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Serving Whose Interests? examines the political economy of trade in services agreements. It explores the tensions and contradictions in the GATS and bilateral trade agreements by combining a theoretical and technical analysis with a series of truly global case studies that include the market in internet gambling, education, pensions, electricity privatisation, supermarkets, tourism, oil, culture, temporary migrants, private finance initiatives...

Including 11 survey papers from international experts in combinatorics, group theory and combinatorial topology, this book presents contributions on design theory, Belyi functions, group theory, transitive graphs, regular maps, and Hurwitz problems. It is suitable for those who study graphs, maps and polytopes having maximal symmetry.

Analysis of Computer and Communication Networks presents the academic and research communities with mathematical theory and techniques necessary for analyzing and modeling high-performance global networks, such as the Internet. The three main building blocks of high-performance networks are links, switching equipment connecting the links together, and software employed at the end nodes and intermediate switches. This work provides the basic te...

Deliberative democracy has become one of the central areas of recent academic and practitioner discussions in democracy and has attracted vast attention. This book takes an innovative and detailed look at this problem and offers some original and detailed suggestions in this area, contributing to the development of the theory. In addition the book goes back to first principles and justifications on deliberative democracy and how it can contrib...

The battle of Bannockburn, fought on the fields south of Stirling at midsummer 1314, is the best known event in the history of Medieval Scotland. It was a unique event. The clash of two armies, each led by a king, followed a clear challenge to a battle to determine the status of Scotland. As a key point in the Anglo-Scottish wars of the fourteenth century, the battle has been extensively discussed, but Bannockburn was also a pivotal event in t...

All societies are organized around, and sustained by, a set of dominant myths - public, large-scale narratives that engage our imaginations and shape the way we experience the world. This book covers myths that energize and mobilize a great deal of public funding as well as academic production.

Drawing on evidence from a longitudinal study of Canadian children's emotional experiences within the grade-school classroom, this book considers the nature and significance of such experiences for children's development and well-being. Within the learning context of the classroom, the girls and boys share their experiences of self, emotional understandings, and social relations through interviews and social cognitive tasks. The chapters provi...

Loving or aloof, mischievous or cuddly--for many people, their cats are an integral part of the family. Here are extraordinary stories of some of the world's most charismatic and captivating cats: * Princess Kitty, dubbed ''The Smartest Cat in the World, '' was trained to play the piano and do 100 other incredible tricks * ASPCA 2007 cat of the year, Winnie, led her family to a carbon monoxide leak * Simon received the Dickin Medal for his eff...

This book examines the way transnational media companies have entered the Chinese entertainment market. Based on the author's ethnographic work and over 100 interviews with senior executives in global media corporations, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Viacom's MTV Channel, and Nickelodeon and News Corporation's Channel V, the book analyzes the concrete globalization/localization strategies of these corporations and how they cope with the var...

Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most profound tragic allegory. The editors provide detailed annotation of the text and explore the wide range of critical and theatrical interpretations that the play has engendered. Tracing both its satirical and tragic strains, their introduction presents a perspective on the play's meanings that combine...

Unter einer Steinbrücke im Andernacher Schlossgarten wird die Leiche eines jungen Mannes gefunden. Der 18-jährige Mario Reschkamp wurde mit zahlreichen Messerstichen regelrecht niedergemetzelt. Die Koblenzer Kommissarin Franca Mazzari und ihr Kollege Bernhard Hinterhuber übernehmen den Fall. Vieles deutet auf ein Verbrechen im Drogenmilieu hin, denn das Opfer war als Dealer in den einschlägigen Kreisen gut bekannt. Befragungen in Marios Freund...