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A striking but little recognized change in race relations during the past two decades has seen the declining levels of racial segregation in most o...

Effective global response to climate change requires the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies between and within countrie...

From the founding editor-in-chief of 'Java Report Online' comes advanced information on JDBC, servlets, JNI, RMI, Java IDL, and EJBs - the basic bu...

Fundamentals of OOP and Data Structures in Java is a text for an introductory course on classical data structures. Part One of the book presents th...

Originally published in 1995, The Cambridge Gazetteer of the United States and Canada contains more than 12,000 entries of places of all kinds. It ...

Edward Keene argues that the conventional idea of an 'anarchical society' of equal and independent sovereign states is an inadequate description of...

Over the last 20 years, developments in climatology have provided an amazing array of explanations for the pattern of world climates. This textbook...

We all rely on a familiar set of indicators - interest rates, unemployment, inflation, the Dow Jones index, and GDP, for example - to gauge the per...

This concise guide to planning, writing, and presenting research is intended for biology students of all levels, especially those in behavioral eco...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in Engli...

E-commerce is still a new and volatile industry, but each day a new enterprise pops up promising to be the next big thing. The real challenge is to...

Software engineering is becoming more procedural and controlled, but the estimation of IT projects is still regarded as a 'black art'. IT Project ...

Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Ev...

This book treats learning a programming language much like learning a spoken language: programming is best learned by immersion. Through building i...

This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for ...

The book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present. It analyses the types of plays written for this theatre...

The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what life will be like in tomorrow's older societies. But we do know that age dependency ratios...

In the wake of 9/11 and hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are increasingly motivated to reduce the vulnerability of social and economi...

The American Congress provides the most insightful, up-to-date treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by ...

High tech products have historically had notoriously poor design. Fortunately, companies have recently started to embrace user centered design prac...

Our volume examines the potential for change during the life course and across generations. We address the possibilities for promoting healthy deve...

In this text, students of applied mathematics, science and engineering are introduced to fundamental ways of thinking about the broad context of pa...

These essays address some of the most intriguing questions raised by natural law theory and its implications for law, morality, and public policy. ...

For many everyday transmissions, it is essential to protect digital information from noise or eavesdropping. This undergraduate introduction to err...

Political observers have long since struggled with understanding how new ideas are placed on the public agenda. In their studies, most social scien...

Editorial Board: Jack L. Lesher, Loretta S. Davis, David E. Kent, David J. Cohen Pocket Guide for Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery is written for der...

Why is feminist research carried out in international relations (IR)? What are the methodologies and methods that have been developed in order to c...

There is a vigorous debate about the merits of globalisation for developing countries. Based on numerous focus-group discussions and over 10,000 in...

The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinem...

Why do labor unions resist economic restructuring and adjustment policies in some countries and in some economic sectors while they submit in other...

Why were European economies able to pursue the simultaneous commitment to full employment and welfare state expansion during the first decades of t...

Do people in new democracies undergoing market reforms turn against these reforms when the economic adjustment is painful? The conventional wisdom ...

The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asse...

Using data sets consisting of cross-sectional surveys drawn from nationally representative samples of adolescents in the U.S. and official sources ...

As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent ch...

Green plants are all around us. We are totally dependent on them for food; we cultivate them for our pleasure; and we have used them in a vast numb...

This book responds to the absence of a comprehensive consideration of the implications of culture for children's peer relationships. Although resea...

This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes "Haunting Julia", "Sugar Daddies", "Drowning on Dry Land" and "Private Fears in Public Places", ...

Three people. Stephen wants his ex to realise he's got what it takes. Helen wants her dead husband back. Jamie wants a girl to see him off to war. ...

China Since Tiananmen is the first book to look comprehensively at the intellectual and political trends in the decade since the Tiananmen Incident...

Peter Conrad's exhilarating book exposes the absurdity and occasional insanity of our godforsaken, demon-haunted contemporary culture. Conrad casts...

The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory...

'One of those rare nights in the theatre when some strange alchemy takes place in the dark and as a shiver runs down your spine and a bubble of lau...

A little boy has a problem with his dragon: he's no longer able to breathe fire. What to do? How on earth do you rekindle a despondent dragon's fla...

'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, ...

The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the accl...

Published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all readers who...

Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fe...