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Dieses Buch ist ein Klassiker. Es vermittelt die Mikro- und Makroökonomie leicht verständlich mit vielen Abbildungen und Tabellen. Daneben weist dieses Buch wirtschaftspolitische und praxisbezogene Anwendungsbezüge auf, die sich auf empirische Daten stützen. In den einzelnen Kapiteln finden sich Übungen, durch die der Stoff vertieft werden kann. Zu diesen Übungen geben die Autoren am Ende eines jeden Kapitels Lösungshinweise. Dort finden sich ...

Health care reform has become one of the most prevalent topics in recent policy discourse within and across nations. In the 1990s, common features of the health care arena elevated the importance of bargaining relationships among large, sophisticated entities as the dominant mode ofdecision-making, fundamentally challenging the traditional dominance of the medical profession, which had been grounded in individualized "agency" relationships bet...

This book is an attempt to bridge the widening gap between bioengineering, cardiovascular and clinical science and practice. It is based on a conference that included flow modelling in arteries and bypass grafts, concepts of fluid dynamics and turbulence in the system, and heomorheology and haemodnamics exploring factors that play a role in coronary circulations. This is a collection of papers from leaders in each of these and related fields a...

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This volume contains six or seven manuscripts of a previously unknown sapiential composition from the Second Temple period (4Q415 ff.), originally dubbed 'Sapiential Work A' and now known as '4QInstruction'. The numerous copies of this manuscript attest to its importance for the community at Qumran. Also included in the volume is a re-edition of 1QInstruction (1Q26) originally published by J. T. Milik in DJD I. DJD XXXIV is the second and fina...

Documents and explains the natural climatic and ecological changes that have occurred during the past 2.6 million years. It also outlines the emergence and global impact of humans during this period.

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In this collection of essays, 16 historians and literary critics offer a collective effort to define Southern identity at the end of the 20th century. The book addresses the question of whether inherited Southern values, problems and contradictions have survived the onslaught of modernization.

A study of the changing character of state-society relations in contemporary Thailand, using the telecommunications industry as a case study. It examines the privatization and gradual reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the political dynamics behind these policies.

Many of the 61 million people who live in rural America have limited access to health care. Almost a quarter of the nation's population lives in rural places yet only an eighth of our doctors work there. Sponsored by the U.S. Office of Rural Health Policy, this unique book provides the facts about this imbalance and interprets them in the context of government programs that promote the placement of doctors and the operation of hospitals in rur...

John Henry Newman (1801-90) was brought up in the Church of England in the Evangelical tradition. An Oxford graduate and Fellow of Oriel College, he was appointed Vicar of St Mary's, Oxford in 1828, from 1839 onwards he began to have doubts about the claims of the Anglican Church and in 1845 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was made a Cardinal in 1879. His influence on both the restoration of Roman Catholicism in England and ...

Religious observance in all areas of life was an issue of major importance to the Qumran community. Several collections of laws or halakhot from Qumran bear witness to the parallel development of these laws with those that emerged within Rabbinic Judaism. This volume includes several such compositions of which Tohorot is the largest. They provide major insight into the development of early halakha.

In this book, the authors describe the long journey from formless inanimate matter to man, explaining the nature and the logic of the physical-chemical processes involved. It stresses the limitations of reductionism analyses of these processes as complexity increases and novel propertiesemerge. And, in particular, the authors develop the idea that it was chemical change of the environment that allowed evolution of life to occur and that this e...

Few writers have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry, aims to discover in what senses the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the...

Over the last two decades the science of range management, like many other resource disciplines, has embraced and integrated environmental concerns in the field, the laboratory, and policy. Rangeland

This book examines John Chrysostom's role as preacher and his pastoral activites as deacon, presbyter and bishop. It also provides fresh and lively translations of a key selection of sermons and letters.

This book examines John Chrysostom's role as preacher and his pastoral activites as deacon, presbyter and bishop. It also provides fresh and lively translations of a key selection of sermons and letters.

The practice of modeling is best learned by those armed with fundamental methodologies and exposed to a wide variety of modeling experience. Applied Mathematical Modeling fills a gap within modeling texts, focusing on real-world applications across a broad range of disciplines. The first part of the book discusses the general components of the modeling process and highlights the potential of modeling in practice. The second part provides a ric...