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Hard Choices
Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find...
New Frontiers in China's Foreign Relations
Zhongguo Waijiao de Xin Bianjiang
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
This book stands as a rebuke to any who would attempt to forward simplistic interpretations of China's rise. In place of parsimonious arguments, or an endorsement of any singular set of images (whether pacific or confrontational), it repeatedly calls attention to the remarkable complexity of China's...
Chinese Village, Global Market
New Collectives and Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.
Re-Thinking Science
Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists...
Economic Policy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Written by four recognized experts with senior experience in research and government, this text is the first comprehensive survival kit for students and practitioners of economic policy. It is set to become an indispensable resource for everyone involved or interested in modern economic policy. Academic...
by Jason D. Mycoff, Dr. H. () T. Reynolds, Janet B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Understand the “how” and the “why” behind research in political science.
Step by step, Political Science Research Methods walks students through the logic of research design, carefully explaining how researchers choose which method to employ. The Eighth Edition of this trusted resource...
Mind Over Markets
Power Trading with Market Generated Information, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
A timely update to the book on using the Market Profile method to trade
Emerging over twenty years ago, Market Profile analysis continues to realize a strong following among active traders. The approach explains the underlying dynamics and structure of markets, identifies value areas, price...
Inclusive Instruction
Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching Students with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This accessible book presents research-based strategies for supporting K-8 students with high-incidence disabilities to become accomplished learners. The authors clearly describe the core components of effective inclusive instruction, showing how to recognize and respond to individual students' needs...
Advanced Practice Nursing
An Integrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Addressing all major advanced practice nursing competencies, roles, and issues, Advanced Practice Nursing: An Integrative Approach, 5th Edition provides a clear, comprehensive, and current introduction to APN today. It applies APN core competencies to the major APN roles - including the burgeoning...
The Applied Anthropology of Obesity
Prevention, Intervention, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The increasing global prevalence of obesity and nutrition-based non-communicable disease has many causes, including food availability; social norms as evidenced in local foodways; genetic predisposition; economic circumstance; cultural variation in norms surrounding body composition; and policies...
by George Amedee, David Anderson, Cal Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...
by Stephanie Presber James, George R. Hughes, Donald R. Leal
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
The Politics and Economics of Park Management examines national protected area systems, in both developed and developing countries, that have made a transformation from 'fortress parks' to a sustainable use model. The contributors—park management, academics, and members of nongovenmental organizations—contend...
A Fellow of Infinite Jest
A Luke Jones Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Unconventional police rookie Luke Jones is back to work after reluctantly killing a man he knew and liked in order to save the life of a partner he despises. Although labeled a hero by some, he's soon up to his old tricks-doggedly challenging authority in an organization with little tolerance for...
Worlds of Hungarian Writing
National Literature as Intercultural Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian...