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When online learning began more than two decades ago, many universities envisioned the creation of international student markets, but this has only recently become a reality. The emergence of a global economy, advances in technology, increased market competition, reduced funding, and the growing desire for degrees from internationally recognized universities have created opportunities that promote transnational degrees. Transnational Distance ...

Computer networks have become essential to the survival of businesses, organizations, and educational institutions, as the number of network users, services, and applications has increased alongside advancements in information technology. Given this, efforts have been put forward by researchers, designers, managers, analysts, and professionals to optimize network performance and satisfy the varied groups that have an interest in network design...

When a disaster strikes, having every possible resource available is an urgent need for those practitioners and government officials put in charge of aid and recovery to those in need. Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies: Advancements offers the most vital, up-to-date research within the field of disaster management technologies. Since the first disaster information network was set up nearly fifteen years ago, information ...

Leading historical research analysing the history of judges and judging, allowing comparisons between British, American, Commonwealth and Civil Law jurisdictions.

This book evaluates the credibility of NGOs as they monitor and supplant the public and private sectors.

The first textbook to focus exclusively on issues of distributive justice on the global scale.

Trade paperback. Shows how the world's 50 best businesses have a cause and effect relationship between financial performance and their ability to connect with fundamental human emotions, hopes, values and greater purposes.

Bockenheimers wunderschöner Bericht über seine Reise nach und durch Südamerika, "alte und neue Städte". Durch den Panamakanal zur Westküste, zu den alten Städten Perus und Boliviens, durch die Salpeterwüste in das Tal des Paradieses, in den La-Plata-Ländern, Rio de Janeiro, die schönste Stadt der Welt, und nach Westindien und Venezuela. Nachdruck des Originals von 1929

The Historical Dictionary of Haiti covers the history of Haiti starting in 1492 with the initial discovery of the island Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic to the present day. The dictionary itself contains over 400 cross-referenced entries on crucial aspects of Haitian history, and it is the most extensive single-volume reference work on Haiti available. In addition to the dictionary, this book provides a chronology containing important...

Ein sehr nützliches Buch über Nutztiere und Lasttiere, Nachdruck der Originalausgabe, mit Abschnitten zu: - nützliche Lastträger, - nordische Haustiere, - der gewaltige Südländer, - Dickhäuter der Heimat, - fremde Dickhäuter - wilde Rinder, - heimisches Wild, - Bergbewohner, - Wüstenvolk sowie - Meerungeheuer

This book presents leading-edge research from across the globe in the field of computer science research, technology, the internet and applications. Each contribution has been carefully selected for inclusion based on the significance of the research to this fast-moving and diverse field. Some topics included are virtual applications in ENT medicine and for teaching surgery, genome web-browsers as critical bioinformatics tools, Ethernet networ...

Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America moves beyond simple discussion of social movements to address an issue that is crucial for politics in the region today but has yet to be properly analysed - specifically, what is the position of the social movements after progressive governments take power.

Questions the position of social movements after progressive governments take power, with case studies from Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina.

The first detailed study of Nabokov's plays and of the function of theatrical performance in his fiction.

In the earliest drama the clash between the old world of ritual and the new world of money is revealed.

A thirty year study tracking the changes in family life and language development in 300 working-class families from 1981 onwards.

A moving, funny and masterful novel about the life of H.G. Wells - writer, thinker, lover and man of genius. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist w...

Ohio Canal Era, " a rich analysis of state policies and their impact in directing economic change, is a classic on the subject of the pre-Civil War transportation revolution. This edition contains a new foreword by scholar Lawrence M. Friedman and a bibliographic note by the author. Professor Scheiber explores how Ohio--as a "public enterprise state, " creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and control...

Over 200 poems of three kinds: works about individuals, parodies of the great poets and poems, and works fixing critical or mystical moments in the careers of major leaguers. A great way to pique interest in poetry!

This book presents the lives and accomplishments of 39 women rulers--not "in-name-only, " but wielders of real power. Celebrated queens like England's Elizabeth I share equal space here with lesser-known monarchs like Giovanna I of Naples and Maria da Gloria of Portugal. The flamboyant, such as Christina of Sweden, contrast with the moralistic, like Maria Theresa of Austria.