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by George Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
A concise introduction to the ways in which the world's federations manage their finances. Topics covered include the distribution of taxation powers among different levels of government; regional equalization schemes; authority over natural resource revenues; and the impact of federal systems of government...
The Creativity Crisis
Reinventing Science to Unleash Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Every day we hear about some fascinating new discovery. Yet anemic progress toward addressing the greatest risks to humankind -- clean energy, emerging infections, and cancer -- warns us that science may not be meeting its potential. Indeed, there is evidence that advances are slowing. Science is...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Thirty years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a fateful decision: to allow newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations to compete in the marketplace instead of being financed exclusively by the government. The political and social implications of that decision are still unfolding...
The Moral Imagination
The Art and Soul of Building Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. As founding Director of the Conflict Transformation Program and Institute of Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, he has provided consultation and direct mediation in a range of situations...
The Future of the MBA
Designing the Thinker of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
The MBA is probably the hottest ticket among the current university graduate degree offerings--every year, more than 120,000 students enroll in MBA programs in the United States, and the estimates in Europe do not lag far behind. In addition, job prospects have never looked better for business school...
Central Banks into the Breach
From Triumph to Crisis and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Central banks play an important role in the course of national economies and the global economy. Their leaders are regularly feted or vilified, their policy pronouncements highly anticipated and routinely scrutinized. This is all the more so since the global financial crisis. The past fifteen years...
by Lyle Bachman, Barbara Damböck
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This book provides teachers with an entirely new approach to developing and using classroom-based language assessments. This approach is based on current theory and practice in the field of language assessment and on an understanding of the assessment needs of classroom teachers. The following key...
The Ethics Police?
The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Research on human beings saves countless lives, but has at times harmed the participants. To what degree then should government regulate science, and how? The horrors of Nazi concentration camp experiments and the egregious Tuskegee syphilis study led the US government, in 1974, to establish Research...
Taking Liberties
The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In this eye-opening work, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror. Over a decade after 9/11, it is far from clear that the government's hastily adopted antiterrorist tactics--such as the Patriot Act--are keeping us safe, but it is increasingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Even the most casual observer of Chinese society is aware of the tremendous significance of Confucianism as a linchpin of both ancient and modern Chinese identity. Furthermore, the Confucian tradition has exercised enormous influence over the values and institutions of the other cultures of East Asia,...
Susan Glaspell
Her Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
"Venturesome feminist," historian Nancy Cott's term, perfectly describes Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), America's first important modern female playwright, winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and one of the most respected novelists and short story writers of her time. In her life she...
Structures of Agency
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E. Bratman of Stanford University. They revolve around his influential theory, know as the "planning theory of intention and agency." Bratman's primary concern is with what he calls "strong"...
Charles Babbage
And the Engines of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1999
Charles Babbage, "the grandfather of the modern computer," did not live to see even one of his calculating machines at work. A dazzling genius with vision extending far beyond the limitations of the Victorian age, Babbage successfully calculated a table of logarithms during his years at Cambridge University,...
The Synthesizer
A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, Playing, and Recording the Ultimate Electronic Music Instrument
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Electronic music instruments weren't called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen's development of the Etherphone, now known as the Theremin. From that point, synthesizers have undergone a remarkable evolution from prohibitively...