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As global climate change and related issues become increasingly pressing for humanity, the search continues for ways to effectively cope with this crisis. One of the most controversial and...

This study examined the relationship between student-therapists' clinical experience and three therapeutic factors shown in the literature to be associated with client outcome - the therapy alliance,...

The Collapse of FederationsAuthor: Peter KorchnakPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 01, 2008Number of Pages: 68 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363903676XISBN-13:...

Nowadays firms accumulate large stocks of unexploited technologies that can be transformed into new sources of profits. However, the commercialization of intangible assets is a complex process...

Kazuo Ishiguro's book The Remains of the Day (1984) and its film adaptation's story is about a respectful British butler who travels across Britain in 1956. This journey is his first expedition in...

My objective is to deepen debate about the competitiveness of nations in a glo-bal knowledge-based economy. I first demonstrate the inadequacies of the Standard Model of economics, the last ideology...

This book analyses the characteristics of community participation in Cambodian rural schools. It looks at the spaces for participation created by the decentralisation reforms that the government of...

The component structure of random graphs - Phase transitions in random graphs and random graph processesAuthor: Taral Guldahl SeierstadPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Dec 24,...

Standard in surgical treatment of bone fractures is the use of metal im-plants, with well defined characteristics in stiffness and strength. New materials could however be used to create implants,...

Traditionally in Latin America the contrast between written and oral culture and between elite and popular culture has been strongly marked. This book considers theories regarding the elitist nature...

The Conflict Over Land Reform in Rural BrazilAuthor: Nicholas Coronel ViteriPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 19, 2008Number of Pages: 172 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The Conscious BrainAuthor: Johan ErikssonPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 16, 2008Number of Pages: 68 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639048059ISBN-13:...

The Construction Industry in Yemen and Economic SustainabilityAuthor: Basel SultanPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 30, 2008Number of Pages: 176 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book describes a parametric model that can help people reason about their decisions related to systems engineering. COSYSMO, the Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model, contains eighteen...

The Contemplative RiverAuthor: Damien Marie SavinoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 09, 2008Number of Pages: 292 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) and a special form of it, the participation in the Continuous Improvement Process (CIP), are prospective key factors and qualifications that differentiate a...

The Corporate Ethics Audit as a New Tool for Management by ValuesAuthor: Teresa BestePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 10, 2008Number of Pages: 84 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The corporate governance of subsidiaries in multinational groups of companies has become increasingly important for managers and researchers, particularly through the developments around classical...

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007Author: Lucas UllrichPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 09, 2008Number of Pages: 52 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

During the Holocaust, Jewish diarists wrote in order to create a record of events as they happened. In The Crisis of Imagination, Eryk Tahvonen argues that while these writers made every effort to...

There has been considerable analysis of the potential for spontaneous combustion of individual kegs of self-heating materials, such as cal-cium hypochlorite. However, when arrays of such kegs are...

Our world is confronted by a number of crises - global warming, entrenched poverty and military conflicts such as the 'war on terror'. While these crises appear disconnected, this study examines how...

The literary theory Literature as Cultural Ecology implies the notion that literature, in imaginatively bringing together various discourses, may release new potential for the extra-textual, cultural...

The death of the last Tudor monarch, Queen Elizabeth I, 24 March 1603, obviously inspired many of the contemporaries to record the last days or hours of the Virgin Queen. Although the after-ages tend...

Since it's remarkable rise from the ashes of WWII, the dollar has established itself as the international currency of choice. Supported by America's superpower status, its premier position appeared...

I was interested in fox hunting because it is fascinating how a blood sport could survive till 2005 in a country where the first animal wel-fare organisation was founded as early as 1824. The thesis...

The Demise of the NeandertalsAuthor: Robert SandslettPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 13, 2008Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The idea of the integration we live in today was born after World War II. At the outset of the European integration there were only six countries establishing the European Coal and Steel Community...

Since the seminal book by the Gang of Four, design patterns have proven an important tool in software development. Over time, more and more patterns have been discovered and developed for a plethora...

This research discusses constitution process and forecasting issue for Asian currency units (ACU) in terms of ten Asian countries including Japan, Indo-nesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea,...