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`A lucid, comprehensive analysis of normative approaches to international relations, and an original contribution to critical theory' - Andrew Linklater, University of Keele `Hutchings combines a valuable account of the current state of the art with a lucid expositon of her own, highly distinctive, position. This will be required reading for students in international political theory, and indeed anyone interested in normative issues in intern...

Jorge I. Dominguez has brought together experts from Latin America, the Caribbean and the US to explore transnational aspects of crime, migration, trade, security, democracy, and international financial institutions in the Americas. They consider the effect of drug trafficking on government, the economy, and the rule of law, at both national and hemispheric levels. They look at the policy implications of migration and immigration trends, as we...

Einer der führenden unabhängigen Berater auf diesem Gebiet diskutiert hier alle Aspekte der drahtlosen Informationsübertragung - ein Thema, das im Zeitalter des Internets, des Iridium-Mobilfunknetzes, der GPS-Systeme und der "intelligenten" Radios ständig an Bedeutung gewinnt. Diese 4. Auflage wurde erweitert und komplett aktualisiert. (09/99)

Ein Forum der kritischen, autoritativen Auseinandersetzung mit neuesten Forschungsergebnissen auf allen Gebieten der chemischen Physik. Auch dieser 110. Band enthält zahlreiche hochinteressante, von international renommierten Wissenschaftlern verfaßte Kapitel. (09/99)

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Argues convincingly that immigration continues to benefit U.S. natives as well as most developed countries

I experience language as an intensely physical process, " writes Donna Haraway. "I cannot "not" think through metaphor... Biochemistry and language just don't feel that different to me."Since the appearance of her monumental "Primate Visions" and the now classic essay "A Manifesto for Cyborgs, " feminist historian of science Donna Haraway has created a way of thinking about culture, science, and the production of knowledge that has made her on...

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The Vietnam War, which dominated American life during the 1960s, helped to create, radicalize, and alter social and political life in the US.

This book takes advanced graduate students from the foundations to topics on the research frontier.

With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis.

This volume explores the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men, and children who sell sex.

∗ there is disturbing evidence of high mortality of salmon at sea. ∗ wide recognition that a multidisciplinary study of contributing factors and appropriate action is needed urgently ∗ includes contributions from leading researchers.

Jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe! Ebenso wie Machiavelli in seinem Werk "Der Fürst" einen Verhaltenskodex für politische Führer beschrieben hat, erläutert McAlpine das Verhältnis zwischen dem modernen Geschäftsführer und seinen Angestellten und Aktionären. Kapitel für Kapitel werden die stets gleichbleibenden Kernaspekte von Politik und Wirtschaft beleuchtet - von der Schmeichelei über Loyalität, von der Schläue über Steuerung, von der Unternehme...

Provides the practical techniques and theoretical knowledge that underpin the fundamental skills of a journalist. It also takes a highly modern approach, as the convergence of broadcast, print and online media require the learning of new skills and methods. The book is written from an international perspective - with examples from around the world in recognition of the global marketplace for today's media. This is an essential text for student...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes, AAECC-13, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA in November 1999. The 42 revised full papers presented together with six invited survey papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 86 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on codes and iterative decoding, arithmetic, graphs an...

Computer vision has been successful in several important applications recently. Vision techniques can now be used to build very good models of buildings from pictures quickly and easily, to overlay operation planning data on a neuros- geon's view of a patient, and to recognise some of the gestures a user makes to a computer. Object recognition remains a very di cult problem, however. The key questions to understand in recognition seem to be: (...

In The Contemporary Pennsylvania Legislature, John J. Kennedy explores a variety of topics that are relevant for any small lawmaking institution. He investigates to what degree current social and technological changes have affected the Pennsylvania legislature and how it has been transformed from a part-time lawmaking body to a full-time professional institution. The data for Kennedy's study comes from a survey of legislators who served in the...

Thomas Merton wrote "The Silent Life" a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside . . . who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old." It is a remarkable work-one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and...