The book is a comprehensive work on the law relating to intellectual property. It brings out point of views on point of law and as well point of facts and circumstances. It highlights judiciously the judicial, political, legal, economical and philosophical point of views on the various issues pertinent to the varied fields of intellectual property law. Besides, the book carries analysis and presentation from the comparative perspective in part...
She never drove or worked drunk, never injured herself or someone else, never woke up next to a strange man, was fired, went bankrupt, or became homeless because of her drinking. But for years Jenna Hollenstein worried that she was using alcohol for the wrong reasons. Though it didn't cause her to spiral out of control, drinking seemed to be detracting from her life in subtler ways: missed opportunities, unaddressed fears, challenges not taken...
Two prospective members show up at the Mystery Club meeting at the Rose Plaza retement building, Ursula Besette, a troubled Hungarian refugee, and Judge Ira Kahane, a ninety-year old Orthodox Jew. Ursula is interested in Wicca and curious about Kabala, both mystical practices, but each has its own dangers and there's conflict within the Mystery Club that leads to tragedy.
Se trata de la primera gu'a divulgativa sobre la flora vascular del Sistema IbZrico Oriental (Espa-a) y sus +reas vecinas. Incluye territorios de las provincias de Albacete, Castell-n, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Tarragona, Teruel, Valencia y Zaragoza. Viene ilustrada con m+s de 1500 dibujos de plantas, lo que unido a las claves dicot-micas de determinaci-n, le permitir+ distinguir las m+s de 2000 especies que se citan en el texto. Al tratarse de una...
It's ridiculous. It's Sunday. Worse, it's a glorious, warm, blue-sky Sunday morning and here I am in my study, on my computer, preparing a PowerPoint presentation for Monday's ExCo meeting to explain why, after yet another month, our new Growth Through Innovation process has so far failed to get any real results. They've graciously granted me 20 minutes out of a 5-hour meeting. Strange how, for an organisation which claims that "Innovation is ...
Julie Avril Minich is Assistant Professor of English, with concurrent appointments in the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Center for Women and Gender Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin.
Process metallurgy provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products.Coverage is divided into three volumes, entitled Fundamental Process Metallurgy, encompassing process fundamentals, extractive and refining processes, metallurgical process phenomena, Types of Processing, encompassing ferrous processing, non-ferrous processing, refractory, reactive and aquae...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program develops toxicologic assessments of environmental contaminants. IRIS assessments provide hazard identification and dose-response assessment information. The information is then used in conjunction with exposure information to characterize risks to public health and may be used in risk-based decisionmaking, in regulatory actions, and for other risk-ma...
How was Chile transformed both politically and economically during the two decades of centre-left coalition (Concertación) government that followed the country's return to democracy in 1990? How did the coalition manage to hold on to power for so long—but not longer? And were its policies in fact substantially different from those that preceded them? Addressing these questions, the authors of this volume assess the successes and failures of Co...
It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the variation in state capacity by looking at a particularly paradoxical and frequently overlooked phenomenon: effective public organizations or `pockets of ef...
In mortal fear of destruction at the hands of supernatural forces, Christian, a famous Tracer in the service of the Demon Lord Apollyon, must flee his home in search of the means to save himself and his family from a fate worse than death. Adapted from John Bunyan's 17th-century classic, "The Pilgrim's Progress".
Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. A distinctive view of social geography is adopted, inspired by the Chicago school of North American pragmatism, but also incorporating the formal sociological theories of Simmel and Weber.