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Arab Elites' takes a look at the attitudes and political agendas of the current leadership in the Arab world, with particular focus on the emerging leaderships in several states, including Syria and Jordan.

This volume helps define the social, technical, and institutional issues that surround technology rich environments used in English studies departments and programs.

One of the great intelligence failures of the 20th century was indicated by the surprise with which the US greeted the collapse of the Soviet Union. This book evaluates the attitudes of the intelligence and political communities in the US and how these contributed to a mistaken view of the rival superpower.

This first-of-its-kind collection should be read by every aspiring public servant. It features research-based case studies of women academics, government managers, and activists who have made outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of public service. Each chapter relates the life and work of one subject to the broad issues faced by today's public servants. The women profiled include: Laverne Burchfield, Josephine Goldmark, Mary Li...

This work challenges the conventional understanding of Hong Kong's political culture as one of indifference. It takes a historical look at political participation in the former colony and includes an in-depth analysis of 13 selected cases.

In the past decade unions and community groups have come together around a wide range of campaigns for economic justice--from fighting for living wages, to electing progressive champions, to questioning market-oriented economic development, to promoting anti-sprawl/smart growth efforts. Partnering for Change brings together activists and intellectuals on the forefront of these organizing efforts. They discuss general patterns of labor-communit...

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Contains nine specific application cases of various non-destructive test (NDT) methods in fatigue and fracture reliability assessment of structures. This book includes NDT methods, such as: structural monitoring, use of various methods for the identification of the extent of damage, acoustic emissions technique, electro-magnetic, and more.

Includes 16 technical papers presented during a one-day Pavement Mechanics Symposium at the 15th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference (EM2002) at Columbia University, New York, on June 4, 2002. This title also includes different methods of laboratory and field testing: triaxial, asphalt tension, asphalt x-ray tomography imaging, and more.

Presents practical case studies and project results for geotechnical engineering on a variety of water resources projects located in Colorado and the Western United States. The seventeen papers in this collection were presented at the 2004 Biennial Geotechnical Seminar in Denver, Colorado.

Provides cloud seeding technology applications for precipitation enhancement projects. Subjects discussed include the history and status of cloud seeding and the concepts, designs, operations, and evaluation of these projects. Natural cloud processes, with an emphasis on artificial intervention through cloud seeding, are also discussed.

This volume provides a comprehensive review and in-depth understanding of ERP/SAP and addresses some of the issues relating to the successful implementation of ERP/SAP systems.

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This collection features a diverse mixture of leading ladies of Westerns, along with several who are not quite as well known. Some toiled in B westerns, others worked exclusively at the A level, and a few were relegated to television.

This work examines the manner in which Westerns reflected the substantial social, economic and political changes that shaped American culture in the latter half of the 20th century. It considers the reaction of the genre to shifting themes in the social landscape of American culture and examines the manner in which images of cowboys, outlaws, lawmen, American Indians and women changed in Westerns as viewers were offered a new understanding of ...

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Immigration has significant consequences for all Americans, but especially for African Americans. The sheer magnitude of immigrationit is the primary factor driving population growthis so large that it directly or indirectly affects the economic, political, social, and environmental circumstances of most Americans. But the geographic concentration of immigrants in urban areas, and the economic concentration of immigrants in the low-wage sector...

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Although John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) remains a major figures in American political thought, many of his critics consider him merely a Southern partisan whose ideas were obsolete even during his lifetime. H. Lee Cheek, Jr., presents Calhoun as an original political thinker who devoted his life to the recovery of a "proper mode of popular rule.

Etienne Gilson often stood alone in presenting St Thomas Aquinas as a theologian, one whose philosophy came from his faith. This struggle to reconcile faith and reason was a cornerstone of Gilson's contribution to philosophy. Francesa Aran Murphy offers an intellectual biography of this French philosopher.