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This straightforward and practical guide outlines a strategic approach to public involvement in government decision making. Prepares public managers for the difficult task of involving citizens more fully in the affairs of government while maintaining effectiveness and efficiency. Written in easy-to-understand terms, Public Participation in Public Decisions presents the Effective Decision Model of Public Involvement that managers will find to ...

Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot" expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the "Encyclopedia, " d'Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751. Including a revision of Diderot's "Prospectus" and a list of contributors to the "Encyclopedia, " this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Pro...

This is the only collection of its kind to offer an inside view of life and work in contemporary nursing homes with the purpose of developing a theory of the culture of long term care. The anthropological research in nursing homes presented here produces a seldom seen native view of patients, staff, and the day-to-day workings of American nursing homes. The use of ethnographic methods penetrates the reality barriers found in industry descripti...

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Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference, includes some of the particular on three intensely cultivated areas of Dante studies: poetics, "minor works, "and reception. The stimulating ferment on the problem of Dante's poetics is well represented in the first three essays. Th...

Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference, includes some of the newest and most exciting work in contemporary Dante studies and focuses in particular on three intensely cultivated areas: poetics, "minor works", and reception. The stimulating ferment on the problem of Dante's...

Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book. While traditional theorizing has tended to the focus on extreme expressions of nationalism, the author turns his attention to the everyday, less visible forms which are neither exotic or remote, he describes as `banal nationalism'. The author asks why people do not forget their national identity. He suggests that in daily life nati...

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Introduction Donald S. Lopez, Jr 1: Roads Taken and Not Taken in the Study of Theravada Buddhism Charles Hallisey 2: Inside the Wonder House: Buddhist Art and the West Stanley K. Abe 3: The Zen of Japanese Nationalism Robert H. Sharf 4: Giuseppe Tucci, or Buddhology in the Age of Fascism Gustavo Benavides 5: Oriental Wisdom and the Cure of Souls: Jung and the Indian East Luis O. Gomez 6: Foreigner at the Lama's Feet Donald S. Lopez, Jr List of...

Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde tradition and an uncompromising moral stance that brought frequent tensions with the authorities in the "normalization" years following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. This collection of essays presents a complete portrait of this fas...

For executives of multinational firms dealing with business issues in developing countries.

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In the increasingly global business environment of the 1990s, policymakers and executives of multinational corporations must make informed decisions based on a sound knowledge of U.S. and foreign tax policy. Written for a nontechnical audience, Taxing Multinational Corporations summarizes up-to-the-minute research on the structure and effects of tax policies. The book covers such practical issues as the impact of tax law on U.S. competitivenes...

Das konkrete Anliegen der Organisatorischen Segmentierung liegt darin, zu weniger fragmenthaften, schnittstellenärmeren Formen der Arbeitsteilung zu gelangen, bezogen auf alle Unternehmensebenen - von der Arbeitsorganisation bis hin zur Führungsorganisation.

White's previously published articles and speeches (most presented after 1989) identify and address critical issues that range from library education, funding, and leadership to technology, ethics, and burnout. Although often delivered with humor, White's probing and sometimes controversial commentaries on the opportunities and dangers to the profession are certain to provoke serious thought. Divided into three sections, the book covers "Libra...

It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changed the common but unacceptable image of the Puritans as dull, solemn, melancholy misanthropes' - Horton Davies, author of The Worship of the American Puritans For over four centuries, 'puritan' has been a synonym for dour, joyless, and repressed. In Puritans at Play, Bruce Daniels reappraises the accuracy of this grim portrait by exa...

This book examines the Omani struggle to preserve its heritage and at the same time to accept the challenges of membership in the international community.

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