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Assessing the impact of decentralization on Mexico's intergovernmental relations, this work examines the constraints upon the devolution of political power from the centre to the lower levels of government.

Organized into 15 chapters that stress cultural, social and material issues, as well as major political developments, this book deals with such topics as modernization, imperialism, social revolutions, fascism, feminism, fundamentalism, war and peace, science, population and economic inequality.

Each of the thirteen chapters gives an up-to-date overview of a particular author's research and places it within the broader context of issues about animal perception and cognition. The book as a whole exemplifies how studying species and their particular specializations can inform general issues in psychology, ethology, and neuroscience.

This book addresses many of the crucial questions confronting gender studies. The readings included here have emerged from the experiences of men and women struggling to make sense of the impact of th

"Religious pluralism has been a defining characteristic of the American experience since colonial times. In the twentieth century, as American society has become more radically pluralistic, the issue o"

"This interactive, role-playing case book is an enormously rich and stimulating way of challenging students to think about the problems of development and how development experts go about trying to all"

A major compilation of Asian American authors describing a wide range of experience in a great variety of styles

"Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy of American leaders has contributed to the social stratifica"

Explores the gay community's response to AIDS, examining the relationship between personal motives for volunteering and the broader political, social and religious contexts in which people with AIDS have been largely abandoned.

This volume focuses on filamentous fungi and highlights the advances of the past decade, both in methodology and in the understanding of genomic organization and regulation of gene and pathway expression.

Suitable for graduate students and researchers in statistics and biostatistics as well as those in the medical field, epidemiology, and social sciences, this book introduces univariate survival analysis and extends it to the multivariate case. It also covers competing risks and counting processes and provides many real-world examples, exercises, and R code. The text discusses survival data, survival distributions, frailty models, parametric methods, multivariate data and distributions, copulas, continuous failure, parametric likelihood inference, and non- and semi-parametric methods.

Intended for students and practitioners in Public Relations, this volume challenges conventions and also provides essential empirical detail and careful argument in this field. It stimulates debate about the boundaries, definitions, functions, and effects of public relations.

Presents a view of the problem of produce contamination that examines both pre-harvest and post-harvest sources and practices. This book addresses a number of topical issues relating to the microbiological quality and safety of fresh and processed fruits and vegetables.

Offers a look at the determination of the time of death, postmortem changes and identification. This work helps you learn - through photographs and discussions - how estimating the time of death can rarely be accomplished with scientific accuracy. It also helps you learn about the changes the body undergoes after death.

An authoritative overview of the political development, experiences, and trajectories of seven key countries in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico, as well as Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Revised and updated throughout, this multidisciplinary survey of Latin American history, politics, and society features chapters on individual countries by invited authorities.

Presents an overview of likelihood methods for the analysis of sample survey data, providing useful background material on likelihood inference. This book covers on a range of data types, including multilevel and aggregate data.

Mark Olssen offers an accessible overview of Foucault's thought, putting into context the relevance of Foucault's ideas.

This dictionary contains lists of keywords, terms, acronyms and proper names that bankers, financial managers, students, and business teachers use every day. Arranged alphabetically, the terms are defined so that readers may comprehend the meanings in terms of daily business activities or study.

In this book of absorbing stories, Bruce Mazlish illuminates the lives of intellectual and political leaders with the penetrating light of psychohistory and in doing so illuminates our own lives as well

Originally published: The Chinese economy under Communism. Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., (1969)

This handbook is the authoritative reference for the theory behind Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a burgeoning mathematical method used to analyze how words make meaning. The first book of its kind to deliver such a comprehensive analysis, it explores e

The olfactory concealment theory demonstrates that olfaction is an effective method used by predators to locate prey because animals constantly release a stream of odorants. This book helps biologists and wildlife professionals manage olfactory predators and their prey.

A reference for basic statistics and probability. It contains various standardized statistical tables and formulae typically needed and material on basic statistics topics, such as probability theory and distributions, regression, analysis of variance, nonparametric statistics, and statistical quality control.

Details general theories and reliable analysis techniques for solving real-world problems in linear and non-linear mechanics. This book looks at the structural and mechanical behaviour of components such as beams, frames and plates of both uniform and variable stiffness in terms of both stress and deformation.

This volume presents the basics of semiotic theory to communication scholars, it summarizes those aspects relevant to the study of social interaction, particularly the signs and codes - explaining how they come together within cultures.

Assuming that the complex phenomena underlying the operation of the immune system may be better understood through the collaborative efforts of theorists and experimentalists viewing the same phenomen

An important new contribution to the environmental literature that presents practical and comprehensive solutions to mining activities. Four key reasons to put this book to work for you: timely content that has been peer reviewed by experts in mining, government, engineering, biology, geology, zoology, and education; practical format that addresses the major issues surrounding the process of extraction and processing of non-petroleum minerals, while outlining implications to the ecosystems; provides details for tailoring a mining operation's environmental management program to local needs and requirements; and packed with case histories, there is extensive coverage of current methods used on new and existing sites to perform damage prevention and restoration.

Comprehensive analysis of the 'Arab Spring' - from Tunisia to the Gulf - arguing that the movements are revitalising democracy in the Middle East.

For 10 years Pruetz explored communities that excel in saving their natural environment. Here, he captures the character of places from the volcanic range near downtown Albuquerque to Minneapolis s Grand Rounds park system, to farmland improbably preserved on Long Island. The longtime city planner of Burbank, California, Pruetz creates detailed reports that mark the trail for planners, commissioners, and citizens who seek to preserve the green legacy in their own backyards.