governance vi new insights on governance theory and

Marriages & Families: Intimacy, Diversity, and Strengths

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Olson, Daong>viong>d / DeFrain, John / Skogrand, Linda, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua, An introductory text, "Marriages and Families" accentuates the positive aspects of relationships and focuses on enriching students' knowledge and experience in building strong, successful couple and family relationships. The authors, seasoned family scholars and therapists, integrate research, theory, and practical applications with an interdisciplinary perspective on marriage and family. To enhance teaching and student learning, an updated AWARE (Awareness of Attitudes and Relationships Expectations) Online computerized assessment contains 15 categories that match the chapters of the book.

Global Futures: Shaping Globalization

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pieterse, Jan Nederveen, PUBLISHER: Zed Books, This book rejects a fatalistic stance in the face of the problems that accelerating globalization is throwing up. The contributors argue that humanity must seek to shape globalization. In a sequence of tightly argued essays, they suggest a variety of innovative perspectives, changes, policies, and institutional reforms that we ought to strive for in our increasingly inter-connected world. The exciting range of topics discussed include global ong>governanceong> and democratization; international finance and reform of the world economy; Third World development; the enong>viong>ronment; the position of women; poverty and social exclusion; technology and culture; and the future shape of urban growth.

Communication Yearbook 25

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gudykunst, William B., PUBLISHER: Routledge, "Communication Yearbook 25" is devoted to publishing state-of-the-art literature reong>viong>ews in which authors critique and synthesize a body of communication research. This volume contains critical, integrative reong>viong>ews of research on democracy and ong>newong> communication technologies; the Federal Communication Commission's communication policymaking process; cognitive effects of hypermedia; mediation of children's teleong>viong>sion ong>viong>ewing; informatization, world systems, and developing countries; communication ethics; communication in culturally diverse work groups; and attitudes toward language. In addition, it also includes senior scholars' reong>viong>ews of research on imagined interactions and symbolic convergence theory. Representing media, interpersonal, intercultural, and other areas of communication, this is an important reference on current research for scholars and students in the social sciences. Each of the chapters make a unique contribution to the field.

The Avengers Actionfigur 1/4 Iron Man Mark XXI Midas Armor

This brand ong>newong> version of Iron Man is based on the Mark XXI. All ong>newong> deco sporting different shades of metallic and gold paint, with additional darker washes to bring out the finer armor detail.The Iron Man figure stands over 46 cm tall and features over 25 points of articulation, incredible moong>viong>e accurate detail, and LEDs on the eyes, chest, and palms. Includes 2 pairs of interchangeable hands and brand ong>newong> golden armor packaging. Batteries Included.

African Solutions: Best Practices from the African Peer

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Petlane, Tsoeu / Gruzd, Steven, PUBLISHER: Jacana Media, The result of research into the policies, programs, and experiences identified as best practices in the Country Reong>viong>ew Reports of 12 countries, this volume seeks to understand how these successful policies can be strengthened for use as teaching materials within the African Peer Reong>viong>ew Mechanism (APRM) and around the continent. From Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, this study was commissioned and coordinated by the ong>Governanceong> and APRM Program of the South African Institute of International Affairs and contains in-depth explanations of the conceptualization and applications of the best practices included.

Buddhism Under the T'Ang

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weinstein, Stanley, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Buddhism Under the Tang is a history of the Buddhist Church during the T'ang dynasty (), when Buddhist thought reached the pinnacle of its development. The three centuries spanned by the T'ang saw the formation of such important philosophical schools as the Fa-hsiang and Hua-yen, the consolidation of the T'ien-t'ai school, the introduction of Esoteric Buddhism from India, and the emergence of the Pure Land and Chan schools as the predominant expressions of Buddhist faith and practice. Professor Weinstein draws extensively upon both secular and ecclesiastical records to chronicle the ong>viong>cissitudes of the Buddhist Church. The main focus is on the constantly changing relationship between the Buddhist Church and the T'ang state. Among the topics discussed in detail are the various attempts to curb the power of the Buddhist monasteries, the ong>governanceong> of the Buddhist clergy, the use of Buddhism to promote secular political ends, and the ong>viong>olent suppression of Buddhism by Emperor Wu () and its formal restoration under the last T'ang emperor.

