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China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800
Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important...
Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales
The Nineteenth-century Roots
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Published in 1987, Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.
by C. W. E. Bigsby
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
First published in 1972, the work provides an introduction to Dada and Surrealism. It explores the two movements and their cultural significance. It also looks at those who called themselves Dadaists and Surrealists, including their aims and achievements. In doing so, the book identifies the meaning...
Fields Watered with Blood
Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People...
Rethinking Growth
Social Intrapreneurship for Sustainable Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Should we rethink growth? Is the abundance of the western world still ethical? Growth, social responsibility and sustainable development are indeed deeply entangled. This book aims to provide the reader with a transversal, holistic view on these issues, and a real understanding of corporate growth, along with its possible alternatives.
More, Better, Different
Getting What You Want Through a Proven Dynamic for Successful Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Leaders want to turn their ideas and intentions into results, but too many of them do what is comfortable and habitual. That would be fine if it werent for one big problem: those comfortable things too often fail. In this guidebook to tackling business problems, the authors draw on their decades of...
Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care
Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total health care spending with the smallest possible loss of health benefits, and...
by W.E. Aytoun
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by W.E. Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book, first published in 1946, deals with the question of the history, development and likely future of the civil air industry. It is full of fascinating information from the infancy of the industry, and its romantic heyday.
by Richard Johnsonbaugh, W.E. Pfaffenberger
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
This classroom-tested volume offers a definitive look at modern analysis, with views of applications to statistics, numerical analysis, Fourier series, differential equations, mathematical analysis, and functional analysis. Upper-level undergraduate students with a background in calculus will benefit...
Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core
Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This practical work demonstrates that controlling urban growth and reviving central city economies are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Rather than re-hash theories of urban development, the contributors describe and evaluate successful community-tested approaches to sustaining our cities. Revitalizing...
by Marie L. Campbell, Marjorie L. DeVault, Tim Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In this edited collection, institutional ethnographers draw on their field research experiences to address different aspects of institutional ethnographic practice. As institutional ethnography embraces the actualities of people's experiences and lives, the contributors utilize their research to reveal...
U.S. Overseas Military Presence
What Are the Strategic Choices?
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The role of the United States and its global military presence are under debate in the face of changing strategic and economic realities. The authors present a menu of global postures and compare them in terms of the U.S. Air Force bases, combat forces, active-duty personnel, and base operating costs....
Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change
Creativity, Diversity, and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change: Creativity, Diversity, Integration takes prevailing discourse about change in music studies to new vistas, as higher education institutions are at a critical moment of determining just what professional musicians and teachers need to survive and thrive...