Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 269 p. — (Law in Context Series). The contemporary U.S. legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law and wield it against others in pursuit of their particular agenda. This battle takes place in administrative, legislative, and judicial arenas at both the state and federal levels....
4th edition. — Cavendish Publishing Ltd., 2004. — 182 p. — (Cavendish LawCards series). — ISBN-10: 1859418686; ISBN-13: 9781859418680 Cavendish LawCards are complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the law for both undergraduate and PGDL courses. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make Cavendish LawCards the ideal revision aid for...
West Legal Studies; Delmar, a division of Thomson Learning, 2000, 3rd edition. — 561 p. — ISBN: 0766810232 A methodical and cohesive book, "Introduction to Contracts and Restitution" presents a road map approach to the rules of contracts of law including forming a contract, enforcement of the contract, and breach of the enforceable contract. Each chapter develops the next step...
Ереван, 2010. — 144 с. Mkhitaryan Vahram, Nikoghosyan Vahan. 1001 khndir hetakrkraserneri hamar kam fizikayi vorakakan khndirner. Текст на армянском языке. Эта книга посвоему представляет попытку сопроводить и представить замечательный мир знаний. В ней представлены очень интересные вопросы взятые из нашей повседневной жизни. Цель авторов этой книги сделать читателей...
1st edition. — Springer, 2011. — 511 p. It is now widely accepted that adaptation will be necessary if we are to manage the risks posed by climate change. What we know about adaptation, however, is limited. While there is a well established body of scholarship proposing assessment approaches and explaining concepts, few studies have examined if and how adaptation is taking...
1st edition. — Oxford University Press, 2010. — 269 p. — ISBN-10: 0195388887; ISBN-13: 978-0195388886 Subjects : Women - Health and hygiene. Evolution (Biology). How has bipedalism impacted human childbirth? Do PMS and postpartum depression have specific, maybe even beneficial, functions? These are only two of the many questions that specialists in evolutionary medicine seek to...
Published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. 4th ed. (219 pages). Institutions and systems - Organization and roles - Aspects of occupations. This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 335 p. — ISBN-10: 0300169698, ISBN-13: 978-0300169690. Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. In the...
Published by Pearson Education; 1st edition; 2002. ISBN-10: 0130668427. ISBN-13: 978- 0130668424. (204 pages, ill.). Series : Financial Times Prentice Hall. Subjects : Electronic commerce-Management. Internet industry-Management. What Makes the Internet So Powerful? - Building a Web Site that Works - Profitable Ecommerce - Promotional Web Sites for Offline Businesses - News and...
Publisher: Yale University Press. 2011. ISBN-10: 0300169566. ISBN-13: 978- 0300169560. (190 pages). Historianship - Problems for the Profession - The Appetite for History - Re-Cognition of History as Literature - History and the Novel - Future of the Profession - Tradition, Inheritance, Imagination. Product Description. For more than sixty years, John Lukacs has been writing,...
Sourcebooks, Inc., 2009. — 349 p. — ISBN-10: 1402221096; ISBN-13: 978-1402221095. Subjects : Lifestyles-United States. Social change. Environmentalism. Green movement. Youth-Conduct of life. What Kind Of World Do You Want To Live In? Throwing a party. Preparing a meal. Sending an email. These are things you do all the time. How can they really make a difference? Ten Ways to...
University Press of Mississippi, 2009. — 276 p. — ISBN-10: 1604731273; ISBN-13: 978-1604731279 Editorial Reviews. In this dry but informative tour of 14 New Orleans classics, written by locals, readers will find familiar dishes like gumbo, red beans and rice and Oysters Rockefeller, but also surprising local staples such as Turtle Soup and Creole Cream Cheese. Unfortunately,...
Published by Springer; 1st edition; 2011. ISBN-10: 3642182275. ISBN-13: 978- 3642182273. (361 pages). Some Basic Models - Monetary Policy in Europe - Fiscal Policy in Germany - First the Central Bank Decides, then the Governments Decide - First the Governments Decide, then the Central Bank Decides - Central Bank and Governments Decide Simultaneously and Independently...
