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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
We live in a three-dimensional world, but many of our learning
environments today offer few opportunities for three-dimensional
exploration. Spatial reasoning is also integral to everyday life,
in social studies, the arts, and geography as well as new careers
like computer animation. Navigating the 3-D World will help early
childhood teachers feel confident in implementing more mathematical
and spatial concepts into their rooms.
Institutional research (IR) is a growing, applied, and
interdisciplinary area that attracts people from a variety of
fields, including computer programmers, statisticians, and
administrators and faculty from every discipline to work in
archiving, analyzing, and reporting on all aspects of higher
education information systems. Cases on Institutional Research
Systems is a reference book for institutional research, appealing
to novice and expert IR professionals and the administrators and
policymakers that rely on their data. By presenting a variety of
institutional perspectives, the book depicts the challenges and
solutions to those in higher education administration, and state,
federal, and even international accreditation.
This edited volume critically examines the Responsibility to
Protect (R2P) as a guiding norm in international politics. After
NATO’s intervention in Libya, against the backdrop of civil wars
in Syria and Yemen, and because of the cynical support for R2P by
states such as Saudi Arabia, this norm is the subject of heavy
criticism. It seems that the R2P is just political rhetoric, an
instrument exploited by the powerful states. Hence, the R2P is
being challenged. At the same time, however, institutional
settings, normative discourses and contestation practices are
making it more robust. New understandings of responsibility and the
politics of protection are creating new normative spaces, patterns
of legitimacy, and norm entrepreneurs, thereby reinforcing the R2P.
This book’s goals are to discuss the R2P’s roots, institutional
framework, and evolution; to reveal its shortcomings and pitfalls;
and to explore how it is exploited by certain states. Further, it
elaborates on the R2P’s strength as a norm. Accordingly, the
contributions presented here discuss various ways in which the R2P
is being challenged or confirmed, or both at once. As the authors
demonstrate, these developments concern not only diplomatic
communication and political practices within international
institutions, but also to normative discourses. Furthermore, the
book includes chapters that reevaluate the R2P from a normative
standpoint, e.g. by proposing cosmopolitan standards as a guide for
states’ external behavior. Other contributors reassess the
historical evidence from U.N. negotiations on the R2P principle,
and the productive or restrictive role of institutions. Discussing
new issues relating to the R2P such as global and regional power
shifts or foreign policy, as well as the phenomenon of
authoritarian interventionism under the R2P umbrella, this book
will appeal to all IR scholars and students interested in
humanitarianism, norms, and power. By analyzing the status quo of
the R2P, it enriches and broadens the debate on what the R2P
currently is, and what it ought to be.
This book is a collection of papers given at the International
Conference "Levinas in Jerusalem" held at the Hebrew University in
May 2002. It gives an overview of the most fecund areas of research
in Levinas scholarship. The authors, world renowned scholars and
young promising ones, investigate Levinas 's relationship to
Bergson, Husserl and Heidegger; his conception of Justice and the
State; and his view of Aesthetics, Eros and the Feminine.
The author argues that a reconstruction of scientific laws should
give an account of laws relating phenomena to underlying mechanisms
generating them, as well as of laws relating this mechanism to its
inherent capacities. While contemporary philosophy of science deals
only with the former, the author provides the concept for the
reconstruction of scientific laws, where the knowledge of the
phenomena enables one to grasp the quantity of their cause. He then
provides the concepts for scientific laws dealing with the relation
of the quantity and quality of the cause underlying phenomena to
the quality and quantity of its capacities. Finally, he provides
concepts for scientific laws expressing how a certain cause, due to
the quantity and quality of its capacities, generates the
quantitative and qualitative determinations of its manifestations.
The book is intended for philosophers of science and philosophers
of social science, as well as for natural and social scientists.
The most difficult challenge for a terrorist organization
seeking to build a nuclear weapon or improvised nuclear device is
obtaining fissile material, either plutonium or highly enriched
uranium (HEU). Experts acknowledge that obtaining HEU, uranium that
has been processed to increase the proportion of the U-235 isotope
to over 20%, is the most difficult challenge facing a state or
non-state actor seeking to build a nuclear explosive. The large
stocks of HEU in civilian use, many not adequately protected, are
thus one of the greatest security risks facing the global community
at present. This book contains chapters examining the various uses
for this material and possible alternatives; the threat posed by
this material; the economic, political and strategic obstacles to
international efforts to end the use of HEU for commercial and
research purposes; as well as new national and international
measures that should be taken to further the elimination of
HEU.
