keynesian state? -- The economics of near-war.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    Natural-born proud : a revery (2010)
    Logan, UT : Utah State University Press
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    ISBN: 9780874217759 , 0874217768 , 087421775X , 9780874217766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (151 pages)
    Edition: [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Parallel Title: Print version Martin, S.R. (Sennie Rudolph), 1935- Natural-born proud
    Keywords: English language Rhetoric ; Study and teaching ; Universities and colleges Curricula ; English language ; Universities and colleges ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric ; REFERENCE ; Writing Skills ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Composition & Creative Writing ; FICTION ; General ; English language ; Rhetoric ; Study and teaching ; Universities and colleges ; Curricula ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A young man from Monterey and his younger brother go on their first deer hunt with their minister father and his friends. The setting is 1950s northern California, in country where, from the right height, one can see Mt. Shasta in one direction, Mt. Lassen in the other. It is a region of small, insular towns, and although it is a familiar hunting ground for the Reverend and his buddies, not everyone there welcomes black hunters. Father and son both shoulder their pride, and a racial confrontation seems inevitable. Among the lessons young Satch learns is the sometime advantage of wit and spine. During their days in the wilderness, the brothers are initiated to the right practice of the hunt and camp and to the ribald talk, needling banter, camp tales, and occasional aggravation of sundry friends. Hunting has a primal nature, but as Satch sees, so may the variable interactions of men
    Note: Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL , Electronic reproduction , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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    China : the next twenty years of reform and development (2010)
    Canberra : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666292 , 1921666293 , 9781921666285 , 1921666285
    Language: English
    Series Statement: China Update Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als China
    Keywords: 2010-2030 ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Globalisierung ; Wirtschaftliche Anpassung ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Wirtschaftsprognose ; China ; Economic development China. ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Social conditions ; Business & Economics ; Economic History ; Economics ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; International ; Economics ; China ; Commercial policy ; Economic development ; Economic history ; Economic policy ; Economics, finance, business and management ; China Economic conditions, 2000- ; China Economic policy, 2000- ; China Commercial policy, 2000- ; China Social conditions, 2000- ; China Economic conditions 2000- ; China Commercial policy 2000- ; China Economic policy 2000- ; China Social conditions 2000- ; China ; China ; China ; China ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Soziale Situation ; Prognose 2030
    Abstract: "China: The Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development highlights how the deepening of reforms in critical areas such as domestic factor markets, the exchange rate regime and the health system, combined with the strengthening of channels for effective policy implementation, will enable China to cope with the challenges that lie ahead. These include responding to the pending exhaustion of the unlimited supply of labour; playing a constructive role in reducing global trade imbalances; enhancing firms' ability to innovate; coping with migration, urbanisation and rising inequalities on scales unknown in world history; and dealing with rising energy and metal demand in an era in which low-carbon growth has become a necessity rather than a choice."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chinese economic reform and development: achievements, emerging challenges and unfinished tasks. -- Part I. Long-Term Development: Trends and Issues. The turning period in China's economic development: a conceptual framework and next empirical evidence -- The China model and its future -- How will China's central-local governmental relationships evolve? An analytical framework and its implications -- China's metal intensity in comparative perspective -- Assessing China's energy conservation and carbon intensity: how will the future differ from the past? -- Prospects for diminishing regional disparities -- Part II. Global Integration: Challenges and Opportunities. Exchange rate policy and macroeconomic adjustment -- The real exchange rate and the renminbi -- China and East Asian trade: the decoupling fallacy, crisis and policy challenges -- Asian foreign direct investment and the 'China effect' -- The global financial crisis and rural-urban migration -- Part III. Policy and Reform: Unfinished Business. Avoiding economic crashes on China's road to prosperity -- Rebalancing China's economic structure -- Urbanisation with Chinese characteristics -- Indigenous innovation for sustainable growth -- China's health system and the next 20 years of reform.
    Note: English
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    Geology at ANU (1959-2009) : 50 years of history and reminiscences (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666674 , 1921666676 , 9781921666667 , 1921666668
    Language: English
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rickard, M.J. (Michael John).; Geology at ANU (1959-2009).
    Parallel Title: Print version Rickard, M.J. (Michael John) Geology at ANU (1959-2009)
    Keywords: Australian National University. Department of Geology ; Australian National University. Department of Geology ; Australian National University Anecdotes ; Australian National University History ; Australian National University ; Australian National University ; Geology Study and teaching (Higher) ; Australia ; Australian Capital Territory ; History. ; Universities and colleges Australia ; Canberra (A.C.T.) ; Universities and colleges ; Geology Study and teaching (Higher) ; History ; Universities and colleges ; Geology ; SCIENCE ; History ; Geology ; Study and teaching (Higher) ; Universities and colleges ; Australian Capital Territory ; Australian Capital Territory ; Canberra ; Australian National University ; Anecdotes ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This history was undertaken to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Geology Department at ANU, and to honour its founding professor David A. Brown. It includes contributions from some 100 former students outlining their career successes."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Canberra Setting -- Historical Highlights -- Appreciation -- Introduction -- The People -- The Buildings -- Teaching -- Research -- Major Research Projects -- Administrative Work, Honours and Publicity -- Student Activities -- The New Millennium -- The Reunion and the Future -- Alumni News.
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    Pakistan : can the United States secure an insecure state? (2010)
    Santa Monica, Calif. [u.a.] : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833048073
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 232 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: RAND project Air Force
    Series Statement: RAND Corporation monograph series MG-910-AF
    Parallel Title: Print version Pakistan
    Keywords: Internal security ; Military assistance, American ; Diplomatic relations ; Military assistance, American ; Military relations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Government ; International ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; International Relations ; General ; HISTORY ; Asia ; India & South Asia ; Pakistan ; United States ; USA ; foreign policy ; Pakistan ; Internal security ; United States Military relations ; Pakistan Military relations ; United States Foreign relations ; Pakistan Foreign relations ; Electronic books ; Pakistan ; USA ; Militärhilfe ; Innere Sicherheit
    Abstract: Describing Pakistan's likely future course, this book seeks to inform U.S. efforts to achieve an effective foreign policy strategy toward the country. The book forms an empirical analysis of developments in Pakistan and an assessment of the effectiveness of U.S. policy as of August 2009. Drawing on interviews of elites, polling data, and statistical data on Pakistan's armed forces, the book presents a political and political-military analysis. Primary data and analyses from Pakistanis and international economic organizations are used in the book's demographic and economic analyses. The book assesses Pakistan's own policies, based on similar sources, on government documents, and on the authors' close reading of the assessments of several outside observers. The book also discusses U.S. policy regarding Pakistan, which was based on interviews with U.S. policymakers and on U.S. policy documents. The policy recommendations are based on an assessment of the findings in all these areas. The book concludes with a number of recommendations for the U.S. government and the U.S. Air Force concerning how the United States could forge a broad yet effective relationship with this complicated state. --Publisher description
    Abstract: Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE -- Introduction; CHAPTER TWO -- Pakistan's Future: Is Past Prologue?; CHAPTER THREE -- Pakistan's Ability to Mitigate Sources of Insecurity; CHAPTER FOUR -- How Effective Have U.S. Policies Toward Pakistan Been?; CHAPTER FIVE -- U.S. Policy Options for Pakistan; Bibliography
    Note: "MG-910-AF"--Page 4 of cover , Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-232)
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    Oral health in South Australia 2008 (2010)
    Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press
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    ISBN: 9780980723052 , 0980723051 , 9780980723069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 111 pages)
    Series Statement: ARCPOH population oral health series no. 8
    Parallel Title: Print version Oral health in South Australia 2008
    Keywords: Dental care Utilization ; Dental public health ; Dental surveys ; Dental care ; Dental public health ; Dental surveys ; Health ; Dental Care ; Dental Health Surveys ; MEDICAL ; Dentistry ; General ; Dental care ; Utilization ; Dental public health ; Dental surveys ; Dentistry - General ; Dentistry ; Health & Biological Sciences ; South Australia ; Dentistry ; Medicine ; Other branches of medicine ; Health & Fitness / Oral Health ; Health ; South Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Oral health in South Australia 2008 provides a comprehensive summary of the oral health of South Australian residents. This publication was developed from a range of surveys conducted by the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (ARCPOH) and administrative data provided by state dental services. Information provided in this publication includes data on caries experience and periodontal diseases of children and adults, tooth retention and loss among adults, access to dental care, cost of dental care and the dental labour force. Information on the oral health of Indigenous children and adults is also provided. The publication highlights the recent increase in the level of dental decay among primary and secondary school children, the low percentage of school aged children visiting the school dental service, the extent of individual out-of-pocket expenditure on dental services, and issues with access to dentists and dental hygienists outside of the Adelaide metropolitan area."--University of Adelaide Press website
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary -- Dental labour force -- 1. Introduction -- Caries experience and periodontal disease -- Indigenous oral health -- Use of dental services -- Social impact of oral problems -- Cost of dental care -- Dental labour force 2. Data sources -- Child Dental Health Survey -- National Survey of Adult Oral Health -- Adult Dental Programs Survey -- National Dental Telephone Interview Survey -- Dental Labour Force Data Collection 3. Caries experience -- Caries experience of children -- Caries experience of adults aged 15 years and older -- Caries experience of adults attending public dental care 4. Periodontal disease -- Calculus and gingival bleeding in children -- Periodontal disease in adults aged 15 years and older -- Periodontal disease in adults attending public dental care 5. Tooth retention and loss 6. Indigenous oral health -- Children -- Adults 7. Preventive interventions 8. Use of dental services 9. Social impact of oral problems 10. Cost of dental care -- Dental insurance -- Cost barriers to accessing dental care -- Expenditure on dental services 11. Dental labour force.