Open University Press. 2010. — 223 p. — ISBN-10: 0335223044 ISBN-13: 978- 0335223046. This textbook is designed to explore eight of the most controversial aspects of imprisonment in England and Wales. It looks at the people who are sent to prison and what happens to them when they are incarcerated. Each chapter examines a different dimension of the prison population and makes...
4th edition. — Willan, 2007. — 355 p. — ISBN-10: 1843923580; ISBN-13: 978-1843923589 This textbook covers the Contract Law option of the new A-level law syllabus, and provides at the same time an ideal introduction for anybody coming to the subject for the first time. The book covers all A-level syllabuses/specificationrequirements, and is written by the principal examiner in...
(Руководство для трудоголиков, их детей и партнеров, а также для тех, кто их терапирует.) — 2nd edition. — New York University Press. 2007. — 290 p. Editorial Reviews. Being a workaholic doesn't just mean being a hard worker, says Robinson, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of North Carolina who has been studying people's work habits for years. It means you've...
Published by Happy About. 2009. ISBN-10: 1600051545. ISBN-13: 9781600051548. eBook ISBN: 9781600051555. (158 pages). Online Press Releases Defined - Online PR Defined - The Newswires - Be Newsworthy - Write for the Internet—How it's Different - Search Engine Optimizing a Press Release - Distribution—How to Get the Word Out Online - Submitting your Press Release to PRWeb -...
Published by OECD. 2011. ISBN 9789264119567 (print). ISBN 9789264126633 (PDF). (142 pages). Introduction – Scope and drivers for industrial biotechnology - Emerging synthetic enabling technologies - Trends in industry and products - Current high-visibility industrial biotechnology products - Business organisation and finance in industrial biotechnology - Biotechnology policy –...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 223 р. ISBN: 9780199766451 (hardback). ISBN: 9780199766468 (pbk.). Subjects : Music - Philosophy and aesthetics. Composers with disabilities. Musicians with disabilities. Music - Psychological aspects. Musical analysis. Composers with Disabilities and the Critical Reception of their Music - Musical Narratives of Disability Overcome: Beethoven -...
Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Inc. [distributor], 2011. 9th edition - 696 pages. Visions of the Future - The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems - Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit–Cost Analysis and Other Decision-Making Metrics - Valuing the Environment: Methods - Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development - Depletable Resource...
The National Academy of Sciences. 2011. ISBN-10: 0309217903. ISBN-13: 9780309217903. (155 pages). Judith Anderson Koenig, Rapporteur, Committee on the Assessment of 21st Century Skills, Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies. Introduction - Assessing Cognitive Skills -...
Templeton Press. 2011. ISBN-13: 9781599473727 (hardback : alk. paper). ISBN-10: 1599473720 (hardback : alk. paper). (213 pages). Subjects : Mass media and culture - United States. Popular culture - United States. Love in a Time of Reality TV - Smells Like Teen Spirit - At Your Leisure - Building a Better You. Product Description. Contemporary popular culture, from books to film...
Elsevier. 2009. ISBN-10: 0240811372. ISBN-13: 9780240811376. (232 pages, illustrated). Introduction to 3D Cinema - Stereoscopic Vision and 3D Cinematography - Learning 3D Cinematography - Tools of the Trade - 3D Cinematography Fundamentals - Preproduction - Principal Photography - CGI and VFX - Editing - Grading and Packaging - Cinematography Equipment. Product Description....
The MIT Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-262-14101-7 (hardcover : alk. paper). (315 pages, illustrated). Structure - Presentation - Functionality. Editorial Reviews. "After reading Nitsche's superbly informed and wide-ranging analyses of the multiple factors that shape our experience of game worlds, and his typology of the spatial architectures that underlie the player's possibilities...
