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High-quality implementation of foreign aid interventions sometimes requires employee use of contextual information that will be precluded by tight management control. Drawing from over 130 interviews and statistical analysis of a novel database of over 14, 000 discrete development projects, Honig finds that top-down controls sometimes undermine development project success.

This is a book of political theory about personal autonomy: its nature, its importance, and its problems. Swaine offers solutions for the defects of personal autonomy, arguing for ethical autonomy, a kind of self-rule that is modified by moral character.

Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own authority, and compete for public endorsement.

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In Bigotry, Conscience, and Marriage, the eminent legal scholar Linda McClain traces the rhetoric of bigotry and conscience across a set of debates relating to both marriage and antidiscrimination law. In the process, she demonstrates the contested nature of the term 'bigotry' along with its complex ties to the concept of conscience. By teasing out the historical dimensions of the arguments surrounding marriage and antidiscrimination law and d...

This book connects the dilemmas educators experience in daily practice with key theories, research and policy about democracy, ethics, and equity in education. The authors explore the complex nature of the problems that face practicing teachers and the realistic actions that can be taken to address them.

The new edition of the leading textbook for English applied phonetics and phonology A leading textbook for English Phonetics and Phonology, the fourth edition of Applied English Phonology is an accessible, authoritative introduction to the English sound system. Providing clear explanations and numerous illustrative examples, this new edition has been fully updated with the latest research and references. Detailed discussions of fundamental co...

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Unscripted America reconstructs an archive of indigenous language texts in order to present a new and wholly unique account of their impact on philosophy and US literary culture.

To understand the life and thought of Thomas Merton, one must understand him as a monk. After introducing his vocation and entrance into the Trappist order, this book highlights some of his basic spiritual presuppositions. Relying primarily on Merton's writing, Bonnie B. Thurston surveys his thought on fundamental aspects of monastic formation and spirituality, particularly obedience, silence, solitude, and prayer. She also addresses some of t...

Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide Wireless connectivity has become an indispensable part, a commodity associated with the way we work and play. The latest developments, the 5G, next-generation Wi-Fi and Internet of Things connectivity, are the key enablers for widespread digitalization of practically all industries and public sector segments. This immense development within the last three decades have been accompanied ...

Does the real world, defined as a world of objects that exist independent of human interests, concerns, and cognitive activities, actually exist? Jan Westerhoff argues that we have good reason to believe it does not. He draws on the philosophy of Madhyamaka Buddhism, but defends his stance in a Western philosophical framework.

In Adolescents on Music, author Elizabeth Cassidy Parker proves that the common difficulty found in attempting to collectively articulate why musicking experiences are important for young people stems from failing to ask adolescents to share their ideas richly and fully, demonstrating the need for deeper efforts to connect adolescent perspectives with established theories and philosophies in the social sciences and humanities.

In Adolescents on Music, author Elizabeth Cassidy Parker proves that the common difficulty found in attempting to collectively articulate why musicking experiences are important for young people stems from failing to ask adolescents to share their ideas richly and fully, demonstrating the need for deeper efforts to connect adolescent perspectives with established theories and philosophies in the social sciences and humanities.

Engineering America narrates how Johann August Röbling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America.

When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, film, and culture. It explores the world's great repertoire of film comedy, clarifying how specific national and regional traditions reflect the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring stories, its engaging characters and revealing jokes.

When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, film, and culture. It explores the world's great repertoire of film comedy, clarifying how specific national and regional traditions reflect the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring stories, its engaging characters and revealing jokes.

An updated, essential guide for the laboratory diagnosis of haemoglobin disorders This revised and updated third edition of Haemoglobinopathy Diagnosis offers a comprehensive review of the practical information needed for an understanding of the laboratory diagnosis of haemoglobin disorders. Written in a concise and approachable format, the book includes an overview of clinical and laboratory features of these disorders. The author focuses on...

Thomas Pangle continues his exploration of the work of Xenophon, a student of Socrates and an historian, who wrote about Socrates, the man, his ideas, and their reception in Athens. In a sequel to his earlier account of Xenophon's Memorabilia, this book takes up the three remaining works of Xenophon, which were devoted to memorializing his teacher Socrates: the Oeconomicus, the Symposium, and the Apology of Socrates to the Jury. As Pangle puts...

Die Demokratie durchläuft im Zuge der fortschreitenden Modernisierung einen Erosionsprozess. Dadurch werden ihre notwendigen Voraussetzungen - die Autonomie der politischen Willensbildung in gleichheitsbasierten Verfahren, der Zusammenhalt der demokratischen Bürgerschaft und die rationale staatliche Steuerungsfähigkeit - allmählich zersetzt. Die wirklichkeitswissenschaftlichen Analysen Michael Th. Grevens wollen belegen: Sowohl die Demokratie ...