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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781783710515
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Keywords: Internet Political aspects ; Online social networks Political aspects ; Digital media Political aspects ; Digital communications Political aspects ; Political participation Technological innovations ; Political activists
    Abstract: @ is For Activism examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing. Joss Hands maps out how political relationships have been reconfigured and new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have emerged. This analysis is applied to the organisation and practice of alternative politics, showing how they have developed and embraced the new political and technological environment. Hands offers a comprehensive critical survey of existing literature, as well as an original perspective on networks and political change. He includes many case studies including the anti-war and global justice movements, peer production, user created TV and 'Twitter' activism. @ is For Activism is essential for activists and students of politics and media
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note:1.Activism and Technology2.The Digital Author as Producer3.Protocol, Norm, Imperative: Networks as Moral Machines4.Power-Law Democracy5.Mobil(e)isation6.is also for Alter-Globalisation7.Constructing the Common: Cooperation and Multitude.
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    ISBN: 9781598743432 , 9781598743449
    Language: English
    Pages: 272 S. , Ill.
    Parallel Title: Online version Waging war, making peace
    DDC: 303.6/9
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    Keywords: Reparations for historical injustices ; Restorative justice ; Human rights Moral and ethical aspects ; Reparations for historical injustices ; Restorative justice ; Human rights Moral and ethical aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Unrecht ; Wiedergutmachung ; Opferentschädigung ; Menschenrecht ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Politische Verfolgung ; Wiedergutmachung ; Opferentschädigung ; Menschenrecht ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Note: Based on essays first presented during a double session of panels at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, California, in 2006 , Includes index , =A http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0827/2008038382.html =3 04 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Based on essays first presented during a double session of panels at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, California, in 2006. - Includes index , Waging war, making peace: the anthropology of reparations , The ethical dimensions of peace , When governments fail: reparation, solidarity, and community in Nicaragua , From theory to practice: implementing reparations in post-truth commission Peru , Reparations in Morocco: the symbolic dirham , "Victims of crime" and "victims of justice": the symbolic and financial aspects in U.S. compensation programs , "We all must have the same treatment": calculating the damages of human rights abuses for the people of Diego Garcia , Milpa matters: the Maya community of Toledo versus the government of Belize , Reparations and the illusive meaning of justice in Guatemala , Of lemons and laws: property and the (trans)national order in Cyprus , Israel and the Palestinian refugees: postpragmatic reflections on historical narratives, closure, transitional justice and Palestinian refugees' right to refuse , Reparations and human rights: why the anthropological approach matters
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    ISBN: 9780230103245
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 211 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
    Keywords: Finance ; Banks and banking ; Macroeconomics ; Finance ; Banks and banking ; Macroeconomics ; Finance ; Banking ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
    Abstract: This book is a collection of research papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally
    Abstract: This book is a collection of research papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally
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    Durham, NC : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9780822390398 , 0822390396
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 345 p , ill , 23 cm
    DDC: 932.0072
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    Keywords: Egyptology ; Nationalism / History / Egypt
    Abstract: Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room -- The Artifaction of the Memnon Head -- Ozymandias -- Conflicted Antiquities: Islam's Pharaoh and Emergent Egyptology -- The Antiqakhana -- Pharaonic Selves -- Two Pharaohs -- The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, Literature -- Nahdat Misr -- Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-328) and index
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    Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230591547
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 323 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Political economy ; Globalization ; International economics ; Development economics ; Asia Economic conditions ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics ; Political economy ; Globalization ; International economics ; Development economics ; Asia ; Regional economics ; Economic conditions ; Spatial economics ; Economics ; Development Economics ; International Economics ; Regional/Spatial Science ; Asian Economics ; Political Economy ; Globalization
    Abstract: The momentum of economic progress in India and China will bring about the next major shift in geopolitics. This book analyzes the economic experience of both countries in the context of development and globalization, and offers insights that could be crucial for development thinking
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    ISBN: 9780230212312
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 175 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Finance ; Business enterprises Finance ; Management ; Capital market ; Finance ; Business enterprises ; Management ; Finance ; Capital market ; Finance ; Capital Markets ; Business Finance ; Management
    Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive review of the prospects for financial markets in the face of rapid technological development and international integration. It offers a revolutionary perspective, exploring the challenges for regulators and demonstrating a network economics approach to explain the failure of e-money to develop
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
    ISBN: 141758341X , 905356750X , 9789048505401
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (224 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Shooting the Family : Transnational Media and Intercultural Values
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Mass media and the family ; Family ; Film, TV & radio ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Do contemporary movements of migration and the ever-increasing abundance of audiovisual media correspond to - or even cause - shifts in the defenition of both the bourgeois nuclear family and the tribal extended family? In Shooting the Family, twelve authors investigate the transfigured role of the family in a transnational world in which intercultural values are negotiated through mass media like film and television, as well as through particularistic media like home movies and videos. "Shooting the Family" has a double meaning. On the one hand, this book claims that the family is under pressure from the forces of globalization and migration; it is the family that risks being shot to pieces. On the other hand, family matters of all kinds, including family values, are increasingly being constructed and refigured in a mediated form. The audiovisual family has become an important medium for intercultural affairs - this is a family that is being re-established as a place of security and comfort in times of upheaval; it is the family shot by cameras that register and simultaneously create new family values
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of Contents; Introduction (Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat); Part 1: The Family and the Media; 1. Capturing the Family: Home Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction (José van Dijck); 2. Migrant Children Mediating Family Relations (Sonja de Leeuw); 3. The Shooting Family: Gender and Ethnicity in the New Dutch Police Series (Joke Hermes and Joost de Bruin); Part 2: Private Matters, Public Families; 4. Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon's Sitcom (Jaap Kooijman); 5. Radicalism Begins at Home: Fundamentalism and the Family in My Son the Fanatic (Laura Copier)
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Family Matters in Eat Drink Man Woman: Food Envy, Family Longing, or Intercultural Knowledge through the Senses? (Tarja Laine)Part 3: Translating Family Values; 7. Saved by Betrayal? Ang Lee's Translations of "Chinese" Family Ideology (Jeroen de Kloet); 8. Eurydice's Diasporic Voice: Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus and the Family in Poet's Hell (Catherine M. Lord); 9. Archiving the (Secret) Family in Egoyan's Family Viewing (Marie-Aude Baronian); Part 4: Loving Families; 10. Suspending the Body: Biopower and the Contradictions of Family Values (Sudeep Dasgupta)
    Description / Table of Contents: 11. Unfamiliar Film: Sisters Unsettling Family Habits (Wim Staat)12. Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema: Love and Creativity in Empire (Patricia Pisters); List of Contributors; Index
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9053567720 , 9053567739 , 9789048505456
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (490 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Film culture in transition
    Parallel Title: Print version Hitchcock's Motifs
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    Keywords: Hitchcock, Alfred Themes, motives ; Motion pictures Biography ; Film, TV & radio ; Individual film directors, film-makers ; Electronic book ; Hitchcock, Alfred 1899-1980 ; Film ; Motiv
    Abstract: Among the abundant Alfred Hitchcock literature, Hitchcock's Motifs has found a fresh angle. Starting from recurring objects, settings, character-types and events, Michael Walker tracks some forty motifs, themes and clusters across the whole of Hitchcock's oeuvre, including not only all his 52 extant feature films but also representative episodes from his TV series. Connections and deeper inflections that Hitchcock fans may have long sensed or suspected can now be seen for what they are: an intricately spun web of cross-references which gives this unique artist's work the depth, consistency and resonance that justifies Hitchcock's place as probably the best know film director ever. The title, the first book-length study of the subject, can be used as a mini-encyclopaedia of Hitchcock's motifs, but the individual entries also give full attention to the wider social contexts, hidden sources and the sometimes unconscious meanings present in the work and solidly linking it to its time and place
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama; Part II The Key Motifs; Appendix I: TV Episodes; Appendix II: Articles on Hitchcock's motifs; Appendix III: Definitions; References; Filmography; List of illustrations; Index of Hitchcock's films and their motifs; General Index
    Note: Filmography: p. [431]-462 -- Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-429) indexes , Part I.Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama.Introduction Three motifs.Home moviesCigarette case/lighterMilkMelodrama and Hitchcock's motifsAn elaborated motif: the Bed Scene in Rebecca and MarnieA melodramatic motif: handsDiagrammatic representationsOverview of the key motifsPart II.The Key Motifs.BED SCENECouples and bedsBeds and the policeBLONDES AND BRUNETTESCAMEO APPEARANCESCameos and the policeCHILDRENChildren's cameosFamily membersChildren and violenceChildren and the policeCONFINED SPACESBathrooms and washroomsConfinement and concealmentCages and bars: fears of imprisonmentWashrooms and the policeTHE CORPSEThe heroinesThe heroesThe villainsCorpses and the policeDOGS AND CATSDogs and the policeDOUBLESDoubles and the policeENDINGS AND THE POLICEENTRY THROUGH A WINDOWEntry through a window and the policeEXHIBITIONISM , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230523258
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 254 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Comparative politics ; Democracy ; Ethnicity ; Political science ; International relations ; Race. ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: Democracy and Ethnic Conflict addresses the problem of establishing durable democratic institutions in societies afflicted by ethnic conflict. While the holding of multi-party elections usually plays a role in the ending of conflict, consolidating democracy presents a much larger challenge, as does preventing the perversion of democracy through the dominance of a particular ethnic group
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    ISBN: 9781403981172
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 245 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Economic policy ; Political science ; Asia Politics and government ; Middle East Politics and government ; International relations ; Terrorism ; Political violence ; Economic development.