    Note: "Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health , Includes bibliographical references (page 108) , English
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    Information systems foundations : the role of design science (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666353 , 1921666358 , 9781921666346 , 192166634X
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Information systems foundations
    Keywords: Management information systems Congresses. ; Information resources management Congresses. ; System design Congresses. ; System design Congresses ; Information resources management Congresses ; Management information systems Congresses ; System design ; Information resources management ; Management information systems ; System design ; COMPUTERS ; Information Theory ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Information resources management ; Management information systems ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This volume presents papers from the fourth biennial Information Systems Foundation Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 2-3 October, 2008. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others in the series, the foundations of Information Systems as an academic discipline. The emphasis in this workshop was on the movement known as 'Design Science' and its importance in practical disciplines such as Information Systems. The chapters in the volume provide a critical examination of current design science ideas, with the role of human creativity given special mention. The philosophical underpinnings of design science thinking are also examined. Practically, the volume shows how the design science approach can be used in academic research that leads to artefacts that add value for individuals, organizations and society."--Publisher's description.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Workshop held at the Australian National University in Canberra from 2-3 October, 2008 , Philosophical Foundations. Identification-interaction-innovation: a phenomenological basis for an information services view , How critical realism clarifies validity issues in theory-testing research: analysis and case , Theory and Method. Building theory in a practical science , Incommensurability in design science: which comes first--theory or artefact? , An exploration of the concept of design in information systems , Evaluating information systems: an appropriation perspective , Applications. On using materiality in information systems development: a research brief , How IS design can contribute to a major climate change mitigation project , An intelligent agent-assisted logistics exception management decision support system: a design-science approach , Thinking beyond means-ends analysis: the role of impulse-driven human creativity in the design of artificially intelligent systems , An information systems design theory for an RFID university-based laboratory , Design Science in IS. An assessment of DSS design science using the Hevner, March, Park and Ram guidelines , Design science in IS research: a literature analysis
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    Facing Asia : a history of the Colombo Plan (2010)
    Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press
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    ISBN: 9781921666933 , 1921666935 , 9781921666926 , 1921666927
    Language: English
    Keywords: Colombo Plan History ; Colombo Plan ; Economic assistance Southeast Asia ; History. ; Economic assistance Political aspects ; Southeast Asia. ; Economic assistance Social aspects ; Southeast Asia. ; Economic assistance Political aspects ; Economic assistance Social aspects ; Economic assistance History ; Economic assistance ; Economic assistance ; Economic assistance ; Anthropology ; History ; Humanities ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; Sociology and anthropology ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; World ; Australian & Oceanian ; Economic assistance ; Economic assistance ; Political aspects ; Economic assistance ; Social aspects ; Business & Economics ; Economic History ; Southeast Asia ; Colombo Plan ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This book examines the public and private agendas behind Australia's foreign aid diplomacy and reveals the strategic, political and cultural aims that drove the Colombo Plan. It examines the legacy of WWII, how foreign aid was seen as crucial to achieving regional security, how the plan was sold to Australian and Asian audiences, and the changing nature of Australia's relationship with Britain and the United States. Above all this is the question of how Australia sought to project itself into the region, and how Asia was introduced into the Australian consciousness. In answering these questions, this book tells the story of how an insular society, deeply scarred by the turbulence of war, chose to face its regional future."--Publisher's description.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Road to Colombo -- Building a Bridge to Asia -- The Seed of Freedom -- A Good Shoe-horn for our Interests -- Face to Face with Asia -- A Toothpick to Prop Up a Swaying Skyscraper -- Crossing the Frontier.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , English
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    Police recruitment and retention for the new millennium : the state of knowledge (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833050175 , 0833050508 , 0833050176 , 9780833050502
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Series Statement: Rand Corporation monograph series MG-959
    Parallel Title: Print version Police recruitment and retention for the new millennium
    Keywords: Police Recruiting ; Police Personnel management ; Employee retention ; Police ; Police ; Employee retention ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Infrastructure ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political Freedom & Security ; Law Enforcement ; LAW ; Criminal Law ; General ; Employee retention ; Police ; Personnel management ; Police ; Recruiting ; Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency ; Social Sciences ; Social Welfare & Social Work ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The supply of and demand for qualified police officers are changing in a time of increasing attrition, expanding law-enforcement responsibilities, and decreasing resources. These contribute to the difficulties that many agencies report in creating a workforce that represents community demographics, is committed to providing its employees the opportunity for long-term police careers, and effectively implements community policing. This book summarizes lessons on recruiting and retaining effective workforces
    Abstract: The supply of and demand for qualified police officers are changing in a time of increasing attrition, expanding law-enforcement responsibilities, and decreasing resources. These contribute to the difficulties that many agencies report in creating a workforce that represents community demographics, is committed to providing its employees the opportunity for long-term police careers, and effectively implements community policing. This book summarizes lessons on recruiting and retaining effective workforces
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    Hours of opportunity : Vol. 2: The power of data to improve after-school programs citywide (2010)
    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
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    ISBN: 9780833050496 , 0833051024 , 0833050494 , 9780833051028
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 90 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Hours of opportunity Volume 2, The power of data to improve after-school programs citywide
    Keywords: After-school programs Case studies ; School improvement programs Case studies ; After-school programs ; School improvement programs ; Case studies ; United States ; After-school programs ; EDUCATION ; Students & Student Life ; EDUCATION ; General ; School improvement programs ; Electronic books
    Abstract: High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their OST systems. In many cities that provide financial support for OST, funding is funneled through a variety of youth-serving agencies that lack basic information about the programs they fund. The second in this three-volume series describes how the grantees and three other cities used management information systems to collect and use data on OST programs, including enrollment, attendance, and student outcomes. Cities' use of management information systems to collect and report data on OST programs is relatively new, so the experiences of the case-study cities offer valuable lessons for the field. For example, management information systems are capable of supporting OST system improvement but require careful planning, the use of data from these systems can lead to additional funding and support, the customization of web-based systems encourages their use, providing high-quality training to providers increases the use of the systems, and many providers are overburdened by requirements to use multiple management information systems, so eliminating redundancies and coordinating data requirements can ensure more efficient program provision and reporting
    Abstract: High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their OST systems. In many cities that provide financial support for OST, funding is funneled through a variety of youth-serving agencies that lack basic information about the programs they fund. The second in this three-volume series describes how the grantees and three other cities used management information systems to collect and use data on OST programs, including enrollment, attendance, and student outcomes. Cities' use of management information systems to collect and report data on OST programs is relatively new, so the experiences of the case-study cities offer valuable lessons for the field. For example, management information systems are capable of supporting OST system improvement but require careful planning, the use of data from these systems can lead to additional funding and support, the customization of web-based systems encourages their use, providing high-quality training to providers increases the use of the systems, and many providers are overburdened by requirements to use multiple management information systems, so eliminating redundancies and coordinating data requirements can ensure more efficient program provision and reporting
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-90)
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    Up and Running with Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2011 (2010)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Elsevier Science | Boston, MA : Safari
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    ISBN: 9780123821027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (464 pages)
    Edition: 2nd edition
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Autodesk® Inventor® Simulation is an essential element in the Autodesk Digital Prototyping workflow that enables engineers, designers and manufacturers to transition from traditional design and physical prototyping methods to the innovative use of 3D modeling for evaluating form, fit and function. This allows virtual exploration and testing of objects, components and products before they are made, saving critical development time and cost. Autodesk Inventor Simulation provides the dynamic tools required to revolutionize the product design process, but these tools are complex to learn and use to their full potential. Up and Running with Autodesk® Inventor® Simulation 2011 is dedicated to the requirements of Inventor users who need to quickly learn or refresh their skills and apply the dynamic simulation, stress analysis, frame analysis, and optimization capabilities of Inventor Simulation 2011. Providing clear guidance and all-important real-world tutorials, the step-by-step, heavily-illustrated approach of this book will help designers, engineers, and manufacturers of all skill levels become Simulation experts. Get up to speed fast with real-life, step-by-step design problems—3 new to this edition! Discover how to convert CAD models to working digital prototypes, enabling you to enhance designs and simulate real-world performance without creating physical prototypes Learn all about the frame analysis environment—new to Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2011—and other key features of this powerful software, including modal analysis, assembly stress analysis, parametric optimization analysis, effective joint creation, and more Manipulate and experiment with design solutions from the book using datasets provided on the book's companion website (http://www.elsevierdirect.com/v2/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780123821027) and move seamlessly onto tackling your own design challenges with confidence New edition features enhanced coverage of key areas, including stress singularities, h-p convergence, curved elements, mechanism redundancies, FEA and simulation theory, with hand calculations, and more
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    The scientific imaginary in visual culture (2010)
    Göttingen : V & R Unipress
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    ISBN: 9783862347568
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (198 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Interfacing science, literature, and the humanities - ACUME 2 Vol. 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The scientific imaginary in visual culture
    DDC: 700/.46
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    LC 95000
    Keywords: Science and the arts ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Visuelle Vorstellung ; Visuelle Wahrnehmung ; Wissenschaft ; Künste
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    The apartment plot : urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975 (2010)
    Durham : Duke University Press
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    ISBN: 9780822392989
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (342 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wojcik, Pamela Robertson The apartment plot
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wojcik, Pamela Robertson The apartment plot
    DDC: 791.43/658209732
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    Keywords: City and town life in motion pictures ; Apartments in motion pictures ; Motion pictures History 20th century ; Performing arts ; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism ; City and town life in motion pictures ; Apartments in motion pictures ; Motion pictures ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; USA ; Film ; Wohnung ; Geschichte 1945-1975
    Abstract: Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the "apartment plot," her term for stories in which the apartment functions as a central narrative device. From the baby boom years into the 1970s, the apartment plot was not only key to films; it also surfaced in TV shows, Broadway plays, literature, and comic strips, from The Honeymooners and The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Subways are for Sleeping and Apartment 3-G. By identifying the apartment plot as a film genre, Wojcik reveals affinities between movies generally viewed as belonging to such distinct genres as film noir, romantic comedy, and melodrama. She analyzes the apartment plot as part of a mid-twentieth-century urban discourse, showing how it offers a vision of home centered on values of community, visibility, contact, mobility, impermanence, and porousness that contrasts with views of home as private, stable, and family-based
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: a philosophy of urbanism -- A primer in urbanism : Rear Window's archetypal apartment plot -- "We like our apartment" : the playboy indoors -- The great reprieve : modernity, femininity, and the apartment -- The suburbs in the city : the housewife and the apartment -- Movin' on up : the African american apartment.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289] - 302) and index
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    Equal opportunities? : the labour market integration of the children of immigrants ; [... a Seminar on the Labour Market Integration of the Children of Immigrants. This publication compiles the papers presented at this joint seminar] (2010)
    Paris : OECD
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    ISBN: 9789264086395
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 260 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Equal opportunities?
