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Eighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy
remains about what his dictatorship represented. This reflects the
different sides to the Duce's leadership: while adept at nurturing
and enforcing his personal political power, Mussolini's lack of
insight into the requirements of governance prevented him from
converting this power into influence to achieve his goals. His
efforts to maintain the support of Italy's conservative
elites--economic, social and political--also created tensions with
his radical Fascist ambitions, diminishing the momentum behind his
regime. Mussolini is frequently portrayed as a charismatic leader,
but his rule was secured principally by coercion, violence and a
'spoils system'. Nonetheless, his personality cult had significant
popular appeal, even if based upon a political myth. This enabled
him to consolidate his position and to dominate his Fascist
colleagues--but at a price of over-centralised, dysfunctional
decision-making. In this book, the first comprehensive English-
language study of Mussolini in nearly two decades, Peter J.
Williamson brings to life the contradictions within the Duce's
leadership. Using a wide range of sources, Williamson reveals how
these conflicts impeded the dictator's ambitions, leaving him
increasingly frustrated, all while most Italians endured the severe
privations of both failure and Fascism.
Ever wish you could know the future?
Are you fearful of what is happening in your life?
Do you wonder about the problems and griefs you encounter?
Your spirit guide wants to help you on your journey through this
life. Through journaling you can learn to listen, find comfort in
your struggles, and peace in moving forward on your path. Read my
guides words to me and open your heart and mind to your spirit
guide. Your guide is there waiting ot connect with you.
Volume 1: Concepts, Methodology and Chemical Analysis. This
3-volume reference presents the latest findings in impact
assessment of recycled hazardous waste materials on surface and
ground waters. Topics covered include chemodynamics, toxicology,
modeling and information systems. The book serves as a practical
guide for the monitoring, design, management, or conduct of
environmental impact assessment. Each volume contains the table of
contents of all volumes.
Foundations of Bayesianism is an authoritative collection of
papers addressing the key challenges that face the Bayesian
interpretation of probability today.
Some of these papers seek to clarify the relationships between
Bayesian, causal and logical reasoning. Others consider the
application of Bayesianism to artificial intelligence, decision
theory, statistics and the philosophy of science and mathematics.
The volume includes important criticisms of Bayesian reasoning and
also gives an insight into some of the points of disagreement
amongst advocates of the Bayesian approach. The upshot is a
plethora of new problems and directions for Bayesians to
pursue.
The book will be of interest to graduate students or researchers
who wish to learn more about Bayesianism than can be provided by
introductory textbooks to the subject. Those involved with the
applications of Bayesian reasoning will find essential discussion
on the validity of Bayesianism and its limits, while philosophers
and others interested in pure reasoning will find new ideas on
normativity and the logic of belief.
To succeed in the face of disruptive competition, companies will
need to harness the power of a wide range of partners who can bring
different skills, experience, capacity, and their own networks to
the task. With the advent of new technologies, rapidly changing
customer needs, and emerging competitors, companies across more and
more industries are seeing their time-honored ways of making money
under threat. In this book, Arnoud De Meyer and Peter J. Williamson
explain how business can meet these challenges by building a large
and dynamic ecosystem of partners that reinforce, strengthen, and
encourage innovation in the face of ongoing disruption. While
traditional companies know how to assemble and manage supply
chains, leading the development of a vibrant ecosystem requires a
different set of capabilities. Ecosystem Edge illustrates how
executives need to leave notions of command and control behind in
favor of strategies that will attract partners, stimulate learning,
and promote the overall health of the network. To understand the
practical steps executives can take to achieve this, the authors
focus on eight core examples that cross industries and continents:
Alibaba Group, Amazon.com, ARM, athenahealth, Dassault Systèmes
S.E., The Guardian, Rolls-Royce, and Thomson Reuters. By following
the principles outlined in this book, leaders can learn how to
unlock rapid innovation, tap into new and original sources of
value, and practice organizational flexibility. As a result,
companies can gain the ecosystem edge, a key advantage in
responding to the challenges of disruption that business sees all
around it today.
Multinationals from Brazil, Russia, India and China, known as the
BRIC countries, are a new and powerful force in global competition
and are challenging the incumbency of much older global companies
from the developed world. Emerging market multinational enterprises
(EMNEs) now account for a quarter of foreign investment in the
world, are a prolific source of innovation and make almost one in
three cross-border acquisitions globally. Despite this, traditional
theories of international business do not provide a satisfactory
explanation of their behaviour or performance. The authors of this
book shine new light on the rise of the EMNEs and how they have
built a competitive advantage through innovation, novel
configurations of their international value chains and the
acquisition of companies overseas. Any manager, policy maker or
researcher who wishes to understand the emergence of this new breed
of multinational will find this book an invaluable resource.
Originally published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive
discussion of the concept of corporatism. It seeks to develop
models of the different types of corporatism against the background
of a general model. It represents a systematic attempt to clarify,
rather than simply discuss, the concept of corporatism in its
various usages. It examines the three varieties of corporatism: a
body of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prescriptive economic and
social thought; the practice of certain authoritarian regimes with
private ownership of the means of production and wage labour; and a
theoretical tool of analysis employed to study relations between
organised groups and the state in ostensibly liberal democracies.