    Abstract: The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. This path breaking collection brings together top analysts to examine the goals and challenges facing efforts to reconstruct states that have collapsed into anarchy or have been defeated in war. Drawing on lessons from 50 years of past experience with post-conflict reconstruction and development around the world, the authors provide historical context, identify difficulties that can impede progress and recognize the realistic limitations of ambitions to create new states. They assess ongoing development plans in a country devastated by more than a century of conflict. Throughout, particular attention is paid to the interaction of the goals of external and domestic actors, highlighting the importance of understanding the internal social, economic and political environment of the society receiving assistance
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781403979117
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (214 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: With the U.S. armed forces playing an ever increasing central role in American foreign policy, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of regional Commanders-in-Chief (CINCs) in both implementing and shaping relations with various countries. Wielding tremendous power and substantial resources, both military and economic, these officers are also diplomats, advisors, and intermediaries between other countries and the Washington policy process. This book explores the role these military commanders play in contemporary U.S. foreign policy
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781403980502
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 207 p)
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    Keywords: Comparative politics ; Religion ; Religion History ; Judaism ; World War, 1939-1945 ; Political science ; Law Philosophy ; Law ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: From 1978-1996 Holocaust denial emerged as a major concern for the liberal democracies of Europe and North America. This period also saw the first prosecutions of Holocaust deniers. But these prosecutions often ran into trouble. Holocaust Denial and the Law relates how courts in four countries (Canada, France, Germany and the United States) resolved the dilemmas posed by Holocaust-denial litigation. It also describes how, in the United States, student editors had to decide whether to run ads denying the Holocaust. The book concludes that a given country's resolution of these dilemmas turns on its specific legal traditions and historical experiences
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230524408
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 275 p)
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    Keywords: Political theory ; Democracy ; Russia Politics and government ; Political science ; International relations ; Europe
    Abstract: The Legacy of the Soviet Union offers a distillation by a group of eminent scholars of their experience of the post-Soviet years. Analysis of the post-Soviet landscape is accompanied by meditations on the impact of the post-Soviet transition on both policy-makers and academics. The book therefore examines both assumptions of 'transition' and reconsiders the experience of Soviet communism in the light of its demise
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230522756
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxvi, 406 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Public policy ; European Union ; Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; Political planning.
    Abstract: The Handbook of Public Policy in Europe provides an invaluable overview of the content of public policy across the full range of policy areas in Britain, France and Germany. It is designed to be used by students, experts and practitioners both to help compare public policy across different policy areas and countries and as a source of information on individual policy areas. Each chapter describes the nature of public policy in a particular area, makes detailed comparisons of selected aspects and outlines recent developments. Detailed Internet references are also provided
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230501751
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 228 p)
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    Keywords: European Union ; Political science ; International relations ; Europe
    Abstract: The European Union and Enlargement is about the EU's 'power of attraction' - an exploration of the potential for EU impact on conflicts within Europe - and the implications for the EU to influence the 'order' beyond its borders. It provides both a theoretical and historical context in order to understand the EU's impact and combines this with empirical analysis of the perceptions of the Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots and Turkey on the accession process and its effect on the Cyprus issue. It demonstrates the limits and the potential of the EU as a global actor through its power of attraction
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230503526
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 211 p)
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    Keywords: Political economy ; Political science ; International relations ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Steven Kettell analyzes the development of exchange rate policymaking from a Marxist perspective. He examines and provides a new means of understanding three key policymaking episodes in Britain - the return to the gold standard in 1925, membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1990-1992 and the possibility of joining the Single European Currency. The alternative means of understanding these policy episodes provides a basis for making wider generalizations about the political economy of exchange rate policymaking
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230554436
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 202 p)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Diplomacy
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    Keywords: History ; Middle East History ; Europe History ; International relations ; Diplomacy
    Abstract: This book provides a general understanding of Ottoman diplomacy in relation to the modern international system. The origins of Ottoman diplomacy have been traced back to the Islamic tradition and Byzantine Inner Asian heritage. The Ottomans regarded diplomacy as an institution of the modern international system. They established resident ambassadors and the basic institutions and structure of diplomacy. The book concludes with a review of the legacy of Ottoman diplomacy
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    ISBN: 9781403981479
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xx, 292 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
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    Keywords: European Union ; Political science ; Europe History ; World politics ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: Many thought that the 'German question', that had shaped European history so catastrophically in the last century, had been solved for good in 1990. And the last elections seemed to confirm that Germany was on the road to 'normalcy'. However, at the beginning of the new century, many see Germany as a problem case in Europe. This raises the question about the future of Germany and the performance of the incumbent government. The book addresses these issues by examining the policies and politics of the Red-Green government and by putting recent changes and developments in this country in a long-term perspective
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    ISBN: 9781403981417
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (213 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; Ethnicity ; Social justice ; Military history ; International relations ; Politics and war ; Terrorism ; Political violence ; Human rights ; Race.
    Abstract: Combining theoretical analyzes with case studies, this book increases understanding of the internationalization, diffusion and escalation of ethnic conflict. The essays stand at the nexus of comparative politics and international relations, examining the influence on ethnic conflict of the weakening of state institutional structures, the role of non-state regional and international actors, changes in the ethnic balance of power, and the degree of economic, social, and cultural integration within the regional or global system. The variety of approaches provides useful analytical tools for students, while the diversity of cases from different regions gives the reader a sense of the scope of such problems
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230000865
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 350 p)
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    Keywords: Political theory ; European Union ; Political science ; Elections ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: Elections, Parties and Representation in Post-Communist Europe 1990-2002 stresses the ways in which the development of political parties affected the quality of democracy, the nature of political representation, and political accountability in the early stages of post-communist politics. It also analyzes the nature and consequences of the corpus of parliamentary candidates and deputies for the representation of social classes, women and minorities. In contrast with the wide social profile of communist parliaments, politics largely became the playground of new highly educated male elites
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    New York : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781403982353
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 195 p)
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    Series Statement: Culture and Religion in International Relations
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    Keywords: Religion ; Religion History ; Religions ; Religion and sociology ; Political science ; International relations
    Abstract: Reason, Culture, Religion book provides a systematic overview of the study of world politics. The author then locates modernist world politics in its sacral context by discussing Taoist strategics, Buddhist economics, Islamic civics, Confucian Marxism, Hindu constructivism, Pagan feminism and Animist environmentalism. It concludes by asking what a world affairs worthy of the name would be
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230509160
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 220 p)
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    Keywords: Political theory ; Great Britain Politics and government ; Political philosophy ; Political science ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Political science ; Europe
    Abstract: For the first time since the 1970s when the National Front became Britain's fourth largest political party, the recent electoral success of the British National Party has put Britain's extreme right back on the political map. Nigel Copsey provides a clear and comprehensive analysis of the history of the British National Party and its struggle for political legitimacy. With far-right parties enjoying unprecedented success across Europe, this book also locates its subject in the broader international context
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230536708
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 190 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; World politics ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution surveys the development of the ideas of John W. Burton, an Australian civil servant and diplomat who became a prolific author in the fields of International Relations and Conflict Theory. This work, beginning with an introduction to his life and associations, assesses the development of Burton's ideas, at once critical of much of the conventional wisdom of International Relations as well as seeking to be innovative, helping us to understand the issues of peace and conflict in a changing world. A central theme is the development of a framework of ideas which Burton came to call provention
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230005631
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 192 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: New Perspectives in German Studies
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    Keywords: Political economy ; European Union ; Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; Welfare state ; Social service ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: This book breaks new intellectual ground in the analysis of the German welfare state. Bleses and Seeleib-Kaiser argue that we are witnessing a dual transformation of the welfare state, which is caused by the emergence of new dominating interpretative patterns. Increasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards securing the achieved living standard of former wage earners, which in the past had been the key normative principle of social policy in Germany, while at the same time public support and services for families are expanded
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press
    ISBN: 0719064384
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 304 p) , ill., maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Forgotten French : Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44
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    Keywords: World War, 1939-1945 ; Refugees History ; Refugees History ; British & Irish history
    Abstract: It is widely assumed that the French in the British Isles during the Second World War were fully-fledged supporters of General de Gaulle, and that across the channel at least, the French were a 'nation of resisters'. This highly provocative study reveals that most exiles were on British soil by chance rather than by design, and many were not sure whether to stay. Overlooked by historians, who have concentrated on the 'Free French' of de Gaulle, these were the 'Forgotten French': refugees swept off the beaches of Dunkirk; servicemen held in camps after the Franco-German armistice; Vichy consular officials left to cater for their compatriots; and a sizeable colonist community based mainly in London. Drawing on little-known archival sources, this study examines the hopes and fears of these communities who were bitterly divided among themselves, some being attracted to Pétain as much as to de Gaulle. It also looks at how they fitted into British life and how the British in turn responded. The author finds that while the public was often charitable, the Government was suspicious of their loyalties and even considered general internment. Illustrated throughout, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the British and French experiences of the Second World War
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Figures and maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 The context of exile: communities, circumstances and choices; 2 The misfortune of exile: refugees; 3 The conflict of exile: servicemen; 4 The surveillance of exile: the Vichy consulates; 5 The tradition of exile: la colonie Française; 6 Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web , English
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9781403920027
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 233 p)
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    Series Statement: St Antony’s Series
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    Keywords: Political theory ; European Union ; Political science ; Europe History ; Europe Politics and government
    Abstract: Ilaria Favretto presents a detailed study which traces the origins of the Third Way by comparing the European Left's contemporary neo-revisionism with past revisionist attempts. Focussing its analysis on the British Labour Party and the Italian Left, The Long Search for a Third Way provides new interpretations and insights into the histories of both parties. The book is accessible not only to students and scholars, but also to the general reader interested in contemporary European politics
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    ISBN: 9780230523081
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 264 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: One Europe or Several?
