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Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more...
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Physica
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2011-01-07
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This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-01-03
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Praise for Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions "Bruce Jansson's thoughtful and innovative book will appeal to students in social work, nursing, and public health as well as those working in the health field of practice....
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Wiley
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2010-12-16
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Globalization, the information age, and the rise of the knowledge-based economy are significantly transforming the way we acquire, disseminate, and transform knowledge. And, as a result, knowledge production is becoming closer and more directly linked to economic...
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Springer
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2010-12-16
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Looking at all sides of the globalization debate, this book analyzes how international economic policy is made and how it has become so controversial. The author offers a solution to the debate between free trade/unregulated markets and the push for greater government...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-22
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This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries. It provides rigorous empirical work on both trends and causal factors behind health inequality, analyzes the implications of health deprivations on poverty...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-17
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This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed more than 300 showpiece animals throughout Japan well before U.S. air strikes were anticipated, with international comparisons of the effects of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-14
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Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a...
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Oxford University Press
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2010-11-10
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The research underlying this volume was designed to test the theory of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in contemporary context. Developed by Nobel Prize-winning economist, Robert Solow, in the 1950s, TFP has been applied by many economists to investigate the...
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Springer
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2010-11-03
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Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-27
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Praise for Working with Female Offenders "Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and corrections, this book is a must-read for those working with girl and women offenders." —Meda Chesney-Lind,...
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Wiley
Parution :
2010-10-07
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Authoritative coverage of social work policy and practice from a global perspective In order for social and economic justice to flourish globally, a greater understanding of practice and policy efforts from around the world is essential for today's professional in the...
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Wiley
Parution :
2010-10-07
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Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions A Strengths-Based Approach "Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring of knowledge, from the theoretical to the clinical. The...
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Wiley
Parution :
2010-10-07
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Auch Erlebnis- und Kampfbilder beeinflussen Beschreibung und Deutung der ‘Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte’. Von einer theologienahen, selbstrechtfertigenden Erforschung des ‘Kirchenkampfes’ hin zu einer historisch-kritischen Rekonstruktion des protestantischen Milieus:...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-10-05
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Die Untersuchung unterzieht die Predigten und Hirtenbriefe Kardinal Clemens August Graf von Galens einer sprachlich-rhetorischen Analyse und beantwortet auf Grund dieser Analyse die Frage nach seinem Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Kernpunkt der Arbeit ist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-10-05
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Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain, Germany and the USA, this volume is a thorough examination of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-17
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Fiona Phillips is one of our best-loved television presenters. Well-known for being warm, chatty and down to earth, she attended her local comprehensive in Southampton before studying English in Birmingham. For over twelve years she presented GMTV, during which time she...
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Preface Digital
Parution :
2010-09-16
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Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two. Scholars interested in social citizenship have indirectly dealt with the interaction between...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-08-12
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Since the end of World War II, the Japanese economy has seen rapid changes and remarkable progress. It has also experienced a bubble economy and period of prolonged stagnation. The book seeks to address three major questions: What kind of changes have taken place in the...
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Springer
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2010-08-05
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Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer of Beijing. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. In this fascinating book, Steinfeld asserts that China's growth actually enhances Western...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-08-05
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