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In late 2000 the Australian Film Commission Documentary Online initiative commenced with a call for documentary projects that would explore the online environment in innovative, challenging and...

Taxation is one of the most protected areas of national sovereignty and therefore has great potential of causing obstructive effects on international trade activities. In this respect, the World...

Memory is not a thing that we call upon, it is an event that we experience. Each time we speak, we do not access a memory, but create a new memory - we compose a new memory event. Our memory is a...

This book studies Theodore Dreiser's autobiography of youth, por-traying a fascinating American novelist of the beginning 20th century. Dreiser's story is a true success story of a German immigrant...

The research work in this thesis involves an experimental and theore-tical investigation for difficult-to-machine materials. An experimental program was carried out to determine the cutting forces,...

After the Mexican, Asian, and Russian financial crisis, the phenomenon of contagion became increasingly important. Existing studies indicate that various explanations for the transmission of crises...

From time immemorial human beings migrated for many reasons. Theorists offered various explanations why they move from the place of their origin to another destination. Over the past centuries,...

The concept of social structure is widely recognized as one of the most fundamental ideas in the discipline of sociology. However, in this book the author argues that it still remains one of the most...

This thesis describes the process of assessment, development and implementation of knowledge management at a global automotive supplier. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part and a practical...

The author applies a socio-legal methodology to examine the appropriateness of 'less' regulation principle of free-market in the regulation of Nigeria telecommunications sector given the country's...

In the preschool years, children acquire the ability to understand what other people think and feel (Theory of Mind). They also become able to think and act much more flexibly. This book summarises...

William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), English economist and logician, was one of three men to simultaneously advance the socalled "marginal revolution." Jevons' work "The Theory of Political Economy"...

Therapists' Art and TraumaAuthor: Anita WackerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 02, 2008Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639017781ISBN-13:...

Influence of reproduction on thermoregulation, food intake and foraging strategies of free-ranging female and male Daubenton's bat, Myotis daubentonii. Balancing the energy demand of reproduction in...

This work contains an architectural exploration based on an analysis of the Ecological Footprint concept, and is designed to remedy the current state of ecological overshoot where humanity's...

This descriptive case study used both quantitative and qualitative methods to identify preferred thinking styles of women administrators who hold leadership positions in community colleges, and to...

FGM continues to be a vexing problem. Attention is drawn to a Kenyan community, Abagusii, in examining why painful, terrifying practices per-sists. The book reveals peoples'core values, philosophy of...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union has caused many conflicts of different types in the Caucasus region. Among them, the conflict in Nagorno- Karabakh turned out to be the most intractable dispute...

This House Would Ethically EngageAuthor: Crystal Lane SwiftPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 19, 2008Number of Pages: 224 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The nineteenth century was a time of fundamental changes in British society. The great Victorian writer Thomas Hardy reflects upon this time of transition by creating a setting for his regional...

Recent developments in Iran prove that the Azerbaijan is not only a state, and there are people who live outside of the Azerbaijan Repub-lic and consider themselves Azerbaijani. The debates over the...

This book establishes a comprehensive understanding of the role that shaft stiffness plays in executing a golf drive. A thorough set of experiments was conducted to answer explicit questions related...

Three Essays on Asset PricingAuthor: Yongli ZhangPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 17, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

A common theme in the analysis of the contemporary Chinese economy is that the Chinese state owned enterprises fail to operate efficiently because of ambiguous property rights, soft budget...

Three Essays on Stock Market AnomaliesAuthor: Ding DuPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2008Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Three Studies of Managerial DiscretionAuthor: Arran CazaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Oct 09, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Wars are the utlimate form of hostility, antagoism, and animosity. The Lebanese war was especially painful, devastating, and destructive. Lebanese people suffered tremendously during the 15 years of...

The problem of three-dimensional perception for mobile robots is divided into three major tasks: data acquisition, consistent and efficient representation, and semantic interpretation. For all three...

A Paleya is a type of historical and exegetical writing compiled by Byzantine and Orthodox Slavic authors, and in some redactions taking on a strong anti-Judaic polemic character. This research deals...

"Life is water dancing to the tune of macromolecules", stated Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, medicine Nobel Prize winner in 1937. Proteins can influence their hydration water dynamics and structure...