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This book covers the results of investigations into the mechanisms
and kinetics of thermal decompositions of solid and liquid
substances on the basis of thermochemical analyses of the
processes. In the framework of the proposed ideas, the main
features of these reactions are explained and many problems and
unusual phenomena, which have accumulated in this field, are
interpreted. New methods of TA measurement and calculation have
been developed, which permit the precision and accuracy of
determination of kinetic parameters to be increased substantially.
Reliable kinetic characteristics have been obtained and the
decomposition mechanisms for several tens of substances have been
interpreted. These include different classes of compounds:
crystalline hydrates, oxides, hydroxides, nitrides, azides,
nitrates, sulfates, carbonates and oxalates.
When it comes to conflict resolution, is an ounce of prevention
worth a pound of cure? Leading scholars lay out an analytical and
methodological framework for evaluating this question, and case
studies on global hotspots from Bosnia to Somalia, Rwanda,
Cambodia, and El Salvador (among others) put it to the test.
Ethnic conflict, one of the most serious and widespread problems
in the world today, can undermine efforts to promote political and
economic development, as well as political, economic, and social
justice. It can also lead to violence and open warfare, producing
horrifying levels of death and destruction. Although government
policies on ethnic issues often have profound effects on a country,
the subject has been neglected by most scholars and analysts.This
volume analyzes different policies governments have pursued in
their efforts to contend with the tensions inherent in multiethnic
societies. The book focuses on Asia and the Pacific, the most
populous and economically vibrant part of the world. The heart of
the book is a set of case studies of government policies in sixteen
countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Australia, New
Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Federated States
of Micronesia. The studies consider a wide range of political,
economic, educational, linguistic, and cultural policies, and how
these policies have evolved over time. Using a broad comparative
perspective to assess the effectiveness of different governmental
approaches, the authors offer policy recommendations that cut
across individual countries and regions.
This book examines the gender dimensions of a wide array of
national and international security challenges. The volume examines
gender dynamics in ten issue areas in both the traditional and
human security sub-fields: armed conflict, post-conflict,
terrorism, military organizations, movement of people, development,
environment, humanitarian emergencies, human rights, governance.
The contributions show how gender affects security and how security
problems affect gender issues. Each chapter also examines a common
set of key factors across the issue areas: obstacles to progress,
drivers of progress and long-term strategies for progress in the
21st century. The volume develops key scholarship on the gender
dimensions of security challenges and thereby provides a foundation
for improved strategies and policy directions going forward. The
lesson to be drawn from this study is clear: if scholars,
policymakers and citizens care about these issues, then they need
to think about both security and gender. This will be of much
interest to students of gender studies, security studies, human
security and International Relations in general.
The optimism that arrived at the end of the cold war and marked
the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. In the
aftermath of that event it is not unwarranted pessimism that lines
the pages of "Grave New World," it is unavoidable reality.
Terrorism is but one aspect of many other wider concerns for
national and international security, and the contributors to this
volume not only warn us, but reward us as well with the clarity of
their views into -- and possible solutions for -- a difficult,
complicated future. They speak convincingly of the numerous
military and non-military challenges that create security problems
-- whether those are interstate, intrastate, or transnational --
many of which are being dangerously overlooked in public policy
debates.
The challenges and complexities might seem insurmountable but
the first step in solving problems is recognizing that they exist.
"Grave New World" provides an eye-opening assessment of the
prospects for peace and security in the 21st century.
Michael E. Brown frames these issues in his Introduction,
"Security Challenges in the 21st Century;" and in his summation,
"Security Problems and Security Policy in a Grave New World."
When it comes to conflict resolution, is an ounce of prevention
worth a pound of cure? Leading scholars lay out an analytical and
methodological framework for evaluating this question, and case
studies on global hotspots from Bosnia to Somalia, Rwanda,
Cambodia, and El Salvador (among others) put it to the test.
Tracing the transformation of NATO in the aftermath of the Cold
War, this volume assesses NATO's current accomplishments,
continuing challenges and political pitfalls. International
scholars and policy-makers explore three key themes influencing
NATO's future: transatlantic relations, the debate over enlargement
and the organization's new functions. Weighing the fate of an
alliance poised for renewal or decline, the contributors offer
analysis and discussion of an organization that has changed
profoundly over the past five years and continues to evolve in the
face of an uncertain global environment.
