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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789264101142
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (117 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. La mise en œuvre de la Convention anti-corruption de l'OCDE ; Rapport sur les États-Unis 2003
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. La mise en œuvre de la Convention anti-corruption de l'OCDE : Rapport sur les États-Unis 2003
    Keywords: Governance ; United States
    Abstract: This report surveys the legal provisions and the institutions in place in the United States to combat bribery of foreign public officials and evaluates their effectiveness. It examines the mechanisms introduced, in both the public and private sectors, to prevent and detect acts of bribery of foreign public officials. It also reviews the effectiveness of mechanisms for investigating and prosecuting the offence of bribery of foreign public officials and related offences such as fraud and money-laundering. The report concludes with specific recommendations regarding prevention and detection, as well as prosecution and punishment. Key legal provisions to deter, prevent and fight corruption as submitted by the United States to the review process are also included.
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  • 2
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    Santa Monica, CA : RAND
    ISBN: 9780833033475 , 0833034138 , 0833033476 , 9780833034137
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 307 pages)
    Series Statement: MR/Rand Corporation MR-1657-A
    Parallel Title: Print version U.S. Army and the new national security strategy
    Keywords: United States ; United States ; National security ; World politics 21st century ; National security ; World politics ; World politics ; HISTORY ; Military ; United States ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Security (National & International) ; Military policy ; National security ; United States ; United States Military policy ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: How is the U.S. Army changing to fulfill its role in light of the new national security strategy? How must it change further to better accomplish its manifold and varied missions? How did the attacks of September 11, 2001, alter or accelerate the need for change? Is the Army's far-reaching program for change known as the Army Transformation on the right track? Fourteen RAND analysts with broad experience in strategic and Army planning have undertaken to answer these questions. In this book, the authors use nine chapters to examine the Army's role in the offensive war on terrorism; the Army's homeland security needs; the implications for the Army of the increase in emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region; the Army's role in coalition operations; the unfinished business of jointness-the lessons to be learned from recent Army operations and how the Army can better prepare for the future; the Army's deployability, logistical, and personnel challenges; and whether the Army can afford the Transformation as currently envisaged. These chapters are bracketed by a concise introduction, a description of the new national security strategy and the Army's place in it, and a succinct summary of the authors' conclusions. This book is nothing less than a call for the Army to change and a prescription for what needs to be done
    Note: "MR-1657-A"--Page 4 of cover , "Prepared for the United States Army , Includes bibliographical references , ch. 1. Introduction , ch. 2. New national security strategy , ch. 3. U.S. Army and the offensive war on terrorism , ch. 4. Defining the Army's homeland security needs , ch. 5. Shift to Asia, implications for U.S. land power , ch. 6. Preparing for coalition operations , ch. 7. Transformation and the unfinished business of jointness, lessons for the Army from the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, and Afghanistan , ch. 8. Preparing the Army for joint operations , ch. 9. Moving rapidly to the fight , ch. 10. Taking care of people, the future of Army personnel , ch. 11. Making the power projection Army a reality , ch. 12. Resourcing the twenty-first century Army , ch. 13. Refining Army transformation
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  • 3
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    In:  OECD journal on development Vol. 3, no. 4, p. 15-129
    ISSN: 1996-580X
    Language: English
    Pages: 127 p
    Titel der Quelle: OECD journal on development
    Publ. der Quelle: Paris : Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2006
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 3, no. 4, p. 15-129
    Keywords: Development ; United States
    Abstract: The United States has a substantial impact on promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in developing countries due to the large size of its economy, its ability to influence world opinion and action and its weight within the international donor community. In 2001 the United States was the largest donor in the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in volume terms, reporting net official development assistance (ODA) of USD 10.9 billion, more than one-fifth of the DAC total. This represented 0.11% of its gross national income (GNI), the lowest ODA/GNI ratio in the DAC and below the DAC average country effort of 0.40%. President Bush recently announced a bold new proposal, the “Millennium Challenge Account” (MCA) for an additional USD 5 billion annually by 2006. If approved by Congress, the MCA will consolidate the American position as the largest donor, and slightly improve the country’s ODA/GNI performance. The American “checks and balances” system of government has some important ramifications for United States development co-operation. This approach implicates a wide range of stakeholders in budget decision-making, especially through the Congress. Flexible approaches to compromise are standard features of the American system, especially for issues of a short-term nature that respond to national or special interests. Addressing long-term issues related to development co-operation can prove more difficult because they lack urgency or a sufficiently strong and influential domestic constituency. Several of the issues raised in the 1998 DAC Peer Review are being addressed by the current Administration. However, some important development issues, including those relating to Congress, to the basic structure of American aid administration, or to the promotion of policy coherence for development, have proven more resistant to change and are noted again in this review...
