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Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and researchers throughout the world. This has generated an increasingly expansive literature, from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, development studies, geography, history, philosophy, social policy, social psychology and sociology. Perhaps inevitably, given this heightened inte...

A unique combination of the chemistry and physics of block copolymers Polymers may be classified as either homopolymers, consisting of one single repeating unit, or copolymers, consisting of two or more distinct repeating units. Block copolymers contain long contiguous blocks of two or more repeating units in the same polymer chain. Covering one of the hottest topics in polymer chemistry, Block Copolymers provides a coherent overview of the s...

The Wiley Classics Library consists of selected books that have become recognized classics in their respective fields. With these new unabridged and inexpensive editions, Wiley hopes to extend the life of these important works by making them available to future generations of mathematicians and scientists.

The world of international relations has changed radically in the last few years. Technological, social and political change have combined to undermine the traditional assumptions of diplomacy - in particular, the events of 11 September set in stark relief the risks and dangers. Of course, there are new opportunities, but diplomats have failed to exploit them.Shaun Riordan, a former British diplomat, draws on his own experience, case studies, ...

The authors examine how Air Force Material Command depot-level expenditures relate to operating command flying hours.

The Internet in Everyday Life" is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. Studies are based on empirical data. Talks about the reality of being online n...

Carefully focused essays on major aspects of one of the most significant German literary movements, the Storm and Stress.

Insightful essays on the striking resemblances between the Viennese literary/cultural scene in 1900 and 100 years later.

The Third Duke of Portland served twice as Prime Minster and had a long and distinguished political career from 1760s to the 1780s. This study details how he was transformed from a pillar of the grand Whiggery (he was the brother-in-law of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire) into the figurehead for would-be Tories. The book also examines how he played an important public role in many of the political crises of his era (including the French Revol...

`This is a book which should be read by all students, whether undergraduate and postgraduate. It also provides a succinct guide for the manager who wishes to come to grips with this topic, or the accountant nostalgic to recollect the non too praiseworthy and indecisive history of this topic' - Managerial Auditing Journal Corporate Financial Reporting critically examines contemporary corporate financial reporting. The complexity of the reporti...

Herausforderungen und Verpflichtungen für Bürger und Staat in einer freiheitlichen Demokratie Wie ein Vorbote noch größeren Unheils erscheint die so genannte Rotwe-Armee-Fraktion (RAF) heute im Rückblick. Was damals vor 25 Jahren in Deutschland geschah, stellte den Staat und die demokratisch verfasste Gesellschaft auf ihre bis dahin härteste Bewährungsprobe. Die Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung der Dresdner Bank AG, die Hanns Martin Schleyer-Stiftung, d...

This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in the field. By using the analytical tools of Queer Theory these interdisciplinary scholars have reconfigured the history of sexuality in radically altering how we think about sexuality and how we write history.

In this book two philosophers, each committed to unambiguous versions of belief and disbelief, debate the central issues of atheism and theism. Considers one of the oldest and most widely disputed philosophical questions: is there a God? Presents the atheism/theism issue in the form of philosophical debate between two highly regarded scholars, widely praised for the clarity and verve of their work. This second edition contains new essays by ea...

Perturbation methods are widely used in the study of physically significant differential equations, which arise in Applied Mathematics, Physics and Engineering., Background material is provided in each chapter along with illustrative examples, problems, and solutions., A comprehensive bibliography and index complete the work., Covers an important field of solutions for engineering and the physical sciences., To allow an interdisciplinary reade...

Hereinspaziert und willkommen im lustigen Flötenzirkus! Mit dieser neuen Schule für Sopran-Blockflöten in drei Bänden lernen Kinder ab fünf Jahren die ersten Flötentöne spielend leicht. Über neunzig Lieder mit vielen Texten rund um die Themen Märchen, Theater und Zirkus ermuntern die Kinder zu kreativem Vergnügen mit Musik, Spiel und Tanz. Darunter sind auch bekannte Kinderlieder von Hänschen klein bis zum Pumuckl-Lied sowie Lieder zu den Jahr...

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This book examines a sequence of crises in nineteenth-century print culture and offers an original narrative of what it meant to be a Victorian novelist. Easily dismissed at the beginning of the century as hacks who pandered to the ignorant or indolent, novelists by the end of Victoria's reign could be esteemed among the greatest of artists. Between these extremes stretches a century of ideological contention between alternative representation...

The command and control of military operations is a difficult art. The Challenges of High Command explores British ideas of how this should be done and, with the guidance of some of Britain's leading military historians, looks at the practicalities of British experience in the First and Second World Wars. The contributors cast new light on themes as diverse as the trench warfare of the First World War, the conduct of the Gallipoli and Norway c...

The functioning of the gold standard has recently been at the heart of explanations of the interwar depression, particularly as a result of the research of Professors Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin. In The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump the interaction between the gold standard and the Great Depression in seven countries is examined by an international team of economists and economic historians. The editor's intr...

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