    DDC: 331.62094
    RVK:
    MS 3550
    RVK:
    QV 200
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    QV 224
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Einwanderer ; Gleichbehandlung ; Europäische Union
    Abstract: The integration of the children of immigrants - both those born in the host country (the "second generation") and those who arrived young enough to be educated in the host country - is of growing policy relevance for OECD countries. This group is entering the labour market in ever larger numbers, and their outcomes are often seen as the benchmark for successful integration policy. The labour market integration of the children of immigrants is an area where comparative international knowledge is gradually evolving, but still underdeveloped. Recent work by the OECD has shown that the childr
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Table of Contents; Main findings; Overview: Children of Immigrants in the Labour Markets of OECD and EU Countries; Summary; Introduction; Data and research on the children of immigrants; The size and parental origin of the children of migrant populations in OECD countries; The educational attainment of the children of immigrants; Overview of the labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants; Explaining differences in labour market outcomes - The role of socio-demographic characteristics; Conclusions; References; Annex 1.A1. Supplementary tables
    Description / Table of Contents: Annex 1.A2. Methodological notesPart I. MAIN DETERMINANTS OF EDUCATIONAL AND LABOUR MARKET OUTCOMES; The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in European Cities: The Importance of Parental Background; Seeking Success in Canada and the United States: Labour Market Outcomes among the Children of Immigrants; Main Determinants of Educational and Labour Market Outcomes; Labour Market Characteristics and their Impact on the Integration of Immigrants' Offspring; Part II. FACILITATING THE INTEGRATION OF CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS IN EDUCATION AND THE LABOUR MARKET
    Description / Table of Contents: Policy Options for Improving the Educational Outcomes of the Children of ImmigrantsSchool Segregation; Enhancing Diversity through Affirmative Action: What Other Countries Can Learn from the United States' Experience; Mainstreaming the Flemish Employment Equity and Diversity Policy; Policies to Enhance Diversity in Recruitment and Professional Development; Annex A.Programme of the joint technical seminar on the labour market integration of the children of immigrants, co-organised by the European Commission and the OECD;
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    Guidelines for Cost-effective Agri-environmental Policy Measures (2010)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    ISBN: 9789264086654
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (121 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Guidelines for Cost-effective Agri-environmental Policy Measures
    DDC: 333.7616
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Landwirtschaft ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltstandard ; Umweltsteuer ; Umweltzertifikathandel
    Abstract: Improving the environmental performance of agriculture is a high priority in OECD and many non-OECD countries. This will be of increasing concern in the future given the pressure to feed a growing world population with scarce land and water resources. Policy has an important role to play where markets for many of the environmental outcomes from agriculture are absent or poorly functioning.   . This study focuses on the design and implementation of environmental standards and regulations, taxes, payments and tradable permit schemes to address agri-environmental issues. It deals w
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Table of Contents; Executive Summary; Introduction; Objectives of agri-environmental policy instruments and criteria for policy evaluation; Policy design parameters: an overview; Tailoring environmental standards, environmental taxes and tradeable permits; Design issues for agri-environmental payment programmes; Policy-mixes for the agri-environment: overview of design parameters; Agri-environmental policies in OECD countries; Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of agri-environmental policies; Summary and good policy practices
    Description / Table of Contents: Annex A. Compliance bases for alternative agri-environmental policy instrumentsAnnex B. Cross-compliance in the European Union; Annex C. Standards versus taxes; Bibliography;
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    DOI: 10.1787/9789264086845-en
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    Memorialization in Germany since 1945 (2010)
    Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 9786612765407 , 128276540X , 9780230248502 , 9781282765405
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 421 p.) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009
    DDC: 306.4/7
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    Keywords: Memorials Social aspects ; War memorials Social aspects ; Monuments Social aspects ; Collective memory ; Cold War Social aspects ; World War, 1939-1945 Monuments ; Socialism Social aspects ; Germany Politics and government 1945-1990 ; Germany Politics and government 1990- ; Germany Social conditions ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Bilateral trade agreements in the era of globalization : the EU and India in search of a partnership (2010)
    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub
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    ISBN: 9781781000618
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 214 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bilateral trade agreements in the era of globalization
    DDC: 382.94054
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    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Handelsabkommen ; EU-Staaten ; Indien ; Electronic books ; European Union countries Commercial treaties ; India Commercial treaties ; India Commerce ; European Union countries Commerce ; Europäische Union ; Handelsabkommen ; Indien
    Abstract: This unique book provides an assessment of an India-EU agreement, drawing on the theory of preferential agreements, the history of India-European relations and the recent refocusing of the Indian economy. The authors explore both a broad overview of the agreement as well as a detailed examination of sensitive sectors
    Abstract: 1. Imagine -- 2. Preferential trade agreements and the global trading environment -- 3. India's engagement with the world economy -- 4. The evolution of EU-India trade relations -- 5. The Indian clothing and footwear industries -- 6. Non-tariff barriers -- 7. Preparing for an India-EU trade agreement -- 8. Oh east is east, and west is west, but what if the twain shall meet?
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781781000618
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    Governance in a disenchanted world : the end of moral society (2010)
    Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar Pub
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    ISBN: 9781781951378
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 166 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    DDC: 172
    Keywords: Policy networks ; Legitimacy of governments ; Ethics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book expounds the idea of a disenchanted world composed of nation states and global functional systems. The nation state is losing some of its regulatory prerogatives and, at the same time, extending its legitimacy base in 'chains of legitimacy' to transnational institutions. There is neither a global democracy nor a global government. Therefore, establishing alternative forms of legitimacy, accountability and participation in a secular world seem mandatory. Helmut Willke examines the resurgence of moral reasoning in global affairs, pushed by various fundamentalisms, that indicates a real danger of a regression of democracy. The separation of private morals and public policies, the book argues, remains the basis of global aspirations of democracy
    Abstract: 1. Exposition -- 2. Globalization : the context for contemporary governance -- 3. The moral ambiguity of modern politics -- 4. The normative paradox of secular policies -- 5. Global law and the cases for social responsibilities -- 6. The spirit of liberalism -- 7. Consequences -- 8. Outlook : governance in a disenchanted world
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Vulnerable places, vulnerable people : trade liberalization, rural poverty and the environment (2010)
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank | Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar Pub
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    ISBN: 9781849805193
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 220 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Vulnerable places, vulnerable people
    RVK:
    QG 020
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    Keywords: 1974-2004 ; Entwicklung ; Handelsliberalisierung ; Ländliche Armut ; Umweltbelastung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Free trade Social aspects ; Free trade Environmental aspects ; Electronic books ; Developing countries Rural conditions ; Developing countries Rural conditions ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Welthandel ; Liberalisierung ; Armut ; Umweltverschmutzung
    Abstract: While some argue that trade liberalization has raised incomes and led to environmental protection in developing countries, others claim that it generates neither poverty reduction nor sustainability. The detailed case studies in this book demonstrate that neither interpretation is universally correct, given how much depends on specific policies and institutions that determine "on-the-ground" outcomes. Drawing on research from six countries around the developing world, the book also presents the unique perspectives of researchers at both the world's largest development organization (The World Bank) and the world's largest conservation organization (World Wildlife Fund) on the debate over trade liberalization and its effects on poverty and the environment
    Abstract: 1. Trade liberalization, rural poverty and the environment / Jonathan A. Cook ... [et al.] -- 2. Trade liberalization, rural poverty and the environment : a case study of the forest and salmon sectors in Chile / Raúl O'Ryan, with Mario Niklitschek ... [et al.] -- 3. The impacts of trade liberalization in Pingbian, China / He Daming and Liu Jiang, with Bobby Cochran -- 4. Shrimp exports, environment and human well-being in the Sunderbans, West Bengal / Kanchan Chopra, with Pushpam Kumar and Preeti Kapuria -- 5. Trade liberalization, rural poverty and the environment : two studies of agricultural exports in Madagascar / Bart Minten, with Philippe Méral, Lalaina Randrianarison and Johan Swinnen -- 6. Trade liberalization, rural poverty and the environment : a case study of sugarcane production in the Incomati River Basin in Mpumalanga, South Africa / Jo Lorentzen, Anton Cartwright and Charles Meth -- 7. Expansion of shrimp farming in Ca Mau, Vietnam / Mai Trong Thong, with Hoang Xuan Thanh ... [et al.] -- 8. Lessons from the case studies : 1 / Pamela Stedman-Edwards, Jonathan A. Cook and Owen Cylke -- 9. Lessons from the case studies : 2 / John D. Nash and Donald F. Larson -- 10. Beyond trade : economic transition in the globalization era and prospects for poverty and environment / Bruno Losch
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The handbook of evolutionary economic geography (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849806497
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 559 pages) , diagrams, maps
    Series Statement: Elgar original reference
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The handbook of evolutionary economic geography
    DDC: 330.9
    RVK:
    QG 000
    RVK:
    RB 10651
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    RB 10660
    RVK:
    RB 10654
    Keywords: Evolutionsökonomik ; Wirtschaftsgeographie ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Regionales Cluster ; Netzwerk ; Strukturwandel ; Welt ; Economic geography ; Evolutionary economics ; Economic geography ; Evolutionary economics ; Electronic books ; Wirtschaftsgeografie
    Abstract: pt. 1. Conceptual challenges in evolutionary economic geography -- pt. 2. Firm dynamics, industrial dynamics and spatial clustering -- pt. 3. Network evolution and geography -- pt. 4. Institutions, co-evolution and economic geography -- pt. 5. Structural change, agglomeration externalities and regional branching.
