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Presents an account of the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel's younger brother Raul. This book provides a view into Fidel and Raul's remarkable relationship, showing how they have collaborated in policy making, divided responsibilities, and resolved disagre...
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See no evil - comments and quotes from the crisis
Erik Banks
- Palgrave macmillan
- 3 novembre 2010
- 9780230299177
The story of the recent global economic crisis is told in the words of the main players in the drama. Including quotes from bankers, rating agencies, housing agencies, regulators, politicians and media figures. Erik Banks' latest book shows why we are doomed to experience further financial crises in...
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Sport and Challenges to Racism
J. Long, K. Spracklen
- Palgrave macmillan
- 17 novembre 2010
- 9780230305892
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challe...
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Read examines probability, risk, and uncertainty through the contributions of John von Neumann, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Kenneth Arrow and Harry Markowitz. These Portfolio Theorists provided us with a dramatic leap forward in our understanding of and insights into financial rewards under risk and unce...
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Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West
L. Goodchild, R. Jonsen, P. Limerick, D. Longanecker
- Palgrave macmillan
- 16 avril 2014
- 9781137403780
Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West is the first regional public policy study of American higher education. Presidents of the Western State Commission for Higher Education and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, alongside nationally recogniz...
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The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision argues that we can read early Daoist texts as works of moral philosophy that speak to perennial concerns about the well-lived life in the context of the Way. Lee argues that we can interpret early Daoism as an ethics of attuneme...
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Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia
A. Croissant, D. Kuehn, P. Lorenz, P. Chambers
- Palgrave macmillan
- 29 janvier 2013
- 9781137319272
How can civilians in newly democratized countries ensure their control over the military? While establishing civilian control of the military is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy, it requires prudent strategic action on the part of the decision-makers to remove the military from posi...
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The Presidents of the French Fifth Republic
D. Bell, J. Gaffney
- Palgrave macmillan
- 29 janvier 2013
- 9781137302847
In the French Republic political leadership is normally provided by the presidency, albeit from a very narrow constitutional base. This volume examines the strengths and weaknesses of that leadership as well as the way that executive power has been established in the republican context....
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Sport has a number of distinctive characteristics whichimpact onthe extent of its globalization. This book seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the unique development in sports, its governance, its logic of co-creation of value and the advancement of the industry towards internationalisation, pro...
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Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe
Lans Bovenberg, Asghar Zaidi
- Palgrave macmillan
- 27 octobre 2010
- 9780230307346
Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and la...
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When Business Meets Culture
B. Munoz-Seca, J. Riverola
- Palgrave macmillan
- 30 novembre 2010
- 9780230295117
The cultural sector is gaining increasing importance in our economies, consistantly registering growth rates above average GDP. This book presents insights on how cultural institutions can find new perspectives in their management and provides ideas to hasten culture's role as an economic developer....
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Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
R. Kanet
- Palgrave macmillan
- 29 octobre 2010
- 9780230293168
After the collapse of the Soviet Union expectations were high that a 'new world order' was emerging in which Russia and the other former Soviet republics would join the Western community of nations. That has not occurred. This volume explains the reasons for this failure and assesses likely future d...
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Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade
J. Stobart, I. Van Damme, Ilja Van Damme
- Palgrave macmillan
- 30 novembre 2010
- 9780230290549
Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship betwe...
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Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian considers how people keep cool, from Metro Manila to other mega-cities in Southeast Asia....
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From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey. His analysis includes detailed case studies of the films Muriel's Wedding , Little Voice , Cars , Forgetting...
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The Women's War of 1929
Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, S. Kingsley Kent, Susan Kingsley Kent
- Palgrave macmillan
- 27 octobre 2011
- 9780230356061
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single,...
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Headteachers, Mediocre Colleagues and the Challenges of Educational Leadership
A. Cockburn
- Palgrave macmillan
- 30 aout 2013
- 9781137311894
A unique collection of headteachers' voices discussing leading and managing mediocre teachers and their colleagues. It explores the dilemmas they face as they cope with teachers' personal and professional lives, aging colleagues, accountability and government directives and provides significant insi...
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Foresight and Innovation is a guide for readers that are interested about the future. The book introduces a concept of futurist thinking, which includes anticipating, innovating and communicating about the futures. These concepts show how various organizations, all over the world are thinking, commu...
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This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic 'peasant' drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking the experimentation of the early Irish theatre movement with the innovation of co...
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It is said that men are 'in crisis', blighted by the adverse effects of corrosive masculine norms ranging from emotional disconnection to aggression. This book follows one group of men seeking to overcome their masculine inheritance and ultimately reach a sense of wellbeing by taking up meditation....
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One of the major obstacles unions face in building influence in the workplace is the opposition and resistance from those that own those workplaces, namely, the employers. This volume examines the nature of this anti-unionism, and in doing so explains the ways and means by which employers have succe...
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By examining a sector of the economy that was exposed to increased imports more than four decades ago, Crumley illuminates the economic pressures, resistance, and reform that help to shape Russia's agrarian sector today....
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This book reveals fundamental connections between nationalist violence, religious identity, and the origins of the novel in the early modern period. Through fresh interpretations of music, literature, and history it argues that the expulsion of the Muslim population created a historic and artistic a...
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The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment industry and asylum seekers and refugees...
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