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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Money, power, and celebrity - the stuff of Hollywood is also substance of politics. While Hollywood celebrities such as Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, and Ed Begley Jr.currently attract attention from the media for their involvement in politics, Hollywood has been involved in politics since its earliest days. Hollywood and Politics: A Sourcebook documents the entertainment industry's participation in American politics on both the Left and the Right. From the 1920s through today, this volume provides scholars of history, politics, and film with the controversial history of Hollywood's involvement in American politics. Through twenty-four chapters that begin with Upton Sinclair and take us all the way to the satire of South Park, readers are guided through elections, trials, speeches, and memorandums, many of which have never before been published, providing rare insight into the history of Hollywood activism.From World War II to Iraq, and from Walt Disney to Charlton Heston, Hollywood and Politics lays a historical foundation for anyone interested in how celebrities helped shape our country's policies and culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is Anthropology Why should you study it What will you learn And what can you do with it What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more.Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged subject that seeks to understand human social behaviour. What Anthropologists Do presents a lively introduction to the ways in which anthropology's unique research methods and cutting-edge thinking contribute to a very wide range of fields: environmental issues, aid and development, advocacy, human rights, social policy, the creative arts, museums, health, education, crime, communications technology, design, marketing, and business. In short, a training in Anthropology provides highly transferable skills of investigation and analysis.The book will be ideal for any readers who want to know what Anthropology is all about and especially for students coming to the study of Anthropology for the first time.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offering a timely new appraisal of the political and social impact of Islam, this expanded second edition of Religion and Politics has been fully updated in line with new events. Jan-Erik Lane and Hamadi Redissi look at the underlying social consequences of religious beliefs to account for the political differences between major civilizations of the world against a background of the rise of modern capitalism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Navajo Infancy describes the major sources of change and continuity in Navajo infant development.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Compiling the results from contemporary and exciting areas of research into one single important volume, this book stands ahead of its field in providing a comprehensive one-stop Handbook reference of biblical interpretation. Examining a wide range of articles on many of the recognized interpreters including Augustine, Luther and Calvin, up to the modern figures of Martin Hengel and T.W. Manson, Porter expertly combines the study of biblical interpretation with the examination of the theological and philosophical preconceptions that have influenced it, and surveys the history of interpretation from different perspectives. Key perspectives studied include: the historical dimension; addressing how interpretation has developed at various periods of time; from early Jewish exegesis to the historical-critical method the conceptual approach; looks at the various schools of thought that have generated biblical interpretation, and compares and contrasts competing conceptual models of interpretation the personal perspective; addresses the reality of biblical interpretation by individuals who have helped plot the course of theological development With relevant bibliographies and a guide to further reading, this Dictionary will be an extremely important reference held for many years, not only by libraries, but also by students, scholars, clergy and teachers of this fascinating and high-profile subject.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the biggest challenges for students of housing is understanding the financial principles which underpin the place of housing in the wider economy. By taking a political economy approach, Peter King's Understanding Housing Finance makes the basic principles of the subject accessible, without requiring detailed prior knowledge of economics or financial systems.The book explains housing finance by exploring the way in which markets and governments react together. It takes a conceptual approach to consider the advantages and limits of housing markets and why governments intervene. The consequences of intervention are explored in detail using examples of housing subsidy systems and policy mechanisms such as rent control, housing allowances and subsidies to owner occupation.This is a key reference for students on housing and planning courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The book's approach means that its relevance is not confined to one particular housing system, but is useful for those studying housing finance in most developed and developing countries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Comparative Politics: Continuity and Breakdown in the Contemporary World is an exciting new core text for introduction to comparative politics courses, focusing on the dynamics of politics: modernization, revolution, coups and democratization.Unlike other texts, Comparative Politics integrates thematic and extensive country-specific material in each chapter, striking a unique balance between discussing a wide range of countries and civilizations in detail, whilst using shorter focused textboxes to clearly illustrate key thematic points.Key features and benefits include:explanations of core concepts such as state, nation, regime, legitimacy, modernization, globalization, revolution, and mass movementsan introduction of key theoretical approaches such as institutionalism, structural functionalism, political culture, political economy, and game theorydetailed coverage of democratization, advanced democracies, developing countries and communist and post-communist statesarange of perspectives to present a nuanced view of the discipline and contemporary political developmentscase studies of individual countries including Germany, the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Nigeria, Zaire/Congo, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Pakistan, India, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of Chinacountry-focused textboxes giving a chronology of key developments, including the United Kingdom, France, Afghanistan, and Kosovo.Extensively illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, tables and explanatory boxes, Comparative Politics is an innovative core text, and essential reading for all students of Comparative Politics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first scholarly book to fully address the topics of the psychology of deceptive persuasion in the marketplace and consumer self-protection. Deception permeates the American marketplace. Deceptive marketing harms consumers' health, welfare and financial resources, reduces people's privacy and self-esteem, and ultimately undermines trust in society. Individual consumers must try to protect themselves from marketers' misleading communications by acquiring personal marketplace deception-protection skills that go beyond reliance on legal or regulatory protections. Understanding the psychology of deceptive persuasion and consumer self-protection should be a central goal for future consumer behavior research.