hurst co feb 2012 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Divided into three parts dealing with environmental crisis and its cause, understanding the crisis, and possible remedial measures, the book provides a balanced understanding of the major issues and concerns related to the environment, both locally in India and globally.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Completely revised and updated, this dictionary contains over 4,300 entries covering all aspects of astronomy. Written by an expert team of contributors under the editorship of Ian Ridpath, it is an accessible and invaluable reference for students, professionals, and space enthusiasts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The financial crisis caused many genuinely to reconsider the desirability and feasibility of capitalism. In Why Capitalism , renowned economist Allan Meltzer addresses what he feels are key issues that critics of capitalism routinely fail to adequately recognize . These include the power of incentives and capitalism's adaptability to varying morals, ideals, and cultures. Meltzer argues that while capitalism is not perfect, it is the best option for providing growth and personal freedom. Citing Kant, he stresses that most of the faults and flaws on which critics dwell are human faults and are not systemically inherent to capitalism. Other topics he addresses include the regulated welfare state and how it invites corruption, arbitrary decisions, and circumvention; and irresponsible deficit spending and the unsustainable, unfunded promises by politicians eager to please. Why Capitalism is a short, powerful book that will raise the level of the current debate among politicians, scholars in the political sciences, and general readers interested in the political issues brought to light by the recent financial crisis, written by one of the strongest voices the public dialogue on the fundamental economic ideas on which the United States economy is based.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a global examination of jihadi thought. It considers Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Departing from the 'security' angle, the contributors consider jihadi thought in terms of history, geography, and philosophy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kashmir has been a contested territory ever since the subcontinent was partitioned in 1947. Despite international attention focused on Kashmir, little is known about the Pakistan-administered Jammu & Kashmir (PAJK), which is at the centre of this study. The author is a winner of the European Commission Award for Human Rights and Democracy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - More than 150 million Muslims live in India, the largest minority, yet they are losing power. The contributors consider the regional differences, the role of self-segregation, and the future of Muslims in India.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using a macroeconomic growth approach, this book focuses on two important aspects of the Indian financial sector-development and access. It empirically analyses the structure, size, reach, and efficiency of the sector in the post-reform period and assesses availability of resources from the formal financial system to the productive sectors of the economy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing from a wide range of scholarship from mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century, this book looks at the history and politics of Tibet from a fresh perspective. Addressing the current debates on Tibet with intense academic rigor, Parshotam Mehra is able to focus on the issues of autonomy, the exodus of Tibetan refugees both to India and across the globe, human rights, and India's role vis-a-vis Tibet. He juxtaposes contemporary literature on Tibet against analyses of its history and politics and examines both the institutions of the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama as well as Tibet's ties with Imperial China, Communist China, the former British rulers of India, and the Tsars of Russia. In doing so, Mehra uncovers the various complexities of the current debates on Tibet. This volume is crucial as it boldly takes up the question of Tibetan sovereignty and the possible direction of conflict resolution in this disputed land.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A clear account of what has been discovered in recent years about quantum theory, its counter-intuitive features - non-locality, indeterminism, intrinsic uncertainty - and what it tells us about the universe. The book also explains how these ideas have led to a new subject of limitless possibilities - quantum information theory.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Encyclopedia of Country Music is the most comprehensive reference work on this musical genre with deep roots in American history. Compiled by staff of the legendary Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Encyclopedia includes 1,200 A-Z entries on all aspects of country music, as well as hundreds of images, informative and entertaining essays , and much more. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to cover the first decade of the twenty-first century and the evolution of the genre.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on an unprecedented survey of the entire membership and over 80 elite interviews The Scottish National Party is the definitive account of the nature of the SNP following its election as a party of government for the first time in its eighty year history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides an analysis of how EU transit security is affected by the governance structures of the Eurasian gas network and by asymmetrical power relations between its actors, in particular between Russia and western CIS states (Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova) and their national gas companies, and suggests how transit security threats can be reduced.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This series (released in a new edition every 5 years) captures the key characteristics, policy decisions and activities of the Australian government and its diplomatic staff during the preceeding 5 year period. It examines Australia's major bilateral relationships and central questions in policy-making and execution, as well as emerging or developing issues: in this volume, these chapters cover relations with Africa and with India, and innovations in the management of policy-making.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is unique in presenting evidence on development across the lifespan across multiple levels of description (genetic, brain, cognitive, environmental). The authors use a well-defined disorder - Williams syndrome, to explore the impact of genes, brain development, behaviour, as well as the individual's environment on development.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seventeen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. The handbook is an indispensible source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural fieldwork.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scholars in diverse academic disciplines discuss the ways in which evidence is conceived, used, and manipulated in their own fields. They explore the possibilities for cross-disciplinary fertilisation and ask if it is possible or desirable to develop general multidisciplinary criteria and methods for studying and handling evidence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdos, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.