In the mid 1990s, the widespread adoption of the web browser led to a rapid commercialization of the Internet. In addition, initial success stories were reported from companies that learned how to create an effective direct marketing channel selling tangible products to consumers directly with the World Wide Web. By the end of the 1990s, the next revolution began called business-to-business electronic commerce. Business to Business Electronic Commerce will provide researchers and practitioners alike with a source of knowledge related to this emerging area of business. The audience for this book includes students, scholars, researchers and practitioners. Any currently engaged in the utilization and management of electronic commerce technologies will be interested in Business to Business Electronic Commerce to learn about the latest issues and challenges facing businesses throughout the world.

This book examines the ways in which nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) contribute to the development and maintenance of global civil society. Basing his argument on the contention that "people make politics," the author investigates eight NGOs and connects their organizational activities to global civil society's dynamics and processes. In constructing an analytical framework for understanding global civil society, the author reviews traditional understandings of civil society, integrates these with a classical theoretical approach that places people at the center of world politics, and conceptualizes global civil society in terms of three elemental characteristics: dynamism, inclusiveness, and cognizance. This framework is then used to present case studies that evaluate the roles of the Internet and of environmental and development NGOs in an age of globalization. Visit the author's Web site for this book.

The history of science discipline is contributing valuable knowledge of the culture of soil understanding, of the conditions in society that fostered the ideas, and of why they developed in certain ways. This book is about the progressive "footprints" made by scientists in the soil. It contains chapters chosen from important topics in the development of soil science, and tells the story of the people and the exciting ideas that contributed to our present understanding of soils. Initiated by discussions within the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences, this book uniquely illustrates the significance of soils to our society.
It is planned for soils students, for various scientific disciplines, and for members of the public who show an increasing interest in soil. This book allows us to answer the questions: "How do we know what we know about soils?" and "How did one step or idea lead to the next one?"
The chapters are written by an international group of authors, each with special interests, bound together by the central theme of soils and how we came to our present understanding of soils. Each concentrate on soil knowledge in the western world and draw primarily on written accounts available in English and European languages. Academics, graduate students, researchers and practitioners will gain new insights from these studies of how ideas in soil science and understanding of uses of soils developed.
* Discusses tracing soils knowledge accumulated from Roman times, first by soil users and after 1800s by scientists
* Offers ideas about how soils knowledge was influenced by the social context and by human needs
* Combines the historyof ideas with scientific knowledge of soils
* Written by chapter authors who combine subject matter expertise with knowledge of practical soil uses, and provide numerous references for further study of the relevant literature

Although first reported in 1973, immune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) remains one of the most frequent and devastating adverse drug reactions encountered by physicians. This thoroughly updated fifth edition from international experts Professors Warkentin and Greinacher is the gold standard for accurate diagnosis and management of this condition. Identifying key signs and symptoms and providing clear intervention strategies-including the use of alternative anticoagulants to manage critical circumstances-this is an essential resource for all clinicians and a "must" for hematology consultants. Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia, Fifth Edition explores: * Clinical and laboratory studies on HIT * The immune basis and pathogenesis, animal models, and laboratory testing for HIT antibodies * Clinical features, differential diagnosis, scoring systems, and frequency of HIT in diverse clinical settings, including pediatric patients * Evidence-based guidelines for recognition, treatment, and prevention * Actions that should and should not be taken after the identification of HIT * Traditional and novel pharmacotherapies, current dosing guidelines, and the advantages and limitations of alternative anticoagulants * Selection criteria from a variety of new treatment options, helping physicians determine which of these agents are safe and effective for their patients

The volume Rare Earth Elements C 11 deals with the compounds and systems of the rare earth elements with boron, i.e. borides, borates, and associated alkali double compounds. As in all earlier volumes of "Rare Earth Elements" Series C (Seltenerdelemente Reihe C) comparative data are presented in sections preceding treatment of the individual compounds and systems. Topics of the present volume C 11 a are the comparative data on the borides and the individual sections on the systems and borides containing Sc, Y, and La. The individual sections for the systems and borides with Ce to Lu can be found in the following volume C 11 b together with the borates, its alkali double compounds and other compounds containing Ce to Lu, boron and elements related by the Gmelin system. The most extensively studied borides treated in the comparative sections are of the type MB6. These rare earth hexaborides are refractory compounds and some of them, especially LaB6, are good thermionic emissive materials or exhibit other interesting physical properties. The most comprehensive chapter in the individual sections of volume C 11 a deals with LaB6, which is a well-known thermionic material of great practical importance with high electron emission efficiency and an excellent stability in the surface composition at high temperatures. The effects of preparation conditions, composition, temperature, surface structures, surface treatment, and of the atmosphere on the thermionic emission are studied thoroughly. Another important item of the LaB6 chapter is the electronic structure, which often serves as an example for the other rare earth hexaborides.

First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers, Exploration Literature is an entry point for both the casual reader and the student of Canadian literature into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography and the literary fundamentals of new nationhood.

In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English soldier changes the lives of a cast of ruthlessly observed characters. Duncan, who grew up in Ontario, led a remarkably varied life, working as a political correspondent (writing for the Washington Post, the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Star) and living in India for over twenty years. She is increasingly being regarded as deserving of a place among the first rank of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelists; the re-publication of Set in Authority will do nothing to dispel that view.

Das Buch beschaftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund der biologischen Evolution mit den Risiken der menschlichen Geburt. Es wird gezeigt, welche Bedeutung die Geburt fur die Entwicklung des Menschen und seiner geistigen Fahigkeiten hat. Dabei finden auch Phanomene wie die Begrenzung der weiblichen Fruchtbarkeitsphase und die psychophysische Akzeleration eine Erklarung. Die moderne Geburtshilfe hat wesentlich dazu beigetragen, dass immer groessere Kinder geboren werden koennen. Innerhalb weniger Generationen konnten sich so genetische Anlagen ausbreiten, die sich fruher aufgrund des Missverhaltnisses von Geburtskanal und kindlichem Kopfumfang selbst eliminiert haben. Dennoch bleibt der Mensch als biologisches Wesen evolutionaren Gesetzmassigkeiten unterworfen.