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Most books about ethics and health focus on issues arising from individual patients and their relationships with doctors and other health professionals. More and more, however, ethical issues are challenges that face entire communities, not just individual patients. This book is an editedcollection of readings that addresses these public health challenges. Many of the issues considered, such as policy for alcohol and other drugs, newly emergen...

Clinical nephrology is confronted with an emerging medical catastrophy of international proportions, endstage renal failure in patients with type 2 diabetes. Based on a number of recent studies it has become apparent, that nephrology in type 2 diabetes is a preventable condition, at least in principle. It is for this reason that it appeared timely to summarize the current state of knowledge concerning nephropathy in type 2 diabetes giving an u...

A team of IBM experts offers an essential guide for managers seeking to remake their companies for the challenges of a new economic and business age. 60 linecuts.

Coleridge was a visionary drawn to the numinous, but he was also a spontaneous connoisseur of the sensory life. Such double-mindedness has often been criticized as a sort of incapacity, but the capability of entertaining equally necessary kinds of perception might be thought a kind of virtue. The study examines Coleridge's formative double-vision as it manifests itself in his profound self-analysis, his philosophy of mind, and his literary cri...

A Concise German Grammar aims to equip undergraduates with a comprehensive yet compact account of German grammar. This book is clear and accessible and contains many lively examples of modern German usage. It is an essential and invaluable reference for students of German, from senior secondary school right through to the end of university studies and beyond.

Challenging work experiences are the richest source of learning for today's managers. Yet lessons embedded in these experiences are not always obvious. This comprehensive book describes a critical yet under-researched element of how managers learn from these experiences: reflection. Today's workplace demands continual learning, which in turn requires reflection. While this book supports the prevailing view that reflection is central to experie...

Just-in-time management strategies continue to evolve and remain crucial for world-class business operations. Schniederjans and Olson focus on the latest, most important advances in JIT strategies and explain how to use a broad range of information about them, pulled from the latest significant JIT literature. Covering quantitative methods and conceptual ideas often reported in obscure sources and thus frequently inaccessible even to scholars,...

If you have never seen a pink plastic flamingo, you will not buy this book. Everyone else should. Over 100 color photos of pink plastic flamingoes in amazing, funny, and strange settings appear here to provide fun and a lot of humor. "In 1957, Don Featherstone sculptured the first three-dimensional pink plastic flamingo, thereby making affordable bad taste accessible to the American public." This is a great gift book.

Stunning vintage and contemporary wearable art accessories are presented in 575 color photographs including close-up shots detailing the intricacy of handwork involved. An exquisite assemblage of hats, handbags, scarves, shoes, and jewelry present this compelling topic at its best. A glossary, bibliography, and value guide are included.

This study focuses on a set of issues at the forefront of feminist thought in the late 1990s: identity, difference and their implications for feminist politics. As feminism moves into an era in which differences among women, the multiple identities of woman and identity politics are all at the centre of feminist discussions, new approaches, methods and politics are called for.

Looks at Ghana as a would-be African economic lion and shows how tradition, culture, and lifestyle impact development.

This text presents Domenico Cimarosa's work - his operas, sacred and secular vocal music, keyboard music, and his works for solo instruments and ensembles. It includes details on his marriages, performance locations, dates of first performances, and his professional appointments and contacts.

Die am Beispiel des Investment Banking gezeigten Chancen und Risiken durch Wissensmanagement gelten auch für andere wissensintensive Unternehmen wie Unternehmensberatungen oder Softwareunternehmen.

A critical study of Jamaica Kincaid's novels designed specifically for students and general readers.

A follow-up to Borne's successful 100 Research Topic Guides for Students, this guide provides reproducible outlines for 100 more report topics popular with high school students and teachers, in all basic subject areas. Each outline will facilitate basic reference searching and encourage the student to perform successful self-directed research with both print and non-print sources. Topics reflect new and traditional student assignments. The gu...

Der Autor leitet mittels einer empirischen Fallstudienuntersuchung konkrete Subventionsziele und -effizienzkriterien ab und entwickelt ein systematisiertes Kontrollgerüst für die Subventionsvergabe.

Organized into two parts, the author defines his terminology and establishes a foundation to understand the use of acquisition and location methodologies, and in the second part covers the use of methodologies in facility acquisition and location analysis internationally.

Authors describe dynamic learning of grammar and writing in classrooms where students explore the Ocracoke brogue and dialects of Appalachia, pursue billiard-ball models of meaning in text, and examine the language of science fiction.

A common concern of teachers in the English-speaking world is that students at all levels often show very little knowledge of grammar. As traditionally taught (if taught at all), grammar is a dry, prescriptive subject and one that students often dislike and therefore do not learn well. In this edited collection, distinguished teachers offer a vibrant alternative by sharing the ways in which they make grammar and writing interesting and excitin...

Up the Political Ladder examines the motivations for pursuing a career in electorial politics in the US and reveals the surprising path taken by most of the country's core leadership. Contrary to popular wisdom, most successful politicians do not emerge from trust fund, professional sports careers or Hollywood, but from a deliberate track through the political ranks. This book plots the rise to high office, beginning with the campaigning of lo...