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In this book Oran Young extends and generalizes his earlier work on international environmental regimes to present a comprehensive account of the current status and future prospects of regime theory as a way of thinking about governance in world affairs.Young organizes his assessment around two overarching issues. The first emphasizes the idea that regimes are dynamic systems. An understanding of regime formation is thus a springboard for inqu...

A fascinating and unique anthropological study.

Der Band umfaßt in seinem ersten Teil Beiträge zu den historischen, philosophischen und religiösen Grundlagen der Tierethik. Im zweiten Teil des Bandes wird in verschiedenen Einzeldarstellungen auf die praktischen Probleme der Tierethik eingegangen, und zwar insbesondere auf die Schwierigkeiten, die sich bei der Tierhaltung, den Tiertransporten, den Tierversuchen und der Realisierung eines angemessenen Tierschutzes ergeben. Die Beiträge zu dem...

The first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of state terror. "There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror, by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."--Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the Introduction Death Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of state terror. It brings together an international group of anthropolo...

Why have images of the fabled sensitive, post-feminist 'new man' proliferated in the media?

This book evaluates the effectiveness of prenatal care interventions and provides a framework for improving prenatal care that looks beyond the limited perspective of immediate neonatal outcomes. This book is an important resource for maternal and child health professionals, policy makers and health care managers.

This unique collection of extracts is taken from women's journals and magazines - both British and American - on the eve of the twentieth century. Arranged by subject, the collection focuses on what this pivotal moment represented for women and includes an introduction to women's journalism of the period.The rapidly changing conditions then surrounding a woman's world are illustrated here by sections on:* monarchy* women and war* colonial wome...

Urdu: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of the language as it is used by native speakers today.The complexities of Urdu are set out in short, readable sections. Explanations contain minimal jargon and emphasis has been placed on the aspects of Urdu that pose a particular challenge for English-speaking students.Features include: * language examples throughout in both Urdu script and romanization* user-frien...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: In einer Vielzahl von Unternehmen ist momentan ein verstärkter Trend hin zu flexiblen, projektartigen Strukturen zu verzeichnen. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt auf, dass sich durch die Implementierung solcher Projektstrukturen das Lernpotential eines Unternehmens deutlich steigern lässt. Projektarbeit wird dadurch zu einem wichtigen Instrument Lernender Organisationen. Begründet wird diese Auffassung damit, dass es d...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Das Thema dieser Arbeit ist aus dem Bereich der numerischen Simulation. Ziel ist es, unter verschiedenen Ausgangskonfigurationen, den zeitlichen Verlauf der Sickerlinie in einem porösen Erdwall darzustellen. Die Möglichkeit, physikalische Vorgänge durch mathematische Verfahren zu modellieren und mit modernen Programmiermethoden zu berechnen, lieferte die Motivation zur Bearbeitung dieser Aufgabe. Aus der vorliegenden...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die zunehmende Globalisierung und steigende Dynamik der Märkte, in denen sich die Firmenkunden bewegen, der zunehmende Wettbewerb bei Banken und Kunden, die zunehmende Spezialisierung der Firmen, die steigende Bedeutung des Auslandsgeschäfts und die Zinsvolatilität führen zu wachsenden Ausfallgefahren für die Banken. Durch die Rezession in den neunziger Jahren sind die Insolvenzen enorm angestiegen und haben auch Un...

I never killed Raoul Loveday with a magical spell". Aleister Crowley, otherwise known as the Beast 666, shared membership of the Golden Dawn with W B Yeats, and publishers with D H Lawrence. Now in a beyond-the-grave autobiography, he recounts his own vocation, his practice of sex magic, and his bruising encounters with his contemporaries. The great magus, whose own world-conquering creed The Book of the Law was written in Cairo in 1904, was a...

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Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time.

The author's account of her time as a Russian emigree in wartime Berlin. A major film is planned based on the book. 12pp b/w plates.

David holds a University College London degree in Egyptology and Ancient History, and has excavated at Kadesh-on-the-Orontes with the expedition of the Institute of Archaeology. He is currently the Archaeology Correspondent for The Express newspaper, Chairman of the Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences and President of the Sussex Egyptology Society.

*A fascinating 'dual' biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.

The first installment in the breathtaking Kershaw Sisters series.

James S. Jeffers provides an informative tour of the various facets of the Roman world--class and status, family and community, work and leisure, religion and organization, city and country, law and government, death and taxes, and the events of Roman history.