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The Geographic Imagination Of Modernity - Geography, Literature, And Philosophy In German Romanticism

by Chenxi Tang

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 This book is a study of the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought around 1800.
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Straight From The Heart - Gender, Intimacy, And The Cultural Production Of Shojo Manga

by Jennifer S. Prough

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 Examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga.
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Immigration Policy And The Labor Market - The German Experience And Lessons For Europe

by Holger Bonin, Holger Hinte, Klaus F. Zimmermann e Rene Fahr

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 German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the face of high unemployment and a shrinking labor force due to demographic change.
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Redesigning Society

by Russell Ackoff e Sheldon Rovin

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 Health care, education, welfare, law - the perceived success or failure of these social institutions is constantly being debated in the public arena. Here, Ackoff and Rovin join the discussion, using systems theory to develop new approaches to governance and civic leadership in general.
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The Wages Of Wins - Taking Measure Of The Many Myths In Modern Sport. Updated Edition

by David J. Berri, Martin B. Schmidt e Stacey L. Brook

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 The Wages of Wins is a proper analysis of the data generated by professional sports; it tells many tales that are inconsistent with the myths put forward by the media, industry, and consumers of professional sport.
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Service Encounters - Class, Gender, And The Market For Social Distinction In Urban China

by Amy Hanser

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 This book shows how department stores and marketplaces in China have become important sites where Chinese people understand, and perform, unequal social relations.
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Introduction To Criminal Justice - A Sociological Perspective

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 Approaches the theories, organization, and practices of criminal justice from a sociological perspective so that students can simultaneously develop expertise in criminal justice and understand how issues related to the police, courts, and corrections are informed by broader sociological principles and concepts.
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Culture And Management In The Americas

by Alfredo Behrens

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 Culture and Management in the Americas provides a different approach to enhance the effectiveness of management across cultures.
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Schooling Passions - Nation, History, And Language In Contemporary Western India

by Veronique Benei

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 This book explores how regional and national senses of belonging are produced and transmitted in elementary schools in western India.
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Stolen Honor - Stigmatizing Muslim Men In Berlin

by Katherine Pratt Ewing

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 An examination of Muslim men, focusing on the stereotypes and stigma these men face, the cultural roots of these prejudices, and the effect on assimilation and possible citizenship, through an ethnography of Turkish immigrants in Germany.
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Postcolonial Hospitality - The Immigrant As Guest

by Mireille Rosello

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 This title concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the 20th century.
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The Silicon Valley Edge - A Habitat For Innovation And Entrepreneurship

by Chong-Moon Lee

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 This volume examines the business, legal and social frameworks which have enabled Silicon Valley's success in promoting new technologies looking at what accounts for the Valley's leading edge in innovation and entrepreneurship?
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An Exemplary Citizen: Letters Of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932

by Charles W. Chesnutt

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 This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by the African-American novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). His correspondents included prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance as well as major American political figures Chesnutt sought to influence on behalf of his fellow African Americans.
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The Big Show In Bololand - The American Relief Expedition To Soviet Russia In The Famine Of 1921

by Bertrand M. Patenaude

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 When famine struck Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the US responded with a two-year relief mission that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives. The tale told here is largely derived from the diaries, memoirs and letters of the American participants.
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The Theory Of Demand For Health Insurance

by John A. Nyman

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 This text presents a theory of consumer demand for health insurance. It holds that people purchase insurance to obtain additional "income" when they become ill. In effect, insurance companies take premiums paid by those who remain relatively healthy and transfer them to the seriously ill.
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The Chinese Women'S Movement Between State And Market

by Ellen R. Judd

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 This work examines in detail how the women's movement in China strategy was developed and implemented in one village in the northern Chinese province of Shandong, exploring the multiple meanings of the discourse on quality and the creation of a uniquely Chinese gender-and-development policy.
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Foundations Of Stochastic Inventory Theory

by Evan Porteus

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 This book has a dual purposeâ€"serving as an advanced textbook designed to prepare doctoral students to do research on the mathematical foundations of inventory theory, and as a reference work for those already engaged in such research. All chapters conclude with exercises that either solidify or extend the concepts introduced.
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Cq - Developing Cultural Intelligence At Work

by Joo-Seng Tan, P. Christopher Earley e Soon Ang

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 This book helps a manager understand and assess personal cultural intelligence and how to leverage this capability in diverse work environments.
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Redefining The Corporation - Stakeholder Management And Organizational Wealth

by James E. Post, Lee E. Preston e Sybille Sachs

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 This volume presents a stakeholder view of the corporation in both theoretical and practical terms. Its central proposition is that organizational wealth is created or destroyed through a corporation's interactions with its stakeholders. Three major corporations are discussed, including Motorola.
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Russian-Eurasian Renaissance? - U.S. Trade And Investment In Russia And Eurasia

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 How might Russia and Eurasia attract private investment and trade from the West over the first decade of the 21st century, and what conditions in Russia and Eurasia may Western investors expect? This text surveys economic prospects for the region and assess its resources and institutions.
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Russian-Eurasian Renaissance? - U.S. Trade And Investment In Russia And Eurasia

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 How might Russia and Eurasia attract private investment and trade from the West over the first decade of the 21st century, and what conditions in Russia and Eurasia may Western investors expect? This text surveys economic prospects for the region and assess its resources and institutions.
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Puritan Conquistadors - Iberianizing The Atlantic, 1550-1700

by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra

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 The book demonstrates that a wider Pan-American perspective can upset the most cherished national narratives of the United States, for it maintains that the Puritan colonization of New England was as much a chivalric, crusading act of Reconquista (against the Devil) as was the Spanish conquest.
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Beyond Great Walls - Environment, Identity, And Development On The Chinese Grasslands Of Inner Mongolia

by Dee Mack Williams

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 An ethnographic study of a community of Mongolian herders who have been undergoing dramatic environmental and social transformations since 1980. It observes a remote region of modern China, documenting some of the unintended harmful consequences of decollectivization and economic development.
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The New Institutionalism In Sociology

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 This volume integrates two increasingly visible streams of research-economic sociology and new institutional economics-to better understand how ties among individuals and groups facilitate economic activity alongside and against the formal rules that regulate economic processes via government and law.
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