    Abstract: This wide-ranging Handbook is the first major compilation of the theoretical and empirical research that is forging the new and exciting paradigm of evolutionary economic geography
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    Innovation, economic growth and the firm : theory and evidence of industrial dynamics (2010)
    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781781000632
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 243 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Innovation, economic growth and the firm
    DDC: 338.064
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    QC 131
    Keywords: 1980-2007 ; Unternehmenserfolg ; Innovationsmanagement ; Industrieforschung ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Strukturwandel ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Theorie der Unternehmung ; Industrieländer ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Unternehmenstheorie ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Innovation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unternehmenstheorie ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Innovation
    Abstract: This book addresses the foundations of economic growth at the firm level, combining both theoretical and econometric contributions by established scholars. Challenging contributions revisit Marshall's view on the management of innovation, investigate the decision of firms to venture into entrepreneurship and clarify some misunderstanding about Schumpeter's ideas. The book goes on to shed light on the classical specialisation-flexibility trade-off and provides a vision on the role of the knowledge-based economy and firm networks in technology development. Firm survival and performance, price-cost margins and the determinants of research intensity are also investigated econometrically
    Abstract: pt. 1. Evolutionary theories of the firm -- pt. 2. Firms : formation and growth -- pt. 3. Firms : performance and industrial dynamics
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    The political economy of Hurricane Katrina and community rebound (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849806541
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 255 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: New thinking in political economy
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The political economy of Hurricane Katrina and community rebound
    DDC: 363.34922097633509051
    Keywords: 1990-2007 ; Katastrophe ; Sturm ; Überschwemmung ; Katastrophenschaden ; Sozialwirtschaft ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Öffentliche Verwaltung ; Infrastrukturinvestition ; New Orleans (La.) ; Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Economic aspects ; Katrina ; Wirtschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; New Orleans (La.) Economic conditions 21st century ; Katrina ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: Introduction : uncertainty and discovery in a post-disaster context / Emily Camlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr ; Uncertainty in the post-Katrina Big Easy / Adam Martin -- The use of knowledge in natural disaster relief management / Russel S. Sobel, Peter T. Leeson -- Making hurricane response more effective : lessons from the private sector and the Coast Guard during Katrina / Steven Horwitz -- Restricting reconstruction : occupational licensing and natural disasters / David Skarbek -- The role of social entrepreneurship in post-Katrina community recovery / Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr ; Entrepreneurship and social networks in post-disaster environments / Petrik Runst -- Rock me like a hurricane! : how music communities promote social capital adept for recovery / Daniel J. D'Amico -- Lessons from post-flood recovery of New Orleans and Prague / Leonid O. Krasnozhon, Daniel M. Rothschild -- Earth, wind, and fire! Federalism and incentive in natural disaster response / Emily C. Schaeffer, Andrew Kashan -- The road home : helping homeowners in the Gulf after Katrina / Eileen Norcross, Anthony Skriba -- School choice and post-Katrina New Orleans : an analysis / Jeb Bleckley, Joshua Hall -- Improving academics in the aftermath : a case study of New Orleans' experiment with charter schools / Erin Marie Agemy.
    Abstract: In 2005 Hurricane Katrina posed an unprecedented set of challenges to formal and informal systems of disaster response and recovery. Informed by the Virginia School of Political Economy, the contributors to this study critically examine the public policy environment that led to both successes and failures in the post-Katrina disaster response and long-term recovery. Building from this perspective, this book lends critical insight into the nature of the social coordination problems disasters present, the potential for public policy to play a positive role, and the inherent limitations policymakers face in overcoming the myriad challenges that are a product of catastrophic disaster
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    Input trade and production networks in East Asia (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849806787
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 208 pages) , diagrams
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Input trade and production networks in East Asia
    DDC: 382.095
    Keywords: 1975-2006 ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Außenhandel ; Vorleistungen ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Ostasien ; Input-output analysis ; International trade ; Globalization ; Business networks ; Electronic books ; East Asia Commerce ; Ostasien ; Außenhandel ; Ostasien ; Netzwerk ; Unternehmenskooperation
    Abstract: 1. The development of input trade and production networks in east Asia / Daisuke Hiratsuka and Yoko Uchida -- 2. Vertical Specialization : some evidence from east Asia from 1975 to 2000 / David Hummels and Yoko Uchida -- 3. Some evidence on the nature and growth of input trade / David Hummels and Laura Puzzello -- 4. Characteristics and determinants of east Asia's trade patterns / Daisuke Hiratsuka -- 5. Japan's parts and components exports and complementarity with foreign investment / Kazuhiko Yokota -- 6. Complex FDI in Japanese multinationals / Kazunobu Hayakawa and Toshiyuki Matsuura -- 7. Production networks in east Asia : evidence from a survey of Japanese firms / Hiromichi Ozeki -- 8. The spatial structure of production/distribution networks and its implication for technology transfers and spillovers / Fukunari Kimura -- 9. International fragmentation in Laos : patterns, progress and prospects / Keola Souknilanh.
    Abstract: Intermediate input trade is regarded as an important contributory factor in explaining the increase in world trade in recent years. This timely book presents, for the first time, meticulous empirical analyses of the growth of input trade, and includes detailed studies that capture the main features and characteristics of production networks in East Asia
    DOI: 10.4337/9781849806787
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    Setting priorities for HIV/AIDS interventions : a cost-benefit approach (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849805131
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 223 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brent, Rober J. Setting priorities for HIV/AIDS interventions
    DDC: 362.1969792
    Keywords: AIDS ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse ; Welt ; AIDS (Disease) Treatment ; Cost effectiveness ; AIDS (Disease) Government policy ; AIDS ; Intervention ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Soziale Probleme ; Electronic books ; Aids ; Intervention ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Soziale Probleme
    Abstract: HIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated
    Abstract: pt. 1. Why cost-benefit analysis is needed to set HIV/AIDS priorities -- pt. 2. HIV/AIDS as a hunger and economic development issue -- pt. 3. Cost-benefit methods and applications -- pt. 4. Social considerations in CBA
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    Strategy making in a crisis : from analysis to imagination (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar Pub
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    ISBN: 9781849805261
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 232 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gibbert, Michael Strategy making in a crisis
    DDC: 658.4012
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    Keywords: Strategisches Management ; Krisenmanagement ; Crisis management ; Strategic planning ; Business planning ; Unternehmen ; Strategische Planung ; Krisenmanagement ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Strategische Planung ; Krisenmanagement
    Abstract: Which strategy making approach works best in a crisis? In current literature, the recommendations oscillate between prediction, control, and practice, but this unique book focuses specifically on strategy making in a crisis
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Imaginative strategy making : existing frameworks -- 3. The three imaginations step by step -- 4. The three imaginations in practice -- 5. Conclusions and implications
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index
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    Making inclusion work : experiences from academia around the world (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849806862
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 209 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Making inclusion work
    DDC: 379.2/6
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Führungskräfteentwicklung ; Discrimination in higher education Cross-cultural studies ; Feminism and higher education Cross-cultural studies ; Multiculturalism Cross-cultural studies Study and teaching (Higher) ; Mainstreaming in education Cross-cultural studies ; Inclusive education Cross-cultural studies ; Educational equalization Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books ; Student ; Behinderung ; Integration
    Abstract: pt. 1. Influencing institutions and developing curricula -- pt. 2. Setting examples and reworking pedagogy -- pt. 3. Shifting academic identities and research strategies -- pt. 4. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This innovative book explores how inclusion can be enhanced in academia by considering the strategic work of expert academics from around the world. It offers a new look at academic work through the accounts of passionate practitioners who have each, in their own ways, made inclusion work
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    Corruption and its manifestation in the Persian Gulf (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849806404
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 159 p) , diagrams
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    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Keywords: Petroleum industry and trade Corrupt practices ; Corruption ; Electronic books ; Persischer Golf ; Korruption ; Erdölindustrie
    Abstract: 1. Introduction to corruption in the Persian Gulf -- 2. Islamic teachings and corruption -- 3. A review of the causes and consequences of corruption -- 5. The impact of oil and gas dependency on corruption -- 6. Corruption, economic growth and the petroleum sector in the Persian Gulf -- 7. Addressing corruption, the natural resource curse and intergenerational equity in the Persian Gulf.
