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Planes - A novel
Peter C. Baker
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For the first time, here is the complete history of the
International Finance Corporation (IFC). In the fifty years since
the end of World War II, the world of development finance has grown
rapidly. One of the many financial institutions which cropped up to
help war-torn countries with their reconstruction was the IFC.
International Business Expansion Into Less-Developed Countries
examines the success of the IFC in its wide variety of public
sector development activities. Covering thirty-five years of IFC
operations, the book thoroughly evaluates the formulation of the
concept of the IFC and its evolution as a viable global development
finance agency. It is the most complete and up-to-date treatment
available of the IFC.The administration and operational procedures
are described in detail as are case examples of financial
development in all regions. Problems encountered by the IFC and new
and future activities of the IFC are discussed. Scholars of
economic development and international financewill find the unusual
way in which the IFC was established and the case examples
presented a highly valuable reference, as will students of
international studies and organizations.
A deluxe edition of super-charged, original and classic short
stories. Featuring dystopia, post-apocalypse, time travel, robots
and more, this brilliant collection brings together the best of
today's writers (many stories previously unpublished), with an
eclectic range of science fiction masters including H. Rider
Haggard, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip Francis Nowlan, Edward Page
Mitchell and Jack London. An eclectic collection of SF adventure
tales. Perfect as a gift, and for years of reading pleasure.
In today's increasingly globalized world, it is essential that
people of diverse ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds learn
to work together and communicate effectively. This book offers a
breakthrough approach to recognizing that differences among people
are resources for organizations to tap as they strive to anticipate
change and adapt rapidly in an unpredictable world. "Catalytic
Conversations" provides a conceptual framework for understanding
how complex communication patterns of social networks influence,
and are influenced by, organizational structures. It discusses how
to enhance the quality and viability of groups and organizational
life by paying attention to how people talk - and do not talk - to
each other. The book distinguishes between conversations that
support organizational enhancement and others that inhibit
innovation, and explores the complexity of organizational
communication in detail.
The end of the Cold War has created a new group of technology
providers in the international marketplace less inclined to exhibit
self-restraint in exporting sensitive dual-use technologies that
can contribute to the global proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction and long-range missile systems. John C. Baker focuses
on the technology export challenges posed by the nuclear and
aeropsace industries inherited by Russia and Ukraine, which are
driven by economic difficulties to export sensitive dual-use
technologies as an attractive source of gaining hard currency. He
proposes an ambitious non-proliferation strategy that takes
advantage of new opportunities for using international economic and
political incentives to discourage irresponsible export behaviour
by these former Soviet defence enterprises while seeking long-term
changes in the non-proliferation attitudes of enterprise managers
and government leaders.
For the first time, here is the complete history of the
International Finance Corporation (IFC). In the fifty years since
the end of World War II, the world of development finance has grown
rapidly. One of the many financial institutions which cropped up to
help war-torn countries with their reconstruction was the IFC.
International Business Expansion Into Less-Developed Countries
examines the success of the IFC in its wide variety of public
sector development activities. Covering thirty-five years of IFC
operations, the book thoroughly evaluates the formulation of the
concept of the IFC and its evolution as a viable global development
finance agency. It is the most complete and up-to-date treatment
available of the IFC.The administration and operational procedures
are described in detail as are case examples of financial
development in all regions. Problems encountered by the IFC and new
and future activities of the IFC are discussed. Scholars of
economic development and international finance will find the
unusual way in which the IFC was established and the case examples
presented a highly valuable reference, as will students of
international studies and organizations.
This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and
collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in
making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested
in the outcome itself - the artefact, artwork or performance -
contributors instead highlight the emotional, intellectual,
intuitive, instinctive and step-by-step creation dimensions. They
aim to shine a light on digital and electronic art practice,
involving coding, electronic gadgetry and technology mixed with
other forms of more established media, to uncover the
practice-as-research processes required, as well as the
collaborative aspects of art and technology practice.
Special Volume in Memory of Hidetoshi Yamada, Part Two, Volume 82
in the Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry series,
highlights new advances in the field with this new volume
presenting interesting chapters written by an international board
of authors. Updates in this new release include Automated and/or
Electrochemical Synthesis, In Vivo Chemistry,
Pseudo-Glycoconjugates with C-Glycoside linkage, Boron-Mediated
Aglycon Delivery (BMAD) for the Stereoselective Synthesis of
1,2-cis Glycosides, and Conformationally Restricted Donors for
Stereoselective Glycosylation.
In today's increasingly globalized world, it is essential that
people of diverse ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds learn
to work together and communicate effectively. This book offers a
breakthrough approach to recognizing that differences among people
are resources for organizations to tap as they strive to anticipate
change and adapt rapidly in an unpredictable world. "Catalytic
Conversations" provides a conceptual framework for understanding
how complex communication patterns of social networks influence,
and are influenced by, organizational structures. It discusses how
to enhance the quality and viability of groups and organizational
life by paying attention to how people talk - and do not talk - to
each other. The book distinguishes between conversations that
support organizational enhancement and others that inhibit
innovation, and explores the complexity of organizational
communication in detail.
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 79
highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume
presenting interesting chapters on a range of topics, including
Vinyl Sulfone-Modified Carbohydrates: Michael Acceptors and 2p
Partners for the Synthesis of Functionalized Sugars,
Enantiomerically Pure Carbocycles and Heterocycles and a
Biographical Memoire for Leslie Hough.
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 80
highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume
presenting interesting chapters on a range of topics, including
Vinyl Sulfone-Modified Carbohydrates: Michael Acceptors and 2p
Partners for the Synthesis of Functionalized Sugars,
Enantiomerically Pure Carbocycles and Heterocycles and a
Biographical Memoire for Leslie Hough.
