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The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) are two of the more significant international agencies whose objective is to promote foreign direct investment in less developed countries (LDCs). This is the first detailed treatment of their establishment, the history of their operations, and an evaluation of these operations.ICSID, established in 1966, facilitates t...

Throughout the country, a growing number of college students, recent college graduates, and mid-career adults are thinking about becoming teachers. Teaching in middle and high schools combines a lifelong pursuit of learning, a long-held dream of joining a field that they respect, a chance to work with young people, and an opportunity to make a difference in society. The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher offer...

The year 2000 marks the anniversary of the first hundred years of the British Labour Party, and publication of this book falls at the present New Labour government's mid-term--a time for reflection and analysis when interest will be very strong among all those interested in the political process on both sides of the Atlantic with the government and opposition parties gearing up in earnest for the next election. This is a lively collection of b...

Introduces the emerging concept of the agile virtual organization and provides a metric to help executives assess organizations by its many important criteria.

Jens Schultz untersucht und vergleicht den Einsatz eines Wissensbasierten Systems und alternativer Methoden für das Anwendungsfeld der Ablaufplanung.

Sven Kramer untersucht jene Rhetoriken, die die Rede über Auschwitz hervorgebracht hat. Er fragt, was ein Sprechen, das aus dem Täterkollektiv stammt, von einem aus dem Trauma herrührenden unterscheidet.

This volume in the Greenwood Press series Bio-Bibliographies in Music provides an overview of Phil Ochs' life and career, an annotated guide to the literature by and about Phil Ochs, and an extensive discography of his recordings. Biographical information traces his career up until his untimely suicide in 1976 and highlights the influences on his music and the numerous ways in which his music and political views influenced others. The guide to...

This comprehensive and up-to-date book focuses on an algebraic approach to the analysis and design of discrete-time signal processors, including material applicable to numeric and symbolic computation programs such as MATLAB. Written with clarity, it contains the latest detailed research results.

Offering a general view of the development of subnational foreign action around the world, this work covers topics such as the repercussions upon subnational autonomy of the progressive consistution of international regimes such as the EU, NAFTA and APEC.

In this guide, the author uses examples of genuine management problems to demonstrate several important facts: there are no simple all-purpose solutions, just a range of possibilities, each of which carries risk, and rarely do managers have the necessary information for the best decision.

This book provides students, faculty, and general readers with specific information and insights into the ways in which official military history has been written and why. Coverage is international in scope. The volume serves as an introduction to two forthcoming books: Official Military Histories Since 1967: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and India and Official Military Histories Since 1967: The Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim. Toget...

Examines the role of the War Office in the deployment of the tank in World War I. The text puts forward the thesis that far from being anti-technological and cavalry-oriented, the War Office was in fact responsible for the tank reaching the technical levels it had done by 1918.

The American Settlement Movement was an influential part of the social reforms of the Progressive era. Arranged into six categories, this select bibliography covers titles providing an introduction and overview of the American Settlement Movement.

Not only is technology going through its revolutions faster, but the institutions and organisations which exploit that technology are also in the process of almost constant reshaping. This accelerating change is a double-edged sword for safety. On the one hand, it offers the opportunity for improvement, but on the other it threatens the tried and trusted measures which have produced high safety levels in the past. Trial and error as a learning...

An insightful analysis of Louise Erdrich's writing, including her widely acclaimed, award-winning first novel, Love Medicine.

An Aspen Food Engineering Series Book. This new edition provides a comprehensive reference on food microstructure, emphasizing its interdisciplinary nature, rooted in the scientific principles of food materials science and physical chemistry. The book details the techniques available to study food microstructure, examines the microstructure of basic food components and its relation to quality, and explores how microstructure is affected by spe...

The story of the US Navy's contribution to the Allied victory in World War I, this text recounts the tale of the US Merchant Marine, the Naval Air Service and the captains of industry who helped make victory possible.

A reinterpretation of the American Revolution. Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellion against their own rule.

Walt Harrington, father of two biracial children, went on a 25, 000 mile journey through black America, talking with a variety of black and white people along the way, including a rap star, an old farmer, and a convicted murderer. In this work, he relates what he learned as he listened.

Examines issues of sovereignty and the state in the 19th and 20th centuries.