    Abstract: The authors of this timely book investigate various forms and measures of corruption, examine whether corruption is more acute in Persian Gulf countries than elsewhere, and illustrate the unique forms it takes in oil- and natural gas-rich economies. They also analyze the major factors that promote corrupt practices and how they impact economic growth and social development
    DOI: 10.4337/9781849806404
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    Corporate social responsibility in the 21st century : debates, models and practices across government, law and business (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849805278
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 427 pages)
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corporate social responsibility in the 21st century
    DDC: 658.408
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    QP 150
    RVK:
    QP 323
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility ; Corporate Governance ; Welt ; Corporate governance Law and legislation ; Social responsibility of business ; Corporate governance Law and legislation ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Corporate Social Responsibility ; Unternehmen ; Soziale Verantwortung
    Abstract: pt. 1. Corporate social responsibility's contemporary controversies and architecture -- pt. 2. Corporate social responsibility's regulatory maps and options -- pt. 3. Corporate social responsibility's applications and futures.
    Abstract: Professor Bryan Horrigan spans subjects as diverse and topical as global corporate responsibility and governance debates, practical guidelines for responsible businesses and their professional advisers, governmental roles in corporate social responsibility, corporations and human rights, and the new era of "enlightened shareholder value". He also highlights an emerging transnational and comparative body of law, regulation, and practice on corporate social responsibility. Illustrated throughout with meaningful controversies and examples, the book also highlights the major recent global developments in corporate social responsibility already this century, focusing especially on Europe, the UK, North America, and Australasia, and charting its future regulatory and research directions worldwide
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    Debt management for development : protection of the poor and the millennium development goals (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849805506
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 309 pages)
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Raffer, Kunibert, 1951 - Debt management for development
    DDC: 336.3435091724
    RVK:
    MK 9000
    Keywords: Schuldenmanagement ; Internationale Staatsschulden ; Schuldenerlass ; Entwicklungsländer ; Debts, External ; Debt relief ; Electronic books ; Entwicklungsländer ; Debt Management
    Abstract: 1. Brief history of debt management until 1989 -- 2. Brief history of debt management after 1989 -- 3. In quest of solutions : sovereign insolvency proposals, collective action clauses and recent country cases -- 4. Gleneagles, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative and the US crisis -- 5. The Raffer Proposal : an international chapter 9 for countries -- 6. Debtor rights and fairness to creditors in rule of law-based insolvency systems -- 7. MDGs, debt distress and poverty : theoretical roots of policies protecting the poor in debtor countries -- 8. Poverty, debtor protection and the MDGs -- 9. Debt distress, global public goods and a global development partnership -- 10. NGO advocacy for debt reduction cum debtor protection -- 11. The concept of sustainability of international financial institutions -- 12. Problems of overoptimism and ownership -- 13. MDGs and preferred creditor status -- 14. Lending or granting : ODA and the MDGs.
    Abstract: This book exposes intolerable global double standards in the treatment of debtors and argues that fairness, economic efficiency and principles common to all civilized legal systems, must and can be applied to so-called "developing countries", or Southern sovereign debtors
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    International fragmentation of production : the impact of outsourcing on the Japanese economy (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849807234
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 168 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als International fragmentation of production
    DDC: 338.060952
    RVK:
    QP 341
    RVK:
    QR 500
    Keywords: Outsourcing ; Internationale Arbeitsteilung ; Auslandsverlagerung ; Internationale Produktion ; Japan ; Industrial productivity ; Contracting out ; Industrial productivity ; Japan ; Produktionsverlagerung ; Economic policy /1989- ; Electronic books ; Japan Economic policy 1989- ; Japan ; Globalisierung ; Outsourcing ; Internationale Arbeitsteilung ; Internationale Produktion
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. International fragmentation of production : a survey of theory and the measurement issue -- 3. Production fragmentation and trade patterns in Japanese manufacturing -- 4. Determinants of fragmentation trade -- 5. Structural transformation and labour market adjustment in Japanese manufacturing -- 6. The impact of production fragmentation on skill upgrading -- 7. Overseas operations and home employment of Japanese multinational enterprises -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Using state-of-the-art econometric tools, this book examines the implications of international fragmentation of production for the performance of the Japanese manufacturing industry
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    International research handbook on successful women entrepreneurs (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849806695
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 242 pages) , diagrams
    Series Statement: Elgar original reference
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als International research handbook on successful women entrepreneurs
    DDC: 658.421082
    RVK:
    QP 380
    Keywords: Unternehmer ; Unternehmensgründung ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Industrieländer ; Schwellenländer ; Self-employed women ; Businesswomen ; Women-owned business enterprises ; Kleinunternehmerin ; Entrepreneurship ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Entwicklungsländer ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Electronic books ; Kleinunternehmerin ; Entrepreneurship ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Kleinunternehmerin ; Entrepreneurship ; Entwicklungsländer ; Kleinunternehmerin ; Entrepreneurship
    Abstract: 1. Introduction / Sandra L. Fielden and Marilyn J. Davidson -- 2. Australia / Glenice Wood -- 3. Brazil / Andrea E. Smith-Hunter -- 4. Canada / Karen D. Hughes -- 5. China / Jonathan M. Scott ... [et al.] -- 6. Denmark / Suna Løwe Nielsen, Kim Klyver and Majbritt Rostgaard Evald -- 7. Fiji / Gurmeet Singh, Raghuvar Dutt Pathak and Rafia Naz -- 8. India / Tanuja Agarwala -- 9. Lebanon / Dima Jamali and Yusuf Sidani -- 10. New Zealand / Marianne Tremaine and Kate Lewis -- 11. Pakistan / Jawad Syed -- 12. Portugal / Christina Reis -- 13. Russia / Anna Shuvalova -- 14. South Africa / Babita Mathur-Helm -- 15. Turkey / Mine Karata-Özkan, Gözdenal and Mustafa F. Özbilgin -- 16. United Arab Emirates / Nnamdi O. Madichie -- 17. United Kingdom / Susan Marlow and Maura McAdam -- 18. United States of America / Mary C. Mattis and Leslie Levin.
    Abstract: This informative Handbook examines successful women small business owners in both developed and emergent countries around the globe and, in particular, focuses on women entrepreneur success stories
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    The making of international trade policy : NGOs, agenda-setting and the WTO (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849809030
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 232 pages)
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Murphy-Gregory, Hannah The making of internaitonal trade policy
    DDC: 382.92
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    QM 230
    Keywords: World Trade Organization ; World Trade Organization ; Internationale Handelspolitik ; Internationale Wirtschaftsorganisation ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Welt ; Non-governmental organizations ; Commercial policy ; Electronic books ; World Trade Organization ; Außenhandelspolitik ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation
    Abstract: This book investigates the contributions of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to policymaking at the WTO, challenging the idea that NGOs can be narrowly understood as potential ‘democratic antidotes’ to the imperfections of Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs). The book highlights the significance of interactions between states, NGOs and IGOs, in order to understand their contributions to international trade governance. Based on case studies in the areas of labour standards, intellectual property and investment rules, the author finds that NGO activities serve an agenda setting function: they publicize neglected trade-related issues, persuade others to support their positions, enhance the resources of less developed member states and highlight normative rationales for policy change. In evaluating NGO campaign tactics and emphasizing relations between NGOs and WTO member states, this book advances understandings of the parameters of NGO agency in global governance.