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  • 4
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    New York : New York University Press
    ISBN: 9780814789988 , 0814789986
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 230 p. :) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The history of disability
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Burch, Susan Signs of resistance
    DDC: 305.908162097309041
    Keywords: Deaf History ; 20th century ; United States ; United States ; Deaf History 20th century ; Deaf History 20th century ; Deaf ; HEALTH & FITNESS ; Physical Impairments ; History ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural language" of Deaf people, using it as the principal mode of instruction and communication. These schools inadvertently became the seedbeds of an emerging Deaf community and culture. But beginning in the 1880s, an oralist movement developed that sought to suppress sign language, removing Deaf teachers and requiring deaf people to learn speech and lip reading. Historians have all assumed that in the early decades of the twentieth century oralism triumphed overwhelmingly. Susan Burch shows us that everyone has it wrong; not only did Deaf students continue to use sign language in schools, hearing teachers relied on it as well. In Signs of Resistance, Susan Burch persuasively reinterprets early twentieth century Deaf history: using community sources such as Deaf newspapers, memoirs, films, and oral (sign language) interviews, Burch shows how the Deaf community mobilized to defend sign language and Deaf teachers, in the process facilitating the formation of collective Deaf consciousness, identity and political organization
    Abstract: Irony of acculturation -- Visibly different : sign language and the deaf community -- The extended family : associations of the deaf -- Working identities : labor issues -- The full court press : legal issues -- Irony of acculturation, continued
    Description / Table of Contents: Irony of acculturationVisibly different : sign language and the deaf community -- The extended family : associations of the deaf -- Working identities : labor issues -- The full court press : legal issues -- Irony of acculturation, continued.
    Note: OldControl:muse9780814789988. - "Multi-User. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index. - Made available online by Project Muse. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index , Made available online by Project Muse , OldControl:muse9780814789988
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  • 5
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    Albany : State University of New York Press
    ISBN: 9780791488683 , 0791488683
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 264 p. :) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: SUNY series, social context of education
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Anti-racist scholarship
    DDC: 306.43
    Keywords: Educational sociology United States ; Racism Study and teaching ; United States ; Discrimination in higher education United States ; United States ; Educational sociology ; Racism Study and teaching ; Discrimination in higher education ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Discrimination in higher education ; Educational sociology ; Racism ; Study and teaching ; Höheres Bildungswesen ; Rassismus ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I ANTI-RACIST CRITIQUE AND DIALOGUE -- Chapter 1 -- Section 1 Toward a White Discourse on White Racism -- Section 2 Response to a "White Discourse on White Racism" -- Section 3 Advancing a White Discourse: A Response to Scheurich -- Section 4 A Difficult, Confusing, Painful Problem That Requires Many Voices, Many Perspectives -- Chapter 2 -- Section 1 Coloring Epistemology: Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased? -- Section 2 A Response to "Coloring Epistemology: Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?"
