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Globalization of trade and organizational change increase the impact of markets in peoples' lives. But in what ways do markets matter? This book is about how financial analysts, marketing people, corporate leaders and other actors in Western market economies perceive, model, and use markets. It provides an ethnographic window into the cultural processes of contemporary markets, how people employ the market to solve problems, create capital, ga...

Altruism and Aggression explores the genetic underpinnings of affiliative and aggressive orientations as well as the biological correlates of these behaviors. The authors consider environmental variables--family patterns, childrearing practices--that influence prosocial and antisocial behaviors. And they examine internal processes, such as empathy, socio-inferential abilities, and cognitive attributions, that regulate 'kindness' and 'selfishness.

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This cross-disciplinary text is designed to appeal to a diversity of social science scholars.

A balanced analysis of a sensitive subject: Hong Kong's future prospects.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) was a poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, editor, public speaker, theatre director, and one of the most prominent public figures in the Norway of his day. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903 and is generally known, together with Henrik Ibsen, Alexander Kielland, and Jonas Lie, as one of "the four great ones" of 19th-century Norwegian literature. His poem "Ja, vi elsker dette landet" ("Yes,...

This edition brings together for the first time key texts representing the writings of the medieval English mystics. The texts have been newly edited from early manuscripts, and are supplemented with textual and explanatory notes and a glossary. The book focuses on five major authors, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Dame Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. Shorter works are presented whole, where...

One of the most natural of story-tellers, and also one who took most naturally to the "detective"or "mystery" form was Charles Dickens. His lovers can easily recall examples, not only in the so-called detective stories such as "The Mystery of Edwin Drood, " but in the shape of exciting threads that wind through and color some of his broadest efforts, such as "Little Dorrit." One of Dickens' great admirations was Inspector Field, a London detec...

Carol Flynn's challenging approach reviews the cost of being human, the 'expense' of material as opposed to spiritual life in eighteenth-century society, as it is revealed in its literature.

CONTENTSHoney and its Hundred UsesHoney ProductionHoney FactsMinerals in Dark HoneyFlorida HoneyKinds of HoneyHoney CookeryHoney RecipesHoney Bees and Their ProductsThe Mystery of SweetsHoney and NutritionFlorida Laws Relating to HoneyTupelo HoneyBeekeepingForewordBeekeeping in FloridaFlorida Laws Relating to BeekeepingPollination of Subtropical Fruit PlantsHoneybees in Florida's Pasture DevelopmentHoney Processing

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This report complements the forthcoming OTA assessment on water and agriculture in U.S. arid/semiarid lands. The full assessment focuses on U.S. experience. Foreign experience is also important, however, particularly as U.S. agricultural, economic, and foreign aid interests are increasingly linked with those of other countries. The global significance of agricultural research and development on arid/semiarid lands is underscored by the fact th...

A comprehensive overview of the economic development of Singapore, the leading commercial and financial centre in Southeast Asia.

This book contains papers presented at the 1993 Como meeting on groups of Lie type and their geometries. Themes represented here include: subgroups of finite and algebraic groups, buildings and other geometries associated to groups of Lie type or Coxeter groups, generation, and applications. This book will be a necessary addition to the library of all researchers in group theory and related areas.

Kivy proposes a new strategy for defining fine art in a lucid study of literature and music.

Within the past decade, the U.S. military has implemented a number of programs to assess the changes underway in the global security environment and in the nature of warfare. Defense leaders and thinkers have concluded that revolutionary change is taking place and, if the United States develops appropriate technology, warfighting concepts, and military organizations, it can master or control this change, thus augmenting American security. In t...

An essential volume in the NASA History Series by Robert C. Seamans, Jr., the Associate Administrator of NASA during the Apollo program. A stirring insider's account of NASA and the manned space program at the highest levels. Relationships with the Department of Defense, the Apollo 204 fire, the assassination of President Kennedy, and more. Aiming at Targets is a series of fascinating topical vignettes covering the author's professional life. ...

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Why do corporations obey the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to correct their behavior and return them to compliant status? In this book Sally Simpson examines whether the shift towards the use of criminal law, with its emphasis on punishment and stigmatization, is an effective strategy for controlling illegal corporate behavior. She concludes that strict criminalization models will not yield suffi...

This is believed to be the first book of its kind. Twelve distinguished actors were asked to write about the preparation and performance of Shakespeare role they had played in a production with the Royal Shakespeare Company.