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This text gives information on the new status of gambling and the issues that arise with the existence of legal commercial gaming. It includes contributions from some of the world's leading authorities on theory and teatment approaches to problem and pathological gambling.

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Aims to present a credible system for classifying the quality of utility location information that is placed in design plans. This title addresses issues, such as: how utility information can be obtained, what technologies are available to obtain that information, how that information can be conveyed to the information users, and more.

UN sanctions are a popular weapon in the international community - an effective means of bringing a transgressor state back in line. This book challenges this view in an analysis of the political, economic and psychological impact of sanctions on the Middle East's "pariah" states.

It is typically taken for granted that African economies perform poorly, but there are a small but significant number of success stories on the continent. This study explores what accounts for Africa's average stagnation, and for the wide regional variations in developmental fortunes.

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Viewing the behavior of NATO members through the prism of bargaining theory reveals them as states intent on obtaining the benefits of membership at the least cost to themselves. This book shows how NATO members use a variety of strategies and tactics to try to get the better of each other without wrecking an alliance that realizes their shared goals, and from which they all benefit. It examines: the original design of the alliance, patterns o...

This book makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as fully consolidated democracies. As such, they may be integrated into the mainstream of political science research, and not consigned forever to a transitional category encompassing countries that are now fully democracies as well as some that are not democratic at all. The author outlines the steps of another transition -- from post-communist studies to polit...

An examination of the notion of computer as medium and what such an idea might mean for education. It suggests that the understanding of computers as a medium may be a key to re-envisioning educational technology, and draws on a broad range of disciplines, from psychology to film criticism.

This study demonstrates why the global economy and global policies can only be understood by assigning equal importance to actors from different continents and international institutions. The contributors begin by examining the effects of reducing trade barriers through the WTO processes, and the implications for our understanding of market forces, the diminishing capacity of governments, consumer power, and the role of international agreement...

This text is a critique of the debate between cognitivists and social constructionists. It argues against fragmented views that the dialectic between identity and text can be reduced to mind of society, body or economics, nature or nurture.

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Recognizing the need for standards and principles for water sharing, ASCE's Task Committee for the Shared Use of Transboundary Water Resources reviews transboundary agreements to develop model codes to limit the potential for conflict, and provides a balance between use of the water for economic purposes, public health, and ecological protection.

Presenting the effects of the Nisqually, Washington Earthquake of 2001, this report shows that though catastrophic damage did not occur, significant damage to the lifeline infrastructure did happen. The topics include geoscience and geotechnical aspects, highway systems, power systems, water supply, wastewater, railways, and gas and liquid fuels.

Moe's new book is not an argument for or against vouchers, it is an analysis of public opinion on vouchers that is likely to be very influential in shaping the movement's future. Moe has written a nuanced and thoughtful treatise that goes beneath the notoriously unreliable single-shot question favored by the media: Do you favor or oppose school vouchers?" Richard D. Kahlenberg in The Nation "In a brilliant, definitive analysis of the subject, ...

Recent experience with interventions designed to promote the well-being of children and to prevent mental health problems has identified particular challenges in families with disordered parents. These families are often very difficult to engage in mental health promotion and prevention programs, and they may be especially resistant to intervention. The Effects of Parental Dysfunction on Children explores the current level of knowledge regardi...

This volume, the fourteenth in the Space Sciences Series of ISS/, is dedicated to the matter in the universe, which was the topic of a workshop organized by ISSI from 19 to 22 March 2001 in Bern. The aim of the meeting was to gather ac­ tive researchers from various fields (cosmology, astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics as well as space science) to asses the exciting new developments in the search for abundant and yet unknown forms of m...

Mechanisms and Deployment of Resistance in Trees to Insects is a worldwide synthesis of tree resistance to insects. The contributions are by senior scientists and represent all the major forested regions of the world. The book constitutes a comprehensive treatment of the state of our knowledge on patterns of resistance by insect guilds and how this knowledge can be deployed to achieve the management of damaging forest insects. This book will s...

How a poem tells a story, and the importance of narrative as core of a poem's body and key to its soul