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Examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from sociological, historical, legal, and institutional perspectives, this book sheds light on the involvement of donors in Palestine.

This featherweight volume packs a heavyweight punch

Offers an exploration of Indian political economy using a constructivist approach. This book reconstructs how Indian policymakers have interpreted economic priorities, perceived success and failure, and evaluated the destiny of their nation. It is suitable for those working on International Political Economy, Globalization, and Economic History.

Focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children's literature. This book emphasises that the treatment by any society, past or present, of its smallest and most vulnerable members is truly revealing of the values it really holds.

Discussions of Puerto Rican cultural politics usually fall into one of two categories - nationalist or colonial. This work moves beyond this narrow dichotomy, and includes many essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented.

Human rights and economics are the concepts that have contributed the most to free human kind, the former from fear and the latter from need. This book shows how mainstream economics discourse is intrinsically opposed to the promotion of human rights, especially economic, social and cultural rights.

Engin F. Isin and the volume's contributors explore the social sites that have become objects of government, and considers how these subjects are sites of contestation, resistance, differentiation and identification.

Armed separatist movements in Papua, East Timor and Aceh have been a serious problem for Indonesia's central government. This book examines the policies of successive Indonesian governments to contain secessionist forces, focusing in particular on Jakarta's response towards the armed separatist movement in Aceh. Unlike other studies of separatism in Indonesia, this book concentrates on the responses of the central government rather than lookin...

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This book brings the recent dramatic changes in the field of cardiovascular imaging into the clinical setting to enable the clinician to best use the technology at hand. Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart opens with three chapters reviewing the general considerations and fundamentals of imaging, followed by a series of chapters that address clinical applications of CT and CMR, including * critical review of imaging approaches for diagnosi...

Offers instructors an effective way to teach the essentials of statistics, including early coverage of Regression, within a more limited time frame. Helping students overcome their apprehension about statistics, this text provides guidance and informal advice demonstrating the links between statistics and the world.

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Chirality in Transition Metal Chemistry shows how transition metal chirality has an important role in coordination, organometallic and supramolecular systems, and discusses applications in organic synthesis, materials science, and molecular recognition. The book begins with an overview of chirality, with a discussion of absolute configurations and system descriptors, physical properties of enantiomers, and principles of resolution and prepara...

»Ein Drittel der Menschheit ist bekloppt. Manchmal ist es auch die Hälfte, das hängt vom Wetter ab. Unsinn? Vielleicht erklärt mir dann ja mal jemand, warum fast alle Fußgänger bei den ersten Regentropfen sofort ein unfassbar blödes Gesicht machen und die Schultern hochziehen. Glauben sie im Ernst, sie würden durch eine dämliche Grimasse auch nur einen einzigen Tropfen weniger Regen abkriegen? Das ist eine rhetorische Frage mit einer sehr, seh...

Grammar, syntax and sentence structure, with vocabulary for a wide variety of situations. Also with info on correct body lanuage and facial expressions, which are important in sign language, and the deaf community and culture for context. With drawings and a CD-ROM of conversations in progress.

Mythisches Denken im Sinne Ernst Cassirers bestimmt auch heute noch viele Aussagen im musikpädagogischen Kontext. In diesem Buch führt die Analyse von Funktion, Eigenart und Gebrauch von Mythos und Logos zur Erörterung der Problematik von Mythenbildung aus pädagogischer Sicht. Diese Problematik wurd am mythischen Gehalt zentraler Begriffe des historischen und aktuellen musikpädagogischen Schrifttums - u. a. Ganzheit, Sinnlichkeit, Ursprünglich...

An up-to-date edition of the groundbreaking classic Medical genomics is rapidly moving into mainstream medicine, with new and emerging technologies such as molecular genetic diagnostic tests and gene therapy having an unprecedented impact in clinical practice. Consequently, there is an urgent need for physicians and medical students to understand these developments and their evolving roles in the post-genomics era. This book fills that import...

The only thorough, comprehensive book available on clustering From two of the best-known experts in the field comes the first book to take a truly comprehensive look at clustering. The book begins with a complete introduction to cluster analysis in which readers will become familiarized with classification and clustering, definition of clusters, clustering applications, and the literature of clustering algorithms. The authors then present a d...