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30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Turns and Twists in Economies, Politics, and Societies in the Post-Communist Countries (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

The year 2019 marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin wall. This symbolic event led to German unification and the collapse of communist party rule in countries of the Soviet-led Eastern bloc. Since then, the post-communist countries of Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe have tied their post-communist transition to deep...

Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Why are an alarming number of Six Sigma projects failing? The answer has nothing to do with the technical and statistical tools of Six Sigma—it’s the soft side: lack of team skills, internal politics, and bad communication. Your organization can overcome these fatal problems with Rath & Strong’s Six Sigma Team...

Inside Greek U.: Fraternities, Sororities, and the Pursuit of Pleasure, Power, and Prestige

University Press of Kentucky, 2007

One in ten American college students joins a fraternity or sorority, and Greek social organizations produce a disproportionately large percentage of power brokers in business and politics. Statistics show that while these future leaders are on campus, they are much more likely than non-Greek students to engage in binge drinking and to be either the...

Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity)

Routledge, 2009

African American males occupy a historically unique social position, whether in school life, on the job, or within the context of dating, marriage and family. Often, their normal role expectations require that they perform feminized and hypermasculine roles simultaneously. This book focuses on how African American males experience...

Beginning Android

Apress, 2009

Learn how to develop applications for Android mobile devices using simple examples, ready to run with your copy of the SDK. Author and Android columnist, writer, developer, and community advocate Mark L Murphy shows you what you need to know to get started on programming Android applications–everything from crafting GUIs to...

Sons of Fortune (Archer, Jeffrey)

St Martin Press, 2003

"A master at mixing power, politics, and profit into fiction."-- Entertainment Weekly

"Archer is a master entertainer"--Time magazine

"Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages."--The Boston Globe

"Cunning plots, silken style... Archer...

Global Activism and Humanitarian Disarmament

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book analyses the politics of the humanitarian disarmament community?a loose coalition of activist and advocacy groups, humanitarian agencies and diplomats?who have successfully achieved international treaties banning landmines, cluster munitions and nuclear weapons, as well as restricting the global arms trade. Two campaigns have won Nobel...

Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Religion and Global Politics)

Oxford University Press, 2001

Over the course of the past two decades Islamism has exercised a growing influence on politics in Muslim countries from Morocco to Malaysia. In some instances this trend has led to regime change as in Iran and Sudan, but more often, it has ensconced Islamic norms, symbols, and rhetoric in the public sphere, and in the process,...

Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions (Global Political Sociology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This volume is the first to analyze populism’s international dimension: its impact on, and interaction with, foreign policy and international politics. The contributions to this volume engage conceptual theoretical issues and overarching questions such as the still under-specified concept of populism or the importance of leadership and the...

Enemy at the Water Cooler: Real-Life Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures

Syngress Publishing, 2006

Today's headlines are littered with news of identity thieves, organized cyber criminals, corporate espionage, nation-state threats and even terrorists. They represent the next wave of security threats but still possess nowhere near the devastating potential of the most insidious threat: the insider. This is not the bored 16 year-old hacker. We are...

Hashtag Publics: The Power and Politics of Discursive Networks (Digital Formations)

Peter Lang AG, 2015

This collection investigates the publics of the hashtag. Taking cues from critical public sphere theory, contributors are interested in publics that break beyond the mainstream – in other publics. They are interested in the kinds of publics that do politics in a way that is rough and emergent, flawed and messy, and ones in which new...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford Handbooks of Political Science)

Oxford University Press, 2006

Over its long lifetime, the phrase “political economy” has had many different meanings. For Adam Smith, political economy was the science of managing a nation’s resources so as to generate wealth. For Marx, it was how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes. For much of the twentieth century, the...

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