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The South China Sea disputes continue to confuse and confound policymakers. The authors survey the principles that appear to guide the nations of the South China Sea region in their regional relations and identify the appropriate objectives of a regional resource authority.

You are introduced, in a single volume, to a central character from each of Buckley's ten spy novels. All stand alone in this readable, exciting, and thoughtful collection. As diverse characters find their lives entangled in the web of international espionage, Buckley gives his own stylish, sly, and erudite perspective on intriguing world events.

THERESA BRESLIN is the Carnegie Medal winning author of over thirty books for children & young adults whose work has appeared on stage, radio and TV. Her books are hugely popular with young people, librarians and teachers. Remembrance, her top selling YA novel of youth in WW1, has now been reissued to include Book Notes. The Dream Master was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award. Divided City was shortlisted for ten book awards, winning tw...

Throughout this century, Arthurians have repeatedly raised but never settled the question of their literature's relationship to Christianity. A few scholars have, but most have not, regarded that Christian milieu in which Arthurian literature was composed as a factor of the first importance. Although the debate has been of recurrent interest, the field of Arthurian studies lacks a systematic survey of approaches to this question. The present v...

Featured in the film "The Great Debaters, " Melvin B. Tolson was not only a debate coach but one of black America's most important modernist voices. This first complete collection of his poetic work, brilliantly annotated by Raymond Nelson, gives Tolson his proper place in American poetry.

Engaging biographical profiles of seventeen young people throughout history whose astonishing courage will inspire readers.

In 1997, James Cameron's "Titanic", became the first motion picture to earn a billion dollars worldwide. These essays ask the question: What made "Titanic" such a popular movie? Why has this film become a cultural and film phenomenon? What makes it so fascinating to the film-going public?

While people automatically think of the Revolutionary War or the Civil War as defining moments in American history, the wars with the Indians were strikingly important in shaping the destiny and mythology of the nation. Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars notes the inevitability of conflict between western and native cultures given the great disparity in values and customs, especially with regard to land ownership. It also analyzes the many i...

`I found this a stimulating and readable book that was full of practical ideas. Some of the chapters may be of special interest to readers working in America, but I would expect the book to be of value to anyone wanting to give consideration to boys' and mens' issues in mental health, community and educational settings' - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry This comprehensive, practical resource provides specific strategies for counsell...

This is a revised edition of a seminal and classic work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought.

This is a book that needs to be read and its ideas considered by everyone concerned in education: by the parents of the children, who must assess their proper role, by the teachers, by the school boards, school superintendents and administrators -- those responsible for running the schools and the school systems and by the teachers of the teachers, ensconced in their universities". American Montessori Society

This 41st volume covers Application of Bayesan Belief Networks to Highway Construction to Virtual Reality Software and Technology.

Half-Life usually refers to the length of time it takes for half the atoms of a radioactive substance to disintegrate. Or, it could describe Amanda Bellwood, a grief-stricken college freshman leading an empty and incomplete life.When Amanda's family is killed in a car crash near Chicago, she must reluctantly move in with Jeff Kipling, an attractive young professor who has been designated by her father as her guardian. Although it is determined...

This colelction of twelve original essays by European and American scholars, offers some of the latest research in three broad areas of medieval history: marriage, children, and family ties.

Vor dem Hintergrund des volatilen Wettbewerbsumfeldes in vielen globalen Industrien wird der Beschaffungsbereich für produzierende Unternehmen zum strategischen Erfolgsfaktor.

Albuquerque's old Sunshine Theater harbors a deep, dark secret from its vaudeville/silent movie days. But Millie and Andy Milliken don't have a clue when they lease the theater so Andy's garage band will have a place to play for under 21 audiences. The theater is a mess, but the Millikens manage to clean it up and get it opened.Then they are plagued by a series of near catastrophes: a fire in the balcony is narrowly averted...a huge dic shaped...

Using the tools of philosophy and the insights from evaluation practice this book examines the concept of values in program evaluation. The authors analyze four views of facts and values in evaluation: those rooted in a fact-value dichotomy, those of radical constructivists, those of postmodernists, and those of deliberative democrats. The arguments are tough, the explanations concise and the insights compelling. `Goes well beyong recognizing...

Seeking to reverse the stifling, noninteractive trend that has held psychoanalysts in its grip for many years, Kenneth Frank reasons that fundamental concepts such as external reality, action, interaction, adaptive behavior change, enactment, and new relational experience all can be understood differently within the two-person, as compared with the more traditional psychoanalytic model.

During the pre-Civil War period, Cincinnati was the fastest growing and, according to many contemporary observers, most interesting city in America. This classic study, completed in the early 1970s, focusses on the community in 1840 to explain its success but also to suggest some broader patterns in the city's development and American urbanization.Using local census records, city directories, Walter Stix Glazer describes the demographic, socia...

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