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The quality principles are one of the golden threads of successful management that run through the entire life of a project - and beyond. Principles of Management for Quality Projects gives practical insights into the use of the quality principles in day to day project issues. It also gives the project quality manager a tool that he or she can refer to when planning and executing the quality process in a project, right from the earliest concep...

Macroeconomics increasingly uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models to understand theoretical and policy issues. Unles very strong assumptions are made, understanding the properties of particular models requires solving the model using a computer. This volume brings together leading contributors in the field who explain in detail how to implement the computational techniques needed to solve dynamic economics models.

Gosta Esping-Andersen, Europe's leading analyst of the welfare state, presents a provocative examination of postindustrial economies at the end of the twentieth century. This book takes a second look at the driving forces of economic transformation in a more sociological and institutional way. As a result, what stands out is postindustrial diversity, not convergence.

This book provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the tax systems of ten countries (G7 plus Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden) over the last decade. All the main taxation areas are covered, together with a description of the underlying policy themes. The main focus is on recent and prospective tax reforms.

By applying systematic theoretical frameworks to detailed empirical data, Worlds in Motion provides a unique overview of not only where migration occurs, and how it works, but crucially details the major factors that influence international population movement.

The mineral economies are an important group of developing countries which have suffered a "resource curse" over the past 20 years--showing a poorer performance than resource-deficient neighbors. This book draws upon case-studies and analysis of nine countries to demonstrate the difficulties currently faced and the policies which will be required in the future in order to take advantage of finite mineral resources to maintain the economic and ...

This history of the books of Reading Abbey covers the period from the abbey's foundation to its dissolution, and follows up the dispersal of the book collections to c.1610. It provides valuable material on the ways in which books were used, and about the intellectual life of medieval monastery. Alan Coates makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fate of monastic books and book-collecting in the post-Dissolution period.

As the world's largest country struggles with itself to build "rule by law, " how is this process reshaping Communist Party rule? This book examines how China's political and legal structure is quietly but dramatically changing from within, rather than being overthrown from below as in Eastern Europe. Examining the changing relationship between the National People's Congress and the Communist party hierarchy, this book casts light on China's f...

Rather than survey of the extensive data, this book focuses on the ideas, methodology and scope of contemporary palaeobiology. It examines the complex interdependence of evolutionary theory and the interpretation of the fossil record. The author demonstrates that this is not the circularargument between pattern and process sometimes alleged, but a matter of understanding carefully the interrelationship between palaeontological and neontologica...

The recent publication of The Bell Curve, with its controversial claims of a link between race and intelligence, has ignited a fierce debate between those who say intelligence is genetically inherited and those who decry such pronouncements as thinly veiled racism. Race and IQ is the definitive response to The Bell Curve, and those who claim it offers scientific validiction for their ideas. An updated and expanded collection of essays by suc...

This is an advanced, full length, physical geography of Africa, written by a distinguished international team of scholars. The first group of chapters identify pan-African patterns in the physical environment and those physical attributes that are distinctive to Africa. In the second group of chapters topics such as geomorphology, biogeography, environmental change and hydrology are considered within the context of the major biomes. The final ...

Screen Histories: A `Screen' Reader is a collection of some of the best historical work on film and television published in the last twenty years in one of the leading academic journals in the field, Screen. This collection includes interventions on the history of screen institutions, technologies, discourses, texts, and audiences.

This study focuses specifically on the giant state-owned enterprises to unravel the intriguing dynamics between industrial deregulation and inflation.

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This canine cookbook features more than 100 delicious recipes to cook for dogs, heartily recommended by Dog World and Actors & Others for Animals .

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Explores the psychological aspects of Nietzsche's thought and his influence on psychological thinkers such as Freud, Jung, and Adler.

With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who wrote a daily column for nearly thirty-five years - first for the Chicago Daily News, then the Sun-Times, and finally the Tribune - and his Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary was syndicated in more the 600 newspapers nationwide. Pretension and hypocrisy were his targets, and his well-aimed salvos, delivered with blunt honesty a...

This book and audio package is for all beginners (children to fun-loving adults) who want to learn how to play the bongos, congas and djembe drums in a fun and musical way. Subjects covered include hearing the beat, listening to drum sounds, playing with groups, creating new rhythms, and The Drum Walk (to help build complete body coordination). Also covered are simple African and Caribbean rhythms to help take you to the next level of hand dru...

The Concert Performer Series brings you 18 well-known piano pieces, beautifully presented on strong, high-sheen card, complete with a special CD-Rom which contains both audio and MIDI to help you practise for a truly great performance.