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THE EU AND CHINA

THOMAS MEYER, JOSÉ LUÍS DE SALES MARQUES

This edited book is devoted to an analysis of how the multiple modernities approach might help strengthen the strategic autonomy of the European Union and foster cooperative EU–China relations at a time when some observers believe that a new global cold war may be on the horizon. An international, interdisciplinary team of eminent scholars analyzes both the forces causing dange...

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RECTIFYING HISTORICAL INJUSTICE

MEYER, LUKAS H.

Calls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines around the world. People dispute the degree to which justice should be concerned with righting past wrongs, with some arguing that justice should be primarily focused on claims arising from present disadvantage. Proponents and sceptics of restitution, compensation, and other forms of historical redress have engaged...

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BUILDING EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

ARNOUD DE MEYER / JOVINA ANG

Over the last 30 years, Singapore has developed a system of higher education that is the envy of many other countries and regions. How has Singapore developed such a highly performing education system? Was it planned? Was it mere luck? Written by Arnoud De Meyer, who is widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent management educators and leaders in higher education, the book focu...

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THE ART OF MEASURING IN THE THERMAL SCIENCES

MICHEL DE PAEPE / JOSUA P. MEYER

The Art of Measuring in the Thermal Sciences provides an original state-of-the-art guide to scholars who are conducting thermal experiments in both academia and industry. Applications include energy generation, transport, manufacturing, mining, processes, HVAC&R, etc. This book presents original insights into advanced measurement techniques and systems, explores the fundamental...

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READING AND TEACHING

RICHARD MEYER / MARYANN MANNING

Reading and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for preservice and practicing teachers to understand and to reflect on the complex issues surrounding the teaching of reading in the schools. It presents real teachers in their classrooms, dialogues about that teaching, and exercises for further clarification. The purpose is to help teachers make informed choices abou...

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EXPERT WITNESSING

CARL MEYER

Communication problems between science and the courts are widely deplored and sometimes exploited by a variety of groups. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice tightened the law of evidence to control the flow of information, but amazingly little has been written to analyze the nature of the problem and reduce the barriers. Expert Witnesses: Explaining and Understanding Science resu...

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REGIONALISM AND MULTILATERALISM

MARIO TELÒ / THOMAS MEYER / JOSE LUIS DE SALES MARQUES

This book discusses the impact of cultural diversities and identities on regional and interregional cooperation, as well as on multilateralism. Employing a comparative approach to organizations such as ASEAN, MERCOSUR, SAARC, and the African and European Unions, this volume seeks to understand their distinctive features and patterns of interaction. It also explores the diffusio...

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POLICE INTEGRITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

SANJA KUTNJAK IVKOVICH / ADRI SAUERMAN / ANDREW FAULL / MICHAEL E. MEYER / GARETH NEWHAM

Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive history of oppressive law enforcement. In 1994, as the country’s apartheid system was replaced with a democratic order, the new government faced the significant challenge of transforming the South African police force into a democratic police agency—the South African Police Service (SAPS)—that would provide unb...

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RECLAIMING LITERACIES AS MEANING MAKING

KATHRYN F WHITMORE / RICHARD J MEYER

Whitmore and Meyer bring together top literacy scholars from around the world to introduce the concept of manifestations: evidence of meaning making in literacy events, practices, processes, products, and thinking. Manifestation are windows into literacy identities, and serve as affective and sociocultural signifiers of learners’ understanding at a point in time and in a specif...

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RECLAIMING LITERACIES AS MEANING MAKING

KATHRYN F. WHITMORE / ‎RICHARD J. MEYER

Whitmore and Meyer bring together top literacy scholars from around the world to introduce the concept of manifestations: evidence of meaning making in literacy events, practices, processes, products, and thinking. Manifestation are windows into literacy identities, and serve as affective and sociocultural signifiers of learners’ understanding at a point in time and in a specif...

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LEGAL NURSE CONSULTING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

JULIE DICKINSON, ANNE MEYER

Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practices, Fourth Edition, provides foundational knowledge on the specialty nursing practice of legal nurse consulting. Legal nurse consulting is defined, and essential information about the practice is discussed (history, certification, scope and standards of practice, and ethical and liability considerations). The essentials of the law an...

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DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE

SILKE MEYER / ANDREW FROST

Domestic and family violence (DFV) is an enduring social and public health issue of endemic proportions and global scale, with multiple and lasting consequences for those directly affected. This book tackles current debates in the field and addresses the social norms and settings that perpetuate this type of violence, along with implications for service delivery. The book offer...

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ISO 9001 AND LEAN

DOUGLAS MEYER

ISO 9000 is a comprehensive set of international standards for quality management and quality assurance. These standards ensure that companies effectively document all aspects of their quality management to show transparency and efficiency within all processes. They are not industry specific and pertain to organizations of any size. Continuous improvement is a key facet of the ...

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VISUAL AND MULTIMODAL RESEARCH IN ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES

MARKUS HÖLLERER / THEO VAN LEEUWEN / DENNIS JANCSARY / RENATE MEYER / THOMAS HESTBAEK ANDERSEN / EERO VAA

This volume brings together two hitherto disparate domains of scholarly inquiry: organization and management studies on the one hand, and the study of visual and multimodal communication on the other. Within organization and management studies it has been recognized that organizational reality and communication are becoming increasingly visual, and, more generally, multimodal, ...

