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This tertiary level text takes a holistic, interdisciplinary, and analytical approach to the development, implementation and impact of environmental policies.

Providing a useful index of Japanese public opinion about the war, this is a collection of letters written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences and opinions of the Pacific war.

One of the most important outcomes of market reforms in China has been the emergence of a significant domestic private sector. This book presents an analysis of the management and operation of these domestic private firms, which are defined as companies or organizations created by PRC citizens, including township enterprises and collectives.

Using a compilation of articles on various topics relating to technology management, Handbook of Technology Management in Public Administration addresses the management, implementation, and integration of technology across a wide variety of disciplines while highlighting the lessons learned along the way to assist readers in solving contemporary problems. It discusses the creation of innovative paradigms, new boundaries, diversity frameworks, ...

Compiled by an internationally recognized team of contributors, this reference spans methods to effectively identify, diagnose, and treat this frequently challenging group of rhinopathies. Addressing both generic and disease-specific issues, this source spans possible causes of nonallergic rhinitis such as fumes, odors, temperature, atmospheric changes, smoke, and other nasal irritants, while highlighting critical scientific and clinical issues.

Ideal for those interested in developing innovative products and technologies using natural and synthetic fibers, this book incorporates important advances from the last decade and offers new data and insights into structure-property relationships of fibers. The Handbook of Fiber Chemistry, Third Edition contains new material on rayon, acetate, silk, polypropylene, polyamide, polyester and vinyl. The authors highlight a newly added chapter on ...

Includes a thematic concordance of various aspects of life written about by George Eliot. Using Eliot's own words, this work presents all the characters in the novels and other fiction, as well as useful plot and content summaries, and bibliographic data. It presents seven Eliot novels, three novellas, and two short stories.

he interview is completed, the recorder packed away, and you've captured the narrator's voice for posterity. The bulk of your oral history is finishedaor is it? Nancy MacKay, archivist and oral historian, addresses the crucial issue often overlooked by researchers: How do you ensure that the interview you so carefully recorded will be preserved and available in the future? MacKay goes carefully through the various steps that take place after t...

At some point in every teacher's career he/she will encounter the `hard class' and from day one the countdown to the end of the day, term and year is on in earnest. But as demanding as it may be, a difficult class does not have to dominate and permeate through all waking moments. Bill Rogers, in Cracking the Hard Class, Second Edition, highlights many practical strategies that can be implemented to overcome the hard class syndrome. These incl...

The horror of the puticuli, the mass burial pits, and their traditional association with the poor, has often led to this socio-economic group being viewed as somehow 'different' to the rest of the ancient urban community in the Italy of the Late Roman Republic. This is the theory questioned by the author of this volume. Why should this part of the community care so little about the disposal of the dead when other members of society were devoti...

In 2005, 1.2 million children in Canada were living below the poverty level. This represents a 20 percent increase since 1989, the year that the federal government unanimously passed a resolution to eliminate child poverty by 2000. To understand the state of children's welfare, Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State reviews Canadian social policy reform, and discovers that the welfare of poor children is a casualty of the war on the welf...

Don Logan's all-new pictorial book is intended as both a complementary and supplementary volume to his first A-10 book (see page 20). This book bridges the gap between 1997, when his first A-10 book was published, and summer 2006 with 550 current action A-10 photographs and updated Squadron information, including the effect of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2006 on A-10 units. All twelve continental U.S. bases operating A-10s are covered,...

Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Sarah Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to formulate a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. She presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker and provides exciting new readings of well-known texts by Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, Martineau, and...

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This volume brings together recent and new research, with several items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. It explores the roles which the Hospitaller sisters performed within their Order, examines the problems of having men and women living within the same or adjoining houses, studies relations between the Order and the pa...

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Das Handbuch verzeichnet über 6.700 lebende bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Neben Malerei, Grafik, Bildhauerei, Buchkunst, Aktions- und Medienkünsten sind in Auswahl auch Architektur, Fotografie und Kunsthandwerk vertreten. Das Werk gibt damit einen aktuellen Überblick über die Gegenwartskunst in den genannten Ländern. Die Artikel enthalten u. a. folgende Informationen: Name, Beruf, Biographisc...

The Anatomy & Physiology Workbook" fully supports learners as they study anatomy and physiology for beauty and holistic therapies at levels 1 to 3.