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This book examines the relationship between Islam and political culture in Pakistan in the four decades following its naissance. It assesses the validity of the argument that a polarity has emerged...

The police interview is one of the most important investigative tools that law enforcement has close at hand. The present work comprising three empirical studies and focusing on the police interviews...

Since the 1970s, the police response to family violence has been a major area of controversy, for researchers and practitioners alike. With the adoption of pro-arrest family violence policies...

Policing Performance Management SystemsAuthor: John GillespiePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 03, 2008Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

This book analyzes the formal and the informal structures of the Yemeni political system, in their constitutional, legal, and practical manifestations. The underpinning goal of such an endeavor is to...

This book examines political efficacy and youth non-voting in New Zealand. Drawing from focus group discussion and depth interviews with young New Zealanders, it compares and contrasts the attitudes...

This tome deals with the democratic transitions in Africa, drawing on the Ghanaian experience of re-democratization in 1992. Ghanaian politics underwent a most rapid process of transformation between...

Political Stability in GhanaAuthor: Thomas Maxwell AidooPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 13, 2008Number of Pages: 140 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Political Support and Language Choice of Tibetan Political CommunitiesAuthor: Yiyang HuPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 26, 2008Number of Pages: 56 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Social movements are not created in a vacuum. The nature of the political system in which social movements operate influences the strategies chosen by leaders. The question becomes why do some...

Reading science fiction was a favourite pastime for many young people in communist Romania, a taste that was not significantly developed before that. While the SF imported from the Soviet Union...

For the better part of three and one half centuries, the nation-state has been valued as the logical instrument of governance and citizen protection. The years following the end of the Cold War have...

Animal pollination of plants represents a critical ecosystem service of great value to humanity. Almost all flowering plant species of tropical rain forests are animal-pollinated and one-third of the...

Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Deep Southern OceanAuthor: Myriam Sch?lerPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 08, 2008Number of Pages: 220 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Polymer Choleristic Liquid Crystal FlakesAuthor: Anka Trajkovska PetkoskaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 04, 2008Number of Pages: 276 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Polynomials are a classical subject of mathematics. The first step towards the abstract concept of polynomials was the investigation of real and complex functions.During the last century studies on...

Popular TV and Cultural DiversityAuthor: Harvey MayPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 18, 2008Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Micro fuel cells based on porous silicon membranes are developed and characterized in this work and are demonstrated to be a promising candidate for powering portable electronic instruments. First,...

Portfolio Optimization and Option PricingAuthor: Martin KrekelPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Aug 18, 2008Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Four prominent portraitists were active in New York City between 1790 and 1825. Despite working in the same location, these artists had different training, developed distinct aesthetics, and often...

A rendering of poetic pedagogy is the heart of this book. The book is contextualized by conversations with nursing students and professors within the Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary,...

Possible SubversionsAuthor: Saara J?ttiPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 17, 2008Number of Pages: 108 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639047109ISBN-13:...

Tuksdorp was a post-graduate residence at the historically white University of Pretoria, South Africa. Over eleven years into a new epoch of non-racialism in South Africa, these students lived in...

Since the 1980s, the Brazilian Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) received attention due to its heterogeneous composition of social activists and innovative governing practices. By...

The present study explores a selected group of post- Soviet states and their de jure accommodation of the Russian-speaking minority residing on their territory. More specifically the study aims to...

Political, social and cultural changes brought about by the reforms undertaken in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, have been an object of extensive studies. However, the period's cinema - a key...

Postgenomic Studies of Candida AlbicansAuthor: Mikhail MartchenkoPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 03, 2008Number of Pages: 216 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Postural imbalance is common manifestation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and a frequent cause of significant disability. Proper evaluation and monotoring of its evolution can prove to be a valuable tool...

Propagation of functional or pathological ionic disturbances in biological systems plays an important role in normal regulatory mechanisms and in disease. For example, potassium diffusion in brain...

High-stakes standardized tests are often used as a way to enforce educational reforms that are aimed at improving teaching and learning, and to hold stakeholders accountable for student achievement...