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Citizenship has been a deeply problematic notion since T. H. Marshall argued, in Citizenship and Social Class (1950), that even though national citizenship formally confers equal status to all...

Many scholars have discussed the ways in which former East and West Germany are not reuniting, but how the wall in people's minds remains while the remnants of the actual wall have long been...

While scholars have analyzed the masculinity crisis portrayed in American fiction, few have focused on postmodernist fiction, few have examined masculinity without using feminist theory, and no...

Bede? Eclesiastical HistoryAuthor: Alen NovalijaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 12, 2008Number of Pages: 60 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639070747ISBN-13:...

This thesis will explore the regulation of beer supply agreements under EC competition law. The paper includes an introduction to the regulation of vertical restraints under the EC competition law,...

California's natural environment evolved with fire, both lightning-based and anthropogenic. The pre-settlement Native American's pattern of burning managed for vegetation and wildlife as well as...

Since the 1970s, there has been resurgence in the practice of spiritual direction. A significant number of people worldwide are discerning their call to this work. Now, a few decades later, there are...

In many senses, today's complex software systems are very similar to a live organism. This motivates us to study software by investigating its behavior. While traditional modular-based analysis...

The European standards EN 199x, the so-called Eurocodes, permit for the dimensioning of structural elements in case of fire besides the conservative methods (prescriptive rules), alternative ways of...

Generating good signatures for the current anti-spyware toolkits and deploying them in a timely fashion is a demanding task. Even if the signatures are up-to-date, signature based detection...

Behavioral Finance and Market AnomaliesAuthor: Michael SchoenhartPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 02, 2008Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

In the last few decades, children adopted from Romania, some of whom were institutionalized, have been touted as examples of how deprivation can affect attachment. Attachment Theory has often been...

The number of hens kept in aviaries is increasing steadily. A question unanswered so far is: Do aviaries fulfil the hens behavioural priorities? In a literature review (chapter 1: social and resting...

Behind the Gilded EdgeAuthor: Naomi CravenPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 05, 2008Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639077423ISBN-13:...

This book, based on a doctoral thesis, is an attempt to give voice to a group of Montessori teachers by getting them to reflect on their lives and work. Data exploration based on journals, interviews...

When debating upon how to react to new styles of warfare in the 21st century, scholars and political leaders often invoke the language of the just war doctrine. However, while terms such as "last...

The psychology of music has been given much academic attention from a range of disciplines, spanning Anthropology, Musicology, Psychology, and Psychoacoustics. Their investigations have provided a...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is considered to be the fastest methodology to be used in order to improve business process in a current fast-changing environment. BPR attempts to achieve...

In recent years bent-core (BC) liquid crystals have begun to mature into a relevant subfield of research. The shape and symmetry of BC molecules offers a wealth of new questions not presented by...

Betty Friedan's FeminismAuthor: Alexandra Zsupp?Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 27, 2008Number of Pages: 64 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639016742ISBN-13:...

International project-based learning is a promising educational method to overcome the challenges of the 21st century for the higher education of students in the field of information and...

During the last decade stock markets have witnessed several financial crises. As a result of increasing market integration, even financial distress in a minor market is presently capable of shaking...

While much has been written on how political structures, institutional factors, and economic shocks constrain and shape the formulation and implementation of new policy ideas, this book brings to the...

Cultural appropriation or "theft" is a point of contention among scholars and performers. When American performance artists use non-Western cultural elements-such as music, dance, or material...

Jean-Luc Nancy is known to be one of the principal contributors to postmodern theory of community. This book examines Nancy's con-cept of community as it is presented in his two books "The Sense of...

Magical Realism, recognized for years as a valid genre in literature studies, till now has dealt in discussions of binarism, bringing magic and real together in such a way that distinguishing between...

One of the purposes of China's fertility policy is to improve child wellbeing. Twenty-eight years after the onset of the policy, however, it is unclear whether it has achieved this goal. This work...

In order to obtain an acceptable quality of filtering services in real time conditions a trade-off between relevance of results and response time has to be addressed while searching for needed...

Beyond Deadlines and Head CountsAuthor: Michelle MoriarityPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Dec 17, 2007Number of Pages: 112 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

A new paradigm in ecological design calls for transforming out-moded development patterns into more sustainable communities supporting healthier, pedestrian-oriented lifestyles. Proponents of smart...