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    Keywords: Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; European Union ; Politics and war ; Europe-Politics and government.
    Abstract: This major comparative study examines the development of military-society relations in central and eastern Europe since the collapse of communism. Soldiers and Societies in Post-Communist Europe explores how the interaction of the common challenges of postcommunism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries are shaping patterns of military-society relations in this changing region. Detailed country case studies, written by international experts to a common analytical framework, compare the experiences of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia and Ukraine
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : PALGRAVE
    ISBN: 9781403937520
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 223 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; Social justice ; International business enterprises ; International relations ; Human rights
    Abstract: Bringing together a diverse group of contributors, this collection addresses the impact of transnational corporations on human rights. Topics covered include corporate social responsibility; the impact of corporations on internal conflicts, and codes of conduct. Case studies range from the negative effects of the Nigerian oil industry to the positive engagement by a logging company with the Nuu-chah-nulth people in Canada. The book uniquely combines the discussion of conceptual issues with an in-depth examination of specific corporations and industries
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    ISBN: 9781403940155
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 251 p) , ill., maps
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    Keywords: Political science ; Culture Study and teaching ; World politics ; International relations ; Regionalism ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: Microregionalism and World Order is a pioneering work on the least understood aspect of regionalism. Leading specialists analyze the form microregionalism takes in different parts of the world, including the Americas, Asia Pacific and Africa. By illustrating the complex relationship amongst the political, economic and social dimensions of microregionalism, the book seeks to contribute to the theoretical debate on regionalism as well as to provide new empirical insights
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    ISBN: 9780230288669
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (232 p)
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    Series Statement: Advances in Political Science: An International Series
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Political science ; Europe History ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: Has any good come out of the efforts to mediate the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia? The short answer is, 'Yes, but..' Mediation has brought about agreements that halted the fighting in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. Yet, the negotiations took too long, and their achievements came too late. Between 1991 and 1995 some two hundred thousand people lost their lives, and close to two million were uprooted from their homes. Saadia Touval examines why the efforts to reach a negotiated solution have not been more effective. He calls attention to two lessons: that collective mediation faces much greater obstacles than mediation by individual states, and that a mediator's priority should be saving lives, rather than aiming at other objectives, or even pursuing justice
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9781403907196
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 231 p)
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    Series Statement: Global Issues Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership
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    ISBN: 9780230596078
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 232 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: St Antony’s Series
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    Keywords: Organization ; Planning ; Democracy ; Latin America Politics and government ; Political science ; Ethnology Latin America ; Culture. ; America ; Industrial organization.
    Abstract: A new appraisal of the relationship between the Presidency and Congress in Argentina over the first two decades of its democratic regime. Mariana Llanos uses the processes of privatization and state reform in Argentina to re-assess the performance, functions and stature of these institutions as the country embarked on the programme of change. A valuable contribution to the debate on the development of political institutions in Latin America
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    ISBN: 9781403905321
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (341 p.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Development Economics and Policy
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economic policy ; International relations ; Education ; Development economics ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths. This book provides a toolbox for donors, international agencies and developing countries to prevent humanitarian emergencies. The emphasis is on long-term rather than mediation or reconstruction after the conflict ensues
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    ISBN: 9780312299101
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 260 p)
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Islam ; Ethnology Asia ; Asia History ; Asia Politics and government ; Middle East Politics and government ; Politics and war
    Abstract: This book describes the turbulent political history of Afghanistan from the communist upheaval of the 1970s through to the aftermath of the events of 11 September 2001. It reviews the importance of the region to external powers and explains why warfare and instability have been endemic. The author analyses in detail the birth of the Taliban and the bloody rise to power of fanatic Islamists, including Osama bin Laden, in the power vacuum following the withdrawal of US aid. Looking forward, Nojumi explores the ongoing quest for a third political movement in Afghanistan - an alternative to radical communists or fanatical Islamists and suggests the support that will be neccessary from the international community in order for such a movement to survive
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    ISBN: 9780230595736
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 253 p) , map
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    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: Political economy ; Political science ; International relations ; Economic policy ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy has been held up as a model of successful development in a globalized world, offering lessons for other late developing countries. It interrogates the principal theoretical approaches which have been used to analyze the Celtic Tiger, particularly neo-classical economics, and finds them inadequate to capture its ambiguities or address its developmental deficit. Elaborating an alternative approach, drawing particularly on the work of Karl Polanyi, the book offers an interpretation which captures more fully the ways in which the Irish State has made itself subservient to market forces. The options now facing Irish society are mapped out through a critical examination of globalization, identifying possibilities for development and social action
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    ISBN: 9781403907707
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xx, 227 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Political science ; Middle East History ; Middle East Politics and government ; Management science ; Spatial economics ; Political economy ; Public policy ; Economics ; Regional economics ; Middle East-History. ; Middle East-Politics and governm.
