Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714642002 ISBN 13: 9780714642000
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Violence in southern Africa has occurred in a variety of modes including ethnic confrontation, liberation struggles and cross-border aggression and crime. This volume examines the degree to which violence however defined has influenced political change across the region. The contributions include analyses of the ramifications of violent disorder in Angola and Mozambique, the impact on the political economy of both states and the prospects for lasting peace following the end of civil war.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 1872748880 ISBN 13: 9781872748887
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a comprehensive review of laboratory methods for membrane study, with an emphasis on isolating membranes, analysing their composition and architecture, and investigating membrane function.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714643661 ISBN 13: 9780714643663
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since 1989 Italian politics has witnessed changes that have placed it under an international spotlight. This analysis looks at this period of Italian politics through the prism of the changes of the early 1990s.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0415138329 ISBN 13: 9780415138321
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An assessment of the pioneering work of the Peper Harow community for disturbed adolescents. Written by its founder, Melvyn Rose and including the testimony of ex-residents, it calls for a review of social policy towards `deviant' youth.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 2884492445 ISBN 13: 9782884492447
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0415162459 ISBN 13: 9780415162456
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brings together the key writings of Marshall McLuhan. In a communications environment transformed by the rapid spread of electronic media, McLuhans insights are fresher and even more applicable than when first written.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714647624 ISBN 13: 9780714647623
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume examines the idea of civil society in its historical and contemporary dimensions. It provides a comprehensive and critical mapping of the idea, the burden of expectation that it has carried, and the intellectual and political dimensions that surround it.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0881632805 ISBN 13: 9780881632804
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Morrison provides a critical history of analytic and psychiatric attempts to make sense of shame, beginning with Freud and culminating in Kohut's understanding of shame in terms of narcissistic phenomena. The clinical section of the book clarifies both the theoretical status and treatment implications of shame in relation to narcissistic personality disorder, neurosis and higher-level character pathology, and manic-depressive illness.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714643440 ISBN 13: 9780714643441
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Southern European welfare states - in common with their northern counterparts - are under stress. They have become the object of studies exploring the southern 'type' or 'model' of welfare. This collection provides a series of both comparative and specific country analyses.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 1563247828 ISBN 13: 9781563247828
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A growing interest in China's borderlands accelerated after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, which brought independence to new states like Kazakhastan as well as a new configuration of power to Central Eurasia. Despite renewed interest in the region and its peoples, information on the Kazakhs, and particularly on the Kazakhs living in China, has remained limited. This new study, based on Chinese publications and archival materials as well as on recent field-work, provides an up-to-date treatment of Kazakh history and culture, emphasizing the Kazakhs in twentieth century China and, in particular, their status today as one of China's minority nationalities.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 156324537X ISBN 13: 9781563245374
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presidential Power in Russia inaugurates a new library of volumes on each of the major institutions of the new Russian political system. It is the first major assessment of the role of the presidency in Russia's difficult transition from communist rule. Eugene Huskey presents a nuanced evaluation of the presidency as a political institution and in relation to the other leading institutions of state. Although this is not a biography of Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first president and his allies and rivals loom large in the story of this critical phase in the creation of a new Russian political system.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714643203 ISBN 13: 9780714643205
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book fills a major gap in the study of inter-war British foreign policy: it is the first complete study of Austen Chamberlain's term of office as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary from 1924-29. It is argued that Chamberlain's priority was a two-stage policy in western Europe, which aimed at pacifying both France and Germany, as well as encouraging the League of Nations. Other key chapters deal with British policy in the Middle East and China and policy Towards America. Overall, Chamberlain is shown to have committed Britain to a European diplomatic role, which was opposed by Cabinet ministers who did not see a European interest to all aspects of British foreign policy. Today, in the Conservative Party, the debate is still unresolved.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714642371 ISBN 13: 9780714642376
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on German and Soviet military archival material, this book provides an insight into the tactics and planning for combat in a winter climate. It also studies the mechanisms for change in an army during the course of battle.The first part of the book looks at the tactical pamphlet 'People's Commissar for Defence Order No. 109', as passed by Red Army units on 4 March 1941, which provided regulations for combat in Winter. The second part of the book, using material from the Soviet military archives, reveals Red Army General Staff supplements to the winter regulation.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0415152259 ISBN 13: 9780415152259