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PROJECTS AS SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

JOHAN MEYER, ZACH SIMPSON AND SUNÉ VON SOLMS

This book presents the case for Project-Based Learning within Socio-Technical Systems in Engineering Education. The book highlights the importance of projects as Socio-Technical Systems as a means for supporting and enhancing international accreditation of engineering programs. Practical examples illustrate how Socio-Technical Systems are brought into the educational environmen...

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PROJECTING ENVIRONMENTAL TRENDS FROM ECONOMIC FORECASTS

PETER B MEYER / THOMAS S LYONS / TARA L CLAPP

This title was first published in 2000: Sustainable development offers visions of the future, but implementation of new sustainable policies seems slow. This text presents a forecasting method directed to overcome some barriers to the implementation of more sustainable economic policy. Using a case study, the authors describe how economic and environmental forecasts can be dev...

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CLINICAL HANDBOOK OF INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE

MUHUNTHAN THILLAI, DAVID R MOLLER AND KEITH C MEYER

This handbook provides clinical guidance to the practicing physician on the diagnosis and treatment of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD). A contributed work with invited chapters which draw on the knowledge and experience of recognised global leaders in respiratory medicine, it is authoritative, concise and portable and is intended for use in a fast-paced clinical setting. The b...

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LEADERSHIP AGILITY

RON MEYER / RONALD MEIJERS

Leadership is about influencing others to move in a certain direction and there are many ways of achieving this influence. Each of these leadership styles has its inherent qualities and pitfalls, and will be more suited to specific people and different circumstances. The more leaders understand their preferred leadership styles and are able to flexibly switch to the most suitab...

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FEVER

DEON MEYER

From the international bestseller: an Afrikaner boy and his father navigate post-Apocalyptic South Africa—“reminiscent of The Stand and The Passage” (Stephen King). Nico Storm and his father, Willem, drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in the world, as far as they know, to have survived a devastating virus that has swep...

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THE ECONOMICS OF SLAVERY

JOHN R. MEYER

How are economists and historians to explain what happened in history? What statistical inferences can be drawn from historical data? The authors believe that explanation in history can be identified with the problems of prediction in a probabilistic universe. Using this approach, the historian can act upon his a priori information and his judgment of what is unique and particu...

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KINSHIP AND THE SOCIAL ORDER

MEYER FORTES

One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological theory and method from Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to anthropologists of the 1960s. It is the central argument of this book that the structuralist theory and method developed by Bri...

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THE 'ARS MUSICA' ATTRIBUTED TO MAGISTER LAMBERTUS/ARISTOTELES

CHRISTIAN MEYER / TRANSLATED BY KAREN DESMOND

The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. Most treatises on music of this century - except for Franco‘s treatise on musical notation - survive in only a single copy; Lambertus‘s Ars musica, ext...

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SCHOOL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE MASSES

JOHN MEYER / DAVID KAMENS / AARON BENAVOT

First published in 1992, this book presents unique quantitative data on the content coverage of primary education in a large number of countries since 1920. It demonstrates that these curricular outlines tend to be surprisingly similar across very disparate countries, and suggests the world processes that produced this result. Specifically, the study shows that the contemporary...

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THE SECRET OF GUIDANCE

F. B. MEYER

Many children of God are so deeply exercised on the matter of guidance that it may be helpful to give a few suggestions as to knowing the way in which our Father would have us walk, and the work He would have us do. The importance of the subject cannot be exaggerated; so much of our power and peace consists in knowing where God would have us be, and in being just there. ...

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EXPLAINING SUICIDE

CHERYL L. MEYER / TARONISH IRANI / KATHERINE A. HERMES / BETTY YUNG

The rate of suicides is at its highest level in nearly 30 years. Suicide notes have long been thought to be valuable resources for understanding suicide motivation, but up to now the small sample sizes available have made an in-depth analysis difficult. Explaining Suicide: Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal represents a large-scale analysis of suicide motivation acros...

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GRANDPARENTING IN THE UNITED STATES

MADONNA HARRINGTON MEYER / YNESSE ABDUL-MALAK

The contributors to Grandparenting in the United States, edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak of Syracuse University, use a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sets to assess how grandparenting, and its impacts, vary by living arrangements, economic status, education, gender, race, ethnicity, and other stratifying variables. Some papers assess how ...

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AGILITY SHIFT

PAMELA MEYER

As contrary as it sounds, "planning" -- as we traditionally understand the term--can be the worst thing a company can do. Consider that volatile weather events disrupt trusted supply chains, markets, and promised delivery schedules. Ever-shifting geo-political tensions, as well as internal political upheaval within U.S. and global governments, derail long-planned new ventures. ...

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THE DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSITY

HEINZ-DIETER MEYER

What is the reason for the American university’s global preeminence? How did the American university succeed where the development of the German university, from which it took so much, stalled? In this closely-argued book, Meyer suggests that the key to the American university’s success is its institutional design of self-government. Where other university systems are dependent...

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MUSIC IN EPIC FILM

STEPHEN C. MEYER

As both a distinct genre and a particular mode of filmmaking, the idea of the epic has been central to the history of cinema. Including contributions from both established and emerging film music scholars, the ten essays in Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle provide a cross-section of contemporary scholarship on the subject. They explore diverse topics, including the fu...

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WIND ENERGY POCKET REFERENCE

NIELS I. MEYER / PETER HJULER JENSEN / NIELS GYLLING MORTENSEN / FLEMMING OSTER

Prepared and peer-reviewed by some of the foremost experts in the field, this easy-to-use pocket reference offers a wealth of information relating to wind energy and wind energy technologies. Topics covered range from wind resources to wind turbines, covering offshore and onshore power, both stand-alone and grid-connected. The book also includes vital information on internation...

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