    Abstract: Negotiations between Israel and the Arab states have continued in one form or another for over a decade, through three Israeli administrations, the death of a King of Jordan, and through countless riots and incidences of protest by Palestinians and Jews alike. The agreements that have been reached, and some situations established by defacto rule and force majure, have created possibly irreversible economic and political structures. This collection presents a debate among eminent scholars and public officials over the power these structures engender in the region
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    ISBN: 9781403932839
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 213 p) , map
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    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; Political economy ; Imperialism ; International relations ; Globalization ; Economic policy ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs. Peter Clegg investigates the complex political relationships between the traditional actors in the trade and how the issues of colonialism and globalization have shaped their interactions. He presents a detailed analysis of the development of the Caribbean banana trade and analyzes why the influence and importance of the traditional actors within the trade has diminished over the last thirty years
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9781403900920
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 227 p)
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    Series Statement: St Antony’s Series
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    Keywords: European Union ; Political science ; Europe History ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: The successful maintenance of peace since 1814 made neutrality a widely popular doctrine in Sweden. Rather than a security policy in the strict sense, it has become a cornerstone of Swedish national identity. Yet, in the past decade the neutrality tradition has been called into question. What is meant by neutrality? Has Sweden ever been neutral? This book analyses the emergence, institutionalisation and reassessment of neutrality, of the notion of peace as a national good, from the sixteenth century to the present debate on NATO membership
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9780230510197
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 311 p)
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    Keywords: Political theory ; Political philosophy ; Political science ; History, Modern ; Great Britain History ; America History ; World politics ; Political science
    Abstract: While there are many works on British liberalism, this is the first to deal substantially with the transatlantic and international content of liberalism. Gerlach considers the transatlantic thought of prominent contemporary figures such as William Gladstone, John Morley, William Harcourt and Andrew Carnegie. A fascinating account that paves the way for the political and social rapprochement of the twentieth century
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    ISBN: 9780230502956
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 261 p)
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    Keywords: Political economy ; Great Britain Politics and government ; International economics ; Political science ; International economic relations. ; Europe
    Abstract: The book considers Labour's economic strategy as it developed through the party's long period of opposition between 1979 and 1997. This history argues strongly that accounts of Labour's recent past which claim that the Party was driven by a combination of Thatcherism and opinion polls are flawed. It offers an alternative account which stresses the importance of debates within and around the Party about how the economy should be understood, the role of markets and the state, and British industrial decline
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    ISBN: 9780230286429
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 254 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; Asia Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: The new millennium can only be a time of true globalization if different histories and systems of understanding the world are appreciated. The authors unveil significant studies to do with epistemological debates in International Relations, and give detailed middle and far-eastern examples of how different cultures have used story-telling as a means of understanding what is outside and around. Especially provocative is the Chinese idea of the West as an 'Other', as atypical and, indeed, inscrutable, to the extent of not needing scrutiny at all
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    ISBN: 9780230628083
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 197 p)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Military and Strategic History
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    Keywords: History ; Europe History ; Military history ; Imperialism ; International relations
    Abstract: The essays in this volume, written by leading historians and a former British foreign secretary, survey the strategy, politics and personalities of British peacemaking in 1919. Many of the intractable problems faced by negotiators are studied in this volume. Neglected issues, including nascent British commercial interests in Central Europe and attitudes towards Russia are covered, along with important reassessments of the viability of the Versailles treaty, reparations, appeasement, and the long-term effects of the settlement. This collection is a compelling and resonant addition to revisionist studies of the 'Peace to End Peace' and essential reading for those interested in international history
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    ISBN: 9780230508095
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 246 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Political science ; Great Britain History ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: From fear of sabotage on the London Underground to the first anthrax bomb and massive outdoor tests, Britain and Biological Warfare tells the largely untold history of biological weapons research and policy in the UK. Drawing on recently declassified documents, this book charts the secret history of germ warfare policy from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. Britain and Biological Warfare explores the role of independent advisors in shaping one of the most significant biological warfare research programmes in history
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    ISBN: 9781403900968
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 277 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Comparative politics ; Democracy ; Political science ; Elections ; Comparative government.
    Abstract: As the referendum becomes a more regular component of decision making, it leaves few, if any, institutions, processes and values of democracy untouched. Political actors of all kinds - including political parties and interest groups - seek to use the referendum device to further their own objectives. The end result is a different kind of democracy than existed before. This book lays out the comparative research agenda on the impact of referendums on the practice of liberal democracy
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    ISBN: 9781403982537
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 250 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; European Union ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations ; International organization ; Politics and war
    Abstract: NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia was justified. NATO violated the United Nations Charter - but nations have used armed force so often that the ban on non-defensive use of force has been cast into doubt. Dangerous cracks in the international legal order have surfaced - widened, ironically, by the UN Security Council itself, which has ridden roughshod over the Charter's ban on intervention. Yet nations remain hopelessly divided on what the rules should be. An unplanned geopolitical order has thus emerged - posing serious dilemmas for American policy-makers in a world where intervention will be judged more by wisdom than by law
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    ISBN: 9780230287792
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 310 p)
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    Keywords: Political theory ; Political economy ; Political philosophy ; Political science ; International economic relations. ; Political science
    Abstract: This book offers ways to overcome problems that arise because voters, politicians and bureaucrats pursue selfish interests rather than the general interest in their political behaviour. It combines previously published ideas about charging people the costs of their political actions and selling insurance against unfavourable political outcomes, with new ideas about competing legislatures and incentives for generating efficient political outcomes. The book includes new theorems about the mechanisms that are discussed, as well as a proposed constitution and its rationale
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    Houdmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave
    ISBN: 9780312292805
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 340 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; History, Modern ; America History ; World politics ; Europe Politics and government ; International relations
    Abstract: Made by the U.S.A., The International System is a historical account, embedded in a set of theoretical constructs, of the two hundred year drive by the United States to first, become a global power and, second, create an international security and economic system capable of protecting and promoting its strategic and economic interests
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    ISBN: 9780230535794
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 311 p) , maps
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    Keywords: Russia Politics and government ; Social inequality ; Ethnicity ; Political science ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Social structure ; Race. ; Equality. ; Europe
    Abstract: The Macedonian question has been at the heart of the Balkan crisis for most of the twentieth century. This important book is the first to bring together international experts to analyse the recent history of Macedonia since the break-up of Yugoslavia, and includes seminal analyses of key issues in ethnic relations, politics, and recent history. It is edited by James Pettifer, a British authority on the southern Balkans, and is likely to prove a landmark in its field
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    ISBN: 9780230520455
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 212 p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; World politics ; International relations
    Abstract: The end of the Cold War and the discussions concerning the process of globalization have brought the study of international politics face to face with new issues such as human rights, humanitarian interventions, environmental concerns, global social movements and health issues like HIV/AIDS. The challenges arising from these issues require novel theoretical approaches that are not limited to the traditional ethical concerns of international politics. The contributors to this volume re-examine existing approaches and formulate new ethical perspectives for the twenty-first century. This volume challenges the status quo in international relations and provides an opening for an alternative theoretical debate for those who are interested in international political theory
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    ISBN: 9780333977774
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiv, 272 p)
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    Series Statement: Global Issues Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; World politics ; International relations ; International organization
    Abstract: This volume addresses the central theme of adjusting the United Nations system in light of, firstly, the broadening definition of security, secondly, a perceived shift from modernity to post-modernity; and finally, the contemporary debate about reform, adaptation and institutional learning in multilateral institutions during transnational periods. The UN has not been successful in learning appropriate lessons that could facilitate requisite changes to its structure and operations. Thus the authors in this study focus on the lessons learned from the organizations' recent performance in collective security, preventative diplomacy, preventative deployment, peacekeeping, peacemaking, peace maintenance, and international legal, environmental and trade regulation
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    ISBN: 9780333985557
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 287 p)
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    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: Political science ; Political economy ; Management science ; International relations ; Economics ; Sociology ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: This book examines global change from a dialectical perspective. Looking at global change in terms of unipolarisation in international security, globalisation in the world economy, and democratisation in global governance, the volume provides a refreshingly Japanese angle on addressing complex interplays between the social forces underlying these themes. The book is indispensable reading for undergraduate and graduate students or IR theory, international security, international political economy, and global governance, as well as American and Japanese foreign policy
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    ISBN: 9780230508965
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 267 p) , map
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    Keywords: Political science ; Russia History ; Russia Politics and government ; Middle East History ; Europe, Eastern History ; Peace ; Soviet Union ; Europe
    Abstract: The first major territorial struggle in the late Soviet period involved Nagorno-Karabagh, an Armenian inhabited territory that had been assigned to the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. In the early 1920s. Armenian protests calling for reunification with Armenia in 1988 led to Azerbaijani pogroms against Armenians and later to armed conflict that claimed over twenty thousand lives. The struggle remains unresolved. A distinguished group of historians and social scientists analyze the Karabagh struggle in this unique volume that covers one of the world's strategic, oil-rich regions
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    ISBN: 9780333978108
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 297 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Political science ; Agriculture ; Macroeconomics ; International economics ; Urban economics ; Political science ; Agriculture ; Macroeconomics ; International economics ; Urban economics ; Economics ; Urban Economics ; Political Science ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics ; International Economics ; Agriculture
    Abstract: China now faces the difficult choice of whether to pursue a food self-sufficiency policy or further integrate its agriculture into the world market. China's choice will have profound implications for the world trading system, as well as for its own economy. At the same time, China needs to reform its land tenure and grain marketing systems. This book examines these majority policy issues using up-to-date information and empirical evidence
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    ISBN: 9789401009652
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 393 p) , ill., maps
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    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 57
    DDC: 910.02
    Keywords: Geography ; Hydraulic engineering ; Physical geography ; Ecology ; Environmental management
    Abstract: This book is a summary of the major achievements resulting from those integrated research projects on the Tibetan Plateau that have been carried out in particular over the last decade. It covers the fundamental issues regarding geoecology and sustainable mountain development on the Plateau. The first part discusses the evolution and differentiation of physical environments, uplifting, environmental changes, and natural zonation of the Plateau. The second part focuses respectively on environments, ecosystems, and sustainable development. The third part contains case studies on Namjabarwa Mountains, Hengduan Mountains, Qiangtang Plateau, and Kunlun Mountains. Audience: The book is geared to the needs of policy makers, geographers, professors, environmental managers, and researchers at a graduate level
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : St. Martin's Press
    ISBN: 9780333977651
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 213 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: New Perspectives in German Studies
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    Keywords: History ; European Union ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Social history ; Political science ; Europe Politics and government
    Abstract: This book examines the role of the masses in the collapse of the East German regime and state in 1989 in the northern district of Schwerin. It shows the extent to which citizens of the GDR dictatorship were instrumental in their state's demise. The 'bottom-up' approach employed, in contrast to the study of power wielding elites and 'opposition', explores the shift in mood and behaviour of citizens which brought about the internal collapse of the state
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    ISBN: 9780230285842
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 243 p) , maps
    Edition: Second edition
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    Keywords: Political theory ; European Union ; Political science ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Europe Politics and government
    Abstract: War - World War I - created the state of Yugoslavia in 1918 and, in a series of wars, starting in 1991, Yugoslavia was replaced by several new and smaller states. The victors had always presented these wars as wars of national liberation: each war was fought for the sacred cause of national liberty. The book traces the origins of ideologies, appealing to the cause of national liberty, and outlines their use in the creation of new states and new political regimes in the Balkans
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    ISBN: 9780312299682
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (289 p.)
