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International relations The global condition in late twentieth century
Frederic S.Pearson,Siyosatshunoslik fani, uning mavzusi. Siyosatning nazariyasi, -
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Post-communist monetary Problems: Lessons from the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Siyosatshunoslik fani, uning mavzusi. Siyosatning nazariyasi, -
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Human resource management
Raymond A. Noe, John R. Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart , Patrick M. Wright,Ijtimoiy va gumanitar fanlar, -
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Professional Selling. A consultative Approach
Karl F. Gretz, Steven R. Drozdeck, Walter J. Wiesenhutter,Adabiyot, -
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Introduction to Statistical Quality Control
Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University,Iqtisodiyot, -
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International relations The global condition in late twentieth century
Frederic S.Pearson,The book is written for active learners – those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. Learning and studying is an active process that requires a great deal of self-organization. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study. It will do so by offering a structured concept for learning about theories of International Relations, the application of which will be demonstrated in the book. The intention behind this concept is to enable students to subsequently apply the concept themselves when learning about theory and theories of International Relations. In an attempt to be as learner-oriented as possible, the book will offer advice and guidance on studying IR theory by integrating self-study instructions throughout the text. The book also requires readiness to look at phenomena from different perspectives, to critically question teaching and learning contents and to actively engage in critical debates and share knowledge. In order to meet these learning challenges adequately, readers should expect to set aside at least twice as much time for self-study as they will spend reading the book.
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The Politics of American Discontent
Gordon S. Black, Benjamin D. Black,The argument of the book might be logically presented as the following propositions: (1) Americans are highly critical of contemporary politics, cynically seeing the political parties and elected officials such as members of Congress as corrupt, ineffective, and unprincipled. (2) This popular view is accurate, because special interests control Congress, particularly through the campaign contributions of political action committees (PACs). We "have permitted ourselves to be lulled into complacency while our own officeholders accomplish what communism and fascism failed to achieve" (p. 57). (3) As a result, Congress fails to represent public opinion in its legislation. In particular, Congress disregards the public's desire for a balanced federal budget, a principle of "American democratic theory" (p. 60). (4) The victimized public cannot punish the corrupt Congress because of the absence of effective competition, reinforced by PAC contributions to incumbents. The media, "closely tied to the existing political parties and officeholders" (p. 162), share in this corruption. (5) However, discontented voters are showing increasing independence and are ready to support a new political party, representing the "radical moderates." United in its basic policies, this new party would have sufficient bargaining power in Congress to force the adoption of consensual legislation for the common good in such areas as health care, education, and welfare.
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Post-communist monetary Problems: Lessons from the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Rudiger Dornbusch,Taking stock of the "Post-communist monetary Problems:Lessons from" of the collapse of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe, this volume explores how these societies have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes. It focuses on the most important factors that have shaped the nature, speed, and sequence of transitional justice programs in the period spanning the revolutions that brought about the collapse of the communist dictatorships and the consolidation of new democratic regimes. Contributors explain why leaders made certain choices, discuss the challenges they faced, and explore the role of under-studied actors and grassroots strategies.
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Continuity and change Land and water use reforms in rural Uzbekistan
Коллектив.,This paper examines continuity and change in land and water use reforms in rural Uzbekistan since independence in 1991. It explores how agricultural structures established under the Soviet Union—including collective farming, state land ownership, and centralized irrigation systems—have shaped post-independence reforms.
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Platos Republic
G.M.A.Grube,In this course, we will explore Plato’s Republic (written in approximately 380 B.C.E.), which is the first, and arguably the most influential, work in the history of Western political philosophy. In it, Socrates, the hero of Plato’s dialogue, addresses such fundamental questions as: What is justice? What is the role of education in politics? Is censorship of music and literature ever justifiable? What sort of person should rule the state? Is it ever permissible for a ruler to lie to the citizens? Should citizens be allowed full freedom when it comes to sexual relationships and private property? Are all citizens equal before the law? Should women be given the same political opportunities as men? Should everyone have equal access to health care? Socrates’s answers to these and other questions will occasionally be shocking to modern ears, but they will always be thoughtprovoking.
