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Thid classic work is still considered the best book on Atlantic salmon fishing ever published.

An examination of the case law of the Commission and Court of Human Rights concerning children and their rights. It includes over 650 Strasbourg cases involving children and throughout, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child serves as a benchmark by which decisions stand to be measured.

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Although living conditions have improved throughout history, protest, at least in the last few decades, seems to have increased to the point of becoming a normal phenomenon in modern societies. Contributors to this volume examine how and why this is the case and argue that although problems such as poverty, hunger, and violations of democratic rights may have been reduced in advanced Western societies, a variety of other problems and opportuni...

In this volume, noted economic historian Richard Grassby investigates the origins and evolution of the idea of capitalism to illustrate for readers the true nature, merits, and the future of capitalism. Grassby examines its numerous and often conflicting definitions, and he tests alternative models of capitalism against the historical record to establish when, where, how, and why modern economies and societies emerged.

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.

This collection uses Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory of human development to frame their analyses of schooling.

This comprehensive book focuses on the challenges facing Ukraine as a newly emerged state after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Like all countries with no recent history of independence, Ukraine had to invent or recreate effective political institutions, reintroduce a market economy, and reorient its foreign policy. These tasks were impossible to accomplish without resolving the question of national identity. In this balanced and clear-eyed ...

Totally revised and updated, this classic history of the 108 members of the U.S. Supreme addresses the vital questions of why individual justices were nominated to the highest court, how their nominations were received, whether the appointees ultimately lived up to the expectations of the American public, and what their legacy was on the development of American law and society. Enhanced by photographs of every justice from 1789 to 1999.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Attraktivität der weltweiten Vernetzung hat zu einem Angebot an Web-Seiten geführt, das eine Informationsüberflutung zur Folge hat. Dabei ist die Vielfalt des Informationsmediums nicht das eigentliche Problem, da jeder Nutzer eine andere Vorstellung von wertvollen oder unnützen Daten hat. Dies ändert jedoch nichts an der Tatsache, daß der Anwender schnell die Orientierung in dem komplexen System von Inhalten und ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit soll die Rechnungslegung einer deutschen AG dargestellt werden, die eine Zulassung (Listing) zur New Yorker Börse (New York Stock Exchange, N.Y.S.E.) erhalten möchte. Da das betrachtete Unternehmen die Rechtsform einer AG aufweisen soll, muß von den gesetzlichen Vertretern eine originäre HB erstellt werden, aus der dann mittels einkommen- und körperschaftsteuerlicher Modifikationen e...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Seit Jahrzehnten ist die Diskussion um die Kapitalbeteiligung der Arbeitnehmer am arbeitgebendem Unternehmen durch differenzierende Meinungen und Zielsetzungen gekennzeichnet. Während Unternehmen auf der Suche nach zusätzlichen Finanzierungsquellen sind, fordern Arbeitnehmervertretungen und Gewerkschaften eine größere Verteilungsgerechtigkeit. Außerdem soll mit Hilfe von Mitarbeiterbeteiligung die Motivation der Arbe...

Would you like to build a better bond with your dog? Make new friends? Travel to new places? Accept new challenges? You can do it all through the sport of agility. Agility blends desire, control training and athletic ability into a rip-roaring good time. All healthy dogs can enjoy agility work, releasing their energy constructively and learning how to be under control even when they're in high spirits. All About Agility explains how to get inv...

Ranked by many scholars as one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century, Aurel Kolnai has been inexplicably neglected in this country until quite recently. He is best known for his works of political philosophy, recently published under the title The Utopian Mind: A Critical Study in Moral and Political Philosophy. Here, for the first time ever in English, is Kolnai's magnum opus, his Political Memoirs, superbly annota...

This volume presents Aurel Kolnai's major writings in political philosophy, writings which explore Kolnai's critique of progressive or egalitarian democracy.

Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness.

Why do people migrate from one country to another? What is the difference between an immigrant and an exile? What determines the psychological outcome of immigration? Can one ever mourn the loss of one's country? What are the defensive functions of nostal

Culture. Politics. Thick, impenetrable tension. Post-1945 America. Professor Robert Bresler broaches these interwoven themes in Us vs. Them: American Political and Cultural Conflict from WWII to Watergate, a reader in the American Visions series. Of

This volume brings together, for the first time, a variety of texts from Certeau's book and journal publications which have proved important in the various disciplines where Certeau has had an influence.