    Abstract: Annotation
    Abstract: Chapter 5 The Building Blocks of Educational Administration: A Dialogic Review of the First Three Chapters of the New Handbook of Research in Educational Administration -- Chapter 6 Preface -- Chapter 6 The Destructive Desire for a Depoliticized Ethnographic Methodology: Response to Harry Wolcott -- Part III ANTI-RACIST REPRESENTATIONS OF THE RACIAL "OTHER" -- Chapter 7 Preface -- Chapter 7 Highly Successful and Loving Public Elementary Schools Populated Mainly by Low SES Children of Color: Core Beliefs and Cultural Characteristics -- Chapter 8 Preface.
    Abstract: Chapter 8 Windows/Ventanas: A Postmodern Re-Presentation of Children in Migrancy -- Chapter 9 Preface -- Chapter 9 Racing Representation: A "Raza Realist" Narration of Migrant Students, Their Educación and Their Contexto -- Chapter 10 Preface -- Chapter 10 Labores de la Vida/The Labors of Life: A Description of a Video Documentary of Mexican-American Adults Who Were Migrant Agricultural Workers as Children and a Commentary by Miguel Guajard -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
    Abstract: Section 3 Coloring Within and Outside the Lines: Some Comments -- Section 4 Rejoinder: In the United States of America, in Both Our Souls and Our Sciences, We Are Avoiding White Racism -- Part II ANTI-RACIST RESPONSES TO THE SCHOLARSHIP OF OTHERS -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Section 1 Educational Leadership for Democratic Purpose: What Do We Mean? -- Section 2 Commentary: The Grave Dangers in the Discourse on Democracy -- Section 3 Commentary: A Response to the Discourse on Democracy: A Dangerous Retreat -- Chapter 5 Preface.
    Abstract: Scheurich (educational administration, U. Texas, Austin) has gathered several of his articles, all first published in the 1990s, and arranged them with responses and supportive papers by colleagues. The articles all concern Scheurich's strenuous polemic, which calls for white scholars to learn to recognize and overcome what he calls white racism by whites. The papers address racism in educational administrative scholarship as well as administrative issues that lead to inequity in schooling. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
    Note: OldControl:muse9780791488683. - "Multi-User. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Made available online by Project Muse. - Description based on print version record
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780833029195 , 0833032496 , 9781282282711 , 1282282719 , 9780833032492 , 0833029193
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: MR / Rand Corporation MR-1251-A
    Series Statement: MR/Rand Corporation MR-1251-A
    Parallel Title: Print version Larson, Eric V. (Eric Victor), 1957- Preparing the U.S. Army for homeland security
    Keywords: United States ; United States ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Terrorism ; Military readiness ; United States ; United States ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Technical reports ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; United States Defenses ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction -- Understanding Homeland Security -- Analytic Framework -- Protecting Americans at Home: WMD Domestic Preparedness and Civil Support -- Ensuring Constitutional Authority: Continuity of Government -- Ensuring Military Capability: Continuity of Operations -- Protecting Sovereignty: Border and Coastal Defense -- Illustrative Planning Vignettes -- Analysis of Army DOTLMS -- Options, Recommendations, and Conclusions -- Appendix A: Considering Threat Campaigns -- Appendix B: A Notional WMD CST Trade-Off Analysis -- Appendix C: Homeland Security DOD Directives -- Appendix D: Overview of the Posse Comitatus Act -- Appendix E: Threat Findings of the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Act -- Appendix F: State and Local Domestic Preparedness Needs -- Appendix G: The Federal Response Plan and Terrorism Incident Annex -- Appendix H: Army Domestic Preparedness Training Activities -- Appendix I: Army Mission-Critical Facilities and Systems -- Appendix J: Recommendations of the Defense Science Board -- Appendix K: Recommendations of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection -- Appendix L: The Federal Program to Combat Terrorism and WMD -- Appendix M: Notional GPRA Measures of Performance
