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Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate
Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate

Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The result, Ronald Dworkin writes, is a deeply depressing political...

Mission Mars: India's Quest for the Red Planet (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
Mission Mars: India's Quest for the Red Planet (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

The objective of the book is to find an answer to the rationale behind the human quest for the Mars exploration. As a comprehensive assessment for this query is undertaken, it is realized that the basic question ‘Why Mars?’ seeks various responses from technological, economic and geopolitical to strategic perspectives. The book is...

Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments: IFIP TC 5 WG 5. 5 Sixth IFIP Working Conference
Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments: IFIP TC 5 WG 5. 5 Sixth IFIP Working Conference
Progress in collaborative networks continues showing a growing number of manifestations and has led to the acceptance of Collaborative Networks (CN) as a new scientific discipline.  Contributions to CN coming from multiple reference disciplines has been extensively investigated.  In fact developments in CN have benefited from...
Coping with Uncertainty: Modeling and Policy Issues
Coping with Uncertainty: Modeling and Policy Issues
Uncertainties and risks have always been, and will remain, present; both in everybody’s life and in policy making. This presence is not always recognized because humans tend to perceive the world in a deterministic way, and in most cases succeed in somehow dealing with uncertainties. However, ignoring uncertainties often results in serious...
High Performance Multimedia:A Reader on the Technological, Cultural and Economic Dynamics of Multimedia
High Performance Multimedia:A Reader on the Technological, Cultural and Economic Dynamics of Multimedia
The focus of High Performance Multimedia is on the ever expanding European e-content industry. Production, aggregation and distribution of that content are the starting points to any future development towards a flourishing industry sector of the third millennium. Nevertheless, in addition to the diffusion of knowledge throughout the industry,...
Biotechnology and Agricultural Development: Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-poor Farmers
Biotechnology and Agricultural Development: Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-poor Farmers

This book addresses the continuing controversy over the potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries. Supporters of the technology claim it offers one of the best hopes for increasing agricultural production and reducing rural poverty, while opponents see it as an untested intervention that will bring corporate...

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street

Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox's The Myth of the Rational Market is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk. The book brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance...

Fundamentals of Economics
Fundamentals of Economics

Based on the comprehensive two-semester text by the same authors, this version of Economics "boils down" the formal economic theories and concepts into their essential parts, emphasizing domestic and international applications and policy issues. Fundamentals of Economics is a concise but thorough survey of economics for instructors...

Wi-Fi Handbook: Building 802.11b Wireless Networks
Wi-Fi Handbook: Building 802.11b Wireless Networks

Detailing the design and deployment of 802.11b networks in every flavor and size, this working handbook delivers the hands-on expertise you need—complete with illustrative case studies. From one-cell home systems to global provider networks, Wi-Fi Handbook provides the A-Z facts, details, tips, and strategies you need to...

Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations
Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations
"In the near future, someone will build a better Enron–a legitimate company with the means and integrity to revolutionize markets. That person will want to use Corporate Aftershock as his business manual and had better hope that government regulators are reading it as well."

–Ross M. Miller, author, Paving Wall...

Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems: A Global Comparison (Health Care and Disease Management)
Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems: A Global Comparison (Health Care and Disease Management)

Written by a local health economics expert, each of the eight chapters in this timely handbook and ready reference describes the national healthcare system of a different industrialized country. In each case, the 4-5 specific policies with the highest impact on that respective country over the past 20-30 years are identified. In addition, the...

East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective: Current features and a vision for the future
East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective: Current features and a vision for the future

Plenty has been written about the political and economical aspects of regionalism, but the legal perspective has been neglected. East Asian Regionalism From a Legal Perspective is unique in synthesizing legal, economic and political analyses.

In the first part, the book investigates the current features of...

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