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In a fast-changing business environment, those firms that want to remain competitive must also be innovative. It often entails changing the rules of the game. This title demonstrates how to create and appropriate value using these 'new game' strategies. It includes quantitative examples of successful strategies, as well as descriptive cases.

Using understandable case studies, this book analyzes the impact of neoliberal globalization on governance and explores the different forms of participatory democracy that have emerged from the global justice movement.

Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption problems appear to be worsening in the post-Cold War period. This work discovers why IGO/NGO efforts to arrest corruption are failing by investigating ...

Talking Back to Psychiatry explores the history, strategies and goals of a social movement whose members seek to gain a voice for the psychiatric experience from the patients' perspective, to expose a darker side of psychiatry, and to promote alternatives for people in emotional distress.

Offers a statement of an ethno-symbolic approach to the study of nations and nationalism and at the same time, embodies a general statement of Anthony Smith's contribution to this approach and its application to the central issues of nations and nationalism.

This book offers an examination of the theology of Samuel Rutherford (c.16001661), beginning with the doctrine of revelation and concluding with assurance of salvation. It is drawn largely from Rutherfords magnum opus or summa theologiae the Examen Arminianismand is set within the context of the seventeenth century dispute with Arminianism and the more contemporary debate concerning Calvin versus the Calvinists.

A comprehensive collection of seminal pieces on environmental criminology, this work focuses on the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime. Topics covered include routine activity theory, rational choice theory, and the geography of crime.

The American Revolution radically changed the lives of many, some of them friends of the Revolution, some not, and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluctant witnesses leave a narrative journal. Nicholas Cresswell, a young English gentry farmer, was one. Arriving in Virginia during the momentous month of May 1774, Cresswell set out to seek his fortune as a farmer in the newer settlements in northwe...

How Asia's great civilization spread when its traveling merchants, scholars, and holy men brought their shining civilization to Europe's Dark Ages. Stewart Gordon has examined original texts in science and history, philosophy and courtly culture in order to understand and re-create the vast network of international, interethnic, and intercontinental activity that made Asia the center of the world. He brings to life this world of lively exchang...

This book is about understanding philosophers and their philosophic ideas. It is designed to help the reader understand what philosophy is all about. The text covers philosophers from the 7th Century B. C. to the 20th Century A. D. There is no one definition of philosophy, it is perhaps not so much a subject as it is an activity in which one would engage. Some authors define philosophy as conceptual analysis. One simple approach is to define i...

or the indigenous peoples of New England-the Abenaki, Mohegan, Mohican, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Pequot, Schaghticoke, Wampanoag, and other tribal nations-the colonial period has not yet ended. In light of the contemporary struggles of Native peoples to defend their resources, shape their futures, safeguard their health, and provide for their families, the academic study of history may seem to have limited relevance. Yet...

With selections, drawn from work between 1990 and 2006, this title delineates how history marks and dislocates peoples of African Diaspora, how nations, concretely and conceptually, fail to create safe haven, and how nevertheless human desire persists.

Laboratory animal research remains a very important part of basic research and drug development. With the worldwide increase in biotechnology, more and more researchers are required to use animals for research. However, many have basic or little training in experimental techniques or in the background information, which remains very important. This book rectifies the problem by providing animal researchers and technicians with the essentials f...

This book examines the phenomena of fluid flow and transfer as governed by mechanics and thermodynamics. Part 1 concentrates on equations coming from balance laws and also discusses transportation phenomena and propagation of shock waves.

Explains why the Italian armed forces and the Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffective at an activity - war - central to their existence. It approaches the issue above all from the perspective of military culture, and offers a social-cultural, political, military-economic, strategic, operational, and tactical cross-section of the Italian war effort.

My Little Lore of Light is a children's version of Hajjah Amina Adil's four volume work, Lore of Light: the Stories of the Prophets of God, from Adam to Muhammad, drawn from traditional Ottoman Islamic sources. This book is intended to be read aloud to young children and to be read by older children by themselves. These abridged stories are intended to introduce a young audience to the prophets of God and to encourage thought and discussion in...

The Birth of Tragedy was Nietzche's first book in 1072 and is still one of the most relevant statements on tragedy. It sounded themes developed by existialist and psychoanslysts of the times.The Anti-hrist is Nietzche's writings about the ant-Christ, the evil leader who arises in the last days in opposition to God and His church.

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Digestion is the process of taking food and nutrients into the body and making them available for use in all of the body's processes. The digestive system breaks down food and extracts the important nutrients, eliminating the excess substances that cannot be used. These nutrients provide energy for the body to grow, function, and make repairs to itself. Digestion and Nutrition describes the path that food takes through the system, the organs i...

Are you ready to step-in faith? Follow the fascinating lives of ordinary women of the Bible and see how they overcame impossible challenges, rejection, and failures by believing in God's plan for their lives and standing firm on His promises for their suc