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In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on women's rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of indigenous genres and the reception of folklore performance. The regional repertoire under examination presents a strikingly female-centered world. Female performers and characters are active, articulate, and frequently challenge or defy expectations of gender. Men also confound traditional gender roles. Flueckiger includes the translations of two full performance texts of narratives sung by female and male storytellers respectively.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created fifty years ago. Have they adapted efficiently to the changes that have taken place in the international monetary system since then, or should one contemplate significant changes in their statutes perhaps by merging the two institutions and letting some of their current functions be carried out by the private sector? What is the probable evolution of currency areas in the world, and what should be the relationship between the major currencies in the system? How do the transforming economies in Eastern Europe fit in? In this book, internationally recognized experts analyze these and related issues that are crucial for an understanding of the evolution and reform of the international monetary system and its institutions

In this philosophically sophisticated textbook analysis of democracy, J. L. Hyland explores in depth the concept which has come to reign supreme in the pantheon of political ideas. He examines systematically the major topics and problems of democratic theory: the nature of democracy, majoritarianism, democracy and individual freedom, power and the relationship between socioeconomic factors and political equality. In assessing the work of the major democratic theorists, whose accounts frequently conflict, the author seeks to answer the central questions surrounding the subject: What is democracy? What values does it provide? Can democracy fulfil its promise, or is it an unachievable goal to which we merely pay lip-service? Is democracy always justified? What are the counter-democratic features of modern society?

The Dynamics of Industrial Competition, first published in 1995, describes the internal dynamics of industries using longitudinal data that make it possible to track firms over time. It provides a comprehensive picture of a number of different aspects of firm turnover in North America that arise from the competitive process - the entry and the exit of firms, the growth and decline of incumbent firms, and the merger process. Instantaneous and cumulative measures of market dynamics are provided by examining change in both the short and the long run. Using various measures of firm turnover to proxy the amount of competition, the study examines and contextualizes the relationship between industry performance and the intensity of the competitive process

The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship also uncovers an opposite form of identity based on descent, which she argues is the identity of the dead. By looking at key mortuary rituals that engage the relationship between the living and the dead, Dr Astuti develops a dual model of the Vezo person: the one defined contextually in the present, the other determined by the past

Patient-physician relationship -- PPR -- Practice context -- Hospital practice -- Derivative authority -- Supervision and patient privacy -- Office practice -- Physician selection -- Defining medicine -- Role of the physician: some models -- Ethical theories and principles -- Ethical theories -- Utilitarianism -- Deontology -- Virtue -- Casuistry -- Ethical principles -- Beneficence vs. respect for autonomy -- Fidelity -- Justice -- Rules from the principles -- Informed consent -- Competent patients -- Incompetent patients -- Consent process -- Truth telling -- Confidentiality -- Interactional issues -- Skills -- Patient interviews -- Forms of communication -- Response to patient anger -- Competence -- Competence of physicians -- Competence of students -- Sexuality -- Sexual abuse of patients -- Anxiety affecting patient care -- Interventions -- Medical technology in practice -- Prescribing drugs -- Invasive procedures -- Consultations and second opinions -- Emergency care -- Hospital care -- Dying, death and in-between -- Definitions, including PVS -- Communication -- Care issues -- Resuscitation

'Technology is becoming ever more widely recognised as the crucial element in the explanation of economic growth and business fluctuations. Yet the relationship between investors' rationality and investment strategy remains ill understood, and is often constructed in contradictory fashion. Chidem Kurdas's lucid exploration of the problem provides the basis for a synthesis that should prove extremely useful: it is the most original book if its kind that I know.' Professor Heilbroner, The New School for Social Research, New York What is involved in the rational calculation behind the decision to invest and innovate? This book compares the different answers given to this question, from the early classics to recent new classical and new institutionalist models, in a both rigorous and accessible way.