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    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Theater History ; America History ; Civilization History ; Dance ; Social history ; Ethnicity ; Theater-History. ; Civilization-History. ; America-History.
    Abstract: The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and white America during the swing era, the European touring circuit, and pre-Civil Rights era racial etiquette
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    ISBN: 9780333983737
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x,223p)
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    Keywords: Political science ; International relations ; Politics and war
    Abstract: The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has continued to give cause for concern even after the end of the Cold War. This book analyses how the prospects for proliferation have changed since the 1990s, particularly in light of the Gulf War and the UN inspections of Iraq. It will examine the new pattern of incentives and disincentives for proliferation, the utility of these weapons at state and sub-state levels and their implications for arms control and international security
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    ISBN: 9780333993798
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 212 p)
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    Keywords: Political theory ; Political philosophy ; Political science ; Globalization ; Sociology ; Political science
    Abstract: That the world is changing is not surprising. What, however, is to be understood by the 'politics of change'? This book takes a critical view of the debate on 'globalization' and assesses revamped versions of structuralist thought, which underpin much of the globalization discourse. Special attention is given to the work of Jürgen Habermas. In contrast to conventional views of change, the book emphasizes 'change' as a politics of emancipation. Bringing together original, specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, it will rapidly establish itself as a landmark text
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    New York : St. Martin's Press
    ISBN: 9780230511545
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 246 p)
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    Keywords: Political theory ; Political philosophy ; Economic theory ; Political science ; Political science ; Econometrics.
    Abstract: The principal criticism of libertarianism is that it would damage human welfare. In response, this book considers an extreme libertarian thesis: there is no conceptual or practical clash among the most plausible accounts of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare, and private-property anarchy. Eschewing moral advocacy as a distraction, it offers a critical-rationalist defence of this objective thesis from many criticisms in the literature
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    ISBN: 9780333983638
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 211 p)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Sociology ; Social groups.
    Abstract: Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in film. Recognising that children's bodies are a target for adult practices of social regulation, the contributors show that children are also active in their construction, employ them in resistance and social action, and generate their own meanings about them. The editor, a leading sociologist of childhood, draws out the theoretical implications of this work, indicates the limits of social constructionism, and suggests new ways of thinking about the hybrid of material, discursive and collective processes involved. It will be a valuable text for social scientists interested in the body, childhood, schooling, the law, medicine and health
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    Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press | New York : St. Martin's Press
    ISBN: 9781349276455
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 151 p)
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    Series Statement: British History in Perspective
    DDC: 941
    Keywords: History ; Great Britain History ; World politics
    Abstract: This study looks afresh at the assumption that those in the Scottish parliament who voted for the union of 1707 sold their country. The world of Scottish politics after the union is then explored from the perspective of the people at the top of the ruling elite. It is the world of the squadrone, Argyll, Ilay, Bute and Dundas, where there was little civic virtue. Much is learned by looking at the century as a whole in describing their struggles, their motives and ideas, their place within the politics of Great Britain and the challenges to their complacency
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401142571
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (p. [245]-376)
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational sociology. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education.
    Abstract: This volume, edited by Linda King, brings together contributions on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and the interplay between so-called `traditional' and `modern' forms of education. Various different communities and cultures are examined, ranging from Egypt to Benin, and from central Brazil to New Caledonia. The contributions bear witness to the extraordinary diversity and richness of educational approaches found in these communities. At the same time, the approach of this volume is to emphasize not so much the exotic nature of otherness and difference, but rather the sense of common humanity which all cultures share with one another and which can lead us to appreciate the universal joy of learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Editorial IntroductionEnfants autochtones et apprentissage: la corporalité comme langage en Amérique du Sud tropicale -- Other Ways to Wisdom: Learning Through the Senses Across Cultures -- Education traditionnelle au Bénin, la place du sacré dans les rites initiatiques -- Community as Classroom: Dilemmas of Valuing African Indigenous Literacy in Education -- Mayan Education in Guatemala: A Pedagogical Model and Its Political Context -- Islamic Versus Western Conceptions of Education: Reflections on Egypt -- New Caledonia: Coutume and Culture in Education/Pierre Clanché -- Learning Through the Soul: Concepts Relating to Learning and Knowledge in the Mayan Cultures of Mexico -- Book Reviews.
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    Dordrecht : Springer-Science/Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401142557
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 296 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Science Study and teaching ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Educational technology. ; Education—Curricula. ; Learning, Psychology of.
    Abstract: In our contemporary learning society, expectations about the contribution of education and training continue to rise. Moreover, the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) creates many challenges. These trends affect not only the aims, content and processes of learning, they also have a strong impact on educational design and development approaches in research and professional practices. Prominent researchers from the Netherlands and the USA present their latest findings on these issues in this volume. The major purpose of this book is to discuss current thinking on promising design approaches and to present innovative (computer-based) tools. The book aims to serve as a resource and reference work that will stimulate advancement in the field of education and training. It is intended to be useful in academic settings as well as for professionals in design and development practices
    Description / Table of Contents: I: Design and Development Approaches1. Principles and Methods of Development Research -- 2. Educational Design and Development: An Overview of Paradigms -- 3. Systems Thinking in Instructional Design -- 4. Educational Design and Development: A Study of Dutch Design Practices -- 5. A Relational Approach to Curriculum Design -- 6. Walker’s Deliberative Approach in a Small-scale Project: The SPIN-case -- 7. Design and Development of Third Generation Distance Learning Materials: From an Industrial Second Generation Approach Towards Realizing Third Generation Distance Education -- 8. The Design and Prototyping of Digital Learning Material: Some New Perspectives -- 9. Supporting Instructional Design with an Information System -- 10. Prototyping to Reach Product Quality -- 11. The Potential of Formative Evaluation in Program Design Models -- 12. Instructional Design: A Conceptual Parallel Processor for Navigating Learning Space -- II: Computer-Based Tools for Educational Design and Development -- 13. Characteristics of Computer-based Tools for Education and Training Development: An Introduction -- 14. The Guided Approach to Instructional Design Advising (GAIDA): A Case-based Approach to Developing Instructional Design Expertise -- 15. An EPSS for Instructional Design: NCR’s Quality Information Products Process -- 16. The PLATO® Courseware Development Environment -- 17. Visual Support for Authoring -- 18. Cognitive Tools to Support the Instructional Design of Simulation-based Discovery Learning Environments: The SIMQUEST Authoring System -- 19. CASCADE-SEA. Computer Assisted Curriculum Analysis, Design and Evaluation for Science Education in Africa -- 20. The TeleTOP Decision Support Tool (DST) -- 21. Enabling Technologies to Design, Produce and Exploit Flexible, Electronic Learning Materials -- 22. The IDXelerator™: Learning-Centered Instructional Design -- 23. Intelligent Support for Instructional Development: Approaches and Limits -- Information about Authors.
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    ISBN: 9789401140065
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 1110 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Architecture ; History ; Anthropology ; Arts. ; History. ; Cultural property. ; Architecture. ; Anthropology.
    Abstract: Memory is a subject that recently has attracted many scholars and readers not only in the general historical sciences, but also in the special field of art history. However, in this book, in which more than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled, Memory is also juxtaposed to its counterpart, Oblivion, thus generating extra excitement in the exchange of ideas. The papers are presented in eleven sections, each of which is devoted to a different aspect of memory and oblivion, ranging from purely material aspects of preservation, to social phenomena with regard to art collecting, from the memory of the art historian to workshop practices, from art in antiquity, to the newest media, from Buddhist iconography to the Berlin Wall. The book addresses readers in the field of history, history of art and psychology
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    ISBN: 9780585274454
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 233 p)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Information Systems ; Economics ; Criminology ; Social sciences. ; Electronic data processing—Management. ; Operations research. ; Criminology. ; Business. ; Management science.
