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This study is primarily concerned with the unifying and destructive forces that affected the Anglo-American relationship between 1938 and 1944, as those involved searched for a strategic solution to the war in Europe.

This book, written by leading academics and activists, examines the development of animal rights over the past two decades and asks where the issue goes from here. The contributions cover animal rights philosophy, strategies of the animal rights movement, the treatment of animals in specific contexts and the political arena within which animal advocates must operate. The unifying theme is provided by an emerging debate about the future directi...

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This introduction to retail security covers the basic principles, available techniques and technologies and the retailer's interaction with police authorities, courts, and the law in general.

Multivariate image analysis is an analytical technique used in many areas including remote sensing (satellites), medicine (MRIs) and the food and chemical industries. Though there are many good books on using this technique in remote sensing, this is one of the first that focuses on its use in chemistry, medicine and food analysis.

This is the first volume in a new series represents the work of the International Conference on Social Values. This volume focuses on education as a separate discipline and addresses the issues such as teacher training, corporate-business school partnerships, and the ethical behavior of academics in their roles as experts in litigation.

This text strikes a good balance between rigor and an intuitive approach to computer theory. Covers all the topics needed by computer scientists with a sometimes humorous approach that reviewers found "refreshing". It is easy to read and the coverage of mathematics is fairly simple so readers do not have to worry about proving theorems.

Internationale Unternehmungen sind zunehmend mit kulturellen Problemen konfrontiert. Stefan Schmid zeigt die Bedeutung der Kultur sowohl für die Managementpraxis als auch für das Internationale Management als Wissenschaft auf. Vor dem Hintergrund der kulturellen Diversität in der internationalen Unternehmung stellt der Autor das traditionell positivistische Forschungsverständnis in Frage und diskutiert Konsequenzen für die zukünftige Forschung...

Konzepte und Methoden für ein dynamisches Management von Internationalisierungsprozessen.

Der Autor untersucht, ob und in welcher Form Qualit¿management, Arbeitsschutz, das System der Arbeitsbeziehungen und die Vorgaben der EU-Umweltaudit-Verordnung pr¿ntiven Umweltschutz bef¿rdern. PV-Text: Betrieblicher Umweltschutz ist derzeit noch ¿berwiegend nachsorgend und techniklastig ausgerichtet, die sozial-organisatorische Seite des Umweltschutzes beschr¿t sich weitgehend auf den Einsatz von Betriebsbeauftragten. Eine solch arbeitsteilig...

The essays, by a number of distinguished scholars, inevitably overlap on some points. They also contain differing interpretation of certain subjects. Their variety, however, seems wholly appropriate, given the richness of the terrain they are covering. Velazquez and Seville individually merit exhibitions, let alone together! - from the Introduction.The subtlety and profundity of Velazquez's art are already evident in these early Sevillian work...

This book examines the solution of some of the most common problems of numerical computation. By concentrating on one effective algorithm for each basic task, it develops the fundamental theory in a brief, elementary way. There are ample exercises, and codes are provided to reduce the time otherwise required for programming and debugging. Exposes readers to art of numerical computing as well as the science. Readers need only a familiarity with...

This book gives a systematic overview on the scientific fundamentals of crystal growth from the classical phenomenological description to the recent theoretical contributions of statistical physics such as studies on surface roughening and on the pattern formation in the diffusion-limited growth.The book emphasizes physical concepts as well as mathematical details, and is intended to serve as lecture notes for postgraduate courses.

A contour is usually defined as an outline or the structure or characteristic of something. A contour line which is shown on a contour map indicates points of elevation. We think that all of these definitions fit Contours of Great Leadership. This book brings together many aspects of concepts and theories of leadership. It is an amalgam of ideas from the social sciences and the humanities woven together in the idea of leadership as an accoutre...

In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences of travellers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounters with the foreign. From the beginning of the seventeenth century through to the early decades of the nineteenth century, the practice of the Grand Tour supplied a cruci...

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a ubiquitous and important messenger in the nervous system, with a wide range of physiological roles. It is involved in the body energy balance and is one of the most potent stimuli of food intake known. NPY also acts to regulate central and peripheral autonomic functions. This book, written by academic and industrial experts in the field, links the most recent basic experimental knowledge about NPY and its receptors wi...

The Conversational Circle offers a model for exploring a range of novels that experiment with narrative patterns. It makes a compelling case that teleological approaches to novel history that privilege the conflict between the individual and society are, quite simply, ahistorical. Twentieth-century historians of the early novel, most prominently Ian Watt, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Terry Castle, have canonized fictions that portray the individual in...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Book club pick for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf • "A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women."-The Washington Post Book World Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wil...