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This book provides a grounded analysis of globalization and urban change in the late 20th century. Drawing on multi-locale field work, Olds examines the role of two elite transnational cultures--ethnic chinese property developers and modernist architects--in the planning and development of Pacific Rim mega-projects.

Austerity in Britain is the first book to explore the entire episode of rationing, austerity, and fair shares from 1939 until 1955. These policies were central to the British war effort and to post-war reconstruction. The book analyzes the connections between government policy, consumption, gender, and party politics during and after the Second World War. It qualifies the myth of common sacrifice on the home front and highlights the limitation...

Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) composed some of the most enduring masterpieces in a Spanish style, works that remain favourites with guitarists, pianists, and music lovers the world over. This is the only biography in English of the fascinatingly complex man behind this music, and it presents much valuable new information about his career as a performer and composer.

Combining military, political, cultural, social, and oral history, Sebastian Balfour narrates for the first time the development of a brutalized, interventionist army that played a crucial role in the victory of the Francoists in the Spanish Civil War. Spain's new colonial venture in Moroccoin the early twentieth-century turned into a bloody war against the tribes resisting the Spanish invasion of their lands. After suffering a succession of h...

The internet boils down to just two things- communication and information- both of which lie at the core of medical practice. The internet's contribution to medicine is no longer mere potential. Rather, it offers the tangible inducements of efficacy, resource sharing, accessibility, knowledgeprocurement, and economy. This third edition of this original and best-selling book about the internet for doctors and medical students has been completel...

A collection of essays written in honour of Professor G. Rex Smith, arabist, historian, and scholar of the medieval history of the Yemen, on aspects of the pre-Islamic and Islamic history of Arabia and the Yemen written by a group of international scholars.

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The detailed study of learning disability features rarely in university courses. To a large extent this reflects the low value attributed by our society and its human services to people with learning difficulties. This unusual book, based on one of those rare courses, includes contributions from academic specialists, students and people with learning difficulties, all of whom have participated in the course. Its 'social approach' challenges th...

This volume examines the fifth-century medical treatise, "On the Sacred Disease, as a sophistic speech, and considers its position within the scientific tradition. The first part concerns conceptions of science, magic, and medicine, and establishes the antiquity of medicine as a specialized skill. The latter part analyzes the treatise in light of sophistic oratory, and explores its reception of traditional beliefs. This analysis shows that tra...

This book is a unique collection of essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies. Each essay challenges the Shakespeare myth and the assumptions underlying traditional modes of criticism.

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This text, a collection of 19th- and 20th-century documents by African Americans, traces the progression of black Christian theology's dominant response to the dilemma of evil in a God-protected world: the notion of suffering as redemptive.

How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conflicts over resources and conservation? This is the only major reference work to explore all the major themes and debates in the burgeoning field of environmental history. Humanity's relationship with the natural world is one of the oldest and newest topics in human history. The issue emerged as a di...

A lucid and up-to-date introduction to the fundamentals of distributed computing systems As distributed systems become increasingly available, the need for a fundamental discussion of the subject has grown. Designed for first-year graduate students and advanced undergraduates as well as practicing computer engineers seeking a solid grounding in the subject, this well-organized text covers the fundamental concepts in distributed computing syst...

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Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt sowohl einen theoretischen Background für die Internationalisierung von Franchisesystemen als auch einen Bezug zur Praxis. Zur Ermittlung des Status Quo innerhalb von Franchisesystemen wurde eine empirische Befragung durchgeführt. Im Zeichen der Globalisierung gewinnt Franchising national wie international zunehmend an Bedeutung. Es ist die ¿weltweit am stärksten wachsende Organisationsf...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist es einerseits, die These einer 1:1 Übertragbarkeit der Marke bzw. des Markenwertes aus der sogenannten ¿old economy¿ auf die sogenannte ¿new economy¿ zu hinter fragen. Beleuchtet wird, ob in der virtuellen Welt Verbraucher ihr Vertrauen in die Qualität von Produkten und die Glaubwürdigkeit von Informationen an die wahrgenommenen Markenwerte knüpfen, oder ob die Kaufentscheidung davon los ge...