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"This book covers the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790 to World War I. The Coast Guard has historically served with or under the U.S. Navy in national defense missions. The naval period surveys the evolution of wooden hulled, wind powered sailing ships to fuel powered iron hulled vessels. The historical geography is illustrated with maps"--

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Concepts, evolution and policy points -- chapter 3 Cross-border deals: extent, nature and structure -- chapter 4 M&As and technological performance -- chapter 5 Production efficiency of firms with mergers and acquisitions -- chapter 6 Mergers, competition and concentration -- chapter 7 The post-merger integration: some ignored dimensions -- chapter 8 Conclusions and policy inferences.

The rise of smartland Korea -- Evolution of smartphone technologies: putting smarts into the phone -- Neoliberal transformation of the mobile telecommunications systems -- Mobile communication, globalization, and technological hegemony -- App economy in the digital platform era -- From digital divide to digital inclusion in the smartphone era -- Transformative mobile game culture on the smartphone -- Reimagining smartphones: Kakao Talk and youth culture -- Beyond smartland Korea

In 'Appalachian Dance', Susan Eike Spalding employs 25 years' worth of rich interviews with black and white Virginians, Tennesseeans and Kentuckians to explore the evolution and social uses of dance practices in each region. Spalding analyzes how issues as disparate as industrialization around coal, race relations and the 1970s folk revival profoundly influenced freestyle clogging and other dance forms

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prelude: Myth and the Planetary -- 1. Sociocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary -- 2. Species Evolution and Cultural Creativity -- 3. Creativity and the Scars of Being -- 4. Distributed Agencies and Bumpy Temporalities -- 5. The Politics of Swarming and the General Strike -- 6. Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled Humanism -- Postlude: Capitalism and the Planetary -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place through a Popular Lens, 1900s-1950s examines the urban landscapes of Mexican border cities through picture postcards. This volume aims to capture the evolution of Sonora border towns over time, and create a sense of visual "time travel" for the reader by relying on Arreola's personal collection of postcards"--Provided by publisher

Introduction : groundwater at the global level -- Understanding groundwater resources and aquifers -- Groundwater resources in a transboundary context -- Early legal treatment of groundwater resources -- Groundwater and aquifers under the UN Watercourses Convention -- Groundwater and aquifers under the UN Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers -- Trends in the evolution of international law of transboundary aquifers -- Gaps in the law of transboundary aquifers

The Soviet failure in Afghanistan -- Setting the stage : evolution of party-military relations -- Getting in : Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet decision to invade Afghanistan -- No retreat ... no miracles : Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko in Afghanistan (1980-1985) -- Gorbachev's quest for "reluctant, silent agreement" to withdraw from Afghanistan -- Getting out : Gorbachev and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1986-1989) -- Losing Afghanistan

"This accessible book introduces the story of 'social science, ' with coverage of history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and geography. Eller explains the origin, evolution, methods, main figures in each discipline, as well as the literature, concepts, and theories. The chapters also feature a range of contemporary examples, with consideration given to how the disciplines address present-day issues."--Back cover

Preface -- Introduction: globalization and the social relevance of small business in Brazil -- Small business in emergent countries : challenges and policies -- Micro and small business in Brazil : recent evolution -- Small business sustainability in Brazil -- Finance and small business in Brazil -- Challenges for higher competitiveness in small business -- Conclusions: there are good reasons to keep and support small business -- List of figures -- References -- Index

Intro -- Preface -- Ancient Egypt and Asia -- Ancient Greece -- Ancient Rome -- Early Asia -- Evolution of Religion -- Middle Ages -- Early Modern Times -- Colonial Empires -- Rights and Revolutions -- Nationalism -- Imperialism and World War I -- Between the World Wars -- World War II -- The United Nations -- The Cold War -- 19th-20th Century Japan -- Contemporary Age -- Contemporary Africa -- Contemporary Latin America -- Contemporary Eurasia -- Into the New Millennium.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Introduction to management -- Evolution of management thought -- Planning -- Organization -- Staffing, training and development -- Directing and controlling -- Controlling -- Decision making -- Organizational decision making -- Quantitative techniques for decision making -- Organizational behaviour -- Understanding and managing individual behaviour -- Group and group dynamics -- Team and teamwork -- Leadership -- Motivation -- Conflict management -- Organizational development, culture and change -- Stress management -- References -- Index

Part 1: Unveiling the world of Mau Mau oaths -- Discoursing Mau Mau and the Mau Mau oath -- The evolution of the Mau Mau oath -- The Mau Mau oath process and architecture -- Part 2: Breaking traditions and taboos -- Shifting from lawful to unlawful: Mau Mau oath criminalization -- Gender and the Mau Mau oath -- Mau Mau oath purification

World Trade Law and Changing Fundamentals in the Global Architecture -- The Evolution of the GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement System -- Applicable Law before the WTO Disputes Settlement Body -- Theorising the WTO Implementation Regime -- The Chinese Approach to Law -- China and WTO Law: From Accession Negotiations to Current Commitments -- China and the WTO Dispute Settlement System -- Chinese Confucianism and Compliance

Die Zeitbestimmungen, die in dem sogenannten »Verfließen der Zeit« begründet sind (wie die vergehende Gegenwart), spielen für unsere geistige Existenz eine fundamentale Rolle. In dem Buch soll gezeigt werden, dass sich wesentliche Eigenarten unserer Erkenntnisfähigkeiten, aber auch die kausale Wirksamkeit des Geistes in der physischen Welt auf dieser Grundlage befriedigend verstehen lassen. Ein starker Freiheitsbegriff, der die Möglichkeit einschließt, etwas Neues zu beginnen, kann auf diese Weise gerechtfertigt werden. Das Ergebnis ist ein nicht-naturalistischer Dualismus, freilich nicht der Substanzen, sondern der zeittheoretischen Basis entsprechend der Prozesstypen. Ein solcher Dualismus, der weder den Gesetzen der Physik noch den Tatsachen der Evolution widerspricht, erlaubt es, an den herkömmlichen Merkmalen von Personalität festzuhalten