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This book explores how demographic changes affect inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services, all things that play a role in the well-being of individuals and families. It details the nature and measurement of transfers, their motives and mechanisms, and their macro-level dimensions, especially in the context of demographic transitions. Coverage includes original empirical analyses of datasets from some twenty countries a...

Covering both the theoretical and practical aspects of fault-tolerant computing and reliability analysis, this book tackles the current issues of reliability-based optimization of computer networks, fault-tolerant mobile systems, and fault-tolerance and reliability of high speed and hierarchical networks. The book is divided into six parts to facilitate coverage of the material by course instructors and computer systems professionals. The sequ...

This book investigates the ways in which Charles Dickenss mature fiction, prison novels of the 20th century, and prison films narrate the prison. Alber addresses the significance of prison metaphors in novels and films, and investigates the ideological underpinnings of prison narratives by addressing the question of whether they generate cultural understandings of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the prison.

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Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment and Engineering Education is a collection of world class paper articles addressing the following topics: E-Learning including development of courses and systems for technical and liberal studies programs, online laboratories, intelligent testing using fuzzy logic, evaluation of on line courses in comparison to traditional courses, mediation in virtual environments, and methods for...

Edgar Salin, Professor für Nationalökonomie und Ordinarius an der Universität Basel, gibt in diesem Buch einen ebenso knappen wie präzisen Überblick: europäische Wirtschaftsgeschichte vom klassischen Altertum (Athen, Rom) über das Mittelalter bis hin zum 19. Jahrhundert (Merkantilistik, Physiokratie, Sozialismus und Historismus). Sein Buch erschien erstmals 1929. Plus: zahlreiche weiterführende Quellen und Hinweise, ausführliches Personenregis...

In today's Web 2.0 world, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML are at the center of the hot new approach to designing highly interactive pages on the client side. With this environment in mind, the new edition of this book offers bite-sized solutions to very specific scripting problems that web developers commonly face. Each recipe includes a focused piece of code that you can insert right into your application. Why is JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook so p...

On a typical street in a typical midwestern town a man hides form life and his past. Read how a chance encounter leads a man on a path where he will eventually come face to face with the one person he fears most...himself!

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This book is about criminologist Maurice Godwin's Internet social movement that sprang to life during the Baton Rouge serial murder case. The movement was a response to the Task Force failing to find serial killer Derrick Todd Lee, as citizens in Baton Rouge, South Louisiana, and South Mississippi no longer wished to wait in fear. This is a story of citizen empowerment in a time of crisis. Both scholars and ordinary citizens will be inspired b...

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Placement tests are rapidly joining the ranks of high-stakes testing and college freshmen are required to take mathematics placement exams to determine their first mathematics course upon entering college. Unfortunately, these exams tend to place students in a lower-level or remedial course. As a result, additional expenses are incurred, degree programs are extended, and scholarships, awards, and external funding are less likely. Helping Stude...

Story Building demystifies the narrative style of writing by playfully undoing the knots of journalistic storytelling. It provides personalized guidance and practical advice on how to muster the passion and skills to gather compelling details needed to tell an engaging journalistic story on deadline.

Modern capitalism and political freedom rest on concepts of conscience and morality, and abhor concentrations of unbridled power. In America, that economic and political system developed mechanisms designed to check and balance such power. Despite those mechanisms, corporate America developed too many imperial chief executives who abused their power by engaging in a fraudulent and self-serving pursuit of wealth and perquisites. This edition de...

This translation represents the only complete translation of Donggyeong Daejeon with notes in English. The study of Chondogyo has been limited in the West due to its lack of circulation in Western languages. With this translation, a main part of the Chondogyo literature is available to the worldwide community of scholars and students engaged in the study of this important Korean religion. This work, therefore, makes a significant contribution ...

Nichols examines the major writings of Alexandre Koj ve, and clarifies the character and brings to light the importance of his political philosophy. This is an essential assessment of Koj ve which considers the works that preceded his turn to Hegel, seeks to articulate the character of his Hegelianism, and reflects in detail on the two different meanings that the end of history had in two different periods of his thought.

Carol Matas shares a "powerful account" of two young teenagers who are willing to stop at nothing to prevent the danger the German invasion of 1940 brought to Denmark (Publishers Weekly).The Nazis have invaded Denmark, putting Lisa and her family's safety in danger. But they refuse to parish without a fight, leading Lisa and a group of teenage Jews to an underground resistance movement. As the Nazi's plan to send anyone of Jewish faith to conc...

Determined to make a difference in the war, Jesper refuses to stop fighting the Nazis in Carol Mata's "stirring account" of a young boy facing the dangers of World War II (Publishers Weekly).In the sequel to Lisa's War, Jesper continues his work for the Danish resistance and recounts the dangers that led to his confinement in a German prison. Determined to make a difference any way he can, Jesper begins to work for an underground press to help...

An account of New Jersey policy and politics. This book is also a saga of the challenges facing society in the post-9/11 era, when the public's distrust of government is increasing at the same rate that its sensitivity to health and safety threats is heightening.

Many leaders remember those life-changing moments when it suddenly became crystal clear what had to be done to reach their organizations' goals. It wasn't until Pete Luongo was faced with that one epiphany in his life, a difficult period that required him to rebalance life's priorities and bring a new understanding to his work, that he recognized that all results are based upon behaviors appropriate to the circumstances. Through this understan...