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American Political Thought
Kenneth M. Dolbeare,This course will survey the history of political and social thought in the United States from the arrival of English speaking peoples until the present day through an exploration of writings, speeches, and letters. But like any survey of such an extensive period that encompasses such diverse literatures and possibilities, this course has been constructed from conscious choices in terms of what to include and exclude. For this semester, I have placed foremost the question of how the American political tradition has made its piece with merican economic history. While the most persistent American economic system has been capitalism, we will take pains to note the other systems which were present in early America, mercantilism and slavery, and we will be especially careful to denote how changes in the forms of American capitalism manifest themselves in American political arguments. We will also read authors who are often read for other purposes (say, Thoreau on nature and Betty Friedan on feminism) in terms of their encounter with capitalism and mass society. This course is also notable for what it leaves out or treats too minimally: race, gender, religion, immigration, the Civil War and Reconstruction, federalism, Imperialism, and foreign relations. These are conscious choices made because of the lack of time to achieve all goals and to shape a coherent narrative that reaches from the Founding to the present. No one regrets the neglect of these issues more than myself .
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Scarlet letter
N. Hawthorne,The Scarlet Letter is a classic novel set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts, exploring themes of sin, guilt, and redemption. The story follows Hester Prynne, a woman who bears an illegitimate child and is condemned to wear a scarlet “A” for adultery. Hawthorne examines the rigid moral codes of the Puritan society, the nature of public shaming, and the psychological and social consequences of sin. Through complex characters and rich symbolism, the novel addresses issues of identity, hypocrisy, and the conflict between individual conscience and societal expectations.
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Sociology
Richard T.Schaefer,Rajiv Gandhi University (formerly Arunachal University) is a premier institution for higher education in the state of Arunachal Pradesh and has completed twenty-five years of its existence. Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of the university on 4th February, 1984 at Rono Hills, where the present campus is located. Ever since its inception, the university has been trying to achieve excellence and fulfill the objectives as envisaged in the University Act. The university received academic recognition under Section 2(f) from the University Grants Commission on 28th March, 1985 and started functioning from 1st April, 1985. It got financial recognition under section 12-B of the UGC on 25th March, 1994. Since then Rajiv Gandhi University, (then Arunachal University) has carved a niche for itself in the educational scenario of the country following its selection as a University with potential for excellence by a high-level expert committee of the University Grants Commission from among universities in India. The University was converted into a Central University with effect from 9th April, 2007 as per notification of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
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The dynamics of mass communication
Dominick J.,He taught for four years at Queens College of the City University of New York before coming to the College ofJournalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia where, from 1980 to 1985, he served as head of the Radio-TV-Film Sequence. He currently serves as the college’s Director of Graduate Studies.
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The Speculative Strategist
Will Slatyer,This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative infor- mation in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the under- standing that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.
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Human resource management
Raymond A. Noe, John R. Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart , Patrick M. Wright,The focus of this book is to show how the management of human resources can help organizations gain a competitive advantage; that is, help them gain a competitive advantage over U.S. and foreign competitors. Managing human resources can help companies gain competitive advantage in many ways, such as (1) selecting employees who will be innovative, creative, and successful in performing their jobs; (2) preparing employees to work with new manufacturing and service technologies; and (3) rewarding good performance.
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The Financial System and the Economy
Maureen Burton,West Pocket parts and advance sheets are printed on recyclable paper and can be collected and recycled with newspapers. Staples do not have to be removed. Bound volumes can be recycled alter removing the cover. Production. Prepress, Printing and Binding bv West Publishing Company.
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Playing for keeps
Frederick G. Harmon,This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional services. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.
