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A provocative argument that that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created by modern media and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.

Analysis and evaluation of post-9/11 multilateral nonmilitary strategies against terrorism, focusing on efforts by the United Nations, the Financial Action Task Force, the European Union, and an array of multilateral institutions.

Joe's back in 2007 with an all new art book which showcases his most recent sketches, drawings, and paintings of his favorite subject: girls, girls, girls! This new book features pin-ups and good girls which are demure and sultry. "Girls, Girls, Girls!" presents Joe's gallery work as well as unpublished comic book work, life study paintings, finished drawings and more. Chock full of luscious ladies as only Joe can draw them, this beautiful boo...

From veteran writing instructor Susan M. Tiberghien: An innovative portable workshop to help you build a solid foundation for your writing career

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This new edition, fully updated for the official release of .NET 3.0, is designed to get you up to speed on this technology quickly. By page 2, you'll be writing a simple WPF application. By the end of Chapter 1, you'll have taken a complete tour of WPF and its major...

Knives are the most common pieces of equipment in the kitchen, yet few cooks know the basic techniques that can allow them to carve, chop, slice, and mince effectively. Peter Hertzmann teaches you skills that encompass everything you need to do with a knife in the kitchen, whether you're a four-star chef or an at-home beginner. This comprehensive guide fills a gaping void in culinary literature.

Exploring the diversity and complexity of embodied experiences of maternity, this book illustrates how maternal bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks, and through different places and spaces.

Charting the use of cartographic metaphor in postmodern literature and theory, Mitchell argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity. This metamorphosis draws together poststructuralist conceptualizations of epistemology, textuality, cartography, and metaphor, and signals a shift away from modernist preoccupations with temporality and objectivity to a postmodern pragmat...

This book explores the issue of women and smoking in the twentieth century. Focusing on the gendered construction of smoking as a practice, Rosemary Elliot uese a variety of source material from popular magazines, films and medical discourse.

Focuses on materials basics and gives a foundation for the non-materials major to understand the properties and limitations of materials. This book features chapters which include discussions of atomic structure and bonds, imperfections in crystalline materials, ceramics, polymers, composites, electronic materials, and environmental degradation.

Offers directions in computation, automation, and control into classical topics in electric power distribution. This book includes examples, problems, and case studies, which offer insight into the concepts and help build a working knowledge of protection schemes, fault analysis and synthesis, and reliability analysis.

This is the first book to examine the psyche of the Jamaican man from the aspect of Masculine Gender Role Stress. Before this work, the concept of Masculine Gender Role Stress has never before been employed to analyse the behaviour and thinking of the Jamaican man. The author conducted detailed research which showed that many Jamaican men were undergoing high rates of Masculine Gender Role Stress. The uniqueness of this book concerns the fact ...

As the conservative political mood of our nation eliminates programs for the increasing numbers of bilingual children, educators are nevertheless expected to teach linguistically and culturally diverse learners with limited background knowledge and resources. This edited volume challenges «mainstream» educators to critically examine how to best meet the needs of bilingual/bicultural children in contemporary America.

Liberal Forces in Twentieth Century Yugoslavia: Memoirs of Ladislav Bevc spans 80 years of his professional and political life: from the early years of his childhood in the large family of a civil servant, to his studies in Vienna and the interruption of his professional career by military service at the Eastern and Western front under the detested Austrian flag, to a flourishing career in the liberated homeland of Yugoslavia. Born in skocijan...

To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti - she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It's a journey that leads her to unravel the dark secrets of her aunt's life - and her own. And while Zinny chases ghosts in the woods, gorgeous Jake Boone is determined to chase her . . .

Beyond Monotheism is an absorbing and lyrical exploration of the possibility of a new, living theology of multiplicity that is grounded in fluidity, change and incarnation.

When Daniel Leader opened his Catskills bakery, Bread Alone, twenty years ago, he was determined to duplicate the whole-grain and sourdough breads he had learned to make in the bakeries of Paris. The bakery was an instant success, and his first book, Bread Alone, brought Leader's breads to home kitchens. In this, his second book, Leader shares his experiences traveling throughout Europe in search of the best artisan breads. He learned how to m...

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Analyzing the role of journalists in science communication, this book presents a perspective on how this is going to evolve in the twenty-first century. The book takes three distinct perspectives on this interesting subject. Firstly, science journalists reflect on their a ~operating rulesa (TM) (science news values and news making routines). Secondly, a brief history of science journalism puts things into context, characterising the changing o...