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A global examination that includes nations in Latin America, Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, and Africa, "Pathways to Democracy" investigates the implications of the various paths that nations take to democracy and the political and economic programs needed to stabilize new democracies. From military to authoritarian to communist oligarchies, the essays reveal that democratic transitions were instigated by divisions within the ruling elite, chal...

Dwayne Cox and William Morison trace the twists and turns of the University of Louisville's two-hundred-year journey from provincial academy to national powerhouse. They tell the extraordinary story of the Louisville Municipal College and U of L's separate division for African Americans during the era of segregation, they detail the political wrangling as the university became a state-supported institution, and they confront head-on the questi...

Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719) -- mystic, chronicler, andco-founder of an Augustinian convent -- inscribed her life story within the model ofspiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila, but at the sametime included her individual story as a seventeenth-century woman of the landowningclasses in New Spain. The resulting manuscript records in intimate detail her familylife, convent surroundings, and social milieu, it i...

Multimedia '99 covers technological and scientific areas of media production, processing and delivery. 24 contributions from research laboratories and universities worldwide give a broad perspective on multimedia research with a special focus on media convergence. The topics treated in this volume: image and sound content analysis and processing, paradigms and metaphors for multimedia authoring and display, applications such as education or en...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Im zweiten Kapitel werden grundsätzliche strukturelle Veränderungen in der Wirtschaft und Arbeitswelt dargestellt. Im nächsten Kapitel wird das veränderte Erwerbsverhalten von Frauen und Männern beschrieben. Im vierten Teil der Arbeit werden die Familienstrukturen und ihre Erwartungen an das Unternehmen diskutiert. Das fünfte bis achte Kapitel beschreibt die unterschiedlichen Maßnahmen seitens der Unter...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die Diplomarbeit zur "Einführung produktbegleitender Dienstleistungen als Unternehmensstrategie" beleuchtet im Kern folgende Fragestellungen: Welche Chancen und Risiken bietet die Einführung produktbegleitender Dienstleistungen für Unternehmen bei wachsendem Wettbewerbsdruck und einer zunehmenden Individualisierung der Kundenwünsche? Welches Potential bietet bei der Einführung produktbegleitender Dienstleistun...

The Quality Movement and Organization Theory is the first comprehensive study of quality management to be linked with the principles of organizational behaviour and analysis. The contributors are at the forefront of assessing new quality approaches, how they work, and the conditions under which they are effective. The book bridges the world of theory and practice, making academics aware of recent developments to improve organizational perform...

Over the years the representation of medical personnel has varied from heroes to villains, madmen to bumbling boobs, money grubbers to humanitarians, and compassionate savers to aloof snobs. This comprehensive resource documents all significant appearances of health professionals on film or television.

Praise for the First Edition: `For teacher researchers at all levels of the management hierarchy. Excellent case studies around specific issues in the lives of teachers from beginners to old hands. Case studies contextualised in recent and relevant theoretical literature. First class chapters on 'Reflective practice and the teacher' and on 'Towards a culture of inquiry in school'. I have already gained a lot from this book myself and will rec...

As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester, Massachusetts, and finds that they were at the center of community life and leadership. Neither frontier nor densely urban, Worcester encountered the stresses common to so many communities in the Northeast during the first half of the nineteenth century....

This book claims that agrarianism was the first cause of the classical Greek achievement, that the family farm was the most fundamental thing the Greeks invented, and productive of most of their other inventions and discoveries.

Inventing the Future: Information services for a New Millenium is a sequel to Harris and Hannah's 1998 book Into the Future. In this book they move beyond the rhetorical contests about the future of the library and turn their attention to the more prosaic but vital task of managing our ever more complex and constantly changing libraries. The pages in this book present a blueprint that will guide us in the re-visioning of library and informatio...

An environmental assessment must often be performed whenever a property transaction takes place. This book contains contributions by professionals from various locations who use Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as a tool applied to water management issues. SEA helps make decisions that increase sustainability. Because of its procedural nature, it necessarily becomes tailor-made to different applications. Easily understood and geographi...

Strategic market planning provides the key to growing a business and shaping its future. How to Develop a Strategic Marketing Plan contains the tools for generating a credible strategic marketing plan so that organizations not only survive but thrive. Actual case histories from companies such as Campbell Soup, Co., Texas Instruments, Inc., and Quaker State Corp. illustrate how business-building opportunities can translate into competitive stra...

..". a cross-cultural consideration of kinship and family relationsas captured in traditional folktales and other lore genres.... This valuablecontribution in the areas of anthropology and folk literature will be a treasuredacquisition... " -- Library Journal..". rare, intriguing, and highly readable... presents tales from the Arab world in a fluentand attractive way." -- Ulrich MarzolphThis cross-culturalexamination of kinship and affinal rel...

We study in Part I of this monograph the computational aspect of almost all moduli of continuity over wide classes of functions exploiting some of their convexity properties. To our knowledge it is the first time the entire calculus of moduli of smoothness has been included in a book. We then present numerous applications of Approximation Theory, giving exact val­ ues of errors in explicit forms. The K-functional method is systematically avoid...

The first comprehensive guide to America's historic house museums, this directory moves beyond merely listing institutions to providing information about interpretive themes, historical and architectural significance, collections, and cultural and social importance, along with programming events and facility information. Useful cross-reference guides provide quick and easy ways of locating information on almost 2500 museums. A multi-functional...

This book is the first full-length in-depth treatment of settings as a focal point for planning, organizing and implementing health promotion. The concept of `setting' is fundamental to theory and practice in health promotion. Internationally renowned authors describe the state of the art in the theory and practice of health promotion in settings such as the home, school, workplace, community, and the state and offer insightful commentaries on...

`We found it useful, informative and with good references, that will help the reader to look further if the need arises... we can recommend this handbook for professionals working in the field of child protection' - International Journal of Adolescent Medical Health Drawing on theory, research and clinical practice experience, the contributors cover issues facing social workers. They provide a view of child neglect which moves beyond the curr...

Mega Planning involves significant stakeholders in defining success and then identifies what each person and part of an organization must do to succeed. The author uses proven techniques, and covers the basic `how-to's' of quality management, needs assessment, gap analysis, benchmarking, reengineering, and continuous improvement.