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A Primer on Organizational behavior
James L. Bowditch, Anthony F. Buono,A Primer on Organizational Behavior began its life as a series of chapter drafts which our students read during the first few weeks of the course. This initial reading was supplemented by brief lectures, discussions, experiential exercises, case analyses, research and applications oriented ar-ticles, and so forth. We found that not only did our students seem to benefit from this approach, but they preferred a variety of materials for the course instead of one text that attempted to do everything. Accordingly, we set about the task of writing this primer so that it could be used in conjunction with a reader, sets of journal articles, cases, exercises, experiential texts, or fieldwork. Additionally, we found that students who came into our Human Resource Management, Industrial Psychology, and Organization Development courses without the usual background in organizational behavior did well after reading the manuscript.
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Exhibit Marketing
Edward A. Chapman,The use of any trademark in this text does not vest in the author or publisher any trademark ownership rights in such trademarks, nor does the use of such trademarks imply any affiliation with or endorsement of this book by such owners.
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Professional Selling. A consultative Approach
Karl F. Gretz, Steven R. Drozdeck, Walter J. Wiesenhutter,This book appears to offer more activites for the instructor to use to enhance the chapter’s contents. This will greatly help the students to understand the concepts of each chapter. Written by the authors, the Instructor's Manual provides materials to make the job teaching the course easier and more fun.
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Multimedia network integration and management .
Larry L. , Ball.,The subject of multimedia is like the proverbial unicorn; that is, you hear a lot about it, but you hardly ever see one. The interest and relevance of multimedia to today's telecommunications network management problems is, first, that multimedia functions are not as concerned with the first 5 or 6 layers of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model as is the typical data communications system. Multimedia communications are a blend of interactive request and presentation qualities as well as transmission and/or storage qualities of the system. As a result, multimedia networks, and their coincident management, focus upon the higher layers, such as the applications layer, i.e., layer 7 of the OSI model. Second, multimedia networks lend themselves to restoration when frames of information are received in error, partly because the area of correct and incorrect responses is much less a matter of black and white than is the case with data networks. Third, multimedia networks must be made compatible with existing communications networks from an accounting traceability point of view.
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Economic Concepts: A Programmed Approach 10th Edición
Robert C., William Henry Pope,This textbook covers various aspects of economic study, including supply and demand. national income analysis, scarcity, price and revenue, and company competition. Specifically designed for shorter courses, this survey of economics has a two-fold goal: to focus on essential economic concepts and to make them interesting to students. To meet the first goal, the author has included only those topics which constitute the core of economic concepts. To meet the second, he has brought economic policy and theory to life, using real-world applications throughout.
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Introduction to Statistical Quality Control
Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University,This book is about the modern practice of statistical quality control. It provides comprehensive coverage of the subject from basic principles to state-of-the-art concepts and applications. The objective is to give the reader a sound under- standing of the principles and the basis for applying those principles in a wide variety of both product and nonproduct situations. While statistical techniques are used throughout, the book has a strong engineering and management orientation. Extensive knowledge of statistics is not a necessary prerequisite for using this book. Readers whose background includes a basic course in statistical methods will find the book easily accessible.
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Economics
J.Holton Wilson,William J. Baumol was born and raised in New York City. He received his undergraduate degree in economics with a minor in art from the City University of New York and his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. He taught at Princeton University for over forty years, and he is now at New York University where he is the director of the C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics. Professor Baumol has published over five hundred scholarly articles and more than twenty books that have been translated into a dozen languages. He has been president of four professional societies, including the American Economic Association. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Joint Council on Economic Education and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is married and has two children and two grandchildren. Besides courses in economics, Professor Baumol also taught wood sculpture at Princeton University. Alan S. Blinder was born in New York City and earned his A.B. at Princeton University, his M.Sc. at the London School of Economics, and his Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-all in economics. Since 1971, he has taught at Princeton University where he is now the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics. Professor Blinder chaired the department of economics from 1988 to 1990, and he is also the founder and director of Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies Professor Blinder is the author of ten books and scores of scholarly articles. He is currently a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and presidentelect of the Eastern Economic Association. Professor Blinder is married, has two sons, and currently lives in Washington, D.C.