Springer nature apr 2008 (122 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A profile in socio-technical terms of ways that innovation is manifested in American, European, and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters. Twelve conceptual and empirical studies are presented that contribute to…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book seeks to identify the factors that influence the percentage of female parliamentarians, paying particular attention to the electoral system. The author seeks to understand the third wave of democratization of political systems,…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell phone, television, and radio, among other…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importa…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Although economists have long pointed to the aggregate gains from increased economic integration, the popular perception of globalization is much more pessimistic. Workers feel less secure in their jobs and fear wage losses and unemployme…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Do nation-states act to facilitate or limit immigration and integration, how and why How do nation-states themselves transform in understanding and interpreting rights respond to immigration Does the European Union make a difference in te…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book argues that the concept of self-defense in Islamic and International law is compatible. Al-Qaeda's declaration of Jihad does not meet the Islamic legal test. Similarly, the invasion of Iraq does meet the international legal test.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Countering popular myths of women's deficiencies in communicating in traditionally male professions, the author uses women's talk to illustrate the interactional skills required to contribute effectively to workplace meetings, and present…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume aims to reconstruct and debate a contemporary Christian realist framework, while also applying such a perspective to the issues of contemporary politics such as the Bush Doctrine, the laws of war, democracy and democratization…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There is a renewed sense of urgency to alleviate human suffering and public attention has increased its focus on corporate philanthropy and social investing. Likewise, non-profit organizations find themselves under greater pressure…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book brings together significant writings on Christianity and patriotism for a post-September 11th world. This is an exceptional collection of writings for students and universities to use as a source for guiding and informing discus…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but that it was also subject t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Russia's interactions with the West have been a perennial theme of Slavic Studies, and of Russian culture and politics. Likewise, representations of Russia have shaped the identities of many western cultures. No longer providing the 'Evil…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Road Movies engages with two foundational twentieth century technologies: cinematic and automotive. It is a book about road movies, a genre burdened by its own seductiveness. It is also, however, a book about images of human mobility more…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book assesses the challenge to the dominance of Euro-American political and economic liberalism from China's emergence as a global presence. China presents the most significant present-day example of the dual process of participation…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A new account of the formation of sexual identity, coined 'emerged fusion', which avoids the traps of the essentialism versus constructivism debate, and offers a viable third alternative. This book is a theoretical tool that will be usefu…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the 'why' of the hero as a natural companion piece to the 'how' of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over hal…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Tapping into the therapeutic potential of groups, this volume presents the theory and practice of cognitive-oriented group-centered counseling - combining intrinsic motivation, efficacy retraining, and targeted play therapy and social rol…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern s…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth an…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the political exigencies facing both the US and the Chinese Communist Party during the decisive years of the Chinese Civil War. The book offers a new and challenging perspective on America's infamous loss in China, and…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This new study demonstrates the precision of Brontë's historical setting of Jane Eyre . Thomas addresses the historical worlding of Brontë and her characters, mapping relations of genre and gender across the novel's articulation of questi…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Taking insights from the philosophy of science and technology, theories of participatory democracy and Critical Theory, the author tackles and explores how democratic participation in scientific research and technological innovation could…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to our understanding of the kind of system…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Eugene Thomas Long Originally published in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Volume 63, Nos 1-3. DOI: 10. 1007/s11153-007-9155-4 Springer Science+Business Media B. V. 2007 This volume is presented as a tribute t…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by exper…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book demonstrates that there is sufficient evidence on the Nigerian economy and society to inform many policy issues, and reveals the current problems and policy options that a democratic Nigeria will need to debate and resolv…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores globalization through a historical and anthropological study of how familiar soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi became valued as more than mere commodities. Foster discusses the transnational operations of soft d…