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Provides insights into the symptoms of competition, when and how competition is bought into play, the mechanisms of competition and collusion, the results of competition and collusion, and the results of competition and collusion for the economy and for the general public.

Assesses the implications of inflationary processes for economic policy. This book synthesizes a general framework within which to illustrate inflationary processes. It reconciles the approaches of "demand inflation" and "cost inflation"; and analyzes the determination and behavior of the general price level in an exchange economy.

Presents detailed studies from many societies of the interaction between social and economic relationships. This volume focuses on the formation and management of capital, since this process is central to the economic functioning and growth of all societies.

Emphasizes on geographical growth and shows the interaction of geographical environment and the human activity and institutions. This work is illustrated with 100 plates, maps, and diagrams. It includes a comprehensive bibliography, glossary and conversion tables.

Monsoon Asia, from Pakistan to Japan is more than a land area and an assemblage of countries: it is a distinctive geographical region. This book provides an introduction to the dynamic as well as the unchanging characteristics of the region. It includes chapters on structure and relief, climate, vegetation, and soils.

The hot and temperate deserts and their marginal steppe lands comprise one-third of the land surface of the world and are an increasingly critical area for the economic wellbeing of world populations

This special issue is a snapshot of current research in this area, showing many of the issues encountered, the methods employed, and the limitations faced. All four studies involve experimental or quasi-experimental studies but all are based on participants recruited from adult literacy programmes.

This book addresses the linguistic challenges faced by diverse populations of students at the secondary and post-secondary levels as they engage in academic tasks requiring advanced levels of reading and writing. It aims to contribute to research and pedagogy on advanced literacy development.

A collection of the important works and speeches of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, political philosopher, and founder of modern conservative thought. This work provides a general introduction that gives important insight into Burke's early life, education, professional training, literary and political career, prose style, and more.

The laws of animal behavior have been revised and revealed through research performed by zoologists, physiologists and experimental psychologists

To a historian the most interesting thing about decisions is the fact that everyone talks about them

Recent writing on the nature of freedom has served to underline a crucial gap in the academic experience

Economics is sometimes divided into two parts: positive economics and normative economics

Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands

What makes people go into business? What makes some businessmen--and some businesses--outstandingly successful, while others, with opportunities just as good, fail? These questions are often asked, and have often been studied from the point of view of economics or of organizational theory

Demonstrates the range of optimization techniques available to the practitioner for the solution of varying problems. This book helps the reader reach a level of understanding necessary to write computer programs for optimization techniques. It includes worked examples, supported by worked solutions, and exercises at the end of the chapters.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the research about personality structure and the nature of individual differences. This book offers the essence of the author's work on personality testing, reviewing the experimental, quantitative and statistical research which with the aid of the electronic computer is producing remarkable discoveries.

Offers a compendium of the data and experimental reports on the study of imprinting and early learning. This report traces the history of interest in the theory of imprinting and similar processes, considers imprinting with related concepts and empirical studies, and reviews the range of experiments that illuminate the nature of imprinting.

Introduces the notion that coercion relates to the use of space, and uses this idea to distinguish coercion from both oppression and repression. This book deals with the role of coercion in international relations. It is useful for students and scholars in political science, philosophy, and law.

Details a comparative study under controlled conditions of the three major schools of psycho-therapy - client-centered therapy, behavioral or systematic desensitization therapy, and rational-emotive therapy. This study compares the effectiveness of these distinct forms of counseling with two distinct personality types - introverts and extroverts.

Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union

Portrays Gorbachev's rise to power and his tenure in office against the background of a period of critical change and development in the Soviet system. The authors bring to the analysis their own experiences, acquired under different circumstances. It also focuses on events ranging from Gorbachev's assumption of power in March 1985 to June 1987.

Presents an understanding of in situ treatment technologies, their strengths and limitations, and the details necessary to implement them. Suitable for the practicing remediation specialist as well as a for advanced courses, this work includes various chapters on reactive zone technology, phytoremediation, and limitations of in situ technologies.

Examining evidence from social and behavioral science, history, and evolutionary biology, this book shows why fathers are deserting their families in record numbers. This book suggests concrete policies, and fresh ways of thinking and acting that helps fathers improve their marriages and family lives.

On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his own life. Shortly before his death, he methodically destroyed all his private papers.

From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals, in their role as intellectuals, had been a breed apart. This book tells how in the early decades of the twentieth century, intellectuals abandoned their attachment to the traditional panoply of philosophical and scholarly ideals. It is of interest to those who teach and preach the human sciences.

Covers the various areas of computer-based data acquisition - from basic concepts to the technical developments. This work offers practical, solution-oriented design examples and real-life case studies in each chapter and furnishes selection guides for specific types of hardware.

In the early days of Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet Union, an international group of US and Japanese authorities probed the issues and forces that shaped a mammoth struggle within the Soviet Union. This book examines Gorbachev's reforms - the extent of their dramatic changes and the sobering evidence of their limits.

This book sets out to investigate the process of agrarian change from new angles and with new results.

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