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From community-led water management schemes in Latin America to national health insurance programs in Africa, this volume assesses different alternative models to privatization and the typologies used for classifying them, providing groundbreaking insights into the scope and scale of alternative service delivery mechanisms and offering the first reliable source of comparative data that go beyond the indices used by international development ag...

This offers a vibrant and enjoyable experience through which to understand and enjoy Texas culture. This edition offers completely updated entries and features new and expanded coverage of the musicians, ensembles, dance halls, festivals, businesses, orchestras, organisations, and genres that have helped define the state's musical legacy.

World Cinema, Theology, and the Human builds an engaging intertextual dialogue between nine acclaimed films of world cinema and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience. This book engages with the power of film to trigger hermeneutical impulses and theological conversation stemming from resonant humanity unfolding onscreen. However, it is film as art, not theology as normative text, which lays down a brid...

This is the first substantial history to trace the political development of the Ulster Unionist Party through the years of protest and opposition to Irish Home Rule to the half-century as a governing party within Northern Ireland, and beyond to the current attempts to bring peace to the Province. It demonstrates why the Party is so central to efforts to reach a political settlement, and explains why it has for so long been the main political v...

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Our Father in Heaven, has given us many weapons to fight the enemy with. It is up to us then, to pick up these weapons and learn how to use them effectively. If we, however follow our natural tendency and wait for a crisis to pick up our weapons, our lack of skill is likely to be exposed in great defeat. Our enemy is a highly skilled adversary. Satan and his demons are experienced veterans, having waged war on mankind for thousands of years. T...

Despite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labor continues to evoke fear among American women. Rather than embrace the natural childbirth methods promoted in the 1970s, most women welcome epidural anesthesia and even Cesarean deliveries. In Deliver Me from Pain, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it historically posed serious risk to mothers and newbor...

At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world¿s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later, the proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements points to an unprecedented achievement, but is worth examining for its accomplishments and shortcomings....

A collection of contributions from the journal 'Culture and Organization' which specifically address how popular culture represents, informs and potentially transforms organisational practice. It also provides a review of research in organisation and popular culture.

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This text offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialization in insurance. The work seeks to argue that insurance practices ascribe value to life and produce a form of security central to the understanding of liberal governance and security.

This book provides a detailed account of the influence of the American public on foreign policy throughout US history.

On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, President G.W. Bush argued that if setting up democracy in Japan and Germany after WWII was successful, then it should also be successful in Iraq. This book provides a detailed comparison of the reconstruction of Japan from 1945 to 1952 with the current reconstruction of Iraq.

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The occurrence in some criminal cases of 'cultural defenses' on behalf of 'minority' defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how 'cultural evidence' - i.e., 'evidence' regarding ethnicity - is actually negotiated by attorneys, expert/lay witnesses, and defendants in criminal trials.

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Identification and investigation of "near-miss" incidents can be the difference between avoiding and suffering a drastic, loss-producing accident. This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to develop a "near-miss" incident program in the workplace to isolate and eliminate root causes, heal systemic weaknesses, and implement safety management systems before an accident occurs. Focusing on the successes of safety systems at two large c...

The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. "If you have the privilege to know, you have the duty to act" Time Line of Final Events, Illuminati Symbol...

This dissertation investigates the interaction between control and motivation in employment relationships. In a simple experimental setting, the agent chooses among effort levels after the principal determined the agent's choice set. Effort bears costs for the agent and benefits for the principal. The extent to which the principal restricts the agent's choice set corresponds to the level of control. Whether control is beneficial to the princip...