Hiker's Guide High Sierra Tuolumne Mead

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schaffer, Jeffrey P. / Winnett, Thomas / Wilderness Press, PUBLISHER: Wilderness Press, A ong>newong> look, up-to-date facts, and still small enough to tuck in your back pocket Use this reong>viong>sed edition of our classic hiking book to plan your trips and as a field guide on the trail. ong>Newong> geology and flora and fauna chapters proong>viong>de natural history background. Area location maps get you there, updated descriptions of trails let you know what you're in for, and tips on backpacking keep you on track. Information on wilderness permits included.

Econoguide Cruises: Cruising the Caribbean, Hawaii, New

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sandler, Corey, PUBLISHER: Insiders' Guide (CT), Featuring information on cruises to the Caribbean, Hawaii, ong>Newong> England, Alaska, and Europe, this ong>newong>ly updated guide helps readers get the most out of their cruise. Adong>viong>ce on purchasing a cruise vacation and tips for traveling safely and efficiently are included, as well as ratings and reong>viong>ews for each major cruise line.

Educational Research Undone

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stronach, Ian / Stronach, Aan / Maclure, Margaret, PUBLISHER: Open University Press, "This is a provocative, important book. It moves the discourses of postmodernism and deconstructionism to ong>newong> levels of insight and analysis. Authors Stronach and MacLure perform a major serong>viong>ce to the field, showing how these complex discourses can be fitted to the concrete practices of educational research and pedagogy. In so doing they set ong>newong> goals and priorities for the next generation of educational research and theory" - Norman K Denzin, College of Communications Scholar, Distinguished Professor of Communication, Research Professor of Sociology, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "As intelligent a hearing as postmodernism is likely to receive." - Professor Ernie House, School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder. This book is the first educational research text in the UK to come to terms with postmodernism and deconstruction, connecting these emerging problematics of 'representation' to issues in philosophy, research methodology, and policy critique, and both proong>viong>ding and criticising its own examples. The authors draw on literary theory, anthropology, and sociology in order to construct alternative ways of reading and writing educational research, claiming that it is with a 'reformed inheritance' that such research can best address the condition of postmodernity as well as the positive and negative aspects of postmodernism. The book will appeal to educational and social researchers, as well as to research students.

Realistic Socio-Legal Theory Pragmatism and A Social Theory

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brian Z Tamanaha, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, NA

Discriminants, Resultants, and Multidimensional Determinants

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gel'fand, I. M. / Gelfand / Gelfand, Israel M., PUBLISHER: Springer, "This book reong>viong>ves and vastly expands the classical theory of resultants and discriminants. Most of the main ong>newong> results of the book have been published earlier in more than a dozen joint papers of the authors. The book nicely complements these original papers with many examples illustrating both old and ong>newong> results of the theory."a "Mathematical Reong>viong>ews "Collecting and extending the fundamental and highly original results of the authors, it presents a unique blend of classical mathematics and very recent developments in algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and combinatorial theory." a "Zentralblatt Math "This book is highly recommended if you want to get into the thick of contemporary algebra, or if you wish to find some interesting problem to work on, whose solution will benefit mankind." a "Gian-Carlo Rota, Advanced Book Reong>viong>ews "a]the book is almost perfectly written, and thus I warmly recommend it not only to scholars but especially to students. The latter do need a text with broader ong>viong>ews, which shows that mathematics is not just a sequence of apparently unrelated expositions of ong>newong> theories, a] but instead a very huge and intricate building whose edification may sometimes experience difficulties a] but eventually progresses steadily." a "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Braunwald, Eugene, PUBLISHER: W.B. Saunders Company, The Fifth Edition of the definitive reference on heart disease -- has been assiduously reong>viong>sed and updated Dr. Braunwald has added 23 ong>newong> chapters and 22 renowned ong>newong> contributors to bring readers the state of the art in the field of cardiology. From examination and circulatory function to diseases of the heart and broader perspectives on heart disease and cardiologic practice, this classic resource remains authoritative, user-friendly, and complete.

White Star: A Dog on the Titanic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marty Crisp, PUBLISHER: Scholastic Inc, Sam Harris is on the trip of a lifetime. He's traveling from England to ong>Newong> York on the first voyage of the greatest ocean liner in history--the Titanic. Here is a story of cowardice and courage, of despair and determination, and of an unbreakable bond between a boy and a dog on one terrifying night.

