American foreign policy cannot be understood apart from the US security assistance programme. Beginning with Truman, every president has considered security assistance programmes important means of furthering US national interests. This book is a treatment of the programmes from 1947 to 1996.
To celebrate Paddington Bear's 60th birthday in 2018 this hilarious classic novel from master storyteller Michael Bond has been given a fresh new look. Paddington is now a major movie star!
Our whole society may be obsessed with "family values, " but as John Gillis points out in this entertaining and eye-opening book, most of our images of "home sweet home" are of very recent vintage. "A World of Their Own Making" examines our idealized notion of "The Family, " a mind-set in which myth and symbol still hold sway.
The introduction of GaAs/ AIGaAs double heterostructure lasers has opened the door to a new age in the application of compound semiconductor materials to microwave and optical technologies. A variety and combination of semiconductor materials have been investigated and applied to present commercial uses with these devices operating at wide frequencies and wavelengths. Semiconductor modulators are typical examples of this technical evolutions a...
Food Chemical Risk Analysis provides an introduction to the sciences of food chemistry and risk analysis and demonstrates how the potential hazards associated with food chemicals can be assessed and managed. Food scares are never far from the news and particular attention is therefore focused on the consumer perception of risk and risk communication. Leading international experts provide unique insights in the future of food chemical risk anal...
Why has the United States established a new technology transfer regime, and how does it actually perform? The contributors to this volume see it as a collaboration between government, industry and the academic community, towards successful technological innovation, and explore this interface.
Batch processes are used to manufacture many fine organic chemicals, and as such they can be considered to underpin much of the modern chemical industry. Despite widespread use and a consequent huge contribution to wealth creation, batch processes have attracted limited attention outside the user industries. Batch chemicals processing uses a number of core techniques and technologies, such as scheduling and sequence control, agitation and batc...
Talk about government cutbacks is as common as actual program elimination is rare. Even the most ardent proponents of downsizing government are reluctant to name the programs they have in their sights.This short and very readable book examines why and when policies or organizations are terminated, how they can be terminated successfully, and what often prevents them from being terminated. The author reviews the literature on termination and a ...
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Bei dem untersuchten Gebiet handelt es sich um ein zusammenhängendes 90 ha großes Streuobstgebiet an einem südexponierten Hang des Neckartales zwischen Neckarhausen und Neckartailfingen. Die Streuobstfläche ist nur in geringem Maße durch störende Elemente überformt. Gartengrundstücke sowie Halb- und Niederstammkulturen machen lediglich 10 % der Fläche aus. Die z.T. sehr bewegte Hangtopographie, die Hangsteilheit (bis...
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Die Komplexchemie multidentater azyklischer Liganden erlebte im letzten Jahrhundert eine stetige Entwicklung. So sind beispielsweise die Chelate, die vom Tetramethylethylendiamin und Metallkationen gebildet werden, jedem Chemiker bekannt.
1967 brach eine neue Ära in der Koordinationschemie für Metallkationen an. C. J. PEDERSEN stellte eine Klasse von Verbindungen vor, die den Namen ¿Kronenether¿ erhielt und sich dur...
We may be at an historic turning point. We live in a dangerous world, it is true-but it is also a world filled with opportunity. Democracy is spreading in Latin America and perhaps in Asia and Africa. The political polarization of the world has receded. Once again, the human race may be on the verge of a quantum jump, and the U.S. has an historic opportunity to lead the world into a new, even more advanced, global civilization. That is why the...
For all practical purposes the basic physical equations governing the behaviour of a system at the molecular level can only be solved approximately. The key issue in any reliable and accurate computational study in molecular physics and quantum chemistry is the adoption of a suitable model which contains the essential physics and chemistry, is computationally tractable, and preferably amenable to systematic refinement. The provision of advice ...
