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American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe
How the United States used its position as the world's leading scientific and technological power to rebuild European scientific practices and institutions and align them with American interests during the first two decades of the Cold War.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277631
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- 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages).
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The Continuing Evolution of Europe
Here, economists address key challenges facing the EU, including financial instability, welfare state reform, inadequate institutional framework, and global economic integration.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301466
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- 1 online resource (173 pages) :illustrations.
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Industrial Policy for National Champions
In this text prominent economists present the pros and cons of government support for national champions of industry over political governance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298650
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- 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) :illustrations.
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A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200–1550
This book demolishes the widely held view that the phrase 'medieval business' is an oxymoron. The authors review the entire range of business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped the organization of agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation and marketing. Businessmen's responses to t…
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- 9780511626005
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- Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
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Planning, shortage, and transformation :essays in honor of J?anos Kornai
The three major themes of János Kornai's work reflected in the title of this book—planning, shortage, and transition, or transformation—figure prominently in the essays. The three major themes of János Kornai's work reflected in the title of this book—planning, shortage, and transition, or transformation—figure prominently in the essays. After a philosophical introduction by Edmond…
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- 9780262279222
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 439 pages) :illustrations
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Out of the shadows, into the streets! : transmedia organizing and the immigra…
Foreword by Manuel Castells."For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media--newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, community organizers know that social media enhance, rather than replace, face-to-face organizing…
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- 9780262322805
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- 1 online resource (xix, 273 pages) :illustrations
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The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the Fi…
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre-World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body. In pre-World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army recruitment offered the most important opportunity to screen male citizens' fitness, raising questions of how …
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- 9780262350426
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- 1 online resource (280 pages).
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Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions, and Implementation
Contributors examine how regulatory & institutional environments affect the functioning of markets & propose reforms, arguing that quantitative methods should be used to guide policy & to reform rules & regulations. These essays offer methodologies for the assessment of policy alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289412
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- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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A Grammar of Kham
First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjecti…
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- 9780511486883
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- Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
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Sharing knowledge shaping Europe U.S technological collaboration and nonproli…
How America used its technological leadership in the 1950s and the 1960s to foster European collaboration and curb nuclear proliferation, with varying degrees of success.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262336413
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