Leaders on Leading: Insights from the Field

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Senn-Delaney Leadership Consulting Group / Senn, Larry E., PUBLISHER: Leadership Press (Long Beach, CA), More than 500 quotes from leaders throughout history, proong>viong>de a quick guide and entertaining reference to ideas that lead people and organizations. This book will be a ready addition to managers' libraries, proong>viong>ding thought-provoking ong>insightsong> into a process that is often as elusive as it is imperative.

The New Age Cult

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Martin, Walter, PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers, Based on thirty-five years of study on the ong>Newong> Age Movement, the foremost expert on cults addresses the No. 1 controversy within the church today. An invaluable reference work for scholar and layperson alike.

The Book of Job

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moore, Thomas / Moore, Thomas, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, The Book of Job has long been considered the most challenging and controversial text of Western religion. Its simple yet powerful story--of a good and pious man inflicted with terrible pain and suffering--raises basic questions of faith that, to this day, resonate deeply within every liong>viong>ng soul. Now in this special Riverhead edition, Thomas Moore, the author of Care of the Soul, offers his unique perspective on one of the most central tales of the Bible. Combining Jungian theory, archetypal mythology, and modem psychology, he casts a light of ong>newong> meaning and understanding upon the human condition itself--and on our own personal experience in the world today.

A Good Yarn

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Macomber, Debbie, PUBLISHER: Mira Books, - The Shop On Blossom Street (Mira Books, hardcover, 5/04) spent four weeks on the ong>Newong> York Times extended bestseller list, peaking at #19. - Changing Habits (hardcover, 5/03) was a critical success and reached #32 on the ong>Newong> York Times extended hardcover bestseller list. - Between Friends (paperback, 4/03) was a ong>Newong> York Times bestseller, reaching #11, a USA Today bestseller, reaching #12, and a Publishers Weekly bestseller, reaching #15. - The Christmas Basket (gift hardcover, ) reached #31 on the ong>Newong> York Times extended hardcover bestseller list. - 204 Rosewood Lane (9/02) spent five weeks on the ong>Newong> York Times bestseller list, reaching #12, five weeks on the USA Today bestseller list, reaching #12, and reached #14 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list.

Data Mining Your Website

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mena, Jesus, PUBLISHER: Digital Press, Turn Web data into knowledge about your customers. This exciting book will help companies create, capture, enhance, and analyze one of their most valuable ong>newong> sources of marketing information-usage and transactional data from a website. A company's website is a primary point of contact with its customers and a medium in which ong>viong>sitor's actions are messages about who they are and what they want. Data Mining Your Website will teach you the tools, techniques, and technologies you'll need to profile current and potential customers and predict on-line interests and behaong>viong>or. You'll learn how to extract from the huge pools of information your website generates, ong>insightsong> into on-line buying patterns, and how to apply this knowledge to design a website that better attracts, engages, and retains on-line customers. Data Mining Your Website explains how data mining is a foundation for the ong>newong> field of web-based, interactive retailing, marketing, and advertising. This innovative book will help web developers and marketers, webmasters, and data management professionals harness powerful ong>newong> tools and processes. The first book to apply data mining specifically to e-commerce Learn effective methods for gathering, managing, and mining Web customer information Use data mining to profile customers and create personalized e-commerce programs

Harmonic Analysis of Mean Periodic Functions on Symmetric

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Volchkov, Valery V. / Volchkov, ong>Viong>taly V. / Volchkov, V. V., PUBLISHER: Springer, The book presents the first systematic and unified treatment of the theory of mean periodic functions on homogeneous spaces. This area has its classical roots in the beginning of the twentieth century and is now a very active research area, haong>viong>ng close connections to harmonic analysis, complex analysis, integral geometry, and analysis on symmetric spaces. The main purpose of this book is the study of local aspects of spectral analysis and spectral synthesis on Euclidean spaces, Riemannian symmetric spaces of an arbitrary rank and Heisenberg groups. The subject can be ong>viong>ewed as arising from three classical topics: Johna (TM)s support theorem, Schwartza (TM)s fundamental principle, and Delsartea (TM)s two-radii theorem. Very up-to-date, the book contains most of the significant recent results in this area with complete and detailed proofs. In order to make this book accessible to a wide audience, the authors proong>viong>de an introductory part developing analysis on symmetric spaces without use of Lie theory. Challenging open problems are described and explained, and promising ong>newong> research directions are indicated. Designed for both experts and beginners in the field, the book is rich in methods for a wide variety of problems in many areas of mathematics. Acquista Ora

Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Leary, Timothy, PUBLISHER: Continuum, Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O'Leary develops and applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of haong>viong>ng a profound effect on their audiences, he suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, Joyce, Beckett, Friel and Heaney, O'Leary draws on Foucault's concept of experience as well as the work of Dewey, Gadamer, and Deleuze and Guattari. Combining these resources, he proposes a ong>newong> approach to the ethics of literature. Of interest to readers in both philosophy and literary studies, this book offers ong>newong> ong>insightsong> into Foucault's mature philosophy and an improved understanding of what it is to read and be affected by a work of fiction.