    Abstract: Introduction -- Understanding Homeland Security -- Analytic Framework -- Protecting Americans at Home: WMD Domestic Preparedness and Civil Support -- Ensuring Constitutional Authority: Continuity of Government -- Ensuring Military Capability: Continuity of Operations -- Protecting Sovereignty: Border and Coastal Defense -- Illustrative Planning Vignettes -- Analysis of Army DOTLMS -- Options, Recommendations, and Conclusions -- Appendix A: Considering Threat Campaigns -- Appendix B: A Notional WMD CST Trade-Off Analysis -- Appendix C: Homeland Security DOD Directives -- Appendix D: Overview of the Posse Comitatus Act -- Appendix E: Threat Findings of the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Act -- Appendix F: State and Local Domestic Preparedness Needs -- Appendix G: The Federal Response Plan and Terrorism Incident Annex -- Appendix H: Army Domestic Preparedness Training Activities -- Appendix I: Army Mission-Critical Facilities and Systems -- Appendix J: Recommendations of the Defense Science Board -- Appendix K: Recommendations of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection -- Appendix L: The Federal Program to Combat Terrorism and WMD -- Appendix M: Notional GPRA Measures of Performance
    Note: "Prepared for the United States Army , "MR-1251-A"--Page 4 of cover , Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310)
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  • 7
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    Lawrence : University Press of Kansas | Baltimore, Md : Project MUSE
    ISBN: 9780700631353 , 0700631356
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, [1], 314 stron)
    Series Statement: American Political Thought
    Keywords: Adams, Henry Political and social views ; Adams, Henry ; Adams, Henry ; myśl polityczna i społeczna ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory ; Philosophy ; Political and social views ; Politics and government ; History ; United States History ; Philosophy ; United States Politics and government ; Philosophy ; United States ; Stany Zjednoczone ; polityka i rządy ; filozofia ; Stany Zjednoczone ; historia ; filozofia
    Abstract: In this volume James P. Young seeks to revive interest in the thought of Henry Adams by extracting core ideas from his writings concerning both American political development and the course of world history and then showing their relevance to the contemporary longing for a democratic revival. In this revisionist study, Young denies that Adams was a reactionary critic of democracy and instead contends that he was an idealistic advocate of representative government. Young focuses on Adams's belief that capitalist industrial development during the Gilded Age had debased American ideals and then turns to a careful study of Adams's famous contrast of the unity of medieval society with the fragmentation of modern technological society. Though fully aware of Adams's concerns about technology, Young rejects the idea that Adams was bitterly opposed to twentieth century developments in that field. He shows that though a liberal democrat with inclinations toward reform, Adams is much too sophisticated to be captured by any simple label
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9780833029850 , 083303250X , 0833029851 , 9780833032508
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 185 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Army biometric applications
    DDC: 355.6/1
    Keywords: United States Personnel management ; United States ; Biometric identification ; Biometric identification ; HISTORY ; Military ; Other ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Human Resources & Personnel Management ; Biometric identification ; Armed Forces ; Personnel management ; United States ; United States ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Military Science ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Preface; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Acronyms Chapter One: INTRODUCTION; Chapter One: INTRODUCTION; Chapter Two: A PRIMER ON BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY; Chapter Three: WHAT CONCERNS DO BIOMETRICS RAISE AND HOW DO THEY DIFFER FROM CONCERNS ABOUT OTHER IDENTIFICATION METHODS; Chapter Four: WHAT STEPS CAN THE ARMY TAKE TO ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS?; Chapter Five: WHAT IS THE FEASIBILITY OF A NATIONAL BIOMETRIC CENTER?; Chapter Six: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; A. BIOMETRICS: A TECHNICAL PRIMER; B. PROGRAM REPORTS
    Abstract: Preface; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Acronyms Chapter One: INTRODUCTION; Chapter One: INTRODUCTION; Chapter Two: A PRIMER ON BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY; Chapter Three: WHAT CONCERNS DO BIOMETRICS RAISE AND HOW DO THEY DIFFER FROM CONCERNS ABOUT OTHER IDENTIFICATION METHODS; Chapter Four: WHAT STEPS CAN THE ARMY TAKE TO ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS?; Chapter Five: WHAT IS THE FEASIBILITY OF A NATIONAL BIOMETRIC CENTER?; Chapter Six: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; A. BIOMETRICS: A TECHNICAL PRIMER; B. PROGRAM REPORTS
    Note: "Prepared for the United States Army , "MR-1237 , "Arroyo Center , Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185)
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  • 9
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    Albany : State University of New York Press
