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Explains methods, benchmarks, and techniques for assigning a monetary value to intangible assets, and examines the strategic context for intellectual property valuation in global companies.

This text provides insights into German thought and society in the context of the challenges of modernity in the first half of the 20th century. The author looks at the tensions between a realistic acceptance of disenchantment with the modern world, and an insistence upon re-enchantment.

This encyclopaedia of women's exploration offers biographical entries from A to Z on women travellers and explorers from all countries of the world, from prehistoric times to the present. It also provides information about travel organizations, events and activities as they relate to women.

TyAnna K. Herrington explains current intellectual property law and examines the effect of the Internet and ideological power on its interpretation. Promoting a balanced development of our national culture, she advocates educators' informed participation in ensuring egalitarian public access to information. She discusses the control of information and the creation of knowledge in terms of the way control functions under current property law.

The Blue Note label is one of the most widely known and respected producers of jazz music in the world. This reference book, by noted discographer Michel Ruppli and Blue Note producer Michael Cuscuna, expands upon the previous edition and includes comprehensive documentation of personnel, recording locations and dates, and master and issue numbers for every recording made or issued by the label from its inception through the present day.An int...

Explores the conception of rhetoric of eleven key American rhetoricians.

In her short life, the prolific Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) authored two novels, thirty-two stories, and numerous essays and articles. Although her importance as a twentieth-century southern writer is unquestionable, mainstream feminist criticism has generally neglected O'Connor's work.In Revising Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Hemple Prown addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a "southern lady" and professional author. Placing gende...

This book is the first in any language to provide an overview of Gran Chaco societies in Argentina in both historical and contemporary perspectives. It depicts a variety of strategies and actions utilized to regenerate traditional values and actions in the face of enormous pressures for assimilation.

Organizes the best information resources in this new guide for librarians and patients.

Fifteen authors from the United States, Australia, and Germany contribute articles on issues such as the political agenda of higher institutions, language across the curriculum, service learning, adult education, artistic and aesthetic practice, intercultural awareness through electronic media, extra-curricular consultation, and language learning outreach, related to Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French, German, and English as a fore...

Analyzes Achebe's use of rhetorical devices to advance the themes of his novels and delineate his characters.

Skeptical Music" collects the essays on poetry that have made David Bromwich one of the most widely admired critics now writing. Both readers familiar with modern poetry and newcomers to poets like Marianne Moore and James Merrill will relish this collection for its elegance and power of discernment. Each essay stakes a particular claim for the modernist style and its intent to capture an audience beyond the present moment. An essay on the com...

The purpose of this book is to establish a theory of approximate correctness and infinite evolution of concurrent programs by employing some notions and tools from point-set topology. Professionals, researchers and graduate students in theoretical computer science and formal methods will find this presentation helpful in understanding new concepts for concurrent and real-time systems, especially methods for describing approximation of systems.

Congressional hearings and government reports have asserted that emerging high-growth firms in the US are starved for capital. This study argues that calls for increased federal intervention, using public monies to plug capital gaps to plug capital gaps, are unjustified.

Explores contemporary society's changing attitudes toward truth and lying.

An analysis of government-supported junk social science - or "sanctified snake oil". Susan Kiss Sarnoff argues that it confuses the public and convinces them to support programmes as ends in themselves, rather than determining whether or not such efforts actually achieve purported goals.

With the help of insights from architecture and other disciplines that have an impact on the field, the contributors to this study seek to develop new methods that can better serve to understand, describe, and represent the worldviews embodied in the different built environments of all societies.

Previous books on growth management in the United States favor balanced growth, which suggests that growth and environmental protection represent equally legitimate objectives. Taking issue with the balanced growth position, this book argues that further growth is unsustainable, and that growth management must focus on ensuring ecological sustainability. The book illustrates how the growth management movement represents an institutionalized fo...