This revised and updated edition is informed throughout by the application of Multiple Regression/Correlation (MRC) to the study of causality. MRC is seen here as a scientific rather than a technological tool - for understanding rather than blind "prediction". The presentation is non-mathematical and should be easy to grasp, with emphasis on ...
Focusses on significant events in the region, particularly the devastating earthquake in Kashmir and its after affects. This book observes how the catastrophic event has affected Pakistan's political, military, and economic structures, as well as its relationships with other countries.
This unique text integrates for the first time the three critical aspects of U.S. foreign trade policy formulation and implementation: economics, politics, and laws. In a comprehensive and nonjudgmental manner, a political scientist, an economist, and a legal scholar combine efforts to present a well-rounded view of the nature and impact of trade ...
Provides comprehensive coverage of the art and science of endodontics. Divided into three parts, the first part includes clinical subjects from diagnosis to filing and root canals. Part Two includes development, structure and function, histology, pathology, microbiology and immunology. The third part focuses on related clinical topics and features ...
The 9th edition has been completely updated to keep you absolutely current. And, major enhancements, such as superb new full-colour design and the incorporation of the latest evidence-based research for clinical treatments, make this the best Cohen ever! New information includes managing endodontic emergencies, orofacial pain, HIPAA regulations, ...
An examination fo Soviet Politics and History since 1917. 'This penetrating probe into the Soviet past offers the most illuminating analysis I know of choices and possibilities in the Soviet future.' Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
This vibrant new anthology brings readers closer than ever before possible to the plays of Shakespeare as they were first acted, inviting readers to rediscover the bard and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed--not as works to be immortalized. Illustrations. Woodcuts. Slipcase.
This unique volume gathers Weber's writings on a broad array of themes, from the nature of work, to the political culture of democracy, to the uniqueness of the West, to the character of the family and race relations, to the role of science and the fate of ethical action in the modern world. It gathers Weber's writings in a comprehensive ...
India is now one of the three major states of Asia, with six per cent annual growth and annual exports in excess of #30 billion. This book assesses India as a political and strategic power and argues that American policy needs to be adjusted to cope with a rising India.
An inside account of the events unfolding in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. In a series of interviews, 14 leaders of Gorbachev's reforms talk about their personal and political struggles to change the Soviet Union. They include the Politburo member often called Gorbachev's right-hand man; three other members of the powerful Central ...
Known as the "Little Train That Could", the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad has served as a major commercial and recreational transportation link for 90 years. The South Shore Line has reflected the triumphs and misfortunes of the Calumet Region throughout the 20th century. For its first two decades, it survived good times and bad ...
Gorbachev, dissidents, and Cold War perils are some of the topics discussed in this book that provides the historical context and informed analysis so often lacking in American commentary on Soviet affairs today.
An American Sovietologist critiques the history of American aid and support for Yeltsin's economic program, which he asserts has had a devastating effect on the Russian people. He assigns blame in several sectors (Washington, think tanks, the press) and counsels a realistic, large-scale effort to undo the harm and restore stability.
Since September 2001, the Western public has found a renewed interest in South Asia. On the border between the Muslim and non-Muslim world, the region has seen its strategic importance to the West heightened, while the fact that the two major competing regional powers, Pakistan and India, each possess nuclear weapons has raised new anxieties. ...
Fern dares Arthur and his friends to enter the poetry writing contest at the local library, but writing poems turns out to be harder than they thought.
Finite fields are algebraic structures in which there is much research interest and they have been shown to have a wide range of applications. These proceedings give a state-of-the-art account of the area of finite fields and their applications in communications (coding theory, cryptology), combinatorics, design theory, quasirandom points, ...
The integrating thesis of this study is the inevitability of heterogeneity in FDI and MNCs and, accordingly, the imperative of disaggregation. Nuance is too pervasive to permit many valid generalizations. This leads to a hardly earth-shattering, but surprisingly infrequently-offered conclusion that FDI, i.e. that any individual foreign-owned ...
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