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Brummett addresses the question of how the aesthetic experience of machines can have rhetorical influence. He develops a theory of machine aesthetics, showing nine dimensions of the aesthetic experience of machines and machine-like objects or activities. He identifies three general types of machine aesthetics: Mechtech, classical machine aesthetics based on hardware, gears, pistons, and so forth, Electrotech, high technology machine aesthetics...

Dixon examines the social security systems of 172 countries. Focusing on the diverse array of approaches existing today, he explores global social security patterns, recent developments, and future issues, and he assesses and ranks social security programs and systems. By providing a global perspective on social security, Dixon enables scholars, students, and social security administrators to place national and perhaps regional social security...

Examining the racial self-definition of black/white biracial Americans, this sociological study delves into the current and historical relationship between biracial Americans and the racial structure of the United States.

This work examines the impact of the June 1967 War on Palestinian and Israeli society alike in the 30 years following the war. The contributors provide a critique of the prevailing realpolitik in the Middle East. It evaluates and examines the injustices done during this period.

This book effectively forms a self-study course, which is split into separate modules and units covering all concepts required for those needing a basic knowledge of chemistry.

The experience of a score of futurists and politicians from a dozen different countries shows how governments can learn how to balance the needs of the present with those of future generations.

Against a backdrop of downsizing, restructuring and other devastating changes within today's organizations, how does the executive actually go about getting things done? Not simply through the exercise of raw power, argues Gottlieb. Indeed, power and influence are not the same. Most articles in academic and professional business periodicals concentrate on power and provide scant insight into influencing-its techniques and various behaviors. In...

Provides conceptual backgrounds, analytical frameworks, managerial insights, and business guidance for a firm's international expansion strategies.

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Combining a political economic perspective and case studies, this book clarifies the role of Latin America's nongovernmental organizations in the global community.

`In this book, cross-cultural psychologists from around the world honor the discipline's founding father, Harry C Triandis. The book has become a perfect overview of the state of the art in cross-cultural psychology' - Geert Hofstede, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Social Psychology and Cultural Context is the first survey of social psychology to integrate cross-cultural issues. The book not only utilizes several variants of the constru...

Challenging the conventional wisdom that we need less government, this book maps out a different road for the future, a road paved by a government actively engaged in effecting positive changes in all areas of social concern.

Based upon consideration of United Nation missions to the Congo (1960-64), Somalia (1992-95), and the former Yugoslavia (1992-95) and examination of counterinsurgency campaigns, Mockaitis develops a new model for intervening in intrastate conflicts and commends the British approach to civil strife as the basis for a new approach to peace operations. Both contemporary and historic examples demonstrate that military intervention to end civil con...

Mittelberg analyzes the effect of the Israel visit/experience upon the ethnic identity of American Jews. For most American Jews, being Jewish carries both religious and ethnic connotations. It is because of this dual context that the Israel visit has a different significance for American Jews when compared to visits of members of other ethnic groups back to their homelands. As Mittelberg argues, the relationship of American Jews to Israel is b...

Postimperialism is a theory of political and social change inspired by the explosive growth of transnational corporate enterprise during the latter 20th century. Its foundations are derived from two primary sources: political theories of the modern business corporation and class-analytical theories of society. However, the postimperialist theory of class formation is predicated on power relations, a departure from conventional class analysis t...

The book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the theoretical and empirical literature in international economics arising from the proliferation of regional integration schemes in the last four decades. The focus is on the pure theoretical and empirical work in the field, covering all recent developments in theoretical work and measurement techniques in regional integration. The new book fully updates the analysis in the author's ...

Politics today is dominated by business news and the stock market. But those in support of green politics ask whether human profit should continue to be the bottom line of political deliberations or if it is time for the interests of the natural world to combine with or even displace the interests of business. In The Promise of Green Politics Douglas Torgerson offers a survey of different schools of ecological thought, discusses their implicat...

Etabli par la Section française de la Division de la traduction de l'Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques (OCDE), ce glossaire anglais-français est le fruit du travail quotidien des traducteurs et se veut essentiellement pragmatique.Pour chaque entrée, il propose une ou plusieurs traductions, en précisant, lorsqu'il y a lieu, le champ d'application de chacune d'elles. Le lecteur trouvera ainsi la traduction de quelque 17...

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This collection of over 200 photographs selected from the archives at Birmingham Central Library is the first full-length photographic record of Edgbaston. Through a wide range of images and informative captions it seeks to convey something of the area's rich and varied character, past and present.