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In Race and Family: A Structural Approach, author Roberta L. Coles looks at ethnic minority families in a novel way- through a structural lens. Unlike many texts on race and family, this book offers an approach that illustrates overarching structural factors affecting all families as opposed to examining each ethnicity in isolation from one another. By focusing on various structural factors such as demographic, economic, and historical aspects, this book analyzes various family trends in a cross-cutting manner to exemplify the similarities and distinctions among all racial and ethnic groups.&n

"In this book the author bridges the gap between the common perception of the modern Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as a European Monitor on the ground. Drawing on original source material from both the United Nations (UN) and the European Community Monitor Mission (ECMM), he critically re-examines the programme of violence which erupted in 1991 and eventually culminated in 1995 in the vicious dismemberment of a sovereign federal republic with a seat at the United Nations General Assembly

First published in 1981. The overthrow of the "gang of four" in October 1976 had profound effects in all areas of Chinese society, and probably nowhere can this be more clearly seen than in the performing arts. Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow, was strongly interested in the performing arts and exercised great influence over them. This book describes her influence and the effects its removal had on the arts. Although the period covered is mainly that since the death of Mao, the author also explores the years following the Cultural Revolution.

The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMOs, and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries has resulted in reduction in services, dangerous cost cutting, poor regulation, and corrupt research. He sheds light on the political lobbying and media manipulation that keeps the present system in place. Exposing the shortcomings of reform proposals that do little to alter the status quo, he makes a case for a workable single-payer system. This is an essential read for today's practitioners, policy makers, healthcare analysts and providers, and all those concerned with the

Both pervasive and ubiquitous, computerized systems are now an integral component of every corporate strategy in pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. However, when technology is combined with high-risk public safety projects or the production and control of life-saving medicines or devices, it is necessary to ensure that it is reliable, quality assured, and validated. The most comprehensive guide on computer validation currently available, containing more than 200 illustrations and more than 100 tables, Computer Systems Validation helps you see the big picture.The author reviews regulation

Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history.In recent years, as the author points out, there has been increasing interest in, and concern for, many aspects of landscape within British, European and wider contexts. This has included the study of the history, development and changes in our perception of landscape, as well as research into the links

Cover -- Poverty, Growth, and Institutions in Developing Asia -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- PART I General Essays -- 2 Poverty Reduction: Approaches and the Role of Political Institutions -- 3 Sociocultural Factors Affecting Poverty and Poverty Reduction -- 4 Public Sector Reform and Poverty Reduction -- 5 Decentralization and Poverty Reduction -- PART II Country Studies -- 6 Revisiting Growth and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia -- 7 Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Philippines -- 8 Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Thailand -- 9 Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Viet Nam -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

The author demonstrates how preferences for specific goods, and symbolic goods in particular, are mediated through the institutional settings that both individuals and groups find themselves in. He develops a Social Value Nexus, which indicates how institutions relate to the socio-cultural values of a society. He goes on to argue that tensions at the institutional or socio-cultural level will alter the institutional setting and therefore affect preferences. The sudden and radical change in consumption patterns for music in the late 1950s and early 1960s provides convincing evidence of the auth

An in-depth look at big pharma's flagship companyThe Merck Druggernaut takes readers inside Merck, the world's second most profitable drug company and maker of the world's bestselling drug, Prilosec. Consistently named one of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Companies, Merck struggles to maintain its reputation for being the most ethical of the big drug makers, refusing to slash research and development budgets in the face of declining profits, falling stock market prices, and questionable accounting. Author Fran Hawthorne, one of the leading journalists covering healthcare, has written an exce

This accessible and provocative book explores whether getting 'unhooked' from economic growth to meet the needs of the environment is possible. Although giving the environment priority over growth may seem radical, the author argues that it can be accomplished using marketable emissions allowances, transferable development rights, and other tools popular with conventional economists. It can also be achieved by creating more interesting and environmentally friendly urban landscapes less beholden to the automobile. The key problem will be ensuring that everyone who wants employment can find it

The Naked Truth is an insightful, informative, and irreverent look at sex in the Great White North. Both inspired and baffled by a recent poll that ranked Canadians the seventh sexiest people on Earth, author Chris Gudgeon covers everything from homosexuality to scandals, censorship, and the country's unique version of the sexual revolution of the 1960s (in which men in Toronto freely had intercourse with their spouses). He visits nude beaches, a strip club, and a porno theater, among other destinations, and talks to leather fetishists, she-males, futurists, and more

Dr. Ludwig Krämer, born 1939, retired from the European Commission in August 2004. Judge at the Landgericht in Kiel, he joined the European Commission in 1972, where he started his career dealing with consumer protection issues in the Competition Directorate-General. He successfully combined his profession as an official of the European Commission with intensive writing and teaching activities. Dr. Krämer is the author of some 20 books and handbooks and 140 articles on EC environmental law. He is an environmental law professor in Bremen and regularly teaches at several European and non-Europea

"The author, a renowned terrorism expert and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Long Island University in New York City, is a frequent commentator on CNN. He has produced an engaging single-volume encyclopedia, with over 300 entries, on the subject of terrorism worldwide. Appendixes include a chronology of terrorism from 1865 to the present, a list of web resources, an extensive bibliography, and maps noting the locations of terrorist activities around the world."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004

In Converging Paths, author Susan Santucci gathers the world's greatest religious insights into one volume that is easy-to-read, thought-provoking, and inspirational. Each short-entry focuses on a single aspect of the wisdom shared by major world religions. Quotations from mystics, philosophers, and contemporary writers help readers make connections between traditional teachings and their own spiritual path. The result is a quick, clear introduction to spiritual traditions from around the world without lengthy, esoteric discussions. These wonderful examples of shared values and religious diver

Philosophy took a ""linguistic turn"" in the twentieth century that was marked by the focus on theories of meaning, reference, description, predication and truth. Starting with the roots of the analytic tradition in Frege, Meinong and Bradley, this book follows its development in Russell and Wittgenstein and the writings of major philosophers of the analytic tradition and of various lesser, but well known and widely discussed, contemporary figures. In dealing with basic issues that have preoccupied analytic philosophers in the past century, the author notes how analytic philosophy is sometimes