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The Right to Life in Japan is a study that brings new perspectives to bear on an extremely important topic for all those facing the moral dilemmas of such issues as abortion and the death penalty. It also helps to fill a gap in life, in social science and law studies of contemporary Japan.Noel Williams approaches the right to life in Japan from a legal viewpoint via a broad range of issues such as abortion, suicide, capital punishment and deat...

Environmentalism and Mass Media" sheds new light on the diverse ideas of environmentalism, the way environmental ideas circulate, and public reaction to environmental concerns conveyed by the media. By drawing on interviews with journalists, analysis of media content and public opinion surveys in the UK and India, the authors develop a model of how the dominant environmental concerns of contemporary societies are reflected and projected. This ...

Most macroeconomic theory has focused on goods and money rather than on labour, but this book goes someway to redressing this balance. It examines a wide range of labor-market issues from the perspective of modern macroeconomics. It considers policy issues, as well as theory, and criticises both Keynesian and New Classical approaches.

Explorations in Family Nursing examines a systemic approach to care which can be applied both in hospital and community settings. Working collaboratively with the family, the nurse is able to strengthen the level of care available to the patient and promote the health and well-being of the whole family. The book examines the theory underpinning family nursing and establishes the principles, including how to make assessments, plan interventions...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Oriental Enlightenment provides a lucid and highly accessible introduction to the fascination Eastern thought has exerted on Western minds since the Renaissance.

In "Happily Ever After", Jack Zipes addresses his ongoing concern with the socialization of children, the impact of the fairy tale on children and adults, and the future development of the fairy tale as film. Moving from the 16th century to the present, between different cultures and societies, and from specific analyses and general syntheses, Zipes shows how the genre has come full circle. Illustrations.

Planetary nebulae are the classic subject of astrophysics. The physical pro­ cesses occurring in this highly ionized gaseous medium, the formation of emis­ sion lines in clearly specified conditions, the continuous emission extending from the far ultraviolet up to infrared and radio frequencies, the generation of exotic forms of radiation predicted by atomic physics, along with methods for deciphering the observed spectra and detecting physica...

Network optimization is important in the modeling of problems and processes from such fields as engineering, computer science, operations research, transportation, telecommunication, decision support systems, manufacturing, and airline scheduling. Recent advances in data structures, computer technology, and algorithm development have made it possible to solve classes of network optimization problems that until recently were intractable. The re...

Dieses Buch gibt einen ¿erblick ¿ber objektorientierte Strukturen und Mechanismen und zeigt deren Realisierung in Smalltalk selbst und in Anwendungen durch Smalltalk. Es betont die Umsetzung konzeptueller Objektmodelle in operable Programme und zeigt deren inkrementelle Entwicklung und gegenseitige Beeinflussung an Hand konkreter Beispiele. Es pr¿ntiert Smalltalk als Sprache, als Entwicklungssystem und als Repositorium wiederverwendbarer und e...

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch bietet eine völlig neue Darstellung der Theorie der Geldpolitik, die auf der Anwendung spieltheoretischer Konzepte basiert. Die Spieltheorie hat in den letzten Jahren zu einer realistischeren Sicht politischer Instituionen geführt. Sie liefert die theoretischen Grundlagen zur Analyse zentraler geldpolitischer Fragestellungen: Welche Anreize für inflationäre Prozesse gehen von Stabilisierungspolitik und Staatsverschuldu...

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This acclaimed book on the Wright Brothers takes the reader straight to the heart of their remarkable achievement, focusing on the technology and offering a clear, concise chronicle of precisely what they accomplished and how they did it. This book deals with the process of the invention of the airplane and how the brothers identified and resolved a range of technical puzzles that others had attempted to solve for a century.Step by step, the b...

Cooking up great ideas of how things ought to be is easy. Getting things to actually change is a different matter, especially in large, complex organizations. This book provides the diagnostic tools managers need to assess their particular needs for change and the tool kit required to implement the changes one wants to see.

A collection of "versions" of some of the world's great, untranslated literature by an important American poet.

From the authors of the bestselling Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies comes this collection of quick cleanups and down-home fix-ups that will have everything ship-shape in no time.

Now at last we can enjoy the wonderful History of My Life... as if we were reading an entirely new book... Few more extraordinary men have ever lived, an no memoirist gives us a more vivid impression of the social background of his period." -- Peter QuennellThe last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with DoAa Ignacia, his journey t...

They were a California success story, with ties that reached all the way to Ronald Reagan. But when police were called to the neat, expensive Miller home they found a monstrous death scene. Hailed as "compelling" and "riveting", this is the tragic true story of how even a "perfect" family can be destroyed when touched by suicide, matricide, and violent mental illness.