Publisher: Focal Press. 2002. ISBN-10: 0240516648. ISBN-13: 978-0240516646 (496 pages, illustrated). Editorial Reviews. "By covering character animation in depth, Nik Lever's book digs right in to one of the most interesting and challenging areas in computer graphics and interactive entertainment. The book provides algorithms and source code for many advanced topics that are at...
Publisher : Sams. 2002. ISBN-10: 0672322854. ISBN-13: 978- 0672322853. (621 pages). The Dramatic Structure of Games - Building Blocks of Shockwave 3D Games - Putting Strategies into Action - Appendixes. Editorial Reviews. Director 8.5 has fully embraced the 3-D online world and Real-Time Interactive 3D Games describes in detail how to build an immersive and exciting world using...
Taylor & Francis, 2010. — 198 p. — ISBN 0-203-85449-7, 13 978-0-415-47326-2, 13 978-0-203-85449-5 — (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research) Subjects : Service industries. Marketing - Management. Power and Marketing The Bureaucratic Organization and the Reactive Employee ‘I Want To Help You’: The Power of Market and Service Orientation The Power/Knowledge of Service Quality...
Springer-Verlag London, 2011. — 435 p. — ISBN 9780857298072; e-ISBN: 9780857298089. This must-read text presents the pioneering work of the late Professor Jacob (Jack) T. Schwartz on computational logic and set theory and its application to proof verification techniques, culminating in the ÆtnaNova system, a prototype computer program designed to verify the correctness of...
3rd edition. — Open University Press, 2010. — 391 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-33-523801-9. ISBN-10 0-33-523801-7. Product Description. The third edition of An Introduction to Family Therapy provides an overview of the core concepts informing family therapy and systemic practice, covering the development of this innovative field from the 1950s to the present day. The book considers both...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 711 p. — ISBN-10: 1405188529; ISBN:
9781405188524. — (Series : The Blackwell Companions to Sociology).
Editorial Reviews.
"All of this being said I enjoyed reading this book for its in-depth examination of the complexities of the social forces that are shaping and are being shaped by religious groups around the world. I certainly see this being of...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2010. — 616 p. — (The Blackwell Companions to Sociology). — ISBN : 978-1-4051-8868-5. The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is the latest book in Blackwell’ s Companion series that brings together leading scholars in the various subdisciplines of sociology to provide current discussions of the most important issues and research in their...
Published by Sage Publications Ltd. 2009. ISBN-10: 141293463X. ISBN-13: 978- 1412934633. (504 pages). Editorial Reviews. 'This Handbook is the first published by the ISA in this millennium; representing the fruit of in-depth dynamics it invites us to give all necessary attention to the concepts of conflict, cooperation and competition. By reflecting on the possible...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005. ISBN : 0-631-23174-9 (hardback). (523 pages). Series : Blackwell Companion to Sociology. Editorial Reviews. "A worthy handbook for cultural sociologists and those interested in the sociology of culture." ( Cultural Sociology , November 2008). The sociology of culture has been among the fastest growing fields in the discipline. It is diverse in...
Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2004. ISBN : 0631210504 (alk.paper). ISBN 13: 9780631210504 (alk.paper). ISBN : 140512265X (pbk.:alk.paper). ISBN 13: 9781405122658 (pbk.:alk.paper). (487 pages). Series : Blackwell Companions to Sociology. The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology brings together original essays covering the broad interdisciplinary field of political...
Routledge, 2006. — 415 p. — ISBN 0-203-96818-2; ISBN10: 0–415–37196–1; ISBN 10 0–203–96818–2; ISBN13 978–0–415–37196–4; ISBN13 978–0–203–96818–5 (ebk). The births and re-births of grace Sociology, Religion and Grace provides a sociological analysis of the Renaissance. The book focuses on the concept of grace, and the unity that exists between its various meanings: theological...
Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010. ISBN: 9789048133321. e-ISBN: 9789048133338. (475 pages). Series : Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Volume 3. Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate...