    DOI: 10.4337/9781849809030
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    Private sector and enterprise development : fostering growth in the Middle East and North Africa (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781781951194
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 361 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stevenson, Lois A. Private sector and enterprise development
    DDC: 338.910956
    Keywords: KMU ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Privatwirtschaft ; Wachstumspolitik ; MENA-Staaten ; Small business ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Electronic books ; Small business
    Abstract: This important and well-researched book examines the challenges to private sector growth in twelve Middle East and North African (MENA) countries, assessing comparative performance against a number of indicators and focussing on the special role of SMEs and entrepreneurial activity
    Abstract: pt. I. Context, challenges and priorities -- pt. II. Profiles of the 12 MENA countries
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781781951194
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    Entrepreneurship : theory, networks, history (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar Pub
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    ISBN: 9781849805155
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 400 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Casson, Marc Entrepreneurship
    DDC: 338.04
    RVK:
    QP 230
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Theorie ; Entrepreneurship ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Entrepreneurship
    Abstract: In this important new book, Mark Casson argues that the fundamental significance of entrepreneurship requires it be fully integrated into core social science disciplines such as economics and sociology, as well as into economic and business history. This book shows how this can be done. It formalises the role of the entrepreneur as innovator, risk-taker and judgemental decision-maker, and relates these functions to the size and growth of the firm. Mark Casson discusses entrepreneurship as a form of strategic networking, showing how entrepreneurs gain access to established networks in order to source information, and then create their own networks to exploit this information. Applying these insights to historical evidence leads to a radical re-interpretation of key issues in economic and business history, including the emergence of trading companies, the spread of empires, the rise of the modern corporation and the globalisation of the firm
    Abstract: pt. 1. Theory -- pt. 2. Networks and institutions -- pt. 3. History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Organizational effectiveness (2010)
    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781785362156
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 732 p) , ill , cm
    Series Statement: The international library of critical writings on business and management
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Organizational effectiveness
    DDC: 658.4012
    Keywords: Organisationsforschung ; Effizienz ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Organizational effectiveness ; Organisationsforschung ; Wirtschaftliche Effizienz ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Anne S. Tsui (1990), 'A Multiple-Constituency Model of Effectiveness: An Empirical Examination at the Human Resource Subunit Level', Administrative Science Quarterly, 35 (3), September, 458-83 -- Robert E. Quinn and John Rohrbaugh (1983), 'A Spatial Model of Effectiveness Criteria: Towards a Competing Values Approach to Organizational Analysis', Management Science, 29 (3), March, 363-77 -- Robert E. Quinn and Kim Cameron (1983), 'Organizational Life Cycles and Shifting Criteria of Effectiveness: Some Preliminary Evidence', Management Science, 29 (1), January, 33-51 -- Kim S. Cameron (1986), 'Effectiveness As Paradox: Consensus and Conflict in Conceptions of Organizational Effectiveness', Management Science, 32 (5), May, 539-53 -- Marshall W. Meyer and Vipin Gupta (1994), 'The Performance Paradox', in Barry M. Staw (ed) and Larry L. Cummings (ed) (eds), Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 16, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc., 309-69 -- John P. Campbell (1977), 'On the Nature of Organizational Effectiveness', in Paul S. Goodman (ed), Johannes M. Pennings (ed) and Associates (eds), New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness, Chapter 2, San Francisco; London: Jossey-Bass, 13-55, references -- Richard M. Steers (1975), 'Problems in the Measurement of Organizational Effectiveness', Administrative Science Quarterly, 20 (4), December, 546-58 -- Andrew H. Van de Ven and Diane L. Ferry (1980), 'A Process for Assessing Organizations', in Measuring and Assessing Organizations, Chapter 2, New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 22-51, references -- Arie Y. Lewin and John W. Minton (1986), 'Determining Organizational Effectiveness: Another Look, and an Agenda for Research', Management Science, 32 (5), Organization Design, May, 514-38 -- Paul S. Goodman, Robert S. Atkin and F. David Schoorman (1983), 'On the Demise of Organizational Effectiveness Studies', in Kim S. Cameron (ed) and David A. Whetten (ed) (eds), Organizational Effectiveness: A Comparison of Multiple Models, Chapter 7, New York: Academic Press, 163-83 -- Paul M. Hirsch and Daniel Z. Levin (1999), 'Umbrella Advocates Versus Validity Police: A Life-Cycle Model', Organization Science, 10 (2), March-April, 199-212 -- Kim S. Cameron and David A. Whetten (1996), 'Foundations of a New Effectiveness Movement' [an excerpt taken from 'Organizational Effectiveness and Quality: The Second Generation'], in John Smart (ed) (ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume XI, New York: Agathon, 279-306 -- James P. Walsh, Klaus Weber and Joshua D. Margolis (2003), 'Social Issues and Management: Our Lost Cause Found', Journal of Management, 29 (6), 859-81 -- Jane E. Dutton and Mary Ann Glynn (2008), 'Positive Organizational Scholarship', in Julian Barling and Cary L. Cooper (ed) (eds), The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior. Volume I: Micro Approaches, Los Angeles: Sage Publications Inc., 693-712
    Abstract: Recommended readings (Machine generated): T. Burns and G.M. Stalker (1961), 'Mechanistic and Organic Systems', in The Management of Innovation, Chapter 8, London: Tavistock Press, 103-8 -- Paul R. Lawrence and Jay W. Lorsch (1967), 'High-Performing Organizations in Three Environments', in Organization and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration, Chapter VI, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 133-58 -- Michael C. Jensen (2002), 'Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function', Business Ethics Quarterly, 12 (2), 235-56 -- Lawrence B. Mohr (1973), 'The Concept of Organizational Goal', American Political Science Review, 67 (2), June, 470-81 -- Allen C. Bluedorn (1980), 'Cutting the Gordian Knot: A Critique of the Effectiveness Tradition in Organizational Research', Sociology and Social Research, 64 (4), July, 477-96 -- Ephraim Yuchtman and Stanley E. Seashore (1967), 'A System Resource Approach to Organizational Effectiveness', American Sociological Review, 32 (6), December, 891-903 -- Frank Friedlander and Hal Pickle (1968), 'Components of Effectiveness in Small Organizations', Administrative Science Quarterly, 13 (2), September, 289-304 -- Jeffrey Pfeffer and Gerald R. Salancik ([1978] 2003), 'Organization and Social Context Defined', in The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective, Chapter 2, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press [originally published by Harper & Row], 23-38 -- Thomas A. Mahoney and William Weitzel (1969), 'Managerial Models of Organizational Effectiveness', Administrative Science Quarterly, 14 (3), September, 357-65 -- David A. Nadler and Michael L. Tushman (1997), 'The Congruence Model', 'The Concept of Congruence' and 'Notes' from 'A Congruence Model for Organizational Problem Solving', in Michael L. Tushman (ed) and Phillip Anderson (ed) (eds), Managing Strategic Innovation and Change, Chapter 11, New York: Oxford University Press, 162-70, 171 -- D. Harold Doty, William H. Glick and George P. Huber (1993), 'Fit, Equifinality, and Organizational Effectiveness: A Test of Two Configurational Theories', Academy of Management Journal, 36 (6), December, 1196-250 -- Karlene H. Roberts (1990), 'Some Characteristics of One Type of High Reliability Organization', Organization Science, 1 (2), 160-76 -- Elton Mayo (1945), 'Hawthorne and the Western Electric Company: Some Further Comments on the Interview Experiment', in The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization, Chapter IV, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 68-86 -- Raymond E. Miles (1965), 'Human Relations or Human Resources?', Harvard Business Review, July-August, 148-52, 154, 156, 158, 160 and 163 -- Rensis Likert (1967), 'The Interdependent, Interacting Character of Effective Organizations', in The Human Organization: Its Management and Value, Chapter 4, New York: McGraw-Hill, 47-77 -- Chris Argyris (1973), 'Personality and Organization Theory Revisited', Administrative Science Quarterly, 18 (2), June, 141-67 -- W. Richard Scott (1981), 'Organizational Effectiveness', in Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems, Chapter 14, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 317-36, references -- Terry Connolly, Edward J. Conlon and Stuart Jay Deutsch (1980), 'Organizational Effectiveness: A Multiple-Constituency Approach', Academy of Management Review, 5 (2), April, 211-17 -- Raymond F. Zammuto (1984), 'A Comparison of Multiple Constituency Models of Organizational Effectiveness', Academy of Management Review, 9 (4), October, 606-16
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings
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    Performance of the Chinese insurance industry under economic reforms (2010)
    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849807258
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 199 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Advances in Chinese economic studies
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Yao, Shujie, 1959 - Performance of the Chinese insurance industry und economic reforms
    DDC: 368.951
    RVK:
    QG 860
    RVK:
    QQ 600
    Keywords: Versicherung ; Branchenentwicklung ; Data-Envelopment-Analyse ; Technische Effizienz ; Wirtschaftsreform ; China ; Insurance ; China ; Versicherungswirtschaft ; Electronic books ; China ; Versicherungswirtschaft ; Effizienz
    Abstract: The Chinese insurance industry has experienced rapid development during the past decade. This original book is the first English language study in the literature to address the efficiency issue of the Chinese insurance sector, and presents a comprehensive review on alternative methodologies for analyzing firm efficiency
    Abstract: ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in the insurance sector -- ch. 4. Efficiency concepts and DEA measures -- ch. 5. DEA applications to insurance companies in China -- ch. 6. Managerial implications : further exploration -- ch. 7. SFA applications and robustness of DEA results -- ch. 8. Malmquist index development of insurance companies in China -- ch. 9. Conclusion, policy recommendations and further research directions
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-187) and index
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    Knowledge diffusion and innovation : modelling complex entrepreneurial behaviours (2010)
