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This book proposes a comparative analysis of modern capitalism. It identifies five different types of modern economies: the market-based economies, Asian capitalism, the Continental European model, the social democratic economies, and the Mediterranean model. It presents their main institutional characteristics and relates the different models their political and economic dynamics. The book also assesses the likely future of the Continental Eu...

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Living in waters adjacent to Anchorage, Alaska, the beluga whales of Cook Inlet are an isolated and genetically distinct population. Thought to number more than 1000 in the early 1990s, a sharp population decline has brought them near extinction. Original in approach and incisive in its questions, Beluga Days explores how conservation laws, management policies, and human behaviors have affected the shrinking beluga population. From hunters, re...

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This title presents a radical and readable new translation of the text.

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La Coccinelle au grand coeur ajoute une corde à son arc en devenant détective, en plus du sympathique personnage déjà bien connu! Avant de s’engager dans la course reliant Paris à Monte Carlo, Choupette tombe «pneu à pneu» avec un petit bolide sportif et rutilant dont elle tombe éperdument amoureuse. L’attention de Choupette est toutefois attirée par une bande de voleurs de bijoux qui ont caché une pierre précieuse dans son réservoir d’essence...

[This] is the most important question regarding the claims of the Christian faith. Certainly no question in modern religious history demands more attention or interest, as witnessed by the vast body of literature dealing with the Resurrection. James I. Packer says it well in his response to this debate:'When Christians are asked to make good their claim that this scheme is truth, they point to Jesus' resurrection. The Easter event, so they aff...

In The Lost Art of Caring, Leighton E. Cluff, M.D., and Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., bring together experts to address the importance of caring, the reasons why it has eroded, and measures that can strengthen caring as provided by health professionals, families, communities, and society.

Adopts a uniquely international perspective25 pieces specially commissioned for this readerIncludes general, section and selection introductions

The public sector is the major provider of sport and leisure facilities and the last decade has seen enormous changes in this sector. This significant new student textbook is the first to investigate leisure management in a public sector context, examining the unique issues facing public sector managers, as well as analysing the application of contemporary management strategies and techniques to public sector leisure. Each chapter will inc...

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A groundbreaking study of the numerous academics and technocrats without whom Hitler's crude anti-Semitism could never have been translated into a systematic policy of genocide.

Britain's most successful life coach, Fiona Harrold, brings you the motivation and the means to success in just 10 minutes a day.

Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator ("man on his way"), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism. The differences between Welty and Percy and in their fiction were revealed in the habits of their lives. Welty sp...

A captivating courtroom drama. The story of Ray Johnson, an innocent man caught in a police cover up --guilty only of being in the wrong place and time while living Black in America. Ray recounts the story of his ground breaking trial and shocking defense strategy by his co-defendent. Will justice or race decide his fate?

Blues, das ist der ultimative Stil, deine Feelings rüberzubringen. Mit diesem Heft findet die messerscharfe Rhythm- and Blues-Session bei dir zu Hause statt! Das von Top-Musikern eingespielte Play-Along bringt Club-Atmosphäre pur ins Haus - und du spielst live dazu. Selbst improvisieren? Kein Problem! Mit der praktischen Improvisationsanleitung, den heißen Blues-Licks und leicht verständlichen Spielhilfen beginnt der Spaß beim ersten Ton an. E...

The vital role of emotional intelligence in the new style of management - this is the book no leader in any walk of life can afford to miss. It transforms the art of leadership into the science of results.

Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists.

Written by a pediatrician as well as a philosopher, this book comprehensively covers the difficult ethical issues involved in the prevention of intellectual disability (ID). Four real cases cover the definition of ID, epidemiology, screening, and genetic counselling. Reproductive autonomy and public health models are scrutinized, and the practical issues of prevention are examined closely with respect to three syndromes.