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This book reconciles the growing conflict between the ecological sustainability and full employment objectives, discussing and analyzing the impact that achieving ecological sustainability will have on unemployment and the nature of the workplace.

A collection that reveals what lies ahead for worldwide emerging markets. It addresses business cycles, equity returns, regulations, corporate governance, corruption, and more in various international markets. It also investigates Balkan economics, including the trade flows and volatility of these transition countries in Europe.

Physical Geography: The Key Concepts is a thought-provoking and up-to-date introduction to the central ideas and debates within the field. It provides extended definitions of terms that are fundamental to physical geography and its many branches, covering topics such as: biogeography ecology climatology meteorology geomorphology hydrology pedology Complete with informative tables, diagrams, and suggestions for further reading, this is a highly...

Anti-social behaviour' has become a label attached to a huge range of nuisance and petty crime, and rarely out of the headlines as tackling this problem has become a central part of the British government's crime control policy. This book aims to explain why anti-social behaviour has gained such a high profile in Britain.

Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was 'the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the capacity of human beings to make themselves 'masters and possessors of nature', it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world f...

Crime Scene Reconstruction (CSR) is today's hot topic. This handbook bridges the gap between perception and reality, helping readers understand the nature of the scientific method and teaching the proper application of its components.

Adapted for a cast of as few as ten or as many as thirty.

The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours in the water, eight remaining survivors swam to a remote island controlled by the Japanese. Deep behind enemy lines and without food or drinking water, th...

Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs. Filmmakers from the silent era to onward have displayed a deep fascination with the lives of royalty and with queens in particular. Still, the question remains: what do these films really tell us about the women beneath the crowns? Drawing on films from the 1930s to those of today, Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens investigates the ways in which these film...

Contains two books which include "How We Talked" that uses native expressions to depict everyday life in Caney Creek, Kentucky, and "Common Folks" that documents Slone's way of life in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, and expands on such diverse topics as family pets, coal mining, education, and marriage.

The collected papers of Sir George Stokes, the outstanding and influential nineteenth-century Cambridge mathematician.

A lively exploration of everyday arithmetic processes, demonstrating their value, power and enduring interest.

In this book, Berdyaev tells us that the creative development of the spirit and the free exercise of man's powers can be conceived only as the free cooperation of man with the work of God. Creative spiritual development represents a new principle which signifies an offering of human freedom to God, an offering which God expects from us. The life of the spirit is a creative and dynamic process. Spiritual development is possible only because the...

Nikolai Berdyaev describes this book as "a philosophical autobiography or a history of spirit and self-knowledge." This book is not only autobiographical, it is also a work of critical self-inquiry: Berdyaev subjects his ideas and his life to philosophical scrutiny, in order to discover his "own image and ultimate destiny." In passing, he elucidates the most important elements of his personalistic philosophy: freedom, creativeness, and divine-...

Essays on naval and military history, focusing on the value to contemporary officers of such historical analyses.

Are meetings taking over your life? You're not alone. Meet Iris, a sales director so overwhelmed by meetings that she feels like a hamster on a wheel in fact, she's turned into one. Just in time, she meets a coach a leading meeting efficiency expert with a simple system that helps her regain her sanity and humanity.The coach's secret is a laser-like focus on the five biggest meeting pain points:1. Meeting overload: Professionals waste twenty-f...

Too many progressives are still using old-school divide and conquer tactics: demonize the other side, frighten the voters, scheme, and maneouver to try to win on your own terms. This approach hasn't been particularly successful and has led to widespread alienation and apathy, which plays into the hands of the status quo. And it's a betrayal of some of the most cherished ideals of the progressive movement: inclusion, reason, justice, and hope. ...

Written compositions fused with visual communication. 33 reinterpreted, completely unique visual experiences.

This book is the philosophical fruit of Nikolai Berdyaev's first-hand experience of, and reflections on, the crisis of European civilization in the aftermath of the Great War and the Russian Revolution. Berdyaev tells us that the modern age, with its failed Humanism, is being replaced by a new epoch: "the new middle ages, " an epoch of darkness, an epoch of the universal night of history. Berdyaev asserts that this night is a good thing: in th...

Written at the beginning of the world apocalypse which was World War II, The Beginning and the End is Nikolai Berdyaev's main book on eschatology. He describes his book as an "essay in the epistemological and metaphysical interpretation of the end of the world, of the end of history", hence he calls it an "eschatological metaphysics." For Berdyaev the end of the world is a divine-human enterprise: man not only endures the end, but he also prep...