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Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty
In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond…
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure…
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Medieval Arabic Historiography
Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this…
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Globalization's Contradictions
Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the…
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Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian…
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An Introduction to the Passage of Energetic Particles through Matter
Identifying where to access data, extracting a needed subset from available resources, and knowing how to interpret the format in which data are presented can be time-consuming tasks for scientists and engineers. By collecting all of this information and providing a background in physics, An…
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Democratizing Innovation
The process of user-centered innovation: how it can benefit both users and manufacturers and how its emergence will bring changes in business models and in public policy.Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly…
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Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
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AIMETA 2005
The volume collects the contributions presented at the XVII national congress of AIMETA which, for technical reasons, did not find space in the first volume dedicated to the proceedings of the congress. The new texts complete the picture of the current situation and future prospects of Mechanics…
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Performance of Wind Exposed Structures
PERBACCO (a free Italian acronym for Life-cycle Performance, Innovation and Design Criteria for Structures and Infrastructures Facing Æolian and Other Natural Hazards) is a research project partly funded by the Italian Ministry for University (MIUR) in the PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse…
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Acquisition and Loss of Nationality|Volume 1: Comparative Analyses
Nationaliteit en burgerschap zijn recent in verschillende Europese landen een omstreden beleidsveld geworden. Zorgen over de integratie van immigranten, maar ook pogingen om de banden met emigranten te verstevigen hebben geleid tot wetswijzigingen ten aanzien van het verkrijgen of verliezen van…
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L'uomo inquieto (Vol. 58):Identità e alterità nell'opera di Antonio Tabucchi
The work of A. Tabucchi, one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts query the self-perception, the relation with the Other and the relation with the historical and cultural world while expressing at all these levels an experience of…
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Jihad Beyond Islam
'Jihad' is a highly charged word. Often mistranslated as 'Holy War', it has become synonymous with terrorism. Current political events have entirely failed to take account of the subtlety and complexity of jihad. Like many concepts with a long history, different cultural ideas have influenced the…
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Globalisation and Poverty
The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors. The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic shocks on the microeconomic position of individuals and households in poor countries are many and various. This…
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Individualisierung und mobile Dienste am Beispiel der Medienbranche
Christian Kaspar deals with the causes of the current economic crisis in the media industry and discusses opportunities for media companies to avert this crisis. Two options particularly are considered in more detail: the approaching of media products to individual desires of recipients on the…
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday, a self-taught errand boy of humble origins with no particular knowledge of mathematics, became one of the greatest Englishmen of all times. With simple determination and extraordinary insight he was able to make the scientific discoveries on which most of the technology of the…
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Arch Cube
The volume collects the results of a course in “Assisted architectural design” which experimented with some innovative aspects in the teaching of Drawing. The new frontier is now represented by computer tools and very complex processing programs that incorporate all the previous techniques and…
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L'ingegneria del vento
The volume aims to give the most comprehensive answer to to the question “Why has wind engineering taken on such an important role today?”. In their work, the authors proceed by stages. First, they accompany the readers on a historical journey, in which they led a reflection on the ineluctable…
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Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans
Nel 1840, un alienista francese, Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans, compì un viaggio nei manicomi d'Italia per individuare quale potesse essere la soluzione migliore, a cui ispirare l'istituto che avrebbe costruito nei pressi di Bordeaux. Il volume pubblica in traduzione italiana gli appunti di…
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Geschlechtertypisierungen im Kontext von Familie und Schule
Das Jahrbuch 2006 beschäftigt sich mit Geschlechterbildern und geschlechtstypischen Erwartungen, mit denen Kinder, Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene im Prozess des Aufwachsens konfrontiert sind. Darüber hinaus geht es um neue Perspektiven auf Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Familie.; The yearbook…
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