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This volume contains the results of a focus group research project, sponsored by the Commission of Presidential Debates and conducted during the 1992 presidential and vice presidential debates. Participants were asked what they learned from the debates and how they assessed the formats.

Für die Zukunft der Unternehmen gilt es, Anpassungsfähigkeit und -geschwindigkeit zu einem inhärenten Organisationsmerkmal zu machen. Einen Schlüsselfaktor dieser Gestaltungsaufgabe stellt die Autonomie dar.

Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed ... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted ... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who already have power. Worse still, it has robbed the poor of the little power they had. It has made them victims of a market economy that has thus far thre...

This book contains a probing and comprehensive theoretical analysis of the emerging notion of national security in light of the dramatic post-Cold War transformation of the international system. It begins with a discussion of the nature of this change, emphasizing declining national sovereignty, escalating international interdependence, and proliferating anarchic conflict. After developing a framework of the conceptual components of national s...

This collection of seminal articles will introduce undergraduate students to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies and urban affairs. It investigates a variety of areas including: cities and urbanism, urban history, urban policy, economic development, community development, community services and infrastructure, housing, urban education and growth. Each section of the collection is introduced by a leading figure in the field. This well-...

Gemeinsames Merkmal vieler erfolgreicher Kooperationen ist es, daß zu ihrer Planung und Durchführung Informationssysteme zum Einsatz kommen. Oftmals sind diese Systeme sogar Motivation für die Entstehung einer Kooperation.

Basierend auf vertragstheoretischen Überlegungen entwickelt das Buch einen Erklärungsansatz, mit dem die Wirkungen gesellschaftlich verantwortlichen Handelns differenziert erfaßt werden können.

Sind Unternehmen bereit, für umweltfreundliche Produkte mehr zu bezahlen? Lassen sich hierbei branchenspezifische Unterschiede feststellen? Die Antwort auf solche Fragen ist eine Voraussetzung, um Umweltschutz über Marktprozesse in Unternehmen zu integrieren.

This book is the result of our teaching over the years an undergraduate course on Linear Optimal Systems to applied mathematicians and a first-year graduate course on Linear Systems to engineers. The contents of the book bear the strong influence of the great advances in the field and of its enormous literature. However, we made no attempt to have a complete coverage. Our motivation was to write a book on linear systems that covers finite­ dim...

An exhaustively detailed and well-organized arrangement of materials about this influential and controversial figure. It should be part of any academic library desirous of possessing significant presidential and twentieth-century American history collections. ARBA

Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history. Technology is everywhere, yet a theory of technology and its social dimension remains to be fully developed. Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this v...

Meet Elmer -- every child's favorite patchwork elephant!

This book examines causes and deterrents of transportation accidents by mode--automobiles, truck, air, recreational boating, commercial vessels and railroads--with the focus on accidents in the U.S. The examination enhances our understanding for developing effective multimodal public policies for improving transportation safety. The discussion reveals that the primary cause of accidents in one mode may not be the primary cause in another mode ...

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children including his most well-known title The Very Hungry Caterpillar. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle co-founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002.Eric Carle divides his time between the Florida Keys and the hills of North Carolina.

Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children's Book of the Year, Jacqueline i...

Discusses the interface between marketing and entrepreneurship and provides research opportunities on various issues. The book includes topics on: marketing opportunity, marketing strategy, and entrepreneurship in international markets and lesser developed countries.

One of the few essential novelists of our time' New StatesmanHarlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish, nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and ...

Reviews the facts and uncertainties relating to some of the major environmental issues facing the world today: global warming, loss of stratospheric ozone, and acid precipitation. Anticipated environmental changes in future decades are described and US policy implications considered.

This text uses the career of Edward Livingston Trudeau (1848-1915), a recognised leader in the American crusade against tuberculosis, to examine the development of medical science as a human process. It asks how the germ theory influenced the treatment of patients and the development of research.

Soviet and Russian music of the first third of the 20th century--with the exception of the music of a few high-profile composers who were officially sponsored by the State--is still largely unexplored territory, known only to a few specialists. Nevertheless, the music has considerable intrinsic value well beyond its curiosity appeal, and includes many pieces unaccountably forgotten and certainly worth reviving, to the ultimate enhancement of o...