This book was published as a special issue of The
Nonproliferation Review.
Providing a true integration of pathology with clinical management,
this volume presents a practical, comprehensive text on benign and
malignant disease of the adult bladder. Integrating pathology,
surgical management, oncology and molecular study in a
site-specific manner to include the urethra, urinary bladder,
ureter and renal pelvis, The Urinary Tract: A Comprehensive Guide
to Patient Diagnosis and Management is the first text in adult
bladder disease to closely interweave multiple clinical disciplines
into each chapter. For the majority of chapters, a pathologist and
urologist or urologic oncologist are paired to provide the greatest
integration of information for each disease process.
Filled with flavouring secrets that can make you everybody's
favourite home cook, this book shows how to add flair and variety
to daily meals and dress up basic dishes for sensational party and
holiday dinners. The authors present an inspired selection of 200
fast, simple, whip-up or chop-together concoctions that deliver
flavour with magical blends of condiments, spicy foods, savoury
herbs, and fresh fruits and vegetables. With additions for
everything from meats and pastas to salads and desserts, the
recipes include the authors' versions of traditional favourites as
well as exciting original taste combinations that will leave your
guests and family wondering how you did it-and clamouring for more.
Hansel and Jenkins offer tips on cooking methods and handling and
selection of ingredients such as different kinds of chillies, oils,
and flavoured vinegars. They show how to stock your pantry so that
you will be ready to throw together a flavourful complement to your
meal on the spur of the moment with ingredients you have on hand.
With tastes to turn any meal into a celebration, the book offers
over 20 ways to flavour chicken, 30 salsas to spice up
south-western foods, 30 unusual coleslaws to serve alongside
favourite dishes, and a dazzling variety of sauces, dressings,
glazes, rubs and marinades for every culinary purpose.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ranges amongst the
commonest diseases in the world. The relentless progression of the
disease causes a pressing need for a better understanding of and
therapies for COPD. This volume provides state-of-the-art
information on the pathophysiology of COPD including an outlook on
new therapies. It is of interest to researchers and clinicians in
academia as well as in the pharmaceutical industry.
This book, first published in 1984, is an effective guide to help
librarians develop a more systematic and effective approach to
dealing with overdues. The editors present statistical data on
overdues, as well as successful tactics employed by various
libraries to combat the persistent problem of overdue materials.
The development of the young brain after birth and the emergence of
cognitive capacities, mind, and individuality rest on the
maturation of a dense net of synaptic connections between neurons.
Memory Makes the Brain describes the dramatic, competitive
elimination of surplus synapses that occur in the young, maturing
brain - in a process called synaptic pruning that was discovered by
pediatric neurologist Peter Huttenlocher in the 1970's at the
University of Chicago. Explaining similarities between
developmental pruning and learning processes in the adult brain,
neurobiologist Christian Hansel offers a unique perspective on
brain adaptation and plasticity throughout lifetime, at times
weaving in personal accounts and memories. The cellular plasticity
machinery that enables learning is known to be affected in brain
developmental disorders such as autism. Memory Makes the Brain
explains how both maturation and adult synaptic plasticity are
deregulated in autism, and how we begin to trace back
autism-typical behavioral abnormalities to such synaptopathies.
Examined from a non-Western lens, the standard International
Relations (IR) and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) approaches are
ill-adapted because of some Eurocentric and conceptual biases.
These biases partly stem from: first, the dearth of analyses
focusing on non-Western cases; second, the primacy of Western-born
concepts and method in the two disciplines. That is what this book
seeks to redress. Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy draws together
the study of contemporary Indian foreign policy and the methods and
theories used by FPA and IR, while simultaneously contributing to a
growing reflection on how to theorise a non-Western case. Its
chapters offer a refreshing perspective by combining different sets
of theories, empirical analyses, historical perspectives and
insights from area studies. Empirically, chapters deal with
different issues as well as varied bilateral relations and
institutional settings. Conceptually, however, they ask similar
questions about what is unique about Indian foreign policy and how
to study it. The chapters also compel us to reconsider the meaning
and boundary conditions of concepts (e.g. coalition government,
strategic culture and sovereignty) in a non-Western context. This
book will appeal to both specialists and students of Indian foreign
policy and International Relations Theory.
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