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This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms.

Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of the debate.

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This text explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Each chapter includes a critical introduction to the thinker¿s central theses, ways in which their ideas might inform medical sociology and some examples of how they can be applied.

Unites scholars from across the United States to explore encounters in the 'contact zone' of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery and colonizer and colonized.

The dissolution of the communist system led to new concepts of citizenship in the post-Soviet states of Central and Eastern Europe. This book addresses how domestic elites (regional, political and economic) influenced the formation of national identities, examining the ways in which citizenship has been defined.

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AUTHOR APPROVED "Deleuze and Film presents a rich collection of essays that takes Deleuze's work on cinema out of its dominant Eurocentric corpus. Taking us on an inspiring world tour of film analysis and creative conceptual thinking, this book testifies to the continuing productive generosity of Deleuze's film-philosophy, and includes a dynamic range and depth of film scholarship." Patricia Pisters, Professor of Media and Film Studies, Univer...

AUTHOR-APPROVED Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture General Editor: Lorna Hutson These original interpretations of Renaissance culture focus on literary texts in English and in a range of vernacular languages. They also deal with the reception and transformation of the Greco-Roman literary, political and intellectual heritage. Don Quixote in the Archives: Madness and Literature in Early Modern Spain Dale Shuger /A new reading of ...

The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory.

Presents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality in selected contemporary British and American novels

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Das Buch geht auf ein sehr breites Spektrum von verschiedenen Technologien ein und erörtert ausführlich deren thermodynamische, betriebliche, wirtschaftliche und ökologische Grundlagen. Neben konventionellen Energietechniken zur Wärme- und Stromerzeugung werden vor allem die Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung, innovative Technologien wie Brennstoffzellen und die Nutzung regenerativer Energien mit ihrer jeweiligen besonderen Bedeutung für kleine, dezentrale ...

Scholarship related to financial and consumer education largely concerns itself with theacquisition, management, and growth of financial resources. In a global setting that witnessesincreasing competition for natural resources, along with diminishing appreciation for humanrights, a challenge for financial and consumer educators involves developing foundation forbettering individual wealth in manners that respect all members of a global society...

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Volume 121, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, covers recent developments relating to the 2010 NPT Review Conference, primarily those pertaining to Iran and North Korea. Key documents are presented with introductory analysis by Kristen Boon.

With the publication of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Index IV, Oxford University Press continues to provide periodic volumes containing cumulative indexes to the series. Index IV (covering Terrorism Vols. 101-120) adds to the previous index volumes in order to ensure comprehensive searchability within the series. The availability of the cumulative index as well as the volume-specific indexes makes the series more convenient for...

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Volume 124, U.S. Approaches to Global Security Challenges, analyzes U.S. strategy toward security threats across the globe and identifies the beginnings of a shift away from a reliance on military power to the application of various types of civilian power which utilize a multinational ...

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Volume 123, Global Stability and U.S. National Security, includes documents that illuminate instability concerns in key regions of the world and offer insights into how the lack of stability negatively affects U.S. interests, as well as the interests of other nations. The documents sele...

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Volume 122, U.N. Response to Al Qaeda-Developments Through 2011, discusses recent actions by the United Nations in response to Al-Qaeda, particularly focusing on sanctions under Security Council Resolution 1267 as well as regional responses and court challenges to 1267 sanctions. The do...