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Green management or management using environmentally sensible techniques is the next major challenge for American business managers. State-of-the-art green management practices are needed to reduce pollution and to improve competitiveness by conserving resources and using the resources in a responsible manner. Every functional area of the firm will participate. World class practices for planning and implementation of green strategies are provi...

A full understanding of the common programming idioms and the interactions of application code and its underlying hardware and software are needed in order to develop good tools. This book explores software tools for parallel computer systems and details the current situation, outlines research issues, and discusses technology transition remedies. It also presents intuitive examples of the user interfaces best suited for illustrating these int...

Ray Barfield has done something quite new in media studies. Rather than trace the history of radio through the usual route, he has sought out a body of oral history from those who grew up with and listened to radio. He has not only collated the responses of his informants but placed their comments in a larger cultural and historical context and thus provided a kind of history from the ground up. He demonstrates thereby just how important and i...

No other reference provides such a comprehensive and timely overview of theory and research about aging and the family.

This text is concerned with contemporary attitudes and approaches to the teaching of literacy, children's literature and other non-book texts and media. Based on research from the UK, the USA and Europe it makes a contribution to theory and practice

Best known for her diary, Anais Nin was also the author of several novels, short fiction, and a book on D.H. Lawrence. As a woman who made a career of her aesthetic femininity, her works helped shape the future of gender studies and feminist literary criticism. Her writings have challenged numerous critics, while her life has been equally fascinating. The selections in this book represent the critical response to her works, from her first effo...

This book discusses words used in the Southeast and how they have changedduring the 20th century.

This is a combination of essays from several disciplines with incisive commentary by the editor. This volume provides a unique perspective on sexual variance as a dimension of the larger social history of the United States.Every society has had to confront the issue of sexual expression or behavior, in practice, if not in theory. It is a basic management issue which must be addressed. Theorizing about sex is a relatively recent phenomenon in A...

It is well known that a wealth of problems of different nature, applied as well as purely theoretic, can be reduced to the study of elliptic equations and their eigen-values. During the years many books and articles have been published on this topic, considering spectral properties of elliptic differential operators from different points of view. This is one more book on these properties. This book is devoted to the study of some classical pro...

This book closes the gap between information technologies and management decision making. It treats currently relevant topics in information technology-knowledge-based expert systems, graphic-user interface, fuzzy logic, neural networks, data storage, client server, and integration of heterogeneous databases-by using examples and, more importantly, by relating these methods to the needs of the decision maker by taking into account the individu...

This work argues that Maugham's work attempts to negotiate between two alternative masculine identities: those of private homosexual and public writer. The basis of the study is the notion that Maugham's texts, despite their exotic locations, reflect a struggle over masculine British identity.

Loosely speaking, adaptive systems are designed to deal with, to adapt to, chang­ ing environmental conditions whilst maintaining performance objectives. Over the years, the theory of adaptive systems evolved from relatively simple and intuitive concepts to a complex multifaceted theory dealing with stochastic, nonlinear and infinite dimensional systems. This book provides a first introduction to the theory of adaptive systems. The book grew o...

This first study to analyze the three televised presidential debates in 1992 among candidates Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot from the new perspective of attack and defense strategies includes transcripts of all three debates.

Das 18. Jahrhundert wird von den meisten Forschern als eine Epoche angesehen, in der sich die heute geltenden syntaktischen Regeln herausbildeten. Es stellt sich die Frage, welche Rolle den Sprachtheoretikern in diesem Prozeß zukam. Die Arbeit nimmt sich dieser Problematik an, indem sie diejenigen Erscheinungen der deutschen Syntax im 18. Jahrhundert untersucht, die in der zeitgenössischen Syntaxbeschreibung unterschiedlich beurteilt wurden. ...

The study centres around a diachronic qualitative/quantitative investigation (for the period 1876 to 1991) of the forenames of the residents of Rome, a city with a highly variegated population in terms of social classes, cultural affiliations and migration flows. In addition it provides a comparative synchronic analysis of the corresponding public records office data for the residents of Bologna and Palermo as examples of the North and the mez...

Das Buch behandelt das Thema "Preisregulierung", am Beispiel des Monopolunternehmens Post AG. Zwei Zielsetzungen stehen in der Regulierungspraxis im Vordergrund: Einerseits sollen die Kunden des Unternehmes vor Ausbeutungsmißbrauch und Diskriminierung geschützt werden, andererseits muß sichergestellt sein, daß das Monopolunternehmen, sofern es auch auf wettbewerblich organisierten Märkten tätig ist, keine wettbewerbsverzerrende Quersubventioni...

Die geplante Öffnung der Telekommunikation für den Wettbewerb hat auch Konsequenzen auf den Verbraucherschutz. Daher werden Verbraucherschutzprobleme in der Telekommunikation einer genaueren Betrachtung unterzogen. Die Analyse erfolgt auf der Basis eines verbraucherpolitischen Zielsystems, bestehend aus 5 Einzelzielen: der Bereitstellung und Sicherung einer leistungsfähigen Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur, der Sicherung von Markttransparenz, d...

From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and literary context, Gehring explores the genre's obession with death and the characters' failure to be shocked by it. Movies discussed include: Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-2, Clockwork Orange, Harold and Maude, Heathers, and Natural Born Killers.

One of the most significant cultural influences exported from the United States, this fusion of popular religion and politics supports new capitalist and patriarchal structures and a global culture of consumption and consumer gratification. Engaging in spiritual warfare with their global competitors - Islam, socialism, feminism, secular humanism, and Catholicism - the new fundamentalists are helping to reconfigure the role of the United States...

A self-contained and systematic development of an aspect of analysis which deals with the theory of fundamental solutions for differential operators, and their applications to boundary value problems of mathematical physics, applied mathematics, and engineering, with the related computational aspects.