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Through the lens of class, gender and race, 19 essays focus on major league baseball as it reflects changing American culture.

On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since then, there have been four confessions and at least as many accusations about who was responsible. In The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo, Luise White does not set out to resolve questions about who was accountable for this horrible murder. Instead, i...

Latin America has seen a great extension of democratic government over the past twenty years. However democratisation has proved problematic in a number of ways: many Latin American countries have seen little per capita growth, poverty has increased, and political crises have often recurred. The idea of the 'Washington consensus' - that democracy, free markets and prosperity would go together in the region - has so far failed.In the first part...

Presents a seminal study which combines a range of reviews of the issues facing tourism managers and professionals in the area of tourist health and safety. This work explains many of the complex issues affecting tourists, the tourism industry and governments in ensuring tourism is viewed as a safe and enjoyable experience.

This book provides an introduction to the ideas and techniques of differential geometry and topology. It starts with a brief survey of quantum field theory, gauge theory, general relativity, vector spaces, and topology. Using many illustrations, exercises, and problems, the author demonstrates more elaborate concepts of topology and geometry, including fiber bundles, characteristic classes, and index theorems. New to this second edition is the...

A series of first-hand accounts of the famed author's life, Holmes offers a unique perspective on the creator of Detective Sherlock Holmes.

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Fuzzy modeling usually comes with two contradictory requirements: interpretability, which is the capability to express the real system behavior in a comprehensible way, and accuracy, which is the capability to faithfully represent the real system. In this framework, one of the most important areas is linguistic fuzzy modeling, where the legibility of the obtained model is the main objective. This task is usually developed by means of linguisti...

The contributors to Comparative Bureaucratic Systems advance our understanding of public administration via broad-ranging research and incisive analysis. Covering the public sector in both more and less developed nations, this book sheds new light on the means by which the fourth branch of government can be made both effective and suited to the local culture. This collection is a valuable resource for scholars of political science as well as f...

Travel tips and authoritative accounts of the trails and routes available on East Santa Cruz Island enable the hiker to enjoy this remote and beautiful island to the fullest.

The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists" provides a comprehensive review of classical social theory. Containing original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 12 major theorists. Includes 12 original essays by leading scholars on major classical social theoristsCovers the key figures who shaped social theory, such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, as well a...

Das Buch 'Marketing in der IT-Branche' spezialisiert sich auf eine Branche, in der Marketing unzureichend betrieben wird. Die Autoren verfügen über Jahrzehnte an Marketingerfahrung, die sie in diesem Buch anhand von Praxisbeispielen aufführen. Der Leser erhält einen echten Leitfaden, kein theoretisches Werk. Damit ist das Buch ein absolutes Muss einerseits für jeden Marketing Manager und Marketing Mitarbeiter innerhalb der IT Branche, anderers...

I am delighted to endorse this book, which considers and debates urban regeneration in Europe. Its comprehensive aim of understanding regeneration problems is given a unique insight by the use of practical European examples.

A continuation of the ongoing Oxford University's Centre for the Study of Values in Education and Business. The papers deal with the interactive effect of business and education as well as the moral and ethical concerns underpinning each.

In her concise introduction to Martin Heidegger's second most important work. Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning). Daniela Vallega-Neu provides guidance and structure to readers attempting to navigate this much-discussed but difficult text. Contributions reflects Heidegger's struggle to think at the edge of words and to bring to language what remains beyond the written or the spoken. In view of the centrality of Being and Time to Heide...

China, 1939, a country besieged by war and poverty while its most modern city, Shanghai, openly displays wealth and decadence is the backdrop for a story of murder, treachery and the search for a priceless artifact, a jade and gold burial suit made two millenniums earlier for Chin Shih-huang- ti, the first emperor of China.

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An exciting collection of twenty-one church-tested dramatic sketches that require only two to four characters, simple sets, and everyday costumes. Built-in performance and copying permission.

HOW TO LAY ON THE ALTAR WITHOUT WIGGLING, Volume Two, deals primarily with God healing and restoring us from the inside out. On the cutting edge of psychological theory, this book confirms the advancement of the inner man.