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A collection of papers on research and practice concerning economic evaluation and risk analysis. It features a special section on recovery and utilization of coal mine methane, as presented at the International Mining Forum in February 2008 in Cracow, Poland.
The 14th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled.
Contents:
Each entry provides full career history and publication details
An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers
A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes
The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Globalization and the resulting internationalization of universities is driving change in teaching, learning, and what it means to be educated. This book provides exemplars of how the Communication discipline and curriculum are responding to the demands of globalization and contributing to the internationalization of higher education.
Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes presents ESP teaching from both theoretical and practical perspectives and provides real-world guidance on course design and implementation.
The textbook is designed as a core text for finance courses that cover market investments, portfolio formation and the management of investment portfolios. As such, the text seeks to convey insight and actual wisdom as to the nature of these activities, and offers the student a rigorous preparation for entry to the funds management industry.
In this, the first critical study of James Cameron, Keller presents an overview of Cameron's work and its significance within cinematic history, featuring excerpts from interviews and analysis of key scenes from films such as Terminator and Titanic
Author:D.N. Panigrahi
D. N. Panigrahi
D N Panigrahi
Publishing date:2009
The state of Jammu and Kashmir had acceded to India soon after India's partition. Pakistan laid claim to it waged wars with India to wrest it. This book examines the multifaceted reality of the Kashmir problem. It discusses various decisions taken by the USA and Britain in conjunction with India and Pakistan as to how Kashmir should be governed.
Regarded as the father of 'Cultural History', Burckhardt's Judgements on History and Historians is an ambitious work written at a time when Europe was at the height of its power and confidence as a cultural and political force.
This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era.
This book gathers together contributions by experts to pin down the relation between institutions and the gender binary. Centrally, it examines the way in which the present-day gender binary is shored up by the conceptualization and regulation of sex and gender at a societal and institutional level.
Based on his experience teaching leadership to thousands of undergraduates, graduate students, and advanced practitioners, Denhardt speaks person-to-person with young leaders about their questions and their concerns as they enter into the somewhat flawed world of leadership today.
This provocative book contends that the liberal world order is illiberal and undemocratic – intolerant about the cultural values of ordinary people in the West and elsewhere while concentrating power in the hands of unaccountable Western elites and Western-dominated institutions.
Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historical practices. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in historiography and the ethical and political dimensions of the historical discipline.
Made in Latin America serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Latin American popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Latin American music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Latin America and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Theoretical Issues; Transnational Scenes; Local and National Scenes; Class, Identity, and Politics; and Gendered Scenes.
In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in what we consider to be an urgent quest for dealing with prejudice.
Management Options in Breast Cancer is the only comprehensive resource devoted to exploring the systematic approach to breast cancer diagnosis, surgery, and postoperative care. This guide is an ideal tool for oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, and gynecologists seeking alternative management options for breast cancer. In addition, trainees will find this text a valuable reference for learning the basic principles and clinical guidelines of the field.
Key features in this stand-alone text:
an international review of the management options in the field of breast cancer clinical practice
case-based examples designed to aid in optimal clinician decision-making
two chapters devoted to rarely-explored topics: male breast cancer and geriatric breast
Expertly mixing theory and practice and providing readers with a guide on how to projects efficiently, this book explores how best to manage a product failure and an unscheduled end of a project.
Tracing the genealogy of marketing, this title maps out the organizing principles and cultural logic of the profession. It looks at topics such as the logic of marketing strategy, global marketing practice, and the moral history of marketing.
Media independence is central to the organization, make-up, working practices and output of media systems across the globe. Often stemming from western notions of individual and political freedoms, independence has informed the development of media across a range of platforms: from the freedom of the press as the "fourth estate" and the rise of Hollywood's Independent studios and Independent television in Britain, through to the importance of "Indy" labels in music and gaming and the increasing importance of independence of voice in citizen journalism. Media independence for many, therefore, has come to mean working with freedom: from state control or interference, from monopoly, from market forces, as well as freedom to report, comment, create and document without
This volume, published 20 years after The Place of Media Power, brings together a rich collection of essays from Nick Couldry's earliest to his latest writings, some of them hard to access, plus two previously unpublished chapters.
This book focuses on issues that are relevant for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and provides the grounds for new patterns of analysis and addresses policy guidelines which are able to respond to the dramatic challenges that Mediterranean regions are facing.
Migrating Borders explores the relationship between territory and citizenship at a time when the very boundaries of the political community come into question.
Many former mining areas have now lost their industrial function and are now turning to tourism for regional revitalization and community economic development. This book draws on multidisciplinary research to consider the dichotomy between heritage preservation and tourist development goals for mining heritage sites.