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. 1 edition. 2002. ISBN-10: 0631228624. ISBN-13: 978- 0631228622. (384 pages). Series : Blackwell Readers in Sociology. Foundational Statements - Economic Action - Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets - Economic Culture and the Culture of the Economy. "A superb comprehensive tour of the fast-growing field of economic sociology. This book...
Published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library. 2005. ISBN : 0-203-98389-0 (Master e-book ISBN). (345 pages). Series : Philosophical issues in science.
Subject : Psychologism. Phenomenological psychology. Frege, Gottlob, 1848–1925. Husserl, Edmund, 1859–1938.
How do things stand today between the department of philosophy and the department of psychology? I mean: how do we think...
Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2005. — 328 p. — (Research in Rural Sociology and Development 11). — ISBN-10 0762312505. ISBN-13: 978-0762312504. New Research Agendas in the Era of Global Development - Global Development and Policy Questions - Strategic Questions and Global Developments. Why is global development so unequal in its social impact? How are global relations...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2008. ISBN : 978-0-262-16252-4 (hbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN : 978-0-262-66207-9 (pbk. : alk. paper). (413 pages). Subjects : Economics - Sociological aspects. Technology - Economic aspects. Introduction - Infrastructure - Technology and the Material Arrangements of the Market - Technology, Economy, Use. In this book, an attempt is made to...
Springer Science + Business Media, LLC. 2007. ISBN-13 : 978-0-387-70844-
7. e-ISBN-13 : 978-0-387-70845-
4. (494 pages). Series : Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Series Editor: Howard B. Kaplan.
In this Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Relations, we have aimed to foster and put forth cuttingedge
thinking on an often controversial set of racial-ethnic topics. To...
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2011. — 584 p. — (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research). — ISBN : 978-1-4419-7259-044; e-ISBN : 978-1-4419-7261-3. Rethinking Connecting Sociology’s Role in Health, Illness, & Healing, From the Top Down - Connecting Communities - Connecting To Medicine: The Profession and Its Organizations - Connecting To the People: The Public as...
Springer Science + Business Media, LLC. 2010. ISBN : 978-0-387-68929- 6. e-ISBN : 978-0-387-68930- 2. (656 pages). Series : Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research Series Editor: Howard B. Kaplan. Theory in the Study of Politics - Political Change and Transformation - Methods in the Study of Politics. The study of politics and political phenomena is important for...
Sage Publications. 2003. ISBN: 0761971734. (393 pages). Foundations - Approaches - Themes. The title of this book is an aporia. "Handbook" implies that the volumes guides the reader toward the established and the known. Yet the volume is not the panoramic view of the contemporary practice of historical sociology, nor does it offer a comprehensive view of the field. Moreover,...
Published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library. 2005. ISBN : 0-203-97709-2 (Master e-book ISBN). (384 pages). Series : The International library of sociology. Founded by Karl Mannheim. Editor: John Urry. Subjects : International finance. International finance-Social aspects. City and town life. Urban economics. Central business districts. Growth and dynamics of financial markets -...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 189 p. In this book the author seeks to clarify what a mechanism-based explanatory strategy looks like. At the core of the approach is a set of mechanisms that specifies how individuals are influenced by those with whom they interact. Such mechanisms are not only the object of this book, they also explain why the book looks the way it does....
Published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library. 2003. ISBN : 0-203-42887-0 (Master e-book ISBN). (175 pages). Series : International Library of Sociology. Founded by Karl Mannheim. Editor: John Urry. Subjects : Utopias. Dystopias. Space (Architecture). Spatial behaviour. Human territoriality. Human geography. Social psychology. The Palais Royal as modernity - Margins, orderings...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 194 p. Theodor W. Adorno placed music at the centre of his critique of modernity and broached some of the most important questions about the role of music in contemporary society. One of his central arguments was that music, through the manner of its composition, affected consciousness and was a means of social management and control. His...