    Cheltenham : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849803472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 177 p) , ill., map
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Morone, Piergiuseppe Knowledge diffusion and innovation
    DDC: 338.064
    RVK:
    QC 344
    Keywords: Wissenstransfer ; Innovation ; Komplexe Systeme ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Knowledge management Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Wissenschaftstransfer ; Technische Innovation
    Abstract: Modern economies are described as 'knowledge based'. This book investigates the meaning of such a statement, assessing the relevance of knowledge and the channels through which knowledge is exchanged, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Pt. I. Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Knowledge economy: old and new issues -- 3. Modelling knowledge and its diffusion patterns: a pathway towards complexity -- 4. Knowledge diffusion and innovation: an agent-based approach -- Pt. II. Empirical Studies and Model Validations -- 5. Empirical studies on knowledge flows -- 6. Theoretical and applied methodologies of agent-based models -- 7. Validating the model of knowledge diffusion and innovation -- 8. Final remarks and future research.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-171) and index
    DOI: 10.4337/9781849803472
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    Strategy process (2010)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
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    ISBN: 9781785362217
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 641 pages)
    Series Statement: Strategic management 2
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Strategy process
    DDC: 658.4012
    Keywords: Strategisches Management ; Ablauf ; Organisationsforschung ; Strategic planning ; Electronic books ; Strategisches Management ; Strategische Planung
    Abstract: Recommended readings (Machine generated): Moshe Farjoun (2002), 'Towards an Organic Perspective on Strategy', Strategic Management Journal, 23, 561-94 -- James W. Fredrickson (1983), 'Strategic Process Research: Questions and Recommendations', Academy of Management Review, 8 (4), October, 565-75 -- Anne S. Huff and Rhonda Kay Reger (1987), 'A Review of Strategic Process Research', Journal of Management, 13 (2), 211-36 -- Henry Mintzberg and Joseph Lampel (1999), 'Reflecting on the Strategy Process', Sloan Management Review, 40 (3), Spring, 21-30 -- Andrew H. van de Ven (1992), 'Suggestions for Studying Strategy Process: A Research Note', Strategic Management Journal, 13, Summer, Special Issue, 169-88 -- V.K. Narayanan and Liam Fahey (1982), 'The Micro-Politics of Strategy Formulation', Academy of Management Review, 7 (1), January, 25-34 -- Bill Wooldridge and Steven W. Floyd (1989), 'Strategic Process Effects on Consensus', Strategic Management Journal, 10 (3), May-June, 295-302 -- Yves L. Doz, Paul M. Olk, Peter Smith Ring (2000), 'Formation Processes of R&D Consortia: Which Path to Take? Where Does it Lead?', Strategic Management Journal, 21, 239-66 -- Charles I. Stubbart and Roger D. Smalley (1999), 'The Deceptive Allure of Stage Models of Strategic Processes', Journal of Management Inquiry, 8, September, 273-86 -- James Brian Quinn (1981), 'Formulating Strategy One Step at a Time', Journal of Business Strategy, 1 (3), Winter, 42-63 -- Henry Mintzberg and James A. Waters (1982), 'Tracking Strategy in an Entrepreneurial Firm', Academy of Management Journal, 25 (3), September, 465-99 -- David E.W. Marginson (2002), 'Management Control Systems and their Effects on Strategy Formation at Middle-Management Levels: Evidence from a U.K. Organization', Strategic Management Journal, 23, 1019-31 -- Peter Smith Ring and Andrew H. van de Ven (1994), 'Developmental Processes of Cooperative Interorganizational Relationships', Academy of Management Review, 19 (1), January, 90-118 -- Andrew M. Pettigrew (1987), 'Context and Action in the Transformation of the Firm', Journal of Management Studies, 24 (6), November, 649-70 -- John Hendry (2000), 'Strategic Decision Making, Discourse, and Strategy as Social Practice', Journal of Management Studies, 37 (7), November, 955-77 -- Patrick Regnér (2003), 'Strategy Creation in the Periphery: Inductive Versus Deductive Strategy Making', Journal of Management Studies, 40 (1), January, 57-82 -- Alfred Marcus and Donald Geffen (1998), 'The Dialectics of Competency Acquisition: Pollution Prevention in Electric Generation', Strategic Management Journal, 19, 1145-68 -- Robert A. Burgelman (1983), 'A Process Model of Internal Corporate Venturing in the Diversified Major Firm', Administrative Science Quarterly, 28 (2), June, 223-44 -- Robert A. Burgelman (1991), 'Intraorganizational Ecology of Strategy Making and Organizational Adaptation: Theory and Field Research', Organization Science, 2 (3), August, 239-62
    Abstract: Tomo Noda and Joseph L. Bower (1996), 'Strategy Making as Iterated Processes of Resource Allocation', Strategic Management Journal, 17, Special Issue, Summer, 159-92 -- Bjorn Lovas and Sumantra Ghoshal (2000), 'Strategy as Guided Evolution', Strategic Management Journal, 21, 875-96 -- Andrew M. Pettigrew (1990), 'Longitudinal Field Research on Change: Theory and Practice', Organization Science, 1 (3), Special Issue, August, 267-92 -- Peter R. Monge (1990), 'Theoretical and Analytical Issues in Studying Organizational Processes', Organization Science, 1 (4), November, 406-30 -- Brian T. Pentland (1999), 'Building Process Theory with Narrative: From Description to Explanation', Academy of Management Review, 24 (4), October, 711-24 -- Jane E. Dutton and Stephen A. Stumpf (1991), 'Using Behavioral Simulations to Study Strategic Processes', Simulation and Gaming, 22 (2), June, 149-73 -- Thomas Hutzschenreuter and Ingo Kleindienst (2006), 'Strategy- Process Research: What Have We Learned and What is Still to be Explored', Journal of Management, 32 (5), October, 673-720 -- Harry Sminia (2009), 'Process Research in Strategy Formation: Theory, Methodology and Relevance', International Journal of Management Reviews, 11 (1), 97-125
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings
    DOI: 10.4337/9781785362217
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    James Tobin, Franco Modigliani, Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (2010)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781785362262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 554 p) , cm
    Series Statement: The pioneering papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics 7
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als James Tobin, Franco Modigliani, Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott
    Keywords: Tobin, James ; Modigliani, Franco ; Kydland, Finn E. ; Prescott, Edward C. ; Tobin, James ; Kydland, Finn E ; Prescott, Edward C ; Modigliani, Franco ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Ökonomen ; Nobelpreis ; Economics ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tobin, James 1918-2002 ; Modigliani, Franco 1918-2003 ; Kydland, Finn E. 1943- ; Prescott, Edward C. 1940-2022 ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Nobelpreisträger
    Abstract: Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1991), 'Hours and Employment Variation in Business Cycle Theory', Economic Theory, 1 (1), January, 63-81 -- David K. Backus, Patrick J. Kehoe and Finn E. Kydland (1992), 'International Real Business Cycles', Journal of Political Economy, 100 (4), August, 745-75 -- Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1996), 'The Computational Experiment: An Econometric Tool', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10 (1), Winter, 69-85
    Abstract: Recommended readings (Machine generated): James Tobin (1955), 'A Dynamic Aggregative Model', Journal of Political Economy, 63 (2), April, 103-15 -- James Tobin (1956), 'The Interest-Elasticity of Transactions Demand for Cash', Review of Economics and Statistics, XXXVIII (3), August, 241-7 -- J. Tobin (1958), 'Liquidity Preference as Behavior Towards Risk', Review of Economic Studies, 25 (2) February, 65-86 -- James Tobin (1965), 'Money and Economic Growth', Econometrica, 33 (4), October, 671-84 -- James Tobin (1969), 'A General Equilibrium Approach to Monetary Theory', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1 (1), February, 15-29 -- James Tobin (1972), 'Inflation and Unemployment', American Economic Review, 62 (1), March, 1-18 -- Franco Modigliani (1944), 'Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money', Econometrica, 12 (1), January, 45-88 -- Franco Modigliani and Richard Brumberg (1955), 'Utility Analysis and the Consumption Function: An Interpretation of Cross-Section Data', in Kenneth K. Kurihara (ed) (ed.), Post-Keynesian Economics, Chapter 15, London: George Allen and Unwin, 388-436 -- Franco Modigliani (1961), 'Long-Run Implications of Alternative Fiscal Policies and the Burden of the National Debt', Economic Journal, 71 (284), December, 730-55 -- Albert Ando and Franco Modigliani (1963), 'The "Life Cycle" Hypothesis of Saving: Aggregate Implications and Tests', American Economic Review, 53 (1, part 1), March, 55-84 -- Franco Modigliani (1977), 'The Monetarist Controversy or, Should We Forsake Stabilization Policies?', American Economic Review, 67 (2), March, 1-19 -- Franco Modigliani and Richard Brumberg (1980), 'Utility Analysis and Aggregate Consumption Functions: An Attempt at Integration', in Andrew Abel (ed) (ed.), The Collected Papers of Franco Modigliani, Volume 2: The Life Cycle Hypothesis of Saving, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 128-97 -- Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and Edward C. Prescott (1971), 'Investment Under Uncertainty', Econometrica, 39 (5), September, 659-81 -- Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and Edward C. Prescott (1974), 'Equilibrium Search and Unemployment', Journal of Economic Theory, 7 (2), February, 188-209 -- Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1977), 'Rules Rather Than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans', Journal of Political Economy, 85 (3), June, 473-91 -- Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1982), 'Time to Build and Aggregate Fluctuations', Econometrica, 50 (6), November, 1345-70 -- Rajnish Mehra and Edward C. Prescott (1985), 'The Equity Premium: A Puzzle', Journal of Monetary Economics, 15 (2), March, 145-61 -- Edward C. Prescott (1986), 'Theory Ahead of Business Cycle Measurement', Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, 10 (4), Fall, 9-22 -- Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1990), 'Business Cycles: Real Facts and a Monetary Myth', Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, 14 (2), Spring, 3-18
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    DOI: 10.4337/9781785362262
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    Social capital in business (2010)
    Cheltenham, UK : Elgar Research Collection
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    ISBN: 9781785362330
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 530 p) , cm
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Keywords: Industrial organization ; Business networks ; Social capital (Sociology) ; Personnel management ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster (2004), 'Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Corporate Law Market', American Sociological Review, 69 (3), June, 319-44 -- Roberto M. Fernandez and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo (2006), 'Networks, Race, and Hiring', American Sociological Review, 71 (1), February, 42-71