    Abstract: In a world where technology is continually advancing, and problems are becoming more and more complex, established practices for decision making and problem solving are no longer effective. In this new book, however, Enid Mumford draws on her wealth of experience in management, business schools, and working with the police and other professional problem solvers to show us how to tackle complex problems efficiently. With drugs and cyber-crime as her main examples Professor Mumford shows how these topical, yet apparently permanent problems, could be approached. She does this by looking at how the criminals themselves have overcome legal obstacles, and other problems to make the drug trafficking industry the second largest in the world today, and the relative newcomer, electronic fraud, a multi-billion dollar problem already. These crimes, which in themselves lead to more crime from petty theft to support a drug habit, to international money laundering, are incredibly complex, and yet the book shows us that there is not only a way forward with these issues, but a way to approach all complex problems with efficiency and competency, wherever they occur in our lives
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    Boston : Springer Science | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401143998
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 266 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 48
    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Economic policy ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Economic policy.
    Abstract: Measuring Up revisits vital issues of equity and assessment through the research efforts and insights of many of the nation's most prominent educators and assessment experts. As its most urgent purpose, the publication aims to sensitize readers to the unfairness and inappropriate uses of testing instruments which under optimal circumstances have the potential to benefit all students. With America fervently espousing both national and state testing, the differential performance by race and social class raises the specter of tests as barriers to life milestones such as promotion, graduation, and college admissions. In response to such punitive testing, the papers included here explore a host of models and practices that are currently being piloted both in America and abroad as educators grapple with the effects the assessment is having on minority and disadvantaged students and school systems. In the process, outcomes of innovative portfolio and authentic assessments are weighed against important standards and principles of validity and consequences. As the various authors probe the gap between African-American and White test scores, they raise important questions of resources, family background and educational opportunity. Beyond their value of their recommendations to educators, their papers help to identify causes of pupil deficiencies in ways that can be addressed by policymakers. To reinforce the emphasis on equity, several authors present a definitive defense of affirmative action as a critical counter-measure to the lack of fairness in school quality, family and social supports, and educational resources
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    ISBN: 9789401148122
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 263 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Space Studies 3
    Keywords: Humanities ; Engineering ; Computer engineering ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Electrical engineering. ; Automotive engineering.
    Abstract: Recent developments in telecommunications have led to new developments in tele-services, particularly tele-health and tele-education, for the benefit of those living in either the developed world or the less developed world. The benefits accrue to individuals and also to society at large. An international and interdisciplinary Symposium was organized by the International Space University to bring together technical and non-technical people to consider the future applications of space techniques to tele-services. The Proceedings of this Symposium are essential reading for all who need to appreciate the broad range of issues involved in this developing area
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    ISBN: 9789401147088
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 370 p)
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    Series Statement: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society 4
    Keywords: Humanities ; Logic ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Metaphysics.
    Abstract: This book considers philosophy to be more than mere reflection. Through philosophy, humankind can give meaning to the world. In part, this book re-evaluates the philosophy of Leo Apostel, who dedicated his life to the investigation of the use of philosophy in everyday life. But it is also a presentation of international research carried out along the lines of the worldviews project. The contributions address not only professional philosophers, but also students, teachers, academics and everyone interested in the relationship between philosophy and the world
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    Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers
    ISBN: 9780585353234
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 353 p) , ill., maps
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    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 51
    DDC: 330.9
    Keywords: Geography ; International economics ; Economics
    Abstract: The Institutional Position of Seaports deals with the logic and functioning of international seaport administration. This volume not only contains interesting reading for public and private port administrators and managers but can offer by its international comparisons relevant insights for the deregulation, privatisation, liberalisation and deconcentration of former government duties. Every seaport hosts different port activities in which public and private actors interact in changing relations. There is a permanent question of how responsibilities among public port administrators and the private users of the port have been divided and institutionally anchored. The unique model of analysis as used in this research has been built up by the distinction in four different control relations between state and market. By means of this institutional model the division of responsibilities for nautical control, port planning and port services can be determined. The reader can also learn via this model about the specific conditions that are needed to activate the learning capabilities of the different port activities. The model of analysis can be applied to every seaport in the world. Audience: This book is essential for everyone who is in a public or private managing or policy-making position in a seaport. It can also be of great help to students in disciplines like maritime economics, strategic management, social geography and public administration; for example, to make them more aware of the specific role divisions and mechanisms between state and market in international seaports
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    ISBN: 9780585296012
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 265 p)
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    Series Statement: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Sociology ; Sociology. ; Education. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Public health.
    Abstract: This book demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behavior and advocates what the author calls `critical idealism' as a way of life. The author discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and `medicalist' movements as examples of the contemporary drift toward intolerance and incivility and demonstrates how idealism can contribute to misleading and dangerous behavior in some cases but in the right hands can result in positive social action
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    ISBN: 9789401147668
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 290 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: European Studies of Population 5
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Geography ; Statistics ; Population ; Demography ; Demography. ; Population. ; Population—Economic aspects. ; Geography. ; Statistics .
    Abstract: This book is about the transition to modernity of population forecasting. In many countries interest in the future course of population was kindled by debates on the population problem since the turn of the 19th century. The debates were alternately caused by fear of the economic consequences of over-population, by anxiety regarding the strategic demographic aspects of population decline, the decline of the national elite, or by the menace of imminent race suicide. Because population debates tended to be based on emotion rather than `objective' arguments, some economists and statisticians felt the need for a better understanding of population dynamics and its effect on the development of future population. Their pursuit of objectivity in population debates resulted in the development of a forecasting methodology based on the findings of life table theory and analytical demography. The innovation of forecasting methodology was greatly helped by improved public statistics: the published data of population censuses and ever-extending time series of demographic rates. At the same time the speculative nature of the resulting studies of future population provided an obstacle to the advancement of modern population forecasting by representatives of those schools of statistics, where the focus was on the reliability and trustworthiness of public statistics in the first place. In the 1930s the innovation and propagation of knowledge of modern forecasting methodology received a new stimulus when it became clear that the new methodology could easily be applied in preliminary town planning research and urban and regional policy-making. This book recounts the history of the origin and establishment of modern population forecasting methodology and the resistance the new methodology met with. It demonstrates - using George Herbert Mead's philosophy of time - that the emergence of modern population forecasting resulted in a drastic change of the societal position of the forecaster, the consequences of which still resound today. The book uncovers the first contributions to the description and theory of the demographic transition in the publications of the early innovators of population forecasting. It lays bare the pioneering position of inter-war population forecasting in The Netherlands and clarifies why the innovative endeavours of Dutch population forecasters of that period nevertheless remained hidden in international histories. This book will be of interest to scient ...
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    ISBN: 9781349275212
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 287 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Problems in Focus Series
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    Keywords: History, Modern ; Great Britain History ; Military history ; Politics and war ; History ; Europe History
    Abstract: War played a fundamental role in European history during the early modern period. This up-to-date collection covers this crucial period in military history and analyses the nature and impact of warfare on the political and social development of Europe
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    ISBN: 9780333982594
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xx, 197 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Public policy ; European Union ; Political science ; Europe Politics and government ; Political planning.
    Abstract: This book analyses EU regional policy and its co-ordination with other European and national public policies, namely investment grants, research and development policy and transport policy. The analysis identifies shortcomings within EU regional policy as well as co-ordination, problems with other public policies
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    ISBN: 9781349269983
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii,135p)
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    Series Statement: British History in Perspective
    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Great Britain History ; Military history ; Literature ; Political science ; Political theory
    Abstract: One of the most charismatic and controversial of British politicians, David Lloyd George had a profound impact on the country; as a Welsh radical, as an Edwardian social reformer and as 'the man who won the war'. Lloyd George was centrally involved in all the major national issues of the early twentieth century, and in the aftermath of World War I he played a crucial role at the Versailles peace conference and on the world scene of the early 1920s. His life is fascinating in itself and highly valuable as a means to understanding a crucial era in British history. Students hoping to understand the politics of the period that decisively ushered in the British experience of the welfare state, and, through the emergencies provoked by the Great War, a new and highly obtrusive role for government, will find Dr. Packer's book an invaluable aid
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    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401155168
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 299 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 22
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; History. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: The Law of Causality and its Limits (1931) a principal work from the classical period of the Vienna Circle, was written by Philipp Frank, a physicist and philosopher, to clarify the strengths and weaknesses of the notion of causal explanation. The book contains analyses of central issues in the philosophy of science: meaning of general statements, determinism, vitalism, lawfulness in biology and physical science, irreversibility, cause and chance, among others
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    ISBN: 9789401154703
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (2 v. in 1 (xiii, 576 p.)) , ill
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    Series Statement: New ICMI Studies Series 4
    Keywords: Education ; Mathematics ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Mathematics.