It draws on a wide range of historical and contemporary writing on
the subject, and includes a detailed study of the ideas behind and
nature of corporatism in Fascist Italy and in Portugal under
Salazar and Caetano. The discussion of the varieties of corporatism
is clearly related to debates in the social sciences on its nature.
Biomagnetism is the study of magnetic fields that originate in
biological systems. This is a relatively new discipline that has
attracted considerable interest throughout the scientific commu-
ty. The study of biomagnetic fields requires the use of techniques
and concepts drawn from widely disparate scientific disciplines. To
make these techniques and concepts available to a wide spectrum of
the scientific community, a NATO Advanced study Institute on B-
magnetism was held near Frascati at Grottaferrata, Italy, in S-
tember 1982. This volume is based on the lectures delivered by
scholars representing many different scientific areas, ranging from
solid state physics to psychology. It attempts to preserve the -
herent development of concepts drawn from physiology, psychology,
biology, physics, medicine, occupational health and geology that
was evident during the Institute. The reader will quickly become
aware that the progress in biomagnetism over the past decade was
due principally to the efforts of interdisciplinary teams of sci-
tists. One of the purposes of this volume is to make all of the
basic principles and findings of biomagnetism available in one
place, so that scientists who have already embarked on the study of
biomagnetism or who plan to do so in the near future will have them
available for study and reference. Each section of this volume was
written by a recognized expert who lectured at the Institute on the
topics he describes here.
Foundations of Bayesianism is an authoritative collection of
papers addressing the key challenges that face the Bayesian
interpretation of probability today.
Some of these papers seek to clarify the relationships between
Bayesian, causal and logical reasoning. Others consider the
application of Bayesianism to artificial intelligence, decision
theory, statistics and the philosophy of science and mathematics.
The volume includes important criticisms of Bayesian reasoning and
also gives an insight into some of the points of disagreement
amongst advocates of the Bayesian approach. The upshot is a
plethora of new problems and directions for Bayesians to
pursue.
The book will be of interest to graduate students or researchers
who wish to learn more about Bayesianism than can be provided by
introductory textbooks to the subject. Those involved with the
applications of Bayesian reasoning will find essential discussion
on the validity of Bayesianism and its limits, while philosophers
and others interested in pure reasoning will find new ideas on
normativity and the logic of belief.
This volume celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first
application of superconducting mag- netic field sensors to
biomagnetism by providing a comprehensive survey of advances in
biomag- netic research worldwide. "Biomagnetism" is the
investigation of biological processes as reflected by accompanying
magnetic fields. It embraces basic and clinical research, as well
as applications in medicine and occupational health. The contents
of this book are the proceedings of the 7th Interna- tional
Conference on Biomagnetism, held from August 13 through 18, 1989,
at New York Univer- sity - in the heart of the Greenwich Village
area of Manhattan. Topics include studies of the brain, heart,
liver, lungs, muscle, tissue in vitro, advances in instrumentation,
development of theory, and related topics. Interdisciplinary in
emphasis, this presentation begins with a set of tutorials by five
outstand- ing professors: John Wikswo, Toivo Katila, Gian Luca
Romani, Gerhard Stroink, and Stephen Swithenby. These tutorials
were especially prepared to serve as an introduction for readers
who are relatively new to the subject. They are followed by three
presentations that mark the 20th anniver- sary of the first
application of a SQUID sensor to biomagnetism (the acronyn SQUID is
shorthand for superconducting quantum interference device).
Articles by James Zimmerman and Edgar Edel- sack look back to the
catalytic process that affected a marriage between Zimmerman's
SQUID and David Cohen's magnetically shielded room.
Volume 1: Concepts, Methodology and Chemical Analysis. This
3-volume reference presents the latest findings in impact
assessment of recycled hazardous waste materials on surface and
ground waters. Topics covered include chemodynamics, toxicology,
modeling and information systems. The book serves as a practical
guide for the monitoring, design, management, or conduct of
environmental impact assessment. Each volume contains the table of
contents of all volumes.
Multinationals from Brazil, Russia, India and China, known as the
BRIC countries, are a new and powerful force in global competition
and are challenging the incumbency of much older global companies
from the developed world. Emerging market multinational enterprises
(EMNEs) now account for a quarter of foreign investment in the
world, are a prolific source of innovation and make almost one in
three cross-border acquisitions globally. Despite this, traditional
theories of international business do not provide a satisfactory
explanation of their behaviour or performance. The authors of this
book shine new light on the rise of the EMNEs and how they have
built a competitive advantage through innovation, novel
configurations of their international value chains and the
acquisition of companies overseas. Any manager, policy maker or
researcher who wishes to understand the emergence of this new breed
of multinational will find this book an invaluable resource.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of financial markets for college level students.
Juniper berries, pinyon nuts, acorn meal, pickled nopalitos and
prickly pear jelly are a few of the high-priced wild desert foods
which hold prominent positions on the shelves of the specialty and
the gourmet shops. Wild Foods of the Desert offers the homemaker
and gourmet cook a galaxy of fresh ideas utilizing native desert
food. Protected plants that cannot be removed from the desert floor
without a permit are carefully noted in the text. Even these
plants, however, provide edible buds, flowers and fruits which may
be gathered without damage to their environment and without permit.
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