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'From the Baltic to the Black Sea' offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Suggesting new approaches to the period when written history begins and the early medieval states emerge, the book examines early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations and the nature of rural settlement and urban development. There are chapters on the contact between Byzantium and medieval Hungary and Scandinavia. There is also analysis of the medieval populations of Czechoslovakia and Denmark, of social organization in Poland and cultural conflict in Livonia. Studies of early settlements in Bohemia and the Danube are complemented by detailed accounts of the origin and growth of three great medieval cities--Lubeck, Prague and Kiev. This book will provoke a fresh debate about Europe's medieval past.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0415916593 ISBN 13: 9780415916592
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas provides a spirited debate on vital issues in religion, philosophy, and ethics. This renowned group of scholars explore liberation theologies in light of discourses of emancipation, revolution, and utopia. Engaging postmodernism's suspicion of grand narratives, these essays consider what the postmodernism/liberation debate means for strategies of social and political transformation.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 1560009519 ISBN 13: 9781560009511
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Like scholars in other fields, historians have long occupied themselves in self-justification.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0415146178 ISBN 13: 9780415146173
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on postmodernist analyses, Leaky Bodies and Boundaries presents a feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment. With reference to contemporary and historical issues in biomedicine, the book argues that the boundaries of both the subject and the body are no longer secure. The aim is both to valorise women and to suggest that 'leakiness' may be the very ground for a postmodern feminist ethic. The contribution made by Leaky Bodies and Boundaries is to go beyond modernist feminisms to radically displace the mechanisms by which women are devalued. The anxiety that postmodernism cannot yield an ethics, nor advance feminist concerns is addressed. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying feminist philosophy, cultural studies and sociology.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714643602 ISBN 13: 9780714643601
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eternal Vigilance seeks to offer reinterpretations of some of the major established themes in CIA history such as its origins, foundations, its treatment of the Soviet threat, the Iranian revolution and the accountability of the agency. The book also opens new areas of research such as foreign liaison, relations with the scientific community, use of scientific and technical research and economic intelligence. The articles are both by well-known scholars in the field and young researchers at the beginning of their academic careers. Contributors come almost equally from both sides of the Atlantic. All draw, to varying degrees, on recently declassified documents and newly-available archives and, as the final chapter seeks to show, all point the way to future research.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714642215 ISBN 13: 9780714642215
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The essays collected here outline a number of factors which made the EC too young to be able to assimilate Britain's important interests, and the British over-optimistic in their approach to negotiations with the Community. The role of conflict over Western strategy and European political union in the breakdown of the negotiations is re-assessed, and the negotiations over agriculture and the Commonwealth are revealed in an entirely new light.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0582279410 ISBN 13: 9780582279414
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides a concise guide to the installation and design of principal services in domestic and commercial buildings. This book covers the level 2 module of The CIOB's Education Framework and is officially sanctioned by the CIOB as the recognised book for that module.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0750705922 ISBN 13: 9780750705929
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Giving an overview of the whole of the curriculum, this new book specifically identifies key features of the required and optional curriculum. The editors give practical examples for implementing new requirements into primary teachers' daily schedules and encourage reflection in teachers' own practice. For student and novice teachers struggling to grasp the requirements of ten curriculum subjects, this book will be an invaluable aid. Dealing with cross-curricular themes and dimensions, it will help teachers to meet the 'knowledge of the curriculum' competency specified in the criteria for teacher education.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0714643343 ISBN 13: 9780714643342
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0582277671 ISBN 13: 9780582277670
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This compact, highly readable, thought-provoking survey denotes the when, how and why of Britain's economy in terms of growth, problems and changes in her industrial society from 1750 to 1985. . The work is intended for nonspecialists, students in higher education, and for anyone wanting to further his or her knowledge in the field. The text is challenging and ought to be required reading for any university course on recent British history' HISTORY (US) of the First Edition First published in 1989, and several times reprinted, The Industrial Age provides a clear account of the development of the British economy from 1750 to the present day, and the important social developments that accompanied it. These years saw Britain's rise to economic greatness as the world's first industrial power, and also her long economic decline; and this rise and fall gives shape and coherence to the broad sweep of Charles More's survey. Dr More writes for the non-specialist in non-technical language. He does not shirk the basic economic analysis that underlies historical debate - one of the strengths of the book, indeed, is the way it marshals and elucidates its wealth of statistical and other evidence - but he makes the issues not only comprehensible to the layman, but interesting and involving too. Now, in response to continuing demand, he has revised, updated and expanded his text for this fine new Second Edition. The original coverage stopped in 1985; the new version not only covers a further decade of Britain's economic and social fortunes, but has also allowed reconsideration of many of Dr More's earlier findings in the light of new research and longer perspectives. As well as the account of recent developments, the chapters on the industrial revolution have been extensively adjusted to incorporate new thinking on the period; the chapter on family history has been completely rewritten; and there is also an innovatory chapter on environmental history. The entire text has been redesigned and reset in a larger, more handsome format; and the opportunity has also been taken to include illustrations for the first time. 