    Abstract: The present book is the result of the reflection of many individuals in mathematics education on this and related questions. Is mathematics education a science? Is it a discipline? In what sense? What is its place within other domains of research and academic disciplines? What accounts for its specificity? In the book, the reader will find a range of possible answers to these questions, a variety of analyses of the actual directions of research in different countries, and a number of visions for the future of research in mathematics education. The book is a result of an ICMI Study, whose theme was formulated as: `What is Research in Mathematics Education and What are Its Results?'. One important outcome of this study was the realization of the reasons for the difficulty of the questions that the study was posing, leading possibly to a set of other questions, better suited to the actual concerns and research practices of mathematics education researchers
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    ISBN: 9789401151863
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 315 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 73
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: During the last two decades, applied ethics has not only developed into one of the most important philosophical disciplines but has also differentiated into so many subdisciplines that it is becoming increasingly difficult to survey it. A much-needed overview is provided by the eighteen contributions to this volume, in which internationally renowned experts deal with central questions of environmental ethics, bioethics and medical ethics, professional and business ethics, social, political, and legal ethics as well as with the aims and foundations of applied ethics in general. Thanks to a philosophical introduction and selected bibliographical references added to each chapter, the book is very well suited as a basis for courses in applied ethics. It is directed not only to philosophers and to ethicists from other disciplines but to scientists in general and to all people who are interested in the rational discussion of moral principles and their application to concrete problems in the sciences and in everyday life
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 399 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 273
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Asian. ; Mathematical logic. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Epistemology.
    Abstract: This collection celebrates the centenary of the Lvov-Warsaw school, established by Kazimierz Twardowski in Lvov in 1895. This school belongs to analytic philosophy and successfully worked in all branches of philosophy. The Warsaw school of logic became perhaps the most important part of Twardowski's heritage. Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz and Tarski, leading Polish logicians, achieved results which essentially influenced the development of contemporary logic. A close connection of logic and philosophy was a typical feature of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The papers included in the collection deal with all directions of research undertaken by Polish analytic philosophers. Special attention is paid to logic and comparisons with other philosophical movements, particularly with Brentanism, which was one of the sources of the Lvov-Warsaw school
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    ISBN: 9789401152402
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 411 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy of nature. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Self.
    Abstract: In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life? If the latter, then culture is assimilated into nature and thus would lose its claim to autonomy: its criteria would be superseded by those of nature alone. Of course, nature and culture may both still be seen as being absorbed by the inner powers of specifically human inwardness, on which view, human being, caught in its own transcendence, becomes separated radically in kind from the rest of existence and may not touch even the shadow of reality except through its own prism. Excess, therefore, or prolongation? And on what terms? The relationship between culture and nature in its technical phase demands a new elucidation. Here this is pursued by excavating the root significance of the 'multiple rationalities' of life. In contrast to Husserl, who differentiated living types according to their degree of participation in the world, the phenomenology of life disentangles living types from within the ontopoietic web of life itself. The human creative act reveals itself as the Great Divide of the Logos of Life - a divide that does not separate but harmonizes, thus dispelling both naturalistic and spiritualistic reductionism
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    ISBN: 9780585271620
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 347 p)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 56
    DDC: 610.1
    Keywords: Medicine ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics
    Abstract: This is the first book-length scholarly study of the medical ethics of John Gregory (1724-1773), who wrote the first English-language bioethics. This book shows how Gregory invented professional medical ethics and, in the process, the concept of the profession of medicine as a fiduciary profession. Making extensive use of manuscript and other primary sources, the book provides the first complete intellectual biography of Gregory, placing his medical ethics in its eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy. A detailed examination of his texts on medical ethics is followed by a consideration of the implications of Gregory's medical ethics for contemporary bioethics, especially feminist bioethics. This book is intended for scholars, teachers, and students of bioethics, medical ethics, the history of medicine, and the history of medical ethics
    Description / Table of Contents: ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 323 p)
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 11
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Political science ; Ethics. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: New Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton includes a history and anecdotes of Clarence Walton's professional and personal life; a discussion of the controversial introduction of ethics into the field of management studies; contributions on a variety of subjects connected to leadership and business ethics from experts in the field; and critical essays reviewing Clarence's most recent work in social criticism. The book gives a history of the rise of the fields of business and society and business ethics, details the events leading to its acceptance in academic circles and gives personal accounts by Clarence Walton, one of the people most responsible for its creation. Intended target groups are students, former academic peers, and friends of Clarence Walton, as well as anyone interested in the history of business ethics or connected to Columbia University of America, or The American College
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    ISBN: 9780585323152
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 254 p)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—History. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: This volume reprints in a scholar's edition the first English-language texts on bioethics, John Gregory's (1724-1773) Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician and on the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy (London, 1770) and Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician (London, 1772). Five previously unpublished manuscripts of Gregory's lectures are also included. An introduction places Gregory's medical ethics and philosophy of medicine in their eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy, and provides a bibliography of primary and secondary sources as an aid to teaching and future scholarship. The book's index provides access to Gregory's texts, by using both historical terms and current terminology of bioethics. A volume in the subseries Classics of Medical Ethics
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    ISBN: 9789401151511
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 249 p)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 268
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Wittgenstein's philosophy is a puzzling subject mainly because Wittgenstein himself does not appear to have given a full, explicit account of what he means by his `phenomenology', `phenomenological language' or `phenomenological problems'. This book examines the idea of phenomenology throughout the different stages of Wittgenstein's philosophical development. The author argues that Wittgenstein's entire philosophical life was mainly concerned with what is immediately given in one's experience. Early interpretations of the phenomenological elements in Wittgenstein's philosophy usually emphasized the unique nature of his later work. However, the author here convincingly makes the case that Wittgenstein's concern with immediate experience and the way we describe it guided his philosophical journey through the phenomenological problems that pervade his work. The author offers many intriguing ideas and philosophical insights for Wittgenstein scholars and students, and philosophers interested in phenomenology who wish to study one of the most distinguished but least understood philosophers of the twentieth century. Audience: Philosophers, philosophers interested in phenomenology, Wittgenstein scholars
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    ISBN: 9789401150620
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 318 p)
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 26
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Philosophy ; Logic. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Law—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information processing, namely by a process in which pieces of descriptive and practical information are involved. Action is explained by a formal and finalistic theory which is connected with a specific theory of institutions. The philosophical basis of the logic of norm sentences and of other systems of practical thinking (formal teleology, axiology, logic of preferences) is discussed. The author criticizes traditional deontic logic and argues in favor of a genuine logic of norms. The book gives a structure analysis of the so-called practical inference and of nomic causal propositions. Besides a critical account of von Wright's practical philosophy the author offers critical analyses of discourse rationality (Habermas, Apel, Alexy) and of Wittgenstein's views on philosophizing. The book addresses readers interested in philosophical logic, practical philosophy, sociology of institutions, legal philosophy, and theory democracy
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    ISBN: 9789401155304
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 312 p)
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; History ; Ethics ; Medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics -- 2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
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    ISBN: 9789401148863
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 820 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Education ; Public health ; Medical Education ; Medical education. ; Public health.
    Abstract: The Ottawa conferences, which are well known in the field of medical education, are interesting to both researchers and teachers because of the quality of the papers presented. This book gives an overview of the most recent advances in medical education in more than 20 countries. Such themes as continuing medical education, faculty development, information technology, standardized patients, and innovations in assessment are among those highlighted. Name and subject indexes are provided for quick and easy reference
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    ISBN: 9789401158145
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 466 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 65
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Computational linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Linguistics. ; Semiotics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Computational linguistics.
    Abstract: Ways of Scope Taking is concerned with syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of scope. Its starting point is the well-known but often neglected fact that different types of quantifiers interact differently with each other and other operators. The theoretical examination of significant bodies of data, both old and novel, leads to two central claims. (1) Scope is a by-product of a set of distinct Logical Form processes; each quantifier participates in those that suit its particular features. (2) Scope interaction is further constrained by the semantics of the interacting operators. The arguments are developed using Minimalist syntax, Generalized Quantify theory, Discourse Representation Theory, and algebraic semantics. The contributors (Beghelli, Ben-Shalom, Doetjes, Farkas, Gutiérrez Rexach, Honcoop, Stabler, Stowell, Szabolcsi and Zwarts) make tightly related theoretical assumptions and focus on related empirical phenomena, which include the direct and inverse scope of quantifiers, distributivity, negation, modal and intensional contexts, weak islands, event-related readings, interrogatives, wh/quantifier interactions, and Hungarian syntax. An introduction to the formal semantics background is provided. Audience: Linguists, philosophers, computational and psycholinguists; advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in these fields
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    ISBN: 9780585346496
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 476 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Political science ; Sociology ; Labor economics. ; Sociology. ; Economics. ; Political science.
