Iris: 689 books
Theories of Democracy
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2000
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice,...
by Iris St. Clair
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
I thought I’d hit rock bottom when my dad died.I was wrong.I never dreamed my mom would choose drugs and alcohol over me.I was wrong about that too.I thought teachers were there to instruct, to guide, to counsel.Wrong doesn’t begin to describe what nearly happened...
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...
by Iris Berger
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch...
by Iris Heuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: Good, University of Hamburg (Anglistics/ American Studies), language: English, abstract: Die Phrasal Verbs des Englischen bestehen aus einer Einheit von Verb und adverbialem Partikel. Dieser...
Das Land der Rummeln, Sölle und Findlinge
Natur und Landschaft des Flämings bei der Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Language: German
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Unmittelbar nördlich der viel besuchten Lutherstadt Wittenberg erstreckt sich der von der ebenen Elbeaue sanft ansteigende Fläming, der in der Literatur über deutsche Landschaften mit ihren Faunen und Floren bisher wenig Beachtung fand. Der Fläming ist maßgeblich im Erdzeitalter des Pleistozäns...
Satan, You Can't Have My Miracle
A spiritual warfare guide to restore what the enemy has stolen
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Access God’s promises for healing and miraclesWe fight in a spiritual war that can only be waged with spiritual weapons. Satan and his demons would like nothing better than for you to believe that miracles don’t happen—or that they only happen to other people.
Satan, You Can't Have My Promises
The Spiritual Warfare Guide to Reclaim What's Yours
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Confront the devil and take back what’s yours
by Iris Bernadette
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The spiritual practice of Buddhism has millennia of tradition to draw on; however, it never requires anybody to follow all of its teachings, and this is one of the great beauties of this philosophy of light: you can choose which exercises and practices to make your own, which ones fit your life, your...
Like My Grandmother Used to Say...
And Other Lessons I've Learned Along the Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This book fulfills my wish to bring awareness, hope, at times humor, and an understanding of the challenges we all face in life; to let the reader know that we are all in this together; that everyone has a story just as funny or sad as yours and mine. Like many others, I have faced and survived the...
Extraordinary Outcomes
Shaping an Otherwise Unpredictable Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Steel your team against the unexpected by planning for uncertainty
Extraordinary Outcomes presents an innovative approach to thinking and planning, giving leaders a playbook for dealing with uncertainty. Written by internationally recognized authorities on problem solving and creativity in...
by Satoru Araki, Iris Claus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A robust and sustainable tax system requires good tax administration. This report compares the administrative frameworks, functions, and performances of tax administration bodies in 22 jurisdictions in Asia and the Pacific. The descriptive analysis is based on surveys of tax administration conducted...
Regulating (From) the Inside
The Legal Framework for Internal Control in Banks and Financial Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This book examines a key aspect of the post-financial crisis reform package in the EU and UK-the ratcheting up of internal control in banks and financial institutions. The legal framework for internal controls is an important part of prudential regulation, and internal control also constitutes a form...
The Foundations and Future of Financial Regulation
Governance for Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Financial regulation has entered into a new era, as many foundational economic theories and policies supporting the existing infrastructure have been and are being questioned following the financial crisis. Goodhart et al’s seminal monograph "Financial Regulation: Why, How and Where Now?"...