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This report reviews the current cooperative threat reduction activities with a particular focus on projects and approaches engaging European partners. It examines the organizing principles for cooperative threat reduction and the lessons learned from past project implementation. Finally, it examines how European countries might organize their cooperative threat reduction activities to increase their coherence and effectiveness.

The private business sector suffered both directly and indirectly from the terrorist strikes of September 11th. Many business workers perished in the New York WOrld Trade Center, and the insurance, transport, and tourism industries were hard hit by the aftermath. Restrictions imposed in thename of security made business travel and the movement of goods more complicated. The private sector was called upon to support the fight against terrorism ...

Why and how has the Business Corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American Society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the ways in which the business corporation has assumed as enduring place in the modern capitalist economy, and how it hasaffected American society, culture and politics over the past two centuries. The authors challenge standard assumptions about the business corporation's ...

What did Shakespeare learn at school? Did he study creative writing? This book addresses these and similar questions as the author shows where the modern subject of "English" came from, and what part Shakespeare played in its formation. By looking at the origins of English we gain a new perspective on the subject as it is practiced today.

This book is a new edition of "Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Mechanics and Relativity" which was published in 1992. It is based on courses taken by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics and physics, giving an introduction to the expanse of modernmathematics and its application in modern physics. It aims to fill the gap between the basic courses and the highly technical and specialized courses which...

The ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism tried to argue that death is "nothing to us." Were they right? James Warren provides a comprehensive study and articulation of the interlocking arguments against the fear of death found not only in the writings of Epicurus himself, but also inLucretius' poem De rerum natura and in Philodemus' work De morte. These arguments are central to the Epicurean project of providing ataraxia (freedom from ...

I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others, but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful stud...

Self-contained introduction to the path integral method in field theory and its applications to quantum anomalies. The subjects covered in the book are relevant to particle and high-energy nuclear theory, conformal field theory, applications to condensed matter theory and string theory. No previous knowledge beyond the advanced undergraduate quantum mechanics is assumed.

This Commentary takes critical account of recent writing on the Odes. It deals with detailed questions of interpretation, and shows how Horace combined the tact of a court-poet with a humane individualism, and how he wrote within a literary tradition without losing a highly personal voice. Though the book is not intended for beginners, the editors aim throughout at clarity.

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This monograph is an important contribution to the study of lexical acquisition and the larger question of developing a standard Arabic as a second language through literacy. Since large numbers of individuals learn Arabic for religious as well as economic reasons in Africa , Central Asia and East Asia this topic has implications far beyond its focused discussion of semantic and formal properties in the process of analyzing Arabic words into p...

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Uses legal and literary resources to explore Shakespeare's use of the law and its instruments in the problem plays.

Chronicles the growing impact of job uncertainty on workers in Europe.

This book tells the story of Emma struggling with 7 children in the wild country of Territorial Wisconsin. With the help of friends, she manages to raise her children. Each child goes on the extraordinary lives themselves.

This book tells the story of Emma struggling with 7 children in the wild country of Territorial Wisconsin. With the help of friends, she manages to raise her children. Each child goes on the extraordinary lives themselves.

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