'As a teacher of considerable experience, Dr More knows what students need and in this book, which is a history textbook, provides a no-nonsense, highly readable account of the development of British economy and society during the last 230 years or so. There is nothing redundant in this book. Students can open it at any chapter and come immediately on what they want .a most useful addition to the student's armoury.' OPEN HISTORY 'There is certainly a need for an up-to-date text on British economy and society since the industrial revolution. This book will be a valuable addition to the student literature' ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW CHARLES MORE is Senior Lecturer in History at the Cheltenham and Gloucster College of Higher Education.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0582251478 ISBN 13: 9780582251472
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since this famous study first appeared in 1986 a wealth of new scholarship has been stimulated by the new material made available by the fall of the Soviet Union and the partial release of archives in China. To take account of these new perspectives xxx; which particularly affect the roles of the Soviet Union, China and Korea itself xxx; Dr Lowe has substantially rewritten and expanded his text.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0419217703 ISBN 13: 9780419217701
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Managing the consumption and conservation of energy in buildings must now become the concern of both building managers and occupants. The provision of lighting, hot water supply, communications, cooking, space heating and cooling accounts for 45 per cent of UK energy consumption.Energy Management and Operating Costs in Buildings introduces the reader to the principles of managing and conserving energy consumpton in buildings people use for work or leisure. Energy consumption is considered for the provision of space heating, hot water, supply ventilation and air conditioning. The author introduces the use of standard performance indicators and energy consumption yardsticks, and discusses the use and application of degree days.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 1857284631 ISBN 13: 9781857284638
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An introductory text on environmental management with a global coverage, including attention paid to the Third World. The perspective of the book is geographical and the treatment draws on the broad and complementary experience of the two authors.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0750617713 ISBN 13: 9780750617710
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The primary aim of this book is to provide a guide to current practice and equipment for non-specialist surveyors in the various professions involved in the construction industry and the environment. It is suitable for students preparing for degrees and diplomas in architecture, building, building surveying, quantity surveying, estate management and town planning and environmental studies. It is also of value to engineers who are not specialising in engineering surveying.This book has been thoroughly revised to include new topics such as OS digital mapping, standard deviation and standard error, global positioning systems, transition and vertical curves.Walter Whyte was born in New Zealand of Scottish parents and educated in Scotland. He worked on site and building surveys in Scotland. He worked on site and building surveys in Scotland, then on road survey and setting out in the North Nyanza and Uasin Gishu Provinces of Kenya, and as a road engineer in British Southern Cameroons and Northern Nigeria, De Montford University in the UK and latterly at City University, Hong Kong.Raymond E Paul has been professionally involved in surveying for over 40 years as a land and cartographical surveyor, senior lecturer and author. He has a wealth of practical experience and an awareness of the needs of the intended users of this book from all corners of the globe.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 9026514980 ISBN 13: 9789026514982
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Increasing numbers of students entering the medical sciences, or related fields, are unfamiliar with Greek or Latin and so the medical terminology can be puzzling to them. This book explains the roots and origins of most medical terminology.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0415140757 ISBN 13: 9780415140751
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the 'other' side of the countryside, a place also inhabited (and visited) by women, children, teenagers, the elderly, gay men and lesbians, black and ethnic minorities, the unemployed and the poor. These groups have remained largely excluded by both rural policies and the representations of rural culture.The book charts the experiences of these marginalised groups and sets this exploration within the context of postmodern, poststructuralist, postcolonial and late feminist analysis. This theoretical framework reveals how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions amongst those living in the countryside.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Jun 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0415154979 ISBN 13: 9780415154970
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on material from around the world, this book examines how new geographies of resistance emerge and are articulated. Radical cultural politics, exemplified by the black, feminist and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimination into spaces of resistance. Post-colonial and queer theory has opened up new political spaces. Whether resistance is an act of transgression (crossing borders), opposition (such as constructing barricades), or everyday endurance (staying in place), these are geographies where space is constitutive of the social.