The Social Market Economy: Theory and Ethics of the Economic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Koslowski, P. / Koslowski, Peter, PUBLISHER: Springer, The social market economy forms a fundamental theory of the market economy and an integrated economic and ethical theory of the economic order in which the political and societal conditions for the working of the market are included in the theory of the market economy. The social market economy is presented as a universal theory of the decisions to be made about the economic order in all cultures and is analysed in its basic theoretical foundations and in its application to the transition process from the planned to the market economy, particulary in the privatisation of socialised property in Russia and former East Germany. Leading German and Russian experts in the field as well as four classical texts present a systematic analysis of the social market economy from the point of ong>viong>ew of economics, law, and ethics.

Transport Economics: Theory, Application and Policy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mallard, Graham / Glaister, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, "Transport Economics"introduces students to the key areas of the transport sector, combining lucid explanation of theory with detailed case studies from across the European Union. The book applies microeconomic theory and isaimed at students taking their first course in the subject.

Kingship and Common Profit in Gower's Confessio Amantis

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Peck, Russell A. / Gardner, John, PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press, "Confessio Amantis," " "the principal work in English by John Gower, friend of Chaucer, by whom he was influenced, has always been read as a conventional poem about the seven deadly sins. Here, paying particular attention to the poem's language and style, Peck gives a brilliant ong>newong> reinterpretation which not only illuminates the poem's elegant beauty but proong>viong>des a profound moral purpose as well. Gower's "Confessio, "according to Peck, is a restatement of late fourteenth-cen-tury ideas of good and bad behaong>viong>or, and is designed to illuminate and re-shape the minds and hearts of men. Peck sees the concepts of "kingship"--the ong>governanceong> of souls as well as king-doms--and "common profit"--the mutual enhancement of such king-doms--as the poem's unifying ideas. Peck's discussion further shows how the various tales hold together and support the poem's loose plot and the poet's strongly moral intention.

Introduction to Organic and Neurogenic Disorders of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ferrand, Carole T. / Bloom, Ronald L., PUBLISHER: Allyn & Bacon, This book proong>viong>des a life-span perspective on organic and neurogenic disorders of communication. The book presents current theories in the context of clinical practice and combines a medical approach to communication disorders with emphasis on educational, social and cultural factors. The book includes traditional areas of practice (e.g. aphasia, voice disorders, etc.) as well as ong>newong> or expanded areas (e.g. dysphagia, psychiatric disorders, dementias). Each chapter is based on current research and theory, which proong>viong>des a solid and comprehensive framework for understanding these communication problems. In addition, essential information in the areas of instrumentation, analytic techniques, and medio-surgical advances is highlighted. The book proong>viong>des intelligent and in-depth coverage of medically-related communication disorders and their consequences, without sacrificing readability. For professionals working in the field of speech-language pathology.

Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ellwood, Robert S. / McGraw, Barbara A., PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, This classic work presents the religions of the world in a way that captures the total human experience in both a factual and empathetic manner. Contains chapters on understanding the world's religious heritage; the cosmic religions of prehistoric and tribal peoples; the spiritual paths of India; Buddhism and other religions of East Asia; Monotheistic religions; Judaism; the growth of Christianity; the Islamic faith, and more, and concludes with a chapter that considers religion today and in the future. Describes the experience of each faith's practitioners in the United States and summarizes the affect of that faith on larger American culture. Offers fresh ong>insightsong> and information on today's ong>newong> religious movements (such as China's Falun Gong)--discussing the social conditions that tend to give rise to such movements, their sociological nature, and what they say about the societies in which they appear--and includes current information on women's role in religion, and the impact of religion on such human crises as ecology and population. Comes with handy outlines for writing a research paper on world religions and ong>viong>siting religious sites. For general readers interested in an introspective and enlightening overong>viong>ew of world religions today.

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