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Does socialism have a future in the world of the twenty-first century? If not, what is the future for progressive politics? Addressing these questions, this work interrogates both the origins and development of socialist ideas and the contemporary dynamics of the globalized economy dominated by American military, cultural and political might.

In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research and international case studies to explore this topic in depth.

Tells the story of how the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers has led the way in fighting back against almost 25 years of government policies designed to destroy workers' rights and dismantle whole parts of Britain's transport infrastructure.

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Written by authoritative international mathematicians, this book presents many important results in classical analysis, wavelets, and interpolation theory. Some topics covered are Markov inequalities for multivariate polynomials, analogues of Chebyshev and Bernstein inequalities for multivariate polynomials, various measures of the smoothness of functions, and the equivalence of Hausdorff continuity and pointwise Hausdorff-Lipschitz continuity...

A significant contribution to the field of integration in psychotherapyMaria Gilbert (CHECK) This is a book to be read and re-read as part of the journey of discovery that we are all engaged in as practitioners and as human beingsHelen Cowie, from the foreword Psychotherapy is an area that has seen huge growth in prominence and practice. The range of theoretical schools that have emerged means that practitioners are striving to amalgamate and ...

Considering more than 30 disregarded, neglected, and new crops, this volume explores their production in environmental-friendly cropping systems. It includes alternative cereals such as spelt and triticale, pseudocereals such as buckwheat and millet, oil plants such as pumpkin and white mustard, and root, tuber, and fiber plants such as sweet potato and flax. It also looks at industrial plants in organic farming including soya and hemp.

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Discusses the basics in queueing theory for Markovian and regenerative non-Markovian models, statistical inference, simulation and some computational procedures, network and discrete-time queues, algebraic and combinatorial methods, and optimization. This book also covers queues, duality in queues, and advancements on computational methods.

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write. By breaking words down into chunks of meaning that can be analyzed as complete units rather than as strings of individual letters, children are better able to make sense of the often contradictory spelling and reading rules of English. As a result, their ...

Traditionally, cognitive neuropsychology has focused on selective impairments in individuals who suffered brain damage as adults. However, in recent years, there have been a number of cognitive neuropsychological studies of selective impairments due to developmental deficits. Papers in Selective Deficits in Developmental Cognitive Neuropsychology include a diverse range of disorders involving those affecting spatial orientation, face recogniti...

This German-to-English translation of a highly successful book is a clear, approachable, student-friendly introduction to the history of the crusades.

Bolton's industrial heritage

TCP Performance over UMTS-HSDPA Systems provides a comprehensive study of the effect of TCP both on achieved application bit rate performance and system capacity. The book describes how to reduce, with or without modification of TCP implementations, the effect of wireless networks on TCP. Emphasizing the effect of scheduling to improve TCP performance over wireless systems, the authors focus on the performance of TCP traffic over HSDPA. This t...

Investigates how mental illness is portrayed in Hindi cinema. This book examines attitudes towards mental illness in Indian culture, how they are reflected in Hindi films, and how culture has influenced the portrayal of the psychoses. It is of interest to psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and students of media and cultural studies.

Offering an approach to teaching science, this work is intended to help teachers - both pre-service and in-service - develop science programs in their classrooms. It provides an approach that aims to capture children's imaginations, stimulate their curiosity, and create a foundation for their interest in science and the world in which they live.

Provides a look at how Britain learned to engage Japan's armed forces as the Pacific War progressed. This book reveals that, prior to Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia, the British held a contemptuous view of Japanese military prowess. It shows that the situation was not helped by the high level of secrecy surrounding Japan's war planning.

The author has gathered together over 200 nostalgic images of various modes of transport in his home county of Devon.

Presents a perspective of the ISO/IEC 17799 Information Security Standard and provides an analysis of how to effectively measure an information security program using this standard. This book includes a qualitative-based risk assessment methodology.