35 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

Provides an overview of the education reform movement throughout the United States and offers an agenda to ensure that US schools will offer a world-class education. Topics discussed include: accountability, assessment, certification, funding equity, unionisation, and home schooling.

Presents a series of lectures delivered by Stephen Wiggins at the Fields Institute in early 1993, that is concerned with the geometrical viewpoint of the global dynamics of nonlinear dynamical systems. This work is suitable for engineers and mathematicians who work on issues related to the global dynamics of nonlinear dynamical systems.

Presents a genealogy of the uses of conversion narratives in linking individual identity to various forms of social authority. Drawing on theories of Freud and Lacan, Peters traces the evolution of the conversion narrative from primitive initiation rituals to poetic uses in modern literature.

Kirchhoff blends economics, business, and governemnt policy to demonstrate that entrepreneurship's role in business formation and growth energizes and maintains the viability of capitalism. Entrepreneurs convert new ideas into marketable products and services and use these to grab market shares from older, established firms. This process not only produces economic growth, but also redistributes resources so as to assure equitable distribution ...

Analyzes the recent conflict between Iraq and Kuwait, the historical background and the ramifications of the crisis for Iraq, Kuwait and other nations of the Middle East, as well as the United Nations and international community - all from the perspective of an Iraqi citizen now living in the US.

This volume looks at urban problems related to education cross-nationally, beginning with a definition of what is distinctly urban in educational settings. The book goes on to examine such topics as trends and issues, bureaucratic dynamics, goals, politics, and neighbourhood movements.

This volume is a comprehensive, critical examination of cultural diversity in Germanic-speaking societies. It aims to go beyond ethnic, religious and gender stereotypes, seeking to interpret philosophical, aesthetic and literary thinking about diversity in literature and language.

This study discusses the history of US dealings with Vichy France, especially in the French Antilles and St Pierre et Miquelon. Koburger examines Operation Torch, the subsequent establishment of US bases on French soil and the rebuilding by the US of the French Navy.

This volume collects some of the most significant critical responses to the works of Bram Stoker, a writer best known in our time as the author of Dracula. But Stoker wrote other works as well, and he responded to many of the issues that concerned Victorian England and which continue to concern the present-day reader. The introduction to the volume places Stoker in the larger context of the literature of his time and discusses his variety of w...

The fabled cities of Italy--Florence, Venice, and Rome--have each acquired a distinctive tradition of literary representation involving characteristic, recurrent motifs and symbolic signatures. A wealth of writing on each is examined in fiction and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries mainly by British and American authors. Included are works by Robert Browning on Florence and Rome, George Eliot, W.D. Howells, E.M. Forster, and D.H...

Explores world-wide developments in the field of business ethics, covering such issues as: the BCCI scandal, the IBM-Fujitsu case, intellectual property rights, ethics and international law, and ethics and developments. It includes an introduction that summarises major themes contained in the book.

Paradise is Santa Barbara, California, where in the early 1980s the beautiful, affluent city faced the problem of what to do with the 'street people'. Explaining the author's work with the Homeless People's Project in Santa Barbara, this title portrays agents attempting to preserve networks and obtain resources essential for managing homelessness.

To what extent can police as legal agents of a dominant class serve as servants of the people and of comunity-at-large? A lawyer, ethnologist, and sociologist examine the evolution of the role of the police function in society.

Beginning with colonial times and moving to the present, Otten examines women's struggle for social, economic, political, and civic equality, using key Supreme Court decisions as the basis for chronicling the changing position of women in American society. Otten provides students with a knowledge base from which to address questions such as: Does the Constitution really protect women? Despite gains in status and legal protection, has the posit...

This reference guide provides a summary of the quantitative research on world politics published in journals between 1970 and 1991. The survey defines the external behaviour of states and their relationships, and characterises the international system and its subsystems.

Analyses and evaluates Western policies towards the East European democracies, as they struggle for political stability and effective market economies. Baylis argues that the West should assist the region, and emphasise the political and administrative dimensions of economic reconstruction.

This study analyses US foreign policymaking in terms of state power and domestic factors. Ollapally explores US policies in Third World conflict during the 1960s and 1970s, and up to the present, during which time the United States has gone from a strong to a weak state.

This collection of seventeen essays explores the implications of quantum cosmology regarding God's action in the world. The result is a profound contribution to constructive theology, engaging current research in the natural sciences and investigating the philosophical and theological elements in future natural science research.

The role of the metals copper, zinc, magnesium, lead, manganese, mercury, lithium and aluminium in neuropsychiatric disease are well known and has been discussed on several occasions. Yet little attention has been paid to iron, the most abundant transitional metal in the body and the earth's crust. Iron plays a major role as a cofactor of numerous metabolic enzymes, it is important for DNA and protein synthesis, and has a crucial role in the o...

This volume of advertisements for runaway indentured servants addresses the need for documents on indentured white slaves of the 18th and 19th centuries. Two appendices, one listing planters by name and one listing runaways by name, provide access to the people mentioned in the advertisements.