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The Balkan Crisis raged throughout Yugloslavia from 1991 to 1999, and has been compared to the holocaust in Nazi Germany during World War II. Yuglslavia's President, Slobodan Milosevic, enforced his...

In recent years the automotive industry has experienced significant changes due to the globalisation of its value chain. For the coordination of as big a supplier network as of the BMW Group, there...

Scholars suggest that writing is culture-embedded and L1 rhetorical norms and strategies transfer and influence L2 writing. The theoretical underpinnings behind this premise, on the other hand, have...

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are a bridge between two worlds, the capital markets at one end and the real estate sector on the other, leading to a unique risk/return profile. They bear...

The Invisible MovementAuthor: Leah FuscoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 30, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639073819ISBN-13:...

Although recent statistics have revealed an increase in the number of women in educational leadership positions, the number of females serving as secondary principals still lags proportionally behind...

The main aim of this book is to familiarize those who have never heard of IOSA with its basic idea and effects and to give a concise analysis of the IOSA Programme for those who are directly affected...

The war in Iraq 2003 is the most media-covered event in recent years. This war has been the centre of global attention, and the world media have covered this war prominently. The US administration...

Telecentres often are the only possibility to connect marginalised communities to the economical, cultural, political and technological centres of the country and the world. They enable human...

The Italian Diaspora in AustraliaAuthor: Antonio CasellaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 18, 2008Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"If the wind of changes blows, some build walls, others windmills!", this Asian proverb particularly affects me. As a child I have felt the changes the "Fall of the Wall" meant for many around me...

Mobile phones seem to have become a ubiquitous phenomenon of the societies of the industrialized nations in the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century. Even though Japan is not the leading...

Protecting journalists' sources confidentiality helps the press in fulfilling its watchdog function. Disclosing these sources in front of the courts of law serves the interests of the justice. This...

Women face a unique challenge as they enter jobs that have been traditionally held by men. Their stories can light the way for other women. The lessons that they have learned can be applied to all...

An understanding of the meaning of resilience assists us in making inferences as to why one individual reacts with psychological and physiological symptoms to an objectively minor incident when...

The Jury System in RussiaAuthor: Yury CheryachukinPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 11, 2008Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Increasingly it is argued that HIV/AIDS might threaten the internal and external security of severely affected societies due to its devastating impact on social, political, and economic variables...

Over the last decades there has been a growing interest in the Orthodox tradition and spirituality. The patristic roots and dialogue with contemporary philosophy and Western theology is the main...

This book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge crea-tion in the hospital sector. Knowledge continues to be a key factor for hospitals in recent institutional and competitive environment...

The Korean Internally-headed Relative Clause ConstructionAuthor: Jeongrae LeePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 28, 2008Number of Pages: 156 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This Study focuses on the dialog between Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and lays a unique groundwork for instructors in Discipline-Based Art Edu-cation (DBAE). Using two artists, rather than one, it...

The Leadership Role in Building Capacity for ExcellenceAuthor: Shyrl KennedyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 15, 2008Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The position of the international school head continues to be gender-stratified executive position in American international schools. Women are not only under-represented as international school...

According to incompatibilism, determinism precludes free will. Liber-tarians are incompatibilists who also believe in free will. Hence, they're committed to free will's requiring the falsity of...

The Limits of ConsociationalismAuthor: Adrien S. ElleboudtPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 24, 2008Number of Pages: 64 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The restorative remedy that Hannah Arendt proposed within the otherwise unpredictable realm of political life was the act of forgiveness. Arendt perceived forgiveness as an imported faculty, one that...

This brief book focuses on the Gothic elements that help to shape and define literature of the American South and on how these elements are incorporated into Southern literature through overt use of...

After Stephen King was presented with the National Book Award in 2003, many literary critics bemoaned the respected institution's decision to grant a writer of popular fiction such a prestigious...

This text explored gay male carers experience of caring for their part-ner, brother or friend who had HIV/AIDS. Through using pheno-menological methodology (van Manen, 1990), the day-to-day caring...

In Canada, Aboriginal women are over-represented in the legal system in comparison with their non-native counterparts. In fact, they are the most disproportionately represented segment of those who...