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Helping to ensure that warfare is conducted justly with the advent of autonomous robots, this book shows that the first steps toward creating robots that not only conform to international law but outperform human soldiers in their ethical capacity are within reach in the future.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on primary research in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK this volume provides a disturbing and provocative insight into the brutality of incarceration in 'civilised' states and its links to the revelations of torture and abuse in the 'war on terror'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This text provides a comprehensive introduction to thenew field of knowledge managament. It approaches the subject from a management rather than a highly technical point of view, and provides students with a.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Although there are books available that describe a single plastic conversion process, such as injection molding, few if any sources describe and compare a comprehensive list of such processes. This book answers that need by providing a basic overview of seven conversion processes used in the industry-methods that account for the creation of more than 97% of all plastic products. Each chapter begins with a process attribute table to serve as a quick guide, then briefly describes a particular conversion process, along with a short history. This text also details equipment, tooling, materials, and other important topics to bolster understanding of the field.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Divided into three sections focusing in turn on legal regulation, technologies of surveillance, and the future of privacy and surveillance, this collection provides a unique and eclectic insight into the question of how the spread of surveillance is changing our lives and the societies in which we live.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Family Law' refers to the set of legal rules which are in practice in India with regards to 'family' issues - marriage, divorce, inheritance, etc. This volume is a collection of articles by different scholars across disciplines to generate a discourse on just Family Law.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Although ROC curves have become ubiquitous in many application areas, the various advances have been scattered across disparate articles and texts. This work is the first book solely devoted to the subject, bringing together all the relevant material to provide a clear understanding of how to analyze ROC curves.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Exploring the complex issues that surround special educational needs (SEN) both in and out of the classroom, this reader-friendly text considers the impacts that these issues have upon the child, the parent, the teacher, and the school as a whole.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through theory and case studies, this book details how uncertainty and flexibility can be evaluated to assist in making better investment decisions in companies. It delivers an excellent balance of theory and practice in the area of investment decision making, demonstrates how financial and real options are related, and describes the theoretical underpinnings of both. The author presents case studies from diverse industries, including life sciences, pharmaceuticals, commodities, energy, technology, manufacturing, and financial services. He also looks at how organizations can become successful using a holistic framework that integrates uncertainty and flexibility.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written for biomedical researchers, this manual on the experimental surgery of rats summarizes a series of techniques that have been applied at the Bone Biology Laboratories, School of Medicine, Rosario National University, Argentina. Stopping short of an exhaustive analysis of the techniques, the manual describes the basis of each surgical technique, the necessary materials including catheters, precautions to consider, the methodology to apply, and the possible results to be obtained. The descriptions of each technique appear with diagrams and pictures.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on the expertise of an international range of contributors, this book brings together some of the most exciting and innovative research activity taking place within psychoanalytic child psychotherapy today.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nietzsche: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive guide to one of the most widely-studied and influential philosophers of the nineteenth century. This invaluable resource helps navigate the often challenging and controversial thought outlined in Nietzschea (TM)s seminal texts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every year, esteemed scholars and practitioners meet at the International Police Executive Symposium to discuss contemporary issues in policing and share ideas about effective strategies in their jurisdictions. Drawn from the proceedings at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting held in Turkey and updated with new developments since the conference, this volume describes how local police agencies are addressing issues of crime that have global implications. Topics discussed include community policing, performance management systems, handling the mentally ill, racial profiling, cybercrime and child sexual abuse, drug trafficking, crime scene management, and emerging administration strategies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As the population becomes more diverse internationally, Religious Discrimination has become increasingly important as an area of law around the world. Heaven Forbid provides a detailed examination of the relationship between religious issues and the law and will be an important read for all those concerned with equality.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume contains a stimulating collection of analytical studies focusing on taxation in Mozambique, telling a compelling story about tax systems in a low income economy increasingly integrated into the world trading system.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book exposes the stark consequences on child development of both our low expectations of fellow human beings and our safety-obsessed culture. Helene Guldberg argues that we need to identify what the real problems are - and how much they matter.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book focuses on the problems of, and prospects for, strengthening the global system of security governance in a manner consistent with the aspirations and practices of the EU.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Educating the Public is the First Line of Defense Recent events worldwide have made vigilant disaster preparedness a crucial concern. A critical tool needed to help protect the public is the public awareness campaign. The first book solely dedicated to the topic of pre-event communication, this volume considers the best ways to communicate disaster risk factors, response plans, and emergency procedures without fomenting panic or paranoia. The author provides an overview and history of public disaster preparedness education, and then discusses the design of a public education project, as well as communication methods. This resource provides those public administration officials, emergency coordinators, and community leaders at both local and national levels with the background and the tools needed to plan, design, and carry out effective public disaster preparedness efforts.