The growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Asia-Pacific region greatly surpasses the world average. When the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is better realized, then the world’s largest free trade zone will be firmly established. It seems that this region has a very rosy outlook indeed; however, this region also faces a large number of serious problems such as: atomic energy in Japan, conflicts about East Asian regional integration, the decline of the Japanese Official Deve...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #5: April 2019Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink

Shaping American Telecommunications examines the technical, regulatory, and economic forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This volume is both an introduction to the basic technical, economic, and regulatory principles underlying telecommunications, and a detailed account of major events that have marked development of the sector in the United States. Beginning with the introduction of the telegraph and continuing through to current devel...

Disaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, including planning and preparedness of hospitals, emergency medical services, communication and IT tools for medical disaster response and psychosocial issues. It also covers the use of state-of the-a...

Innsbrucks architektonische Geschichte und Gegenwart entdecken: 9 Jahrhunderte, 264 Bauwerke, 300 ArchitektInnen. Vom Goldenen Dachl über die Triumphpforte, die Nordkettenbahn und die Bergiselschanze bis zum Haus der Musik - Innsbrucks abwechslungsreiche Architekturlandschaft lädt zum Entdecken ein! Der Architekturführer Innsbruck bietet erstmals einen Leitfaden durch die Architektur- und Stadtbaugeschichte der Alpenstadt und reicht vom römischen Lager Veldidena, der mittelalterlichen Mark...

Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years.This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides:· a biogr...

Throughout human history people have been driven from their homes by wars, unjust treatment, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The reality of forced migration is not new, nor is awareness of the suffering of the displaced a recent discovery. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that at the end of 2007 there were 67 million persons in the world who had been forcibly displaced from their homes—including more than 16 million people who had to flee across an international bor...

The new and fully revised second edition of Enduring Issues in Special Education is aimed at any course in the undergraduate or graduate special education curriculum that is wholly or partly devoted to a critical examination of current issues in special education. As we approach a decade since the original edition was published, the second edition includes an analysis of newly developed and historical issues written by leading experts in the field of education.The book’s o...

This unique book can help you change your approach to negotiation by learning key strategies and techniques from actual cases. The Book of Real World Negotiations shines a light on real world negotiation examples and cases, rather than discussing hypothetical scenarios. It reveals what is possible through preparation, persistence, creativity, and taking a strategic approach to your negotiations. Many of us enter negotiations with skepticism and without understanding how to truly n...

This textbook shows how to bring theoretical concepts from finance and econometrics to the data. Focusing on coding and data analysis with Python, we show how to conduct research in empirical finance from scratch. We start by introducing the concepts of tidy data and coding principles using pandas, numpy, and plotnine. Code is provided to prepare common open-source and proprietary financial data sources (CRSP, Compustat, Mergent FISD, TRACE) and organize them in a database. We reuse these ...

Florian Eder hat mit Pumuckl einen Weihnachtsbaum gekauft. Als sie ihn schmücken wollen, parkt plötzlich ein Umzugswagen im Innenhof: Ihr Nachbar, Herr Sorgichev, zieht um! Sorgichev will seinen gesamten Hausstand hinter sich lassen, was Flori ganz schön traurig macht. Herr Sorgichev versichert aber, dass er so oft er kann vorbeikommen wird, um im Hinterhof nach dem Rechten zu schauen. Und darin ist er gut beraten, denn Pumuckl hat in der Zwischenzeit auf der Suche nach glitzerndem Weihnac...