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Provides executives with an indispensable guide to locating a new business facility or relocating an existing operation.

Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer, he also outlines such a logic. It is the logic of questions and answers. Thus inquiry in the sense of knowledge-seeking becomes inquiry in the sense of interrogation. Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will undoubtedly be considered the fundamental theorem of all epistemology, viz., the virtu...

This volume offers descriptions of critical works about Kate Chopin published between 1976 and 1998, along with entries for some works published in 1999, a biographical introduction, a critical overview of Chopin scholarship, and a survey of the reception of her works.

Clear-headed advice on how people at all levels in organizations can overcome the barriers to having their ideas heard by their managers and top decision-makers.

The threat of poison gas, and other related biological warfare agents, holds our society hostage to the possible actions of terrorist groups or rogue states. This study hopes to convince policymakers and the general public that the bad reputation that surrounds the use of gas is largely the result of propaganda, misinformation, and oft-repeated half-truths. With proper precautions and discipline, neither the military nor society need fear gas ...

Confident in the knowledge that the U.S.was the dominant world economic power, state leaders paid little attention to economic development after World War II. Then, with increasing competition from Asia, Germany, and South America, the recession of the 1980s, and the Reagan cutbacks in assistance to states, they began to place more emphasis on state economic development, finding that earlier policies did little to help their states develop eco...

The first systematic study of bystanders during the Holocaust analyzing why individuals, institutions, and the international community remained passive while millions died.

From the publication of his first major volume in 1946, Lord Weary's Castle, to a few years before his death in 1977, Robert Lowell held sway as the premier English-language poet of his time. Lord Weary's Castle seemed to push poetic language and cultural critique in exciting new directions, yet they were directions sanctioned by the New Criticism of his time. In 1959, Lowell's Life Studies dramatically broke the very traditions he had previou...

A landmark study of the rise of Anglo-Jewish society in eighteenth century England

This volume presents a completely new and very substantial body of information about the origin of agriculture and plant use in Africa. All the evidence is very recent and for the first time all this archaeobotanical evidence is brought together in one volume (at present the information is unpublished or published in many disparate journals, confer­ ence reports, monographs, site reports, etc. ). Early publications concerned with the origins o...

The ongoing reconstruction of world politics following the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European variants of communism have seemingly unleashed the power of ethnicity with a vengeance. Stack, Hebron, and their contributors explore the concept of ethnicity in international relations, seeking to address this most destabilizing, yet ubiquitous dimension of the emerging new world order. As a central force in international politics, ethnicity and...

A comparative analysis of some of the worst exiting and entering disasters in U.S. history with cases of successful emergency escape.

Based upon nearly 20 years of research and theoretical analysis of selected rural and urban communities in the Philippines, this work describes and critiques a variety of justice-related issues, including terrorism, vigilante activity, corruption, and juvenile deliquency.

With some 6, 000 entries, A Bibliography of Tennessee History will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone -- students, historians, librarians, genealogists -- engaged in researching Tennessee's rich and colorful past. A sequel to Sam B. Smith's invaluable 1973 work, Tennessee History: A Bibliography, this book follows a similar format and includes published books and essays, as well as many unpublished theses and dissertations, that hav...

Integrating environmental and world-systems analyses in chapters ranging from the ancient to the contemporary, from the global to the local, from West to East, and from North to South, this book is the first collection to analyze environmental issues from the world-systems perspective. The introduction provides Immanuel Wallerstein's fullest explication of the role of ecological constraints in the world-system. Early chapters diagnose the incr...

Evaluates the religious and cultural legacy of the "Death of God" movement and its relationship to the Holocaust.

More than 600 entries describe utopian ventures and the lives of utopians from antiquity to the present.

Though power is commonly seen as a special feature of exceptional personalities, van Ginkel argues that power is actually a given feature of all humans, animals, and plants. Each has different power, of a special kind and a special degree. All plant, animal, and human power is sparked and specified by a fusion of varieties of the same four general elements: Faculty, Object, Effect, and Limit. Unlike animal power, human power rises and falls ir...

A research-based examination of how corporate leaders see themselves, their work, personalities, and problems, and a look at the stress and emotional disorders that these corporate leaders must cope with.

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