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 77, the
latest release in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in
the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on
Temporary Ether Protecting Groups at the Anomeric Center in Complex
Carbohydrate Synthesis and Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II (Hunter
Syndrome): Clinical and Biochemical Aspects of the Disease and
Approaches to its Diagnosis and Treatment.
This book is a much-expanded and updated edition of a previous
volume, published in 1996 as No-tillage Seeding: Science and
Practice. The base objective remains to describe, in lay terms, a
range of international experiments designed to examine the causes
of successes and failures in no-tillage. The book summarizes the
advantages and disadvantages of no tillage and highlights the pros
and cons of a range of features and options, without promoting any
particular product. Topics added or covered in more detail in the
second edition include:
DT soil carbon and how its retention or sequestration interacts
with tillage and no-tillage
DT controlled traffic farming as an adjunct to no-tillage
DT comparison of the performance of generic no-tillage opener
designs
DT the role of banding fertilizer in no-tillage
DT the economics of no-tillage
DT small-scale equipment used by poorer farmers
DT forage cropping by no-tillage
DT a method for risk assessment of different levels of machine
sophistication
This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and
collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in
making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested
in the outcome itself - the artefact, artwork or performance -
contributors instead highlight the emotional, intellectual,
intuitive, instinctive and step-by-step creation dimensions. They
aim to shine a light on digital and electronic art practice,
involving coding, electronic gadgetry and technology mixed with
other forms of more established media, to uncover the
practice-as-research processes required, as well as the
collaborative aspects of art and technology practice.
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, part of a long
running serial that began in 1945, provides critical and
informative articles written by research specialists that integrate
the industrial, analytical, and technological aspects of
biochemistry, organic chemistry, and instrumentation methodology in
the study of carbohydrates. Each article provides a definitive
interpretation of the current status and future trends in
carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry.
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 84 in
this series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new
volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international
board of authors.
Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 83, the
latest release in a serial that highlights new advances in the
field, includes a variety of highly sourced chapters written by an
international board of authors.
George Mackay Brown has long been recognised as one of the most
original and important Scottish writers of the twentieth century.
This book is the first comprehensive account of Brown's work from a
philosophical perspective and offers a radical new approach to the
study of Scottish literature. The importance of local community in
the work of Scottish novelists ranging from Walter Scott to Neil M.
Gunn has often been noted, but few critics have addressed the
relation of this concept to current philosophical and sociological
models of community. Timothy C. Baker uses Brown's work as a
primary case study to demonstrate that the relationship between the
individual and the community is a dominant narrative question in
Scottish fiction. Baker traces the development of Brown's writing
in relation to contemporary developments in the study of community,
drawing on both continental and Anglo-American traditions. Focusing
on Brown's novels, Baker argues for Brown's importance not only
within a Scottish literary tradition, but as a major thinker of
community. The book also suggests the utility of community, as
opposed to nation and region, for productive discourse on modern
literature. Combining close readings with theoretical elaborations,
and including a broad national and historical overview, Baker
offers a new perspective both on Brown's work and contemporary
national literatures. Key Features: *Offers the first
philosophically-informed critique of George Mackay Brown *Shows how
fiction can contribute to an understanding of the problems of
community in modernity *Suggests new directions for the study of
contemporary Scottish literature *Takes into account Brown's late
and posthumous writings as well as unpublished material not covered
before
Analysing the issues of language that faced international forces
carrying out peace operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s,
this book examines how differences of language were an integral
part of the conflicts in the country and in what way the
multinational UN and NATO forces faced their own problems of
communication and language support.
Interpreting the Peace is the first full-length study of
language support in multinational peace operations. Building peace
depends on being able to communicate with belligerents, civilians
and forces from other countries. This depends on effective and
reliable mediation between languages. Yet language is frequently
taken for granted in the planning and conduct of peace operations.
Looking in detail at 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina, this book shows how
the UN and NATO forces addressed these issues and asks what can be
learned from the experience. Drawing on more than fifty interviews
with military personnel, civilian linguists and locally-recruited
interpreters, the book explores problems such as the contested
roles of military linguists, the challenges of improving a language
service in the field, and the function of nationality and ethnicity
in producing trust or mistrust. It will be of interest to readers
in contemporary history, security studies, translation studies and
sociolinguistics, and to practitioners working in translation and
interpreting for military services and international
organizations.
This is one of the first books to comprehensively explore
representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction.
The five authors come from diverse backgrounds - literary studies,
social psychology, medical psychiatry and psychiatric nursing - and
as such the book's perspectives are informed through several
discourses, making it a unique co-authored text in the discipline
of Health Humanities. The book looks at representations of madness
in a range of texts by postwar writers (such as Ken Kesey, Marge
Piercy, Patrick McGrath, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Golding,
Patrick Gale, William Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, to name a few),
and explores the ways in which these representations help to shape
public perceptions and experiences of mental disorder.
This book is relevant to both those with interests in literary
studies and a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and
professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and
enhance clinical practices.
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Health Humanities (Paperback)
P Crawford, B. Brown, C. Baker, V. Tischler, Brian Abrams
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R1,009
Discovery Miles 10 090
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This is the first manifesto for Health Humanities worldwide. It
sets out the context for this emergent and innovative field which
extends beyond Medical Humanities to advance the inclusion and
impact of the arts and humanities in healthcare, health and
well-being.
Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different
has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep
philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it
implies a fundamental commonality--and thus mutual
intelligibility--of human thought.We are now on the verge of
solving this problem. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by
the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers
have found that the similarities among languages are more profound
than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely
incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except
for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules
and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of
the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we
can understand the fundamental structure of all human language.
This is a landmark breakthrough both within linguistics, which will
herewith finally become a full-fledged science, and in our
understanding of the human mind.
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