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The role of affect in how people think and behave in social situations has been a source of fascination to laymen and philosophers since time immemorial. This book reviews and integrates the research and theories on this topic, and features contributions reviewing key areas of affect research from leading researchers active in the area.

Looks at entrepreneurial strategies and innovation in emerging market economies (EMEs). Represents the view of the entrepreneur in local as well as multinational corporations.

Suitable for Caribbean secondary schools, this title deals with the regional practicalities of learning Spanish for a Latin American context and provides a comprehensive foundation for students at the lower secondary levels up to and including those sitting Spanish at CSEC level.

A schoolgirl diary that records the high and low points of friendships, loyalties and betrayals, as well as the writer's own growing awareness of herself.

Including chapters on music, architecture, festivals, ritual, artefacts, dance, dress and magic, this book offers a useful resource to students of sociology and anthropology of religion, art, culture, history, liturgy, theories of late modern culture, and religious studies.

This is a volume of original contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines. The aim of the book is to present a range of surveillance technologies used in everyday life and investigate the politics of their use. It is truly an interdisciplinary project that will find purchase in courses on security studies and the sociology of culture and the sociology of science. Courses on security studies and its i...

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This volume is devoted to the Persistent Scatterer Technique, the latest development in radar interferometric data processing. Using this technique, millimetric displacements can be observed at hundreds of thousands of targets that are affected only slightly from temporal and geometric decorrelation, such as the walls and the roofs of houses, lamp posts, grates, window ledges, etc. All acquired data can be used by this technique, which enables...

This is a stimulating and highly original collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. The contributors reinterpret key issues and debates, including political, social, cultural and international aspects of the Russian revolution stretching from the late imperial period into the early Soviet state.

This book is a comprehensive and positive study of the special pattern of China's industrialization and economic development, covering all of the relevant, main policies (more than one hundred) from 1949 to the twenty-first century.

Fractals, Diffusion, and Relaxation in Disordered Complex Systems is a special guest-edited, two-part volume of Advances in Chemical Physics that continues to report recent advances with significant, up-to-date chapters by internationally recognized researchers.

This book gauges possible development implications of current WTO trade negotiations by examining various proposals and assessing their likely economic impact. The experiences of a number of countries at different levels of development and across various regions are examined to ascertain the impact of their trade reforms.

This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem from the angle of the variegated Elizabethan context recently uncovered by modern historians and theatre scholars. It is argued that faith was a quest rather than a quiet certainty for the playwright.

Go Beyond "Business As Usual" with Your Nonprofit "At last--the ′real truth′ about nonprofit management! In Exposing the Elephants, Wilcox reveals the ′pesky pachyderms′ that block our way to full effectiveness.

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Shopping centers have become the most common of shopping environments and have influenced the make-up of cities around the world. This guide includes over 600 illustrations that present the core values and considerations that make a successful retail center: location, catchment user needs, as well as access and layout.

This concise book offers a nuanced introduction to Islam in the Middle East. It presentsIslam as both a unified tradition of theological dogma and practices that transcends cultural differences and as a dynamic tradition that is historically informed, locally shaped, and continually reinterpreted. Offers numerous ethnographic examples from the Middle East and North AfricaExplores key concepts, including the doctrinal foundations of Islam, the ...

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McGraw-Hill World Languages is pleased to include Repaso (which was originally published by the National Textbook Company) among our titles for the Intermediate Spanish course. This single volume textbook, now in its second edition, provides a comprehensive grammar review. Ideal as a stand-alone text for intermediate grammar review courses or used in conjunction with a separate literary or cultural reader, Repaso reviews and refines students' ...