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A Financial Centre for Two Empires
Hong Kong's Corporate, Securities and Tax Laws in its Transition from Britain to China
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This is a case study of legal transplant, economic development, cultural adaptation and political integration. Hong Kong's journey from British entrepôt to China's international financial centre is one of the most interesting legal stories of our time. But Hong Kong's future is even more interesting:...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
by George M. Woodwell, John P. Abraham, Michael C. MacCracken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
"This marvelously accessible book highlights a full color presentation of climate science with solutions. On the most highly-charged environmental policy issue of the 21st Century, top climate scientists join forces with 2013 Common Ground Student Essayists to expand public awareness and activism...
by P. M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000
Now in paperback, this book provides an overview of the physics of condensed matter systems. Assuming a familiarity with the basics of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the book establishes a general framework for describing condensed phases of matter, based on symmetries and conservation...
by N. D. Birrell, P. C. W. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1984
This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe. The last decade has witnessed...
by George S. Boolos, John P. Burgess, Richard C. Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course, such as Godel's incompleteness theorems, but also a large number of optional topics, from Turing's...
by Ronald Bailey, James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...
Mexico Is Not Colombia
Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations, Supporting Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico’s current security situation, historical case studies...
Fundamentals of Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry
The Science and Art of Conducting, Evaluating, and Using Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
How to think about, conduct, and evaluate research is fundamental to the study and understanding of criminology and criminal justice. Students take methods, statistics, theory, and topic-specific classes, but they struggle to integrate what they learn and to see how it fits within the broader field...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
by R.A. Baumann, I.R. Falconer, J.K. Fawell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Drinking water quality is a vast and complex subject. In addition to the topics already addressed in Volume 5, part B of this Handbook in 1995, this new volume discusses in an authoritative way the current key issues of drinking water quality and its control: - Toxicity tests for assessing drinking...
by Charles R. Oliver, Erik Schubach, O.C. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
There’s nothing to fear…
This anthology features paranormal stories by the award-winning authors of the Spokane Fiction Writer’s Group.
Erik Schubach
O.C. Calhoun
L.P. Masters
Lorna M. Hartman
David Jewett
Jerry Schellhammer
Patti L. Dikes
Charles R. Oliver
and R.N. Vick
As you...
Well-Being and Work
Towards a Balanced Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Work and well-being is one of the fastest growing areas of concern to business, public sector and government. This book looks at the causes of stress in the modern work-place, and offers practical advice for managers on how to combat stress in their employees, and put in place strategies for developing a healthy workplace.
Radical Voices for Democratic Schooling
Exposing Neoliberal Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Comprised of in-depth interviews and conversations with key figures in education and activism that thoroughly examine the intersection of neoliberalism, neocolonialism, and racism, this first-rate collection critically explores, through their teaching, various, important issues situated in the context of Western neoliberalism and neocolonialism.