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This book brings together contributors from the different member states of the European Union in order to understand the different degrees of subscription to the concept of Europe and the role education plays in such a process. This second edition includes the new countries which have become part of the union and also considers recent developments in policy and practice. Countries covered are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, German...

Volume 3 provides a focus on the classroom, pedagogy, curriculum and pupil experience. It covers relatively neglected areas of curriculum development, such as mathematics and technology, as well as the more familiar terrain of literature and drama. A particularly useful section deals with aesthetic education.

This book brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has been treated historically and how such a concept is developing as we move into a new century.

Reducing environmental hazard and human impact on different ecosystems, with special emphasis on rural landscapes is the main topic of different environmental policies designed in developed countries and needed in most developing countries. This book covers the bioindication approach of rural landscapes and man managed ecosystems including both urbanised and industrialised ones. The main techniques and taxa used for bioindication are considere...

This text explains how telecommunications regulation works on the inside. It provides an insight into the dynamic process of regulation in the United Kingdom - a pioneer in the development of regulatory institutions and practices and includes a re-evaluation of key regulatory issues.

This text is a self-contained, comprehensive treatment of the tensor and spinor calculus of space-time manifolds with as few technicalities as correct treatment allows. Both the physical and geometrical motivation of all concepts are discussed, helping the reader to go through the technical details in a confident manner. Several physical theories are discussed and developed beyond standard treatment using results in the book. Both the traditio...

In this comprehensive introduction to the study of genre, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. Taking issue with much genre theory, which has provided only a partial and misleading account of Hollywood's output, Neale calls for broader and more flexible conceptions of genre, for the nature and range o...

Das "Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen" ist nicht nur Nachschlagewerk, sondern auch Sammlung kritischer Bestandsaufnahmen verbunden mit Reformvorschlägen. Die große Zahl der renommierten Experten, die an dem Werk mitgearbeitet haben, hat für ein breites Spektrum gesorgt. Damit ist das Lexikon auch ein politisches Buch.

This newly revised and updated second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community. On one level it is an original analysis of the forces which brought the EC together, on another it is an explanation based on historical analysis of the future relationship between nation-state and the European Union. Combining political with economic analysis, and based on extensive primary research in several ...

This newly revised and updated second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community. On one level it is an original analysis of the forces which brought the EC together, on another it is an explanation based on historical analysis of the future relationship between nation-state and the European Union. Combining political with economic analysis, and based on extensive primary research in several ...

A finely crafted account of four friends' quest for immortality

Mental Health and Deafness provides a straightforward comprehensive text aimed at care workers with deaf people, general mental health workers and, mental health workers with deaf people. It covers a wide range of mental health issues as they relate to deafness. The contributors, some of whom are deaf themselves, are leading experts in the field nationally and internationally and come from a range of professional disciplines.

Written by an international team of scientists, Statistics in Ecotoxicology will be essential reading for all ecotoxicologists.

This book introduces an important group of logics that have come to be known under the umbrella term 'susbstructural'. Substructural logics have independently led to significant developments in philosophy, computing and linguistics. An Introduction to Substrucural Logics is the first book to systematically survey the new results and the significant impact that this class of logics has had on a wide range of fields.The following topics are cove...

The partisan groups in parliament form the link between mass suffrage, parties and parliaments, and are generally accepted today as necessary instruments of parliamentary business. Parliamentary party groups are central actors in most European democracies. This volume analyses the manifestations and operations of these actors across thirteen different countries and in the European parliament.

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

∗ A clearly written and accessible introduction to the concept of citizenship. ∗ A succinct, yet thorough analysis of the broad range of theoretical work on citizenship from Aristotle through to the present day. ∗ Includes a variety of case-studies and offers new interpretations.

After more than a century of being undervalued, further education has been thrust into the limelight. How have the colleges fared? How have they been shaped by the new arrangements for funding, governance, inspection and the new qualifications framework? What do those running the colleges and working in them make of the changes? What are their prospects for the new millennium? Further Education Reformed is the definitive account of where furth...

The organization of this study guide parallels that of Cheng F Lee's Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, providing a comprehensive treatment of every chapter. To maximize students' understanding of the material, the author presents it in a slightly different though complementary way. For each chapter, the study guide provides: Chapter Intuition. Each chapter begins with an intuitive verbal explanation of the chapter's central mess...