Springer nature okt 2006 (69 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume represents the first attempt to systematically compare organised crime concepts, as well as historical and contemporary patterns and control policies in thirteen European countries. These include seven 'old' EU Member States (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sp…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lemurs: Ecology and Adaptation brings together information from recent research, and provides new insight into the study of lemur origins, and the ecology and adaptation of both extant and recently extinct lemurs. In addition, it addresses issues of primate behavioral ecology and how environment…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The practice of forensic pathology includes the collection and analysis of evidence in relation to a corpse in order to establish the cause of death. Knowledge of the cause of death contributes to the determination of the manner of death by medical examiners and coroners, who are occasionally ass…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book surveys the changing role of senior civil servants in Western Europe and explores whether they have kept their central role in government decision-making. Looking at these issues in comparative perspective, the contributors prov…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to a literary culture in which he sought to define and defend all imaginative life. This book…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-repli…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the global jihad movement and its emergence in the latter half of the twentieth century. Roshandel and Chadha investigate the nature and extent of this threat, tracing its religious and ideological roots, relevan…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over whether identities exist or not. In this provocative study, Sinisa Malesevic i…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on their own extensive integration experience, the systematic analysis of 167 mergers, and cutting edge academic research, the authors of this book identify the common leadership challenges to be tackled for the achievement of wha…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science. It explains how developing identity is a prerequisite for developing intelligence, personal well be…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is a study in EU legitimacy from the perspective of EU citizens. Mather argues that legitimacy is empirical: 'legitimacy only exists if people feel that it does' and that the EU is a unique and dynamic institution, hence legitimating…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial divisions that can become permanent and det…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -21st Century Dissent contends that anarchism has considerably influenced the modern political landscape. Curran explores the contemporary face of anarchism as expressed via environmental protests and the anti-globalization movement. 251 p…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Roselle analyzes how political leaders of powerful states use media to explain military defeats. The cases of the United States in Vietnam and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan highlight the role of great power identity, domestic politics,…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book compares the state of knowledge on men and masculinities in 14 countries across Europe, examining the effects of social change, Europeanization, globalization and new post-socialist configurations of Europe for men. Special atte…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Green issues have a large impact on how an organization is seen and huge implications for the organization's success, brand values and the sales decisions of consumers towards its products. This thoroughly updated practical book guides th…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book focuses on representative novels by eleven key English novelists who have broken from the realist novel of the post Second World War period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern wor…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Britannia, Europa and Christendom brings to light the webs of influence linking Christian leaders and politicians and shows the conflicting relationships between national identity and Christian universalism, and between Britain as a one-t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of violence and reconciliation in Palestinian and Israeli literature and film has rec…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips and Alison Donnell discuss the textual…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Memory, Trauma and World Politics focuses on the effect that the memory of traumatic episodes (especially war and genocide) has on shaping contemporary political identities. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book is a…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Following WWII, the authoritarian and morally austere dictatorship of General Francisco Franco's Spain became the playground for millions of carefree tourists from Europe's prosperous democracies. This book chronicles how this helped to s…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How was Ted Hughes's poetry affected by Sylvia Plath What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, that he called Paradise How did writing Birthday Letters affect his attitude to his life a…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Deborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring contemporary changes in informal social ties. She traces the shift from fixed and permanent ties of family, neighbourhood and community to fluid and t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the issues of democracy, nationalism and strengthening Taiwan consciousness in the light of the campaign strategies employed in Taiwan's 2004 presidential and legislative election from the perspective of the Taiwanese p…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Revealing how the quest for independence and challenges of democratization created a contest between nationalists and Europeanists, two powerful forces in domestic politics, after the collapse of communism, Fisher sheds light on the natio…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contends that far-right parties play pivotal roles in setting the tone of political debates, shaping the political party system, and structuring government policy. Increasingly, as national governments attempt to cope with new r…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have conver…