This is Volume 5 of a Handbook that has been well-received by the
thermal analysis and calorimetry community. All chapters in all
five volumes are written by international experts in the subject.
The fifth volume covers recent advances in techniques and
applications that complement the earlier volumes. The chapters
refer wherever possible to earlier volumes, but each is complete in
itself. The latest recommendations on Nomenclature are also
included. Amongst the important new techniques that are covered are
micro-thermal analysis, pulsed thermal analysis, fast-scanning
calorimetery and the use of quartz-crystal microbalances. There are
detailed reviews of heating - stage spectroscopy, the range of
electrical techniques available, applications in rheology,
catalysis and the study of nanoparticles. The development and
application of isoconversional methods of kinetic analysis are
described and there are comprehensive chapters on the many facets
of thermochemistry and of measuring thermophysical properties.
Applications to inorganic and coordination chemistry are reviewed,
as are the latest applications in medical and dental sciences,
including the importance of polymorphism. The volume concludes with
a review of the use and importance of thermal analysis and
calorimetry in quality control.
* Updates and complements previous volumes
* Internationally recognized experts as authors
* Each chapter complete in itself
This book examines the gender dimensions of a wide array of
national and international security challenges. The volume examines
gender dynamics in ten issue areas in both the traditional and
human security sub-fields: armed conflict, post-conflict,
terrorism, military organizations, movement of people, development,
environment, humanitarian emergencies, human rights, governance.
The contributions show how gender affects security and how security
problems affect gender issues. Each chapter also examines a common
set of key factors across the issue areas: obstacles to progress,
drivers of progress and long-term strategies for progress in the
21st century. The volume develops key scholarship on the gender
dimensions of security challenges and thereby provides a foundation
for improved strategies and policy directions going forward. The
lesson to be drawn from this study is clear: if scholars,
policymakers and citizens care about these issues, then they need
to think about both security and gender. This will be of much
interest to students of gender studies, security studies, human
security and International Relations in general.
This book covers the results of investigations into the
mechanisms and kinetics of thermal decompositions of solid and
liquid substances on the basis of thermochemical analyses. The main
features of these reactions are explained and many problems and
unusual phenomena, which have accumulated in this field are
interpreted. New methods of TA measurement and calculation have
been developed, which permit the precision and accuracy of
determination of kinetic parameters to be increased
substantially.
The whole of Volume 22 is devoted to the kinetics and mechanisms of
the decomposition and interaction of inorganic solids, extended to
include metal carboxylates. After an introductory chapter on the
characteristic features of reactions in the solid phase,
experimental methods of investigation of solid reactions and the
measurement of reaction rates are reviewed in Chapter 2 and the
theory of solid state kinetics in Chapter 3. The reactions of
single substances, loosely grouped on the basis of a common anion
since it is this constituent which most frequently undergoes
breakdown, are discussed in Chapter 4, the sequence being
effectively that of increasing anion complexity. Chapter 5 covers
reactions between solids, and includes catalytic processes where
one solid component remains unchanged, double compound formation
and rate processes involving the interactions of more than three
crystalline phases. The final chapter summarises the general
conclusions drawn in the text of Chapter 2-5.
This pathbreaking collection of essays recasts the prevailing
conceptions of the historical roots and role of the U.S. Communist
Party and its social setting. The contributors focus on the
movement that formed around the party and the popular culture it
expressed, particularly in the period from 1930 to 1960. They look
at the impact of the party and its followers in the areas of
education, literature, and the arts, in the African-American
community, and on the women's and labor movements. In their
preface, the editors place the book in the context of the broader
critical examination of the history of the left in the United
States. By analyzing the historical reasons for the party's appeal
and its relationship to those outside its ranks, the volume
contributes to a fuller understanding of the broader societal
context within which all oppositional movements are formed.
Contributors (in order of appearance in book): Michael E. Brown,
Mark Naison, John Gerassi, Stephen Leberstein, Ellen Schrecker,
Rosalyn Baxandall, Roger Keeran, Gerald Horne, Annette T.
