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Fox hunting has been one of the most divisive issues among the British population in the past few years. On the first glance, the debate seems like an issue of rural versus urban ways of life, of...

The European red fox is recognised as one of the most devastating vertebrate pests in Australia causing significant impacts to biodiversity and agricultural production. Fox management strategies rely...

Fractal Fetishes is a philosophical investigation of the nature and organization of the system of information. The book argues that digital technologies have brought about the genesis of a world in...

Fragility Assessment of Non-Seismically Designed Steel FramesAuthor: Kursat KinaliPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 23, 2008Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The Unified Modeling Language has established as the standard language for the specification, design, and documentation of software systems. For some application domains, such as for the development...

Framing Death - The Use of Frames in Newspaper Coverage of and Press Releases about Death with DignityAuthor: Kyle J. HolodyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jan 14, 2008Number...

The field of conflict resolution is one of the main instruments for the management of social change. There are non-governmental organizations that practice conflict resolution in fractured...

Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the Nature of the Bacteriophage, 1924-1937Author: Neeraja SankaranPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Nov 11, 2008Number of Pages: 296 pagesBinding:...

Human nature has always been a mystery. Whether we are conducted by individual impulses or subject to a greater force called destiny? We have our assumptions but no one knows the answer indeed...

Thomas More finished writing his Utopia originally in Latin in 1516. This scholarly masterpiece describes an imaginary society in two se-parate books, together with its various social-political...

This study is centered on women and bicycles. The historical-archival analysis of primary and secondary sources reveals the patterns of discrimination of women, their disqualification from...

Human Rights Education is one of the most effective ways of preventing human rights violations. Yet human rights education in schools is still not commonplace. Paula Gerber analyses why this is so...

The existing explanations on the cause of developing countries' marginalization notwithstanding, there are, nonetheless, questions that remained unanswered. In this work the author finds empirical...

From Depression to AggressionAuthor: Josef A. PassleyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Sep 16, 2008Number of Pages: 120 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Real estate development involves many complex, dynamic, and uncertain elements. In the pre-development stage, greater uncertainties result from the fact that the space being considered has not yet...

When Latin-American drama professor Frank Dauster brought Mexican poet and playwright Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-1950) to the attention of the English-reading public in 1971, more than two decades had...

Australia has the highest proportion of overseas born immigrants of any Western country, with over 200 language backgrounds. This book examines how the working patterns of immigrant workers have...

Using the National Longitudinal Study for Adolescent Health (Add-Health) this study investigated six hypotheses assessing the relation-ship between adolescent body mass and self-esteem. Specifically,...

From Islamists to Muslim Democrats? deals with the transformation of Islamist movements in Egypt and Turkey against the background of thorough socio-economic and political change in both societies...

In a world characterised by unabated human migrations and movement, some of the questions that would be of concern to the inquiring mind would naturally be that of the nature and after-effects of the...

Following a bionic tradition, the book describes the design of an intelligent automation system by taking a prominent biological system as inspiration: the human mind, being capable of quickly...

In an age when U.S. policy makers appear obsessed with promoting democracy abroad, it is surprising how little citizens are equipped with an understanding of what is meant by the policy beyond the...

From Space to GrammarAuthor: Kyou-Dong AhnPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 25, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639053559ISBN-13:...

Due to concerns about resilience and performance, more and more stub networks in the Internet rely on multi-homing. Multi-homing consists in connecting a network to the Internet at different access...

'Front Feed' is a newly introduced term defined with this study. The new concept is used to explore whether determining employees' per-ceptions and priorities prior to the development of programs,...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the single largest cause of death and disability in western societies and poor diet is a significant risk factor in the pathogenesis of this disease. Despite...

German E-commerce is well-off; an average growth in revenue of 17% in the first half of 2005 implies much better market conditions than the traditional retail business has experienced. Nevertheless...

In this work I intend to explore the impacts of the Oriental and Wes-tern values, trends and views of life in E. E. Cummings's art. Consi-dering that he was an avant-garde poet and a Cubist painter,...

Future Strategies for HIV/AIDS PolicyAuthor: Katri Kemppainen-BertramPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Feb 19, 2008Number of Pages: 96 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The main purpose of this book is to find out those future trends which will deeply influence conference tourism and the research of appropriate marketing strategies. It compares Hong Kong and Vienna,...