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States, Intergovernmental Relations, and Market Development: Comparing Capitalist Growth in Contemporary China and 19th Century United States (Governing China in the 21st Century)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book is a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional foundation of long-term economic growth from the perspective of state-market and central-local relations. The book argues that, in order to safeguard sustainable market development, it is necessary to centralize certain functions of the state to overcome local predatory...

The Future of Mobile Communications: Awaiting the Third Generation

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

The aim of this book is to investigate the prospects for mobile communications in the new millennium. In effect, this boils down to a key issue: Will the so-called third generation of mobile (alternatively, wireless or cellular) technology turn out to be a success or a failure? This is no minor issue since telecommunications is one of the...

Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

“From blogs to video games, from living rooms to internet café’s, from Africa to Canada, Growing up Online has it all. Transcending the hype and moral panic that typically pervade adult discourses about youth and media, the essays in this collection deconstruct the complexities of young people’s relationship with a...

Formal Software Development

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

This book is intended for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate computing students specializing in the field of software engineering. The text concentrates on the challenges that high integrity software development poses, and how formal methods can help meet these challenges.

Formal methods have long been advocated for the...

Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy: The Invisible Hand in the U.S. Marketplace of Ideas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book analyzes why we believe what we believe about politics, and how the answer affects the way democracy functions. It does so by applying social evolution theory to the relationship between the news media and politics, using the United States as its primary example. This includes a critical review and integration of...

The Elements of Style (4th Edition)

Pearson Education, 1999

You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This...

Operations Excellence: Smart Solutions for Business Success (International Management Knowledge)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Achieving operative excellence is an important endeavor for all companies – it is the golden path that leads to increased value over the long term.

By applying operative levers systematically and managing them correctly, companies are doing everything in their power to ensure that...

The EU’s Policy on the Integration of Migrants: A Case of Soft-Europeanization? (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book addresses a timely, yet largely overlooked, issue in political science: the integration of migrants in a multilevel polity. In a context characterised by the increasing salience of migration-related questions, and despite the gradual construction of a European Union immigration policy over the past two decades, no competence...

Language Structure, Variation and Change: The Case of Old Spanish Syntax

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking. Its analysis of both successful and failed changes demonstrates the degree of unpredictability...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 1: North America

Macmillan Technical, 1991

This volume covers the cultures of Canada, Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), and the United States of America. Greenland, although administratively linked to Denmark, is included here because its native inhabitants, the Inuit, are related culturally to the Inuit of Canada. For the same reason, the cultures of Hawaii are covered in the Oceania volume,...

Understanding and Writing Compilers: A Do It Yourself Guide (Macmillan Computer Science Series)

Scholium International, 1989

In the past compiler writers and designers seemed to form an elite group within computing science, set apart by their esoteric knowledge and their ability to produce large, important system programs which really worked. The admiration of the computing public, whether it was once deserved or not, is no longer merited now that the principles of...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South Asia

Macmillan Technical, 1992

Contemplation of the huge numbers of people now living in South Asia prompts me to point out that this volume deals with about 20 percent of the world's population (which stood at almost 5 billion in 1986, the year in which the population of South Asia passed the 1 billion mark). The rough geographic limits encompassing this mass of people and...

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