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Banking and investment in Mexico have changed radically over the past decade, and the economic events that prompted these changes will have a significant impact on Mexico's role in regional and world financial markets. Adams traces the evolution of Mexico's banking and investment activities, reviews current conditions and their implications for future investment opportunities in Mexico, and makes clear that what happens to Mexico's economy and...

When Samuel Johnson is discussed as an essayist, his and Idler are generally the works that are considered. This is the first study to take account of the effect of Johnson's essayistic talents on the entirety of his writing. Setting forth the particular characteristics of the genre that are present in Johnson's contributions to the political controversies of his time, this analysis examines those qualities of Johnson's thought and methods tha...

Peter P. Jacobi is Professor of Journalism at Indiana University. He is a consultant for magazines, a specialist in speech coaching and media training, and author of several books, including Writing with Style: The News Story and the Feature and The Messiah Book: The Life and Times of G. F. Handel¿s Greatest Hit.

The brutal conditions and inhuman treatment of African-Americans in Southern prisons has been immortalized in blues songs and in such movies as Cool Hand Luke. Now, drawing on police and prison records and oral histories, David M. Oshinsky presents an account of Mississippi's notorious Parchman Farm, what it tells us about our past is well worth remembering in a nation deeply divided by race. Two 8-page photo inserts.

The essays in this volume, prepared for publication in the year before Maritain's death, deal with truth, philosophy at the time of Vatican II, divine aseity, evolution and animal instinct, moral philosophy, existential epistemology, the Church, and more.

Mark Musa, Distinguished Professor of Italian at Indiana University, has translated and edited critical editions of many Italian literary classics, including Dante¿s Divine Comedy and Vita nuova, The Decameron, The Portable Machiavelli, and The Portable Dante.

This text presents a psychological model of delusions, employing the neglected strategy of single symptom research and the tools of cognitive psychology.

This book explains how decisions about education and educational policymaking can be informed by research-based knowledge. The authors develop a framework to organize three approaches to informing education policies with research-based knowledge. These approaches are policy dialogue as persuasion, policy dialogue as negotiation, and policy dialogue as participation and organizational learning. In addition, they develop a nine-stage model for h...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Zur Klärung des Verhaltens des Bremsvermögens hochenergetischer, schwerer Ionen in oberflächennahen Bereichen wird - im Hinblick auf die Elastic Recoil Detection (ERD) -Energieverlust, Ladungsausbeute und Energieverluststeuung von 60 MeV 58Ni Ionen in Gasen und in Kohlenstoffolien verschiedener Dicken in Abhängigkeit des einfallenden und analysierten Ladungszustands sowie der Targetdicke untersucht. Zur Messung an de...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Theorie des literarischen Feldes des Kultursoziologen Pierre Bourdieu bildet für diese Arbeit den wichtigsten Teil seiner thematisch vielfältigen, an der gesellschaftlichen Praxis orientierten soziologischen Studien. Die Feldtheorie basiert ihrerseits auf einer allgemein-soziologischen Theorie der Gesellschaft mit einigen spezifischen, korrelativen Grundkategorien, die im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit vorgestellt wer...

The exhibition catalog is the first survey of Gothic ivories in English. It contains essays by seven leading international scholars, including Peter Barnet (Gothic Sculpture in Ivory: An Introduction), Elizabeth Sears (Ivory and Ivory-Workers in Medieval Paris), Richard H. Randall, Jr. (Popular Romances Carved in Ivory), Harvey Stahl (Narrative Structure and Content in Some Gothic Ivories of the Life of Christ), Charles T. Little (Opera Franci...

The photos in this edition are black and white. Its full potential still not explored, the model 299 crashed at Wright Field on 30 October 1935 on takeoff, with the control locks inadvertently engaged. Much as the crash of the new XP-38 Lightning several years later did not kill that promising program, so did the Flying Fortress outlive the demise of the prototype.

A rich source of primary materials and commentary about Macbeth that illuminates the historical context and draws connections to events in the 1990s.

The thinking of John Maynard Keynes is relevant to the successful development of an advanced capitalist system as shown by recent evolution of economic thinking.

The systems described in this text have a profound effect on the behaviour of managers throughout financial depositories in areas such as: origination, servicing and brokerage, product-line operating units, deposit-gathering branches, portfolio managers, and origination sales offices.

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Für die Versorgung der Bevölkerung im Rentenalter spielen grundsätzlich drei verschiedene Bereiche eine Rolle: die Zugehörigkeit zur GRV, zu betrieblichen Rentenkassen sowie die Bildung privater Ersparnisse. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch von den "drei Säulen der Alterssicherung " gesprochen, wobei den GRV Renten die Funktion der Regelsicherung zukommt, während Betriebsrenten und Privatversicherungen nur ergän...

The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available ...

Daß sich Definitartikel aus Demonstrativa herleiten, ist wohlbekannt. Aber wie man sich diesen Prozeß genau vorzustellen hat, ist weitgehend unklar. Dieses Buch entwickelt zu diesem Thema eine Reihe von Hypothesen, die auf der empirischen Basis eines breiten Samples von über 80 Sprachen diskutiert werden. Diskussionsschwerpunkte sind u.a. Deutsch (Umgangsdeutsch und Dialekte), Englisch, Tagalog und Indonesisch, aber auch für die vieldiskutiert...

Sometime in the next few years, black America will shift sharply to the right and politics will be rocked to its foundations. For an early tremor of the coming earthquake, read Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America." Adam Myerson, The Heritage Foundation

A study of the relationship between Japan's role in the drug trade and Japanese imperialism in Asia.