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One of the major objectives of good governance is human development. Many worry that without good governance, many developing countries may become failed states. Using one of the worst industrial disasters in Bangladesh to date, Haroon A. Khan helps further our understanding of the importance of bureaucratic capacity for achieving good governance and offers a new paradigm for a merit system to improve governance. In doing so, he introduces the...

The basic purpose for identifying persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals (PBTs) is to assist government and industry in taking rational protective steps for public health, safety, and the environment. This book builds on a report prepared by an international team to evaluate how PBTs are currently identified and managed in Asia, Europe, and North America. It provides recommendations for improving those processes. The concept of PBTs ...

This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the ways a country with such varying topography, a large population and inconsistent socio-economic development is developing approaches to tackle and respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by a changing climate. Using research and data from the Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) project, the first and largest research-to-policy project of its kind ever attempted in China, Ch...

This book uses a multi-method approach to challenge the notion that financial markets exert a broad influence over economic policy making in emerging economies.

Argues that relations are real and generate real relational 'goods' and 'evils', affecting those involved and other people.

An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.

A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences exposes parallels and contrasts in the way the histories of the social sciences are written.

During World War II over 5, 500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes - often in their own words - how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them. The book is concerned with the deeds of white and Japanese Americans in a mutual struggle against ...

Features myths collected in English from Athabascan speaking Indians, providing full information about each narrator.

In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic influences, both formal and experimental-his "crew." The confident and radiant poems in Roll Deep address a range of topics, most prominently human intimacy and war. And like his bes...

Iterative processing is an important technique with numerous applications. Exploiting the power of factor graphs, this detailed survey provides a general framework for systematically developing iterative algorithms for digital receivers, and highlights connections between important algorithms. Starting with basic concepts in digital communications, progressively more complex ideas are presented and integrated resulting in the development of cu...

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Wer ist der kauzige Rentner, der seit einiger Zeit regelmäßig durch die Straße geschlurft kommt? Er sieht aus wie ein Landstreicher und spricht wie ein Verrückter. Ist er wirklich nur ein "verkalkter, alter Narr", wie die zwölfjährige Gundi behauptet? Oder ist er ein Fall für die Gendarmerie, wie Frau Steppmaier, die gefürchtete "Habergeiß", meint? Hansi glaubt etwas ganz anderes. Aber seine Freunde nehmen ihn nicht ernst. Da versucht er, das ...

Der Reimhansl ist überfallen worden! Friedl, "Detektiv" unter den Kindern, misstraut Frau Steppmaier, der einzigen Zeugin. Er will auf Gaunerjagd gehen. Sein Freund Hansi glaubt einen besseren Plan zu haben. Dabei erweist sich die kleine Lina als seine tüchtigste Gehilfin ...

A dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty.

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 69. Kapitel: DHL, Post Tower, Danzas, Postleitzahl, Liste der Postleitregionen in Deutschland, Briefzentrum, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Post- und Telekommunikationsgeschichte, Packstation, E-Postbrief, Klaus Zumwinkel, Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt, Paketzentrum, Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, Zielcode, Gesetz zur Beschränkung des Brief-, Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnisses, Weihnachtspostamt, Stampit, Nachtluftpos...

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 156. Kapitel: Herbert Zimmermann, Günther Jauch, Darrell Waltrip, Edi Finger, Hajo Seppelt, Kristin Otto, Hagen Boßdorf, Boris Alexandrowitsch Majorow, Johannes B. Kerner, Ian Botham, Heinz Prüller, Josef Augusta, Emmitt Smith, Monica Lierhaus, Tyson Nash, Sara Carbonero, Don Cherry, Oskar Klose, Peter McNab, Manfred Breuckmann, Günther Koch, Rob Ramage, Marty McSorley, Heinz Florian Oertel, Wim Thoelke, Lynn Swann, ...

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 52. Kapitel: Puritanismus, John Wyclif, Beda Venerabilis, Geschichte des Quäkertums, Thomas Becket, George Leonard Carey, Cuthbert von Lindisfarne, Anselm von Canterbury, John Greenwood, Auflösung der englischen Klöster, Matthew Parker, Papisten-Verschwörung, Marprelate Kontroverse, Augustinus von Canterbury, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, Cedd, Reginald Pole, Eata von Hexham, Æthelwald von Lindisfarne, Thomas Cranme...

Aims to investigate criminal recidivism, the process involved in continuing offending and in delaying desistance from a criminal career. This book focuses on why, how and for how long an individual continues committing crimes. It explains both the development of a persistent criminal career and the commission of offences.

The ideal introduction for students of semantics, this book provides the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning.