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Soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Georgia fell prey to a series of power struggles, rampant crime and corruption, secessionist wars, and the spillover of the war in neighboring Chechnya. This book presents the author's experiences in the strife-ridden Republic of Georgia.

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Presents an overview of the myriad ideas and processes that are identified with information systems planning. This book deals with high level strategic planning and on-the-ground planning issues. It focuses on how IS planning has evolved over the years, and business-IS strategic alignment.

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Offers a broad historical narrative of foreign aid, international security and diplomacy. This book emphasizes human development rather than economic development. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students studying foreign policy, security studies and economic development.

Come and be my geisha'. Responding to her solider husband's invitation, an American woman arrives in 1950's Japan and encounters something very different to the world of Madame Butterfly and Lafcadio Hearn she is expecting. Entertaining and insightful, this memoir captures the challenge and mutual incomprehension she experiences as she strives to learn about another culture and people, while they struggle to understand her. Written with tremen...

Jewish Life in the Middle Ages is a fascinating and well-known look at life in the middle ages for the Jewish community. The author also gives attention to how the European movements of the middle ages were affected by Jewish influences. Topics addressed include: social functions of the synagogue, decay of the sermon in the middle ages, the origin of the word "ghetto", family feasts and fasts, and the ethics of dress.

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Highlights the diversity of approaches that are underway under the banner of neuroaesthetics. This book presents a possible framework for neuroaesthetics by highlighting what the contributors consider to be its defining features and offering a working definition of neuroaesthetics that captures these features.

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Offers a description of what aid practices are and how they evolved. This book presents and analyses the arguments of both proponents and opponents of aid. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students encountering the subject of development for the first time.

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The articles included in this volume represent some of the finest writing on Horace's satires (Sermones) and epistles (Epistulae) over the past fifty years. Several have previously only been accessible in specialist journals, while five appear here for the first time in English translation. All are remarkable for the way in which they do their work at multiple levels, moving from the basics of grammar, vocabulary, and syntax to issues of genre...

This book is the thirteenth in the OIRSSA series. It deals with the interchange-both theoretical and empirical-between the disciplines of history and anthropology over the last three decades.

A concise alphabetic guide to the main concepts, figures, topics and important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years.

This volume offers a new reading of the Spanish-American "novela de la selva "genre, often interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. Arguing against the commonly held opinion of the genre's derivative nature, "Colonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks"examines how "novela de la selva"fiction reimagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective and redefined tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic...

This first collection of Peter Beilharz's highly influential thought traces the themes and problems, manifestations, and trajectories of socialism and modernity as they connect and shift over a twenty-year period. Woven throughout Beilharz's analysis is the urgent question of modern utopia: how do we imagine freedom and equality in modernity?The essays in this volume explore the relationship between socialism and modernity across the United St...

THE BOOK TAKES A GLIMPSE OF HEALTH CARE ISSUES FROM THE AUTHORS PERSPECTIVE DURING HIS FORMATIVE YEARS, HIS YEARS IN PRACTICE, AND WHAT HE CALLS THE CURRENT DARK WALLS OF MEDICINE-- AS WE HAVE SOME 47 MILLION AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH CARE INSURANCE, NUMEROUS OTHERS WHO ARE UNDERINSURED, THE RISING COST OF HEALTH CARE, AND HOW THESE SITUATIONS HAVE LED TO HIS STRONG BELIEF THAT WE NEED AN OVERHAUL IN THE WAY HEALTH CARE IS DELIVERED IN THIS NAT...