    ISBN: 9780791491515 , 079149151X , 9780791447901 , 0791447901
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vii, 221 p. )
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Winter, J. Alan [Rezension von: Waxman, Chaim I., Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective] 2003
    Series Statement: SUNY series in American Jewish society in the 1990s
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Waxman, Chaim Isaac Jewish baby boomers
    DDC: 305.892407309045
    Keywords: Baby boom generation United States ; Jews Social conditions ; 20th century ; United States ; Baby boom generation ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Baby boom generation ; Jews ; Social conditions ; Social conditions ; United States Social conditions ; 1980- ; United States Social conditions ; 1960-1980 ; United States ; United States Social conditions 1960-1980 ; United States Social conditions 1980- ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Analyzes American Jewish baby boomers, focusing on the implications of their Jewish identity and identification for the collective American Jewish community. Begins with a demographic portrait of American Jewish baby boomers, drawing on the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, then compares America's Jews with Protestant and Catholic baby boomers, as well as other ethnic groups. Presentation of detailed quantitative data is complimented by qualitative examinations of communal implications for Jewish continuity and the organized American Jewish community. Waxman teaches Jewish studies at Rutgers University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
    Abstract: Annotation
    Abstract: Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Demographic Characteristics of American Jewish Baby Boomers -- Family Patterns of American Jewish Baby Boomers -- The Jewishness of Jewish Baby Boomers: Religion -- The Jewishness of Jewish Baby Boomers: Ethnicity -- Religion in American Society -- Ethnicity in America -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- APPENDIX A: Methodology of eJF 1990 National Jewish Population Survey -- APPENDIX B: Representative Frequencies -- APPENDIX C: Representative Probability Levels -- NOTES.
    Note: OldControl:muse9780791491515. - "Multi-User. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-211) and indexes. - Made available online by Project Muse. - Description based on print version record
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9789264188600
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (152 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Nuclear Development
    Keywords: Nuclear Energy ; United States
    Abstract: Nuclear power plant life management (PLIM) has become an important issue in the context of changing business circumstances caused by regulatory reform of the electricity market. Specifically, the economic aspect of PLIM is being closely investigated as part of the search for greater competitiveness. It was in this light that the NEA organised an international workshop on "Nuclear Power Plant Life Management in a Changing Business World". The objective of the workshop was to examine the status of PLIM activities in OECD Member countries and to develop a set of recommendations through separate working groups focusing on technology, regulation and business. The workshop also provided an opportunity to exchange information on lessons learned from past successes and failures. These proceedings will be of particular interest to those playing a policy role in the nuclear industry and those in a position to shape future PLIM strategies.
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  • 11
    Language: English
    Pages: 14 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Digital Economy Papers no.55
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Coopération bilatérale pour combattre la fraude transfontière: l'expérience des Etats-Unis et du Canada
    Keywords: Science and Technology ; Canada ; United States
    Abstract: On 22 March 2000 the CCP held a half-day Forum Session intended to explore the challenges and possibilities associated with international co-operation. Using the experience of the United States and Canada as a practical example, the session provided an overview of ongoing efforts to combat the growing problem of cross-border fraudulent, misleading and unfair commercial conduct. The delegations of Canada and the United States took the leading role in preparing for the session, giving the Committee a first-hand look at their experiences working together to facilitate communication, information sharing, and bilateral co-operation in certain cross-border enforcement actions. The following is a summary record of the Forum Session and the presentations given by representatives from the Competition Bureau of Industry Canada and the United States Federal Trade Commission. Copyright
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