    Abstract: As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes: a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism
    Description / Table of Contents: PrologueChina -- The Political and Economic Background -- The Industrial Relations Scene: The Players, Problems, and Prospects -- The ACFTU, Labor Law, and Labor Reform -- The Law, Contracts, Strikes, and Dispute Settlement -- Worker Rights Issues -- Indonesia -- A Political, Economic, and Demographic Overview -- Unions, Employers, and Labor Market Developments -- The Legal Framework -- Labor Disputes and International Pressures -- Thailand -- The Institutional Background -- The Labor Law Framework -- Labor-Management Relations -- Worker Rights Issues -- International Developments -- Malaysia -- Political Events, Economic Facts, and Demographic Variables -- The Law and the Reality -- Labor Relations: Structure, Process, and Practice -- Unresolved Issues -- Malaysia and the World Scene -- Epilogue.
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585304526
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 271 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology ; Archaeology.
    Abstract: This volume presents an insightful critical analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. Reasons for the acceptance and incorporation of important concepts, as well as the paradigm's strengths and weaknesses, are discussed in detail. The framework for this analysis is founded on the contrast between two metaphysics used by evolutionary biologists in discussing their own discipline: materialistic/populational thinking and essentialistic/typological thinking. Employing this framework, the authors show not only why the culture history paradigm lost favor in the 1960s, but also which of its aspects need to be retained if archaeology is ever to produce a viable theory of culture change
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    ISBN: 9780585256573
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 216 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences. ; Public health.
    Abstract: By assuming it is possible to understand regression analysis without fully comprehending all its underlying proofs and theories, this introduction to the widely used statistical technique is accessible to readers who may have only a rudimentary knowledge of mathematics. Chapters discuss: -descriptive statistics using vector notation and the components of a simple regression model;-the logic of sampling distributions and simple hypothesis testing; -the basic operations of matrix algebra and the properties of the multiple regression model; -testing compound hypotheses and the application of the regression model to the analyses of variance and covariance, and -structural equation models and influence statistics
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    ISBN: 9780306472084
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (v. 〈1-2 〉) , ill
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    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching .
    Abstract: Which goals and standards guide science education across the world? This first report of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) explores this question by examining the rich data collected in the TIMSS Curriculum Analysis. This is a study without precedent in scale or detail. It includes an exhaustive, page-by-page inventory of science content and other pedagogical characteristics collected from hundreds of textbooks and curriculum guides from almost 50 countries. These data document many important features of these countries' mathematics education curricula. The book examines important features of curriculum policy across the TIMSS countries, especially the role of textbooks and curriculum guides. It also portrays similarities and differences in science curricula in the succession of objectives across grades. Additionally, it details characteristics of the science curriculum as embodied in textbooks and curriculum guides intended for select grades. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with science education standards, curriculum policy, cross-national educational comparisons, and science pedagogy
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    ISBN: 9789401145312
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 319 p)
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    Series Statement: Encyclopedia of Language and Education 5
    Keywords: Education ; Psycholinguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Education. ; Sociolinguistics. ; Psycholinguistics.
    Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive account of the implementation of bilingual education programs in countries throughout the world. Bilingual programs have been implemented to achieve a variety of educational and social goals in different contexts. Some programs are intended to support the maintenance of national minority languages or to revitalize languages whose long-term survival is threatened; others aim to help recent immigrants succeed academically while making the transition to instruction taught primarily through the majority language of the society. In addition, bilingual programs have been used to teach additional languages to students from the majority or dominant language group. Similar theoretical principles underlie the development of bilingual conversational and academic skills in all these diverse contexts. For academics, graduate students, and policy-makers, this volume clearly outlines the social and educational goals that can be achieved through bilingual education. It also highlights the need to take account of the complex political context of inter-group relationships within which bilingual programs are inevitably embedded
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    ISBN: 9780585345871
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 214 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 3
    Keywords: Education ; Computer science ; Education. ; Computer science.
    Abstract: Based on the author's experience using computers and multimedia in teaching large, multisection courses, this groundbreaking text demonstrates how teaching professionals at all levels of instruction can use `paperless' electronic dialoguing to dramatically improve classroom instruction. The book explains how to employ such tools as: hypertext, animation, morphs, CAD, and virtual reality interactive strategies using of e-mail `self-regulation', a means of enhancing students'independence and efficiency and `intranets', networks that are off the Web but operate on the same basic principle
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    ISBN: 9789401106016
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 226 p) , ill. (some col.)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Humanities ; Chemistry, Organic ; Publishers and publishing ; Printing. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Chemistry, Organic.
    Abstract: This book describes the three main printing and imaging technologies (impact, non-impact and photography) and critically evaluates each technology in the light of cost, speed, performance and suitability for purpose. The book will be of key interest to chemists and technologists working on the development of new or improved printing and imaging systems
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Setting the scene2 Traditional impact printing -- 3 Silver halide photography -- 4 Electrophotography -- 5 Ink jet printing -- 6 Thermal printing -- 7 Optical data-storage systems -- 8 Electrostatic, ionographic, magnetographic and embryonic printing technologies -- 9 The future.
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    ISBN: 9780585327679
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 468 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Technology-Based Education Series 1
    Keywords: Education ; Computer science ; Educational technology. ; Computer science.
    Abstract: This book reports on the policies and practices regarding computers in education in 20 countries, representing Northern America, Asia, and both the Eastern and Western parts of Europe. Moreover, the editors have analysed and reflected from several perspectives on the richness of the national reports, resulting in chapters on curricular, (in)equity and education paradigmatic aspects of the introduction of computers in education
    Description / Table of Contents: ""COVER""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""FOREWORD""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""
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    ISBN: 9780585284248
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (156 p)
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées 147
    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy, modern ; Medicine ; Artificial intelligence ; History ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Medicine—History.
    Abstract: Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube? This was the question which the Irish politician and scientist William Molyneux posed in 1688 to John Locke. Molyneux's question has intrigued a wide variety of intellectuals for three centuries. Those who have attempted to solve it include Berkeley, Reid, Leibniz, Voltaire, La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot, Müller, Helmholtz, William James and Gareth Evans. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the discussion about Molyneux's problem. It will be of interest to historians of both philosophy and psychology
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    ISBN: 9781137081780
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (249 p) , ill
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    Keywords: History ; Great Britain History
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    ISBN: 9780585334851
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 365 p) , ill., maps
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    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 32
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Neurosciences ; Philosophy of mind ; Neurology ; Artificial intelligence ; Human Geography
    Abstract: This book sheds light on processes associated with the construction of cognitive maps, that is to say, with the construction of internal representations of very large spatial entities such as towns, cities, neighborhoods, landscapes, metropolitan areas, environments and the like. Because of their size, such entities can never be seen in their entirety, and consequently one constructs their internal representation by means of visual, as well as non-visual, modes of sensation and information - text, auditory, haptic and olfactory means for example - or by inference. Intersensory coordination and information transfer thus play a crucial role in the construction of cognitive maps. Because it involves a multiplicity of sensational and informational modes, the issue of cognitive maps does not fall into any single traditional cognitive field, but rather into, and often in between, several of them. Thus, although one is dealing here with processes associated with almost every aspect of our daily life, the subject has received relatively marginal scientific attention. The book is directed to researchers and students of cognitive mapping and environmental cognition. In particular it focuses on the cognitive processes by which one form of information, say haptic, is being transformed into another, say a visual image, and by which multiple forms of information participate in constructing cognitive maps
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    ISBN: 9789401103992
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 274 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 8
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Industrial management ; Ethics. ; Management.
    Abstract: Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations to the public gaze, with management in the limelight. Facing Public Interest opens up new vistas on business policy and corporate communications facing public interest. The relationship between private enterprise and public interest is subjected to an ethical examination, highlighting the role of the general public as a locus of morality for business and the guiding concept of a corporate dialogue between management and the concerned public. Instructive case studies are also presented. The volume not only proposes corporate dialogue: it puts into practice. Business leaders, representatives of citizens' groups, public affairs consultants, and academics discuss the topics thoroughly and thoughtfully in the best contributions to the seventh conference on the European Business Ethics Network, held at the University of St. Gallen in September 1994
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