Rubinstein, Marvin E. Gettleman, Alan Wald, and Gil Green
(interviewed by Anders Stephanson).
In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis
of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines
the different disciplines that address human affairs--from
sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the
humanities in general--to understand their common ground. He probes
the ways in which we investigate the meaning of individuality in a
society for which individuals are not the agents of the activities
in which they participate, and he develops a critical method for
studying the relations among activities, objects, and situations.
The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social
Sciences restores the centrality of sociality to all disciplines
that provide for and depend on the social dimension of human life.
Ultimately, he establishes a theory of the unity of the human
sciences that will surely make readers rethink the current state
and future of theory in those fields for years to come.
In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis
of the state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines
the different disciplines that address human affairs--from
sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology to the
humanities in general--to understand their common ground. He probes
the ways in which we investigate the meaning of individuality in a
society for which individuals are not the agents of the activities
in which they participate, and he develops a critical method for
studying the relations among activities, objects, and situations.
The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social
Sciences restores the centrality of sociality to all disciplines
that provide for and depend on the social dimension of human life.
Ultimately, he establishes a theory of the unity of the human
sciences that will surely make readers rethink the current state
and future of theory in those fields for years to come.
Handbook of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Volume 1: Principles
and Practice describes the basic background information common to
thermal analysis and calorimetry in general. Thermodynamic and
kinetic principles are discussed along with the instrumentation and
methodology associated with thermoanalytical and calorimetric
techniques. The purpose is to collect the discussion of these
general principles and minimize redundancies in the subsequent
volumes that are concerned with the applications of these
principles and methods. More unique methods, which pertain to
specific processes or materials, are covered in later volumes.
During the Cold War, most international relations theorists and
strategic studies analysts paid little attention to ethnic and
other forms of communal conflict. Disregard for the importance of
ethnic and nationality issues in world affairs, always misguided so
far as the developing world was concerned, has been overtaken, in
stunning fashion, by recent events from Abkhazia to Zaire. The
essays in this volume advance our understanding of the causes of
ethnic and communal conflict, the regional and international
implications of such conflicts, and what the international
community can do to minimize the potential for instability and
violence. Drawn from recent issues of "Survival," they are
organized along thematic rather than regional lines, and will be
required reading for scholars, students, and policymakers
alike.
The contributors to the volume include Michael Brown on the
causes and implications of ethnic conflict, Anthony Smith on the
ethnic sources of nationalism, David Welsh on domestic politics and
ethnic conflict, Renee de Nevers on democratization and ethnic
conflict, and Pierre Hassner on nationalism and internationalism.
Jack Snyder writes on nationalism and the crisis of the post-Soviet
state, Barry Posen on the security dilemma and ethnic conflict,
Kathleen Newland on ethnic conflict and refugees, Jenonne Walker on
international mediation of ethnic conflicts, and Robert Cooper and
Mats Berdal on outside intervention in ethnic conflicts, Adam
Roberts discusses the U.N. and international security, and John
Chipman explores managing the politics of parochialism."
This is the second volume of a four volume set intended to describe
the techniques and applications of thermoanalytical and
calorimetric methods. The general techniques and methodology are
covered extensively in Volume 1, along with the fundamental
physicochemical background needed. Consequently the subsequent
volumes dwell on the applications of these powerful and versatile
methods, while assuming a familiarity with the techniques.
Volume 2 covers major areas of inorganic materials and some related
general topics, e.g., catalysis, geochemistry, and the preservation
of art. The chapters are written by established practitioners in
the field with the intent of presenting a sampling of the how
thermoanalytical and calorimetric methods have contributed to
progress in their respective areas. The chapters are not intended
as exhaustive reviews of the topics, but rather, to illustrate to
the readers what has been achieved and to encourage them to
consider extending these applications further into their domains of
interest.
- Provides an appreciation for how thermal methods can be applied
to inorganic materials and processes.
- Provides an insight into the versatility of thermal
methods.
- Shares the experiences of experts in a variety of different
fields.
- A valuable reference source covering a huge area of materials
coverage.
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