This revised edition of the first English-language monograph on the interdisciplinary science of landscape ecology provides a current overview of this rapidly growing subject. The book provides a unified conceptual and methodological framework for a field which is both local and global in its implications, and places human activities into context in the ecosystem. Landscape Ecology is ideally suited for use as a text in a wide range of courses on ecology-based land and resource planning, environmental management, natural resources policy, international development, regional planning, landscape geography and human ecology. It will also be of interest to the professional researcher, educator and decision-maker who deals with man's relationship to his natural and cultural environment

The book presents a series of comprehensive reviews on the relationship between changes in atmospheric circulations and changes in sea surface temperatures (SST), soil moisture, sea ice and snow. The influence of each of these boundary conditions is reviewed separately and based on the analysis of observations and sensitivity experiments with global climatemodels. Tropical SST anomalies have a profound effect on tropical circulation and rainfall; in some cases they also influence the extra-tropical atmospheric circulation. The most important conclusion ofthe book is that for monthly and seasonal predictions it is extremely important that the observed initial state of the atmosphere and the boundary conditions of SST - soil wetness, sea ice, snow depth and snow cover - be mutually consistent with each other

This book provides a comprehensive look at the wide range of public policies that affect innovation in the medical device industry. It is a case study of the interaction between technology and policy the relationship between private industry and government institutions. It is a tale that appeals to our most optimistic views about the ability of American know-how to diminish pain and suffering. It is also the story of technological failures and disappointments, a story that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of America's public and private institutions. Because we all live and will probably die surrounded by medical devices, the consequences of this interaction between government and business affect the health care choices that we as patients will have in the future.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE The International Status of the Republic of China -- 1. The International Law of Recognition and the Status of the Republic of China -- 2. Taipei's Search for a New Foreign Policy Approach -- PART TWO The Economic Partnership Between the United States and the Republic of China -- 3. United States' Trade Relations with the Republic of China -- 4. ROC-U.S. Trade Relations and the New Taiwan Dollar Appreciation -- PART THREE The Strategic Relationship Between the United States and the Republic of China -- 5. United States Arms Sales to Taiwan -- 6. Negotiation of the 17 August 1982 U.S.-PRC Communiquè: Beijing's Negotiating Tactics -- Summary of Proceedings -- Contributors -- Index

This book is motivated by two separate but related inquiries. The first concerns the relationship of medical ethics to the law that governs health care. While it is wrong to talk of a single theory, of medical ethics, it seems to me that many ethicists, and especially those physicians who number themselves among ethicists, accept a theory, of medical ethics described as "beneficent." The theory, of beneficence centers on the altruistic commitment of the doctor to the patient. In a theory of beneficence, "the patient comes first": the physician acts on behalf of the patient and is duty, bound to put the patient's interest ahead of her own. Thus the physician acts as the patient's agent.

This study, first published in 1992, explores the relationship between China's foreign trade reforms and the domestic economic reforms that underlie China's policy of openness. It provided the first comprehensive analysis of how China emerged, since reform began in 1978, as one of the most dynamic trading nations in the world. It examines both the external policy changes, such as the decentralisation of trading authority and the devaluation of the domestic currency, and internal economic reforms such as the increased use of markets and prices. The volume concludes with an analysis of the sources of China's export growth and outlines further domestic economic reforms that the author believes will be required to sustain China's integration into the world economy

This book is an historical and anthropological study of Locorotondo in the province of Bari in south-eastern Italy. It focuses on the unusual nature of peasant society in the region and attempts to explain how it came about. What distinguishes Locorotondo and the neighbouring towns is that peasants live dispersed in the countryside rather than in densely populated rural towns, the pattern more typical for southern Italy. The people are mainly small proprietor grape growers, and have traditionally been better off than other southern Italian peasants. The book traces the development pattern from the eighteenth century. Interweaving anthropological understanding with historical data, the author assesses its effect on family life, social structure, and the relationship between town and country

1. Small Firms in the 1990s -- A. Small-Firm Growth -- 2. Transactional Calculus and Small Business Strategy -- 3. Firm Performance and Size -- 4. The Relationship Between Firm Growth and Labor Demand -- 5. Small Business in German Manufacturing -- B. Issues in Entrepreneurship -- 6. Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship -- 7. Creative Destruction Among Industrial Firms in the United States -- 8. Investment and Capital Diversity in the Small Enterprise -- C. Technology, Strategy, and Flexibility -- 9. Flexibility, Plant Size and Industrial Restructuring -- 10. Technology Strategy in Small and Medium-Sized Firms -- 11. Small-Scale Industry at a Crossroads: U.S. Machine Tools in Global Perspective -- D. Small Firms, New Entry and Employment -- 12. The Size of the Small-Firm Sector in Hungary -- List of Contributors.