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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Franklin R. Edwards Hugh T. Patrick As the 19908 unfold, we stand on the threshold of a new age of global financial markets. The seeminglyinevitable, market-driven dynamicofthe international integration of banking, securities, and futures markets is bringing about a profound transformation of financial...
Work and Idleness
The Political Economy of Full Employment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment is a `feasible capitalist' solution, not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others have to contend with, including many women. Putting the redistribution of employment on the policy agenda...
Global Instability
Uncertainty and new visions in political economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy presents a series of papers that address the political consequences of globalization for states and their populations, while exploring the issue of alternatives to the model of globalization we are presently experiencing. The focus...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The book will discuss the molecular mechanisms of cancer diseases, stem cell proliferation and transformation into cancer cells beyond the physiological processes that occur in normal stem cell biology. Some of the key oncogenic events in cancer and their signaling pathways that regulate cell division...
North American Social Report
A Comparative Study of the Quality of Life in Canada and the USA from 1964 to 1974.Vol. 5: Economics, Religion and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For readers who intend to read this volume without reading the first, some in troductory remarks are in order about the scope of the work and the strategy used in all five volumes to measure the qUality of life. In the frrst chapter of Volume I, I reviewed the relevant recent literature on social...
International Bar Association
A Commentary on Conciliation of Domestic Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
ation" and "Conciliation Terms," with further supplementary notes on "Methods of Conciliation of Domestic Matters." Inasmuch as the practice of domestic matters conciliation is a most important job, it is very difficult to describe it adequately. Feeling a great responsibility...
by Friedrich Edding
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The study by Dr Friedrich Edding is, as far as I can see, the first paper to treat the economic side of the Refugee problem in Western Germany in an impartial form, showing, on the basis of new figures, its positive as well as its negative aspect and effect. Anyhow it may be of some use to underline...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cultural Economics and Cultural Policies offers a unique guide to the state of the art in cultural economics. First, it alerts scholars and students to the necessity for careful definition and measurement of the `cultural sector'. Second, it affords examples of how economic analysis can shed light...
by Johannes Pittermann, Angela Pittermann, Wolfgang Minker
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described. With the robust recognition of emotions from speech signals as their goal, the authors analyze the effectiveness of using a plain emotion recognizer, a speech-emotion...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Accessible and generously illustrated in full colour, this reference spans the history of glass, the raw materials and the manufacturing process, as well as its many products. Informative and compact, this convenient guide is appropriate for anyone interested in glass. Revised throughout for this new edition.
Hierarchy and the Definition of Order in the Letters of Pseudo-Dionysius
A Study in the Form and meaning of the Pseudo-Dionysian Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
N eoplatonism begins explicitly with Plotinus in the third century of our era. The later Neoplatonism of the fifth and six century schools at Athens and Alexandria was both the continuation of the philosophy of Plotinus and also a pagan ideology. When these schools were closed, despite attempts at...
The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life
Book II. Christo-Logos: Metaphysical Rhapsodies of Faith (Itinerarium mentis in deo)
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This highly personal account of a lifetime’s spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author’s journey of faith through contemporary culture. Distinguishing between what she posits as the ‘universal’ and the ‘rhapsodic’ logos, Tymieniecka interrogates concepts as varied as creativity...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Future Risks and Risk Management provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical...
Problem-Based Learning in Clinical Education
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Developed in the context of health sciences education in the late 1960s, problem-based learning (PBL) is now widely deployed as an education methodology. Its problem-solving, collaborative, student-centred ethos is seen as a more appropriate system of pedagogy than earlier ‘chalk-and-talk’ modes....