Recent legislative battles over healthcare reform, the federal budget, and other prominent issues have given rise to widespread demands for the abolition or reform of the filibuster in the US Senate.
This collection of writings by scholars and practitioners in the field of organizational change and development focuses on subjects of new research in the field. Employing a combination of theory and
Culture - broadly defined as all we learn from others that endures for long enough to generate customs and traditions - shapes vast swathes of our lives and has allowed the human species to dominate t
Humanism is considered by many to be the foundation for the values and practices of counseling. This book explores and presents current counseling issues from a humanistic perspective, providing a val
This volume includes papers by an international and diverse set of authors including Michael Beer, Victor Friedman, Luiz Gomez & Donna Ballard, Ethan Berstein & Frank Barrett, Karen Jansen &am
Early modern Central Europe was the continent's most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe's most re
This volume contains nine papers that address cutting edge challenges in organizational change, report the results of change-related research, and advocate methodological advances in the field. Papers
An up-to-date compilation of the development of non-teleost fishes has so far been unavailable. These fishes include the jawless fishes (hagfish and lampreys), the cartilaginous fishes (sharks, rays,
Magrab, Satyandra K. Gupta, R. Patrick McCluskey, and Peter A. Sandborn (all mechanical engineering, U. of Maryland-College Park) explain the team method they call IP2D2 for short, and how it can incr
Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment analyzes the changing economic and demographic environment in which social insurance programs that benefit elderly households will operate.? It also ex
The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of ‘nature’ and ‘the natural’ are understood and the relevance of those understandings to discussions of biotechnology.Volume
For psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses, policy makers, graduate students, and others, Dodge (public policy studies and psychology and neuroscience, Duke U.) and Coleman (law, Duke U.) a
This set of extensive tutorial reviews and lectures focuses on the semi-classical and quantum aspects of percolation methods and their application to breakdown phenomena in disordered composite or gra
This book reviews recent work in the fields of mathematical modeling, computation, and optimization, and examines applications of several mathematical models to problems in statistics, games, optimiza
"Research in Organizational Change and Development" is an annual publication devoted to thoughtful studies and ground breaking theoretical work dealing with the topic of change in organizational setti
This volume a first-ever effort, will broaden our understanding of middle grades schooling internationally by critically examining the education of young adolescents in 14 different countries. Rather
Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient
By age 16, significant – one might even say “alarming” – numbers of students are demonstrating signs of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Students with PTSD are more likely to develop a range of p
This volume analyzes concepts of nature and ??~the natural' in discussions of biotechnology with four broad concerns in mind. First, it surveys the recent history of biotechnology debates and identif
Focuses on issues related to the nature of young adolescence and the intersection of young adolescence with middle level schooling. This work includes manuscripts that present the perspectives of stud
Building upon the strengths of the popular reference, Cancer in the Elderly, this guide outlines novel approaches in the identification and management of cancer in geriatric populations by world-renow
Leftheris and three other Greek scholars have worked together for over a decade on complicated structural analysis problems in civil and mechanical engineering in Europe and North America. Here they e
Currently, there are a limited amount of guidelines to help clinicians manage patients with obesity and comorbid mental disorders. This expertly written source fills the gap in the literature by prov
With contributions mostly written by Australian university-affiliated tourism and economics experts, this volume's 12 essays address the problems and issues raised by contemporary tourism including th
Preparing today??Ts children for tomorrow??Ts technology! The computing fundamentals program designed to prepare elementary students for a future using technology.
Preparing today??Ts children for tomorrow??Ts technology! The computing fundamentals program designed to prepare elementary students for a future using technology.
The correspondence of Erasmus has never been completely translated into English, although it has long been acknowledged to be one of the most illuminating sources for the history of northern humanism
Of all the skills first- and second-year medical students are expected to cultivate during their training, the one that may not receive the attention it deserves is how to establish effective physici
This Festschrift offers a range of essays in ancient Greek and Roman history, mirroring the diverse abilities of the honoree, A. J. Graham. Topics include colonization, constitutional history, and mil
"Social Capital is an important crtique that should stimulate further analysis and dicussion of what constitutes community." ? New Political Science "The reader emerges with a good sense of the gaps i
It’s been more than a hundred years since the publication of the first Uncle Remus book, and it was in 1955 that all of the delightful and inimitable tales of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, and Bre
Leading commentators on Europe and the Middle East explore many of the key issues which have informed the relationship between the two regions. Ranging from Europe's colonial legacies to an uncertain
Focusing on labour relations and unions, this title is part of a series that considers the theoretical, methodological and research issues relevant to organizational sociology. It emphasizes on both m
The first textbook on the subject, this is a practical, clinically comprehensive guide to ethical issues in surgical practice, research, and education written by some of the most prominent figures in
Recent advances in radiation oncology have depended upon and are intertwined with subsequent scientific discoveries and the development of new techniques in the fields of radiation and molecular bi
"Vladimir Vernadsky was a brilliant and prescient scholar-a true scientific visionary who saw the deep connections between life on Earth and the rest of the planet and understood the profound implicat
