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Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the small-town violence and terror which lies behind the headlines.

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Based on a workshop between clergy members of the United Methodist Church, "But They Won't Talk With a Woman" focuses on justice issues between male and female clergy, relying on the personal experiences of the participants, as well as their reflections from points made in the book, Women's Growth in Connection by Judith V. Jordan, et. al. In this book, the group posits that unless injustices that female clergy are subjected to in their daily ...

Romanticism Across the Disciplines brings together thirteen essays written by prominent scholars from America and abroad to identify Romanticism's presence outside of one national tradition or a single discourse field.

Teleworking and Urban Development Patterns addresses the impact of advances in telecommunications on community development. It discusses the likelihood of an acceleration of suburbanization, particularly in the outer suburbs of cities along with the potential growth in college towns and recreation areas, and considers the likelihood of an increase in the problems of central cities as this spreading out of wealth occurs.

Bringing one thousand years to life, this is an illustrated history of New Zealand from the settlement by Polynesians to the present day. The book covers the period of colonization after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the wars between the Maori and the British Army of the 1860s, the beginning of party government in the 1990s, votes for women in 1993, fighting in South Africa and Europe, the Depression, the Maori drift to towns, the inf...

A practical approach to the concepts of Buddhism.

An enthralling saga set in nineteenth-century Yorkshire, by the author of LIKE NO OTHER.

This book is the first major in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations, namely technical workers. It investigates whether HRM schemes such as employee appraisals and performance related pay have transformed technical work to such an extent that it can no longer be described as a 'service contract'. The book contains detailed examination of the nature of managerial c...

In the public sector at the moment resources are scarce - or at the very least finite and limited - how they are allocated is therefore of crucial importance.This book analyses this process and examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic, including the role of markets and quasi-markets, in the delivery of public services.Topics discussed include:* whether people should be denied the public services they need because pu...

This collection brings together some of Frank Jackson's most influential essays on mind, action, conditionals, method in metaphysics, and ethics. These have each been revised for this edition, and are presented along with his challenge to orthodoxy on the new riddle of induction.

New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate over new forms of environmental regulation in the European Union.The conclusions draw attention to critical aspects of instrument design, as well as the difficulty of accommodating national policy diversity without contravening EU and international trade rules. Drawing on critical research and practical experience, this book presents a number of ...

Meni Koslowsky presents here for the first time a way of modelling stress-strain that will enable researchers to both assess examples from the literature and correctly define and use the model in their own investigations. All stages from construction of the model to data analysis are covered, along with possible pitfalls.This book enables investigators to develop and test models for describing stress phenomena in their own settings. It provide...

In "Negotiating the New in the French Novel, "Teresa Bridgeman applies insights from pragmatic theory to the French novel in order to examine its discursive conventions. Focusing on texts by some of the greatest and most innovative French novelists, Diderot, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Celine, Sarraute, Perec, Bridgeman analyzes how authors have established their own conventions, challenged reader expectations and drew conventions from other liter...

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Für das Treasury im internationalen Konzern wird ein netzwerkbasiertes Entscheidungsmodell beschrieben, das durch ein separables stochastisches Modell ergänzt wird. Mit der Modell-Splittung wird die praktische Handhabbarkeit der Optimierungsprobleme angestrebt. Die Verknüpfung erfolgt durch eine spezielle Schnittstelle, durch die erstmals die Notwendigkeit für eine Vorsichtskasse formal bestimmbar wird. Das deterministische Modell bildet die z...

Examines the practical use of theory as a pedagogical aid and argues for a broader conception of rhetoric in the human sciences.

International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgements of national courts. It is therefore an essential work of reference.

The Korean War in Retrospect provides a compilation of presentations from a conference sponsored by the Center for National Security Law and the John Bassett Moore Society at the University of Virginia Law School to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. The conference brought together many scholars and participants from the war. They dealt with many of the historical matters related to the war beginning with its...

A collection of materials on the battle of Hastings, one of the most significant battles in European history. It includes primary sources for the battle, including pictorial, and seminal accounts of the battle by the major historians. It also describes the political situation in western Europe in the mid-eleventh century, and the events of 1066.