    Abstract: Recommended readings (Machine generated): Nan Lin (1999), 'Social Networks and Status Attainment', Annual Review of Sociology, 25, August, 467-87 -- Ted Mouw (2003), 'Social Capital and Finding a Job: Do Contacts Matter?', American Sociological Review, 68 (6), December, 868-98 -- Ronald S. Burt (1999), 'The Social Capital of Opinion Leaders', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 566, November, 37-54 -- Wenpin Tsai and Sumantra Ghoshal (1998), 'Social Capital and Value Creation: The Role of Intrafirm Networks', Academy of Management Journal, 41 (4), August, 464-76 -- Carrie R. Leana and Harry J. van Buren III (1999), 'Organizational Social Capital and Employment Practices', Academy of Management Review, 24 (3), July, 538-55 -- Marc-David L. Seidel, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Katherine J. Stewart (2000), 'Friends in High Places: The Effects of Social Networks on Discrimination in Salary Negotiations', Administrative Science Quarterly, 45 (1), March, 1-24 -- Martin Gargiulo and Mario Benassi (2000), 'Trapped in Your Own Net? Network Cohesion, Structural Holes, and the Adaptation of Social Capital', Organization Science, 11 (2), March-April, 183-96 -- Scott E. Seibert, Maria L. Kraimer and Robert C. Liden (2001), 'A Social Capital Theory of Career Success', Academy of Management Journal, 44 (2), April, 219-37 -- Mark C. Bolino, William H. Turnley and James M. Bloodgood (2002), 'Citizenship Behavior and the Creation of Social Capital in Organizations', Academy of Management Review, 27 (4), October, 505-22 -- Tatiana Kostova and Kendall Roth (2003), 'Social Capital in Multinational Corporations and a Micro-Macro Model of its Formation', Academy of Management Review, 28 (2), April, 297-317 -- Ray Reagans, Ezra Zuckerman and Bill McEvily (2004), 'How to Make the Team: Social Networks vs. Demography as Criteria for Designing Effective Teams', Administrative Science Quarterly, 49 (1), March, 101-33 -- David Obstfeld (2005), 'Social Networks, the Tertius Iungens Orientation, and Involvement in Innovation', Administrative Science Quarterly, 50 (1), March, 100-130 -- Richard A. D'Aveni and Idalene F. Kesner (1993), 'Top Managerial Prestige, Power and Tender Offer Response: A Study of Elite Social Networks and Target Firm Cooperation During Takeovers', Organization Science, 4 (2), May, 123-51 -- Johannes M. Pennings, Kyungmook Lee and Arjen van Witteloostuijn (1998), 'Human Capital, Social Capital, and Firm Dissolution', Academy of Management Journal, 41 (4), August, 425-40 -- Gautam Ahuja (2000), 'Collaboration Networks, Structural Holes, and Innovation: A Longitudinal Study', Administrative Science Quarterly, 45 (3), September, 425-55 -- Roberto M. Fernandez, Emilio J. Castilla and Paul Moore (2000), 'Social Capital at Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center', American Journal of Sociology, 105 (5), March, 1288-356 -- Juan Florin, Michael Lubatkin and William Schulze (2003), 'A Social Capital Model of High-Growth Ventures', Academy of Management Journal, 46 (3), June, 374-84 -- Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster (2003), 'Relational Embeddedness and Learning: The Case of Bank Loan Managers and Their Clients', Management Science, 49 (4), April, 383-99 -- Joseph P. Broschak (2004), 'Managers' Mobility and Market Interface: The Effect of Managers' Career Mobility on the Dissolution of Market Ties', Administrative Science Quarterly, 49 (4), December, 608-40
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings
    DOI: 10.4337/9781785362330
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    Bertil G. Ohlin, James E. Meade and Robert A. Mundell (2010)
    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781785362279
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 393 p) , cm
    Series Statement: Pioneering papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics v. 10
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bertil G. Ohlin, James E. Meade and Robert A. Mundell
    Keywords: Ohlin, Bertil Gotthard ; Meade, James E. ; Mundell, Robert A. ; Meade, J. E ; Ohlin, Bertil ; Mundell, Robert A ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Ökonomen ; Nobelpreis ; Economics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Recommended readings (Machine generated): Bertil Ohlin (1937a), 'Some Notes on the Stockholm Theory of Savings and Investment I', Economic Journal, XLVII (185), March, 53-69 -- Bertil Ohlin (1937b), 'Some Notes on the Stockholm Theory of Savings and Investment II', Economic Journal, XLVII (186), June, 221-40 -- Bertil Ohlin (1991), 'The Theory of Trade', in Eli F. Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin, Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory, translated, edited and introduced by Harry Flam (ed) and M. June Flanders (ed), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 71, 73, 75-214 -- J.E. Meade (1948), 'National Income, National Expenditure and the Balance of Payments. Part I', Economic Journal, LVIII (232), December, 483-505 -- J.E. Meade (1949a), 'National Income, National Expenditure and the Balance of Payments - continued', Economic Journal, LIX (233), March, 17-39 -- J.E. Meade (1949b), 'A Geometrical Representation of Balance of Payments Policy', Economica, 16 (64), November, 305-20 -- J.E. Meade (1958), 'Is the National Debt a Burden?', Oxford Economic Papers, 10 (2), June, 163-83 -- James E. Meade (1978), 'The Meaning of "Internal Balance"', Economic Journal, 88 (351), September, 423-35 -- James E. Meade (1993), 'The Relation of Mr. Meade's Relations to Kahn's Multiplier', Economic Journal, 103 (418), May, 664-5 -- Robert A. Mundell (1957), 'International Trade and Factor Mobility', American Economic Review, 47 (3), June, 321-35 -- Robert A. Mundell (1961), 'A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas', American Economic Review, 51 (4), September, 657-65 -- Robert A. Mundell (1962), 'The Appropriate Use of Monetary and Fiscal Policy for Internal and External Stability', IMF Staff Papers, 9 (1), March, 70-77 -- R.A. Mundell (1963), 'Capital Mobility and Stabilization Policy Under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates', Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, XXIX (4), November, 475-85 -- Robert A. Mundell (1971), 'The Dollar and the Policy Mix: 1971', in Essays in International Finance, No. 85, Princeton, NJ: International Finance Section, Princeton University, May, 3-28 -- Robert A. Mundell (1973), 'A Plan for a European Currency', in Harry G. Johnson (ed) and Alexander K. Swoboda (ed) (eds), The Economics of Common Currencies, Chapter 9, London: George Allen & Unwin, 143-72
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings
    DOI: 10.4337/9781785362279
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    Handbook of research on high-technology entrepreneurs (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar Pub
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    ISBN: 9781849805384
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 406 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Elgar original reference
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Handbook of research on high-technology entrepreneurs
    DDC: 338.04
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    QP 380
    Keywords: Hochtechnologie ; Entrepreneurship ; Welt ; High technology industries Management ; Entrepreneurship ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Spitzentechnologie ; Entrepreneurship
    Abstract: This comprehensive Handbook presents an extensive overview of empirical and conceptual developments in the study of high-tech entrepreneurs from an interdisciplinary and multinational perspective
    Abstract: pt. 1. High-technology entrepreneurs -- pt. 2. High-technology entrepreneurship processes and stages -- pt. 3. Contextual perspectives to high-technology entrepreneurs -- pt. 4. Antecedents, correlates and consequences of entrepreneurial careers in high technology -- pt. 5. Gender, ethnicity, class and high-technology entrepreneurs -- pt. 6. Empowering high-technology entrepreneurs : mechanisms of structural and individual support
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Contemporary microenterprise : concepts and cases (2010)
    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
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    ISBN: 9781849808040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 319 pages) , diagrams
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Contemporary microenterprise
    DDC: 338.642
    Keywords: KMU ; Management ; Unternehmensorganisation ; Welt ; Small business ; New business enterprises ; KMU ; Management ; Unternehmensorganisation ; Welt ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Introduction / J. Mark Munoz -- 2. Microenterprise start-up : a cross-national comparison / Michael Troilo -- 3. Microenterprises : the interface between entrepreneur and manager / Michelle Ingram Spain -- 4. Microentrepreneurship in a transitional economy : evidence from Vietnam / Mai Thi Thanh Thai and Ho Thuy Ngoc -- 5. Theoretical view on microenterprise entrepreneurial motivators / Scott A. Hipsher -- 6. Creating a typology for the arts and crafts microenterprise / Ian Fillis -- 7. The challenges for tourism microenterprises in the Tiger Leaping Gorge, Southwest China / Sacha Rawlence -- 8. Microfinance and the growth of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa : the case of Faulu Kenya / Fred O. Newa -- 9. Is microcredit compatible with microentrepreneurship? : evidence from Latin American Tienditas / Michael J. Pisani -- 10. Microfinance : assessing its impact on microenterprises / Gwendolyn Tedeschi -- 11. Serving the poor : innovative business models at the base of the pyramid / Jamie Anderson and Martin Kupp -- 12. Micro-global : can Web-enabled microenterprises successfully internationalize? / J. Mark Munoz and Daewon Choi -- 13. Micro-franchising strategies : drawing lessons from franchise literature / J. Mark Munoz, Ilan Alon and Matthew C. Mitchell -- 14. Microfinance-microenterprise relationship : the Malaysian growth experience / Sow Hup Chan -- 15. Microenterprise growth : the case of Dotz in Brazil / Thelma Rocha and Tales Andreassi -- 16. Microenterprise in a free trade era : the case of Indonesia / Tulus T.H. Tambunan -- 17. Social capital and cross-cultural model replication : the case of hand in hand in India and South Africa / Lin Lerpold and Laurence Romani -- 18. Sponsorship practice at the small business level : an applied perspective / J. Terence Zinger and Norm O'Reilly -- 19. Engaging transnational corporations in community microenterprise initiatives in subsidiary operations : the case of TNCs in Tanzania / Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi -- 20. Achieving economic self-sufficiency through microenterprise training : outcome-based evidence from the Center for Women and Enterprise / Colette Dumas -- 21. Microfinance and poverty alleviation : underlying values and assumptions / Laurence Romani and Lin Lerpold -- 22. Microenterprise sustainability : a Philippine perspective / Jeanette Angeline Banzon Madamba -- 23. Conclusion / J. Mark Munoz.
    Abstract: While there have been numerous books and articles written on the popular topic of 'microfinance', few books have been written on the business model behind it: the 'microenterprise'. Due to its diversity of thought and high quality of chapter contributions, this book is poised to be the book on 'microenterprises'. Contemporary Microenterprise is a collage of the latest research and viewpoints on the subject by recognized academics and experts from around the globe
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